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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Ranging from the 1850s through two world wars to the present, and from Canada to Brisbane, the Balkans and the Somme, this title includes dazzling stories that reveal the secrets of unconventional women who refuse to be contained. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 224.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099459712
ISBN
9780099459712
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. Hanna, Dan, Constance and Emmet return to the west coast of Ireland for a final family Christmas in the home their mother is about to sell. As the feast turns to near painful comedy, a last, desperate act from Rosaleen - a woman who doesn't quite know how to love her children - forces them to confront the weight of family ties and their home. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 21. Weight in Grams: 228.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
9780099539797
ISBN
9780099539797
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.27

paperback. A collection of stories, in which moments of change, chance encounters, the twist of fate leads a person to a new way of thinking or being. It presents a radiant, indelible portrait of just how dangerous and strange ordinary life can be. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 21. Weight in Grams: 244.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
9780099578635
ISBN
9780099578635
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 5.47

Paperback. Shortlisted for The Orange Prize for Fiction If it hadn't been for the child then none of this might have happened. She saw me kissing her father. She saw her father kissing me. The fact that a child got mixed up in it all made us feel that it mattered, that there was no going back. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 16. Weight in Grams: 174.
Edition
01st Edition
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
9780099539780
ISBN
9780099539780
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.45

Paperback. The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother Liam. It wasn't the drink that killed him - although that certainly helped - it was what happened to him as a boy in his grandmother's house, in the winter of 1968. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 194.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Vintage Books USA
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780099501633
ISBN
9780099501633
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

paperback. A collection of stories, in which moments of change, chance encounters, the twist of fate leads a person to a new way of thinking or being. It presents a radiant, indelible portrait of just how dangerous and strange ordinary life can be. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 21. Weight in Grams: 248.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843101154
ISBN
9781843101154
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.58

Hardback. A collection of stories, in which moments of change, chance encounters, the twist of fate leads a person to a new way of thinking or being. It presents a radiant, indelible portrait of just how dangerous and strange ordinary life can be. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 21. Weight in Grams: 248.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1939
Publisher
Irish Texts Society
Condition
New
SKU
V9781870166355
ISBN
9781870166355
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 41.54

Hardback. A collection of stories, in which moments of change, chance encounters, the twist of fate leads a person to a new way of thinking or being. It presents a radiant, indelible portrait of just how dangerous and strange ordinary life can be. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 21. Weight in Grams: 248.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1940
Publisher
I.T.S.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781870166393
ISBN
9781870166393
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 41.54

Hardback. A collection of stories, in which moments of change, chance encounters, the twist of fate leads a person to a new way of thinking or being. It presents a radiant, indelible portrait of just how dangerous and strange ordinary life can be. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 21. Weight in Grams: 248.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1941
Publisher
I.T.S.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781870166416
ISBN
9781870166416
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 41.54

Paperback. Includes stories that focus through single events or sudden memories which bring the past bubbling to the surface. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 236.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Vintage
Edition
1st Vintage Edition
Condition
New
SKU
9780099422747
ISBN
9780099422747
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.45

Paperback. Includes beguiling, provocative stories about manipulative men and the women who outwit them, about destructive marriages and curdled friendships, about mothers and sons, about moments which change or haunt a life. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 230.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
9780099524298
ISBN
9780099524298
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.45

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
Edition
First Thus
SKU
9780099284345
ISBN
9780099284345
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.07

Paperback. 'Elegant, scrupulously poised, always intelligent and, not least, original' Angela Carter The characters in Anne Enright's fierce and witty first collection of stories stand at an oblique angle to society. Full of desire, but out of kilter, their response to a dislocated reality is mutinous, wild, unforgettable. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 124.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
9780099437390
ISBN
9780099437390
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 9.99

Paperback. Presents a series of stories about women stirred, bothered, or fascinated by men they cannot understand, or understand too well. This book features characters that are haunted by the ghosts of the lives they might have led - lit by new flames, old flames, and flames that are guttering out. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 21. Weight in Grams: 228.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
9780099520993
ISBN
9780099520993
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 9.99

Paperback. Keywords: "Subjects - Fiction - Authors, A-Z - F - Fine, Anne,Subjects - Fiction - General"
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Black Swan
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
Reprint
SKU
KHS0048915
ISBN
9780552997706
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 8.99
€ 4.99

Paperback. When her cold and indifferent husband vanishes, so does Lois' old life. Now she is ready to take her chances again. There's only one fly in the ointment: Janie-Gay, ex-partner of the son Lois lost to drugs, and spiteful mother of the small, neglected child she can't get out of her mind. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 198.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Black Swan
Condition
New
SKU
9780552774673
ISBN
9780552774673
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.45

Paperback. What if Vincent Van Gogh resided in a twentieth-century New York hotel, surviving on food stamps and direct communications with God? And imagine the encounter between David and Goliath from the Philistine's point of view. This book presents a collection of short stories that re-imagine life beyond the margins of 'normality'. Series: Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction. Num Pages: 206 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 11. Weight in Grams: 250.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
206
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803225336
ISBN
9780803225336
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 18.70

Hardcover. Known worldwide for her Diary, Anne Frank's TALES FROM THE SECRET ANNEXE were written at the same time with the same humour, honesty and wisdom, and are an essential part of her legacy. Editor(s): Halban Publishers. Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 188 x 132 x 22. Weight in Grams: 328.
Publisher
Halban Publishers
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905559206
ISBN
9781905559206
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 14.21

Paperback. Translator(s): Ramadan, Emma. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: 5SL; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 214.
Publisher
Deep Vellum Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781941920091
ISBN
9781941920091
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 15.19

Paperback. An American is burdened by a recurrent dream about his native Ireland, a country that had long ceased to interest or troubles him. Convinced that the Irish are asking him for help, he equips his errant grand-nephew, Tom Blessman, with a generous bank account, and dispatches him to the old country to offer assistance. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 200. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0001507
ISBN
9780099492955
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

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