Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. Reeling from the terrorist attack that killed her father, Lorna lurches through an inebriated adolescence until she finds redemption in a young soldier called Danny. However, her dream of a stable life is shattered when Danny is called to serve overseas. Danny is lost in the desert. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 17. Weight in Grams: 186.
- Publisher
- Legend Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910394564
- ISBN
- 9781910394564
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.02
€ 10.99
€ 10.02
Paperback. Greg is a fading middle-aged actor whose family life has long since become stale; Sally is a struggling young playwright. When they're thrown together to do a West End play, they plunge into a reckless affair that seems to offer an escape into fantasy. This novel features a portrait of modern illusions about love. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 126 x 196 x 36. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 544
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571222643
- ISBN
- 9780571222643
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.12
€ 10.99
€ 9.12
Paperback. A witty tale of marriage and midlife longing, as a taken-for-granted wife pursues a fantasy love via e-mail. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 127 x 17. Weight in Grams: 231.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Bridge Works Publishing Co ,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781882593484
- ISBN
- 9781882593484
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.70
€ 16.99
€ 15.70
Hardback. A witty tale of marriage and midlife longing, as a taked-for-granted-wife pursues a fantasy love via e-mail. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Bridge Works Publishing Co ,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781882593323
- ISBN
- 9781882593323
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 21.46
€ 23.99
€ 21.46
Paperback. Series: Serpent's Tail Classics. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Profile Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Main - Classic Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781259313
- ISBN
- 9781781259313
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.48
€ 14.99
€ 11.48
Paperback. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 163 x 14. Weight in Grams: 226.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Archipelago
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781935744788
- ISBN
- 9781935744788
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 16.18
€ 18.99
€ 16.18
Paperback. Famine, poverty, and disease are widespread. Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes this depressing reality by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia where you can be anything you want to be, where you can live and play and fall in love on any of ten thousand planets. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FJ; FL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 29. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099560432
- ISBN
- 9780099560432
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.45
€ 13.99
€ 10.45
Paperback. Seattle, with its natural beauty and rough frontier history, has inspired writers from its earliest days. This anthology includes fiction, memoirs, histories, and journalism that define the city or use it as a setting. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 19. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295983950
- ISBN
- 9780295983950
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 26.95
€ 26.99
€ 26.95
Paperback. Collects the interviews, essays and articles that span a quarter of a century of Philip Roth's distinguished career and 'reveal a preoccupation with the relationship between the written and the unwritten world.' Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 132 x 21. Weight in Grams: 232.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099485025
- ISBN
- 9780099485025
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.19
€ 17.99
€ 13.19
Paperback. Tells the story of a haunted childhood, lived out in two dimensions. One is legendary: the Sun-fort of Grianan, home of the warrior Fianna; the Field of the Disappeared, over which no gulls fly; the house in Donegal where children are stolen away by demonic forces. The other is actual: the city of Derry in the Northern Ireland of the 40s and 50s. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 200. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMK0000988
- ISBN
- 9780099744412
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Tells the story of a haunted childhood, lived out in two dimensions. One is legendary: the Sun-fort of Grianan, home of the warrior Fianna; the Field of the Disappeared, over which no gulls fly; the house in Donegal where children are stolen away by demonic forces. The other is actual: the city of Derry in the Northern Ireland of the 40s and 50s. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 200. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KCW0000163
- ISBN
- 9780099744412
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. A novel in which the boy narrator grows up enclosed in two worlds. One is legendary - a Donegal house where children are stolen away by demonic forces; the other is actual - the city of Derry in the Northern Ireland of the 1940s and 1950s, a place haunted by political enmities and family secrets. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 200. Well read, but remains good
- Edition
- New edition
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KST0020873
- ISBN
- 9780099744412
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. 'Beautifully observed and astute on tangled relationships. It deserves to be her breakthrough novel' Sarah Broadhurst, Bookseller Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 252.
- Publisher
- Headline Review
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780755303120
- ISBN
- 9780755303120
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.86
€ 13.99
€ 10.86
Paperback. 'This collection is stormy, romantic, strong - the Full Bronte' The Times A collection of short stories celebrating Charlotte Bronte, published in the year of her bicentenary and stemming from the now immortal words from her great work Jane Eyre. Editor(s): Chevalier, Tracy. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780008150600
- ISBN
- 9780008150600
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.58
€ 13.99
€ 10.58
Hardcover. Well-read hardback in good condition, with dustjacket, some shelf wear.
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- SKU
- KRF0029625
- ISBN
- 9780316727501
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Marie-Constance loves reading and possesses a beautiful voice. So, one day she decides to put an ad in the local paper offering her services as a paid reader. Her first client, a paralysed teenager, is transformed by her reading of a Maupassant short story. Her fame spreads and soon the rich, the creative and the famous clamour for her services. Translator(s): Hunter, Adriana. Num Pages: 174 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 125 x 17. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Publisher
- Peirene Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908670229
- ISBN
- 9781908670229
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.35
€ 16.99
€ 13.35
Paperback. Reach for Tomorrow is a heartwarming tale of Rosie Ferry's indomitable spirit and determination to survive no matter what. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 120 x 31. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Publisher
- Headline Publishing Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780747258056
- ISBN
- 9780747258056
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.64
€ 14.99
€ 11.64
Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 210 x 23. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780143107941
- ISBN
- 9780143107941
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.10
€ 17.99
€ 16.10
Paperback. A safe, sustainable future is certainly not assured, granted the awesome power of vested interest and inert bureaucracies. But on the evidence provided in Rays of Hope, such a future appears well worth fighting for. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; RNF. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 203 x 127 x 25. Weight in Grams: 280. 240p. Paperback. P.B. Keywords: "Science & Nature - Environment & Ecology - Natural Resources Management,Subjects - Fiction - By Period - General,Subjects - Fiction - General,Subjects - Science & Natur"
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- W.W. Norton & Company Ltd Dublin, Ireland
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1977
- SKU
- KON0587605
- ISBN
- 9780393064223
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Incredible story about a young Chilean girl's talent for recreating the magic of movies that captures the nostalgia of South American village cinemas in all their glory. Translator(s): Almani, Saleh. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 146 x 8. Weight in Grams: 102. 112 pages. Incredible story about a young Chilean girl's talent for recreating the magic of movies that captures the nostalgia of South American village cinemas in all their glory. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 199 x 146 x 8. Weight: 102. Translator(s): Almani, Saleh. Language: Arabic.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury USA
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789992194010
- ISBN
- 9789992194010
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 8.56
€ 9.99
€ 8.56
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Brindle and Glass Publishing, Ltd Canada
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781897142363
- ISBN
- 9781897142363
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 19.48
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€ 19.48
Paperback. Set in a Yorkshire mining village at the turn of the twentieth century, an engrossing slice of historical fiction from the acclaimed author of Netherwood Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 141 x 41. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Number of pages
- 544
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Digital original
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780751547689
- ISBN
- 9780751547689
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.97
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Paperback. Abe Ravelstein is a professor who has lived much beyond his means. His close friend Chick suggests that he put forth a book of his convictions and much to his surprise, he does and becomes a millionaire. Ravelstein suggests in turn that Chick write a memoir. But, the mood turns somber once Ravelstein succumbs to AIDS and Chick himself nearly dies. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 180.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141188850
- ISBN
- 9780141188850
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.73
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€ 11.73
Paperback. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 31. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Main Market Ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781509837861
- ISBN
- 9781509837861
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.87
€ 13.99
€ 10.87