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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. In a remote dale in a northern English county, a centuries-old rural community has survived into the mid-1930s almost unchanged. But then Jack Liggett drives in from the city, the spokesman for a Manchester waterworks company with designs on the landscape for a vast new reservoir. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 274 x 21. Weight in Grams: 242.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571315604
ISBN
9780571315604
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.71

Paperback. Hazel Motes who, released from the armed services, returns to the evangelical Deep South. There he begins a private battle against the religiosity of the community and in particular against Asa Hawkes, the 'blind' preacher, and his degenerate fifteen-year-old daughter. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 12. Weight in Grams: 150.
Edition
Main
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571241309
ISBN
9780571241309
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.71

Paperback. How can you long for someone who doesn't exist? An emotional, moving story about a London power couple with pregnancy problems trying to get pregnant. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 130 x 28. Weight in Grams: 330.
Publisher
Blackbird Digital Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780995473522
ISBN
9780995473522
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.34

Paperback. Illustrator(s): Barnard, Bryn. Num Pages: 44 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: CJBR; FA. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 149 x 5. Weight in Grams: 106.
Publisher
Random House Books for Young Readers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780375813078
ISBN
9780375813078
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 7.03

Paperback. Obaba is peopled with innocents and intellectuals, shepherds and schoolchildren, whilst everyone from a lovelorn schoolmistress to a cultured but self-hating dwarf wanders across the page. This is a novel about life in Obaba, a remote, exotic, Basque village. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 242.
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099512998
ISBN
9780099512998
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.83

Paperback. Julie Guilles is in trouble. She's fled her home in Occupied France for a seedy neighbourhood in New York and has been laying low - but not low enough. Because now she has the Gestapo, the FBI and her shady Uncle, the Duc de Guille, all on her tail, and her options are running out. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 200.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784870492
ISBN
9781784870492
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. Don Rigoberto - by day a grey insurance executive, by night a pornographer and sexual enthusiast - misses Lucrecia, his estranged second wife. The pair separated following a sexual encounter between Lucrecia and Alfonso, Rigoberto's son. To compensate for her absence, Rigoberto fills his notebooks with memories, fantasies and unsent letters. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 21. Weight in Grams: 298.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571195756
ISBN
9780571195756
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.77

Paperback. Keywords: Fiction - General - War In August 1941 Hiroko leaves Japan for an education in America. It is a different world. But when Pearl Harbor is bombed by the Japanese, Hiroko suddenly becomes an enemy in a strange land. Hiroko and her Californian family end up at a detention centre, where they have to fight to stay alive. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 109 x 29. Weight in Grams: 236
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
Reprint
Publisher
Corgi
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
SKU
KHS0058273
ISBN
9780552141321
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. An epic, involving and exquisitely told story of inheritance and chance as it plays out in one family, across one century and four generations. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 29. Weight in Grams: 322.
Publisher
Portobello Books Ltd
Number of pages
464
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846273827
ISBN
9781846273827
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.95

Paperback. Coming home for Christmas? That's what this time of year is supposed to be about, isn't it? Back to your perfect, loving family. Or not quite, if you're Rachel or Laurie. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 24. Weight in Grams: 254.
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780876627
ISBN
9781780876627
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

Paperback. On a freezing January morning in 1961, eight-year-old Anna's mother disappears into the fog. That same morning, a spy case breaks in the news. Obsessed by stories of espionage, Anna's brother Peter begins to construct a theory that their mother, a refugee from eastern Germany, was an undercover spy and might even still be alive. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 21. Weight in Grams: 226. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
SKU
KIN0032527
ISBN
9781408801000
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. 1959: Bodies have started turning up around London, dismembered in the same bizarre and horrifying way. Is it possible that the blood trail leads back to Troy's police force and his own forgotten past? Series: Inspector Troy. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 30. Weight in Grams: 356.
Publisher
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press United States
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611855876
ISBN
9781611855876
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.98

Paperback. A semi-autobiographical novel that explores the emotional conflicts through the protagonist, Paul Morel, and the suffocating relationships with a demanding mother and two very different lovers. It is a pre-Freudian exploration of love and possessiveness Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 127 x 21. Weight in Grams: 262. Clean copy with some shelfwear. Good to very good
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
Reprint
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
SKU
KST0032034
ISBN
9781853260476
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. It is 1940, and bombs fall nightly on London. In the thick of the chaos is young American radio reporter Frankie Bard. She huddles close to terrified strangers in underground shelters, and later broadcasts stories about survivors in rubble-strewn streets. But for her listeners, the war is far from home. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 240. Some light shelf wear, else as new
Condition
Used, Like New
Edition
1st
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
SKU
KRA0010103
ISBN
9780141046617
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Set in a small mid-western town in America in the 1950s where a child's senseless death, the breakup of a marriage and the arrival of a stranger lead to changes in many lives, and to the restoration of a family's dreams. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 106 x 21. Weight in Grams: 174. Clean copy, good to very good
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
Paperback
Publisher
Corgi London
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
SKU
KST0015756
ISBN
9780552142458
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Set in a small mid-western town in America in the 1950s where a child's senseless death, the breakup of a marriage and the arrival of a stranger lead to changes in many lives, and to the restoration of a family's dreams. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 106 x 21. Weight in Grams: 174.
Condition
Used, Good
Edition
Paperback
Publisher
Corgi London
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
SKU
KLN0016064
ISBN
9780552142458
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. On the eve of Angolan independence, Ludo bricks herself into her apartment, where she will remain for the next thirty years. She lives off vegetables and pigeons, burns her furniture and books to stay alive and keeps herself busy by writing her story on the walls of her home. Translator(s): Hahn, Daniel. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 197 x 19. Weight in Grams: 212.
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099593126
ISBN
9780099593126
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. Can Katherine Carter build a new life in the open-hearted community of Rotherhithe as the Great War looms ..? Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 175 x 112 x 26. Weight in Grams: 212. Some age and shelf wear.
Condition
Used, Acceptable
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Publication date
1999
Edition
New Ed
SKU
KNH0010553
ISBN
9780747255376
Paperback
Condition: Used, Acceptable

€ 4.99

Paperback. BIC Classification: FA. .
Publisher
Legend Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785079443
ISBN
9781785079443
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.83

Paperback. Series: Studies in Austrian Literature, Culture & Thought: Translation S. Num Pages: 196 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSG; DSK; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 141 x 14. Weight in Grams: 304.
Edition
UK ed.
Publisher
Ariadne Press United States
Number of pages
196
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Condition
New
SKU
V9781572410138
ISBN
9781572410138
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 21.35

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