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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. A novel first published in 1952 as THREE BEAR WITNESS which, set in Wales, tells a tale of love and death centred around an Oxford don who leaves for a Welsh farm and for the wife of a neighbouring farmer. From the author of the AUBREY/NATURIN novels. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 133 x 14. Weight in Grams: 172. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Flamingo
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0001585
ISBN
9780006476528
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. A novel first published in 1952 as THREE BEAR WITNESS which, set in Wales, tells a tale of love and death centred around an Oxford don who leaves for a Welsh farm and for the wife of a neighbouring farmer. From the author of the AUBREY/NATURIN novels. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 133 x 14. Weight in Grams: 172. Good copy with some shelf wear, yellowing of pages and damage to author's introductory page, otherwise good and remains intact
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Flamingo
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KKD0007539
ISBN
9780006476528
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 17.95

paperback. Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. Num Pages: 416 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 282.
Publisher
HarperCollins
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2022
Edition
4th Printing
Condition
New
SKU
V9780006499176
ISBN
9780006499176
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.57

Paperback. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1HF; 3JJG; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. .
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780008112967
ISBN
9780008112967
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.74

Paperback. One night, George Duncan is woken by a noise in his garden. Impossibly, a great white crane has tumbled to earth, shot through its wing by an arrow. Unexpectedly moved, George helps the bird, and from the moment he watches it fly away, his life is transformed. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 224.
Publisher
Canongate Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857868749
ISBN
9780857868749
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.54

Paperback. Lick Holden is a young jazz musician, who sets New Orleans on fire with his cornet at the beginning of the last century. But Lick's passion is to find his lost step-sister and that's a journey that leads him to a place he can call 'home'. Meanwhile, at the other end of the century there is Sylvia, an English prostitute, and Jim, a young drifter. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 28. Weight in Grams: 292. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0003883
ISBN
9780140286564
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 108. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
United Kingdom
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of pages
144
SKU
KKE0000245
ISBN
9781408867914
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 8.99
€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 15. Weight in Grams: 214.
Publisher
Daunt Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781907970931
ISBN
9781907970931
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.66

Paperback. The elegant, haunting story of the forgotten people and places of Paris from the reigning Nobel Laureate. Translator(s): Cameron, Professor Euan. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 13. Weight in Grams: 118.
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857055286
ISBN
9780857055286
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.17

Paperback. A classic novel from recent Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano, now available to English-language readers in a superb new translation Translator(s): Polizzotti, Mark. Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 15. Weight in Grams: 227.
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300215892
ISBN
9780300215892
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 15.04

Paperback. An autobiographical portrait of Post-War Paris and a tumultuous childhood - by the 2014 Nobel Laureate Translator(s): Polizzotti, Mark. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 11. Weight in Grams: 86.
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857054937
ISBN
9780857054937
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.10

Paperback. A sinister encounter leads to a forensic investigation of a writer's past - by the 2014 Nobel Laureate Translator(s): Cameron, Professor Euan. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 12. Weight in Grams: 118.
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857054999
ISBN
9780857054999
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.18

Paperback. A nocturnal wander through the hazes of memory and the mysteries of the past from Patrick Modiano, Nobel Laureate 2014 Translator(s): Polizzotti, Mark. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 199 x 15. Weight in Grams: 118.
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857054883
ISBN
9780857054883
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.11

Paperback. A trio of intertwined novellas from the 2014 Nobel laureate for literature Translator(s): Polizzotti, Mark. Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 137 x 17. Weight in Grams: 246.
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300198058
ISBN
9780300198058
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.17

Paperback. Features three tales from the hand of master storyteller Patrick McGrath. This work excavates the layers of New York's turbulent history. Series: Writer and the City Series. Num Pages: 256 pages, map. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 43. Weight in Grams: 188. Tales of Manhattan Then and Now. Series: Writer and the City Series. 256 pages, map. Features three tales from the hand of master storyteller Patrick McGrath. This work excavates the layers of New York's turbulent history. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 197 x 129 x 43. Weight: 188.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Condition
New
SKU
V9780747583721
ISBN
9780747583721
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.95

Paperback. A novel by the author of "Asylum". Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 212. Fine copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0003372
ISBN
9780747574156
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.70

Paperback. As a psychiatrist in a top-security mental hospital, Peter Cleave has made a study of what he calls 'the catastrophic love affair characterized by sexual obsession.' His experience is extensive, and he is never surprised. Until, that is, he comes reluctantly to accept that the wife of one of his colleagues has embarked on such an affair.. Series: Penguin Essentials. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 112 x 180 x 19. Weight in Grams: 154.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241973677
ISBN
9780241973677
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.17

Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 138 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 248.
Publisher
New Island Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
S9781848404915
ISBN
9781848404915
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.91

Paperback. A slice of crazed, rural, Irish gothic: the tale of murder in a small Irish village in Donegal, Bogmail is a classic of modern Irish literature. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781786696618
ISBN
9781786696618
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.03

Paperback. Married to the sugar-lipped Catherine and sharing his daughter Immy's passion for the enchanted kingdom of winterwood, Redmond Hatch was happy. But then infidelity, betrayal and the 'scary things' from which he would protect his daughter steal into the magic kingdom, and bad things begin to happen. Now Redmond prowls the barren outlands alone. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 16. Weight in Grams: 174. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0001975
ISBN
9780747585985
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. From the winner of the Irish Times Award for Fiction 1992 and the Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Butcher Boy Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 235 x 21. Weight in Grams: 396.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
9781447272236
ISBN
9781447272236
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.78

Paperback. From a farmer's romance and his skin condition to one man's culinary relationship with Bruce Lee, Mondo Desperado and its blackly comic series of stories will make you howl with laughter. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 362.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
9781447259619
ISBN
9781447259619
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.78

Paperback. Patrick Leigh Fermor's first and only novel, now back in print. Num Pages: 144 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 110.
Publisher
John Murray Publishers Ltd
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719555299
ISBN
9780719555299
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.87

Paperback. A man's mother can be a terrible burden sometimes. For Tarry Flynn - poet, farmer and lover-from-afar of beautiful young virgins - the responsibility of family, farm, poetic inspiration and his own unyielding lust is a heavy one. The only solution is to rise above all - or escape over the nearest horizon. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 150.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780141183619
ISBN
9780141183619
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.10

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