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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Fed up with stultifying criticism, Phineas decides to study the messiness of 'real life'. Doing nothing by halves, he sets out to write a biography of a great biographer. But a 'whole life' is hard to find. How do we put the idea of a person together? Everywhere he looks, he finds fragments and gaps. Trails run cold and mysteries are unresolved. Num Pages: 272 pages, portraits. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 18. Weight in Grams: 200. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0001474
ISBN
9780099283935
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Paperback. From the author of "Bilton", this is a funny, macabre thriller about jealousy, drugs, media-friendly Yorkshiremen, salmon fishing, modernist chair design and gruesome death (both accidental and premeditated), all set against a backdrop of beautiful Georgian architecture and the English countryside. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 14. Weight in Grams: 160. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0002089
ISBN
9780571212293
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. When Roz Rosenzweig, self-described spitfire and loud n' proud New York Jew, meets Edwin Anderson at a party in the 1970s in her friend's Manhatten apartment, she has trouble believing that the earnest Nebraskan is for real. But Roz is quickly attracted to Edwin and is more happy than stunned when their improbable courtship results in marriage. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 320. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0002118
ISBN
9780099422723
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. David Foster Wallace's fiercely original, bracingly funny first novel, reissued to coincide with his new short story collection. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 31. Weight in Grams: 326. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0002125
ISBN
9780349109237
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

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