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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. 'Alice Walker in this, the most beautiful, the most compassionate, the most sensuous of novels, has created a masterpiece. It is one of the most life-enhancing novels you could hope to read. Flawless' Mary Louden, THE TIMES Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 230.
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780753819517
ISBN
9780753819517
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.23

Paperback. 'A romance of the last 500,000 years' from the Pulitzer prize winning author of THE COLOR PURPLE. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 30. Weight in Grams: 324.
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9780753819487
ISBN
9780753819487
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

Paperback. From the author of THE COLOR PURPLE, fiction and autobiography blend in this fabulously rich collection of short stories Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 262. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
First Edition
SKU
KOC0016645
ISBN
9780753819722
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. The new novel from the author of THE COLOR PURPLE, 'This legendary writer, who with her pen has changed lives and moved minds' (Pride) Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 234.
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780753819579
ISBN
9780753819579
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.25

Paperback. Alice Walker's powerful first novel. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 13. Weight in Grams: 236.
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780753819500
ISBN
9780753819500
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

Paperback. A collection of short stories from Alice Walker. Opening with an account of her early marriage to a Jewish lawyer and their life in racist Mississippi, the collection goes on to cover themes of idealism, lost love and hope. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. Weight in Grams: 190. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
The Women's Press Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSS0000620
ISBN
9780704346888
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. A novel about a character from Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "The Color Purple". This is Tashi's story, a shattering account of a young African woman whose decision to go through the female initiation ceremony has terrible consequences. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 214. Good copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0007752
ISBN
9780099224112
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. Num Pages: 214 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 141 x 14. Weight in Grams: 314.
Publisher
NeWest Press Canada
Number of pages
214
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9781897126387
ISBN
9781897126387
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.00
€ 15.75

Paperback. Num Pages: 316 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 450.
Publisher
NeWest Press Canada
Number of pages
316
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781897126806
ISBN
9781897126806
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 16.54

Paperback. Keynote 13 A darkly hilarious, at times painful story of an Arab-American girl's challenging coming-of-age. Editor(s): Harrington, Mary-Ann. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 326.
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780747267041
ISBN
9780747267041
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

Paperback. A child shows all the things he has learned to do all on his own. Illustrator(s): Aliki. Num Pages: 32 pages, col. BIC Classification: FA; YBC; YBL; YFB; YXL; YXZ. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 172 x 278 x 3. Weight in Grams: 126.
Publisher
HarperCollins
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780064462532
ISBN
9780064462532
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 10.43

Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 210 x 19. Weight in Grams: 306.
Publisher
Europa Editions
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1 Tra
Condition
New
SKU
V9781609452292
ISBN
9781609452292
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.46

Paperback. 'Reading Templeton has become somewhat of an addiction' Sue Baker, LAMB TO THE SLAUGHTER selected as a Personal Choice, Publishing News Num Pages: 416 pages, n/a. BIC Classification: FA; FH; FJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 113 x 26. Weight in Grams: 260.
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780340922309
ISBN
9780340922309
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.81

Paperback. Translator(s): Apollonio, Carol. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 216 x 17. Weight in Grams: 314.
Publisher
Deep Vellum Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781941920152
ISBN
9781941920152
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.75

Paperback. This Road is Red is a compelling and subtle novel of Glasgow through the stories of those who lived at Red Road. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 22. Weight in Grams: 372.
Publisher
Luath Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910021538
ISBN
9781910021538
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.30

Paperback. Life and love lessons as told by sassy narrator Lillian as she looks back in this brilliantly written, bold debut. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 17. Weight in Grams: 182.
Publisher
John Murray Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848549524
ISBN
9781848549524
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.23

Paperback. Set in glamorous Mexico, three young women set off on personal adventures. Each hoping to unlock the missing clues that will help them find out who they really are .. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 120 x 190 x 26. Weight in Grams: 294.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780334981
ISBN
9781780334981
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 8.67

Paperback. Jenny has devoted her life to her husband, the naturalist Wilkie Walker. She is as rare a creature as the endangered species he works to preserve. But this year, as winter comes on, Wilkie seems distant and depressed. In desperation Jenny persuades him to visit Key West, but the sun and tropical scenery do nothing to cheer him up. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 138 x 198 x 21. Weight in Grams: 200. Very good copy with light shelf wear. Lightly sunned. Light nicks, remains very good
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KCW0016046
ISBN
9780099275794
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. On Park Crescent, Geoffrey and Evelyn Beaumont and their eight-year-old son, Philip, anxiously await news of the expected enemy landing on the beaches. It is a year of change. Geoffrey becomes Superintendent of the enemy alien camp at the far reaches of town, and Evelyn, desperate to feel useful, begins reading to some of the prisoners. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 26. Weight in Grams: 330.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141016078
ISBN
9780141016078
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.00
€ 16.77

Paperback. In 1920s India, where do two little girls belong? Born of two cultures, belonging to neither.. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 127 x 28. Weight in Grams: 308.
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co United Kingdom
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781409135517
ISBN
9781409135517
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

Paperback. The new novel from the author of the Man Booker-shortlisted The Lighthouse is a tense and moreish confection of semiotics, suggestibility and creative writing with real psychological depth and, in Bonnie Falls and Sylvia Slythe, two unforgettable characters. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 186.
Publisher
Salt Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784630690
ISBN
9781784630690
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.15

Paperback. Lewis Sullivan, is approaching retirement when he wonders for the first time whether he ought to have chosen a more dramatic career. He lives in a village in the Midlands, less than a mile from the house in which he grew up. But when an unusual childhood friend appears on the scene, Lewis finds his life and comfortable routine shaken up. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 150. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Salt Publishing
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSS0008147
ISBN
9781907773815
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Lewis Sullivan, is approaching retirement when he wonders for the first time whether he ought to have chosen a more dramatic career. He lives in a village in the Midlands, less than a mile from the house in which he grew up. But when an unusual childhood friend appears on the scene, Lewis finds his life and comfortable routine shaken up. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 150.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Salt Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
KTG0002279
ISBN
9781907773815
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. The history of the Kindertransport and one family's desperate struggle to escape Czechoslovakia during the Nazi invasion Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 244.
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780755379439
ISBN
9780755379439
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

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