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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. A novel in which love, music and faith rage against the spectre of evil. It is a tale of a present haunted by the past. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 306. Clean copy.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Main
SKU
KEX0205000
ISBN
9781843548522
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Centres on an adulterous affair between Saffie, a silent young German woman, who is first maid and then wife to a famous flautist, and Andras, a Jewish flute-mender. The story unfolds in Paris at the height of the Algerian war in the 1950s. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 132 x 20. Weight in Grams: 208. Fine copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KSS0001051
ISBN
9780099283645
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Groomed for the perfect marriage by her mother, fearsome Lady Montdore, Polly instead scandalises society by declaring her love for her uncle 'Boy' Dougdale, the Lecherous Lecturer, and promptly eloping to France. But the consequences of this union no one could quite expect.. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 18. Weight in Grams: 184.
Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241974698
ISBN
9780241974698
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. It isn't just Nanny who finds it difficult in France when Grace and her young son Sigi are finally able to join her dashing aristocratic husband Charles-Edouard after the war. For Grace is out of her depth among the fashionably dressed and immaculately coiffured French women, and shocked by their relentless gossiping and bedhopping. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 182.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241974728
ISBN
9780241974728
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

Paperback. Captures the foibles and fancies of the English upper class. Set in the privileged world of the county house party and the London season, this is a comedy of English manners. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 354.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141181493
ISBN
9780141181493
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.88

Paperback. Nancy's sisters Unity and Diana were furious with her for making fun of Diana's husband, Oswald Moseley, and his politics, and the book caused a rift between them all that endured for years. Nancy Mitford skewers her family and their beliefs with her customary jewelled barbs, but there is froth, comedy and heart here too. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 14. Weight in Grams: 130.
Publisher
Fig Tree
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241974711
ISBN
9780241974711
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. Longing for love, obsessed with weddings and sex, Linda and her sisters and cousin Fanny are on the lookout for a perfect lover. But finding Mr Right is much harder than any of the sisters had thought. Linda must suffer marriage first to a stuffy Tory MP and then to a handsome and humourless communist, before finding real love in war-torn Paris.. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 196 x 17. Weight in Grams: 164.
Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241974681
ISBN
9780241974681
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. Fanny is married to absent-minded Oxford don Alfred and content with her role as a plain, tweedy housewife. But overnight her life changes when Alfred is appointed English Ambassador to Paris. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 18. Weight in Grams: 174.
Publisher
Fig Tree
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241974704
ISBN
9780241974704
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.95

Paperback. Sara slept with the enemy but survived. She was one of the lucky ones. She was a stranger in a small town. She changed her name. Her looks. Her life. All to escape the most dangerous man she ever met. Her husband. Num Pages: 332 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 182 x 113 x 27. Weight in Grams: 182.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Cornerstone United Kingdom
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
332
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099949107
ISBN
9780099949107
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.82

Paperback. .
Publisher
Random House USA Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780399594397
ISBN
9780399594397
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 15.11

Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472216038
ISBN
9781472216038
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.06

Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 272. Clean, well read copy in very good condition.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
SKU
KLJ0006237
ISBN
9780802138842
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. The No. 1 Sunday Times and internationally bestselling account of life as an autistic child. 'Brilliant .. both moving and strangely optimistic' (Daily Telegraph). Translator(s): Mitchell, David; Yoshida, Keiko. Num Pages: 192 pages, 11. BIC Classification: BGA; MJNA; VFJB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 15. Weight in Grams: 186.
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
9781444776775
ISBN
9781444776775
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

Hardback. Num Pages: 354 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 217 x 32. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Vertical Inc. United States
Number of pages
354
Condition
New
SKU
V9781939130822
ISBN
9781939130822
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 23.14

Paperback. Hidden away in an Oxford back street is a crumbling Georgian mansion, unknown to any but the few who possess a key to its unassuming front gate. Its owner is the mercurial, charismatic Mark Winters, whose rackety trust-fund upbringing has left him as troubled and unpredictable as he is wildly promiscuous. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 135 x 24. Weight in Grams: 204.
Edition
01st Edition
Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141025964
ISBN
9780141025964
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780670919963
ISBN
9780670919963
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. Iehuda, who was once Yehoshuah's friend, recalls how he came to lose his faith and find a place among the Romans. Caiaphas, the High Priest at the great Temple in Jerusalem, tries to hold the peace between Rome and Judea. Bar-Avo, a rebel, strives to bring that peace tumbling down. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 25. Weight in Grams: 258.
Publisher
Penguin
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780670919918
ISBN
9780670919918
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback.
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780862411923
ISBN
9780862411923
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 13.79

Paperback. The story of the most famous writer of his generation and the four extraordinary women who married him. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 21. Weight in Grams: 242. Fine copy with light shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KCW0014523
ISBN
9781447226888
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 189 x 235 x 18. Weight in Grams: 226.
Publisher
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781431424221
ISBN
9781431424221
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.43

Paperback. Sonny, an aspiring musician, and Mad, a young woman down on her luck, struggle to survive in the mean streets of Montreal. Series: Currents. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 135 x 19. Weight in Grams: 352.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Alberta Press Canada
Number of pages
237
Condition
New
SKU
V9780888643551
ISBN
9780888643551
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.18

Paperback. Num Pages: 372 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 135 x 29. Weight in Grams: 284.
Publisher
Penguin Putnam Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780143126232
ISBN
9780143126232
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.53

Paperback. The most subversive and gloriously unexpected novel you'll ever read about the end of a marriage and its aftermath. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 137 x 20. Weight in Grams: 210.
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472209399
ISBN
9781472209399
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. Dora and Luka are inseparable: ever since he fainted at the sight of her - walking into the classroom with her new schoolbag - and she woke him with a chaste kiss, it has been love at first sight. There's something in the air when the two of them are together. You can't call it calm, you can't call it storm. Translator(s): Schillinger, Liesl. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 314.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780701186944
ISBN
9780701186944
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.47

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