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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. KEEPING FAITH is a riveting novel about a family plagued by the media, the medical profession, and organized religion in a world where everyone has an opinion but no one knows the truth - what do you do when your daughter says she's talking to God? Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 201 x 30. Weight in Grams: 392. Good, clean copy. Covers and page edges showing minor shelfwear, remains a nice copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0008196
ISBN
9781444754575
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. It's the book beaches were made for. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 40. Weight in Grams: 436. Good clean copy. Showing minor shelfwear, remains a nice copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0010073
ISBN
9780007228904
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

paperback. Presents a story of a young man returning from London to work near to the school at which his father had been history master. This book reflects a close understanding of man's everyday experience with a delicate awareness of the spiritual. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 38. Weight in Grams: 470.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Penguin Classic
Condition
New
SKU
9780141183992
ISBN
9780141183992
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 15.32

paperback. Having spent some time in Rome, Antonio returns to his native town with the reputation of being a playboy and with a long list of amorous adventures behind him. To please his father, Antonio agrees to marry the beautiful Barbara. A year after their marriage however - scandal erupts. Barbara is still a virgin. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 131 x 22. Weight in Grams: 226.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Penguin Classic
Condition
New
SKU
9780141189062
ISBN
9780141189062
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.29

paperback. On a train journey from Paris to Madrid a young opera singer becomes fascinated by those in his compartment: a middle-aged businessman, his alluring wife and their male travelling companion. Soon his life of constant travel, luxury hotels, rehearsal and performance will become entangled with these three people. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 197 x 9. Weight in Grams: 112.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780141389257
ISBN
9780141389257
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.29

paperback. In the small university town of Salterton, Ontario, dreams are quietly taking shape, or falling apart. There's the Salterton Little Theatre Company, in which professional director Valentine Rich is tormented by the amateurish efforts of his actors. Num Pages: 816 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 37. Weight in Grams: 550.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Penguin Books
Condition
New
SKU
9780241952634
ISBN
9780241952634
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.36

paperback. McCarthy is a master stylist, perhaps without equal in American letters' Village Voice Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 13. Weight in Grams: 144.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Varios
Condition
New
SKU
9780330510950
ISBN
9780330510950
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 10.38

paperback. Into the cut-throat world of Corinium television comes Declan O'Hara, a mega-star of glamour with a radiant feckless wife, a handsome son and two teenage daughters. Declan needs only a few days at Corinium to realise that the Managing Director, Lord Baddingham, is a crook who has recruited him merely to help retain the franchise for Corinium. Num Pages: 720 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 32. Weight in Grams: 508.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Corgi
Condition
New
SKU
9780552156370
ISBN
9780552156370
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.45

paperback. South of No North is a collection of short stories written by Charles Bukowski that explore loneliness and struggles on the fringes of society. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 17. Weight in Grams: 206.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Ecco
Condition
New
SKU
9780876851890
ISBN
9780876851890
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 9.35

paperback. Clean copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Edition
New Ed
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KEX0237743
ISBN
9780751538458
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 21 x 154 x 235. Weight in Grams: 382. Used paperback, in good condition. Some shelf wear.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Hachette Books Ireland
Condition
Used, Good
Publication date
2007
SKU
KIN0007833
ISBN
9780340924471
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Jemima Jones is overweight. About seven stone overweight. Treated like a slave by her thin and bitchy flatmates, lorded over at the Kilburn Herald by the beautiful Geraldine (less talented, but better paid), her only consolation is food. What with that and her passion for her charming, sexy colleague Ben, she knows her life needs changing. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 126 x 32. Weight in Grams: 324. Good copy with some shelf wear.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Edition
First Edition
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KTG0003226
ISBN
9780140276909
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. A collection of twenty stories that are both melancholy and funny, farce and fantasy. It charts the struggles of an Italian peasant to reconcile country habits with urban life, combining comical disasters with a surrealistic view of city life through the eyes of an outsider. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 114.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Vintage Digital
Condition
New
SKU
9780099428541
ISBN
9780099428541
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 10.25

Paperback. Haunting and gracefully written tale of love, loss and betrayal. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 141 x 20. Weight in Grams: 212. Good clean copy with some reader wear.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Edition
Reprint
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KTM0005679
ISBN
9780349110851
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. The much-anticipated first novel from the Guardian First Book Award-winning Chinese writer. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 254. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0000381
ISBN
9780007196654
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Chosen by Le Monde and by readers of Elle as their Novel of the Year - a beautiful, resonant novel set on Normandy's coastline. Translator(s): Anderson, Alison. Num Pages: 416 pages, map. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 197 x 26. Weight in Grams: 264. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
MACLEHOSE PRESS
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0000382
ISBN
9781906694715
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback / so. Harrison's latest highly acclaimed volume of novellas is a sparkling and exuberant collection about love, the senses, and family, no matter how untraditional. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 356. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press United States
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0000430
ISBN
9780802142559
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 10.99
€ 4.99

Paperback. In 1948, when he is fifteen, Trond spends a summer in the country with his father. The events - the accidental death of a child, his best friend's feelings of guilt and eventual disappearance, his father's decision to leave the family for another woman - will change his life forever. Translator(s): Born, Anne. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 17. Weight in Grams: 194. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0000468
ISBN
9780099506133
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

paperback. A beautiful story of an American couple and their adopted son, and how a very innocent knowledge and fascination of 'things that glow' leads to a loss of faith and their lives being ripped apart. Num Pages: 400 pages, Step back cover. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 139 x 30. Weight in Grams: 365.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Simon & Schuster United States
Edition
Simon & Schuster Pbk ed.
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780743258098
ISBN
9780743258098
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 17.67

Paperback. It's the end of an intensely hot summer in Vancouver, and Razor's complex and misunderstood best friend Chris has just driven a stolen police car through a road block and over a cliff to his death. Fireball takes us back to the start of that relentless summer, and unravels the events leading to Chris's death. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 136 x 19. Weight in Grams: 288.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Parthian Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906998103
ISBN
9781906998103
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.72

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