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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Most of us can remember a defining moment in our lives. A split second when time stood still and our lives changed forever. For Lily Ormond, that moment came late one night when she answered a knock on the door and discovered that while she'd been smashing garlic and rosemary and watching the soaps, her sister Alison had drowned. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 33. Weight in Grams: 362. 8vo. Good clean copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KEX0265788
ISBN
9781848270114
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Most of us can remember a defining moment in our lives. A split second when time stood still and our lives changed forever. For Lily Ormond, that moment came late one night when she answered a knock on the door and discovered that while she'd been smashing garlic and rosemary and watching the soaps, her sister Alison had drowned. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 33. Weight in Grams: 362. Good clean copy with some reader wear.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
1st ed
SKU
KTM0006440
ISBN
9781848270114
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Most of us can remember a defining moment in our lives. A split second when time stood still and our lives changed forever. For Lily Ormond, that moment came late one night when she answered a knock on the door and discovered that while she'd been smashing garlic and rosemary and watching the soaps, her sister Alison had drowned. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 33. Weight in Grams: 362. Good clean copy with some reader wear.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
1st ed
SKU
KTM0006437
ISBN
9781848270114
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Most of us can remember a defining moment in our lives. A split second when time stood still and our lives changed forever. For Lily Ormond, that moment came late one night when she answered a knock on the door and discovered that while she'd been smashing garlic and rosemary and watching the soaps, her sister Alison had drowned. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 33. Weight in Grams: 362. Good clean copy with some reader wear.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
1st ed
SKU
KTM0004631
ISBN
9781848270114
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Most of us can remember a defining moment in our lives. A split second when time stood still and our lives changed forever. For Lily Ormond, that moment came late one night when she answered a knock on the door and discovered that while she'd been smashing garlic and rosemary and watching the soaps, her sister Alison had drowned. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 33. Weight in Grams: 362. Clean copy with some shelf wear, minor nicks and bumps on cover but otherwise clean
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Condition
Used, Good
Edition
1st ed
SKU
KSS0007540
ISBN
9781848270114
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Twenty year old Jenny Bunn is supernally beautiful and stubbornly chaste, which is why Patrick Standish, an arrogant schoolmaster, wants her so much. This novel about a northern girl who moves south, wants to fit in and yet wants to preserve her principles, challenges our assumptions about the battle of the sexes and classes in Britain. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 133 x 20. Weight in Grams: 238.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141194271
ISBN
9780141194271
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.01

Paperback. Cleo thinks she's found her Mr Right - but if that's the case, why can't she get old adversary Johnny LaVenture out of her mind? A delicious romance from an author who knows love inside out.. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 134 x 24. Weight in Grams: 298. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Review
Edition
Reprint
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KTG0007444
ISBN
9780755328222
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. From one of this generation's most talked about young writers comes a novel about failed relationships, drug-induced depression, marriage, and death Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 180.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Canongate Books
Condition
New
SKU
9781782111856
ISBN
9781782111856
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 10.38

Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 168 x 102 x 25. Weight in Grams: 136.
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Kensington
Condition
New
SKU
V9781617733710
ISBN
9781617733710
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.59

Publisher
Canada
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9781552665152
ISBN
9781552665152
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 20.65

Paperback. Sonokrom, a village in the Ghanaian hinterland, has not changed for thousands of years. Kayo is a forensic pathologist convinced that scientific logic can shatter even the most inexplicable of mysteries. But as events in the village become incomprehensible, Kayo finds that Western logic and political bureaucracy are no longer equal to the task. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 134.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099526124
ISBN
9780099526124
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.00

Paperback. A novel that follows the strange second life of William Howard Taft, the gentle giant who never wanted to be president in the first place, as he tries to survive the hyperactive tempest of 21st-century politics. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 207 x 141 x 18. Weight in Grams: 254.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Quirk Books United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9781594745508
ISBN
9781594745508
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 14.40

Paperback. A powerful debut from a new voice in contemporary African writing Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 197 x 23. Weight in Grams: 240.
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Canongate Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Main
SKU
KLJ0017303
ISBN
9781782118053
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 14.99
€ 9.82

Paperback. Having failed spectacularly as a hustler, pimp, husband, father and businessman, Sick Boy taps into an opportunity which to him represents one last throw of the dice. However, to realise his ambitions within the Adult industries, Sick Boy must team up with old pal and fellow exile Mark Renton. Series: Trainspotting. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 196 x 32. Weight in Grams: 342.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Film Tie-In
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784704735
ISBN
9781784704735
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. How far would a grandmother go to stay close to her grandson? Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 148 x 27. Weight in Grams: 384.
Publisher
Halban Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905559701
ISBN
9781905559701
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. Num Pages: 146 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 186.
Publisher
Daunt Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781907970559
ISBN
9781907970559
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.73

Paperback. Guy Crouchback, a Catholic and a gentleman is commissioned into the Royal Corps of Halberdiers during the war years 1939-45. High comedy - in the company of Brigadier Ritchie-Hook or the denizens of Bellamy's Club - is only part of the shambles of his war. When action comes in Crete and in Yugoslavia, he discovers not heroism, but humanity. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 736 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 127 x 30. Weight in Grams: 510.
Publisher
Press
Number of pages
736
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141184975
ISBN
9780141184975
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.96

Hardcover. Clarence Chugwater is not a Boy Scout for nothing. It is summer 1909 and everyone is too interested in the Test Match to notice that England has been invaded by the Germans. And the Russians. And the Chinese. Not to mention a 'boisterous band of the Young Turks', a mad Mullah, and a brace of North African pirates. Series: Everyman's Library P G Wodehouse. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 191 x 135 x 16. Weight in Grams: 238.
Publisher
Everyman
Number of pages
144
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841591902
ISBN
9781841591902
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.80

Paperback. Features four tales of seduction and suspense such as The Visitor, Bitch, The Great Switcheroo and The Last Act. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 197 x 14. Weight in Grams: 150.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241955727
ISBN
9780241955727
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.01

Paperback. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141036601
ISBN
9780141036601
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 133 x 18. Weight in Grams: 271.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Three Rooms Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9781941110089
ISBN
9781941110089
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.18

Paperback. From the infamous Glasgow slum, the Gorbals, the author chronicles a week in his life, in the last days before the demolishers move in. In this book, he tells about his old-timers and eccentrics, navigating his pregnant wife, frisky bedfellows and debt collectors. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 131 x 31. Weight in Grams: 350.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784870126
ISBN
9781784870126
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.84

Hardcover. Depicts a Lebanese immigrant family in Washington, DC, in the 1950s and gives us entree into a male-dominated, independence-stifling culture where female roles were rigidly prescribed. Series: Arab American Writing. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 463.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815608578
ISBN
9780815608578
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 24.43

Paperback. *An exciting and atmospheric novel that will continue to expand the audience for Simon Mawer Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 23. Weight in Grams: 240.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
Digital original
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349119236
ISBN
9780349119236
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

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