Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. This is an homage to a life lived with humor, curiosity, and passion against the odds. Twelve-year-old Gussie Stevens doesn't know how long she has to live, but she can't avoid what life throws her way. It is her indomitable spirit that soars above her fate. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 198.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Luath Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2nd
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905222087
- ISBN
- 9781905222087
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 8.71
€ 9.99
€ 8.71
Hardback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 186 x 26. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- McArthur & Company United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781552784884
- ISBN
- 9781552784884
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 22.47
€ 25.99
€ 22.47
Paperback. An American is burdened by a recurrent dream about his native Ireland, a country that had long ceased to interest or troubles him. Convinced that the Irish are asking him for help, he equips his errant grand-nephew, Tom Blessman, with a generous bank account, and dispatches him to the old country to offer assistance. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 200. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KJE0001507
- ISBN
- 9780099492955
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Translator(s): Ramadan, Emma. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: 5SL; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 214.
- Publisher
- Deep Vellum Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781941920091
- ISBN
- 9781941920091
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.43
€ 17.99
€ 16.43
Hardcover. Known worldwide for her Diary, Anne Frank's TALES FROM THE SECRET ANNEXE were written at the same time with the same humour, honesty and wisdom, and are an essential part of her legacy. Editor(s): Halban Publishers. Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 188 x 132 x 22. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Publisher
- Halban Publishers
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905559206
- ISBN
- 9781905559206
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 14.16
€ 18.99
€ 14.16
Paperback. What if Vincent Van Gogh resided in a twentieth-century New York hotel, surviving on food stamps and direct communications with God? And imagine the encounter between David and Goliath from the Philistine's point of view. This book presents a collection of short stories that re-imagine life beyond the margins of 'normality'. Series: Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction. Num Pages: 206 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 11. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 206
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803225336
- ISBN
- 9780803225336
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 18.80
€ 18.99
€ 18.80
Paperback. When her cold and indifferent husband vanishes, so does Lois' old life. Now she is ready to take her chances again. There's only one fly in the ointment: Janie-Gay, ex-partner of the son Lois lost to drugs, and spiteful mother of the small, neglected child she can't get out of her mind. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 198.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780552774673
- ISBN
- 9780552774673
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.45
€ 12.45
Paperback. Keywords: "Subjects - Fiction - Authors, A-Z - F - Fine, Anne,Subjects - Fiction - General"
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- KHS0048915
- ISBN
- 9780552997706
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 8.99€ 4.99
€ 8.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Presents a series of stories about women stirred, bothered, or fascinated by men they cannot understand, or understand too well. This book features characters that are haunted by the ghosts of the lives they might have led - lit by new flames, old flames, and flames that are guttering out. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 21. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099520993
- ISBN
- 9780099520993
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 9.99
€ 12.99
€ 9.99
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Thus
- SKU
- 9780099284345
- ISBN
- 9780099284345
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.07
€ 11.99
€ 10.07
Paperback. Includes beguiling, provocative stories about manipulative men and the women who outwit them, about destructive marriages and curdled friendships, about mothers and sons, about moments which change or haunt a life. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099524298
- ISBN
- 9780099524298
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.45
€ 13.99
€ 10.45
paperback. A collection of stories, in which moments of change, chance encounters, the twist of fate leads a person to a new way of thinking or being. It presents a radiant, indelible portrait of just how dangerous and strange ordinary life can be. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 21. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Jessica Kingsley Publishers
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843101154
- ISBN
- 9781843101154
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.65
€ 25.65
Paperback. The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother Liam. It wasn't the drink that killed him - it was what happened to him as a boy in his grandmother's house, in the winter of 1968. This novel is about love and disappointment, about thwarted lust and limitless desire. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 198 261pp
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Vintage Books USA
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- 9780099501633
- ISBN
- 9780099501633
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.50
€ 13.99
€ 10.50
Paperback. Shortlisted for The Orange Prize for Fiction If it hadn't been for the child then none of this might have happened. She saw me kissing her father. She saw her father kissing me. The fact that a child got mixed up in it all made us feel that it mattered, that there was no going back. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 16. Weight in Grams: 174.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099539780
- ISBN
- 9780099539780
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.45
€ 13.99
€ 10.45
paperback. A collection of stories, in which moments of change, chance encounters, the twist of fate leads a person to a new way of thinking or being. It presents a radiant, indelible portrait of just how dangerous and strange ordinary life can be. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 21. Weight in Grams: 244.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099578635
- ISBN
- 9780099578635
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 5.47
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€ 5.47
Paperback. A collection of pained, precise and disquieting stories that restore to us the strangeness of the lives we follow beneath the surface of the lives we lead. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 138.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099437390
- ISBN
- 9780099437390
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
€ 13.99
€ 11.09
Paperback. Hanna, Dan, Constance and Emmet return to the west coast of Ireland for a final family Christmas in the home their mother is about to sell. As the feast turns to near painful comedy, a last, desperate act from Rosaleen - a woman who doesn't quite know how to love her children - forces them to confront the weight of family ties and their home. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 21. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099539797
- ISBN
- 9780099539797
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.01
€ 13.99
€ 11.01
Paperback. Ranging from the 1850s through two world wars to the present, and from Canada to Brisbane, the Balkans and the Somme, this title includes dazzling stories that reveal the secrets of unconventional women who refuse to be contained. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099459712
- ISBN
- 9780099459712
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
€ 13.99
€ 11.09
paperback. A tale of sex, death and reproduction, by the author of "The Portable Virgin". When Stephen arrives on her doorstep and asks for a cup of tea, Grace's life is transfigured. He committed suicide in 1934, but now, nostalgically, he spends his nights hanging by the neck in Grace's shower. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 128 x 15. Weight in Grams: 166.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780749397159
- ISBN
- 9780749397159
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
€ 13.99
€ 11.09
Paperback. Irishwoman Eliza Lynch became briefly, in the 1860s, the richest woman in the world. The book opens in Paris with Eliza in bed with Francisco Solano Lopez - heir to the untold wealth of Paraguay. The fruit of their congress will be extraordinary, and will send her across the Atlantic on the regal voyage to claim her glorious future in Ascuncion. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 128 x 15. Weight in Grams: 172.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099436942
- ISBN
- 9780099436942
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.76
€ 13.99
€ 11.76
Paperback. A woman haunted by dreams of her dead mother. An adulterous couple stepping over the line where the initial excitement ends and the pain begins. A widow visiting a Scottish village in search of her husband's past - and instead discovering unsettling truths about a total stranger. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 210.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099820604
- ISBN
- 9780099820604
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.01
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Paperback. Includes stories that focus through single events or sudden memories which bring the past bubbling to the surface. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Format
- Paperback
- Edition
- 1st Vintage Edition
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099422747
- ISBN
- 9780099422747
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.00
€ 13.99
€ 11.00
Paperback. Features stories that explore varieties and degrees of love - filial, platonic, sexual, parental and imagined - in the lives of apparently ordinary folk. In this title, the author's characters pulse with idiosyncratic life. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 232.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099741312
- ISBN
- 9780099741312
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
€ 13.99
€ 11.09
Paperback. The Man Booker prize-winning author's critically acclaimed selection of the best Irish short stories of the last sixty years, following Richard Ford's best-selling Granta Book of the American Short Story. Editor(s): Enright, Anne. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; DQ; FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 29. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Publisher
- Granta Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847082558
- ISBN
- 9781847082558
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.67
€ 19.99
€ 14.67