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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. The story of a Great War veteran, Andreas Pum, who loses a leg and gains a medal. He marries, plays a barrel organ, and is happy. But when he is imprisoned after a fight, life seems unbearably altered. Then a chance encounter with an old comrade gives Pum a transfiguring experience of justice. Translator(s): Hofmann, Michael. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 9. Weight in Grams: 130.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Granta Books
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781862073630
ISBN
9781862073630
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.78

Paperback. Num Pages: 380 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). . In good condition. A well read copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Hachette Books Ireland
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KRS0011034
ISBN
9780340962800
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. iDEATH is a place where the sun shines a different colour every day and where people travel to the length of their dreams. Rejecting the violence and hate of the old gang at the Forgotten Works, they lead gentle lives in watermelon sugar. In this book, Richard Brautigan discovers and expresses the mood of the counterculture generation. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 9. Weight in Grams: 120.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780099437598
ISBN
9780099437598
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.75

Paperback. Tells the story of Jeanette, adopted and brought up by her mother as one of God's elect. Zealous and passionate, she seems destined for life as a missionary, but then she falls for one of her converts. At sixteen, Jeanette decides to leave the church, her home and her family, for the young woman she loves. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 15. Weight in Grams: 172.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
9780099598183
ISBN
9780099598183
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.45

Paperback. In eighteenth-century France there lived a man Jean-Baptiste Grenouille who was one of the most gifted and abominable personages in an era that knew no lack of gifted and abominable personages. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 192.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780141041155
ISBN
9780141041155
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.33

Paperback. When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cunning, ruthless elite among them, masterminded by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, starts to take control. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 114.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
Edition
01st Edition
SKU
9780141182704
ISBN
9780141182704
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 8.78

Paperback. It's New York in the 1940s, where the martinis flow from cocktail hour till breakfast at Tiffany's. And nice girls don't, except, of course, for Holly Golightly: glittering socialite traveller, generally upwards, sometimes sideways and once in a while - down. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 10. Weight in Grams: 126.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
Edition
01st Edition
SKU
9780141182797
ISBN
9780141182797
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.75

Paperback. Hot-shot magazine editor Lisa Edwards' career is destined for high-rise New York when suddenly she's diverted to low-rise Dublin. But what can she do about it? Ashling Kennedy, Lisa's super-organized assistant, worries about everything from her lack of waist to the lack of men in her life. She's even anxious about of a little bit of raw fish.. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 141 x 38. Weight in Grams: 372.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
SKU
9780241958476
ISBN
9780241958476
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.92

Paperback. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 28. Weight in Grams: 298.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
SKU
9781405909075
ISBN
9781405909075
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.10

paperback. Enter a vanished and unjust world: Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Where black maids raise white children, but aren't trusted not to steal the silver.. There's Aibileen, raising her seventeenth white child and nursing the hurt caused by her own son's tragic death; and, Minny, whose cooking is nearly as sassy as her tongue. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 31. Weight in Grams: 322
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Penguin London
Condition
New
Edition
Media tie-in
SKU
9780141039282
ISBN
9780141039282
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 5.15

Paperback. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9781405932097
ISBN
9781405932097
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.45

Paperback. Evie Boyd is fourteen and desperate to be noticed. It's the summer of 1969 and restless, empty days stretch ahead of her. Until she sees them. The girls. Hair long and uncombed, jewelry catching the sun. And at their centre, Suzanne black-haired and beautiful. If not for Suzanne, she might not have gone. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
9781784701741
ISBN
9781784701741
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.45

Paperback. Claire Randall was swept through time into the arms of James Fraser whose love for her became legend - a tale of tragic passion that ended with her return to the present to bear his child. Two decades later, Claire travelled back again to reunite with Jamie, this time in frontier America. Series: Outlander. Num Pages: 1200 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 133 x 47. Weight in Grams: 702.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Cornerstone
Condition
New
SKU
9781784751340
ISBN
9781784751340
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 9.85

Paperback. A killer is branding his victims with numbers. How many will he kill before he's stopped? YOU BELONG TO ME is a fantastic thriller from bestselling author Karen Rose, and the first novel in her Baltimore series. Series: Baltimore Series. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 39. Weight in Grams: 348.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Condition
New
Edition
01st Edition
SKU
V9780755373925
ISBN
9780755373925
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

Paperback. The new Sunday Times bestselling novel from Fern Britton. In the Cornish village of Trevay, not all is as it seems.. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 29. Weight in Grams: 304.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Condition
New
SKU
9780007562961
ISBN
9780007562961
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 8.95

Paperback. Sounds a clarion warning to the world. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSK; FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 6. Weight in Grams: 78.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780140182750
ISBN
9780140182750
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.29

Paperback. Exiled to a remote and barren corner of Italy for his opposition to Mussolini, Carlo Levi entered a world cut off from history and the state, hedged in by custom and sorrow, without comfort or solace, where, eternally patient, the peasants lived in an age-old stillness and in the presence of death - for Christ did stop at Eboli. Translator(s): Frenaye, Frances. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; FA; FC; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 16. Weight in Grams: 194.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780141183213
ISBN
9780141183213
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.45

Paperback. Fifteen-year-old Alex likes lashings of ultraviolence. He and his gang of friends rob, kill and rape their way through a nightmarish future, until the State puts a stop to his riotous excesses. But what will his re-education mean? Editor(s): Bissell, Andrew. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 181 x 118 x 20. Weight in Grams: 224.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780141197531
ISBN
9780141197531
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.38

paperback. Capturing a single day in the life of Dubliner Leopold Bloom, his friends Buck Mulligan and Stephen Dedalus, his wife Molly, and a cast of supporting characters, the author pushes Celtic lyricism and vulgarity to splendid extremes. Num Pages: 1040 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 706.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Penguin Classics London
Condition
New
Edition
01st Edition
SKU
9780141182803
ISBN
9780141182803
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 10.50

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