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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. Ben Joe is the only boy in a family of six sisters, Mama and Gram. He is studying for a law degree in New York when he hears his eldest sister Joanne has left her husband and returned home with her baby girl. Out of a mixture of homesickness and duty Ben Joe returns to the home in which he has always felt like an outsider. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 174.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099539100
- ISBN
- 9780099539100
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
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Paperback. How does a man addicted to routine - a man who flosses his teeth before love-making - cope with the chaos of everyday life? Here, with the loss of his son, the departure of his wife and the arrival of Muriel, a dog trainer from the Meow-Bow dog clinic, Macon's attempts at ordinary life are tragically and comically undone. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Edition
- 1st Vintage Book Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099480013
- ISBN
- 9780099480013
Paperback
Condition: New
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Paperback. When Pearl Tull's husband, Beck, abandons her she pours her energies into preserving normality. Only gradually do her three children realise their father is gone for good. Now, as Pearl lies on her deathbed, the impact of Beck's abrupt departure unspools: on Cody who can't overcome his anger, and on mild Ezra who must always keep the peace. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 26. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099577270
- ISBN
- 9780099577270
Paperback
Condition: New
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Paperback. In a small Southern town teenager Evie Decker becomes obsessed with local rock singer Bertram 'Drumstrings' Casey, and decides to take her life into her own hands. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 5. Weight in Grams: 150.
- Edition
- 1st Paperback Edition
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099517504
- ISBN
- 9780099517504
Paperback
Condition: New
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Paperback. Barnaby Gaitlin has less in life than he once had. His ex-wife Natalie left him and their native Baltimore several years ago, taking their baby daughter Opal with her. He acquired an unalterably fixed position as the black sheep of the family. And this family isn't one where black sheep are tolerated. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 19. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099272687
- ISBN
- 9780099272687
Paperback
Condition: New
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Paperback. For thirty-five year old Charlotte Emory, leaving her husband seems to offer the only way out from the mundaneness of every day life's earthly possessions and emotional complications. In the bank, she withdraws enough money to escape a life and a marriage gone sour. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 14. Weight in Grams: 176.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099463702
- ISBN
- 9780099463702
Paperback
Condition: New
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Paperback. Michael and Pauline seemed like the perfect couple - young, good-looking, made for each other. The moment she walked into his mother's grocery store in Baltimore, he was smitten, and in the heat of World War II fervour, they marry in haste. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 226.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- F First UK Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099469599
- ISBN
- 9780099469599
Paperback
Condition: New
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Paperback. Friday August 15th, 1997. Two tiny Korean babies are delivered to two very different Baltimore families. Every year, on the anniversary of 'Arrival Day' the two families celebrate together, with more and more elaborately competitive parties, as little Susan and Jin-ho take roots and become American. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 131 x 23. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- New edition
- SKU
- V9780099499398
- ISBN
- 9780099499398
Paperback
Condition: New
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Paperback. One warm summer's day at the beach, forty-year-old Cordelia Grinstead, dressed only in a swimsuit and beach robe, walks away from her family and just keeps on going. After hitching a ride with a stranger to a new town where she knows no one, she reinvents herself as a single woman with no ties and begins living a new life altogether. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 19. Weight in Grams: 356. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAC0000624
- ISBN
- 9780099479413
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
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Hardcover. The whole family on the porch, relaxed, half-listening as their mother tells the same tale they have heard so many times before. And yet this gathering is different. Abby and Red are getting older, and decisions must be made about how best to look after them and their beloved family home. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 163 x 35. Weight in Grams: 624. Good clean copy in fine dustwrapper with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAC0001926
- ISBN
- 9780701189518
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
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Paperback. When Dorothy came back from the dead, it seemed to Aaron that some people simply didn't notice. The accident that killed Dorothy - involving an oak tree, a sun porch and some elusive biscuits - leaves Aaron bereft and the house a wreck. As those around him fuss and flap and bring him casserole after casserole, Aaron ploughs on. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 132 x 18. Weight in Grams: 200. Clean copy with some shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAC0002897
- ISBN
- 9780099572237
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
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paperback. When eighteen-year-old Ian Bedloe pricks the bubble of his family's optimistic self-deception, his brother Danny drives into a wall, his sister-in-law falls apart, and his parents age before his eyes. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099914709
- ISBN
- 9780099914709
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Condition: New
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Paperback. Spot-on observant, laugh-out-loud funny, yet laced with kindness through and through, An Englishwoman in New York is the story of what happens when you grow up and realize the middle part of your story might just be your beginning .. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 18. Weight in Grams: 200. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- SKU
- KAK0007122
- ISBN
- 9781848548336
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
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Paperback. Fans of Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones or Maria Semple's Where'd You Go, Bernadette? will love this hilarious novel about the lives and loves of a far-from-perfect modern superwoman.. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton General Division
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848548367
- ISBN
- 9781848548367
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Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.47
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Paperback. The gripping, masterfully executed historical thriller set in Ancient Rome Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. .
- Publisher
- Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780715652206
- ISBN
- 9780715652206
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.57
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Paperback. Love and loss between the Blitz and the Dublin bombings Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 134 x 18. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845887322
- ISBN
- 9781845887322
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.56
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Paperback. Ireland, 2004 Roisin Burns has spent over twenty-five years living a lie. Brian Lonergan, a rising politician, has used the time to reinvent himself. But scandal is brewing around him, and Roisin knows the truth. Lonergan stole her life as a young girl. And now she wants it back. But he is still one step ahead .. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF; FH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 26. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Publisher
- Windmill Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099592587
- ISBN
- 9780099592587
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.50
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Hardcover. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 136 x 21. Weight in Grams: 338. Fine in fine dust wrapper. DW showing light age and shelf wear, remains a fine copy
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Hesperus Press Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0027128
- ISBN
- 9781843917106
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
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Paperback.
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- SKU
- KLN0013659
- ISBN
- 9780316729635
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
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Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KLN0016338
- ISBN
- 9780316729635
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Condition: Used, Good
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Paperback. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. .
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Main Market Ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447283980
- ISBN
- 9781447283980
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.22
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Paperback. Two daughters. Two mothers. The secrets of two lifetimes. Num Pages: 340 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 35. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Publisher
- Pan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780330535205
- ISBN
- 9780330535205
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 9.12
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Paperback. A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'One of the greatest American writers' Independent From Annie Proulx, the Pulitzer Prize---winning author of The Shipping News and "Brokeback Mountain," comes her masterwork: an epic, dazzling, violent, magnificently dramatic novel about the taking down of the world's forests. Num Pages: 736 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007232017
- ISBN
- 9780007232017
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.47
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Paperback. A brilliant novel from Pulitzer Prize-winning Annie Proulx, author of 'The Shipping News' and 'Brokeback Mountain'. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007151523
- ISBN
- 9780007151523
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.42
€ 13.00
€ 11.42