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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. A vertiginous gothic masterpiece from the best-selling author of The Quincunx. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 502.
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
International Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393348231
ISBN
9780393348231
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.45

Paperback. Frank Ross is killed by one of his own workers. Tom Chaney shoots him down in the street. Ross' 14-year-old daughter Mattie finds that the authorities are doing nothing to find Chaney. Then she hears of Rooster - a man, she's told, who has grit - and convinces him to join her in a quest into dangerous Indian territory to hunt Chaney down. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 15. Weight in Grams: 186. 216 pages. Frank Ross is killed by one of his own workers. Tom Chaney shoots him down in the street. Ross' 14-year-old daughter Mattie finds that the authorities are doing nothing to find Chaney. Then she hears of Rooster - a man, she's told, who has grit - and convinces him to join her in a quest into dangerous Indian territory to hunt Chaney down. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 196 x 128 x 15. Weight: 160.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780747572633
ISBN
9780747572633
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.93

Paperback. Written by the author of "True Grit". Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 212.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
y First edition thus
Condition
New
SKU
V9780747572640
ISBN
9780747572640
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.94

hardcover. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 150 x 30. Weight in Grams: 572.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Monthly Review Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9781583672020
ISBN
9781583672020
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 22.64

Paperback. When Benjamin came down from university, this is how he talked - 'For twenty-one years I have been shuffling back and forth between classrooms and libraries. Now you tell me what the hell it's got me'. It was not what his father expected from a college education, and everyone was appalled when Ben raped Mrs Robinson and ran off with her daughter. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 138.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1973
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140026931
ISBN
9780140026931
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.95

Paperback. As far as Benjamin's parents are concerned, his future is sewn up. Now he has graduated from college, will go to Yale or Harvard, get a good job and enjoy life. When his parents' friend, an older woman, strips naked in front of him and they begin an affair, it seems he might have found a way out. That is, until her daughter comes into the picture. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 160.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141190242
ISBN
9780141190242
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. Keywords: "Subjects - Romance - Authors, A-Z - B - Bingham, Charlotte,Subjects - Fiction - General" During the Second World War, Miranda and Ted are sent to the country with another young evacuee, Roberta (Bobbie), to live with Aunt Sophie and Aunt Prudence. And when the aunts die, Miranda, Tom and Bobbie - who have come to regard themselves as a family unit - are eventually parted, seemingly forever. The three find each other after the war. Num Pages: 566 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 110 x 35. Weight in Grams: 294
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
BANTAM
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
New
SKU
KHS0058476
ISBN
9780553812749
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Brougham is the stateliest of stately homes, but for Lady Artemis Deverill it proves a lonely, loveless place. Eleanor, born in downtown Boston, knows only poverty and a continuing battle against bullying brothers and a sadistic father. From the moment Artemis and Ellie meet on a liner sailing to Ireland, they are destined to become friends. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 106 x 178 x 31. Weight in Grams: 269. In good condition. A well read copy
Publisher
Bantam
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Edition
New edition
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KRS0011042
ISBN
9780553402964
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Clean copy, some shelfwear. Good to very good
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Bantam
Edition
1st Bantam
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KST0028951
ISBN
9780553505016
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Hardcover. Set during the Napoleonic wars at a time of national economic struggles, this work is an unsentimental, yet passionate depiction of conflict between classes, sexes and generations. Num Pages: 952 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 135 x 46. Weight in Grams: 860.
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
952
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857152920
ISBN
9781857152920
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.06

Paperback. When Lucy Snowe leaves England to look for a new life on the Continent she has no idea what lies in store for her. This quiet, lonely girl must learn quickly when she finds herself teaching in a foreign school, with no friends or family to rely on. Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 42. Weight in Grams: 474.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
672
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099529927
ISBN
9780099529927
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.29

Paperback. The love story of the year! Fall in love with the perfect feel-good romance for fans of Katie Fforde, Jill Mansell and Carole Matthews. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 30. Weight in Grams: 268.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
KEX0295830
ISBN
9780008216511
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Editor(s): Schurer, Norbert. Num Pages: 270 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 383.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd
Edition
Critical ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781551116419
ISBN
9781551116419
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 30.83

Paperback. Beautiful and independent, Arabella has been brought up in rural seclusion by her widowed father. Devoted to reading French romances, the young woman imagines all sorts of misadventures that can befall a heroine such as herself. This is a parody of the style of Cervantes, and a telling and comic depiction of eighteenth-century English society. Editor(s): Gilroy, Amanda; Verhoeven, Wil. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 356.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780140439878
ISBN
9780140439878
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.53

Paperback. From the Orange shortlisted author of When We Were Bad Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 22. Weight in Grams: 248.
Publisher
Picador
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780330452762
ISBN
9780330452762
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.23

Paperback. Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013: the extraordinary, warm and witty novel from the Orange Prize shortlisted author of When We Were Bad. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 153 x 26. Weight in Grams: 298. Some light shelf wear else as new.
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
SKU
KTG0002250
ISBN
9781447220008
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013: the extraordinary, warm and witty novel from the Orange Prize shortlisted author of When We Were Bad. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 153 x 26. Weight in Grams: 298. Some light shelf wear else as new.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KTG0006019
ISBN
9781447220008
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013: the extraordinary, warm and witty novel from the Orange Prize shortlisted author of When We Were Bad. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 153 x 26. Weight in Grams: 298. Some light shelf wear else as new.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KTG0006080
ISBN
9781447220008
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. The dazzling Orange Prize shortlisted novel of a family in crisis Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 132 x 22. Weight in Grams: 268.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Picador
Condition
New
SKU
V9780330449304
ISBN
9780330449304
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.69

Paperback. First published in 1892, this perfect novel portrays with chilling power the powerlessness of women within Victorian marriage. Series: Virago Modern Classics. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 5. Weight in Grams: 82.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1981
Publisher
Virago
Condition
New
SKU
V9780860682011
ISBN
9780860682011
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.30

Publisher
Canada
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9781552665701
ISBN
9781552665701
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.53

Paperback. With her jaunty dissection of the sex life and the private grooming habits of the novel's 18-year-old narrator, Helen Memel, Charlotte Roche has turned the previously unspeakable into the national conversation in Germany. Translator(s): Mohr, Tim. Num Pages: 225 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 210.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Number of pages
225
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
First printing of this edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007307616
ISBN
9780007307616
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.68

Paperback. A gripping novel about the fallout from a devastating cover-up by the author of the international bestseller The Lifeboat. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
Publisher
Fleet
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349005812
ISBN
9780349005812
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.30

Paperback. A daring and adventurous novel set just before the First World War. It begins in a courtroom, where an enigmatic young woman named Grace Winter is on trial; in flashback, we learn why .. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 116 x 191 x 24. Weight in Grams: 282.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Virago
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844087549
ISBN
9781844087549
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.06

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