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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. This is a book for anyone who has ever felt their life careering out of control. Clever, touching, disturbing, it will take you from laughter to tears and back again. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 131 x 25. Weight in Grams: 304.
Publisher
SHORT BOOKS LTD
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906021351
ISBN
9781906021351
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.45

Paperback. Now in paperback: From the bestselling author of Roses, a sweeping drama of long-hidden secrets, enduring bonds, and unlikely redemption, set in turn-of-the-century Texas. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135. .
Publisher
Little, Brown & Company
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781455533848
ISBN
9781455533848
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 17.38

Paperback. Series: Neversink. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 174.
Publisher
Melville House Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781612193885
ISBN
9781612193885
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 14.60

Paperback. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 209 x 27. Weight in Grams: 380. Fine copy with light shelf wear. Small sticker on front and back cover, remains a fine copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Random House Inc
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KCW0014763
ISBN
9780812975949
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. WINNER OF THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2011. Set in the Niger Delta, Tiny Sunbirds Far Away explores the world of twelve-year-old Blessing and her family. Part comic, part tragic, it shows that some families can survive almost anything. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 30. Weight in Grams: 322.
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849163750
ISBN
9781849163750
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.00

Paperback. Is real love just a fairytale? Funny, perceptive and real, this title portrays the rawness of motherhood, the flipside of love and the powerful lure of paths not taken. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FRD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 134 x 195 x 24. Weight in Grams: 300.
Publisher
Black and White Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845027216
ISBN
9781845027216
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.14

Paperback. 'Tinkers' is about the legacy of consciousness and the porousness of identity from one generation to the next. At once heartbreaking and life affirming, it is an elegiac meditation on love, loss, and the fierce beauty of nature. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 14. Weight in Grams: 184 191pp
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Cornerstone
Condition
New
Edition
01st Edition
SKU
9780099538042
ISBN
9780099538042
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.33

Num Pages: 282 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 234 x 159 x 27. Weight in Grams: 574.
Publication date
2000
Publisher
M P Publishing Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
282
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849822176
ISBN
9781849822176
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.06

Paperback. The story of a life told backwards. Its narrator, Doctor Tod T. Friendly, trapped and hurtling towards a terrible secret, moves "out of the blackest sleep" to find himself surrounded by doctors and on the deathbed of a man in whose body he is imprisoned. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 132.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099455356
ISBN
9780099455356
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. Addresses memory, suicide, the Great Depression, the loss of American eloquence, and the obsolescent thrill of reading books. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 176.
Publisher
Vintage Books
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099267546
ISBN
9780099267546
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. Rosie Highgrove-Jones grows up hating her double-barrelled name. She dreams of riding out over the wide plains of the family property, working on the land. Instead she's stuck writing the social pages of the local paper. Then the horrible death of her fiance sparks a series of shocking revelations for Rosie and her family. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 20. Weight in Grams: 236.
Publisher
Preface Publishing
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848090873
ISBN
9781848090873
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.23

Paperback. When Austin King entertains some distant relatives he unwittingly sets in motion events that will threaten his marriage, his law practice and his standing in the community. Austin's eagerness to please his foster cousin Nora is mistaken for other motives, especially since Nora is besotted with him. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 22. Weight in Grams: 234.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9781860465543
ISBN
9781860465543
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.94

Paperback. Petronius Longus, captain of the Aventine watch and Falco's oldest friend, has finally nailed one of Rome's top criminals. Under Roman law, citizens are not imprisoned but are allowed 'time to depart' into exile outside the Empire. One dark and gloomy dawn, Petro and Falco put the evil Balbinus aboard a ship. Series: Falco. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 276.
Publisher
Cornerstone United Kingdom
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099515135
ISBN
9780099515135
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.01

Paperback. 'Magnetic..A major imaginative triumph' OBSERVER Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 152. Used paperback, in good condition. Some shelf wear.
Condition
Used, Good
Edition
2nd Edition
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
SKU
KIN0008013
ISBN
9780340551196
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. 'Magnetic..A major imaginative triumph' OBSERVER Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 152. 207pp.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
2nd Edition
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
SKU
KEX0195668
ISBN
9780340551196
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Publisher
Spokesman Books United Kingdom
Edition
Revised
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780851244396
ISBN
9780851244396
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 14.48

Paperback. Fintan Buckley is a pleasant, rather conventional and unimaginative man, who works as a legal adviser in Dublin. As he goes about his life, working and spending time with his family, Fintan begins to experience states of altered consciousness and auditory hallucinations, which seem to take him out of a linear experience of time. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 132 x 18. Weight in Grams: 278. Nice copy in clean dustwrapper. First edition signed by the author.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
Main
Number of pages
240
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
SKU
KEX0303028
ISBN
9780571290864
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 35.00

Paperback. When Fintan Buckley develops an interest in old autochrome photographs, strange things start to happen. To all appearances, Fintan holds down a successful job and enjoys life with his conventional middle-class family in Dublin, yet inwardly he starts to experience states of altered consciousness, with unsettling hallucinations and sudden insights. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 188.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571290871
ISBN
9780571290871
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.74

Paperback. A deeply imaginative debut novel about a family in crisis. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 134 x 15. Weight in Grams: 243.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Simon & Schuster United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781476731360
ISBN
9781476731360
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.12

Paperback. With distinctive voices, compelling characters, on-the-ground observation, and suspense, this book offers a serious, illuminating take on the changing tides of race, class, and politics in late twentieth-century Chicago. It tells the story of a plasterer turned landlord in Chicago who, in the late 1970s. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 55 x 85 x 15. Weight in Grams: 327.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226202648
ISBN
9780226202648
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 18.22

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