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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. It is a warm summer's evening in 1895 at Rose Point Cottage on White Bear Lake. But Commodore Barnett's planned victory dinner has been spoilt - his team lost the yacht race and he can't figure out way. Against his principles, he agrees to let his kitchen hand try to solve the problem. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 111 x 29. Weight in Grams: 244.
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
HarperCollins
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
New edition
SKU
KLN0015876
ISBN
9780006476085
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. .
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910974278
ISBN
9781910974278
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.46

Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 178 x 26. Weight in Grams: 276.
Publisher
Tachyon Publications
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781616962142
ISBN
9781616962142
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 22.22

Paperback. An international event: a remarkable first novel of modern India, weaving together a rich tapestry of social manners and mores, ambition, greed, and love, which will establish Lavanya Sankaran as one of the most gifted and original writers of fiction today. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 246.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780755327898
ISBN
9780755327898
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.12

Paperback. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 186 x 132 x 13. Weight in Grams: 210.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Feminist Press at The City University of New York United States
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
SKU
V9781558617483
ISBN
9781558617483
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 14.54

Paperback. Andalusia is a passion - and fifteen years after his last visit Laurie Lee returned. He found a country broken by the Civil War, but the totems of indestructible Spain survive: the Christ in agony, the thrilling flamenco cry - the pride in poverty, the gypsy intensity in vivid whitewashed slums, and the cult of the bullfight. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSK; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 9. Weight in Grams: 100.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099479710
ISBN
9780099479710
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.89

Paperback. Selected from the book Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS. Also in the Vintage Minis series: Liberty by Virginia Woolf Eating by Nigella Lawson Swimming by Roger Deakin Drinking by John Cheever Series: Vintage Minis. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKEWG; BM; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 178 x 110. Weight in Grams: 170.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784872922
ISBN
9781784872922
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.99
€ 8.31

Paperback. From the author of the well-reviewed 'The Ten O'Clock Horses', a delightfully funny contemporary novel about a year in the life of a TV cookery-show host and chef. Advertising in The Guardian's The Guide and The Mail on Sunday. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 168. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Black Swan
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0005050
ISBN
9780552996570
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. Set in the world of day-time TV cook shows, a wonderfully funny black comedy about the real highs and lows of everyday life. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 11. Weight in Grams: 160.
Publisher
Quercus Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849164702
ISBN
9781849164702
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.14

Paperback. Bernie Gibbs, living on her memories on the seventh floor of an East End high-rise. Her diet is mainly chocolate bars and she yearns for action, or at least for the re-opening of the old Imperial Dance Hall, where she used to have good times. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 158.
Publisher
Quercus Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849163989
ISBN
9781849163989
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.92

Hardcover. A poignant follow-up to The Future Homemakers of America - warm-hearted and sparklingly witty women's fiction for fans of The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Fannie Flagg and Anne Tyler Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 156. .
Publisher
Quercus
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784297916
ISBN
9781784297916
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 19.08

Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153. .
Publisher
Quercus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784297923
ISBN
9781784297923
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 14.29

Paperback. Laurie Graham's brilliant satire explores the comic possibilities of culture clash and the unexpected friendship of two women whose lives are poles apart. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 214.
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849161824
ISBN
9781849161824
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.92

Paperback. Graham shines a satiric-comic light on a marriage that is severely tested! Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 17. Weight in Grams: 178.
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849163972
ISBN
9781849163972
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.14

Paperback. Comedy that sparkles like sunlight on water: a woman gets her just revenge on a cruise of the Med where the only escape may be overboard. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 197 x 25. Weight in Grams: 254.
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857381354
ISBN
9780857381354
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

Hardcover. Eleven executives are seated round a meeting room table. The president harangues them about cost cutting, restructuring, redundancy. This novel describes their thoughts. Translator(s): McLean, Polly. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 118 x 19. Weight in Grams: 220.
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Harvill Secker
Number of pages
128
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
SKU
KNW0008166
ISBN
9781846551215
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 5.49

Paperback. Features a portrait of people attempting to come to terms with a devastating historical event and their role within it. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 139 x 25. Weight in Grams: 368. .Clean copy in dustwrapper.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Faber & Faber London
Edition
Main
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KEX0200126
ISBN
9780571236367
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Jeff and Tonino, two Parisian football fans with serious drinking habits, are on their way to the European Cup final. So too are newlyweds Tana and Francesco; troubled young couple Gabriel and Virginie; and Geoff Andrewson, travelling with his brothers. As these four groups of characters cross paths, it gives way to a horrific tragedy. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 23. Weight in Grams: 250.
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571236374
ISBN
9780571236374
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Paperback. Two men have been enlisted to kill the head of the Gestapo. This is Operation Anthropoid, Prague, 1942: two Czechoslovakian parachutists sent on a daring mission by London to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich - chief of the Nazi secret services, 'the hangman of Prague', 'the blond beast', 'the most dangerous man in the Third Reich'. Translator(s): Taylor, Sam. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 198 x 21. Weight in Grams: 242.
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099555643
ISBN
9780099555643
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

Paperback. Num Pages: 278 pages. BIC Classification: FA; YFB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 137 x 18. Weight in Grams: 214.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Spinifex Press Australia
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
278
Condition
New
SKU
V9781876756529
ISBN
9781876756529
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

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