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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Harry Fielding has had enough. He's had enough of his adopted city, he's tired of his flat and most of all he's finished with MI5. But his plans for a new life are ruined when an old friend reappears, who's in trouble. Harry cannot abandon a mate. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 135 x 17. Weight in Grams: 184. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0005107
ISBN
9780099284871
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. Jenner Ransfield fumes out his existence on a Somerset farm, teaching at an Agricultural College, and tyrannizing his family. Enter veterinary scientist Theodora, to study the harvesting of bull semen. Then she meets the urban warrior Fergal and it all goes wrong. Num Pages: 329 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. Weight in Grams: 239. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0005155
ISBN
9780099289449
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. A story about the entangled and conflicted fortunes of two cousins: Erasmus Kemp, the son of a Lancashire merchant, and Matthew Paris, a scholar and surgeon just released from prison for denying Holy Writ. This novel was awarded 1992 Booker prize. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 40. Weight in Grams: 424. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0005291
ISBN
9780140119930
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. In this collection of literary criticism, Rebecca West undertakes the question of art's value, examining the works of her contemporaries and their places in history Series: VMC. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 130. Weight in Grams: 268. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
Virago
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0005323
ISBN
9780860685043
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 151 x 8. Weight in Grams: 136. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Dedalus Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0005352
ISBN
9781901233551
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. Abandoned pregnant and penniless on the teeming streets of London, sixteen-year-old Amber St Clare uses her wits, beauty and courage to climb to the highest position a woman could achieve in Restoration England - that of favorite mistress of the Merry Monarch himself, Charles II. Num Pages: 992 pages, map. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 44. Weight in Grams: 678. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0005368
ISBN
9780141009827
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. President Elect Jack Meade wakes up in a hospital bed after being found near death on a beach. His last memory was of cruising off the Florida coast. No one believes he is the new President. Then on TV he sees a live interview with his doppelganger - he has been replaced with a dead ringer. Num Pages: 506 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FH; FJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 109. Weight in Grams: 262. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Arrow
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0005474
ISBN
9780099269946
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. Tells the story of three intriguing and interwoven relationships between Charles Paget-Brown, debonair English adventurer, Vincent Perotti, seasoned Mafia operative and Sam Baker, successful entrepreneur and Charles closest ally. By the author of "Clash of Honour" and "The Red Pagoda". Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 111. Weight in Grams: 265. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Welbeck Publishing
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0005491
ISBN
9781853751103
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. China has taken Hong Kong, and is poised to capture Japan. The new president of the USA finds herself on the edge of nuclear war, but her military aide has internal political problems of his own. As these internal troubles brew, China makes their intentions of a general nuclear attack clear. Num Pages: 546 pages, Map. BIC Classification: FA; FH; FJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 111 x 33. Weight in Grams: 310. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Hodder Paperbacks
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0005499
ISBN
9780340675014
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. A powerful and moving autobiography from a gifted writer who has been compared to Joyce and Yeats. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBH; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 12. Weight in Grams: 136. Good clean copy. Showing light shelfwear, remains a nice copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0021765
ISBN
9780753807095
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. From the author of the hugely successful THE SAVING GRACES and CIRCLE OF THREE comes another beautiful tale of life and love Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. . Good clean copy. Showing light shelf wear, remains a nice copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0022055
ISBN
9780743450553
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. At the heart of this story are two elderly Argentine sisters, Luci and Nidia, living in self-imposed exile in Rio. Together they share a life of gossip, but through their conversations the author reveals the violent lives of their neighbours. By the author of "Kiss of the Spider Woman". Translator(s): Levine, Suzanne Jill. Num Pages: 189 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135. . Fine copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Faber and Faber
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KSS0003834
ISBN
9780571168408
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Utterly beguiling' Joanna Trollope Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 14. Weight in Grams: 140. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Virago
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSS0003843
ISBN
9781853816000
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. A highly acclaimed collection of short stories set in the great outdoors of New England, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'The Shipping News' and 'Brokeback Mountain'. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 128. A highly acclaimed collection of short stories set in the great outdoors of New England, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'The Shipping News' and 'Brokeback Mountain'. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 128. Fine copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Fourth Estate
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KSS0003858
ISBN
9781857024043
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. When Kathy, a young recovering alcoholic recently separated from her husband, fails to open a series of tax letters that have been sent to her in error, the State of California seizes the house she and her brother have inherited from her father. The State sells the house at auction to Behrani, a former Iranian Air Force officer. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 23. Weight in Grams: 262. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSS0003877
ISBN
9780099283140
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Set in the summer of 1947, this is a rites-of-passage novel about a lonely boy growing up in Jerusalem in the last years of British rule. From underground resistance he is drawn into friendship with the enemy, in the form of a British soldier to whom he teaches Hebrew in return for English lessons. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 8. Weight in Grams: 98. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSS0003899
ISBN
9780099754015
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. Recently divorced, thirty-six-year-old Neill Bassett is engaged in an extraordinary experiment. By day, he works at a Silicon Valley software company, where he is helping to create the world's first 'living' artificial intelligence - a computer programme based on the personality of his late father. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 165 x 25. Weight in Grams: 432. Fine copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KSS0003909
ISBN
9780241964866
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Jo Marie has started to feel at home running the Rose Harbor Inn. Now it's springtime, and in memory of her late husband, Paul, Jo Marie has designed a beautiful rose garden for the property and enlisted handyman Mark Taylor to help make it happen. Jo Marie and Mark don't always see eye-to-eye but deep down, she finds great comfort in his company. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 137 x 31. Weight in Grams: 278. Fine copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Arrow
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KSS0004015
ISBN
9780099564065
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 17.95

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Blackstaff Press Ltd Belfast
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856408106
ISBN
9780856408106
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.08

Paperback. The third in the bestselling and much-loved BIG STONE GAP series Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 218. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
First Edition
SKU
KHN0001816
ISBN
9780743450881
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. Matt and Susan, two rival palaeontologists and former lovers, are summoned by a secret US government agency to help locate their college mentor, who has disappeared without trace in the remote mountains of Tajikstan. When Matt and Susan finally make contact, the implications of their dramatic discovery are more than simply scientific. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FHD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 114 x 181 x 27. Weight in Grams: 222. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Arrow
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0005644
ISBN
9780099631019
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. Familiar with his students' hostile attitude towards both his lectures and himself, a senior school teacher reaches a decision that forces an assessment of his choice of life, of his marriage and ultimately of his values and worth in modern society. This is a story of a man lost in a world that no longer recognises either him or his talent. Translator(s): Lyngstad, Sverre. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 135 x 12. Weight in Grams: 184. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Harvill Secker
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0005757
ISBN
9781843432104
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. When Nicholas Linnear agrees to help Miko Okami, a friend of his father, he does not know that he is the Kaisho, the boss of all the bosses of the Yakuza, the Japanese underworld. Okami possesses "koryoku", the Illuminating Power, that will allow Nicholas to explore the dark side of Tau-tau. Series: A Nicholas Linnear novel. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 111. Weight in Grams: 320. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
HarperCollins
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0005797
ISBN
9780006475965
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

paperback. BABY COME BACK is the gripping, touching and funny story of what happens when a wife discovers her deadly rival is her husband's mother. Another wry, witty novel from a wonderful bestselling author. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 108. Weight in Grams: 210. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0005855
ISBN
9780751529685
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

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