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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Clemency Smittson was adopted as a baby and the only connection she has to her birth mother is a cardboard box hand-decorated with butterflies. Now an adult, Clem decides to make a drastic life change and move to Brighton, where she was born. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 39. Weight in Grams: 326. Clemency Smittson was adopted as a baby and the only connection she has to her birth mother is a cardboard box hand-decorated with butterflies. Now an adult, Clem decides to make a drastic life change and move to Brighton, where she was born. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 39. Weight in Grams: 326. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Arrow
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KMK0001618
ISBN
9780099598831
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Dare you follow your heart? The wonderful first novel from Dorothy Koomson. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 126 x 23. Weight in Grams: 262. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KTG0007446
ISBN
9780751539691
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 329 pages. BIC Classification: FA; HRCV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 137 x 25. Weight in Grams: 295.
Publisher
Thomas Nelson Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781595549013
ISBN
9781595549013
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 16.59

Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA; HRCV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 318.
Publisher
Thomas Nelson Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781595549020
ISBN
9781595549020
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.43

Paperback. The first of a four-volume work by Dorothy Richardson, this novel records the life of Miriam Henderson. Through her experience - personal, spiritual, intellectual - the author explores what it means to be a woman. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 512 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 126 x 32. Weight in Grams: 552.
Publisher
Virago
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780860681007
ISBN
9780860681007
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.95

Paperback. This account in first-person narrative and photographs of the one-day visit of Clyde Muncy to "the home place" at Lone Tree, Nebraska, has been called "as near to a new fiction form as you could get." Both prose and pictures are homely: worn linoleum, an old man's shoes, well-used kitchen utensils, and weathered siding. Num Pages: 178 pages, Illus. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 137 x 217 x 12. Weight in Grams: 288.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1968
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Edition
Revised ed.
Number of pages
178
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803282520
ISBN
9780803282520
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 16.25

Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 141 x 20. Weight in Grams: 324.
Publisher
Persephone Books Ltd
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9781903155646
ISBN
9781903155646
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 18.06

Paperback. Series: Persephone Classics. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 192 x 139 x 33. Weight in Grams: 504.
Publisher
Persephone Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Revised edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906462000
ISBN
9781906462000
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 15.27

Paperback. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 137 x 41. Weight in Grams: 612.
Publisher
Persephone Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
496
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
New ed of 1934 ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781903155080
ISBN
9781903155080
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 18.01

Paperback. Num Pages: 536 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 192 x 141 x 42. Weight in Grams: 674.
Publisher
Persephone Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
536
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
reprinted 2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781903155301
ISBN
9781903155301
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 18.16

Paperback. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 192 x 141 x 35. Weight in Grams: 532.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Persephone Books Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
New ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780953478026
ISBN
9780953478026
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 18.14

paperback. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 145 x 36. Weight in Grams: 576.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Persephone Books
Condition
New
SKU
9781903155462
ISBN
9781903155462
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.09

Paperback. .
Publisher
Amazon Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781503939509
ISBN
9781503939509
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.61

Hardback. A young woman picks up a book left behind by a stranger. Inside it are his margin notes, which reveal a reader entranced by the story and by its mysterious author. She responds with notes of her own, leaving the book for the stranger, and so begins an unlikely conversation that plunges them both into the unknown. Num Pages: 472 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 185 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1070.
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd
Number of pages
472
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857864772
ISBN
9780857864772
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 32.97

Paperback. Dougal Haston's Calculated Risk is a fictional portrayal of the world of mountaineering in its 1970s mountaineering heyday: a tale of love, major ascents and tragedy. The realities and tensions of big-time climbing, firmly focussed on the Alps and the Himalaya, are revealed with greater clarity through the medium of fiction. Num Pages: 192 pages, one large topographical map. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 1DFHA; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 364. Adventure and Romance in Scotland and the Alps. 192 pages, one large topographical map. Presents a fictional portrayal of the world of mountaineers doing the demanding routes at a time when climbing was still emerging from its primitive inter-war and post war austerities, and climbs were still a stark struggle with the elements. This work reveals the realities and tensions of big-time climbing, focusing on the Alps and the Himalaya. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 1DFHA; FA. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight: 364.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Cordee
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9781898573661
ISBN
9781898573661
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.22

Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 131 x 15. Weight in Grams: 174.
Publisher
Seven Stories Press,U.S.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9781583228784
ISBN
9781583228784
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 15.14

Paperback. Takes you on a journey across the world in search of exotic, endangered creatures - animals that they may never get another chance to see. This book describes the giant Komodo dragon of Indonesia, the helpless but lovable Kakapo of New Zealand, the blind river dolphins of China, and the rare birds of Mauritius island in the Indian Ocean. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 212.
Publisher
Cornerstone United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099536796
ISBN
9780099536796
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.19

Hardcover. What do a dead cat, a computer whizz-kid, an electric monk, quantum mechanics, a chronologit over 200 years old, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and pizza have in common? Apparently not much, until Dirk Gently begins his investigation. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FL; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 146 x 41. Weight in Grams: 650.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
William Heinemann
Condition
New
SKU
9780434009190
ISBN
9780434009190
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 15.67

Paperback. In the near future bees are extinct - until five unconnected individuals, in different parts of the world, are stung. Immediately snatched up by ominous figures in hazmat suits, interrogated searately in neutral Ikea-like chambers, and then released as 15-minute-celebrities into a world. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 280.
Publisher
Cornerstone
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099537380
ISBN
9780099537380
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.87

Paperback. Num Pages: 94 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 195 x 8. Weight in Grams: 114.
Publisher
Sternberg Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9783943365863
ISBN
9783943365863
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 13.63

Paperback. Following the hugely acclaimed bestseller Hey Nostradamus! comes a major new novel from Douglas Coupland: the wonderfully warm, funny, life-affirming story of Liz Dunn, a woman who has spent her whole life alone and lonely - until now.. This is a brilliant work of commercial literary fiction from an author who just gets better and better. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 132 x 17. Weight in Grams: 206. Previously read copy. Some shelfwear and/or soiling. Good overall
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
(Reissue)
SKU
KST0029683
ISBN
9780007162529
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. The story of one family piecing itself back together after a tragic highschool shooting, Hey Nostradamus! is Douglas Coupland's most soulful, piercing and searching novel yet. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 196. Used paperback in very good condition.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
1st Harper Perennial Edition
SKU
KRF0036028
ISBN
9780007162512
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Explores the modern crises of time, human identity, society, religion and the afterlife. This title asks as many questions as it answers and readers will leave the story with no doubt that we are in a new phase of existence as a species - and that there is no turning back. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 17. Weight in Grams: 186.
Publisher
Cornerstone
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099538189
ISBN
9780099538189
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.98

Paperback. Features Raymond Gunt, a decent chap who tries to do the right thing. Or, to put it another way, the worst person ever: a foul-mouthed, misanthropic cameraman, trailing creditors, ex-wives and unhappy homeless people in his wake. Men dislike him, women flee from him. This book is about a human being with absolutely no redeeming social value. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 138 x 22. Weight in Grams: 242.
Publisher
Cornerstone
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099537397
ISBN
9780099537397
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.87

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