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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Alec and Jerry shouldn't have been friends: Alec's life was one of privilege, while Jerry's was one of toil. But this hardly mattered to two young men whose shared love of horses brought them together and whose whole lives lay ahead of them. When war breaks out in 1914, both Jerry and Alec sign up - yet for quite different reasons. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 11. Weight in Grams: 122.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780141046969
ISBN
9780141046969
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 9.64

Paperback. A compelling story of love, loss and belonging Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 34. Weight in Grams: 332. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Hachette Books Ireland
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
SKU
KRA0013067
ISBN
9781444744163
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 31. Weight in Grams: 556.
Publisher
Hachette Books Ireland
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
9781444744156
ISBN
9781444744156
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. A novel in three parts, written in short paragraphs, which tell (abruptly, cajolingly, bleakly) of a narrator lying in the dark, in the mud, repeating his life as he hears it uttered - or remembered - by another voice. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 180.
Edition
Main
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571243747
ISBN
9780571243747
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.66

Paperback. When.. Charlotte is mugged and breaks her hip, her daughter Rose cannot accompany her employer Lord Peters to Manchester, which means his niece Marion has to go instead, which means she sends a text to her lover which is intercepted by his wife, which is ..just the beginning in the ensuing chain of life-altering events. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 16. Weight in Grams: 184.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241957271
ISBN
9780241957271
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.98

Paperback. Growing up in a mining community in rural South Wales, Huw Morgan is taught many harsh lessons. Looking back, where difficult days are faced with courage and the valleys swell with the sound of Welsh voices, it becomes clear that there is nowhere so green as the landscape of his own memory. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 122 x 20. Weight in Grams: 316.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd London
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141185859
ISBN
9780141185859
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.74

Paperback. Polly, Dennis, Angela, Adrian and the rest are bound to lose their spiritual innocence as well as their virginities on the journey between university in the 1950s and the marriages, families, careers and deaths that follow. On the one hand there's Sex and then the Pill, on the other there is the traditional Catholic Church. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 186.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
9780099554141
ISBN
9780099554141
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.38

Paperback. How does a gunman retire? Frank MacLeod was the best at what he does. Thoughtful. Efficient. Ruthless. But is he still the best?A new job. A target. But something is about to go horribly wrong. Someone is going to end up dead.Most gunmen say goodbye to the world with a bang. Frank's still here. He's lasted longer than he should have.. Series: The Glasgow Trilogy. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF; FH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 232 x 26. Weight in Grams: 480.
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Open market & Airside ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781447235965
ISBN
9781447235965
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.21

Paperback. Num Pages: 154 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 160.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
DC Books,Canada Canada
Number of pages
154
Condition
New
SKU
V9780919688612
ISBN
9780919688612
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 14.04

Paperback. 'Housekeeping' is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, the eccentric and remote sister of their dead mother. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 15. Weight in Grams: 184.
Edition
Main
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571230082
ISBN
9780571230082
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.66

Paperback. When Jamie Hall finds a boy tied to a tree and cuts him loose, she can have no idea of the desperate chain of events her act of humanity will trigger. Tense, passionate and unflinching, this is a novel of tenderness and relentless momentum. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 210.
Publisher
Vintage Books USA
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099502494
ISBN
9780099502494
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.31

Paperback. The second volume of short stories by Stanley Donwood, Radiohead's artist. Donwood writing is an existentialist commentary on society wrapped in dark humour. This first edition designed by Dowood is a strictly limited run of 1,000 copies. Num Pages: 144 pages, Black and white lino cuts. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 112 x 14. Weight in Grams: 144.
Publisher
Tangent Books
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906477554
ISBN
9781906477554
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.49

Paperback. Taken from completed drafts on the author's desk, this title tells of the accidental meeting and the complex union between a white man and a black woman in times of racial tension and sexual violence. Set in a North American city in midwinter, it expands into a universal allegory of suffering and death. Num Pages: 536 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 35. Weight in Grams: 362.
Publisher
Canongate Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
480
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841951256
ISBN
9781841951256
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 18.01

Paperback. Written in the form of a diary, kept by the Cameroonian houseboy Toundi, this book looks at Toundi's innocence and his awe of the white world of his masters. Editor(s): Oyono, Ferdinand. Translator(s): Reed, John. Series: Heinemann African Writers Series. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 8. Weight in Grams: 114.
Publisher
Pearson Education Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780435905323
ISBN
9780435905323
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.13

Paperback. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 142 x 26. Weight in Grams: 424.
Publisher
Persephone Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
312
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781903155622
ISBN
9781903155622
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 17.97

Paperback. House Work is the lyrical history of a family of five in working-class Pittsburgh. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 240.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Bridge Works Publishing Co ,U.S. United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9781882593477
ISBN
9781882593477
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 14.60

paperback. The number one bestseller: just because your son can't look you in the eye .. does that make him guilty? Autism and families are entwined in Picoult's gripping novel, reissued with new cover treatment. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 200 x 40. Weight in Grams: 438.
Publisher
Hodder Paperbacks
Number of pages
640
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444754421
ISBN
9781444754421
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.89

Paperback.
Edition
Reissue
Publisher
Vintage
Number of pages
110
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Condition
New
SKU
V9780679734772
ISBN
9780679734772
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 12.56

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Baen Books United States
Edition
Original
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
SKU
V9781451638936
ISBN
9781451638936
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.83

Paperback. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 182.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
NeWest Press Canada
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
SKU
V9781897126875
ISBN
9781897126875
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.48

Hardback. After the failed revolutions of 1848, Galicia has been brought under the rule of the Habsburg Empire, and the Zemka family find themselves embroiled in the struggle for Polish independence. This is a history of Eastern Europe told in miniature through the tumultuous saga of one family as they try to reclaim their estate. Translator(s): Fagan, Teresa Lavender. Series: The French List. Num Pages: 456 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 162 x 40. Weight in Grams: 774.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
484
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857420282
ISBN
9780857420282
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 27.76

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. Eeva, orphaned daughter of a failed revolutionary, also battles to find her independence and identity. Destitute when her father dies, she is sent away to a country orphanage, and then employed as servant to a widowed doctor, Thomas Eklund. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 238.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Penguin
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141015026
ISBN
9780141015026
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.74

Hardback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135. . Very good copy in bright and clean dustwrapper. First edition.

Includes neat newsclippings on the author.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
SKU
KEX0303152
ISBN
9780241257685
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 45.00

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