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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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. 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. 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

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
€ 20.44

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

€ 8.99
€ 8.83

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