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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. How did she end up running house and home for her eccentric scientist father and infuriating younger sister Bunny? Dr Battista has other problems. His brilliant young lab assistant, Pyotr, is about to be deported. And without Pyotr, his new scientific breakthrough will fall through.. Series: Hogarth Shakespeare. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 18. Weight in Grams: 196.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099589877
- ISBN
- 9780099589877
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Condition: New
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Paperback. Abandoned by her salesman husband, Pearl is left to bring up her three children alone - Cody, a flawed devil, Ezra, a flawed saint, and Jenny, errant and passionate. Now as Pearl lies dying, stiffly encased in her pride and solitude, the past is unlocked and with it, secrets. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 223 x 25. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Edition
- New Ed
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099916406
- ISBN
- 9780099916406
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Condition: New
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Paperback. Nearing fifty and married with two children, she and her husband drive from Baltimore to Deer Lick to attend the funeral of a friend one hot summer day. During the course of the journey, Maggie's eternal optimism and her inexhaustible passion for sorting out other people's lives and willing them to fall in love is severely tested.. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099201410
- ISBN
- 9780099201410
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Condition: New
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Paperback. When young Janie Pike dies in a tragic accident, she leaves behind a family numbed with grief and torn with guilt and recrimination. In this novel, the author explores how each member of the family learns to face the future in their own way. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 174.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099337003
- ISBN
- 9780099337003
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Condition: New
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Paperback. Morgan Gower has an outsize hairy beard, an array of peculiar costumes and fantastic headwear, and a serious smoking habit. He likes to pretend to be other people, and he likes to do this more and more since his massive brood of daughters are all growing up, getting married and finding him embarrassing. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099527206
- ISBN
- 9780099527206
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Condition: New
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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
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Condition: New
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 10.45
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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€ 9.46
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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
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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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