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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Blending political reality with magic realism, fantasy and comic invention, this book is one of the most daringly original works of the twentieth century. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 302.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
SKU
9780241968581
ISBN
9780241968581
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.45

Paperback. A Russian woman named Lara arrives in Afghanistan at the house of Marcus Caldwell, an Englishman and widower living in the shadow of the Tora Bora mountains. Marcus' daughter, Zameen, may have known Lara's brother, a Soviet soldier who disappeared in the area many years previously. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 30. Weight in Grams: 352 436pp
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
Edition
Main
SKU
9780571238804
ISBN
9780571238804
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.33

Paperback. For Jack Reacher being invisible has become a habit. He spends his days digging swimming pools by hand and his nights as the bouncer in the local strip club in the Florida Keys. He doesn't want to be found. But someone has sent a private detective to seek him out. Then Reacher finds the guy beaten to death with his fingertips sliced off. Series: Jack Reacher. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF; FH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 34. Weight in Grams: 378.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Condition
New
Edition
01st Edition
SKU
9780857500069
ISBN
9780857500069
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.45

Paperback. This title involves left-wing academics, right-wing capitalists, true-blue country gentry, workers, peasants, police and lawyers. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 274.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Arrow
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
9780099435532
ISBN
9780099435532
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.76

Paperback. What if a demented London cabbie called Dave Rudman wrote a book to his estranged son to give him some fatherly advice? What if that book was buried in Hampstead and hundreds of years later, when rising sea levels have put London underwater, spawned a religion? This book offers a historical detective story set in the far future. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 360.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
SKU
9780141014548
ISBN
9780141014548
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.61

Paperback. Okonowo is the greatest warrior alive and he is one of the powerful men of his clan. But he also has a fiery temper. Determined not to be like his father, he refuses to show his weakness. When outsiders threaten the traditions of his clan, he takes violent action. Will the great man's pride eventually destroy him? Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 113 x 15. Weight in Grams: 152.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
Edition
01st Edition
SKU
9780141023380
ISBN
9780141023380
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.64

Paperback. A work of Proust that is translated from French original into English. Editor(s): Prendergast, Christopher. Translator(s): Davis, Lydia. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 344.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780141180311
ISBN
9780141180311
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 10.45

Paperback. Sharing a room with criminals is an occupational hazard for probation counsellor Daniel Brasher. But he's ready to move on; he's looking forward to leaving it behind for good. That was the plan at least. Until, before leaving work for the evening, Daniel finds a letter in his pigeonhole. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 33. Weight in Grams: 414.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Penguin London
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405912587
ISBN
9781405912587
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.84

Paperback. A mesmerising meditation on memory, madness and the lesser known horrors of Nazi Germany. Translator(s): Hawkesworth, Celia. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2021
Publisher
MacLehose Press
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848665873
ISBN
9781848665873
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.85

Paperback. This time the shockingly sensual, ruthlessly clever Lucky is out to conquer Hollywood! Num Pages: 656 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 145 x 41. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
UK ed.
Number of pages
656
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849836272
ISBN
9781849836272
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.71

Paperback. Set in the rural French town in Burgundy that would also form the backdrop to the bestselling Suite Francaise, this title tells the story of Silvio, his cousin's wife Helene, her second husband Francoise, and of the truths, deaths, marriages, children, houses and mills that bind them with love and hatred, deception and betrayal. Translator(s): Smith, Sandra. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 132. Good copy with some shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KKD0007486
ISBN
9780099516095
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2013 WINNER OF THE SPECSAVERS POPULAR FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014 WINNER OF THE BETTY TRASK PRIZE 2014 Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 196 x 25. Weight in Grams: 228. Good copy with some shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KKD0007508
ISBN
9780007491452
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. A novel first published in 1952 as THREE BEAR WITNESS which, set in Wales, tells a tale of love and death centred around an Oxford don who leaves for a Welsh farm and for the wife of a neighbouring farmer. From the author of the AUBREY/NATURIN novels. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 133 x 14. Weight in Grams: 172. Good copy with some shelf wear, yellowing of pages and damage to author's introductory page, otherwise good and remains intact
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Flamingo
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KKD0007539
ISBN
9780006476528
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. For nine years, John Dowell and his wife spend the summer season at a German spa town in the company of the respectable Ashburnhams. Behind the placid exteriors lie the destructive passions of men and women. This text includes biographical and critical apparatus. Series: Ford Madox Ford programme. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSK; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 135 x 18. Weight in Grams: 313. 8vo. Illustrated. Near fine copy in slipcase
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
The Folio Society London
Condition
Used, Like New
Edition
New
SKU
KSG0022657
ISBN
9781857543001
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 35.00

Paperback. The entrancing new novel by the author of the international bestsellers Mr Rosenblum's List and The Novel in the Viola. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 22. Weight in Grams: 242.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Condition
New
SKU
KSS0005781
ISBN
9781444736373
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. 'I didn't want you to come here.' So says the note that the boy Edmund Hooper passes to Charles Kingshaw upon his arrival at Warings. But, young Kingshaw and his mother have come to live with Hooper and his father in the ugly, isolated Victorian house for good. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 166.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1973
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
KSS0005885
ISBN
9780140034912
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 10.33

Paperback. It is 1941 and Captain Antonio Corelli, a young Italian officer, is posted to the Greek island of Cephallonia as part of the occupying forces. At first he is ostracised by the locals, but as a conscientious but far from fanatical soldier, whose main aim is to have a peaceful war, he proves in time to be civilised, and a consumate musician. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 30. Weight in Grams: 400. Clean copy with some shelf wear, minor nicks and bumps on cover but otherwise clean
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Good
Edition
First Paperback Edition
SKU
KSS0006148
ISBN
9780749397548
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 28. Weight in Grams: 330. Clean copy with some shelf wear, minor nicks and bumps on cover but otherwise clean
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KSS0006239
ISBN
9781447250975
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 11.99
€ 5.80

Paperback. Portia Davenport is the luckiest woman in the world. She and her gorgeous husband, Andrew, have just finished ploughing a fortune into renovating her ancestral home, Davenport Hall, and are now planning to unveil it as one of the most fabulous, luxurious, five-star country house hotels in Kildare. But life never turns out like you think. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 128 x 32. Weight in Grams: 384. Used paperback, in good condition. Some shelf wear.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Bantam
Condition
Used, Good
Edition
Reprint
SKU
KRF0037417
ISBN
9780553816655
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. A moving story that redefines the meaning of family, friendship, and success among a group of first-generation Indian immigrants. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 142 x 20. Weight in Grams: 252.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
295
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393345483
ISBN
9780393345483
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.14

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