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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Humphrey and Ailsa meet as children by a grey, northern sea. Humphrey is quiet, serious - and will in time explore the sea's mysteries; Ailsa is angry, a freckled cobra ready to strike. Yet they fascinate one another and when they meet again years later they fall briefly - and disastrously - in love. Num Pages: 352 pages, no pictures. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 242.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141027456
ISBN
9780141027456
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.77

Paperback. After fraudulently winning a writing competition, Sidony Redruth is sent by her editor to write the first-ever travel book on Hy Brasil, a near-mythical island somewhere in the Atlantic, whose very existence has been a matter of debate as late as the nineteenth century. Num Pages: 448 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 31. Weight in Grams: 308.
Publisher
Canongate Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841954110
ISBN
9781841954110
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.45

Paperback. A compelling family drama of love and loss, set deep in our stone age past Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 26. Weight in Grams: 272. 384 pages. A compelling family drama of love and loss, set deep in our stone age past. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 198 x 132 x 26. Weight: 274.
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847672896
ISBN
9781847672896
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.50

Paperback. What do Mrs H, Rachel, Edwina, Ida, Sarah, Dot, Chrissie have in common? They're all women, but they're fat, thin, old, young, married or single. This title follows the ripples that go out into ordinary lives that changed by a shared experience, all connected by the same hospital clinic in a small Northern town. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 176. Good clean copy with some reader wear.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
New Ed
SKU
KTM0005959
ISBN
9780099472131
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Georgy is young, gregarious and fun - she is also large, self- confessedly ugly and desperate for love. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 12. Weight in Grams: 210.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099478492
ISBN
9780099478492
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 15.06

Paperback. Talks about the fictional adventures of an early 20th-century painting and the women whose lives it touches. This novel opens with bold, passionate Gwen, struggling to be an artist, leaving for Paris where she becomes Rodin's lover and paints a small, intimate picture of a quiet corner of her attic room. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 258.
Publisher
Vintage
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
Reprint Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099496861
ISBN
9780099496861
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. Tara Fraser has a secret. Desperate to escape herself and her past, she changes her name, packs up her London home and moves to a town in the North of England where she knows no one. But one of her new neighbours, Nancy, is intrigued by her. And as hard as Tara tries to distance herself, she starts to drop her guard. Then a letter arrives.. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 22. Weight in Grams: 214.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784702304
ISBN
9781784702304
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. On the eve of the Great War, Millicent King begins to keep her journal and records the dramas of everyday life in a family touched by war, tragedy, and money troubles. This title presents the 'edited' diary of this woman, born in 1901, whose life spans the twentieth century. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 131 x 28. Weight in Grams: 304.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099449287
ISBN
9780099449287
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.81

Paperback. Born in Carlisle in 1887, brought up in a children's home and by reluctant relatives, Evie, with her wild hair and unassuming ways, seems a quiet, undemanding child. Shona, born almost seventy years later, is headstrong and striking. But there are, as she discovers, unanswered questions about her past. The two girls have only one thing in common. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 24. Weight in Grams: 252.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099570530
ISBN
9780099570530
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.61

Paperback. Once tough, witty and self-reliant, Grandma is now increasingly unable to look after herself. She has always put her menfolk first, always been the carer, but now her family must care for her. They are filled with love and good intention. But as Grandma gradually loses herself and the strain within the family soon begins to show, is love enough? Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 184.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099455646
ISBN
9780099455646
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.65

Paperback. For Penelope, the family is everything. Her daughters, however, had different ideas. Rosemary rejected the ideal of motherhood and family life; Jess was destroyed by it; Celia found it eluded her. Only Emily pursued her mother's ideal, with bad results. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 202 x 128 x 16. Weight in Grams: 184. Good clean copy. Showing light shelf and reading wear, remains a very nice copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0023712
ISBN
9780099455622
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Isamay's unusual name comes from her two very different grandmothers, Isa and May, who were both present at her birth and who have both formed and influenced her whole life in very particular ways. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 236. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0000785
ISBN
9780099542094
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. 'A remarkable achievement' Mary Stewart Num Pages: 944 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 132 x 43. Weight in Grams: 660.
Publisher
Pan Books
Number of pages
944
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Main Market
Condition
New
SKU
V9780330298735
ISBN
9780330298735
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.33

Paperback. Agatha is aware of an intensity, a powerful storm of emotion briefly awakened by a short lived love affair with her cousin Gerald, that is entirely lacking from the successful marriage on which she is about to embark. Agatha knows she is securing a perfect and luxurious future in marrying handsome John Clewer and becoming Mistress of Lyndon. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 21. Weight in Grams: 244.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099589761
ISBN
9780099589761
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.77

Paperback. Kate is bored of being overlooked by her grown-up children and, escaping on an Aegean cruise, ends up in Keritha - a mysterious Greek island all but forgotten by the modern world. There she encounters her childhood friends, the Challoners, returned to the island of their birth to claim their heritage. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 19. Weight in Grams: 248.
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099595496
ISBN
9780099595496
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.75

Paperback. From the multi award-winning Irish-Italian author of Don't Move comes an international bestseller wrought in the fires of love and war Translator(s): Gagliardi, Ann. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 34. Weight in Grams: 440.
Publisher
Oneworld Publications
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781851689163
ISBN
9781851689163
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.71

Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 357.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Brindle and Glass Publishing, Ltd Canada
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9781927366295
ISBN
9781927366295
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 19.57

Paperback. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 197 x 24. Weight in Grams: 286. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 129 x 197 x 24. Weight: 286.
Publisher
B&W Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9781903265147
ISBN
9781903265147
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.99
€ 7.64

Paperback. Presents the story of the Price family that is set in a fire station and the world famous Glasgow School of Art. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 14. Weight in Grams: 190.
Publisher
B&W Publishing
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845022464
ISBN
9781845022464
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 8.39

Paperback. Douglas Benson, Abigail's son-in-law, is determined to gain control of the store and completely modernise it. He becomes more and more ruthless and devious in his methods to oust Abigail but Abigail is determined to hold on to the business and keep it as it is. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 240. 224 pages. Douglas Benson, Abigail's son-in-law, is determined to gain control of the store and completely modernise it. He becomes more and more ruthless and devious in his methods to oust Abigail but Abigail is determined to hold on to the business and keep it as it is. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 197 x 130 x 19. Weight: 240.
Publisher
B & W Pub
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845022020
ISBN
9781845022020
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 8.42

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