Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. In a series of vignettes of life in her village, Alice Taylor reasserts the priorities of public space and local community. The Parish evokes and explores the positive values of community, which could be renewed and reinvigorated for a present and future that achieves harmony between comfort and the pressing need to respect the environment. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 16. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Brandon
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780863223976
- ISBN
- 9780863223976
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 11.92
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Paperback. * Out now in paperback, the heart-wrenching story of ambition and betrayal that captures the love affair between two unforgettable people: Ernest Hemingway and his first wife Hadley Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 125 x 26. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Publisher
- Virago
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844086689
- ISBN
- 9781844086689
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.97
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Paperback. * Portrays the clash between an impulsive, artistic family and a calculating, aristocratic one Series: VMC. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 23. Weight in Grams: 244.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844080724
- ISBN
- 9781844080724
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.00
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Hardback. The novel P.O. Enquist thought he would never be able to write. The true story of a love affair between a fifteen-year old boy and a 51-year-old woman Translator(s): Bragan-Turner, Deborah. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 146 x 223 x 27. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Quercus Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857059918
- ISBN
- 9780857059918
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 18.00
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Paperback. Fame, success, fortune, a drink problem slipping over the edge into alcoholism, a dead marriage, the incurable itches of middle-aged lust. For Wilfred Barclay, novelist, the final unbearable irritation is Professor Rick L Tucker. Locked in a lethal relationship they stumble across Europe, shedding wives, self-respect and illusions. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 125 x 200 x 17. Weight in Grams: 216.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571298488
- ISBN
- 9780571298488
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.83
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Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Unnamed Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781939419224
- ISBN
- 9781939419224
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Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 14.31
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Hardcover. A series of standalone crime novellas, each with a literary bent. In 1950s London, a literary agent finds fame when he secretly steals a young woman's brilliant novel manuscript and publishes it under his own name, Lewis Carson. Two days after their meeting, the woman is found strangled on Peckham Rye Common: did Lewis purloin the manuscript as an act of callous opportunism, or as the spoils of a calculated murder? When a dead body is found at a remote writers' retreat, the local police and coroner quickly rule the cause of death as suicide. But the other writers at the retreat embark on an evening of squabbling about the death and its motive.. Series: CONTRABAND POCKET CRIME COLLEC. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: FA. .
- Publisher
- Saraband
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910192832
- ISBN
- 9781910192832
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.73
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Paperback. Fifteen-year old Anais Hendricks is smart, funny and fierce, but she is also a child who has been let down, or worse, by just about every adult she has ever met. Sitting in the back of a police car, she finds herself headed for the Panopticon, a home for chronic young offenders where the social workers are as suspicious as its residents. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 246.
- Publisher
- Cornerstone United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099558644
- ISBN
- 9780099558644
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.95
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Paperback. Gabriel is a stranger in a small Breton town. Nobody knows where he came from or why he's here. Yet his small acts of kindness quickly earn him acceptance from the locals. His new friends grow fond of Gabriel, who seems as benign as the toy panda he wins at the funfair. But unlike Gabriel, the fluffy toy is not haunted by his past.. Translator(s): Gallic Books; Boyce, Emily. Num Pages: 171 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 128 x 14. Weight in Grams: 174.
- Publisher
- Gallic Books
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Tra
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906040420
- ISBN
- 9781906040420
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.77
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Paperback. A novel that tells the phantasmagorical story of an alcoholic man and his search for his dead palm-wine tapster. As he travels through the land of the dead, he encounters a host of supernatural and often terrifying beings - among them the complete gentleman who returns his body parts to their owners and the insatiable hungry-creature. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 202 x 9. Weight in Grams: 116.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571311538
- ISBN
- 9780571311538
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.61
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Paperback. The Internal Revenue Service Regional Examination Centre in Peoria, Illinois, 1985. Here the workers fight a never-ending war against the urgency of their own boredom. Here then, squeezed between the trivial and the quotidian, lies all human life. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 27. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141046730
- ISBN
- 9780141046730
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.53
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Paperback. I-SPY AT THE SEASIDE Hello, children! Welcome to your very own I-Spy Book. In these pages you'll be able to look for all kinds of secret, exciting things that are found only by the sea. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 147 x 24. Weight in Grams: 250. Used paperback in very good condition. Some shelf wear.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- SKU
- KRF0038232
- ISBN
- 9780007276073
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
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Paperback. Epic adventure, grand passion and historical intrigue in the bestselling tradition of Wilbur Smith. Num Pages: 720 pages, n/a. BIC Classification: FA; FJH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 138 x 47. Weight in Grams: 570.
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Number of pages
- 720
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780340827871
- ISBN
- 9780340827871
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.24
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paperback. At the heart of the Sultan's empire stands the Palace of Dreams. Inside, the dreams of every citizen are collected, sorted and interpreted in order to identify the 'master-dreams' that will provide the clues to the Empire's destiny and that of its Monarch. An entire nation's consciousness is thus laid bare and at the mercy of its government.. Translator(s): Bray, Barbara. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 148.
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099518273
- ISBN
- 9780099518273
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.83
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Paperback. Love gets in the way of progress when Raman, a sign painter, meets Daisy, who wishes to bring birth control to the city of Malgudi. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 9. Weight in Grams: 116.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140185492
- ISBN
- 9780140185492
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Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 14.99
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Paperback. From the winner of the National Book Award for Fiction, 2012 comes this elegantly crafted novel that explores the strange power that lost children exert on the memories of those they leave behind Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 20. Weight in Grams: 212.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007232093
- ISBN
- 9780007232093
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.32
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Paperback. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 135. .
- Publisher
- Peepal Tree Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845233488
- ISBN
- 9781845233488
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.61
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Paperback. On a family sheep station in the interior of Australia, a brother and sister work the property while their reclusive brother, Wesley Antill, spends years toiling away in one of the sheds, writing a philosophy. Now he has died. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 148.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099524281
- ISBN
- 9780099524281
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Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.31
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Paperback. The thrilling conclusion to the Sign of Seven trilogy: a classic novel of love and magic from number one bestseller Nor Roberts. Series: Sign of Seven Trilogy. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 197 x 36. Weight in Grams: 264.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349412290
- ISBN
- 9780349412290
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.89
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Paperback. Number One bestselling author Jodi Picoult explores the heartbreaking issue of teen suicide in this deeply moving and impossible to put down novel, perfect for fans of Gillian Flynn's Sharp Objects. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 37. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444754353
- ISBN
- 9781444754353
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 8.56
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Paperback. If only real life was like the movies.. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 32. Weight in Grams: 352. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KTG0012195
- ISBN
- 9781847561008
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
paperback. V. S. Pritchett, one of our greatest short-story writers, has chosen forty-one stories written in the English language for this volume, producing a collection that successfully displays the wealth and variety of an art that spans some 200 years. Editor(s): Pritchett, V. S. Series: Oxford Books of Prose & Verse. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 128 x 33. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Number of pages
- 576
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199583133
- ISBN
- 9780199583133
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.33
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Paperback. Beginning with the late nineteenth-century writings which first assimilated and reworked Western literary traditions, and coming right up to the younger generation dealing with the pitfalls and paradoxes of modern life, this anthology offers a stimulating survey of the development of the Japanese short story, the Japanese literary genre. Editor(s): Goossen, Theodore W. Series: Oxford Books of Prose & Verse. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 131 x 30. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 484
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199583195
- ISBN
- 9780199583195
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.28
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Paperback. Ireland has always been a nation of story-tellers. This magnificent anthology chronicles the development of a rich literary tradition, from the earliest folk-tales to James Joyce, Liam O'Flaherty, and the rising stars of the new generation. Editor(s): Trevor, William. Series: Oxford Books of Prose & Verse. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 35. Weight in Grams: 426 567pp
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Oxford
- Edition
- Reissue
- Number of pages
- 592
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780199583140
- ISBN
- 9780199583140
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.17
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€ 12.17