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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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. The final, heartbreaking story in the compelling saga that began with 'Flowers in the Attic', repackaged for a new generation of fans. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 113 x 24. Weight in Grams: 226.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
HarperCollins
Condition
New
Edition
1st Paperback Printing UK
SKU
V9780006167006
ISBN
9780006167006
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.21

Paperback. A novel by the author of "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". A moment of confusion sets in motion a complex chain of events which crosses and recrosses the divide between fantasy and reality. Translator(s): Asher, Linda. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 11. Weight in Grams: 134.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571195671
ISBN
9780571195671
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.73

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

Paperback. 'Would you believe me if I told you that I was only nine years of age when I killed him?' In a paint-splattered room, a young and successful Irish painter confronts his shocking and murderous past - a dark day on the beach at Bundoran, Co Donegal, when he quietly dispatched a palaeontologist with his own geological hammer. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 139. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0005875
ISBN
9780099285137
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. Second in her enthralling new 2-part SHADOWS series Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 112 x 178 x 26. Weight in Grams: 218. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Simon & Schuster UK
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
UK ed.
SKU
KKD0005933
ISBN
9781847390271
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

paperback. Ten years on from "Trainspotting", Sick Boy is back in Edinburgh after a long spell in London. Having failed spectacularly as a hustler, pimp, husband, father and businessman, Sick Boy taps into an opportunity which to him represents one last throw of the dice. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 31. Weight in Grams: 346. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
Format
Paperback
SKU
KKD0006069
ISBN
9780099422464
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. With the festive season almost upon him, Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson is winding down at work and gearing up socially - kicking off Christmas with a week of sex and drugs in Amsterdam. There are irritating flies in the ointment, though, including a missing wife, a nagging cocaine habit, and a dramatic deterioration in his genital health. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 296. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0006071
ISBN
9780099591115
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. An evocative historical novel with a sting in the tail, Shipwrecks is a powerful and deeply moving Japanese classic Translator(s): Ealey, Mark. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FJH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 126 x 11. Weight in Grams: 124. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd United Kingdom
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
Main
Number of pages
160
SKU
KKD0006098
ISBN
9781841952215
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. This first novel tells the story of the growing up of the children of an educated but impoverished New Zealand family. Janet Frame is the author of "The Carpathians", which won the Commonwealth Prize for Literature in 1989. Num Pages: 196 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 130. Weight in Grams: 140. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1985
Publisher
The Women's Press Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0006107
ISBN
9780704339583
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. Liverpool, 1934. Hester Lowe agrees to act as governess to spoilt, self-willed, little Lonnie Hetherington-Smith when they leave India to live with Lonnie's elderly aunt in Shaw Street, Liverpool. Hester speedily realises that her new employer dislikes her niece and means to make life uncomfortable for both of them. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 113 x 32. Weight in Grams: 264. Fine in fine dust wrapper. Showing light shelf wear, remains a fine copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Arrow
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0022150
ISBN
9780099436522
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. The second novel by the author of Clutch of Phantoms, this is another highly intelligent, powerfully paced psychological suspense novel. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 111. Weight in Grams: 176. Good clean copy. Showing light shelf wear, remains a nice copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0022176
ISBN
9780007107841
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. It is late spring, the year of our Lord 1370. Owen Archer, ex-soldier and spy, is preparing to depart Wales, his work for John of Gaunt completed. But his attempts to arrange safe passage home to York are thwarted by a mysterious suicide. And in York, Lucie Wilton is disheartened by her husband's long absence. Num Pages: 400 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3H; FA; FF; FFH; FH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 112 x 25. Weight in Grams: 216. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Arrow
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSS0004209
ISBN
9780099277972
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

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