Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.73
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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
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.77
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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
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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
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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
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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.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Main
- SKU
- 9780571225699
- ISBN
- 9780571225699
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.94
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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
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Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.94
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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
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.38
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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
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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
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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
€ 5.12
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Paperback. A satirical novel about one man's attempt to maintain sanity and sense of humour in the face of mounting odds. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Biblioasis Canada
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781897231333
- ISBN
- 9781897231333
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Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 20.19
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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
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Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 15.06
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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
€ 15.99€ 11.81
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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€ 16.61
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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
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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
€ 12.37
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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
€ 12.37
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Paperback. London 1997: New Labour is sweeping into power and Britpop is at its zenith. A&R man Stelfox is slashing and burning his way through the music industry, fuelled by greed and inhuman quantities of cocaine, searching for the next hit record amid a relentless orgy of self-gratification. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 22. Weight in Grams: 232.
- Publisher
- Windmill Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099592099
- ISBN
- 9780099592099
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
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Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Windmill Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099592341
- ISBN
- 9780099592341
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08