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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

paperback. A young architect is sent to a remote town to supervise the restoration of its Minster. Editor(s): Schmidt, Michael. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 198 x 36. Weight in Grams: 414. Clean copy with minor shelf wear. Small tear to bottom edge of rear cover but remains a very good copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Apollo Library
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KMK0022129
ISBN
9781784977023
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.12

Paperback. Orphaned John Trenchard grows up in the village of Moonfleet with his aunt, entranced by the local legend of the ghostly Blackbeard, who rises each winter night to search for his lost diamond. While conducting his own hunt for the treasure, John is trapped in the church crypt and discovers the true secret of the village. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 198.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099541127
ISBN
9780099541127
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.22

Paperback. Michael, a writer of pornographic fiction, creates an ideal world of sex through his two stock athletes, Colonel Grimshaw and Mavis Carmichael, while he bungles every phase of his entanglement with an older woman who has the misfortune to fall in love with him. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 208.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571225712
ISBN
9780571225712
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.71

Paperback. Joe and Kate Ruttledge have come to Ireland from London in search of a different life. In passages of beauty and truth, the drama of a year in their lives and those of the memorable characters that move about them unfolds through the action, the rituals of work, religious observances and play. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 21. Weight in Grams: 258 314pp
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Edition
Main
SKU
9780571225729
ISBN
9780571225729
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.38

paperback. Moran is an old Republican whose life was forever transformed by his days of glory as a guerrilla leader in the War of Independence. Now, in old age, living out in the country, Moran is still fighting - with his family, his friends, even himself - in a poignant struggle to come to terms with the past. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 16. Weight in Grams: 158 184pp
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Faber and Faber
Condition
New
Edition
Main
SKU
9780571225644
ISBN
9780571225644
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.94

Paperback. Includes stories that are set in ordinary places, in the streets and suburbs and dancehalls of Dublin, the small towns and fields of the midlands, the big houses of the beleaguered Anglo-Irish in the aftermath of their ascendancy, and the whole changing country propelled in a generation from the nineteenth into the late twentieth century. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 11. Weight in Grams: 135.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Edition
Main
SKU
9780571225699
ISBN
9780571225699
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.94

Paperback. Tells of a day, crucial and cathartic, in the life of a young Catholic schoolteacher who has returned to Ireland after a year's sabbatical in London where he married an American divorcee. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 12. Weight in Grams: 146.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571225705
ISBN
9780571225705
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.71

Paperback. Includes stories by the author of "Nightlines", "The Barracks", "The Dark", "The Leavetaking", "The Pornographer", "High Ground", "Amongst Women" (nominated for the Booker Prize in 1990) and "That They May Face the Rising Sun". Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 11. Weight in Grams: 134.
Edition
Main
Publisher
Faber & Faber London
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571225682
ISBN
9780571225682
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.71

Paperback. Features Moran an old Republican whose life was forever transformed by his days of glory as a guerilla leader in the War of Independence. Now, in old age, living out in the country, Moran is still fighting - with his family, his friends, even himself - in a poignant struggle to come to terms with the past. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Main - Faber Modern Classics
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571315543
ISBN
9780571315543
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.71

Paperback. A novel about adolescence and a guilty, yet uncontrollable sexuality that is contorted and twisted by both puritanical state religion and a strange, powerful and ambiguous relationship between son and widower father. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 120 x 6. Weight in Grams: 148.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571225675
ISBN
9780571225675
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.77

Paperback. Elizabeth Reegan, after years of freedom - and loneliness - marries into the enclosed Irish village of her upbringing. The children are not her own; her husband is straining to break free from the servile security of the police force; and her own life, threatened by illness, seems to be losing the last vestiges of its purpose. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 127 x 17. Weight in Grams: 274.
Publisher
Faber & Faber London
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571225651
ISBN
9780571225651
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.73

Paperback. Num Pages: 332 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 136 x 21. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Avenue Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
332
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905575091
ISBN
9781905575091
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.00

Paperback. Series: Story-Tellers S. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 136 x 27. Weight in Grams: 338.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Souvenir Press Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9780285636040
ISBN
9780285636040
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.21

Paperback. A novel about fathers and sons, heroes and whiners, the wheel of fortune (and Vanna White), baseball and the decline of Western civilization - and why Hall of Famer Nellie Fox always spat in his glove. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 249.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Academy Chicago Publishers United States
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9780897335973
ISBN
9780897335973
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.09

Clean copy, good to very good
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Corgi
Number of pages
528
Publication date
2008
SKU
KST0015879
ISBN
9780552154628
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 182.
Publisher
Luath Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910021910
ISBN
9781910021910
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.43

Paperback. Iain Martin hopes that by returning to his Hebridean roots and embarking on a quest to reconstruct the ancient family home, he might find new purpose. But then he uncovers a secret from the past. Series: Hebrides. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 204.
Publisher
Luath Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
3rd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910021903
ISBN
9781910021903
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.46

Paperback. Num Pages: 424 pages, maps. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 153 x 31. Weight in Grams: 676.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226103556
ISBN
9780226103556
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 33.29

Paperback. Set in his native Northern Ireland, John Lynch's debut novel is a lyrically told and exquisitely tender story of innocence and loss. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 17. Weight in Grams: 196. Used paperback in very good condition. Some light shelf wear.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KRF0036774
ISBN
9780007202690
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 266 x 20. Weight in Grams: 332.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Greenwich Exchange Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910996065
ISBN
9781910996065
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.47

Hardcover. 329 pages. John Lucas's riveting novel is about the role of memory in how we shape and come to terms with the past. Waterdrops is about what is lost, what endures, about, as one of the characters says, "the terrible things that happen in war, and not only on the battlefield". It is also about love. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 210 x 136 x 26. Weight: 400.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Greenwich Exchange
Number of pages
329
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906075668
ISBN
9781906075668
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.39

hardcover. Features a book of stories, drawings and poems that was first published in 1964 to great critical acclaim and became a phenomenon, selling over 600,000 copies in the UK alone and revealing a hitherto unseen side to author's artistic output and talent. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 183 x 138 x 10. Weight in Grams: 168.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Canongate Books
Condition
New
SKU
9781782115403
ISBN
9781782115403
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.54

Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FHD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 196 x 35. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780241291733
ISBN
9780241291733
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.45

Paperback. Britain is in the depths of recession. A left-leaning young Oxford academic and his barrister girlfriend take an off-peak holiday on the Caribbean island of Antigua. By seeming chance they bump into a Russian millionaire called Dima who owns a peninsula and a diamond-encrusted gold watch. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 29. Weight in Grams: 368.
Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241967850
ISBN
9780241967850
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.29

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