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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. A brilliant collection of seven original stories by award-winning authors, inspired by different concepts of love. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781473649453
ISBN
9781473649453
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.30

Paperback. Social worker Keith, separated from his wife and their teenage son, is floundering in a world of fraught sexual politics, parental responsibilities and class expectations. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 242. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0000809
ISBN
9780099539742
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. A young Jewish woman growing up in Germany in the middle of the twentieth century and an African general hired by the Doge to command his armies in sixteenth century Venice are bound by personal crisis and momentous social conflict. What emerges is Europe's age-old obsession with race, with sameness and difference, with blood. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 15. Weight in Grams: 168.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099520573
ISBN
9780099520573
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.61

Paperback. Tracks two brothers and a sister on their separate journeys through different epochs and continents: one as a missionary to Liberia in the 1830s, one a pioneer on a wagon trail to the American West later that century, and one a GI posted to a Yorkshire village in the Second World War. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 15. Weight in Grams: 186.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099498261
ISBN
9780099498261
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. Tells the story of Leila, a nineteen year old woman living on a small Caribbean island in the 1950s. Her subsequent passage to England brings her face to face with the consequences of the decisions she has made to determine her life on her own terms. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 145 x 13. Weight in Grams: 152.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099468585
ISBN
9780099468585
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. .
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099488859
ISBN
9780099488859
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.73

Paperback. The English village is a place where people come to lick their wounds. Dorothy has walked away from a bad 30-year marriage and is trying to rebuild a life. It's not immediately clear why her neighbour, Solomon, is living nearby, but gradually they establish a form of comfort in each other's presence that alleviates the isolation they both feel. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 21. Weight in Grams: 236.
Publisher
Vintage
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099428886
ISBN
9780099428886
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.67

Paperback. Tells the story of Emily Cambridge, a young woman sent from England to visit her father's West Indian plantation, and Cambridge, a plantation slave, educated and Christianised by his first master in England who is now struggling to maintain his dignity. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 143 x 14. Weight in Grams: 144.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099520566
ISBN
9780099520566
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Hardcover. Clean copy
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Secker
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
SKU
KEX0200871
ISBN
9780436205835
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. In 1848 a motley crew of Danish sailors sets sail from the small island town of Marstal to fight the Germans. Not all of them return - and those who do will never be the same. Among them is the daredevil Laurids Madsen, who promptly escapes again into the anonymity of the high seas. Translator(s): Barslund, Charlotte. Num Pages: 704 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 44. Weight in Grams: 560.
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099512967
ISBN
9780099512967
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.43

Paperback. A group of people have little in common except that they are all hopelessly lonely. A young girl, a drunken socialist and a black doctor are drawn to a gentle, sympathetic deaf mute, whose presence changes their lives. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 129 x 29. Weight in Grams: 262.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141185224
ISBN
9780141185224
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

Paperback. A collection of Carson McCullers' stories, including her novella "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe" and "Wunderkind". Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 126.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141183695
ISBN
9780141183695
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. Presents three phases of a weekend crisis in the life of a motherless twelve-year-old girl. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 192 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 180.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141182827
ISBN
9780141182827
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. Set on a Southern army base in the 1930s, this novel tells the story of Captain Penderton, a bisexual whose life is upset by the arrival of Major Langdon, a charming womanizer who has an affair with Penderton's tempestuous and flirtatious wife, Leonora. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 196 x 9. Weight in Grams: 104.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141184456
ISBN
9780141184456
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. In the tradition of Alice Munro, an ambitious coming of age novel-in-stories set against the backdrop of the political turmoil in 1980s Nicaragua. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 199 x 31. Weight in Grams: 242.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
John Murray Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444792683
ISBN
9781444792683
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.23

Paperback. The year is 1965, and Kate Cadogan has just got her first bra, and corset. From her first crush, local bad boy Barry Finch, through to her scandalous period of 'living in sin' during her years at teacher training college, right up to her passionless marriage to Rodney, Kate seems to have a talent for picking the wrong men. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 26. Weight in Grams: 270.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780749936754
ISBN
9780749936754
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 8.67

Paperback. An exclusive On the Other Side novella featuring the characters Vincent Winters and Evie Snow. Num Pages: 48 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 132 x 10. Weight in Grams: 30.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780751568707
ISBN
9780751568707
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.74

Paperback. The No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling novel from Carrie Hope Fletcher - perfect for fans of Cecelia Ahern Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 198 x 38. Weight in Grams: 342.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780751563160
ISBN
9780751563160
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.72

Paperback. If music be the food of love, books are certainly the appetizers .. Series: Shakespeare Sisters. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FRD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349415505
ISBN
9780349415505
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.30

Paperback. A hugely entertaining and glamorous debut, perfect for fans of the X-Factor, from an exciting new voice in young women's fiction Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 197 x 27. Weight in Grams: 280. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
SKU
KTK0097196
ISBN
9780007421503
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

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