Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. Revitalises the American road trip novel, from the perspective of a vulnerable but spirited woman. This book paints an earthy and surprising picture of 1920s America, its smells and textures, its population of drifters and con artists, pimps and prostitutes. It is epic in sweep, but intimate and psychologically acute, moving but unsentimental. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 190.
- Publisher
- Granta Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847080134
- ISBN
- 9781847080134
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.18
€ 10.99
€ 9.18
Paperback. The perfect high-concept summer bestseller, Nicola's stunning debut novel heralds the arrival of the new Irish Sophie Kinsella Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 20. Weight in Grams: 222. Good copy with some shelf wear
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Headline Review
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- SKU
- KRA0010833
- ISBN
- 9780755386857
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. A deeply moving and absorbing novel from a master storyteller. This was Danielle Steel's first novel. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 109 x 22. Weight in Grams: 163.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Paperback
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780751542479
- ISBN
- 9780751542479
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.97
€ 13.99
€ 10.97
Paperback. An extraordinary story of war and friendship from one of America's most revered authors of the 20th Century. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 226.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007457984
- ISBN
- 9780007457984
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.42
€ 14.99
€ 12.42
Paperback. Pyle is a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through a mysterious 'Third Force'. As his naive optimism starts to cause bloodshed, his friend Fowler, a cynical foreign correspondent, finds it hard to stand aside and watch. But even as he intervenes he wonders why: for the sake of politics, or for love? Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 154.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099478393
- ISBN
- 9780099478393
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.41
€ 9.41
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 528
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007136445
- ISBN
- 9780007136445
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.08
€ 26.99
€ 20.08
Paperback. It was just a squashed grape on the kitchen floor. Hardly a reason to get upset, right? But six years of motherhood has left Lisa Stratton feeling like a skivvy. Every morning before she's opened her eyes, she starts her mental inventory of jobs to do. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 30. Weight in Grams: 278. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Cornerstone
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- SKU
- KTG0003794
- ISBN
- 9780099574590
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780062244765
- ISBN
- 9780062244765
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.55
€ 13.99
€ 10.55
Hardback. His father hanged himself when the boy was three years old, and now, as an adult, he retires from a world that he finds insupportable to the paradise of his childhood. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 162. Weight in Grams: 520. 187pp
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- KHS1003730
- ISBN
- 9780747509097
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 25.00
€ 25.00
Paperback. Meet Matthew, Rez, Cocker and Kearney. Facing the void of their post-school lives, the boys spend their first summer of freedom in a savage apprenticeship on the streets of Dublin. Roaming aimlessly through the city, fuelled by drugs and dark fantasies, the teenagers spiral into self-destruction, fleeing a reality they despise. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 19. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408863732
- ISBN
- 9781408863732
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.70
€ 13.99
€ 10.70
Paperback. Roy Hobbs has an immense natural gift for playing baseball. He could become one of the great ones of the game, a player unmatched in his time - a hero. But his first hard-won big chance ends violently, at the hands of a crazy girl, and then it is years before he gets another shot. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 15. Weight in Grams: 168.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- First Thus
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099437024
- ISBN
- 9780099437024
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.95
€ 13.99
€ 10.95
Paperback. Room meets Stand By Me, in a thrilling tale of the loss of innocence Translator(s): Doust, Kylee. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 132 x 11. Weight in Grams: 128. 160 pages. Lorenzo Cuni is a fourteen-year-old loner. His wealthy parents think he is away on a school skiing trip, but, in fact, he has stowed away in a forgotten cellar. He plans to live in perfect isolation for a week, keeping the adult world at bay. Then a visit from his estranged half-sister, Olivia, changes everything. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 199 x 132 x 11. Weight: 128. Translator(s): Doust, Kylee.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857861986
- ISBN
- 9780857861986
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.57
€ 13.99
€ 10.57
Paperback. Shortlisted for The Orange Prize and highly praised on hardback publication. Set in Lenigrad of the 1930s, ICE ROAD is a compelling and passionate story about ordinary people - Boris, Natasha, Irina - caught up in history Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 36. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 560
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844080595
- ISBN
- 9781844080595
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.74
€ 14.99
€ 11.74
Paperback. Offers an exploration of primitive history. This title portrays an era of superstition and violence in a country emerging from the darkness of savagery. It describes the brutality, prejudice and subjugation that occur when hunter-gatherers and farmers struggle for supremacy over the land. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 17. Weight in Grams: 194.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141391588
- ISBN
- 9780141391588
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.95
€ 13.99
€ 10.95
Hardcover. This is the story of fatal attraction and its consequences. The American narrator's highly-strung wife falls for his bluff, inarticulate English friend. Retrospectively piecing the story together, the betrayed and now widowed husband puzzles over the mysteries of the affair. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 136 x 23. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Number of pages
- 220
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857150209
- ISBN
- 9781857150209
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.15
€ 17.99
€ 13.15
Hardcover. For Bertie Wooster's old friend has fallen in love with Madeline Bassett and, as usual, makes a hash of the affair until Jeeves comes to the rescue. In the meantime, Jeeves must also solve the mystery of the white mess jacket, while sorting out the lives of Bertie's cousin Angela, her mother, and her mother's French chef. Series: Everyman's Library P G Wodehouse. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 137 x 31. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841591049
- ISBN
- 9781841591049
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.86
€ 19.99
€ 14.86
Hardback. Constance Chatterley feels trapped in her sexless marriage to the invalid Sir Clifford. Unable to fulfil his wife emotionally or physically, Clifford encourages her to have a liaison with a man of their own class. But Connie is attracted instead to her husband's gamekeeper. Editor(s): Squires, Michael; Poplawski, Paul. Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: D; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 136 x 34. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141192482
- ISBN
- 9780141192482
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 15.29
€ 20.99
€ 15.29
Paperback. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 5. Weight in Grams: 94. 64pp
- Publisher
- Cinnamon Press
- Number of pages
- 64
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781907090028
- ISBN
- 9781907090028
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.45
€ 10.45
Paperback. Historian Lia Carrer has finally returned to southwestern France, determined to rebuild her life after the death of her husband. But instead of finding solace in the region's quiet hills and medieval ruins, she falls in love with Raoul, a man whose very existence challenges everything she knows about life-and about her husband's death. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FM; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Publisher
- Sourcebooks, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781492625209
- ISBN
- 9781492625209
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.59
€ 16.59
Hardcover. Num Pages: 450 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FRD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 267 x 217 x 35. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Publisher
- Beaufort Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780825308260
- ISBN
- 9780825308260
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 23.46
€ 25.99
€ 23.46
Hardcover. With its intricate rhyme scheme and dance-like pattern of repeated lines, its marriage of recurrence and surprise, the villanelle has fascinated poets ever since it was introduced almost two centuries ago. This title collects the poems that range from the classic villanelles of the nineteenth century. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 117 x 164 x 19. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Publisher
- Everyman United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841597928
- ISBN
- 9781841597928
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.95
€ 13.99
€ 10.95
Paperback. Sometimes a damaged child becomes a broken man.. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 124 x 197 x 26. Weight in Grams: 286. 8vo. Good copy
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- SKU
- KTK0090550
- ISBN
- 9780007419913
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 10.99€ 8.95
€ 10.99
€ 8.95
Paperback. From the three million copy bestselling author of Lady of Hay comes the big new novel by the bestselling author of WHISPERS IN THE SAND is a gripping tale of witchcraft and romance, past and present, as her modern-day characters are caught up in a battle that has been raging for hundreds of years. Num Pages: 528 pages, maps. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 35. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Number of pages
- 528
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- (Reissue)
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007288632
- ISBN
- 9780007288632
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.34
€ 14.99
€ 11.34
Paperback. This is a modern-day adventure story featuring Paulo's supernatural encounter with angels - who appear as warrior women and travel through the Mojave desert on their motorbikes. Translator(s): Clarke, Alan R. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 206.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780722533949
- ISBN
- 9780722533949
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.58
€ 13.99
€ 10.58