Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. The imaginary story of an Italian family from 1909 to the 1930s, with a framework in the present day. The narrator finds herself drawn into the passion and prejudice of her own invention, and we see how family memory, like folk memory, distorts and mythologises. Num Pages: 288 pages, map. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 208. Clean copy with minor shelf wear and some yellowing
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- New Ed
- SKU
- KOC0016719
- ISBN
- 9780099767411
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Sisters Vera and Nadezhda must aside a lifetime of feuding to save their emigre engineer father from voluptuous gold-digger Valentina. With her proclivity for green satin underwear and boil-in-the-bag cuisine, she will stop at nothing in her pursuit of Western wealth. Num Pages: 336 pages, no pictures. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Re-issue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780241961827
- ISBN
- 9780241961827
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.44
€ 11.99
€ 9.44
Paperback. For twenty years Doro and Marcus lived in a commune, convinced lentils and free love would change the world. They didn't. What they did do was give their children a terror of radicalism, dirt, cooking rotas and poverty. So when Doro and Marcus spring a surprise on their kids the family is forced to confront some thorny truths about themselves.. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 276.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141044941
- ISBN
- 9780141044941
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.30
€ 11.99
€ 10.30
Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141044958
- ISBN
- 9780141044958
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.74
€ 13.99
€ 11.74
Paperback. A field of strawberries in Kent.. And sitting in it are two caravans - one for the men and one for the women. The residents are from all over: miner's son Andriy is from the old Ukraine, while sexy young Irina is from the new: they each other warily. There are the Poles, Tomasz and Yola; two Chinese girls; and Emauel from Malawi. Num Pages: 320 pages, no pictures. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 128 x 21. Weight in Grams: 232.
- Publisher
- Fig Tree
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Re-issue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241961841
- ISBN
- 9780241961841
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.10
€ 13.99
€ 11.10
Paperback. Series: Penguin Essentials. Num Pages: 336 pages, no pictures. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 181 x 111. .
- Publisher
- Fig Tree
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241981443
- ISBN
- 9780241981443
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.29
€ 11.99
€ 10.29
Paperback. When bruises on the mother, Lorraine, prove to be late-stage cancer, 43-year-old Clara Purdy moves the three children and their terrible grandmother into her own house while Lorraine undergoes treatment at the local hospital. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 32. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Publisher
- Cornerstone United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 496
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099537458
- ISBN
- 9780099537458
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.48
€ 17.99
€ 13.48
Paperback. Presents the three graceful Avery girls the sister act to take vaudeville by storm starring: Aurora, Clover and Bella. As they set off on the road to fame and fortune, the Avery sisters join a cast of extraordinary and unforgettable characters - charming charlatans, unpredictable eccentrics, and some who seem ordinary but have magical gifts. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 35. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Publisher
- Windmill Books
- Number of pages
- 544
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099558637
- ISBN
- 9780099558637
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.51
€ 10.99
€ 9.51
Paperback. * From the author of the magnificent, award-winning GILEAD comes a masterpiece novel that returns to the people and places of Gilead. Winner of the ORANGE PRIZE Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 282. Fine copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KJE0003505
- ISBN
- 9781844085507
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
Paperback. * From the author of the magnificent, award-winning GILEAD comes a masterpiece novel that returns to the people and places of Gilead. Winner of the ORANGE PRIZE Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 282. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KJE0001289
- ISBN
- 9781844085507
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
Paperback. 'Housekeeping' is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, the eccentric and remote sister of their dead mother. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 15. Weight in Grams: 184.
- Edition
- Main
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571230082
- ISBN
- 9780571230082
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.78
€ 13.99
€ 10.78
Paperback. From the author of Housekeeping, Gilead is the long-hoped-for second novel by one of America's finest writers. Chosen by the New York Times Book Review as one of the top 6 novels of 2004. 'A beautiful novel: wise, tender and perfectly measured' Sarah Waters Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844081486
- ISBN
- 9781844081486
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02
Paperback. Marilynne Robinson, one of the greatest novelists of our time, returns to the town of Gilead in one of the most acclaimed novels of 2014 Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 198 x 20. Weight in Grams: 216.
- Publisher
- Virago Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844088829
- ISBN
- 9781844088829
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
€ 13.99
€ 11.09
Paperback. First love never fades.. Series: Tallgrass. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 107 x 171 x 29. Weight in Grams: 184.
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Little, Brown & Company
- Condition
- New
- Format
- Paperback
- SKU
- V9781455588176
- ISBN
- 9781455588176
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.91
€ 9.91
Paperback. The classic feminist novel, reissued for its 30th anniversary. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 35. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Publisher
- Virago
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781860492822
- ISBN
- 9781860492822
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.93
€ 15.99
€ 11.93
Hardback. A sparkling, enchanting, one-of-a-kind novel about one day in the lives of three unforgettable characters. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 138 x 24. Weight in Grams: 412. Fine in fine dust wrapper. DW showing minor shelfwear with bumps to edges, remains in good condition
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- SKU
- KSG0009038
- ISBN
- 9781447254423
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. A sparkling, enchanting, one-of-a-kind novel about one day in the lives of three unforgettable characters. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 138 x 24. Weight in Grams: 412. Good copy in dustwrapper. DW with some minor shelf wear.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- SKU
- KTG0010957
- ISBN
- 9781447254423
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. After many generations, it is now, in 1971, Harold who runs Ard Farm. Out on the fells, he feels his father's presence, and there is hope that he, his grandmother and his Uncle Joe will be able to take the farm forward and prosper. But their way of life is under threat. Farming is undergoing huge change and increasingly harmful intervention. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784741334
- ISBN
- 9781784741334
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.62
€ 17.99
€ 17.62
Translator(s): Fischman, PH D Sheila. Series: Exile Classics. Num Pages: 155 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 137 x 13. Weight in Grams: 227.
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Exile Editions Canada
- Number of pages
- 155
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781550961300
- ISBN
- 9781550961300
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.05
€ 18.99
€ 17.05
Paperback. Num Pages: 324 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 216 x 20. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Publisher
- Dementi Milestone Publishing United States
- Number of pages
- 324
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780982701973
- ISBN
- 9780982701973
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 15.87
€ 21.99
€ 15.87
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Peirene Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908670281
- ISBN
- 9781908670281
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.45
€ 16.99
€ 13.45
Paperback. Offers three tales that feature a commanding female protagonist trapped in her place of origin, neither able nor wanting to escape from the home that gave her life but which now threatens to destroy her. This title presents personal images of utopia, the importance of heritage, and the necessity of burying the dead to approach the future. Translator(s): Stump, Jordan. Series: European Women Writers. Num Pages: 123 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 197 x 121 x 10. Weight in Grams: 140.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 123
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803289529
- ISBN
- 9780803289529
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.19
€ 14.19
Paperback. Life's hard for a Greek god in the 21st century. But for Artemis (goddess of hunting, professional dog walker), Aphrodite (goddess of beauty, telephone sex operator) and Apollo (god of the sun, TV psychic) there's no way out. Until a meek cleaner and her would-be boyfriend come into their lives, and turn the world literally upside down. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 214.
- Publisher
- VINTAGE
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- Paperback Edition, First Printing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099513025
- ISBN
- 9780099513025
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
€ 13.99
€ 11.09
Paperback. A terrifying original fiction anthology based upon the mythology created by Clive Barker in the novella The Hellbound Heart Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 147 x 210 x 24. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Gallery Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781439140901
- ISBN
- 9781439140901
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 20.45
€ 24.99
€ 20.45