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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. If May, Sally and Harriet didn't need the money so badly, they definitely wouldn't be working for Slimeball Slater at Quality Cleaners. So when they discover it's Slimeball taking them to the cleaners, they decide to set up their own business - and that's when things really start to take off. Num Pages: 448 pages, port. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 199 x 28. Weight in Grams: 326.
Publisher
Cornerstone
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099446668
ISBN
9780099446668
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.01

Paperback. Hetty Longden's mother thinks that looking after Great Uncle Samuel's crumbling stately home will be just the thing for Hetty's broken heart. Hetty doesn't mind; at least she can be miserable in private. But 'private' is a relative term in a village which revolves around the big house. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 270. Hetty Longden's mother thinks that looking after Great Uncle Samuel's crumbling stately home will be just the thing for Hetty's broken heart. Hetty doesn't mind; at least she can be miserable in private. But 'private' is a relative term in a village which revolves around the big house. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 270. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Cornerstone
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
SKU
KTG0011507
ISBN
9780099446682
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Grace Soudley's life is also coming apart at the seams - her only security is the beautiful yet crumbling old house she was left by her godmother. But unless she can find a fortune, Luckenham House will disintegrate around her. When Ellie and Grace meet, the two very different women find they can help each other out. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 131 x 31. Weight in Grams: 348.
Publisher
Cornerstone
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099446637
ISBN
9780099446637
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Paperback. Fed up with looking after a houseful of students, Thea Orville throws caution to the winds and takes off to Ireland with Rory, a charming but feckless artist. But Thea's old life isn't so easily cut off. The arrival of Molly, her bossy friend, demanding to see Rory's stunning paintings is bad enough, but why did she have to bring Petal? Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 264.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Arrow
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9780099415282
ISBN
9780099415282
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.13

Paperback. With the bookshop where she works about to close, hopeless romantic Laura Horsley, in a moment of uncharacteristic recklessness, finds herself agreeing to help organise a literary festival in the heart of the English countryside. But her initial excitement is followed by a mounting sense of panic when she realises just how much work is involved. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 134 x 28. Weight in Grams: 294. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Cornerstone
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KIN0034607
ISBN
9780099525042
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Polly Cameron is happy being thirty-five and celibate, living in a small Gloucestershire town with a possessive cat for company and a Rayburn for comfort. After all, a relationship would only complicate things.. But Polly's life is already complicated. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 292.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Cornerstone
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099446651
ISBN
9780099446651
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

Paperback. It's not as if Nel hadn't enough on her plate already: organising a farmers' market in the picturesque Paradise Fields and keeping track of her unnervingly beautiful teenage daughter - plus sorting out a houseful of animals - are quite enough to keep her busy. The last thing she needs is another complication in her life.. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 26. Weight in Grams: 296.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Cornerstone
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099446620
ISBN
9780099446620
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.31

Paperback. Sarah Stratford is a wedding planner hiding a rather inconvenient truth - she doesn't believe in love. Or not for herself, anyway. But as the confetti flutters away on the June breeze of yet another successful wedding she somehow finds herself agreeing to organise two more, on the same day and only two months away. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 29. Weight in Grams: 336. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Arrow
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KI20003425
ISBN
9780099502128
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Sophie Apperly has spent her whole life pleasing others - but when she realises her family see her less as indispensable treasure and more as general dogsbody, she decides she's had enough. So when an old friend offers her the chance of a lifetime, she decides to swap Little England for the Big Apple, and heads off to the land of opportunity. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 135 x 27. Weight in Grams: 294.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Cornerstone
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099525066
ISBN
9780099525066
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.10

Paperback. A combination of overwork and jet-leg propels Julia Fairfax into becoming engaged to a golf-playing wine buff called Oscar. But when she realises that she has fonder feelings for his adorable Labrador than for Oscar himself, she is forced to confront the fact that there is something drastically wrong. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 141 x 22. Weight in Grams: 254.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Arrow (UK)
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099280231
ISBN
9780099280231
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.10

Paperback. Now available in paperback, the original English-language translation of O Cadhain's raucous masterpiece Translator(s): Titley, Alan (Professor Emeritus of Modern Irish UCC). Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127. .
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
9780300219821
ISBN
9780300219821
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.00
€ 11.67

Paperback. Translator(s): Mac Con Iomaire,Liam; Robinson, Tim. Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters. Num Pages: 368 pages, 6 b/w. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 117. Weight in Grams: 317.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Yale University Press
Condition
New
SKU
9780300227062
ISBN
9780300227062
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.78

Paperback. An account of the experiences of Maitreyi Devi, the highly educated Indian daughter of an intellectual father who fell in love with a female student staying at her home in the 1930s. the book was written as a response to Bengal Nights, by Mircea Eliade, the young student who had stayed with the family in Calcutta. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 141 x 15. Weight in Grams: 336.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
280
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Edition
2nd
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226143651
ISBN
9780226143651
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 24.88

Paperback. Translator(s): Lewis, Tess. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 149 x 171 x 24. Weight in Grams: 332.
Publisher
Archipelago
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780914671466
ISBN
9780914671466
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 17.11

paperback. Num Pages: 260 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 137 x 17. Weight in Grams: 355.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Kwela South Africa
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
SKU
V9780795701900
ISBN
9780795701900
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.51

Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
North Atlantic Books,U.S. United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9781556437649
ISBN
9781556437649
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.46

Paperback. Series: Picador Classic. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. .
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Main Market Ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781509823390
ISBN
9781509823390
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.64

Paperback. A collection of the finest short stories from our best loved authors, including Samuel Beckett, Graham Greene, William Golding, Kingsley Amis, Doris Lessing, Muriel Spark, J G Ballard, William Trevor, Ian McEwan, Martin Amis, Rose Tremain, Salman Rushdie, Graham Swift and Kazuo Ishiguro. Editor(s): Bradbury, Malcolm. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 33. Weight in Grams: 328.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241952863
ISBN
9780241952863
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.90

Paperback. 'The funniest book I have read this year' Daily Telegraph Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 19. Weight in Grams: 238.
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Main Market Ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781447222798
ISBN
9781447222798
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.01

Paperback.
Publisher
The New York Review of Books, Inc United States
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780940322967
ISBN
9780940322967
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 18.74

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