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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. WINNER OF THE GREATEST WELSH NOVEL Translator(s): Mitchell, Philip. Series: Canons. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 199 x 14. Weight in Grams: 154.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Canongate Canons
Condition
New
SKU
9781782116769
ISBN
9781782116769
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.50

Paperback. 'The best Scottish novelist since Sir Walter Scott' ANTHONY BURGESS This cornerstone epic is now available as a beautiful canon with an introduction by William Boyd Series: Canons. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 41. Weight in Grams: 436.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Canongate Canons
Condition
New
SKU
9781782117148
ISBN
9781782117148
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.66

Paperback. 'A deft masterpiece with never a false note' - Guardian Translator(s): Hunt, Jonathan. Series: Canons. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 130 x 34. Weight in Grams: 196.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Canongate Canons
Condition
New
SKU
9781782117155
ISBN
9781782117155
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.50

Paperback. Anarchic, irreverent and razor-sharp, this new collection of Muriel Spark's satires confirms its creator as the mistress of British wit Series: Canons. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 36. Weight in Grams: 310.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Canongate Books
Condition
New
SKU
9781782117674
ISBN
9781782117674
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.47

Paperback. 'Like Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections without the bitterness, mixed with Jeffrey Eugenides's The Virgin Suicides without the eccentricity, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee is a thoroughly enjoyable and engrossing read' - Sunday Telegraph Series: Canons. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 184.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Canongate Canons
Condition
New
SKU
9781782119159
ISBN
9781782119159
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.02

Paperback. The celebrated debut short story collection from the author of Solar Bones, winner of the 2016 Goldsmiths Prize and BGE Irish Book of the Year Series: Canons. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FM; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9781786891396
ISBN
9781786891396
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 10.74

Paperback. Arthur and Jake: brothers, yet worlds apart. Arthur is older, shy, dutiful, and set to inherit his father's farm. Jake is younger and reckless, a dangerous to know. When Laura arrives in their 1930s rural community, an already uneasy relationship is driven to breaking point.. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 292.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
9780099437260
ISBN
9780099437260
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.33

paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
RANDOM HOUSE UK
Condition
New
SKU
9781784751371
ISBN
9781784751371
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.85

Paperback. I didn't realise my mother was a person until I was thirteen years old and she pulled me out of bed, put me in the back of her car, and we left home and my dad with no explanations. I thought that Ma was all that she was and all that she had ever wanted to be. I was wrong.. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 213.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Windmill Books
Condition
New
SKU
9780099510642
ISBN
9780099510642
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.92

Paperback. "A delight" says Nobel-prize winning poet Derek Walcott. Lawrence Scott explores a Caribbean world of yearnings and memory, of escape and return underpinned by the disturbing tensions wrought by religion, race, sexuality and crime. Sensuous and evocative, Scott's prose has a glorious lightness of touch and tone that exhilarates and illuminates. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 137 x 14. Weight in Grams: 244.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Papillote Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780957118782
ISBN
9780957118782
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.61

Paperback. Fall in back in love with life in this gripping read about fate and second chances. The eagerly awaited new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 292.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847562791
ISBN
9781847562791
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.87

Paperback. Another warm, wise and witty offering from Sunday Times bestseller Trisha Ashley. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 33. Weight in Grams: 358. 400 pages. Another warm, wise and witty offering from Sunday Times bestseller Trisha Ashley. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 33. Weight: 356.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847562814
ISBN
9781847562814
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.10

Paperback. * A major paperback from one of our great writers:following the first of her speculative fiction, ORYX AND CRAKE Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 169 x 33. Weight in Grams: 416.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Virago Press Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780349004075
ISBN
9780349004075
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.29

Paperback. A sequel to "Virgin in the Garden" and "Still Life". A cast of characters play out their personal dramas amid the clashing politics, passionate ideals and stirring languages of the early-1960s. Their crises mirror some of the major world events of the age in which they live. Num Pages: 624 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 33. Weight in Grams: 462. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0000111
ISBN
9780099839408
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Jacques Rebiere and Thomas Midwinter, both sixteen when this story starts in 1876, come from different countries and contrasting families. They are united by an ambition to understand how the mind works and whether madness is the price we pay for being human. This work explores the question of what kind of beings men and women really are. Num Pages: 800 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 46. Weight in Grams: 580. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
01st Edition
SKU
KKD0000118
ISBN
9780099458265
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.70

Paperback. The day Benny Catchprice was fired from the spare-parts department of Catchprice Motors by his aunt Cathy, was also the day that tax inspector Maria Takis arrived to begin her overdue audit of the family business. From the author of "Oscar and Lucinda" which won the 1988 Booker Prize. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 19. Weight in Grams: 261. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0000182
ISBN
9780571166329
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 10.99
€ 9.70

Paperback. Winner of the National Book Award and a New York Times bestseller Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 137 x 21. Weight in Grams: 256.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Condition
New
SKU
9781408801185
ISBN
9781408801185
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 10.90

Paperback. 'There isn't anyone remotely like him in contemporary American literature' New York Times Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 19. Weight in Grams: 198.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Picador
Condition
New
SKU
9780330511254
ISBN
9780330511254
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 10.45

Paperback. When a teenage girl goes missing her mother discovers she doesn't know her daughter as well as she thought. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 30. Weight in Grams: 388. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KTG0007074
ISBN
9781405915298
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. THE IT GIRL is the first in a sassy, sophisticated, completely addictive new series starring Jenny Humphrey from the hit series GOSSIP GIRL Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 240. Clean copy with some reader wear.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Edition
Reprint
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KTM0001040
ISBN
9780755339976
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Hardcover. Two men meet for a pint in a Dublin pub. They chew the fat, set the world to rights, take the piss. They talk about their wives, their kids, their kids' pets, their football teams and - this being Ireland in 2011-12 - about the euro, the crash, the presidential election, the Queen's visit. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 192 x 131 x 12. Weight in Grams: 176.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Jonathan Cape
Condition
New
SKU
9780224097819
ISBN
9780224097819
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.07

Paperback. In seventeenth-century France, against a backdrop of witch trials, regicide and religious frenzy, Juliette, one-time actress and rope-dancer, seeks refuge with her young daughter in the remote abbey of Saint Marie-de-la-Mer, and reinvents herself as Soeur Auguste. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 25. Weight in Grams: 290. Good copy with some shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Transworld Pub
Condition
Used, Good
Edition
paperback / softback
SKU
KRA0012064
ISBN
9780552770019
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. One day, sitting in traffic, married Dublin mum Stella Sweeney attempts a good deed. The resulting car crash changes her life. For she meets a man who wants her telephone number. But in this meeting is born the seed of something which will take Stella thousands of miles from her old life, turning an ordinary woman into a superstar. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 47. Weight in Grams: 388.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780141043104
ISBN
9780141043104
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 10.45

Paperback. Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her ward in an Oregon State mental hospital with a strict and unbending routine, unopposed by her patients, who remain cowed by mind-numbing medication and the threat of electroshock therapy. But her regime is disrupted by the arrival of McMurphy - who resolves to oppose her rules on behalf of his fellow inmates. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 19. Weight in Grams: 238.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780141187884
ISBN
9780141187884
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.45

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