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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Longlisted for the 2017 Dylan Thomas Prize Pigeon is a journey through the uneasy half-forgotten memories of childhood, a story about wishful-thinking and the power of language. Num Pages: 268 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 150 x 21. Weight in Grams: 198.
Publisher
Parthian Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910901236
ISBN
9781910901236
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.73

Paperback. Cowan's beautifully drawn, multi award-winning first novel of love in the hostile climate of modern British society Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 178.
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9780340824122
ISBN
9780340824122
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. Every night, Kawashima Masayuki creeps from his bed and watches over his baby girl's crib while his wife sleeps. But this is no ordinary domestic scene. He has an ice pick in his hand, and a barely controllable desire to use it. Deciding to confront his demons, Kawashima sets into motion a chain of events seeming to lead inexorably to murder. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 136.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
paperback / softback
Condition
New
SKU
V9780747593133
ISBN
9780747593133
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.65

Paperback. #1 CONTEMPORARY FICTION BESTSELLER As compelling and powerful as Jojo Moyes and Liane Moriarty, PIECES OF YOU is a heart-rending, but ultimately life-affirming novel about a love tested to its limits. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 28. Weight in Grams: 310. #1 CONTEMPORARY FICTION BESTSELLER As compelling and powerful as Jojo Moyes and Liane Moriarty, PIECES OF YOU is a heart-rending, but ultimately life-affirming novel about a love tested to its limits. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 28. Weight in Grams: 310. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Avon
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
SKU
KTG0013108
ISBN
9780007581108
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. One woman runs from her past, as another tries to escape her future; a young boy holds close a terrible secret, and a father does everything he can to protect him. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 126 x 21. Weight in Grams: 496. 464 pages. One woman runs from her past, as another tries to escape her future; a young boy holds close a terrible secret, and a father does everything he can to protect him. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 197 x 126 x 21. Weight: 432.
Publisher
Allen & Unwin
Number of pages
464
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781742379210
ISBN
9781742379210
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.19

Paperback. Stunningly re-packaged to coincide with the release of The Longest Holiday Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 28. Weight in Grams: 290.
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Ltd
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781471129599
ISBN
9781471129599
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.99

Paperback. Beneath the unassuming surface of a progressive women's college lurks a world of intellectual pride and pomposity awaiting devastation by the pens of two brilliant and appalling wits. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 134 x 14. Weight in Grams: 304.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226393759
ISBN
9780226393759
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 18.32

Paperback. What do you do when the person who holds you together is the one who tears you apart? Jodi Picoult's compelling number one bestseller centres on domestic abuse. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 28. Weight in Grams: 322.
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Number of pages
480
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444754391
ISBN
9781444754391
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Luath Press Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
79
Condition
New
SKU
V9781842820216
ISBN
9781842820216
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 8.68

Hardcover. When Jimmy falls for a girl in London and vows to reform himself as a result, the quest for love leads him to his Aunt Nesta's house in New York, where his escapades involve impersonating himself and attempting to kidnap Nesta's odious son Ogden - with the boy demanding a cut of the ransom money. Series: Everyman's Library P G Wodehouse. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 191 x 134 x 30. Weight in Grams: 412.
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841591353
ISBN
9781841591353
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.95

Paperback. Translator(s): Harss, Luis. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 134 x 203 x 20. Weight in Grams: 302.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780811221801
ISBN
9780811221801
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.47

Paperback. Editor(s): Langland, Elizabeth. Num Pages: 463 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 141 x 24. Weight in Grams: 552.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd Canada
Condition
New
SKU
V9781551112961
ISBN
9781551112961
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 30.95

Paperback. The year is 1832 and Cape is rife with rumours about liberation of slaves. Philida is the mother of four children by Francois Brink, the son of her master. Francois has reneged on his promise to set her free and his father has ordered him to marry a white woman from a prominent family, selling Philida on to owners in harsh country in the north. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 24. Weight in Grams: 300. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0000584
ISBN
9780099578758
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. From the author of Fierce People comes a blistering, haunting, aching novel about what you do when the unthinkable happens - and when the memory of it refuses to be left behind Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 272. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KCW0001591
ISBN
9781408800744
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. It was 1882 when Antoinette Giry took her daughter to the funfair at Neuilly. There, in a cage, she saw a manacled creature whose tormented eyes shone from a grotesquely deformed face. Antoinette freed him and cured his wounds. The creature, Erik, whose hideous face hid a brilliant brain of near-genius, was now to become the Phantom of the Opera. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 106 x 17. Weight in Grams: 138.
Publisher
Corgi
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780552147194
ISBN
9780552147194
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.85

Paperback. Series: Dedalus Hall of Fame. Num Pages: 164 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 125 x 196 x 14. Weight in Grams: 178.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Dedalus Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
2nd Edition
Number of pages
164
Condition
New
SKU
V9781909232808
ISBN
9781909232808
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.44

Paperback. 'What was the use of living in a porn film now, at her age?' pondered Peyton Amberg, alone in a Hong Kong hotel room. At twenty, when she could have pulled a film star, she'd had no sex drive at all. Then she - and her mother - had wanted love and commitment so she married the 'Jewish dentist' who thought she was a goddess but left her cold. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 280.
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC London
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
New
SKU
KRS0003954
ISBN
9780747568346
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Teenage, precocious Alyosha Alexandrov has never known anything but a life of privilege. He spends his days avoiding study and pursuing pretty young maids. But Russia is poised on the brink of epochal political upheaval and within a year Alyosha is separated from family, security, and the innocence of youth. Num Pages: 550 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 128 x 38. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Parthian Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9781909844568
ISBN
9781909844568
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.47

Paperback. Scandal, intoxication and lies flourish in the silent film studios of Paris Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 286.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Serpent's Tail
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846689079
ISBN
9781846689079
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.38

Hardback. Offers a collection of short fictions, philosophical vignettes and aphoristic interludes. Drawing on memoir and a life lived in pursuit of sensation, but always ignited by the flame of fiction, this book takes us further into the imagination of one of the most radically original prose stylists of the past decade. Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 414. Offers a collection of short fictions, philosophical vignettes and aphoristic interludes. Drawing on memoir and a life lived in pursuit of sensation, but always ignited by the flame of fiction, this book takes us further into the imagination of one of the most radically original prose stylists of the past decade. Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 414.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
9780571298389
ISBN
9780571298389
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 6.23

Hardback. "Lavishly illustrated with interactive elements"--Front cover. Illustrator(s): Minalima Ltd. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FC; YFA. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 245 x 167 x 34. Weight in Grams: 892.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Condition
New
SKU
9780062362223
ISBN
9780062362223
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 18.66

Paperback. When Peter Pan and his fairy companion Tinker Bell fly in through the window of Wendy's nursery one night, it is the beginning of an adventure that whisks Wendy and her brothers Michael and John off to Neverland. Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 14. Weight in Grams: 216.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780142437933
ISBN
9780142437933
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 8.67

Paperback. The name of F.D. Bedford it is erroneously printed as "J. D. Bedford" on the title page. Illustrator(s): Bedford, Francis D.; Rackham, Arthur. Series: Word Cloud Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FC; FJ. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 139 x 200 x 22. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Canterbury Classics
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781626863927
ISBN
9781626863927
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.25

Paperback. The bestselling phenomenon of the Dollanganger family saga continues as the children who escaped the attic build new lives, haunted by their tragic past. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 31. Weight in Grams: 334.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007443154
ISBN
9780007443154
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.40

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