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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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
€ 4.99
Paperback. A story about loss and hope set in London. It takes us to the anti-war movement and two generations of activists, where, amid rioting and arrests, the destinies of Eddie and his sister Esther have been shaped. Num Pages: 282 pages. BIC Classification: F; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 142 x 18. Weight in Grams: 278. Good clean copy with some slight shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- John Hunt Publishing
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KJE0000454
- ISBN
- 9781780993676
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 13.99
€ 10.25
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
€ 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
€ 4.99
Paperback. John Wilder is a successful salesman with a place in the country, an adoring wife and a ten-year-old son. But something is wrong. His family no longer interests him, his infidelities are leading him nowhere and he has begun to drink too much. Then one night, something inside John snaps and he calls his wife to tell her that he isn't coming home. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 198. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAC0000765
- ISBN
- 9780099518556
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 4.99
Paperback. The electrifying WWII bestseller from the master of the game. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 113 x 30. Weight in Grams: 260. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAC0000884
- ISBN
- 9780007223725
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 4.99
Paperback. A title that began as a vision the author had of five travellers riding with mysterious purpose through remote countryside. This image gives way to another - a hanging corpse with violets stuffed in its mouth - which leads us into a maze of beguiling paths and wrong turnings, disappearances and revelations. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 29. Weight in Grams: 322. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KJE0000786
- ISBN
- 9780099480419
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 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€ 4.82
€ 11.99
€ 4.82
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
€ 4.99