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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Results 1941 - 1960 of 12873

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. To those customers who visit her Indian spice shop in Oakland, California, Tilo dispenses wisdom and the appropriate spice: coriander for sight, tumeric for wrinkles, and fenugreek to make a rejected wife desirable. However Tilo's powers are conditional - they vanish the moment she falls in love. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 15. Weight in Grams: 238.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Black Swan
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780552996709
ISBN
9780552996709
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. Num Pages: 570 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 164 x 33. Weight in Grams: 302.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Poolbeg Press Ltd
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KEX0199792
ISBN
9781853711862
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 7.99
€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 346 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 140 x 29. Weight in Grams: 256. Good, clean copy. Covers and page edges showing minor shelfwear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Poolbeg Press Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0005986
ISBN
9781842235461
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. On the night of her thirteenth birthday, Jane Howard made a vow to her warring parents - she would never get married and she would never have children. But life, as Jane discovers, is a random business. Many years and many lives later, she is a professor in Boston, in love with an erratic man named Theo. And then she falls pregnant. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 38. Weight in Grams: 416.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Arrow
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099509684
ISBN
9780099509684
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 18.56

Paperback. Delivering stories that span generations, and offering warmth, wisdom and love on every page - if you treasured Maeve Binchy, read Patricia Scanlan Num Pages: 624 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
V9781471110825
ISBN
9781471110825
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.02

Paperback. At the far end of the long white gallery is a painting of a woman, in pale flowing clothes and lying on a sofa beside an open window. It is a painting which leads Flora on, beckoning her away from her childhood, her complaining mother, pert younger sister, and the confines of a small community. Num Pages: 271 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 200.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099274629
ISBN
9780099274629
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.65

Paperback. Tells the story of a haunted childhood, lived out in two dimensions. One is legendary: the Sun-fort of Grianan, home of the warrior Fianna; the Field of the Disappeared, over which no gulls fly; the house in Donegal where children are stolen away by demonic forces. The other is actual: the city of Derry in the Northern Ireland of the 40s and 50s. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 200. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KCW0000163
ISBN
9780099744412
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

paperback. In the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her too is Robbie Turner who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge. By the end of that day, the lives of all three will have changed for ever.. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 29. Weight in Grams: 360. Clean copy with some shelf wear but remains good
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Vintage London
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KCW0000479
ISBN
9780099429791
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 5.44

Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 200 x 14. Weight in Grams: 154. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Vintage, London
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KCW0000496
ISBN
9780099147718
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Reissued to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Keneally's first novel. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 274. Clean copy with some shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KCW0000512
ISBN
9780340624746
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. A leak is traced to a small sub-section of SIS, sparking off the inevitable security checks, tensions and suspicions. The sort of atmosphere, perhaps, where mistakes could be made? For Maurice Castle, it is the end of the line anyway, and time for him to retire to live peacefully with his African wife, Sarah. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 208.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780099288527
ISBN
9780099288527
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.70

Paperback. Years after the First World War's end, the narrator returns to Paris. He reflects on time, reality, jealousy, artistic creation, and the raw material of literature - his past life. Translator(s): Scott-Moncrieff, C. K.; Kilmartin, Terence; Enright, D. J. Num Pages: 704 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 43. Weight in Grams: 488.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780099362715
ISBN
9780099362715
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.14

Paperback. Kate Leonard is a young lawyer. Smart, sexy and successful, she seems to have it all, except a life outside the office ..until she meets Tom Faulkener. Tom comes from a different world: the privileged, idle world of private incomes, breathtaking bills and the pursuit of pleasure. The last thing he wants is a relationship ..until he meets Kate. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 110 x 41. Weight in Grams: 290.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Arrow
Condition
New
SKU
9780099415046
ISBN
9780099415046
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.38

Paperback. A biographical novel of Michelangelo. Michelangelo Buonarotti lived in the time of the turbulent Renaissance, the years of poisoning princes, warring popes, the powerful Medici family, and the fanatic monk Savonarola. Working with a God-driven fury he created "David", painted the Sistine ceiling, and was the architect of the dome of St Peter's. Num Pages: 784 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 112 x 34. Weight in Grams: 412.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Arrow
Condition
New
SKU
9780099416272
ISBN
9780099416272
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.14

Paperback. Serge Valene wants to create an elaborate painting of the building he has made his home for the last sixty years. As he plans his picture, he contemplates the lives of all the people he has ever known there. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 37. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
9780099449256
ISBN
9780099449256
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.14

Paperback. Dr Thomas Underhill, a notorious seventeenth-century practitioner of black arts and sexual deviancy. However, the landlord, Maurice Allington, is the sole witness to the renaissance of the malevolent Underhill. Led by an anxious desire to vindicate his sanity, Allington strives to uncover the key to Underhill's satanic powers. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 176.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
9780099461074
ISBN
9780099461074
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.45

Paperback. The tragic story of a rebellious, fiercely intelligent young slave who breaks all the rules: in learning to read and write; in falling in love with a white girl, the daughter of his owner, and finally in trying to escape and joining her in the free North. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 112.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
9780099462217
ISBN
9780099462217
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.70

Paperback. Tells the tale of a pair of young scholars investigating the lives of two Victorian poets. This book features a trail of letters, journals and poems they uncover a web of passion, deceit and tragedy, and their quest becomes a battle against time. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 372.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780099503927
ISBN
9780099503927
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.14

Paperback. He is a brilliant maths professor with a peculiar problem - ever since a traumatic head injury seventeen years ago, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory. She is a sensitive but astute young housekeeper who is entrusted to take care of him. Each morning, a strange, beautiful relationship blossoms between them. Translator(s): Snyder, Stephen. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 146.
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
Format
Paperback
SKU
9780099521341
ISBN
9780099521341
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.64

Paperback. Describes the lives of a group of Soviet workers who believe they are laying the foundations for a radiant future. Translator(s): Chandler, Robert; Chandler, Elizabeth; Meerson, Olga. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 176.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
9780099529743
ISBN
9780099529743
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.45

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