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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 6.24
€ 6.24
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€ 10.71
€ 13.99
€ 10.71
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
€ 26.99€ 20.51
€ 26.99
€ 20.51
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
€ 10.78
€ 10.78
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€ 14.21
€ 18.99
€ 14.21
Paperback. 'Written in Johnston's usual haunting prose.. no word is unnecessary' Maeve Binchy, Sunday Times Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 15. Weight in Grams: 158. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Headline Publishing Group
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KJE0001488
- ISBN
- 9780747259336
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Comedy of sexual manners that follows the interlocking affairs of four men: Robin Woodfield, Justin, Danny and Alex. As each falls under the spell of romance or drugs, country living or rough trade, a richly ironic picture emerges of the clashing imperatives of gay life, the hunger for contact, the fear of commitment, and the need for permanence. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 5SG; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 18. Weight in Grams: 200. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KJE0001567
- ISBN
- 9780099276944
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Los textos que se reunen en este libro nos invitan a vivir nuestros suenos, aceptar la incertidumbre, alzarnos ante nuestro propio destino y seguir el camino del guerrero, el camino de aquel que sabe valorar el milagro de la vida, aceptar las derrotas sin dejarse abatir por ellas y cuya busqueda lo lleva a convertirse en quien quiere ser. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 203 x 137. Weight in Grams: 181.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Espanol US
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780060565718
- ISBN
- 9780060565718
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.92
€ 17.99
€ 14.92
Paperback.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Inc
- Edition
- Original
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- Format
- Paperback
- SKU
- V9780062068620
- ISBN
- 9780062068620
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.26
€ 10.26
Paperback. Num Pages: 282 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 203 x 18. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Random House USA Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780307277824
- ISBN
- 9780307277824
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 19.97
€ 24.99
€ 19.97