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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. She changed her name. She changed her life. But someone won't let her go. The international number one bestseller from Nora Roberts - the world's greatest storyteller. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 35. Weight in Grams: 368.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
9780349407784
ISBN
9780349407784
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 5.70

Paperback. In an attempt to escape her past, Bessy Buckley takes a job working as a maid in a big country house. But when Arabella, her beautiful mistress, asks her to undertake a series of bizarre tasks, Bessy begins to realise that she hasn't quite landed on her feet. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 35. Weight in Grams: 438.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
SKU
9780571223367
ISBN
9780571223367
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.06

Paperback. A sophisticated and suspenseful novel about the poignant lives of two women living in different eras. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 140 x 210 x 20. Weight in Grams: 260.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393346770
ISBN
9780393346770
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 15.86

Paperback. 1920s Yorkshire Frankie Ford is honest and hardworking and has ambitions to become a ward sister at a prestigious London teaching hospital. But, hiding a secret, Frankie flees her comfortable home counties life to begin training as a district nurse in the poverty-stricken streets of Leeds. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Arrow Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099599593
ISBN
9780099599593
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 19.34

Paperback. Diderot's The Nun (La Religieuse) is the seemingly true story of a young girl forced by her parents to enter a convent and take holy orders. A novel mingling mysticism, madness, sadistic cruelty and nascent sexuality, it gives a scathing insight into the effects of forced vocations and the unnatural life of the convent. This new translation includes Diderot's all-important prefatory material. Translator(s): Goulbourne, Russell. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 182.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199555246
ISBN
9780199555246
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.25

Paperback. A dark and hilarious pot-infused novel of teenage maladjustment from a compelling new voice in American fiction. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 234 x 24. Weight in Grams: 322.
Publisher
Corsair
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349002392
ISBN
9780349002392
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.43

Hardback. Translation of: Lexique nomade [a collection of short meditations by contemporary novelists at the 3rd Assises internationales du roman] Editor(s): Villa Gillet; Le Monde. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: CBW; DSB; FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 180 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 232.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231150804
ISBN
9780231150804
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 15.32

Paperback. A sweeping story of upstairs, downstairs, love and loss by the author of Mr Rosenblum's List. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 26. Weight in Grams: 274.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780340995693
ISBN
9780340995693
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.06

Paperback. The tenth wonderful story in Alexander McCall Smith's much-loved Isabel Dalhousie series. Series: Isabel Dalhousie Novels. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 197 x 22. Weight in Grams: 240.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Abacus
Condition
New
SKU
9780349141022
ISBN
9780349141022
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 5.70

Hardback. Waldo, a feted filmmaker, is confined by old age and ill health to his London apartment. Frail and frustrated, he is cared for by his lovely younger wife, Zee. But when he suspects that Zee is beginning an affair with Eddie, Waldo is pressed to action: determined to expose the couple, he sets himself first to prove his suspicions correct and more. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135. . Like new except for damage to back bottom of dust jacket
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KOG0005127
ISBN
9780571332014
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 18.99
€ 4.99

Hardback. Waldo, a feted filmmaker, is confined by old age and ill health to his London apartment. Frail and frustrated, he is cared for by his lovely younger wife, Zee. But when he suspects that Zee is beginning an affair with Eddie, Waldo is pressed to action: determined to expose the couple, he sets himself first to prove his suspicions correct and more. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
SKU
9780571332014
ISBN
9780571332014
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 4.99

Paperback. Don Rigoberto - by day a grey insurance executive, by night a pornographer and sexual enthusiast - misses Lucrecia, his estranged second wife. The pair separated following a sexual encounter between Lucrecia and Alfonso, Rigoberto's son. To compensate for her absence, Rigoberto fills his notebooks with memories, fantasies and unsent letters. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 21. Weight in Grams: 298.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571195756
ISBN
9780571195756
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.77

Paperback. * The love story to end all love stories from the internationally bestselling author * Now a major motion picture starring Ryan Gosling (Golden Globe winning and Oscar nominated star of La La Land) and Rachel McAdams Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 125 x 16. Weight in Grams: 194.
Edition
36th Edition
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780751540475
ISBN
9780751540475
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

Paperback. Maximilian Ponder has been shut away for 30 years, attempting to record every memory he has ever had .. A stunning debut about friendship, memory and what makes up a life. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 286.
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780220833
ISBN
9781780220833
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.47

Paperback. From the author of The Stars Look Down and The Citadel, and the creator of Dr Finlay's Casebook Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 370.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
9781447244141
ISBN
9781447244141
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.94

Paperback. SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2008. An epic chronicle of the last twenty years of British life from the Booker shortlisted and Granta Best of Young British novelist, Philip Hensher. Num Pages: 752 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 47. Weight in Grams: 528.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007461684
ISBN
9780007461684
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.88

Paperback. Every week, a writer of political propaganda and a professional blood donor meet for dinner. They are unlikely friends - one of them tortured by his 'art', the other fat and wealthy from the earthy business of providing spare blood for the citizens of China. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 134 x 12. Weight in Grams: 148.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099459064
ISBN
9780099459064
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. In May 1937, a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away to the Big House. Any celebrity he has known in the previous decade is no use to him now. And few who are taken to the Big House ever return. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 283 x 18. Weight in Grams: 182.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784703325
ISBN
9781784703325
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 111 x 177 x 20. Weight in Grams: 142.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784703332
ISBN
9781784703332
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.83

Paperback. Tom Hurst, a junior lecturer at the College, breaking every rule of the whodunnit genre, follows a trail of arcane clues that leads him to Botswana and Mma Delicious Ontoast. His investigations then take him to Sweden and Burt Colander; to Edinburgh, where he is grudgingly helped by DI John "Just-Now" Rhombus; and to Richmond, Virginia. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; WHG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 18. Weight in Grams: 193.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
Main
SKU
KLN0018184
ISBN
9781841958514
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.49

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