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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Hannah Buchan thinks herself ordinary. She is not the revolutionary child that her painter mother and famous radical father had hoped for. Raised in the creative chaos of 1960s America, Hannah vows to reject her parents' liberal lifestyle, and settles instead for typical family life in a nondescript corner of Maine. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 39. Weight in Grams: 422. Clean copy in good condition
Edition
1st Arrow Book Edition
Publisher
Cornerstone
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KIN0005336
ISBN
9780099468295
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Harry Ricks is a man who has lost everything. A romantic mistake at the small American college where he used to teach has cost him his job, his marriage and his relationship with his only child. And when the ensuing scandal threatens to completely destroy him, he votes with his feet and flees - to Paris. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 306. Good, clean copy. Showing minor shelfwear to covers and page edges
Edition
1st Arrow Book Edition
Publisher
Cornerstone
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0007570
ISBN
9780099469254
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Robin knew Paul wasn't perfect. But he said they were so lucky to have found each other, and she believed it was true. In the heady strangeness of Morocco, he is everything she wants him to be - passionate, talented, knowledgeable. She is convinced that it is here she will finally become pregnant. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 31. Weight in Grams: 240.
Publisher
Cornerstone
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
9780099585183
ISBN
9780099585183
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.70

Paperback. On the night of her thirteenth birthday, Jane Howard made a vow to her warring parents - she would never get married and she would never have children. But life, as Jane discovers, is a random business. Many years and many lives later, she is a professor in Boston, in love with an erratic man named Theo. And then she falls pregnant. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 38. Weight in Grams: 416.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Arrow
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099509684
ISBN
9780099509684
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 18.56

Paperback. *A fiendishly clever, yet serious tale of middle-class frustration that will touch anyone who has ever wanted to escape their life. The Thriller goes into a new domain - The Real World. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 26. Weight in Grams: 256.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Abacus
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349117386
ISBN
9780349117386
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

Paperback. Thomas Nesbitt is a divorced American writer living a very private life in Maine. Until, one wintry morning, his solitude is disrupted by the arrival of a package postmarked Berlin. But what is more unsettling is the name accompanying the return address on the package: Petra Dussmann. Num Pages: 656 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FH; FRD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 133 x 36. Weight in Grams: 486.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Arrow
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099509745
ISBN
9780099509745
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.81

Paperback. David Armitage - husband, father and failure - has lived the life of an unsuccessful screenwriter for eleven years. When one of his scripts is bought for television, David's life is transformed, more dramatically than he could have ever imagined. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 282.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Cornerstone
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099469261
ISBN
9780099469261
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.73

Paperback. They are called The Glory Boys, by those who regard their exploits with envy or contempt. Bob Kearton is one of them. Already a veteran and survivor of the close action in the English Channel and North Sea, in January of 1943, he is ordered to the Mediterranean and beleagured Malta, a mere sixty miles from occupied Sicily. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 113 x 21. Weight in Grams: 176.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Arrow
Number of pages
320
Publication date
2009
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099484271
ISBN
9780099484271
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. HMS Temeraire: latest and most advanced of Britain's nuclear submarines. When Temraire's trials are cut short and she is ordered to the Far East to reinforce the fleet against a threat from Red China, her captain, David Jermain, knows that this is no routine exercise in flag-waving. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FJMS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 111 x 21. Weight in Grams: 174.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Cornerstone
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099591597
ISBN
9780099591597
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. Fifth in the Blackwood "Royal Marines" series, this title is set in fifties Malaya and Singapore, at the height of the new terrorist attempts to subvert the creation of the new federation. The Royal Marines, the Commandoes, were used in jungle operations at a time when it was said that the post-war promise of a stable Malaya was on a knife-edge. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 111 x 22. Weight in Grams: 186.
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Arrow
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Format
Paperback
SKU
V9780099436294
ISBN
9780099436294
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.65

Paperback. .
Publisher
Valley Spring Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
3rd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780992639730
ISBN
9780992639730
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.69

Paperback. .
Publisher
Spinifex Press Australia
Number of pages
215
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9781876756208
ISBN
9781876756208
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.96

Paperback. Iris Murdoch called Auto da Fe "one of the few great novels of the century." Peter Kien is a reclusive Sinologist living in Germany between the wars. Canetti creates the elements in Kien, and in his personal relationships, that will lead to his destruction." Translator(s): Wedgwood, C. V. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 137 x 34. Weight in Grams: 496.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
464
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843432586
ISBN
9781843432586
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 19.34

Paperback. Set in a Scottish caravan park during a freak winter - it is snowing in Jerusalem, the Thames is overflowing, and an iceberg separated from the Fjords in Norway is expected to arrive off the coast of Scotland, this title tells the story of a small Scottish community living through what people have begun to think is the end of times. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 22. Weight in Grams: 228.
Publisher
Windmill Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099592181
ISBN
9780099592181
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.29

Paperback. Fifteen-year old Anais Hendricks is smart, funny and fierce, but she is also a child who has been let down, or worse, by just about every adult she has ever met. Sitting in the back of a police car, she finds herself headed for the Panopticon, a home for chronic young offenders where the social workers are as suspicious as its residents. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 246.
Publisher
Cornerstone United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099558644
ISBN
9780099558644
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. Num Pages: 342 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 132 x 28. Weight in Grams: 282.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Hyperion
Number of pages
342
Condition
New
SKU
V9781401310882
ISBN
9781401310882
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 18.21

Paperback. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 202 x 23. Weight in Grams: 282.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Hyperion
Condition
New
SKU
V9781401310899
ISBN
9781401310899
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 18.16

Paperback. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 171 x 118 x 7. Weight in Grams: 90.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Sterling Publishers Pvt.Ltd India
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
SKU
V9788120726383
ISBN
9788120726383
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 5.52

Paperback. Fast-paced London thriller for fans of Bad Girls and the Martina Cole readership. Series: Gangland Girls. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 31. Weight in Grams: 320. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
SKU
KRA0011619
ISBN
9780340937112
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Translator(s): Hasak-Lowy, Todd. Num Pages: 225 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 216 x 16. Weight in Grams: 282.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Condition
New
SKU
9781564789235
ISBN
9781564789235
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 6.23

Paperback. In the tradition of Home Front by New York Times bestselling author Kristin Hannah, comes a gripping issues-oriented novel from the author of The Good Sister and Little Girl Gone. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 133 x 23. Weight in Grams: 288.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Little, Brown & Company
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9781455510351
ISBN
9781455510351
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 18.16

Paperback. Dubravka Ugresic retells the myth of Baba Yaga -one of the most famous stories in Russian and Eastern European mythology. Translator(s): Elias-Bursac, Ellen; Hawkesworth, Celia; Thompson, Mark. Series: Myths. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 240. Series: Myths. 256 pages. Dubravka Ugresic retells the myth of Baba Yaga - one of the most famous stories in Russian and Eastern European mythology. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 196 x 129 x 22. Weight: 240.
Publisher
Canongate Books
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847673060
ISBN
9781847673060
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.54

Paperback. Presents a novel based on the testimonies of a number of women who survived the Spanish Civil War, and suffered imprisonment under the France regime, as well as on accounts of others who died fighting for freedom. This book is a bestseller in Spain, where it was voted 'Book of the year'. Translator(s): Caistor, Nick. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 368.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843432098
ISBN
9781843432098
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 18.16

Paperback. Editor(s): Dean, Misao. Num Pages: 356 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 355 x 355 x 532. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd Canada
Number of pages
356
Condition
New
SKU
V9781551115405
ISBN
9781551115405
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.66

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