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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Tells the story of Lyman Ward, a retired professor of history and author of books about the Western frontier, who returns to his ancestral home in the Sierra Nevada. Wheelchair-bound with a crippling bone disease, Ward embarks on a search to rediscover his grandmother, who made her own journey to Grass Valley nearly a 100 years earlier. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 30. Weight in Grams: 422.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
unknown
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141188003
ISBN
9780141188003
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.47

Paperback. When two young couples meet for the first time during the Great Depression, they quickly find they have much in common: Charity Lang and Sally Morgan are both pregnant, while their husbands Sid and Larry both have jobs in the English department at the University of Wisconsin. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 262.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141394954
ISBN
9780141394954
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.00

Paperback. Bo Mason, his wife, Elsa, and their two boys live a transient life of poverty and despair. Drifting from town to town and from state to state, the violent, ruthless Bo seeks out his fortune - in the hotel business, in new farmland and eventually, in illegal rum-running through the treacherous back roads of the American Northwest. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 656 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 31. Weight in Grams: 442.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
656
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Printing
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141392349
ISBN
9780141392349
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.79

Paperback. Literary agent Joe Allston, is now retired and, in his own words, just killing time until time gets around to killing me. His parents and his only son are long dead, leaving him with neither ancestors nor descendants, tradition nor ties. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 198 x 14. Weight in Grams: 168.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141392325
ISBN
9780141392325
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.53

Paperback. From New York Times bestselling author Wally Lamb, a disquieting and ultimately uplifting novel about a marriage, a family, and human resilience in the face of tragedy. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 37. Weight in Grams: 404.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007532865
ISBN
9780007532865
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 18.46

Paperback. From the author of the international number one bestseller I KNOW THIS MUCH IS TRUE comes a magnificent novel of a life turned upside-down by tragedy - and the search for a way to carry on in the aftermath. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 36. Weight in Grams: 444.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007290802
ISBN
9780007290802
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.91

Paperback. A haunting and heartbreaking story of coming of age. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 34. Weight in Grams: 336. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
New edition
Publisher
Simon & Schuster UK
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
SKU
KRA0010852
ISBN
9780684860091
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. Huge American bestselling novel that tells of identical twins: a paranoid schizophrenic and his brother whose life is dominated by his resentment of and love for his damaged twin Num Pages: 912 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 165 x 55. Weight in Grams: 636.
Publisher
HarperCollins London
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780006513230
ISBN
9780006513230
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.96

Paperback. Series: Dover Thrift Editions. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 367 x 4. Weight in Grams: 62.
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc. United States
Number of pages
64
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
Edition Unstated
Condition
New
SKU
V9780486414102
ISBN
9780486414102
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 5.68

Paperback. Presenting an American epic poem, and a catalogue of nineteenth-century American life of all ages and races, this volume features rhythms and images, and its inclusive, praiseful joy. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 9. Weight in Grams: 76.
Publisher
Random House UK
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099595540
ISBN
9780099595540
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.29

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Ivan R. Dee
Number of pages
303
Condition
New
SKU
V9780929587417
ISBN
9780929587417
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 32.76

Hardcover. Starting with "Broomsticks and Other Tales" of 1925, with its twelve stories, this book continues with "The Lord Fish" of 1933 with seven stories. It includes three distinctive stories, 'Pigtails, Ltd', 'The Thief' and 'A Nose'. These stories are quirky, sometimes frightening, and often preoccupied with states of mind and personal identity. Editor(s): de la Mare, Giles. Num Pages: 376 pages, 19ill. BIC Classification: FA; FYB; YFB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 240 x 166 x 34. Weight in Grams: 720.
Publisher
Giles de la Mare Publishers United Kingdom
Number of pages
376
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9781900357050
ISBN
9781900357050
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 16.71

Hardback. Nineteen classic fairy tales, retold for younger readers in the early twentieth-century, including "Rapunzel," "Little Red Riding-Hood," "Rumpelstiltskin," and "The Sleeping Beauty." Illustrator(s): Watson, A. H. Series: Oddly Modern Fairy Tales. Num Pages: 248 pages, 38 line illus. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 149 x 199 x 21. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Edition
Updated edition with a New Introduction
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691159218
ISBN
9780691159218
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 34.68

Paperback. . 8vo.Good copy
Condition
Used, Very Good
Format
Paperback
Publisher
HarperCollins Childrens Book Group
Publication date
2003
Edition
1st Harper Trophy Ed
SKU
KEX0244366
ISBN
9780064409308
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Series: New York Classics. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 295.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815624547
ISBN
9780815624547
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.77

Paperback. In Hanky Park, near Salford, Harry and Sally Hardcastle grow up in a society preoccupied with grinding poverty, exploited by bookies and pawnbroker, bullied by petty officials and living in fear of the dole queue and the Means Test. His love affair with a local girl ends in a shotgun marriage, and, disowned by his family, he is tempted by crime. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 16. Weight in Grams: 222.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099224815
ISBN
9780099224815
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. .
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405921343
ISBN
9781405921343
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.65

paperback. These stories, conceived by the author as a thematic collection, have as their principal focus the city of Galway, providing an evocation of the city's life and people in the 1940s. From the author of QUENCH THE MOON and RAIN ON THE WIND. Num Pages: 195 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 191. Good clean copy showing some age and shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
O'Brien Press Ltd
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KMK0022075
ISBN
9780863222764
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 5.12

Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 142 x 14. Weight in Grams: 200.
Publisher
Delta
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
5/29/05
Condition
New
SKU
V9780385338127
ISBN
9780385338127
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.78

Paperback. Unlike cats, bluebears have 27 lives, which can be very handy when one considers the manner in which the hero of this story repeatedly manages to avoid death only by a paw's breadth. The story describes Captain Bluebear's first 13 and a half lives. Num Pages: 704 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 167 x 49. Weight in Grams: 1022.
Publisher
Vintage
Number of pages
704
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099285328
ISBN
9780099285328
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 20.47

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