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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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

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. A novel from the author of "Child of My Heart". Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 160. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0001213
ISBN
9780747568247
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. 'Beautifully written .. a marvellous read, one of my ten best of the year' Brian Case, Time Out Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FJMS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 306. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Picador
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0001231
ISBN
9780330350464
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

€ 4.99

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. 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

€ 15.99
€ 11.81

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. Num Pages: 187 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 113 x 11. Weight in Grams: 122. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Hachette
Condition
Used, Very Good
Format
Paperback
SKU
KAC0001380
ISBN
9782253003106
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

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. The dazzling new novel by the author of the international bestseller, WHAT I LOVED, about the secrets and ghosts that haunt families from one generation to the next Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 228. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0001440
ISBN
9780340897089
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. Stepping out into the dusk of an warm evening, esteemed art critic Sukhanov feels on top of the world. But the year is 1985 and the air is heavy with change. His future is haunted by doubt. Beset by visions of a past he gave up, he questions his choices: in swapping a life as a brilliant underground artist for comfort did he betray his dreams? Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 336. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0001560
ISBN
9780141024400
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

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