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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. High interest books, designed to appeal to both boys and girls; highly motivating stories which attract the reader's attention and hold it through the story. Series: Hodder African Readers. Num Pages: 144 pages, 8. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 11. Weight in Grams: 146.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Hodder Education United Kingdom
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
SKU
V9780340984192
ISBN
9780340984192
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.69

Paperback. The most heartwarming book you'll read all year - a funny, moving and addictive novel of relationships, misunderstandings, first babies and second chances. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 268.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444769296
ISBN
9781444769296
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.97

Paperback. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199689118
ISBN
9780199689118
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.17

Paperback. In ways no guide book can achieve, these twenty absorbing tales by Italian authors including Boccaccio, Giacomo Casanova, and Pier-Paolo Pasolini offer the delight of exploring one of the world's most unique cities thorough a wide variety of individual lives and epochs. Essential reading for anyone who has been to Rome or dreams of going there. Editor(s): Constantine, Helen. Translator(s): Shankland, Hugh. Num Pages: 320 pages, twenty black-and-white photographs. BIC Classification: 1DST; DQ; FA; FV; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 322.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199572465
ISBN
9780199572465
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.16

Paperback. A story about greed, beauty, love and loneliness in the twenty-first century by the acclaimed author of My Summer of Love Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 199 x 19. Weight in Grams: 242. 8vo. Good clean copy
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
New
SKU
KEX0265158
ISBN
9780747578918
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. A story about greed, beauty, love and loneliness in the twenty-first century by the acclaimed author of My Summer of Love Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 199 x 19. Weight in Grams: 242. 8vo. Good clean copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Edition
New
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KEX0265159
ISBN
9780747578918
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Leningrad, September 1941. Hitler orders the German forces to surround the city at the start of the most dangerous, desperate winter in its history. For two pairs of lovers - Anna and Andrei, Anna's novelist father and banned actress Marina - the siege becomes a battle for survival. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 230.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
Re-issue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241952191
ISBN
9780241952191
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.86

Paperback. Cornwall, 1920, early spring. A young man stands on a headland, looking out to sea. He is back from the war, homeless and without family. Behind him lie the mud, barbed-wire entanglements and terror of the trenches. Behind him is also the most intense relationship of his life. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 20. Weight in Grams: 224.
Publisher
Windmill Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099559283
ISBN
9780099559283
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.86

Paperback. Leningrad, 1952. Andrei, a young hospital doctor and Anna, a nursery school teacher, are forging a life together in the post-war, post-siege wreckage. But their happiness is precarious, like that of millions of Russians who must avoid the claws of Stalin's merciless Ministry for State security. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 170 x 200 x 23. Weight in Grams: 246.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141046839
ISBN
9780141046839
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.95

Paperback. Unloved by their distant mother, Isabel and Nina cemented their bond in childhood when tragedy struck the family. Many yeas later, with the difficult birth of Isabel's first child, it is Nina who comes to stay and help out her older sister. But Nina has other, important reasons for being under her sister's roof. Num Pages: 224 pages, no pictures. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 166.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141033594
ISBN
9780141033594
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.65

Paperback. Rebecca was abandoned by her mother in a shoebox in the backyard of an Italian restaurant when she was two days old. Her life begins without history, in the dark outdoors. Who is she, where has she come from and what can she become? Thirty years later, married to Adam, she gives birth to Ruby, and to a new life for herself. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 208.
Publisher
Penguin England
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141015019
ISBN
9780141015019
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.63

Paperback. London, November, 1960: the Cold War is at its height. Spy fever fills the newspapers, and the political establishment knows how and where to bury its secrets. When a highly sensitive file goes missing, Simon Callington is accused of passing information to the Soviets, and arrested. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 196 x 30. Weight in Grams: 280.
Publisher
Windmill Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099559290
ISBN
9780099559290
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.87

Paperback. Louise married Paul, brother to Johnnie.. Yet she doesn't get one man with this union - she gets two. Born twelve years apart in a one-bedroom flat in Barking, Paul and Johnnie are close: they're good at making money and make taking power look easy. But while Paul deals on contaminated land, Johnnie is adept at dealing in crime. Num Pages: 256 pages, no pictures. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 17. Weight in Grams: 170. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
SKU
KAK0002911
ISBN
9780141033617
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Eeva, orphaned daughter of a failed revolutionary, also battles to find her independence and identity. Destitute when her father dies, she is sent away to a country orphanage, and then employed as servant to a widowed doctor, Thomas Eklund. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 238.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Penguin
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141015026
ISBN
9780141015026
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.74

paperback. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 154 x 234 x 31. Weight in Grams: 528. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Hutchinson
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KMK0024179
ISBN
9780091953959
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.12

Paperback. .
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781471153808
ISBN
9781471153808
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.83

Hardback. A collection of dark, funny short stories: Miranda July channelling Beyonce.. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 145 x 282 x 23. Weight in Grams: 338. Fine clean copy in good dust wrapper
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KCW0003736
ISBN
9781471153792
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Si and Danny are best friends, teenage sons of ex-hippy single mothers in North London. All Si wants is to hang out on Primrose Hill, but his laid-back summer of love is destroyed when Danny decides to kill his junky mother's dealer boyfriend. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 197 x 19. Weight in Grams: 166. Clean copy.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Faber and Faber
Number of pages
211
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
New edition
SKU
KRS0020011
ISBN
9780571201853
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Bridget Jones is back! In The Edge of Reason Bridget discovers what it's like when you have the man of your dreams actually living in your flat .. Num Pages: 352 pages, col. Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 114 x 27. Weight in Grams: 254.
Condition
Used, Good
Edition
Main Market
Publisher
Picador
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
SKU
KLN0014414
ISBN
9780330433587
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Olivia Joules: a new heroine for the 21st century -- from the bestselling author of Bridget Jones's Diary and The Edge of Reason Num Pages: 352 pages, 1 port. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 23. Weight in Grams: 264. Good clean copy with some reader wear.
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Picador
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
On Demand
SKU
KTM0006480
ISBN
9780330432740
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Nice copy in good condition. Some shelfwear
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Picador
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
1st Thus.
SKU
KST0026549
ISBN
9780330439336
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. 'Helen Fielding is one of the funniest writers in Britain and Bridget Jones is a creation of comic genius' Nick Hornby. Now a major motion picture from Universal Pictures starring Renee Zellweger, Hugh Grant and Colin Firth. Num Pages: 320 pages, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 113 x 14. Weight in Grams: 186. Well read copy, but remains good
Condition
Used, Good
Format
Paperback
Edition
Main Market
Publisher
Picador
Publication date
2001
SKU
KTJ0005567
ISBN
9780330375252
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 10.99
€ 4.99

Paperback. Before motherhood, before marriage, Bridget, with biological clock ticking very, very loudly, finds herself unexpectedly pregnant at the eleventh hour: a joyful pregnancy which is dominated, however, by a crucial but terribly awkward question - who is the father? Mark Darcy: honourable, decent, notable human rights lawyer? Series: Bridget Jones's Diary. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FRD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. . Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
SKU
KIN0033175
ISBN
9781784706173
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 9.99
€ 4.99

Paperback. The sharp and gutsy debut novel from the bestselling author of Bridget Jones's Diary. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 135 x 23. Weight in Grams: 290. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Picador
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
SKU
KTG0007361
ISBN
9780330412254
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

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