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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. From the writer of The Crying Game, Mistaken is part thriller, part gothic tragedy, part comedy of manners, brilliantly evoking the divided Dublin of the 1960s and the trauma of adolescence Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 195 x 27. Weight in Grams: 264. Good copy, some light shelf wear.name on inside cover
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
John Murray Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KTK0090849
ISBN
9781848544192
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. The tale of lives won from a cruel sea and crueller landlords. The dawning of the herring fisheries brought with it the hope of escape from the Highland Clearances, and this story paints a vivid picture of a community fighting against nature and history, and refusing to be crushed. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 34. Weight in Grams: 470.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1978
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
SKU
9780571090419
ISBN
9780571090419
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 10.59

Paperback. Lynne is a young woman who once dreamed of being an artist, but whose promotion to supervisor at an insurance call centre in Glasgow is sucking the soul out of her. When Lynne hands a fiver to a homeless man on the street in town one day, she is shocked to recognise Angus - her former art teacher on whom she once had a crush. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 198 x 23. Weight in Grams: 176.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472113115
ISBN
9781472113115
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.23

Paperback. Nanny required to take care of needs of busy professional London family. When penniless student Ali Sparrow answers Bryony and Nick Skinner's advertisement her life changes overnight. She is catapulted into the privileged and excessive world of London's financial elite. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 37. Weight in Grams: 346. Nice copy in good condition. Some shelfwear
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
SKU
KST0026560
ISBN
9780241952559
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Published in 1963 Up the Junction won the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize, was adapted into a film and was the inspiration for the song of the same name Series: VMC. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 196 x 10. Weight in Grams: 122.
Publisher
Little Brown Paperbacks (a&C) United Kingdom
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844089826
ISBN
9781844089826
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

paperback. Nell Dunn's 1967 novel which was made into a film directed by Ken Loach Series: VMC. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 139 x 37. Weight in Grams: 134.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Virago
Condition
New
SKU
9781844089819
ISBN
9781844089819
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 10.95

Paperback. The year is eighteen hundred and thirty one when fifteen-year-old Mary begins the difficult task of telling her story. A scrap of a thing with a sharp tongue and hair the colour of milk, Mary leads a harsh life working on her father's farm alongside her three sisters. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 128.
Publisher
Penguin
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241959541
ISBN
9780241959541
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.01

Paperback. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 143 x 7. Weight in Grams: 130.
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc.
Number of pages
112
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
Dover Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780486437132
ISBN
9780486437132
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.99
€ 8.16

Paperback. Series: Modern Library. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 134 x 17. Weight in Grams: 228.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Modern Library Inc
Condition
New
SKU
9780375758133
ISBN
9780375758133
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.04

Paperback. If only I had never opened that letter..and let the devil in Meredith Hathaway has spent the last seventeen years pretending to forget. Until she gets a letter and her world is shattered in an instant. She must finally confront the rise and fall of the Hathaway dynasty..and her own part in their devastating history. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 125 x 27. Weight in Grams: 314. Clean copy with some reader wear.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
First edition
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
SKU
KTM0000562
ISBN
9781848450936
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Dove Findhorn is a naive country boy who busts out of Hicksville, Texas in pursuit of a better life in New Orleans. Amongst the downtrodden prostitutes, bootleggers and hustlers of the old French Quarter, Dove finds only hopelessness, crime and despair. His quest uncovers a harrowing grotesque of the American Dream. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 250. 352 pages. Dove Findhorn is a naive country boy who busts out of Hicksville, Texas in pursuit of a better life in New Orleans. Amongst the downtrodden prostitutes, bootleggers and hustlers of the old French Quarter, Dove finds only hopelessness, crime and despair. His quest uncovers a harrowing grotesque of the American Dream. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 198 x 130 x 23. Weight: 304.
Publisher
CANONGATE BOOKS
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841956800
ISBN
9781841956800
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.48

Paperback. Tells the story of Frankie Machine, the golden arm dealer at a back street Chicago gambling den. Frankie reckons he's a tough guy in the Chicago underworld but finds that he's not tough enough to kick his heroin addiction. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 126 x 36. Weight in Grams: 338. 480 pages. Tells the story of Frankie Machine, the golden arm dealer at a back street Chicago gambling den. Frankie reckons he's a tough guy in the Chicago underworld but finds that he's not tough enough to kick his heroin addiction. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 199 x 126 x 36. Weight: 338.
Publisher
Canongate Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841955612
ISBN
9781841955612
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.95

Paperback. Num Pages: 303 pages, frontispiece. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 288.
Publisher
Seven Stories Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
303
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
F First Printing
Condition
New
SKU
V9781583228685
ISBN
9781583228685
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 17.94

Paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 32. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Seven Stories Press,U.S. United States
Edition
50th anniversary ed
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9781583220085
ISBN
9781583220085
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 20.51

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Seven Stories Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9781583226995
ISBN
9781583226995
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 15.23

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Bella Books United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781594933523
ISBN
9781594933523
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 16.10

Paperback. This is the story of a woman who refuses to mourn her husband's death. The village knew she was an unhappy wife, but she is still expected to weep and speak the praises of her husband. Her story reveals the value of friendship between women, based on liking rather than traditional beliefs. Series: Heinemann African Writers Series. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 160. Series: Heinemann African Writers Series. 192 pages. This is the story of a woman who refuses to mourn her husband's death. The village knew she was an unhappy wife, but she is still expected to weep and speak the praises of her husband. Her story reveals the value of friendship between women, based on liking rather than traditional beliefs. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 12. Weight: 162.
Publisher
Heinemann
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
V9780435912086
ISBN
9780435912086
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.25

Paperback. 8vo. Good clean copy
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Mount Eagle Publications Ltd Kerry
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
SKU
KEX0257643
ISBN
9781902011127
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. As new
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Mount Eagle Publications Ltd Kerry
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
SKU
KEX0220793
ISBN
9781902011127
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. As new
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Mount Eagle Publications Ltd Kerry
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KEX0220931
ISBN
9781902011127
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

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