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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. They murdered his boss, stalked his family and invaded his home. Now they want his life. When jack Hunt is lured from his native Dublin to Chicago's top hospital, the talented young heart specialist sees a new life ahead for his family. The day he's appointed head of the unit, his own dreams are fulfilled. But he's promoted into a nightmare. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 112 x 28. Weight in Grams: 234. They murdered his boss, stalked his family and invaded his home. Now they want his life. When jack Hunt is lured from his native Dublin to Chicago's top hospital, the talented young heart specialist sees a new life ahead for his family. The day he's appointed head of the unit, his own dreams are fulfilled. But he's promoted into a nightmare. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 112 x 28. Weight in Grams: 234. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0001501
- ISBN
- 9780099415190
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. The most arresting Indian novel since Arundhati Roy's 'The God of Small Things'. Num Pages: 400 pages, 20 b/w illus. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 292. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Flamingo
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0001626
- ISBN
- 9780006551874
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. * Writing as exquisite and tactile as this is not to be missed' - DAILY MAIL * A novel about memory and desire and about different kinds of love. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 240. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Virago
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0001635
- ISBN
- 9781860499012
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Things have never been the same in the village since the evacuee arrived and the five boys mistook him for a Nazi spy. There have been a host of visitors: the Americans preparing for D-Day and a deserter hiding out in the woods. But it's the arrival of the Bee King who makes the biggest impression. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 17. Weight in Grams: 182. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- Main
- SKU
- KKD0001636
- ISBN
- 9780571206186
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
paperback. Tells the story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom, set against the background of a land and a people riven by racial injustice. This work talks about love and hope, courage and endurance, born of the dignity of man. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 184. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0001648
- ISBN
- 9780099766810
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 19.99€ 10.95
€ 19.99
€ 10.95
Paperback. 'Mona Simpson is a wonderful writer, very spare and economical but with extraordinary emotional power. Off Keck Road is her best book yet - lucid and beautiful' Kate Atkinson 'Mona Simpson is a wonderful writer, very spare and economical but with extraordinary emotional power. Off Keck Road is her best book yet - lucid and beautiful' Kate Atkinson Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 147. Good clean copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Edition
- Main
- SKU
- KKD0001659
- ISBN
- 9781843540014
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. At the centre of the novel is the crumbling seastack of the Old Man of Hoy and the consuming relationship between a young artist, Kim, coldly passionate, talented, secretive, and Jimmy, a North Sea roughneck, engineer and climber. It deals with the possibility of friendship between men and women. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 21. Weight in Grams: 258. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- Main
- SKU
- KKD0001728
- ISBN
- 9780571212859
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. After finishing their exams, four girls laze away an idyllic Oxford summer afternoon speculating about their future. Years later, they return to their college for a reunion to reminisce on the years in between. Num Pages: 429 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 33. Weight in Grams: 458. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0001786
- ISBN
- 9780552999946
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Hardback. Marcia Williams thought she knew her son. She thought he was safe. She was wrong. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 242 x 27. Weight in Grams: 492. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear. Dustwrapper has some minor edge wear but remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0001825
- ISBN
- 9781447294450
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. "The Dark Room" tells three stories: that of Helmut a young photographer in the 1930s; Lore a 12-year-old girl at the end of the war; and Micha, a young school teacher, half a century later. Between them, the reader traces the legacy of the Nazi period on the lives of ordinary Germans. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 25. Weight in Grams: 284. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Vintage Book Edition
- SKU
- KKD0001833
- ISBN
- 9780099287179
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. It is 1936, the height of summer in New Zealand, and the Hopkins family have rented a house at the beach. Alone during the week while her husband works, Lorna is bored. That is until James, the most handsome man in the area, decides to make an amateur western, involving all the locals. Num Pages: 263 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 190. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0001878
- ISBN
- 9780099283744
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. 1962, Anchor Bend, Oregon. The sea calls to Eleanor. Like the turn of the waves it beckons her from the heart of the town she's always known, from her husband Hob and their young daughter, Agnes, to the unfathomable depths of the ocean. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 26. Weight in Grams: 272. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0001907
- ISBN
- 9780008132941
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. A wonderfully inventive and entertaining journey through time and the history of chocolate! Num Pages: 258 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 132 x 14. Weight in Grams: 194. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0001993
- ISBN
- 9780007107834
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. When Rowena Vincent, Warrior Princess and teenage runaway, flees her Newcastle home to trace her missing dad in Dublin, she sets off armed only with an old photograph. But Rowena has a knack for attracting trouble and, alone in a strange city, her problems begin when Hefty O'Hara appoints himself as her minder. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 132 x 20. Weight in Grams: 210. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0002038
- ISBN
- 9780099410935
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 120 x 17. Weight in Grams: 182. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Poolbeg Press Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0002041
- ISBN
- 9781853714405
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 144 x 15. Weight in Grams: 186. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Poolbeg Press Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- New edition
- SKU
- KKD0002044
- ISBN
- 9781853714047
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. For Joe, the summer of 1977 meant punk rock, fun and violence. Fast forward to 1988 and Joe is on the Trans-Siberian express coming to terms with his best mate's suicide back in 1977. In the present, Joe still has to come to terms with Smiles's death. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 22. Weight in Grams: 252. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0002075
- ISBN
- 9780099283164
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. In a laboratory in the US, researchers race to complete the Cavern, a blank white room that can become a jungle, a painting, or even a cathedral. In a city in the Middle East, an American is held hostage, chained to a radiator in an empty white room. What links two such remote places? Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 24. Weight in Grams: 360. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0002081
- ISBN
- 9780099286721
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. A novel that tells the story of an American company, which starts as a small family soap and candle-making firm in the early 1800s, and of a contemporary woman, living in the company town, who diagnosed and then finally dies of cancer, a cancer that is almost certainly caused by exposure to chemical wastes from the company's factories. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 24. Weight in Grams: 264. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0002082
- ISBN
- 9780099284468
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Janek Janowiec is awaiting trial. In his cramped attic apartment in Krakow, he has decided to set straight the record of his life, and yet he is wracked by the guilt and knowledge of a number of terrible secrets. What happened to his friend, the charismatic revolutionary leader, Fredzio? What exactly did his father do in the war? Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. Weight in Grams: 189. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0002085
- ISBN
- 9780747553083
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95