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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. In 1981 a mother abandoned her child and drove into the night, never to return. Her disappearance was reported in the press as a fatal road accident. Her body was never found. Thirty years later, Rowan has a child of her own. Leaving her young family and life in London, she returns to her childhood home to find a failed utopia shrouded in secrecy. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 125 x 17. Weight in Grams: 198. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0000299
ISBN
9780099565758
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. In The Russian Concubine, Kate Furnivall told the gripping story of an exiled Russian girl finding forbidden love in war-torn China. Now her journey continues .. Series: Russian Concubine. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 15. Weight in Grams: 352. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0000330
ISBN
9780751540451
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. In 1929, 26-year-old Irene Nemirovsky shot to fame in France with the publication of her second novel David Golder. At the time, only the most prescient would have predicted the events that led to her extraordinary final novel Suite Francaise and her death at Auschwitz. Translator(s): Smith, Sandra. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 132. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0000332
ISBN
9780099493969
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Marion's search for the father she never knew takes her to St Ives. Here she learns of a lifeboat tragedy which is intrinsically tied up with her father's life. To find out more, Marion must delve deep into the past where she has to confront the demons which have tortured her own adult life. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 256. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Black Swan
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0000488
ISBN
9780552997201
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 26. Weight in Grams: 298. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0000574
ISBN
9781408843543
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 292. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0000592
ISBN
9781408831670
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. In the isolated coastal townland of Ballintra in the Northwest of Ireland Recent school-leaver, occasional worker, full-time companion and Malibu-provider to Uncle Joe-Joe and his friend, The Blackbird, Psyche is a boy on the cusp of adulthood, undone by a recent traumatic event. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 151 x 35. Weight in Grams: 592. Good clean copy with some shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KAC0000620
ISBN
9780571210749
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Translator(s): Wall, B.; etc. Series: Quartet Encounters S. Num Pages: 417 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 140. Weight in Grams: 516. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
Quartet Books
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0000630
ISBN
9780704300354
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Ben Turnbull is a 66 year-old retired investment consultant living north of Boston in the year 2020. A recent war between the United States and China has thinned the population and brought social chaos. Nevertheless, Ben's life, traced by his journal entries over the course of the year, retains much of its accustomed comforts. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 262. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0000632
ISBN
9780141188966
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Roger Lambert, a professor of Divinity at a New England university is convinced that religious belief can only be justified by recourse to pure faith. But when his wife flings herself into an affair with a younger man, his faith in his own placid life is thrown into question. This novel presents an exploration of religion, uncertainty and passion. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 264. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0000634
ISBN
9780141188430
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. When Henry McAllan moves his city-bred wife, Laura, to a cotton farm in the Mississippi Delta in 1946, she finds herself in a place both foreign and frightening. Henry's love of rural life is not shared by Laura, who struggles to raise their two young children in an isolated shotgun shack under the eye of her hateful, racist father-in-law. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 234. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Cornerstone
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0000683
ISBN
9780099524687
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. The Man Booker longlisted Communion Town reveals the shadows and sinister inhabitants of a city that never appears the same way twice. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 210. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0000700
ISBN
9780007454778
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. It's 1924, and New York is the centre of the universe. Henry Smart, on the run from Dublin, falls on his feet. He is a handsome man with a sandwich board, behind that he stashes hooch for the speakeasies of the Lower East Side. He catches the attention of the mobsters who run the district and soon there are eyes on his back and men in the shadows. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 284. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0000706
ISBN
9780099477655
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. 'A fresh, funny new voice. Ella Griffin can make you laugh and then cry in the turn of a page' MARIAN KEYES Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 133 x 28. Weight in Grams: 274. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0000714
ISBN
9781409120698
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Translator(s): Weaver, William. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200. Weight in Grams: 148. Good clean copy with some slight shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Quartet Books
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0000495
ISBN
9780704302211
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. From the author of the critically acclaimed Human Smoke, a brilliantly funny and deftly constructed new novel Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 19. Weight in Grams: 242. Good clean copy with some slight shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Simon & Schuster UK
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0000529
ISBN
9781847397829
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. A wonderful, warm novel from a major new American voice. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 33. Weight in Grams: 378. Good clean copy with some slight shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0000534
ISBN
9780007374458
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. The setting is Oaxaca, Mexico, where Harry Quinn has come to free his girlfriend's brother, Sonny, from jail and furthermore get him away from the suavely sadistic drug dealer who suspects Sonny of having cheated him. This is a novel of menace and eroticism. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 199 x 14. Weight in Grams: 178.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Condition
New
SKU
9780747584971
ISBN
9780747584971
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 9.99

Paperback. A masterful novel set in 1960s Montana Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 12. Weight in Grams: 124.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Condition
New
SKU
9780747585237
ISBN
9780747585237
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.25

Hardback. Kenhodan has no last name, because he has no past - or not one he remembers, anyway. What he does have are a lot of scars and a lot of skills - some exhilarating and some terrifying - and a purpose. Now, if he only knew where he'd gotten them and what that purpose was? Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 169 x 243 x 42. Weight in Grams: 766.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Baen Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9781476780849
ISBN
9781476780849
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 24.94

Paperback. Follows the adolescent adventures of William Grove, a boy with no father figure (his parents are divorced) who tries to make a man out of himself after he is shipped to a boarding school designed for children who don't fit in. This work presents a tale of adolescence, slightly reminiscent of "Catcher in the Rye". Num Pages: 226 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 148. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Methuen Publishing Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0000762
ISBN
9780413775207
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. In the heady days and nights of twenties New York, the bright young things flutter and dance. But behind the music lurk dark secrets which threaten to destroy lives. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 218. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0000764
ISBN
9780857892058
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Social worker Keith, separated from his wife and their teenage son, is floundering in a world of fraught sexual politics, parental responsibilities and class expectations. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 242. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0000809
ISBN
9780099539742
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. A fascinating tale of obsessive love, hidden motivations and the endless resonance of guilt. Shortlisted for the Orange Prize in 1998. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 17. Weight in Grams: 184. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0000820
ISBN
9780349109114
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Yves Harteloup is a disappointed young man, scarred by the war. He returns for the summer to the rich, comfortable Atlantic resort of Hendaye, where he spent blissful childhood holidays. There he becomes infatuated by a beautiful, bored young woman, Denise, whose rich husband is often away on business. Translator(s): Smith, Sandra. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 11. Weight in Grams: 132. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0000854
ISBN
9780099563846
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. It is 1945. Somewhere in Central Europe, in the aftermath of violence and confusion, a terrified and bloodstained young woman, Eliska, emerges from the forest to take refuge in an apparently abandoned castle. Soon she is joined by others. But the war has changed things for ever. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 22. Weight in Grams: 244. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Black Swan
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0000966
ISBN
9780552778763
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. The appearance of two outsiders on a Mediterranean island - one a castaway and atheist, the other a child suckled by wolves and knowing nothing of God - find themselves the subjects of a bizarre experiment. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 19. Weight in Grams: 208. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Black Swan
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0000967
ISBN
9780552997805
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. One windy spring day in the Chilterns Joe Rose's calm, organized life is shattered by a ballooning accident. The afternoon, Rose reflects, could have ended in mere tragedy, but for his brief meeting with Jed Parry. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 16. Weight in Grams: 186. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0000700
ISBN
9780099481249
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Alfred Day wanted his war. In its turmoil he found his proper purpose as the tail-gunner in a Lancaster bomber; he found the wild, dark fellowship of his crew, and - most extraordinary of all - he found Joyce, a woman to love. But that's all gone - the war took it away. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 208. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0000706
ISBN
9780099494058
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Run by Toby and Paula, the centre offers ordinary people a chance to learn from professional artists skilled in poetry, sculpture, ceramics, and the like. Artists like Greg, the New England poet, whose works are strangely absent; or Bob the lascivious potter who sells his Toby jugs to department stores. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 126 x 18. Weight in Grams: 144. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1984
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0000712
ISBN
9780140064810
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Detached and unwordly paleontologist Howard Beamish is on a journey that is to change his life. Travelling to Nairobi, his plane is forced to land in Marsopolis, the capital of Callimbia, where Cleopatra's sister entertained Antony. Also on the flight is Lucy Faulkner, a journalist with a sketchy knowledge of Callimbia's political turbulence. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 134 x 19. Weight in Grams: 206. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0000730
ISBN
9780140175936
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Frances, happily married for many years, and suddenly plunged into mourning. Her international celebrity husband Steve has died leaving her unprepared and vulnerable. This title illuminates two terrifying taboos of the twentieth-century - death and grief. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 196. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1985
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0000731
ISBN
9780140069969
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Isamay's unusual name comes from her two very different grandmothers, Isa and May, who were both present at her birth and who have both formed and influenced her whole life in very particular ways. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 236. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0000785
ISBN
9780099542094
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. His tautest, most compulsively readable work since American Psycho. A sequel to Less Than Zero, it imagines what became of that book's group of over-privileged, dead-eyed kids as forty-year-olds' Hari Kunzru, Observer Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 162. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Picador
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0000800
ISBN
9780330452618
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 11.99
€ 4.99

Paperback. On the sunlit Greek island of Skios, the Fred Toppler Foundation's annual lecture is to be given by Dr Norman Wilfred, the world-famous authority on the scientific organisation of science. He turns out to be surprisingly young and charming - not at all the intimidating figure they had been expecting. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 127 x 19. Weight in Grams: 226. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0000801
ISBN
9780571281459
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

A turbulent story of childhood, love and meteorological forces. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 133 x 26. Weight in Grams: 340. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Publication date
2002
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
SKU
KAC0001165
ISBN
9780330487498
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

paperback. Inspector Martin Allen's life is a mess, and the last thing he needs on Christmas Eve is a collapsed woman on the street. Ellen Donnelly is a woman on a mission, in Ireland to find her mother and escape her husband, Milton Amery, an unfaithful plastic surgeon. All of their roads lead to Inishowen. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 30. Weight in Grams: 320. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0001253
ISBN
9780099286530
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.40

Paperback. Features a story of tragedy and of the past catching up with a father in modern-day Northern Ireland. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. . Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Publication date
2005
Condition
Used, Very Good
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
SKU
KAC0001258
ISBN
9780747574170
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. To love someone, need you know everything about them? When Alice and Joseph meet, they fall quickly into a tentative but serious relationship. Both are still young and hopeful of each other, but each brings with them an emotional burden. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 234. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0001292
ISBN
9780099461777
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Noel Boyle, newly arrived in Dublin, is a man threatened by his past and petrified by his future. He aches for space and change, another run at things. Instead he runs into Fada, an utterly unreliable clown-like street performer, crazed by his own liberty and poetry. It turns into a dangerous collision for both of them.. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 125 x 195 x 22. Weight in Grams: 232. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0001309
ISBN
9780571221325
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. First, do no harm .. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 154 x 26. Weight in Grams: 464. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Hachette Books Ireland
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0000802
ISBN
9780340977309
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Six months ago, city girl Sophie Mills gave up everything to move to Cornwall. All to be with the man she thinks she loves, and his two daughters who she knows she loves. But adjusting to life as a semi-permanent mother in the countryside isn't quite as easy as Sophie imagined it would be. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 27. Weight in Grams: 284. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Cornerstone
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAK0005765
ISBN
9780099525196
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Utterly beguiling' Joanna Trollope Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 14. Weight in Grams: 140. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Virago
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0000937
ISBN
9781853816000
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. At eighteen, Milly was up for anything. So when a friend asked her to marry him just so that he could stay in England, she didn't hesitate. To make it seem real she dressed up in wedding finery and posed on the steps of the registry office for photographs. Now, ten years later, Milly is a very different person. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 24. Weight in Grams: 264.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Black Swan
Condition
New
SKU
V9780552776738
ISBN
9780552776738
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.57

Paperback. The perfect summer read from a glorious new voice in commercial literary fiction Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 23. Weight in Grams: 240.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Headline Review
Condition
New
SKU
9780755390854
ISBN
9780755390854
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 10.25

Paperback. The owner of the bookshop The Verb To Be, is a red-haired giant imprisoned in an enormous body and his solitude. One wet afternoon, driving a vanload of new and second-hand books, EtienneVollard knocks down and seriously injures a little girl, Eva. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 172. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0001410
ISBN
9780099468691
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. The gift of tongues, prophecy exorcism.. what might such concepts mean in a complacent backwater of North London? For Richard Bowen, adolescence becomes a nightmare when his parents join the charismatic movement and find a devil in his brother. Winner of the Somerset Maugham and Betty Trask Awards. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 110. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0001416
ISBN
9780749396176
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Set in 1956, this is the story of three women: Mrs Covington, her widowed daughter Evelyn, and her grand-daughter eighteen-year-old Julia. She has decided that the girl is to be kept in a state of 'innocence'. But with the arrival of her son Roland, and her eighteen-year-old grandson, James, their fragile paradise is about to be changed forever. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 147 x 17. Weight in Grams: 182. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0001417
ISBN
9780099469612
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. It's the twenty-first century, and everything and everyone is connected. Meet Arjun Mehta, an Indian cybergeek catapulted into California's spiralling hi-tech sector; Leela Zahir, beguiling Bollywood actress filming in the midge-infested Scottish wilds; and Guy Swift, hyped-up marketing exec lost in a blue-sky tomorrow of his own devising. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 5. Weight in Grams: 216. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0001452
ISBN
9780141008295
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. The debut novel from the bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 252. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KAC0001476
ISBN
9780747598244
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Freddy thinks he has committed matricide, and his fantasies - or perhaps realities - become stories which twist back through time to varying landscapes. He searches for a home, only to find it in an unexpected place. When able and allowed to return to the present, he can choose which tale to tell. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 12. Weight in Grams: 141. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Virago
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0001490
ISBN
9781860491306
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. The most important things are hardest to find words for, her father once said. That's why people make music. Against a tangle of childhood memories, scarred histories and hope, Ana finally starts to confront the death of Sam, her Irish luthier father, and with it, questions of guilt and belonging. This is a story about music, love, and loss. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 14. Weight in Grams: 152. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0001578
ISBN
9780099502678
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. A superbly compelling work of betrayals, compassion, secrets and reconciliation. Num Pages: 372 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 189 x 139 x 29. Weight in Grams: 332. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Allen & Unwin
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0001579
ISBN
9781741141467
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. A woman struggles with her past, as she sees her familiar world being swept away by India's brutal modernity. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 125 x 196 x 18. Weight in Grams: 190. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0001589
ISBN
9780857388315
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Bookish boys and taciturn men, strong women and wayward sons, fathers and daughters, lovers and husbands, a composer and his muse, a builder-architect and his legacy - this title presents their stories. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 188. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0001592
ISBN
9780099502586
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Margaret Mayfield is nearly an old maid at twenty-seven when she marries Captain Andrew Jackson Jefferson Early. He's the most famous man their Missouri town has ever produced: a naval officer and an astronomer - a genius who, according to the local paper, has changed the universe. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 154 x 29. Weight in Grams: 472. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
Main
Number of pages
432
SKU
KAC0001634
ISBN
9780571258741
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 12.99
€ 4.99

Paperback. THE PASSION OF NEW EVE is an extraordinary journey into the apocalyptic vision of the author Lorna Sage called 'The boldest of English writers'. Series: Virago Modern Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 13. Weight in Grams: 138. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1982
Publisher
Virago
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0001652
ISBN
9780860683414
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. A journalist and film-maker investigates the disappearance of his father in Africa, who may have been kidnapped by a mountain tribe. Another Justin Cartwright novel, "Leading the Cheers", won the 1998 Whitbread Novel Award. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 176. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0001655
ISBN
9780340767610
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. A stunning new novel from the author of The Promise of Happiness Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 165 x 19. Weight in Grams: 246. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0001657
ISBN
9780747585947
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. An enthralling Victorian novel of mystery, atmosphere and page-turning suspense - more than a mere impersonation of Charlotte Bronte, Clare Boylan is living in her mind, and the result is delicious, beautifully written and quite superlative. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 127 x 31. Weight in Grams: 326. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Abacus
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0001720
ISBN
9780349116723
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. *A classic novel of English adolescence Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 14. Weight in Grams: 152. Good clean copy with some shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1985
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KAC0001721
ISBN
9780349114026
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 181 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 133 x 11. Weight in Grams: 206. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear with minor sunning to spine
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Vintage Books
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0001081
ISBN
9780394756974
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Charles Judd meanders round his local Cornish beach, contemplating the turns his life has taken. His wife Daphne struggles hopelessly with the latest fish recipe, trying to keep something in her life under control. Two of their children are keeping it all together - just. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 240. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0001111
ISBN
9781408807071
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. A wonderful bittersweet story about a misguided do-gooder. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 17. Weight in Grams: 172. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0001118
ISBN
9780349102269
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Olivier is an aristocrat, the traumatized child of survivors of the French Revolution. Parrot the son of an itinerant printer who always wanted to be an artist but has ended up a servant. Born on different sides of history, their lives will be brought together by their travels in America. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 464. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0001170
ISBN
9780571253326
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 13.99
€ 10.59

Paperback. A fascinating tale of obsessive love, hidden motivations and the endless resonance of guilt. Shortlisted for the Orange Prize in 1998. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 17. Weight in Grams: 184. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0001561
ISBN
9780349109114
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

paperback. Once it had been the great forest of Lythe. And here, in the beginning, lived the Fairfaxes, grandly, at Fairfax Manor. But over the centuries the forest had been destroyed, replaced by Streets of Trees. The Fairfaxes have dwindled too; now they live in 'Arden' at the end of Hawthorne Close and are hardly a family at all. Num Pages: 448 pages, 1 illustration. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 30. Weight in Grams: 318. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Black Swan
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0001775
ISBN
9780552996198
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 13.99
€ 10.33

Paperback. There were conjugal visits in the slave camps of the USSR. Valiant women would travel continental distances, over weeks and months, in the hope of spending a night, with their particular enemy of the people, in the House of Meetings. The consequences of these liaisons were almost invariably tragic. This title is about one such liaison. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 13. Weight in Grams: 150. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0001783
ISBN
9780099488682
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. A story about the entangled and conflicted fortunes of two cousins: Erasmus Kemp, the son of a Lancashire merchant, and Matthew Paris, a scholar and surgeon just released from prison for denying Holy Writ. This novel was awarded 1992 Booker prize. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 40. Weight in Grams: 424. Good clean copy with some shelf wear and edgewear to spine
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KAC0001785
ISBN
9780140119930
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. The historians Nick and Sarah Mallinson, take a sabbatical with their three small and lively girls in a remote Languedoc farmhouse. But the farmhouse contains its own histories, far darker and murkier than the Mallinsons are used to dealing with. As the illusion of Eden retreats, the couple begin to feel the vulnerability of being among strangers. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 138 x 30. Weight in Grams: 302. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0001789
ISBN
9780099503651
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. As a child Ludo is plucked out of the shantytown where he was born and transported to a world of languid, cosseted luxury. Now twenty-seven, he works high above the above the sprawling metropolis of Sao Paulo for a vacuous 'communications company'. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 208. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0001808
ISBN
9780099523840
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. ' outwardly the unfilmable script of a would-be English cineste, one Richard Arthur Thornby currently lecturing in Texas on the cinema. He airs a hypothetical movie of both his own American present and his middle-class English families past. . ' John Fowles Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 40. Weight in Grams: 416. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0001809
ISBN
9780749396220
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. From Newfoundland comes a fabulous new voice in a novel where humanity is a bizarre combination of the reptilian and the saintly. Shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller, the Canadian Booker Prize and regional winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 132 x 22. Weight in Grams: 386. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0001874
ISBN
9781844081301
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. * From the author of the magnificent, award-winning GILEAD comes a masterpiece novel that returns to the people and places of Gilead. Winner of the ORANGE PRIZE Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 282. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0001289
ISBN
9781844085507
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.70

Paperback. What if John Milton, Cromwell's secretary, anticipating the King's return to London, had decided to flee England in order to avoid imprisonment or death? What if he had crossed the ocean and joined the Puritans recently settled in New England? From this idea Peter Ackroyd creates an enthralling story of conflict, treachery, hypocrisy and greed. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 135 x 17. Weight in Grams: 206. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0001345
ISBN
9780749386252
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Series: Dover Thrift Editions. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FH; FJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 211 x 6. Weight in Grams: 86.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc.
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780486282015
ISBN
9780486282015
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 5.70

Paperback. Tells the heartbreaking story of a man torn between the warm heart of Mexico and the cold embrace of 1950s America in the shadow of Senator McCarthy. Num Pages: 688 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 134 x 47. Weight in Grams: 536.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Faber & Faber London
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571252671
ISBN
9780571252671
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.63

Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages, 1 port. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 425.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781551113814
ISBN
9781551113814
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 21.32

Paperback. Tells the story of one man's obsession with his dead wife and his soul's struggle between an alluring young dancer - his late wife's double - and the beautiful, melancholy city of Bruges, whose moody atmosphere mirrors his mourning. Translator(s): Mosley, Philip. Num Pages: 90 pages, frontispiece. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 204 x 135 x 8. Weight in Grams: 148.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Scranton Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
90
Condition
New
SKU
V9781589661592
ISBN
9781589661592
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.65

Paperback. lf life is a journey, then Otto Ringling is on the journey of a lifetime. Looking for answers, he calls Volya Rinpoche, a wise man and spiritual leader. A man who accepts the world as it comes to him. Someone who is experiencing his own time of doubt. So, in hopes of finding answers, the two embark on a journey through America. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 209 x 30. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Workman Publishing
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781616205997
ISBN
9781616205997
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 14.19

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