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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. Fleeing Las Vegas and her abusive boyfriend, Allison Johnson moves to Reno, but finds herself haunted by the mistakes of her past, and lacking any self-belief. Her only comfort seems to come from the imaginary conversations she has with her hero, Paul Newman. This book presents a portrait of small-town America and an emotional tour de force. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 172.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571235711
- ISBN
- 9780571235711
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.75
€ 13.99
€ 10.75
Paperback. Tells the story of two brothers, Frank and Jerry Lee. With intense feeling and compassion, this book explores the frustrations and failed dreams of the two brothers - one a natural storyteller, the other an artist - and renders perfectly the sense of entrapment they feel. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571315598
- ISBN
- 9780571315598
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.71
€ 13.99
€ 10.71
Paperback. Severely wounded in the Iraq war, Leroy has lived a half-life in a group home for eight years. Unable to bear it any longer, he commits a desperate act which helps him to disappear to another place. Freddie is the night porter at the home, who works two jobs yet can't make ends meet. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571300303
- ISBN
- 9780571300303
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.73
€ 13.99
€ 10.73
Paperback. Raymond Marks is a normal boy, from a normal family, in a northern town. Until, on the banks of the Rochdale Canal, the flytrapping craze begins and, for Raymond, nothing is ever quite so normal again. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 31. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780552996457
- ISBN
- 9780552996457
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 12.53
€ 17.99
€ 12.53
Paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 216 x 16. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Gallaudet University Press,U.S. United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781563686030
- ISBN
- 9781563686030
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 17.39
€ 19.99
€ 17.39
Paperback. An extraordinary story of war and friendship from one of America's most revered authors of the 20th Century. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 226.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007457984
- ISBN
- 9780007457984
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.53
€ 15.99
€ 12.53
Paperback. BIC Classification: FA. . Clean copy with slight shelf wear and minor damage to corner of cover but remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Harvill Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKE0000376
- ISBN
- 9780002710213
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
paperback. A startling light is cast into Ireland's darker corners in the new Booker-longlisted novel by the author of THE MAP OF TENDERNESS Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 202.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Sceptre
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780340822166
- ISBN
- 9780340822166
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.14
€ 14.99
€ 11.14
Paperback. Num Pages: 72 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 197 x 27. Weight in Grams: 406 Paperback, black spine (worn). Signed on ffep 'To Kevin, wishing you an enjoyable read, Tom Foote'. 351pp
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Salmon Publishing Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- SKU
- KON0821151
- ISBN
- 9781897648933
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 12.00
€ 12.00
paperback. Three people are frozen in a conspiracy of silence that prevents love's consummation; a nine-year-old dreams that a movie part heals her fragmented family life; a brother and sister forge a new life amid terrible beauty of Ireland after Rebellion; and in title story, a man chooses between his longtime love and a life of solitude on family farm. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 18. Weight in Grams: 178. Good clean copy. Covers showing light shelf wear. Lightly toned, text is crisp and clear and remains a very good copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0031526
- ISBN
- 9780140294699
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 18.00
€ 18.00
Paperback. Features the awkward, lonely, curious teenager Timothy Gedge as he wanders around the bland seaside town of Dynmouth. Timothy takes a prurient interest in the lives of the adults there, who only realise the sinister purpose to which he seeks to put his knowledge too late. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 154.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780241971833
- ISBN
- 9780241971833
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.33
€ 10.33
Paperback. Suitable for those who enjoyed "The Story of Lucy Gault" and "Love and Summer", this title deals with themes of missed opportunities, the inevitability of change and the powerful but fragmentary quality of our memories. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 168 231pp. The paperback edition of the latest excellent collection of short stories from one of the great Masters of the genre.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd London
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141032450
- ISBN
- 9780141032450
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.38
€ 13.99
€ 10.38
Paperback. It is summer and a stranger has come to quiet Rathmoye. He is noticed by Ellie, the young convent girl, who is married to Dillahan, a farmer still mourning his first wife. Over the long and warm days, Ellie and the stranger form an illicit attachment. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 15. Weight in Grams: 164.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141042190
- ISBN
- 9780141042190
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.04
€ 13.99
€ 11.04
Hardcover.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd London
- Number of pages
- 1
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140957860
- ISBN
- 9780140957860
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.05€ 54.47
€ 71.05
€ 54.47
Paperback. An Irish country girl is trapped in a loveless marriage with an older man, but finds release through secret meetings with a man who shares her passion for Russian novels. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141044613
- ISBN
- 9780141044613
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
Paperback. Summer, 1921. Eight-year-old Lucy Gault clings to glens and woods above Lahardane - the home her family is being forced to abandon. She knows Gaults are no longer welcome in Ireland and that danger threatens. Lucy, however, is headstrong and decides that somehow she must force her parents into staying. But the path she chooses ends in disaster. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 176.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141044606
- ISBN
- 9780141044606
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02
Paperback. William Trevor is one of the most renowned figures in contemporary literature, described as 'the greatest living writer of short stories in the English language' by the New Yorker and acclaimed for his haunting and profound insights into the human heart. This title offers a collection of his short fiction. Num Pages: 1280 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 158 x 52. Weight in Grams: 1224.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 1280
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140232455
- ISBN
- 9780140232455
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.34
€ 38.34
Paperback. William Bird has always taken in boarders who are on the fringes of society: the petty conman, the immigrant who's never been able to fit in, the blustering officer who really doesn't know what's what , and the just plain lonely. He's built a unique place with a unique atmosphere. Series: William Trevor Backlist Novels. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 198.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241969274
- ISBN
- 9780241969274
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.77
€ 20.99
€ 16.77
Paperback. Here we encounter a blind piano tuner whose wonderful memories of his first wife are cruelly distorted by his second; a woman in a difficult marriage who must choose between her indignant husband and her closest friend; and two children, survivors of divorce, who mimic their parents' melodramas. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 158.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140258349
- ISBN
- 9780140258349
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.04
€ 13.99
€ 11.04
Paperback. Jaraby expects to get the job, but he reckons without the bitterness of Nox, who still remembers the humiliations of his school years. And when Jaraby's son gets into trouble with the law, Nox has the perfect stick with which to beat him. Series: William Trevor Backlist Novels. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 132.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241969250
- ISBN
- 9780241969250
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.21
€ 17.99
€ 14.21