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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Set in Irish border counties, these twelve stories are written by Eugene McCabe - a major playwright who is considered a master of dialogue and intimate characterisation. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 222.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099470328
ISBN
9780099470328
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. Meet Viva Cohen: a teenage schoolgirl bombshell. Her best friends are a drugged-out beauty queen and an ageing rock-star, and she lives in London with her gay uncle, Manny. But then she sets out in search of real love, experience and Jack Nicholson. Wicked-tongued, star-fixated Viva is like no other girl - and this is no ordinary summer. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; YFB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 197 x 128 x 16. Weight in Grams: 194.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9780747564140
ISBN
9780747564140
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.30

Paperback. Jonathan Kellerman, the creator of Alex Delaware, The Crime Reader, returns in The Butcher's Theatre - a enthralling novel from the master of psychological suspense. Num Pages: 896 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FH; FJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 113 x 57. Weight in Grams: 554.
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
896
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780755342785
ISBN
9780755342785
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.00

Paperback. After 18 years of marriage Astrid, the wife of the novel's narrator, has left home. Her departure leaves her art-historian husband feeling loss and loneliness that force him to reassess his life. This title explores with great subtlety the secret, unpredictable connections between men and women. Translator(s): Born, Anne. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 197 x 23. Weight in Grams: 206.
Publisher
Canongate Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841951782
ISBN
9781841951782
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.07

Paperback. A big, bold debut from a true new Irish talent. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444798883
ISBN
9781444798883
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.27

Paperback. A generation of children are born without speech, without comprehension, without language entirely. At first, they are just medical curiosities. But their numbers swell, and soon they grow into an established underclass, occupying squats and communes around the world. To some they are seen as a threat; to others, as a salvation. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 197 x 36. Weight in Grams: 420.
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099592860
ISBN
9780099592860
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.80

Paperback. The next great page-turner from the master of the noir spy novel. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 266.
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780753822302
ISBN
9780753822302
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. A haunting and heartbreaking story of coming of age. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 34. Weight in Grams: 336. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
New edition
Publisher
Simon & Schuster UK
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
SKU
KRA0010852
ISBN
9780684860091
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. Series: Penguin Essentials. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 181 x 111. .
Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241981399
ISBN
9780241981399
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 193 x 28. Weight in Grams: 450.
Publisher
Persephone Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781903155912
ISBN
9781903155912
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 19.22

Hardcover. Illustrator(s): Knowleden, Martin. Num Pages: 126 pages, 5ill. BIC Classification: BG; FA; WSXH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 145 x 15. Weight in Grams: 350. 126 pages, 5ill. Illustrator(s): Knowleden, Martin. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: BG; FA; WSXH. Dimension: 218 x 144 x 15. Weight: 354.
Publisher
Coch-Y-Bonddu Books Ltd
Number of pages
126
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780953364862
ISBN
9780953364862
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 22.04

Paperback. Grains of sand, bridges, shampoo, a bike, board games, yoga, sellotape, birds, balloons, tattoos, wandering hands, tweezers, maths, fish, letterboxes, puppets, a vacuum cleaner, a ball of string - and love. In this novel of yous and mes, of hims and hers, Pagano choreographs the objects, gestures, places and persons through which love is made real. Translator(s): Higgins, Jennifer; Lewis, Sophie. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 15. Weight in Grams: 176.
Publisher
And Other Stories
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908276766
ISBN
9781908276766
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.73

Hardcover. A story which evokes a bygone rural life, and is charged with a personal passion that intensifies the novel's outer dramas of seduction and betrayal and inner dramas of moral growth and redemption. Num Pages: 598 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 136 x 35. Weight in Grams: 700.
Publisher
Everyman
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857150599
ISBN
9781857150599
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.66

Paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 210 x 31. Weight in Grams: 490.
Publisher
Europa Editions
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781609453640
ISBN
9781609453640
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.01

Paperback. One of the best-known experimental novels of the 1960s, this uninhibited tale centres on the hapless members of a love triangle, and their sexual obsession and shared fascination with a mythic saint. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 119 x 27. Weight in Grams: 354.
Edition
01st Edition
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007318384
ISBN
9780007318384
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.66

Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 106 x 171 x 33. Weight in Grams: 166.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Kensington Publishing
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9781420140651
ISBN
9781420140651
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.59

Paperback. The year is eighteen hundred and thirty one when fifteen-year-old Mary begins the difficult task of telling her story. A scrap of a thing with a sharp tongue and hair the colour of milk, Mary leads a harsh life working on her father's farm alongside her three sisters. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 128.
Publisher
Penguin
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241959541
ISBN
9780241959541
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.01

Paperback. Num Pages: 247 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 338.
Publisher
Brindle and Glass Publishing, Ltd Canada
Number of pages
247
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781897142462
ISBN
9781897142462
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 19.69

Paperback. Louise married Paul, brother to Johnnie.. Yet she doesn't get one man with this union - she gets two. Born twelve years apart in a one-bedroom flat in Barking, Paul and Johnnie are close: they're good at making money and make taking power look easy. But while Paul deals on contaminated land, Johnnie is adept at dealing in crime. Num Pages: 256 pages, no pictures. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 17. Weight in Grams: 170. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
SKU
KAK0002911
ISBN
9780141033617
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Three women in love with the same man meet for the first time at his funeral. Can they separate the truth from the lies and learn to trust again? Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 29. Weight in Grams: 318. Good clean copy
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
SKU
KSG0011851
ISBN
9781781857861
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 9.99
€ 4.99

Paperback. A story inspired by the emigration to America in 1876 of Helena Modrzejewska, Poland's most celebrated actress, accompanied by her husband, Count Karol Chlapowski, her fifteen-year-old son, Rudolf, the young journalist and future author of "Quo Vadis", Henryk Sienkiewicz, and a few friends; their brief sojourn in Anaheim, California. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 296.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141190105
ISBN
9780141190105
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.66

Paperback. Translator(s): Brookshaw, David. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 166 x 39. Weight in Grams: 506.
Publisher
Archipelago
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780914671480
ISBN
9780914671480
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 17.05

Paperback. When Midlands housewife Coventry Dakin kills her neighbour in a wild bid to prevent him from strangling his wife, she goes on the run. Finding herself alone and friendless in London she tries to lose herself in the city's maze of streets. There, she meets a bewildering cast of eccentric characters. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 186.
Publisher
Penguin
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780718194833
ISBN
9780718194833
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

Paperback. Twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin, a 'half-Jewish' farmer's daughter from the plains of the Midwest, has come to university. When she takes a job as a part-time nanny to a couple who seem at once mysterious and glamorous, Tassie is drawn into the life of their newly-adopted child and increasingly complicated household. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 22. Weight in Grams: 268.
Edition
Main
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571249466
ISBN
9780571249466
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.78

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