Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. A book about earth-shattering experience of becoming a father, the mundane struggles of family life, ridiculously unsuccessful holidays, humiliating antenatal music classes, fights with quarrelsome neighbours, the emotional strains of childrens' birthday parties and pushing a pram around Stockholm when all you really want to do is write. Translator(s): Bartlett, Don. Series: Knausgaard. Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 34. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Number of pages
- 544
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099555179
- ISBN
- 9780099555179
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 11.09
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Paperback. Fresh out of high school, Karl Ove moves to a remote fishing village to work as a teacher. He has no interest in the job itself - or in any other job for that matter, his sole aim is to save money and start writing. All goes well to begin with but as the nights grow longer, his life takes a darker turn. Series: Knausgaard. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 30. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099581529
- ISBN
- 9780099581529
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Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.90
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Paperback. Editor(s): Decker, Karla. Num Pages: 256 pages, 25 b/w photos. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Heritage House Publishing Co Ltd Canada
- Number of pages
- 255
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781894974424
- ISBN
- 9781894974424
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Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 15.74
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Paperback. The short story is one of the most varied genres in American literature. This title brings together many of its finest examples from the early nineteenth century to the present. It contains a diverse cast of characters, including convicts, artists, farm labourers, slaves, soldiers and salesmen, witches and ghosts, families and lovers. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 234.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141194424
- ISBN
- 9780141194424
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.00
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Paperback. A gorgeous summer read to escape with this summer! Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JMG; FA; FRD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780008236755
- ISBN
- 9780008236755
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.62
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€ 10.62
Paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 171 x 105. Weight in Grams: 170.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Kensington Publishing
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781420143157
- ISBN
- 9781420143157
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.91
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Paperback. Sara has never left Sweden but at the age of 28 she decides it's time. She cashes in her savings, packs a suitcase full of books and sets off for Broken Wheel, Iowa, a town where she knows nobody. With a little help from the locals, Sara sets up Broken Wheel's first bookstore. The shop might be a little quirky but then again, so is Sara. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099593676
- ISBN
- 9780099593676
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.01
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paperback. Nora, at first, recounts nothing that Effie really wants to hear, like who her father was - variously Jimmy, Jack, or Ernie. Effie tells of her life at college in Dundee, where she lives in a lethargic relationship with Bob, a student who never goes to lectures, seldom gets out of bed, and to whom the Klingons are as real as the French and more. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 28. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- New Jacket
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780552997348
- ISBN
- 9780552997348
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.10
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Paperback. During a snowstorm in England in 1910, the same baby is born and lives to tell the tale. What if there were second chances? And third chances? In fact an infinite number of chances to live your life? Would you eventually be able to save the world from its own inevitable destiny? And would you even want to? Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 197 x 38. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780552776639
- ISBN
- 9780552776639
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.10
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Paperback. Ruby Lennox was conceived grudgingly by Bunty and born while her father, George, was in the Dog and Hare in Doncaster telling a woman in an emerald dress and a D-cup that he wasn't married. Bunty had never wanted to marry George, but here she was, stuck in a flat above the pet shop in an ancient street beneath York Minster. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 127 x 30. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Paperback
- Edition
- New Edition
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Publication date
- 1996
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780552996181
- ISBN
- 9780552996181
Paperback
Condition: New
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Paperback. Teddy Todd - would-be poet, heroic World War II bomber pilot, husband, father, and grandfather - as he navigates the perils and progress of the 20th century. For all Teddy endures in battle, his greatest challenge will be to face living in a future he never expected to have. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127. .
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780552776646
- ISBN
- 9780552776646
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
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Paperback. Jackson Brodie, ex-army, ex-police, ex-private detective, is also an innocent bystander - until he becomes a murder suspect. As the body count mounts, each member of the teeming Dickensian cast's story contains a kernel of the next, like a set of nesting Russian dolls. Series: Jackson Brodie. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 30. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780552772440
- ISBN
- 9780552772440
Paperback
Condition: New
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Paperback. A day like any other for security chief Tracy Waterhouse, until she makes a shocking impulse purchase. That one moment of madness is all it takes for Tracy's humdrum world to be turned upside down, the tedium of everyday life replaced by fear and danger at every turn. Series: Jackson Brodie. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 32. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Edition
- First Thus
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780552772464
- ISBN
- 9780552772464
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
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Paperback. To Jackson Brodie, former police inspector turned private investigator, the world consists of one accounting sheet - lost on the left, found on the right - and the two never seem to balance. Surrounded by death, intrigue and misfortune, his own life haunted by a family tragedy, Jackson attempts to unravel three disparate case histories and.. Series: Jackson Brodie. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Printing
- SKU
- 9780552772433
- ISBN
- 9780552772433
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Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.83
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Paperback. In Edinburgh, sixteen-year-old Reggie, works as a nanny for a GP. But her employer has disappeared with her baby, and Reggie seems to be the only person who is worried. Across town, Detective Chief Inspector Louise Monroe is also looking for a missing person, unaware that hurtling towards her is a former acquaintance - Jackson Brodie. Series: Jackson Brodie. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 133 x 32. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780552772457
- ISBN
- 9780552772457
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.78
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paperback. Once it had been the great forest of Lythe. And here, in the beginning, lived the Fairfaxes, grandly, at Fairfax Manor. But over the centuries the forest had been destroyed, replaced by Streets of Trees. The Fairfaxes have dwindled too; now they live in 'Arden' at the end of Hawthorne Close and are hardly a family at all. Num Pages: 448 pages, 1 illustration. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 30. Weight in Grams: 318. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAC0001775
- ISBN
- 9780552996198
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 13.99€ 10.33
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paperback. Features a collection of short stories. This book explores the world we think we know whilst offering a vision of another world which lurks just beneath the surface of our consciousness, a world where the myths we have banished from our lives are startlingly present and where imagination has the power to transform reality. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 234.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780552771054
- ISBN
- 9780552771054
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.45
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Paperback. The Gingerbread House is a deeply moving novel: a compassionate and occasionally wickedly funny tale of a family's agonising struggle with dementia. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 20. Weight in Grams: 252.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Bonnier Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KKD0006880
- ISBN
- 9781785300868
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.95
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Paperback. Editor(s): Bernheimer, Kate. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 33. Weight in Grams: 548.
- Publisher
- Penguin Putnam Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 544
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Original
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780143117841
- ISBN
- 9780143117841
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 21.34
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paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 139 x 25. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Seven Stories Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9781583225721
- ISBN
- 9781583225721
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 16.73
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- Publisher
- United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781583224717
- ISBN
- 9781583224717
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Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 15.46
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paperback. A woman who dares to defy expectations of society in pursuit of her desire. But a century after her death, it is regarded as the author's achievement. This book shows transformation of Edna Pontellier, a young wife and mother, who - with tragic consequences - refuses to be caged by married and domestic life, and claims for herself erotic freedom. Editor(s): Gilbert, Sandra M. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 210.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780142437322
- ISBN
- 9780142437322
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 9.99
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Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Bella Books United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781594932212
- ISBN
- 9781594932212
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 16.51
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Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 319. Weight in Grams: 118. 149pp
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Publisher
- Poolbeg Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781853711442
- ISBN
- 9781853711442
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99