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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Julia Hunter and Kate Bain have, it seems, each found true happiness with men old enough to be their fathers. The tranquil lives of the men and the girls seem shattered as new relationships develop and old anxieties surface, and nothing will ever be quite the same again. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 21. Weight in Grams: 230. Used paperback in very good condition. Some shelf wear.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
Reprint
Publisher
Black Swan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
SKU
KRF0038123
ISBN
9780552994927
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Crisis loomed in the gentle precinct of Aldminster Cathedral. The urbane and worldly Dean wanted nothing so much as to restore and beautify his beloved Cathedral - even if it meant sacrificing the Choir School to pay for it. Each human dilemma took its part in the turmoil of Chapter and Close and the final battle for the survival of the Choir. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 126 x 197 x 21. Weight in Grams: 234. Keywords: "Subjects - Fiction - Authors, A-Z - T - Trollope, Joanna,Subjects - Fiction - General,Subjects - Fiction - Contemporary Fiction: 1970 Onwards - Women's Popular Fiction"
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Black Swan
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Edition
Reprint
SKU
KHS0058354
ISBN
9780552994941
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. The land running down to the River Dean has been farmed by the Meredith family for generations. Robin Meredith bought the farm from his father, just before he married his wife Caro and now he and his brother Joe work on the land. But now Caro has died, as much as a mystery to the family as she was when she arrived twenty years ago. Num Pages: 320 pages, port. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 242. 317pp
Condition
Used, Good
Edition
Reprint
Publisher
Black Swan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
SKU
KON0825688
ISBN
9780552997003
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. The Logans were an enchanting and admirable couple. Archie had snatched Liza from her own engagement party to someone else, wooed her, swept her off to his father in Scotland, and finally married her. Now bedded firmly into country life, they awaited the arrival of Archie's father, the brilliant Sir Andrew Logan, a widower for over thirty years. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 20. Weight in Grams: 210. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Black Swan
Edition
Reprint
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
SKU
KAK0011042
ISBN
9780552994422
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Crisis loomed in the gentle precinct of Aldminster Cathedral. The urbane and worldly Dean wanted nothing so much as to restore and beautify his beloved Cathedral - even if it meant sacrificing the Choir School to pay for it. Each human dilemma took its part in the turmoil of Chapter and Close and the final battle for the survival of the Choir. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 126 x 197 x 21. Weight in Grams: 234. Used paperback in good to very good condition. Some light shelf wear.
Publisher
Black Swan
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Edition
Reprint
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KRF0015742
ISBN
9780552994941
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. The Logans were an enchanting and admirable couple. Archie had snatched Liza from her own engagement party to someone else, wooed her, swept her off to his father in Scotland, and finally married her. Now bedded firmly into country life, they awaited the arrival of Archie's father, the brilliant Sir Andrew Logan, a widower for over thirty years. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 20. Weight in Grams: 210.
Publisher
Black Swan
Edition
Reprint
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KST0006755
ISBN
9780552994422
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. The beloved and bestselling novelist Joanna Trollope's contemporary reworking of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility launches The Austen Project and is already one of the most talked about books of the year. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 134 x 199 x 31. Weight in Grams: 384.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
9780007461776
ISBN
9780007461776
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 8.95

Paperback. Rachel loves being at the centre of her large family. She has devoted herself fiercely to bringing up her three sons, but at their childhood home on the wide, bird-haunted coast of Suffolk, Rachel finds that her control begins to slip away. Other women - her daughters-in-law - are usurping her position. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 302.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Black Swan
Condition
New
SKU
V9780552776400
ISBN
9780552776400
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.81

Paperback. The soldiers are coming home - after six months in Afghanistan. Surely being reunited with their wives and girlfriends and families will be heaven, after the hell they have been through. When Dan Riley returns to his adored wife, Alexa, and their children, his Army life still comes first. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 27. Weight in Grams: 302.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Black Swan
Condition
New
SKU
V9780552776424
ISBN
9780552776424
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.37

Paperback. Susie Moran has always been the breadwinner in her family. Her husband was the one who was there for their three girls. But now he wants something of his past back - the life he had before Susie's career took off, before they had children. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 27. Weight in Grams: 308.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Black Swan
Condition
New
SKU
V9780552778558
ISBN
9780552778558
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. For twenty years, Anna Bouverie, as a priest's wife, has served God and the parish in a variety of ways. When her husband fails to gain promotion to archdeacon and retreats into isolated bitterness, and the bullying of her daughter at the local comprehensive reaches an intolerable level, Anna rebels. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 21. Weight in Grams: 206. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Black Swan
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
Reprint
SKU
KCG0000066
ISBN
9780552994705
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. The Logans were an enchanting and admirable couple. Archie had snatched Liza from her own engagement party to someone else, wooed her, swept her off to his father in Scotland, and finally married her. Now bedded firmly into country life, they awaited the arrival of Archie's father, the brilliant Sir Andrew Logan, a widower for over thirty years. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 20. Weight in Grams: 210. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Black Swan
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
Reprint
SKU
KCG0000067
ISBN
9780552994422
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Gina and Laurence have been best friends. Now, Gina is married to Fergus and Laurence to Hilary. Then, with elegant disdain, Fergus announces that he is leaving Gina and their daughter. Gina turns for emotional support to Laurence. And as Laurence gives comfort, so his own marriage and the stability of his children edges towards destruction. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 228. 316pp. Signed by previous owner
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Black Swan
Edition
Reprint
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KLN0008518
ISBN
9780552996433
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Julia Hunter and Kate Bain have, it seems, each found true happiness with men old enough to be their fathers. The tranquil lives of the men and the girls seem shattered as new relationships develop and old anxieties surface, and nothing will ever be quite the same again. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 21. Weight in Grams: 224. Good copy with some shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Black Swan
Edition
Reprint
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KRA0006590
ISBN
9780552994927
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Merrion Palmer has been Judge Guy Stockdale's mistress for the last seven years and his wife and two grown-up sons know absolutely nothing about her. But now the time has come for things to change. Guy has become conscious of wasted years and he wants to share his relationship with Merrion with the world. He wants, dammit, to marry her. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 232. Some light shelf wear, else as new
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Black Swan
Edition
First Edition
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KRA0009130
ISBN
9780552998727
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Ben is, at last, leaving home. At twenty-two, he's the youngest of the family. His mother, is distraught. His father, is rather hoping to get his wife back. His brother, is struggling in a relationship. And his sister, is wrestling with debt and the end of a turbulent love affair. This book talks about the Boyd family and the empty nest. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 274. Clean copy with some reader wear.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Black Swan, London
Edition
1st Black Swan Edition
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KTM0000646
ISBN
9780552773119
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Gillon - red-haired, intelligent, vulnerable - comes to London to escape from the demands of her wealthy, conventional, socially superior family in Charleston, South Carolina. An art historian, she has a chance meeting with Tilly, whose long-term boyfriend Henry is a wildlife photographer who is finding it hard to commit. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 22. Weight in Grams: 240. Good clean copy showing light shelfwear to covers and page edges, remains in good condition
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Black Swan
Edition
First Thus
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0009445
ISBN
9780552770873
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Nathalie and David have been good and dutiful children to their parents. They were both adopted and now Nathalie discovers a need to trace her birth parents and insists that David makes the same journey. And through this, both learn one of the hardest lessons of all. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 278. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Black Swan
Edition
Reprint
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KTG0017285
ISBN
9780552771733
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 12.99
€ 10.38

Paperback. Friday nights, the best night of the week, the night they all looked forward to more than they cared to admit - talking, drinking, laughing and crying together. They were six female friends, different in age and circumstances, but with one common need: the warmth and support of their Friday nights. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 27. Weight in Grams: 296. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Black Swan
Edition
First Edition
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KTG0018094
ISBN
9780552774123
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Chrissie, in the twenty-three years she'd been together with Richie, had always believed that he loved her. He loved their three daughters and their house in Highgate and their happy, lively existence. But if she really was the love of his life, why had he never given her the one thing that would have made her life perfect? Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 30. Weight in Grams: 322.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Black Swan
Condition
New
SKU
V9780552775434
ISBN
9780552775434
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. Nathalie and David have been good and dutiful children to their parents. They were both adopted and now Nathalie discovers a need to trace her birth parents and insists that David makes the same journey. And through this, both learn one of the hardest lessons of all. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 278.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Black Swan
Condition
New
SKU
9780552771733
ISBN
9780552771733
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 10.38

Paperback. The Grey House is the final piece in the jigsaw of Alice Jordan's perfect life. It seems to be the ultimate achievement of her outwardly happy marriage - a loyal, if dull husband, three children, two cars and now the house. So why does she feel as if something is missing? Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 18. Weight in Grams: 192. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Black Swan
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KTG0007455
ISBN
9780552994101
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. For eight-year-old Rufus, life has become complicated. His parents, Josie and Tom, have divorced and are setting off on separate paths. But now, other people have had to become involved, like his mother's new husband Matthew and his father's new friend Elizabeth. What's even worse is that there are other children too, Matthew's three teenagers. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 222.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Black Swan
Edition
Trade Paperback
Condition
New
SKU
V9780552997881
ISBN
9780552997881
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.35

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: 96 pages, 8. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 8. Weight in Grams: 90.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Hodder Education United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
SKU
V9780340984154
ISBN
9780340984154
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.81

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