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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. By the Booker-shortlisted author of Astonishing Splashes of Colour, a wry, poignant novel about a man trying to escape his fame as the boy in his mother's bestselling books. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 228.
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780340994320
ISBN
9780340994320
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. By the author of Astonishing Splashes of Colour, an ambitious and moving exploration of the lasting impact of the Second World War. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 131 x 23. Weight in Grams: 260.
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444736465
ISBN
9781444736465
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.30

Paperback. The new novel from the Booker-shortlisted author of ASTONISHING SPLASHES OF COLOUR, an absorbing and thought-provoking tale about the impact on a happy family when the husband mysteriously vanishes. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 274. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KHN0001861
ISBN
9780340994290
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. The wise, warm story of a woman negotiating her way through life without realising she doesn't understand the rules of the game, by the Booker-shortlisted author of Astonishing Splashes of Colour Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 254. Good copy with some shelf wear but overall in a good condition9780752844718
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KIN0035010
ISBN
9780340896679
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Meet Harry Pickles, aged nine and a bit. Harry is the fastest boy runner in the world, first son of Mo and Pa, and big brother to Daniel. His life is good. He's premier league. At least, that's the way it was before the school trip.. This novel captures the perspective of a confused nine-year-old. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 128 x 22. Weight in Grams: 212. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Canongate Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
SKU
KOC0012900
ISBN
9781841956954
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Thirteen of Lispector's most brilliantly conceived stories Translator(s): Pontiero, Giovanni. Series: Texas Pan American Series. Num Pages: 156 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 13. Weight in Grams: 262.
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
156
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1984
Condition
New
SKU
V9780292724488
ISBN
9780292724488
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 23.15

Paperback. Features stories ranging from teenagers coming into awareness of their sexual and artistic powers to humdrum housewives whose lives are shattered by unexpected epiphanies to old people who don't know what to do with themselves. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 34. Weight in Grams: 468.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141197388
ISBN
9780141197388
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.04

Paperback. As Joana, endlessly mutable, moves through different emotional states, different inner lives and different truths, this impressionistic, dreamlike and fiercely intelligent novel asks if any of us ever really know who we are. Her innovation in fiction brought her international renown. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 133 x 13. Weight in Grams: 158.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141197340
ISBN
9780141197340
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. G H, a well-to-do Rio sculptress, enters the room of her maid, which is as clear and white 'as in an insane asylum from which dangerous objects have been removed'. There she sees a cockroach - black, dusty, prehistoric - crawling out of the wardrobe and, panicking, slams the door on it. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 13. Weight in Grams: 158.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141197357
ISBN
9780141197357
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

Paperback. Despite its apparent spontaneity, this is a work of art, which rearranges language and plays in the gaps between reality and fiction. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 7. Weight in Grams: 92.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780141197364
ISBN
9780141197364
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.75

paperback. Translator(s): Entrekin, Alison. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 132 x 15. Weight in Grams: 220.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
New Directions
Edition
2 Rev ed
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
SKU
V9780811220026
ISBN
9780811220026
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.27

paperback. Written in agony, this book features elegiac meditation on the creation of life, and of art. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 12. Weight in Grams: 150.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Edition
Standard Edition
Condition
New
SKU
9780141197371
ISBN
9780141197371
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 10.45

Paperback. Hana Doda is an ambitious literature student in cosmopolitan Tirana. Mark Doda is a raki-drinking, chain-smoking shepherd, living alone deep in the Albanian mountains. In fact, they are the same person. Hana has become Mark, but what will become of the Sworn Virgin when she moves to America? BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 40. Weight in Grams: 198.
Publisher
And Other Stories
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
2nd New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908276681
ISBN
9781908276681
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.97

Paperback. As war-reporter Martin Crowther arrives in Umbria, still raw from a recent assignment in Africa, and from a failing love affair back home, a storm hits and the sky opens. Things are powerfully on the move inside him too as he comes to the small village of Fontanalba, on a mission to track down two friends from a lifetime ago. Num Pages: 450 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 32. Weight in Grams: 426. 450 pages. As war-reporter Martin Crowther arrives in Umbria, still raw from a recent assignment in Africa, and from a failing love affair back home, a storm hits and the sky opens. Things are powerfully on the move inside him too as he comes to the small village of Fontanalba, on a mission to track down two friends from a lifetime ago. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 198 x 130 x 32. Weight: 430.
Publisher
Alma Publishing Company
Number of pages
450
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846881305
ISBN
9781846881305
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.43

Paperback. Nature is collapsing. The government doesn't want you to know why. Welcome to 2051 and 600ppm. Num Pages: 243 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 216 x 19. Weight in Grams: 254.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
John Hunt Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782799924
ISBN
9781782799924
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.47

Paperback. Translator(s): Scott, Ursula Meaney. Series: French Literature Series. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 141 x 21. Weight in Grams: 338.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Condition
New
SKU
9781564786265
ISBN
9781564786265
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 6.23

Paperback. Portia Davenport is the luckiest woman in the world. She and her gorgeous husband, Andrew, have just finished ploughing a fortune into renovating her ancestral home, Davenport Hall, and are now planning to unveil it as one of the most fabulous, luxurious, five-star country house hotels in Kildare. But life never turns out like you think. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 128 x 32. Weight in Grams: 384. Good clean copy with some reader wear.
Condition
Used, Like New
Edition
Reprint
Publisher
Bantam
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
SKU
KTM0004523
ISBN
9780553816655
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Charlotte is hovering between life and death, but it's taken a coma for her to realize she's made a complete mess of her short time on earth. Not to mention the five precious dating years she's just wasted on the cheating, faithless James Kane. But after a quick peek at the afterlife, she decides it's not all it's cracked up to be either. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 30. Weight in Grams: 330. Good, clean copy
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
SKU
KSG0007597
ISBN
9781848270268
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JMG; 5HC; FA; FRD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. Weight in Grams: 270. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JMG; 5HC; FA; FRD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. Weight in Grams: 270.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
SKU
KSG0015046
ISBN
9780008140762
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Absence makes the heart grow fonder..doesn't it? Num Pages: 424 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 217 x 28. Weight in Grams: 306.
Edition
First Edition
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
KRA0009133
ISBN
9781847562104
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Absence makes the heart grow fonder..doesn't it? Num Pages: 424 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 217 x 28. Weight in Grams: 306. Clean copy with some reader wear.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
First Edition
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
SKU
KTM0001033
ISBN
9781847562104
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Charlotte is hovering between life and death, but it's taken a coma for her to realize she's made a complete mess of her short time on earth. Not to mention the five precious dating years she's just wasted on the cheating, faithless James Kane. But after a quick peek at the afterlife, she decides it's not all it's cracked up to be either. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 30. Weight in Grams: 330. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
SKU
KAK0010752
ISBN
9781848270268
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. 'Brilliantly funny stuff' SUN Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 29. Weight in Grams: 308. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
SKU
KIN0034702
ISBN
9780007520886
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Portia Davenport is the luckiest woman in the world. She and her gorgeous husband, Andrew, have just finished ploughing a fortune into renovating her ancestral home, Davenport Hall, and are now planning to unveil it as one of the most fabulous, luxurious, five-star country house hotels in Kildare. But life never turns out like you think. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 128 x 32. Weight in Grams: 384. Used paperback, in good condition. Some shelf wear.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Bantam
Condition
Used, Good
Edition
Reprint
SKU
KRF0037417
ISBN
9780553816655
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

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