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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Puddleducks Playgroup has been run successfully for several years. Now, with an opportunity to prove herself Gemma Merryfield can't wait to take over running it in September. But the arrival of the new head of the infant school, Joe Balls soon tempers her enjoyment. Ex-banker Joe has been employed to bring the school back up to scratch. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 168 x 202 x 30. Weight in Grams: 354. Good clean copy with some minor shelf and reading wear. FFEP torn out.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Random House UK
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
SKU
KTG0010673
ISBN
9780099558194
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Bobbie's children never listen to a word she says. Even worse, her mother has a new boyfriend: the notorious child expert Dr Know, who dishes out hard-line advice to the nation. Could parenting classes control her kids - and save her marriage? Andy's wife is due to run a Perfect Parents course at the local school. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 197 x 34. Weight in Grams: 390. Good clean copy with some shelf wear
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Cornerstone
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
SKU
KCG0002819
ISBN
9780099580850
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Bobbie's children never listen to a word she says. Even worse, her mother has a new boyfriend: the notorious child expert Dr Know, who dishes out hard-line advice to the nation. Could parenting classes control her kids - and save her marriage? Andy's wife is due to run a Perfect Parents course at the local school. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 197 x 34. Weight in Grams: 390. Bobbie's children never listen to a word she says. Even worse, her mother has a new boyfriend: the notorious child expert Dr Know, who dishes out hard-line advice to the nation. Could parenting classes control her kids - and save her marriage? Andy's wife is due to run a Perfect Parents course at the local school. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 197 x 34. Weight in Grams: 390. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Cornerstone
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
SKU
KOC0009410
ISBN
9780099580850
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 138 x 10. Weight in Grams: 200.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Condition
New
SKU
9781564789143
ISBN
9781564789143
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 6.23

Paperback. From the corner of a darkened room Joy Stone watches herself. As memories of the deaths of her lover and mother surface unbidden, life for Joy narrows - to negotiating each day, each encounter, each second; to finding the trick to keep living. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 16. Weight in Grams: 200.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784870133
ISBN
9781784870133
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Paperback. A collection of stories that offer revelatory glimpses into everyday lives - from an unwelcome act of kindness at a bus stop, an evening walk across a London bridge, a welcome but uncomfortable summer break to a brutal lesson in trust. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 262.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Combined volume
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099540397
ISBN
9780099540397
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.00
€ 16.91

Paperback. Based on the life of Clara Schumann, this novel considers the place of love in a life of increasing isolation and alienation. Clara, herself a celebrated pianist, composer and teacher, was the wife of Robert Schumann, and cared for him through a series of crippling mental illnesses. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 28. Weight in Grams: 354.
Publisher
Vintage London
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099750512
ISBN
9780099750512
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.61

Paperback. Includes stories that examine the moments where lives split like a stone, where people are healed or broken by a word or the touch of a hand. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 151 x 20. Weight in Grams: 178. Clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSS0000642
ISBN
9780099453116
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Cassie and Rona. Rona and Cassie. Two women on a driving holiday in Northern France. A caustic, coruscating and deeply funny account of morality, dysfunctional relationships and women abroad, Foreign Parts is that rare hybrid: a strikingly original novel about real life, told with accuracy, compassion and a truly saturnine delight. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 23. Weight in Grams: 198. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KTJ8038750
ISBN
9780099453017
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.70

Paperback. A stunning short story collection by one of the United Kingdom's best contemporary fiction writers. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 350.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Freight Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908754950
ISBN
9781908754950
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 20.32

Hardcover. Broke Neck, Kentucky, lies deep in Appalachia. Its people are descendents of the men and women who settled the country in revolutionary war times, and their ways have not chnaged much in the past 200 years. "Shady Groves" chronicles the adventures and misadventures of Broke Neck's Fowler clan. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 562.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University Press of Kentucky
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813122380
ISBN
9780813122380
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.05

Hardcover. Set in 1861, at the beginning of Kentucky's entry into the Civil War, this story takes place on a ramshackle steamboat as Captain Bohannon Cartwright and his crew journey 184 miles. Along the way they pick up two extra passengers - a former Shakespearean actor and his grandaughter Phoebe. Num Pages: 360 pages, 22. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 671.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University Press of Kentucky
Edition
3 Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813122991
ISBN
9780813122991
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 56.47

Paperback. Used paperback in good condition. Some shelf wear.
Condition
Used, Good
Edition
Main
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
SKU
KRF0023850
ISBN
9781843547488
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

paperback. Num Pages: 150 pages, colour and B&W illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 155 x 9. Weight in Grams: 214.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Dog Horn Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
150
Condition
New
SKU
V9781907133053
ISBN
9781907133053
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.62

Paperback. From the bestselling author of The Piano Teacher, a brilliant novel about women, motherhood and identity. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 197 x 29. Weight in Grams: 340.
Publisher
Abacus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349141169
ISBN
9780349141169
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.34

Hardcover. Here is a quirky and fantastical novel about things lost and things found from a startling new voice in fiction. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 218 x 27. Weight in Grams: 420. Some light shelf wear, else as new
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
SKU
KRA0009974
ISBN
9780007562473
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Hardcover. Here is a quirky and fantastical novel about things lost and things found from a startling new voice in fiction. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 218 x 27. Weight in Grams: 420. Good clean copy in dustwrapper. DW with some minor shelf wear.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
SKU
KTG0003631
ISBN
9780007562473
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 204 x 14. Weight in Grams: 210.
Publisher
Caitlin Press Inc.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781927575468
ISBN
9781927575468
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.71

Hardback. A timely and thought-provoking novella about being a refugee - a bestseller throughout Europe, published in the UK for the first time Num Pages: 64 pages, full colour illustrations throughout. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 105 x 145 x 12. Weight in Grams: 74.
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781471161476
ISBN
9781471161476
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 8.99
€ 8.31

Paperback. A dark, sexy thriller from the author of Sex Education Num Pages: 192 pages, plan. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Edition
Illustrated edition
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC LONDON
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780747574187
ISBN
9780747574187
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 8.60

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