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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. The rules of engagement.. When Cristiano Marchetti proposes to former mistress Alice Piper, the deal has an expiry date. He has six months to fulfil the conditions of his grandmother's will. But the hotelier has another agenda..exacting revenge on Alice for daring to walk away seven years before! Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FRD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 108 x 170 x 14. Weight in Grams: 100. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Mills & Boon
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSS0000690
ISBN
9780263924060
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. A story full of myth, mystery and great imaginative power about a young woman who, searching for her lost baby son like Mother Courage, appears in different guises across different centuries and cultures. She is the eternal refugee but ultimately, the survivor. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 134 x 28. Weight in Grams: 346. Fine copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KSS0000912
ISBN
9780099284659
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Gaby Harvey's uncle is a media baron who is keen on setting up a privatized media faculty at the university where she works as a researcher. His choice of professor is Piers Gaveston, a narcissistic type whom Gaby finds both repulsive and attractive. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 134 x 30. Weight in Grams: 450. Fine copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KSS0000950
ISBN
9780571210558
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 278 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200. Weight in Grams: 211. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Attic Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSS0000982
ISBN
9781855941809
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Centres on an adulterous affair between Saffie, a silent young German woman, who is first maid and then wife to a famous flautist, and Andras, a Jewish flute-mender. The story unfolds in Paris at the height of the Algerian war in the 1950s. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 132 x 20. Weight in Grams: 208. Fine copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KSS0001051
ISBN
9780099283645
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. The Geordie couple George and Nellie Creedy can read minds. Unfortunatly after using this power to win some big money, George finds himself in trouble with the local heavies. Meanwhile, in London, a rock star called Lucious is causing a stir getting up to some unlawful activites. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 135 x 20. Weight in Grams: 224. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Blake Publishing
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSS0001102
ISBN
9781903402924
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. A blackly-comic novel about the price of celebrity. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 15. Weight in Grams: 186. Fine copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KSS0001134
ISBN
9780747557357
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. The seductive new novel from Nicholas Blincoe, set amid the glamour and grime of the fashion world Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 175 x 111 x 17. Weight in Grams: 149. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Sceptre
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSS0001354
ISBN
9780340750476
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Catrine Evans, a young American, is sent to an English boarding school after her mother dies of cancer. Thrust into an unfriendly world and ridiculed for her accent, Catrine lays bare her thoughts in a luminous stream-of-consciousness narrative. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 23. Weight in Grams: 226. Clean copy with some slight markings to the page edges, otherwise a clean copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KSS0001485
ISBN
9780571206711
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Problem: Best friends keep giving extremely generous gifts Solution: Give better ones in return Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 220. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSS0001491
ISBN
9780007140787
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Kate Thomas was beautiful, intelligent, witty, passionate and sexy. Now, at 99, she is trapped in a hospital ward of sad, mad and bad old women. She escapes by playing to herself the video of her life. What a life it has been. Her six marriages have ended in suicide. But, Kate's journey through the twentieth century is also a search for the truth. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 199 x 25. Weight in Grams: 294. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Arrow
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSS0001508
ISBN
9780099414650
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

paperback. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 111 x 28. Weight in Grams: 250. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1900
Publisher
Hachette Books Ireland
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSS0001549
ISBN
9780340837764
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Meet Fred Kaufmann, disillusioned husband of competent Claudia and father of surly teenager Franka. He is trapped in the throes of a midlife crisis, made worse when a young guru and Franka find each other irresistible. This work takes you along with Fred as he embarks on a journey of self discovery that only a special kind of hero can survive. Translator(s): Brownjohn, John. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 131 x 18. Weight in Grams: 212. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSS0001551
ISBN
9780747557814
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Contains diverse writing from the Spanish-speaking world. This book explores stylistic contrasts and gives an insight into the cultural and social milieu of the Spanish-speaking world. It includes notes on unusual Spanish words and phrases and is suitable for English students of the language as well as Spanish-speaking students of English. Editor(s): Lawaetz, Gudie. Num Pages: 208 pages, notes. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 158. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1972
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSS0001703
ISBN
9780140033786
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. The four novellas that make up this book share a common theme: deception and self-deception, practised on or by the protagonists. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 135 x 17. Weight in Grams: 225. Clean copy with some shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KSS0001768
ISBN
9780099273745
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Presents a funny, bittersweet tale of love in the south of England. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 156. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSS0001826
ISBN
9780747557708
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

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 with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
Main
SKU
KSS0001827
ISBN
9781843540014
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. Catalina is the one person unable to join in the festivities of the Feast of the Assumption. But then she has a vision of the Virgin, and is miraculously cured. In the dark days of the Spanish Inquisition, such a claim to blessedness has serious consequences, especially when she seems more inclined to obey her heart than the demands of the Church. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 182. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSS0001975
ISBN
9780099286844
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Orphaned at a cruelly young age by the death of both parents, diminutive Hugo Dinsmore goes to live with brutish country relatives. It is there that he is drawn into the entourage of the Eggman, a local gangster, before breaking free in his own spectacular but hazardous fashion. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 378. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSS0002056
ISBN
9780099422259
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. Rosa Fiore is a solitary woman who has resigned herself to a loveless life, and expresses her passionate nature through her cooking. Then, one day, she meets an enigmatic chef, known only as l'Inglese, whose research on the heritage of Sicilian cuisine leads him into Rosa's library and her heart. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 194. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Black Swan
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
paperback / softback
SKU
KSS0002166
ISBN
9780552999090
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

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