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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
hardcover. Describes how in 1949, as a young reporter, the author witnessed the opening of several tombs as an old convent made way for a new hotel. One of the tombs contained a skeleton of a young girl with reddish hair that measured 22 metres, 11 centimetres long. This novel talks about her legend as a popular saint. Num Pages: 5 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 145. Weight in Grams: 379. Good clean copy, showing light age and shelfwear. Light wear to dust jacket
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape London
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMO0000898
- ISBN
- 9780224040259
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
hardcover. The unforgettable and achingly tender new novel from Sarah Winman, author of the international bestseller WHEN GOD WAS A RABBIT and the Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller A YEAR OF MARVELLOUS WAYS. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 138. . Good clean copy, showing light age and shelfwear
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Tinder Press London
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMO0000905
- ISBN
- 9780755390953
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
hardcover. A cast of striking characters play out their personal dramas amid the clashing politics, passionate ideals and stirring languages of the early 1960s. Their crises mirror those of the vivid and disturbing age in which they live. A sequel to "Virgin in the Garden" and "Still Life". Num Pages: 624 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 162 x 55. Weight in Grams: 1036. Good clean copy, showing light age and shelfwear. Light wear to dust jacket
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus London
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMO0000995
- ISBN
- 9780701137182
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
paperback. It is October 1914: the destroyer Svea emerged from the Stockholm archipelago bearing south-south-east. On board was Lars Tobiasson-Svartman, a naval engineer charged with making depth soundings to find a navigable channel for the Swedish navy. As a child Tobiasson-Svartman was fascinated by measurement; nothing is as magical as exact knowledge. Translator(s): Thompson, Laurie. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 134 x 33. Weight in Grams: 370. Good clean copy showing light age and wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Vintage London
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KMO0001014
- ISBN
- 9780099542193
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 5.15
€ 5.15
hardcover. Margie Krebsbach dreams up the idea of a trip to Rome, hoping to get her husband Carl to make love to her - he's been sleeping across the hall and she has no idea why. She finds a patriotic purpose for the journey. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 163 x 28. Weight in Grams: 520. Good clean copy, with light nicks and tears to dust jacket
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber London
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMO0001059
- ISBN
- 9780571252404
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
hardcover. In the morning, they gave Reacher a medal. And in the afternoon, they sent him back to school. It's just a voice plucked from the air: 'The American wants a hundred million dollars'. For what? Who from? Series: Jack Reacher. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF; FH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 284 x 37. Weight in Grams: 658. Ownership details to title page. Good clean copy with light wear to dust jacket
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Bantam Press London
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMO0001132
- ISBN
- 9780593073902
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
hardcover. A novel about childhood damage and the redemptive power of art from an author twice listed for the Women's Prize and the Giller Prize Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 241 x 38. Weight in Grams: 658. Good clean copy with light wear to dust jacket
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- riverrun London
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMO0001138
- ISBN
- 9781849163354
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 420. Good clean copy showing light age and shelfwear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton Ltd London
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMO0001244
- ISBN
- 9781444792034
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 25. Weight in Grams: 262. Signed by the author. Good clean copy showing light age and shelfwear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Hachette Books Ireland
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMO0001305
- ISBN
- 9780755375141
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
paperback. America, 1959. With two young children she adores, loving parents back in London, and an admired husband, Charlie, working at the British embassy in Washington, the world seems an effervescent place of parties, jazz and family happiness to Mary van der Linden. But the Eisenhower years are ending.. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 248. Good clean copy showing light age and shelfwear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMO0001449
- ISBN
- 9780099275831
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
hardcover. For the last twenty years Sir James Monmouth has been a gentleman adventurer, journeying all over the globe in the footsteps of his hero, the great pioneering traveller Conrad Vane. One rainy winter night, Sir James returns to London. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 137 x 26. Weight in Grams: 356. Good clean copy with light nicks and tears to dust jacket
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMO0001460
- ISBN
- 9780701187866
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
hardcover. The dazzling new novel, evoking the strange and thrilling world of the Victorian carnival, from the Man Booker-shortlisted author of Jamrach's Menagerie Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 222 x 36. Weight in Grams: 518. Lacking dust jacket. Good clean copy showing light age and shelfwear
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMO0001500
- ISBN
- 9781782116547
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
paperback. The year is 1972, the Cold War is far from over and Serena Frome, in her final year at Cambridge, is being groomed for MI5. Sent on Operation Sweet Tooth - a highly secret undercover mission - she meets Tom Haley, a young writer. First she loves his stories, then she begins to love the man. Can she maintain the fiction of her undercover life? Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 35. Weight in Grams: 358. Good clean copy showing light age and shelfwear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMO0001585
- ISBN
- 9780099578789
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
paperback. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FRD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 107. Weight in Grams: 270. Good clean copy showing light age and shelfwear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Mills & Boon
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMO0001589
- ISBN
- 9780263931693
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
paperback. Delivering stories that span generations, and offering warmth, wisdom and love on every page - if you treasured Maeve Binchy, read Patricia Scanlan Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 235 x 39. Weight in Grams: 662. Signed by the author. Good clean copy showing light age and shelfwear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMO0001594
- ISBN
- 9781471151132
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
paperback. The first adult novel by J.K. Rowling Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 197 x 37. Weight in Grams: 396. Good clean copy showing light age and shelfwear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Sphere
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMO0001602
- ISBN
- 9780751552867
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
paperback. For Arthur Rowe, the charity fete was a trip back to childhood, to innocence, a welcome chance to escape the terror of the Blitz, to forget twenty years of his past and a murder. Then he guesses the weight of the cake, and from that moment on he's a hunted man, the target of shadowy killers. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 15. Weight in Grams: 164.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099286189
- ISBN
- 9780099286189
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 10.45
€ 12.99
€ 10.45
paperback. Born in a small Sicilian village and orphaned at age nine, Modesta spends her childhood in a convent raised by nuns. Through sheer cunning, she manages to escape, and eventually becomes a princess. Sensual, proud, and determined, Modesta wants to discover the infinite richness of life. Translator(s): Appel, Anne Milano. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 704 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141198477
- ISBN
- 9780141198477
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.53
€ 15.99
€ 12.53
paperback. Sir Robert Rannaldini had two ambitions: to seduce his stepdaughter Tabitha Campbell-Black, and to put his mark on musical history by making the film of Verdi's opera, Don Carlos. As the crew gather at Rannaldini's haunted abbey for filming, it is inevitable that violent feuds, temperamental screaming, and devious plotting will ensue. Num Pages: 800 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 156 x 44. Weight in Grams: 532.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Corgi
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780552156363
- ISBN
- 9780552156363
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.91
€ 17.99
€ 13.91
hardcover. This selection of stories by Katherine Mansfield has been chosen by Claire Tomalin and emphasize the stronger, feminist side of her writing rather than the popular, more sentimental view. The 21 stories are presented in chronological order and include "Prelude", "The Garden Party" and "At the Bay". Num Pages: 268 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABU; FA; FYB; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 210 x 25. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781857150483
- ISBN
- 9781857150483
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.14
€ 13.99
€ 11.14