Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Hardback. Thomas knows there is something he needs to say to his mother before she dies. But will he reach her in time? And will he have the courage to say what he couldn't say before? His phone is buzzing, his mind is racing, and he can't concentrate on the significance of what is happening. Should he try to solve his friend's family crisis? Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 162 x 32. Weight in Grams: 605. Clean copy with minor shelf wear fine in dustjacket
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KJE0001669
- ISBN
- 9781911215707
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Hugh Bawn, modern Scottish hero and legendary social reformer, lies dying in one of the high-rise tower blocks he helped establish. His grandson Jamie comes home to watch over him, and it is Jamie who tells the story of their family, of three generations of pride and delusion, of Catholic faith and the end of the old left. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 128 x 19. Weight in Grams: 198. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAC0001955
- ISBN
- 9780571201068
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Translator(s): Costas, Ana Belen. Num Pages: 250 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 195.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Rayo United States
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780061632730
- ISBN
- 9780061632730
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 14.98
€ 16.99
€ 14.98
Paperback. Selected as a Richard & Judy Summer Read for 2009. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 25. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Picador
- Edition
- Reprints
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780330460668
- ISBN
- 9780330460668
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.87
€ 13.99
€ 10.87
Paperback. Discover one of the most authentic, moving and gripping portrayals of British soldiers ever written. This classic novel of the First World War appears in a new edition for the centenary of the conflict. Num Pages: 520 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 33. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780751557121
- ISBN
- 9780751557121
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 8.70
€ 12.99
€ 8.70
Paperback. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In a small East Anglian town, Florence Green decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 130. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Fourth Estate
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAC0002160
- ISBN
- 9780006543541
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. In 1960s Italy, a dying artist - a recluse, and an enigma to strangers and loved ones alike - begins his last painting. In Cumbria thirty years later, a landscape artist - and admirer of the Italian painter - finds himself trapped in the extreme terrain that has made him famous. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 20. Weight in Grams: 248. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAC0002167
- ISBN
- 9780571224906
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. The new novel from Pulitzer Prize-winner Geraldine Brooks, author of the Richard and Judy bestseller 'March', Sunday Times bestseller 'Year of Wonders' and 'People of the Book'. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 197 x 27. Weight in Grams: 308. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAC0002213
- ISBN
- 9780007333547
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. When Delaney Mossbacher knocks down a Mexican pedestrian, he neither reports the accident nor takes his victim to hospital. Instead the man accepts $20 and limps back to poverty and his pregnant 17-year-old wife. But these two men are fated against each other, as Delaney attempts to clear the land of the illegal immigrants. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 127 x 24. Weight in Grams: 258. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Format
- Paperback
- SKU
- KAC0002223
- ISBN
- 9780747525721
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Kenneth Trachtenberg, has left his native Paris to be near his beloved uncle Benn Crader, who lives from affair to affair and from "bliss to breakdown". As Kenneth grapples with his own problems, the two men try to figure out why gifted and intelligent people invariably find themselves "knee-deep in the garbage of a personal life". Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 264. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAC0002225
- ISBN
- 9780141188799
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. At one level an escapist fantasy, at another a parable about the liberation of the spirit, this delicious confection will work its magic on all.' 'The Daily Telegraph Series: VMC. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 19. Weight in Grams: 200. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Virago
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAC0002237
- ISBN
- 9780860685173
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Anna is on her way home from work on a cold winter's day when she sees a crowd queuing at a kiosk. Though a queue is not an unusual sight in a Russian city, this appears different. There's a rumour that famous exiled composer Selinksy is returning to conduct his last symphony for one night only - and this kiosk is selling tickets. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 236. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAC0002239
- ISBN
- 9780141044828
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. In an original collaboration two award-winning authors, Carol Shields and Blanche Howard, have written an immensely enjoyable novel which give us both sides of a story about the breakdown of traditional roles, rules and communication in a marriage. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 178. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Fourth Estate
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAC0002261
- ISBN
- 9781857028126
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In a small East Anglian town, Florence Green decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 130. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Fourth Estate
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAC0002268
- ISBN
- 9780006543541
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. One of the most important writers in English today' GERMAINE GREER An exceptional novel from the winner of the 2000 Booker Prize Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 258. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1982
- Publisher
- Virago Press Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAC0002284
- ISBN
- 9780860683032
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardcover. A masterly work from one of our greatest writers. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 163 x 32. Weight in Grams: 614. Clean copy in fine dustwrapper with minor shelf wear and some edgewear to DW
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Picador
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAC0002302
- ISBN
- 9780330535830
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Series: Amos Decker. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; FA; FF; FH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781447277446
- ISBN
- 9781447277446
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.27
€ 13.99
€ 10.27
Paperback. A post as special correspondent for a new and fragile Baltic state gives the young but melancholy Lushington an opportunity to turn his back on an unhappy love affair. While gathering information at the many parties he attends, he hopes to report on unrest, an assassination, perhaps even a revolution. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 199 x 17. Weight in Grams: 154. Good clean copy with some shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Cornerstone
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KAC0002362
- ISBN
- 9781784750619
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 13.99€ 10.67
€ 13.99
€ 10.67
Paperback. The nation is stunned silent when presidential hopeful James Kilcannon is shot dead point blank, while sharing the stage at a benefit concert with his rock star girlfriend Stacy Tarrant. Fiercely independent attorney Tony Lord defends the assassin in a sensational trial that erupts into the media event of the decade. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 111 x 36. Weight in Grams: 372. Good clean copy with some shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAC0002438
- ISBN
- 9780099374015
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback.
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster United States
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reissue
- Format
- Paperback
- SKU
- V9780671670061
- ISBN
- 9780671670061
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.38
€ 11.38
Paperback. The Adventures of Rivella is especially valuable for the light it throws on a woman authors relations with publishers and other writers, both male and female. Bruce Stovel, University of Alberta Num Pages: 178 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Broadview Press Ltd
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781551111216
- ISBN
- 9781551111216
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.24
€ 38.24
Paperback. Arthur Morgan is aboard the Queen Mary bound for the United States, where a scholarship at an Ivy League university awaits him, along with the promise of a glittering future. But the few days spent on the ship will have a defining effect on the young Frenchman, when he encounters the love of his life. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 2. Weight in Grams: 204.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Gallic Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781910477281
- ISBN
- 9781910477281
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.51
€ 11.99
€ 10.51
Hardback. This, "the greatest novel written by a nine-year-old, " had been in print in Britain since the '20s, but had been out of print in the U.S. for 35 years. It has two hilarious themes: love and social climbing. Illustrator(s): Anderson-Miller, Julia. Num Pages: 105 pages, 10 illus. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 191 x 127 x 19. Weight in Grams: 191. Clean copy with some shelf wear fine in dustjacket
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Academy Chicago Publishers
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KJE0001911
- ISBN
- 9780897333658
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 18.99€ 16.26
€ 18.99
€ 16.26
Paperback. Susannah and Rob were childhood sweethearts. But as with most early love affairs, they broke up, moved on and now find themselves in very different places. And not entirely happy - who is? A chance meeting between them sends shockwaves through their lives. What happens when your first love makes a surprise reappearance? Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 145 x 197 x 30. Weight in Grams: 330. Good clean copy. Covers showing minor shelfwear, remains in good condition
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0009233
- ISBN
- 9780141043111
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99