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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. A new collection of short stories from the author of the highly acclaimed Canary Wharf. Num Pages: 116 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 151 x 11. Weight in Grams: 210.
Publisher
COIS LIFE
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781907494383
ISBN
9781907494383
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.09

Paperback. Attending a New England summer camp as an adolescent, young Erik Schroder - a first generation East German immigrant - adopts a new name and a new persona - Eric Kennedy - in the hopes that it will help him fit in. This fateful white lie will set him on an improbable and ultimately tragic course. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 126 x 19. Weight in Grams: 222.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571296729
ISBN
9780571296729
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.23

Paperback. When a teacher is found dead, having apparently committed suicide, his friend Pierre Hoffman takes over class 4F and finds himself responsible for a group of strangely subdued, well-behaved and yet menacing pupils. Over the weeks that follow, he receives a series of signals that cause him to question the circumstances of his colleague's suicide. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 21. Weight in Grams: 228.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099466727
ISBN
9780099466727
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.50

Paperback. The second novel by an award-winning Caribbean novelist, playwright and poet. It deals with the impingements of modern life on a remote village in the interior of Trinidad which wants a school and a schoolmaster. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 17. Weight in Grams: 160.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571196760
ISBN
9780571196760
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.78

Paperback. Catrine Evans, a young American, is sent to an English boarding school after her mother dies of cancer. Thrust into an unfriendly world and ridiculed for her accent, Catrine lays bare her thoughts in a luminous stream-of-consciousness narrative. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 23. Weight in Grams: 226. Clean copy with some slight markings to the page edges, otherwise a clean copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KSS0001485
ISBN
9780571206711
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. As the new school year begins, Jack Sheffield prepares for an eventful year than usual. A teacher is appointed, and before long tongues start to wag. Meanwhile, five-year old Madona Fazackerly makes her mark in an unexpected way, life changes dramatically for Ruby the caretaker and, in village Coffee Shop, Dorothy Humpleby plans a dirty weekend. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 248.
Publisher
Corgi
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780552167031
ISBN
9780552167031
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.84

Paperback. Translator(s): Boguslawski, Alexander. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 367.
Publisher
NYRB Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781590178461
ISBN
9781590178461
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 16.47

Paperback. A teenage son shoots himself under his parents' bed. They sleep that night unaware he is lying dead beneath them. A stranger turns up at a man's door to persude him that they must get rid of his ageing mother in order to sell the house. An old man grumbles to his daughter about the unexplained digging and banging he hears under the house at night. Translator(s): Lange, Nicholas de. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 18. Weight in Grams: 196.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099541363
ISBN
9780099541363
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.85

Paperback. Winner of the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, this is the new novel from the author of 'King of the Badgers' and the Man Booker-shortlisted 'The Northern Clemency'. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 230.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Condition
New
SKU
KSG0013688
ISBN
9780007450107
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Winner of the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, this is the new novel from the author of 'King of the Badgers' and the Man Booker-shortlisted 'The Northern Clemency'. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 230.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
9780007450107
ISBN
9780007450107
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 198 x 18. Weight in Grams: 170.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408865330
ISBN
9781408865330
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.11

Paperback. Num Pages: 227 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 228.
Publisher
Old Street Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
227
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905847877
ISBN
9781905847877
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.34

Paperback. Num Pages: 438 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; HRCV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 210 x 30. Weight in Grams: 388.
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781414370637
ISBN
9781414370637
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.98

Paperback. SCARLET FEATHER has all the distinguishing Binchy characteristics: human interest, pacy plot, judicious humour, warm sentiment .. You can see why, for a legion of female readers, Maeve Binchy is a one-woman opiate of the people' Evening Standard Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 40. Weight in Grams: 412.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Condition
New
SKU
V9780752876856
ISBN
9780752876856
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. Pathetic, contrite and hapless, Benjamin is nonetheless the scapegoat at The Store: there is nothing for which he cannot be blamed. While his blunders remain minor, most of his unwitting victims can find it in their hearts to forgive him, but when violent explosions begin to follow him around, he inevitably becomes the prime suspect. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 12. Weight in Grams: 162.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Harvill Secker
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846559075
ISBN
9781846559075
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.20

Paperback. * A convict colony in New South Wales, Australia is the setting for Carol Birch's new novel, based on real events. Now out in paperback, Birch proves once again that she is 'a born storyteller' TIMES Num Pages: 448 pages, map. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 126 x 29. Weight in Grams: 320.
Edition
Reprint
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844083916
ISBN
9781844083916
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.06

Paperback. Series: Open Door Series V. Num Pages: 100 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 114 x 6. Weight in Grams: 66. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
New Island Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
SKU
KTG0012285
ISBN
9781905494026
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Series: Open Door Series V. Num Pages: 100 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 114 x 6. Weight in Grams: 66.
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
New Island Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
SKU
KTK0091569
ISBN
9781905494026
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Prepare to be SCANDALISED with international multi-million-copy selling Penny Jordan. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 316. Some light shelf wear, else as new
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
SKU
KRA0009159
ISBN
9781847560759
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Prepare to be SCANDALISED with international multi-million-copy selling Penny Jordan. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 308. Used paperback in good condition. Some shelf wear.
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
SKU
KRF0024031
ISBN
9781847560759
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. A new arrival sets tongues wagging in the village of Turnham Malpas, from the Sunday Times bestselling author. Series: Turnham Malpas. Num Pages: 288 pages, map. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 22. Weight in Grams: 276.
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780752826776
ISBN
9780752826776
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. The villagers have more than a few home truths to share .. Series: Prior's Ford. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 125 x 23. Weight in Grams: 234.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780751542219
ISBN
9780751542219
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.06

Paperback. A powerful and vivid debut collection describing the plight of children caught up in difficult and often harrowing situations throughout the continent of Africa. Num Pages: 304 pages, map. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 20. Weight in Grams: 208.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Abacus
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349120645
ISBN
9780349120645
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.06

Paperback. In the summer of 2007, Francisco Goldman's young wife Aura died suddenly on a beach in Mexico. Say Her Name is the novel born out of this personal tragedy - an extraordinary tale that weighs the unexpected gift of love against the blinding grief of loss. Num Pages: 350 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 350. In the summer of 2007, Francisco Goldman's young wife Aura died suddenly on a beach in Mexico. Say Her Name is the novel born out of this personal tragedy - an extraordinary tale that weighs the unexpected gift of love against the blinding grief of loss. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 199 x 129 x 26. Weight: 346.
Publisher
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611855944
ISBN
9781611855944
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.01

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