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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. All Wingos share one heritage.. shrimp fishing, poverty and the memory of a terrifying event - the source of Tom Wingo's self-hatred and his sister Savannah's despair. To save himself and Savannah, Tom confronts the past with the help of New York psychologist Susan Lowenstein. This work chronicles the family of Wingos of Colleton, South Carolina. Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 37. Weight in Grams: 472.
Publisher
BLACK SWAN (TWLD)
Number of pages
672
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780552773584
ISBN
9780552773584
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.47

Paperback. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210. . 8vo . Some light shelfwear otherwise a good copy. Signed and inscribed by the author
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Salmon Poetry
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KEX0281025
ISBN
9780948339653
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 15.00

Paperback. When Tom Seymour, a child psychologist, plunges into a river to save a young man from drowning, he unwittingly reopens a chapter from his past he'd hoped to forget. For Tom already knows Danny Miller. When Danny was ten Tom helped imprison him for the killing of an old woman. Now out of prison with a new identity, Danny has some questions.. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 126 x 20. Weight in Grams: 270. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0001517
ISBN
9780140270747
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. 1918, the closing months of the war. Army psychiatrist William Rivers is increasingly concerned for the men who have been in his care - particularly Billy Prior, who is about to return to combat in France with young poet Wilfred Owen. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 212.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780141030951
ISBN
9780141030951
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.33

Paperback. London, 1918. Billy Prior is working for Intelligence in the Ministry of Munitions. But his private encounters with women and men - pacifists, objectors, homosexuals - conflict with his duties as a soldier, and it is not long before his sense of himself fragments and breaks down. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FJMF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 19. Weight in Grams: 206.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780141030944
ISBN
9780141030944
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.33

Paperback. In Pat Barker's Another World, the First World War casts its shadow down the generations. At 101 years old, Geordie, a proud Somme veteran, lingers painfully through the days before his death. His grandson Nick is anguished to see this once-resilient man haunted by the ghosts of the trenches and the horror surrounding his brother's death. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 192. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KOG0000949
ISBN
9780140258981
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.70

Paperback. * by one of the finest chroniclers of the lives of northern working-class women Series: Virago Modern Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 126 x 19. Weight in Grams: 206.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Publisher
Virago
Condition
New
SKU
V9780860686118
ISBN
9780860686118
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

Paperback. Craiglockhart War Hospital, Scotland, 1917, and army psychiatrist William Rivers is treating shell-shocked soldiers. Under his care are the poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, as well as mute Billy Prior, who is only able to communicate by means of pencil and paper. Rivers's job is to make the men in his charge healthy enough to fight. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FJMF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 17. Weight in Grams: 184.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780141030937
ISBN
9780141030937
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.33

Paperback. * an early work by the winner of the 1995 Booker Prize Series: VMC. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 186.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1982
Publisher
Virago
Condition
New
SKU
V9780860682837
ISBN
9780860682837
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. The students at the Slade School of Art gather in Henry Tonks' studio for his life-drawing class. But for Paul Tarrant the class is troubling, underscoring his own uncertainty about making a mark on the world. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 188.
Publisher
Penguin
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
First Thus
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141019475
ISBN
9780141019475
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. As the bombs fall on the blacked-out city, ambulance driver Elinor Brooke races from bomb sites to hospitals trying to save the lives of injured survivors, working alongside former friend Kit Neville, while her husband Paul works as an air-raid warden. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Penguin
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241966037
ISBN
9780241966037
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. Returning to Afghanistan after his photographer friend is killed by a sniper, war reporter Stephen Sharkey seeks release from his nightmares in an England seemingly at peace with itself. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 218.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140270754
ISBN
9780140270754
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.77

Paperback. The poets and soldiers Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen are dispatched to Craiglockhart War Hospital in Scotland in 1917. There, army psychiatrist William Rivers is treating brutalised, shell-shocked men. It is Rivers' job to fix these men and make them ready to fight again. Series: Penguin Essentials. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 106 x 177 x 23. Weight in Grams: 198.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241970768
ISBN
9780241970768
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.21

Paperback. * An early novel by one of England's most important contemporary novelists. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 12. Weight in Grams: 128.
Publisher
Virago
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780860683988
ISBN
9780860683988
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. When Toby is reported 'Missing, Believed Killed', another secret casts a lengthening shadow over Elinor's world: how exactly did Toby die - and why? Elinor determines to uncover the truth. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 195 x 20. Weight in Grams: 256.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141042206
ISBN
9780141042206
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. There is a secret at the heart of the town of Rabbit Back, involving its most famous occupant, a world-renowned children's author, and a strange literary game played by the local Literary Society. As Ella, an aspiring author, makes unsettling discoveries about White's and the Society's past, we explore the nature of literature and truth. Translator(s): Rogers, Lola. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 288.
Publisher
Pushkin Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782270430
ISBN
9781782270430
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.48

Paperback. An emotionally implosive novel about confronting the death of a loved one and the possibility of hope a child brings. Translator(s): Black, Tamsin. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 127 x 10. Weight in Grams: 157.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Bellevue Literary Press United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9781934137550
ISBN
9781934137550
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 14.75

Paperback. Raimund Gregorius is a mild-mannered, middle-aged professor of ancient languages. One morning, as he is teaching, he is seized by a restlessness that drives him to abandon his classroom then and there - shocking his students, and surprising even himself. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 31. Weight in Grams: 306.
Edition
Main
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843547136
ISBN
9781843547136
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.71

Paperback. A widow's quiet retirement in the foothills of the Alps is turned upside down by the arrival of a mysterious stranger. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Publisher
Gallic Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
248
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Translation
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910477250
ISBN
9781910477250
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.95

Paperback. Heads will roll as two friends with a shocking secret are reunited in Versailles. Translator(s): Boyce, Emily. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 142 x 11. Weight in Grams: 144.
Publisher
Gallic Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Translation
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908313720
ISBN
9781908313720
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.93

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