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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

paperback. Translator(s): Donougher, Christine. Series: Dedalus Europe 1992-95 S. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 25. Weight in Grams: 330.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Dedalus Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781873982952
ISBN
9781873982952
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.24

Paperback. This interactive romantic comedy allows readers to have control of the story as they follow a young woman's quest for love in the big city. Illustrator(s): Hobbs, Pamela. Num Pages: 144 pages, 35 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; WHP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 172 x 105 x 11. Weight in Grams: 74. Some shelfwear. Good to very good condition
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Quirk Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
SKU
KST0032683
ISBN
9781931686358
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. A wonderful, emotionally rich novel of the power of mother love, by the author of THE LAST LETTER FROM YOUR LOVER. Num Pages: 416 pages, n/a. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 294.
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780340895962
ISBN
9780340895962
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.10

Num Pages: 226 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 133 x 23. Weight in Grams: 364.
Publication date
2005
Publisher
M P Publishing Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
226
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849822022
ISBN
9781849822022
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.89

hardcover. Reinforces the Viennese author's remarkable achievement as literary modernist, depth psychologist, and prose stylist. Translator(s): Schaefer, Margret. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 27. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Ivan R. Dee United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Edition
Translation
SKU
V9781566633864
ISBN
9781566633864
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 37.29

Paperback. On a damp October night the body of beautiful Ashley Cordova is discovered in a Manhattan warehouse. Though her death is ruled a suicide, investigative journalist Scott McGrath suspects otherwise. The last time McGrath got too close to the Cordova dynasty, he lost his marriage and his career. This time he could lose his mind. Num Pages: 624 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 39. Weight in Grams: 496.
Publisher
Windmill Books
Number of pages
624
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099559245
ISBN
9780099559245
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.65

Paperback. The gripping lost masterpiece novel of wartime Vienna. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 126 x 32. Weight in Grams: 446.
Publisher
Abacus
Number of pages
640
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349000336
ISBN
9780349000336
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.20

Paperback. Mma has just buried her mother, and now she is alone. She has been left everything. But she's also inherited her mother's bad name. A bold, brash woman, the only thing her mother refused to discuss was her past. Why did she flee her family and bring her daughter to a new town when she was a baby? What was she escaping from? Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 137 x 20. Weight in Grams: 296.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780224093835
ISBN
9780224093835
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.69

Paperback. A terrifying and eerie thriller where the nightmare is real. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FH; FK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472248251
ISBN
9781472248251
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.97

Paperback. On the side of a mountain, in eighteenth century Japan, sits a man in perfect stillness as the summit erupts, spitting fire and molten rock onto the land around him. The man is Hakuin. He will become the world's most famous teacher of zen. This is not the first time he has seen hell. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 30. Weight in Grams: 314.
Publisher
Canongate Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857868541
ISBN
9780857868541
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.41

Paperback. Katharine Hilbery is beautiful and privileged, but uncertain of her future. She must choose between becoming engaged to the oddly prosaic poet William Rodney, and her dangerous attraction to the passionate Ralph Denham. Num Pages: 496 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 352.
Publisher
Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140185683
ISBN
9780140185683
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.77

Paperback. Virginia Woolf portrays her elder sister Vanessa in the person of Katharine Hilbery - the gifted daughter of a distinguished literary family, trapped in an environment which will not allow her to express herself. This title deals with their story. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 131 x 31. Weight in Grams: 376.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
528
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099982708
ISBN
9780099982708
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.86

Paperback.
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Baen Books United States
Number of pages
508
Condition
New
Format
Paperback
SKU
V9781476736181
ISBN
9781476736181
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.41

Paperback. Lying on a four-poster bed, unable to sleep, Mary Hooligan recounts (mis)adventures, courtships, and sexual encounters of the most transgressive kind, in a narrative voice of blistering originality. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 11. Weight in Grams: 128.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
SKU
9780571270293
ISBN
9780571270293
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.99

Paperback. "Combining a Houellebecq-like sense of the psychic malaise beneath the surface of contemporary cultural life with the disspassionate voice of a police report, Nicola, Milan tells a story of perverse, asexual frenzy emptying out into the void"--Back cover. Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 10. Weight in Grams: 208.
Publisher
Autonomedia
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781584351283
ISBN
9781584351283
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 14.40

Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 371.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9781628723205
ISBN
9781628723205
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 15.22

Paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FR; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 25. Weight in Grams: 280.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408876947
ISBN
9781408876947
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.79

Paperback. When Vic Wilcox (MD of Pringle's engineering works) meets English lecturer Dr Robyn Penrose, sparks fly as their lifestyles and ideologies collide head on. What, after all, are they supposed to learn from each other? But in time both parties make some surprising discoveries about each other's worlds - and about themselves. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 214.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099554189
ISBN
9780099554189
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.95

Paperback. Ranging from the ultra realistic "Some Hours in the Life of a Witch" to the surreal fantasy world of "Fulfilment" and "The Wife of Bath", the stories in this book describe ordinary and not so ordinary lives, and the lives of women in particular, in the feminist and post-feminist era in Ireland. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 217 x 11. Weight in Grams: 244.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Cork University Press
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9781855942011
ISBN
9781855942011
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 10.60

Hardcover. These African experiences are recorded through the eyes of an African who is at once a participant and an observer, the latter due to the fact that he has come home on vacation from Europe. The reader is exposed to a variety of settings in the author's native Togo: middle-class city life, urban slums, and life in a village. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 163 x 14. Weight in Grams: 374.
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
112
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9780838640203
ISBN
9780838640203
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 91.90

paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; VX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 230 x 14. Weight in Grams: 286.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Manor House Publishing Canada
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780978107000
ISBN
9780978107000
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 18.70

Paperback. Run by Toby and Paula, the centre offers ordinary people a chance to learn from professional artists skilled in poetry, sculpture, ceramics, and the like. Artists like Greg, the New England poet, whose works are strangely absent; or Bob the lascivious potter who sells his Toby jugs to department stores. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 126 x 18. Weight in Grams: 144. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1984
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0000712
ISBN
9780140064810
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. 1936: London is abuzz with gossip about the affair between Edward VIII and Mrs Simpson. But the king is not the only member of the aristocracy with a hard decision to make. Owen Montignac, the handsome and charismatic descendent of a wealthy land-owning family, is anxiously awaiting the reading of his late uncle's will. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 41. Weight in Grams: 452.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Black Swan
Condition
New
SKU
9780552777407
ISBN
9780552777407
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.01

Paperback. The land running down to the River Dean has been farmed by the Meredith family for generations. Robin Meredith bought the farm from his father, just before he married his wife Caro and now he and his brother Joe work on the land. But now Caro has died, as much as a mystery to the family as she was when she arrived twenty years ago. Num Pages: 320 pages, port. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 242. 317pp
Condition
Used, Good
Edition
Reprint
Publisher
Black Swan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
SKU
KON0825688
ISBN
9780552997003
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

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