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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. On to the shores of Texas a raging sea coughs up two castaways: Jim and Natty, shipwrecked on their way home from Treasure Island. The Nightingale sunk, their silver gone, captured, weak and afraid, the pair steal a treasure they should have left well alone. The adventure of the New World lies in wait.. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 200 x 35. Weight in Grams: 298.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099583783
ISBN
9780099583783
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.29

Hardcover. Two young brothers in Lvov, separated by war. Henryk - imprisoned by the Nazis with his mother in the family home - flees ahead of the advancing Soviets and eventually settles in Ireland. Stanislav takes refuge with an aunt in Cracow, where he lives out the decades of his life. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 141 x 23. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
The Lilliput Press Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
V9781901866513
ISBN
9781901866513
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.62

Paperback. Kate O'Brien is thirty and has very little to think about except trying to keep her balance as she totters up London's media-land ladder. Fiona O'Brien is Kate's responsible older sister - with a husband, twin boys, a dog and now ..a life-changing problem. It's a problem that means Kate going back to Dublin. Pronto. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 21. Weight in Grams: 208. Good clean copy with some reader wear.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Penguin Ireland
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KTM0005784
ISBN
9781844880690
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Just as Emma Hamilton and her husband James become parents of an eight-month-old Russian baby, Yuri, they find out that Emma is pregnant. Which is a bit of a shock since they had come to terms with not being able to have children. This title tells her story as she embarks on the path to adopting a baby when she and her husband can't conceive. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 196. Good clean copy with some reader wear.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Penguin Ireland
Edition
Paperback
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KTM0006489
ISBN
9781844880683
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Just as Emma Hamilton and her husband James become parents of an eight-month-old Russian baby, Yuri, they find out that Emma is pregnant. Which is a bit of a shock since they had come to terms with not being able to have children. This title tells her story as she embarks on the path to adopting a baby when she and her husband can't conceive. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 196. Good clean copy with some reader wear.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Penguin Ireland
Edition
Paperback
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KTM0003360
ISBN
9781844880683
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Just as Emma Hamilton and her husband James become parents of an eight-month-old Russian baby, Yuri, they find out that Emma is pregnant. Which is a bit of a shock since they had come to terms with not being able to have children. This title tells her story as she embarks on the path to adopting a baby when she and her husband can't conceive. Series: The Baby Trail Series. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 194. Clean copy with some shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Penguin Ireland
Edition
Paperback
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KOC0022119
ISBN
9781844880683
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Kate O'Brien is thirty and has very little to think about except trying to keep her balance as she totters up London's media-land ladder. Fiona O'Brien is Kate's responsible older sister - with a husband, twin boys, a dog and now ..a life-changing problem. It's a problem that means Kate going back to Dublin. Pronto. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 21. Weight in Grams: 208. Already read but clean
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Penguin Ireland
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KDK0011368
ISBN
9781844880690
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Editor(s): Gleeson, Sinead. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 216 x 30. Weight in Grams: 396.
Publisher
New Island Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848405486
ISBN
9781848405486
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.89

paperback. Series: AfricaSouth New Writing S. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 207 x 141 x 8. Weight in Grams: 148.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
David Philip Publishers South Africa
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
SKU
V9780864863041
ISBN
9780864863041
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.36

Paperback. A petty criminal eludes capture by becoming a hired man on a prairie farm, only to discover deception and betrayal. Series: Currents. Num Pages: 260 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 148 x 20. Weight in Grams: 356.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Alberta Press Canada
Number of pages
239
Condition
New
SKU
V9780888643599
ISBN
9780888643599
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.18

Paperback. On the eve of his retirement, Doctor "Sawbones" Hunter reflects on his career as a small-town physician. Series: Currents. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 134 x 12. Weight in Grams: 220.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Alberta Press Canada
Number of pages
138
Condition
New
SKU
V9780888643544
ISBN
9780888643544
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.18

Paperback. Series: Dover Thrift Editions. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 134 x 20. Weight in Grams: 236. Good copy with some shelf wear. Some wear and tear to cover but remains good
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc.
Condition
Used, Good
Edition
New edition
SKU
KCW0001332
ISBN
9780486431673
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 10.99
€ 9.06

Paperback. Series: Modern Library. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 137 x 26. Weight in Grams: 324.
Publisher
Modern Library
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9780375759253
ISBN
9780375759253
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.60

Paperback. Businessman George F Babbitt loves the latest appliances, making money and the Republican party. In fact, he loves being a Solid Citizen even more than he loves his wife. In the economic boom years of 1920s America, Babbitt became a symbol of middle-class mediocrity, and his name an enduring part of the American lexicon. This book tells his story. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 132 x 24. Weight in Grams: 272.
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099264712
ISBN
9780099264712
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.84

Paperback. A novel about London - its past, its people, and its underbelly. It combines a spiritual inquest into the Whitechapel Ripper murders and the dark side of the late Victorian imagination with a posse of seedy book dealers hot on the trail of obscure rarities of that period. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 150.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141014845
ISBN
9780141014845
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.24

Paperback. Young Jawad, born to a Shi'ite family of corpse washers and shrouders in Baghdad, decides to abandon the family tradition, choosing instead to become a sculptor, to celebrate life rather than tend to death. He enters Baghdad's Academy of Fine Arts in the 1980s, determined to forge his own path. But the circumstances of history dictate otherwise. Translator(s): Antoon, Sinan. Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 191 x 146 x 14. Weight in Grams: 208.
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300205640
ISBN
9780300205640
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 12.72

Paperback. Amsterdam 1654: a dangerous secret threatens to destroy a young widow's new life. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. Weight in Grams: 270.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
HarperCollins
Condition
New
SKU
9780008212100
ISBN
9780008212100
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.27

Paperback. Translator(s): Bray, Barbara. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 139 x 15. Weight in Grams: 278.
Publisher
NYRB Classics
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781590176801
ISBN
9781590176801
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.67

Paperback. First published in 1967, this book consists of three short novellas on the theme of women's vulnerability - in the first, to the process of ageing, in the second to loneliness, and, in the third, to the growing indifference of a loved one. Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 16. Weight in Grams: 182.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007204656
ISBN
9780007204656
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.70

Paperback. * This extraordinary novel, considered by many to be one of the finest examples of Simone de Beauvoir's imaginative writing, tells the story of a man doomed to immortality. Translator(s): Cameron, Euan. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 144 x 29. Weight in Grams: 296.
Publisher
Virago
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Condition
New
SKU
V9781860490026
ISBN
9781860490026
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.02

Paperback. A sensationally sexy new series by bestselling Swedish romance author Simona Ahrnstedt - perfect for fans of E.L. James, Sylvia Day and Laurelin Paige Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FRD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 198 x 32. Weight in Grams: 302.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
KTK0097372
ISBN
9780349413761
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 6.23

Paperback. A beautiful love story among the ruins of Athens. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 27. Weight in Grams: 342.
Publisher
Oneworld Publications
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780743783
ISBN
9781780743783
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.70

Paperback. Sashenka Zeitlin is just sixteen. As her mother parties with Rasputin and her dissolute friends, Sashenka slips into the frozen night to play her role in a dangerous game of conspiracy and seduction. Sashenka's story lies hidden for half a century, until a young historian goes deep into Stalin's private archives and uncovers a story of passion. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 40. Weight in Grams: 442.
Publisher
Corgi London
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780552154574
ISBN
9780552154574
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.62

Paperback. Britannia, AD 44. Centurions Macro and Cato (the latter newly promoted) face trouble on two fronts - from the rebellious tribes, and from a deadly plot directly targetting the two soldiers. The powerful fourth novel in Simon Scarrow's bestselling Eagles of the Empire series, which includes BRITANNIA, THE GLADIATOR and CENTURION. Series: Eagles of the Empire. Num Pages: 448 pages, Maps. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 29. Weight in Grams: 322.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Condition
New
SKU
9780755349982
ISBN
9780755349982
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 5.80

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