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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. The matchless detective and psychoanalyst Mrs Bradley is visiting the picturesque village of Spey in search of a local witch when Gerald Conway, a junior master at Spey College, is found murdered. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 17. Weight in Grams: 180.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099526230
ISBN
9780099526230
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.61

Paperback. Series: Stories to Remember S. Num Pages: 168 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: CJBR; FA; YFB. Category: (ES) Secondary; (UA) A / AS level. Dimension: 122 x 186 x 10. Weight in Grams: 168.
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Macmillan Education
Number of pages
168
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1982
Edition
Abridged edition
SKU
KLN0014312
ISBN
9780333099261
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 166 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 190 x 133 x 15. Weight in Grams: 123.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Random House USA Inc United States
Number of pages
166
Condition
New
SKU
V9780679848042
ISBN
9780679848042
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.75

Hardback. Nineteen classic fairy tales, retold for younger readers in the early twentieth-century, including "Rapunzel," "Little Red Riding-Hood," "Rumpelstiltskin," and "The Sleeping Beauty." Illustrator(s): Watson, A. H. Series: Oddly Modern Fairy Tales. Num Pages: 248 pages, 38 line illus. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 149 x 199 x 21. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Edition
Updated edition with a New Introduction
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691159218
ISBN
9780691159218
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 34.90

Paperback. August 1946. One year on from surrender and Tokyo lies broken and bleeding at the feet of its American victors. Against this extraordinary historical backdrop, Tokyo Year Zero opens with the discovery of the bodies of two young women in Shiba Park. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 25. Weight in Grams: 324.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571231997
ISBN
9780571231997
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.73

Paperback. A major international debut novel from a storyteller who couples a timelessly beguiling style with an energetically modern worldscape. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 51. Weight in Grams: 314.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007182138
ISBN
9780007182138
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.32

Paperback. Series: Modern Library. Num Pages: 480 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 131 x 26. Weight in Grams: 356.
Publisher
Random House USA Inc United States
Number of pages
480
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
New ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780375761324
ISBN
9780375761324
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.01

Paperback. Betsy Canning is dissatisfied with life. She has always taken pains to be healthy, popular and well-treated, but despite her wealth, her comfortable homes and beautiful children, happiness eludes her. The problem must lie, she thinks, in her marriage to Alec, and a neat, civilised divorce seems the perfect solution. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 197 x 26. Weight in Grams: 322.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099589785
ISBN
9780099589785
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.00
€ 16.87

Paperback. 'Whipsmart, dazzling, darkly comic and deeply touching. I loved it!' Marian Keyes A brilliant new novel from the author of bestselling Where'd You Go, Bernadette, about a woman who wakes up determined to be her best self. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Edition
01st Edition
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780227337
ISBN
9781780227337
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

Paperback. A profoundly moving debut novel about the fragility of family love, the resilience of the living, the durability of memory and the experience of bereavement. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 134 x 14. Weight in Grams: 174. 176 pages. A profoundly moving debut novel about the fragility of family love, the resilience of the living, the durability of memory and the experience of bereavement. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 198 x 134 x 14. Weight: 174.
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848876064
ISBN
9781848876064
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 8.44

Paperback. When Toby is reported 'Missing, Believed Killed', another secret casts a lengthening shadow over Elinor's world: how exactly did Toby die - and why? Elinor determines to uncover the truth. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 195 x 20. Weight in Grams: 256.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141042206
ISBN
9780141042206
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. Toby Sligh is a senior at a Jesuit high school in Tampa who wants only to dance with his boyfriend at the prom. This is the least of his worries, as he finds himself tangled in a web of half truths. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 5SG; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153. Weight in Grams: 407.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780747523659
ISBN
9780747523659
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.30

Paperback. A story of the impossibility of love and the impossibility of writing of love, this work is a memoir and a novel, a confession and a reflection on the prerogatives and imperatives of writing one's story. At its center is the beautiful and ethereal Tamara, the incarnation of the narrator's enduring fantasy - a femme fatale for the lover of form. Translator(s): Rendall, Steven. Num Pages: 179 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 250.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
179
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803262157
ISBN
9780803262157
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 19.45

Paperback. Perfect for every woman who loves the family drama of a Penny Vincenzi novel and the glamorous settings of Tasmina Perry.. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 29. Weight in Grams: 282. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KRA0011695
ISBN
9780755370320
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. A devasting and unforgettable story of doomed love from the winner of the Booker Prize, reissued with a new introduction by Nadeem Aslam Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 188. 208 pages. A devasting and unforgettable story of doomed love from the winner of the Booker Prize, reissued with a new introduction by Nadeem Aslam. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 197 x 129 x 15. Weight: 148.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780747599395
ISBN
9780747599395
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.72

Paperback. Ellie's heart was broken when her lovely husband passed away. Will she ever be truly happy again? Find out in this engaging romantic novel from bestselling author Jill Mansell. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 34. Weight in Grams: 334.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Condition
New
SKU
V9780755355815
ISBN
9780755355815
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

paperback. Provides the author's own early experiences, and while it touches on childhood and children's perceptions and desires, it is most clear when exploring adult relationships, marriage and the changing class-structure in the period spanning the Great War. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 11. Weight in Grams: 118.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9781853260919
ISBN
9781853260919
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 7.01

Hardcover. This is the story of a woman and her family experiencing the passage of time and seeking to recapture meaning from the flux of things. Though Mrs Ramsay's death is the event on which the novel turns, her presence pervades every page in a poetic evocation of loss and memory. Num Pages: 242 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 131 x 22. Weight in Grams: 420.
Publisher
Everyman
Number of pages
242
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857150308
ISBN
9781857150308
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.04

Paperback. 'To the Lighthouse' was Virginia Woolf's fifth novel, and was the first book to win her a large public. The story of an English middle class family in the years leading up to the First World War, it has remained the most popular of all her works. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 162.
Edition
New Ed
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099478294
ISBN
9780099478294
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 7.08

Paperback. A captivating fusion of elegy, autobiography, socio-political critique and visionary thrust, To the Lighthouse is the most accomplished of all Woolf's novels. This new edition includes a full contextualizing introduction and notes by David Bradshaw. Editor(s): Bradshaw, David. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 127 x 13. Weight in Grams: 194.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199536610
ISBN
9780199536610
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 9.11

Paperback. A deeply moving and richly textured story about a woman's search for her Greek birth-father in modern-day Greece and her journey into the dark heart of contemporary Greek history. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 17. Weight in Grams: 192.
Publisher
Granta Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847082749
ISBN
9781847082749
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.20

Paperback. Series: Keepers and Seekers S. Num Pages: 333 pages, 27 illustrations, 1 colour. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 145 x 29. Weight in Grams: 439. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Condition
Used, Very Good
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Myroy Books Limited
Publication date
2005
SKU
KIN0036386
ISBN
9780954894900
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Ora, a middle-aged Israeli mother, is about to celebrate her son Ofer's release from army service when he returns to the front for a major offensive. Instead of waiting at home for the 'notifiers' who could arrive at any moment to tell her of her son's fate, she sets off for a hike in Galilee, leaving no forwarding address. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 40. Weight in Grams: 408.
Edition
01st Edition
Publisher
Vintage
Number of pages
592
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099546740
ISBN
9780099546740
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.80

Paperback. Racy, funny and joyful; take Jude's hand and join her on an exciting journey of self-discovery through darkness to light. Num Pages: 172 pages. BIC Classification: FA; VXA; YFB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 218 x 11. Weight in Grams: 176.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Roundfire Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782796299
ISBN
9781782796299
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.08

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