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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 182.
Publisher
Luath Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910021910
ISBN
9781910021910
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.98

Clean copy, good to very good
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Corgi
Number of pages
528
Publication date
2008
SKU
KST0015879
ISBN
9780552154628
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Series: Story-Tellers S. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 136 x 27. Weight in Grams: 338.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Souvenir Press Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9780285636040
ISBN
9780285636040
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.21

Paperback. Num Pages: 332 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 136 x 21. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Avenue Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
332
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905575091
ISBN
9781905575091
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.01

Paperback. Elizabeth Reegan, after years of freedom - and loneliness - marries into the enclosed Irish village of her upbringing. The children are not her own; her husband is straining to break free from the servile security of the police force; and her own life, threatened by illness, seems to be losing the last vestiges of its purpose. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 127 x 17. Weight in Grams: 274.
Publisher
Faber & Faber London
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571225651
ISBN
9780571225651
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.74

Paperback. A novel about adolescence and a guilty, yet uncontrollable sexuality that is contorted and twisted by both puritanical state religion and a strange, powerful and ambiguous relationship between son and widower father. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 120 x 6. Weight in Grams: 148.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571225675
ISBN
9780571225675
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.77

Paperback. Features Moran an old Republican whose life was forever transformed by his days of glory as a guerilla leader in the War of Independence. Now, in old age, living out in the country, Moran is still fighting - with his family, his friends, even himself - in a poignant struggle to come to terms with the past. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Main - Faber Modern Classics
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571315543
ISBN
9780571315543
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.71

Paperback. Includes stories by the author of "Nightlines", "The Barracks", "The Dark", "The Leavetaking", "The Pornographer", "High Ground", "Amongst Women" (nominated for the Booker Prize in 1990) and "That They May Face the Rising Sun". Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 11. Weight in Grams: 134.
Edition
Main
Publisher
Faber & Faber London
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571225682
ISBN
9780571225682
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.71

Paperback. Tells of a day, crucial and cathartic, in the life of a young Catholic schoolteacher who has returned to Ireland after a year's sabbatical in London where he married an American divorcee. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 12. Weight in Grams: 146.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571225705
ISBN
9780571225705
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.71

Paperback. Includes stories that are set in ordinary places, in the streets and suburbs and dancehalls of Dublin, the small towns and fields of the midlands, the big houses of the beleaguered Anglo-Irish in the aftermath of their ascendancy, and the whole changing country propelled in a generation from the nineteenth into the late twentieth century. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 11. Weight in Grams: 135.
Edition
Main
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571225699
ISBN
9780571225699
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.69

paperback. Moran is an old Republican whose life was forever transformed by his days of glory as a guerrilla leader in the War of Independence. Now, in old age, living out in the country, Moran is still fighting - with his family, his friends, even himself - in a poignant struggle to come to terms with the past. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 16. Weight in Grams: 158 184pp
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Faber and Faber
Condition
New
Edition
Main
SKU
9780571225644
ISBN
9780571225644
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.94

Paperback. Joe and Kate Ruttledge have come to Ireland from London in search of a different life. In passages of beauty and truth, the drama of a year in their lives and those of the memorable characters that move about them unfolds through the action, the rituals of work, religious observances and play. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 21. Weight in Grams: 258 314pp
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Edition
Main
SKU
9780571225729
ISBN
9780571225729
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.38

Paperback. Michael, a writer of pornographic fiction, creates an ideal world of sex through his two stock athletes, Colonel Grimshaw and Mavis Carmichael, while he bungles every phase of his entanglement with an older woman who has the misfortune to fall in love with him. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 208.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571225712
ISBN
9780571225712
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.71

Paperback. Orphaned John Trenchard grows up in the village of Moonfleet with his aunt, entranced by the local legend of the ghostly Blackbeard, who rises each winter night to search for his lost diamond. While conducting his own hunt for the treasure, John is trapped in the church crypt and discovers the true secret of the village. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 198.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099541127
ISBN
9780099541127
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.29

paperback. A young architect is sent to a remote town to supervise the restoration of its Minster. Editor(s): Schmidt, Michael. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 198 x 36. Weight in Grams: 414. Clean copy with minor shelf wear. Small tear to bottom edge of rear cover but remains a very good copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Apollo Library
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KMK0022129
ISBN
9781784977023
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Part One of the Brensham Trilogy. 280 pages, black & white illustrations. This is the first book of the famous trilogy of English country life, "The Brensham Trilogy," by John Moore.A wonderful and exuberant chronicle of an English market town between the wars, distinguished with a historic abbey, a winding river and bustling pubs with a cast of characters that could have stepped out of Hogarth or Shakespeare.. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 15. Weight: 424.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
280
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781448204250
ISBN
9781448204250
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 15.11

Paperback. When Simeon Simcox, a socialist clergyman, leaves his entire fortune not to his family but to the ruthless, social-climbing Tory MP Leslie Titmuss, the Rector's two sons react in very different ways. Henry, novelist and former 'angry young man' turned grumpy old reactionary, decides to fight the will and prove their father was insane. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 26. Weight in Grams: 324.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141193397
ISBN
9780141193397
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.84

Paperback. Horace Rumpole lives alongside Mr Pickwick and Bertie Wooster as one of the immortal comic characters in English fiction. This title contains seven stories chosen by the author as his favourites, together with a further seven from the later period and the opening chapters of a Rumpole novel that Sir John was working on when he died in 2009. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 198 x 33. Weight in Grams: 374.
Publisher
Penguin Books
Number of pages
528
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780670919376
ISBN
9780670919376
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.69

Paperback. It's high summer when Molly Pargeter drags her amiably bickering family to a rented Tuscan villa for the holidays. Molly is sure that the house is the perfect setting for their three-week getaway, but soon she becomes fascinated by the lives of the absent owners - and things start to go horribly wrong. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 230.
Number of pages
304
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141034874
ISBN
9780141034874
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.69

paperback. Horace Rumpole is not overfond of the rituals of Christmas: turkey, tinsel and the like. But happily the festive season is not one respected by the criminal fraternity; meaning that celebrations in the Rumpole household are frequently disturbed in most-welcome ways. There's the suspicious Father Christmas at Equity's Court's festive party. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 122.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141039770
ISBN
9780141039770
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.27

paperback. An omnibus that celebrates Horace Rumpole's legal triumphs, plundering sorties into the "Oxford Book of English Verse" and less-than-salubrious hat. Num Pages: 560 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 33. Weight in Grams: 406.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1983
Publisher
Penguin
Edition
Illustrated
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140067682
ISBN
9780140067682
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 16.58

paperback. Features twenty classic tales of Horace Rumpole in which he battles through the Old Bailey, whether defending various members of an incompetent South London crime family, taking on haute-cuisine chefs and showfolk or mocking the pomposity of his own profession, all the while being held in check by his wife, Hilda: the wonderful, fearsome. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 656 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 199 x 134 x 29. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780141198293
ISBN
9780141198293
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 13.91

paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 143 x 17. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Flambard Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9781873226629
ISBN
9781873226629
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.41

paperback. Num Pages: 319 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Flambard Press United Kingdom
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
319
Condition
New
SKU
V9781873226681
ISBN
9781873226681
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.41

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