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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. For David Starr, being cast as Nancy in the upcoming school production of Oliver is quite a shock. But David is up to the challenge. Living in a three-bedroom semi in 1970s' working-class East Dulwich, surrounded by his somewhat colourful relatives, he is bright, smart-mouthed, fanatical about pop music and ready to shine. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 126 x 196 x 22. Weight in Grams: 244.
Publisher
Corgi
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780552162944
ISBN
9780552162944
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.43

Paperback. Editor(s): Malcolm, Claire; Wilkinson, Margaret. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 308.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
n/a
Condition
New
SKU
V9781873226841
ISBN
9781873226841
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.38

Paperback. NEVER SAY DIE Twenty years after her father's plane crashed in the jungles of Southeast Asia, Willy Jane Maitland was finally tracking his last moves. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 33. Weight in Grams: 327. NEVER SAY DIE Twenty years after her father's plane crashed in the jungles of Southeast Asia, Willy Jane Maitland was finally tracking his last moves. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 33. Weight in Grams: 327. Good, clean copy
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
SKU
KSG0005979
ISBN
9781848452770
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. .
Publisher
River North
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
New
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802405593
ISBN
9780802405593
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 15.08

Paperback. Num Pages: 372 pages. BIC Classification: FA; HRCV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 217 x 23. Weight in Grams: 404.
Publisher
River North
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802405586
ISBN
9780802405586
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 15.06

Paperback. Paul lives in the Welsh countryside with his wife Elise, and their two young children. One day he learns that his eldest daughter Pia, who was living with his ex-wife in London, has moved out from home and gone missing. He sets out in search of Pia. But the search for his daughter begins a period of unrest and indecision for Paul. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 23. Weight in Grams: 242.
Publisher
Vintage Books
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099552260
ISBN
9780099552260
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. Follows the story of Stella, from her childhood as the daughter of a single mother in a Bristol bedsit in the 1960s into the shallows of her middle age. This title is full of drama - violent deaths, an abrupt end to Stella's schooldays, and two sons by different fathers who aren't around to see the boys grow up. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 254.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099570523
ISBN
9780099570523
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. An improbable coincidence brings Clare back into contact with someone she once had sex with at a teenage party; complicatedly, he is now going out with her best friend, Helly. The encounter needn't have meant anything - it could just have been funny, or embarrassing - but it seems to have the power to shake up everything in Clare's life. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 188.
Publisher
Vintage
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099428589
ISBN
9780099428589
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. A son confesses to his mother that he is cheating on his girlfriend; a student falls in love with her lecturer and embarks on an affair with a man in the pub who looks just like him. Young mothers pent-up in childcare dream treacherously of other possibilities. This title includes these stories about family life that are somehow undomesticated. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 116.
Publisher
Vintage
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099499251
ISBN
9780099499251
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. Joyce Stevenson is thirteen when her widowed mother takes them to live with Aunt Vera, a formidable teacher neglected by her unfaithful husband. Joyce watches the two sisters - her aunt's unbending dedication to the life of the mind, her mother worn down by housework - and thinks that each of them is powerless in her own way. Num Pages: 432 pages, 22 cm. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 201 x 27. Weight in Grams: 306.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099462002
ISBN
9780099462002
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. Lottie announces at the breakfast table that she is getting married. The youngest daughter of a large and close-knit family, Lottie is nineteen but looks five years younger. Her fiance is Edgar Lennox, a composer of religious music and lecturer at Lottie's university, forty-five years her senior. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 199 x 18. Weight in Grams: 178.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099570189
ISBN
9780099570189
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. Kate Flynn has always been a clever girl, brought up to believe in herself as something special. Now Kate is forty-three and has given up her university career in London to come home and look after her mother at Firenze, their big house by a lake in Cardiff. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 133 x 23. Weight in Grams: 228.
Publisher
Vintage
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099499268
ISBN
9780099499268
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. Four siblings meet up in their grandparents' old house for three long, hot summer weeks. But under the idyllic surface lie shattering tensions. Roland has come with his new wife, and his sisters don't like her. Fran has brought her children, who soon uncover an ugly secret in a ruined cottage in the woods. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 284 x 28. Weight in Grams: 260. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKE0000040
ISBN
9780099597469
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Hardback. Translator(s): Nair, Anita. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 214 x 26. Weight in Grams: 434.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd
Edition
Tra
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857423917
ISBN
9780857423917
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 20.73

Paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 22. Weight in Grams: 286.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780224083096
ISBN
9780224083096
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.39

Paperback. iDEATH is a place where the sun shines a different colour every day and where people travel to the length of their dreams. Rejecting the violence and hate of the old gang at the Forgotten Works, they lead gentle lives in watermelon sugar. In this book, Richard Brautigan discovers and expresses the mood of the counterculture generation. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 9. Weight in Grams: 120.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780099437598
ISBN
9780099437598
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.75

Paperback. Issy Brodsky finds a job at The Honey Trap, an agency specialising in testing men's fidelity, run by a transgender boss. The Honeys can play any flirting game they want as long as they abide by one rule - never sleep with a client's husband. But just when she thinks fate has finally let up, things start to get complicated, surreally complicated. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 128 x 15. Weight in Grams: 186. Clean copy.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC London
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
paperback / softback
SKU
KEX0216165
ISBN
9780747571933
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Issy Brodsky finds a job at The Honey Trap, an agency specialising in testing men's fidelity, run by a transgender boss. The Honeys can play any flirting game they want as long as they abide by one rule - never sleep with a client's husband. But just when she thinks fate has finally let up, things start to get complicated, surreally complicated. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 128 x 15. Weight in Grams: 186.
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC London
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
paperback / softback
SKU
KRS0004021
ISBN
9780747571933
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Issy Brodsky finds a job at The Honey Trap, an agency specialising in testing men's fidelity, run by a transgender boss. The Honeys can play any flirting game they want as long as they abide by one rule - never sleep with a client's husband. But just when she thinks fate has finally let up, things start to get complicated, surreally complicated. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 128 x 15. Weight in Grams: 186. Clean copy.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC London
Edition
paperback / softback
Number of pages
224
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KEX0216182
ISBN
9780747571933
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 424.
Publisher
NeWest Press Canada
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1St Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781927063194
ISBN
9781927063194
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 15.80

Paperback. Num Pages: 122 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 128 x 9. Weight in Grams: 164.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
NeWest Press Canada
Edition
1St Edition
Number of pages
122
Condition
New
SKU
V9781897126257
ISBN
9781897126257
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 14.17

Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 406. Fine copy with some minor shelf wear.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
New Island Books
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KTG0011956
ISBN
9781848402249
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Frank Cowperwood, a fiercely ambitious businessman, emerges as the very embodiment of greed as he relentlessly seeks satisfaction in wealth, women, and power. As Cowperwood deals and double-deals, betrays and is in turn betrayed, his rise and fall come to represent the American success story stripped down to brutal realities. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 420.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
528
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9780143105541
ISBN
9780143105541
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. Presents a story of a country girl's rise to riches as the mistress of a wealthy man which marked the beginning of the naturalist movement in America. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 147 x 25. Weight in Grams: 394.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
528
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Edition
First Printing
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140188288
ISBN
9780140188288
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.47

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