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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Having sacked her handyman, newly-widowed Mrs Emerson finds a replacement in Elizabeth, a lanky, awkward girl. The Emersons, there are seven grown-up children and have a reputation for craziness and Elizabeth finds herself drawn into their disorderly lives against her will. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 250.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099469605
ISBN
9780099469605
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. Ranging from the ragtime era to small-town America in the seventies, this book is a moving quest for a family's deepest roots - and a haunting story of growing up and breaking away, acceptance and rebellion. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 236.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing London
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099591917
ISBN
9780099591917
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.01

Paperback. Jeremy is a child-like, painfully shy batchelor who has never left home. He lives on the third floor of his mother's boarding house and spends his days cutting up coloured paper to make mosaic sculptures, until the day his mother dies and the beautiful Mary Tell arrives to turn his world upside down. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 238.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099480112
ISBN
9780099480112
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.01

Paperback. Liam Pennywell has spent most of his life dodging issues and skirting adventure when suddenly, in his sixty-first year, something happens that jolts him out of his certainty and leaves him with a frightening gap in his memory. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 134 x 19. Weight in Grams: 210.
Edition
Reprint
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099539582
ISBN
9780099539582
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.01

Paperback. How did she end up running house and home for her eccentric scientist father and infuriating younger sister Bunny? Dr Battista has other problems. His brilliant young lab assistant, Pyotr, is about to be deported. And without Pyotr, his new scientific breakthrough will fall through.. Series: Hogarth Shakespeare. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 18. Weight in Grams: 196.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099589877
ISBN
9780099589877
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. Abandoned by her salesman husband, Pearl is left to bring up her three children alone - Cody, a flawed devil, Ezra, a flawed saint, and Jenny, errant and passionate. Now as Pearl lies dying, stiffly encased in her pride and solitude, the past is unlocked and with it, secrets. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 223 x 25. Weight in Grams: 272.
Edition
New Ed
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099916406
ISBN
9780099916406
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.06

Paperback. Nearing fifty and married with two children, she and her husband drive from Baltimore to Deer Lick to attend the funeral of a friend one hot summer day. During the course of the journey, Maggie's eternal optimism and her inexhaustible passion for sorting out other people's lives and willing them to fall in love is severely tested.. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 240.
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099201410
ISBN
9780099201410
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. When young Janie Pike dies in a tragic accident, she leaves behind a family numbed with grief and torn with guilt and recrimination. In this novel, the author explores how each member of the family learns to face the future in their own way. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 174.
Publisher
Vintage
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099337003
ISBN
9780099337003
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. Morgan Gower has an outsize hairy beard, an array of peculiar costumes and fantastic headwear, and a serious smoking habit. He likes to pretend to be other people, and he likes to do this more and more since his massive brood of daughters are all growing up, getting married and finding him embarrassing. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 236.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099527206
ISBN
9780099527206
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.01

Paperback. Ben Joe is the only boy in a family of six sisters, Mama and Gram. He is studying for a law degree in New York when he hears his eldest sister Joanne has left her husband and returned home with her baby girl. Out of a mixture of homesickness and duty Ben Joe returns to the home in which he has always felt like an outsider. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 174.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099539100
ISBN
9780099539100
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. How does a man addicted to routine - a man who flosses his teeth before love-making - cope with the chaos of everyday life? Here, with the loss of his son, the departure of his wife and the arrival of Muriel, a dog trainer from the Meow-Bow dog clinic, Macon's attempts at ordinary life are tragically and comically undone. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 290.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Edition
1st Vintage Book Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099480013
ISBN
9780099480013
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. When Pearl Tull's husband, Beck, abandons her she pours her energies into preserving normality. Only gradually do her three children realise their father is gone for good. Now, as Pearl lies on her deathbed, the impact of Beck's abrupt departure unspools: on Cody who can't overcome his anger, and on mild Ezra who must always keep the peace. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 26. Weight in Grams: 240.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099577270
ISBN
9780099577270
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. In a small Southern town teenager Evie Decker becomes obsessed with local rock singer Bertram 'Drumstrings' Casey, and decides to take her life into her own hands. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 5. Weight in Grams: 150.
Edition
1st Paperback Edition
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099517504
ISBN
9780099517504
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.01

Paperback. Barnaby Gaitlin has less in life than he once had. His ex-wife Natalie left him and their native Baltimore several years ago, taking their baby daughter Opal with her. He acquired an unalterably fixed position as the black sheep of the family. And this family isn't one where black sheep are tolerated. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 19. Weight in Grams: 290.
Edition
Reprint
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099272687
ISBN
9780099272687
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. For thirty-five year old Charlotte Emory, leaving her husband seems to offer the only way out from the mundaneness of every day life's earthly possessions and emotional complications. In the bank, she withdraws enough money to escape a life and a marriage gone sour. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 14. Weight in Grams: 176.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099463702
ISBN
9780099463702
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.01

Paperback. Michael and Pauline seemed like the perfect couple - young, good-looking, made for each other. The moment she walked into his mother's grocery store in Baltimore, he was smitten, and in the heat of World War II fervour, they marry in haste. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 226.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
F First UK Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099469599
ISBN
9780099469599
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.01

Paperback. Friday August 15th, 1997. Two tiny Korean babies are delivered to two very different Baltimore families. Every year, on the anniversary of 'Arrival Day' the two families celebrate together, with more and more elaborately competitive parties, as little Susan and Jin-ho take roots and become American. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 131 x 23. Weight in Grams: 274.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
Edition
New edition
SKU
V9780099499398
ISBN
9780099499398
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. One warm summer's day at the beach, forty-year-old Cordelia Grinstead, dressed only in a swimsuit and beach robe, walks away from her family and just keeps on going. After hitching a ride with a stranger to a new town where she knows no one, she reinvents herself as a single woman with no ties and begins living a new life altogether. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 19. Weight in Grams: 356. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0000624
ISBN
9780099479413
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Hardcover. The whole family on the porch, relaxed, half-listening as their mother tells the same tale they have heard so many times before. And yet this gathering is different. Abby and Red are getting older, and decisions must be made about how best to look after them and their beloved family home. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 163 x 35. Weight in Grams: 624. Good clean copy in fine dustwrapper with minor shelf wear
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Chatto & Windus
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0001926
ISBN
9780701189518
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. When Dorothy came back from the dead, it seemed to Aaron that some people simply didn't notice. The accident that killed Dorothy - involving an oak tree, a sun porch and some elusive biscuits - leaves Aaron bereft and the house a wreck. As those around him fuss and flap and bring him casserole after casserole, Aaron ploughs on. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 132 x 18. Weight in Grams: 200. Clean copy with some shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0002897
ISBN
9780099572237
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

paperback. When eighteen-year-old Ian Bedloe pricks the bubble of his family's optimistic self-deception, his brother Danny drives into a wall, his sister-in-law falls apart, and his parents age before his eyes. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 372.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
9780099914709
ISBN
9780099914709
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 10.45

Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 217 x 16. Weight in Grams: 288.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Dzanc Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9781936873623
ISBN
9781936873623
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.67

Paperback. Spot-on observant, laugh-out-loud funny, yet laced with kindness through and through, An Englishwoman in New York is the story of what happens when you grow up and realize the middle part of your story might just be your beginning .. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 18. Weight in Grams: 200. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
SKU
KAK0007122
ISBN
9781848548336
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Fans of Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones or Maria Semple's Where'd You Go, Bernadette? will love this hilarious novel about the lives and loves of a far-from-perfect modern superwoman.. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848548367
ISBN
9781848548367
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.46

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