Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. It's 1924, and New York is the centre of the universe. Henry Smart, on the run from Dublin, falls on his feet. He is a handsome man with a sandwich board, behind that he stashes hooch for the speakeasies of the Lower East Side. He catches the attention of the mobsters who run the district and soon there are eyes on his back and men in the shadows. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 284. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAC0000706
- ISBN
- 9780099477655
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardcover. It's 1924, and New York is the centre of the universe. Henry falls on his feet, as a handsome man with a sandwich board, and behind his sandwich board a stash of hooch for the speakeasies of the Lower East Side. When he starts hiring kids to carry boards for him, he catches the attention of the mobsters who run the district. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 161 x 30. Weight in Grams: 700. First edition. Signed by author. Clean copy. Lightly toned. Fine in fine dustjacket
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape London
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KOC0003522
- ISBN
- 9780224074360
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 45.00
€ 45.00
Hardcover. It's 1924, and New York is the centre of the universe. Henry falls on his feet, as a handsome man with a sandwich board, and behind his sandwich board a stash of hooch for the speakeasies of the Lower East Side. When he starts hiring kids to carry boards for him, he catches the attention of the mobsters who run the district. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 161 x 30. Weight in Grams: 700. Good clean copy. Fine in fine dustjacket
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape London
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- SKU
- KOC0002218
- ISBN
- 9780224074360
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 23.11
€ 23.11
Paperback. Ten-year-old Tommy roams the cotton fields of Alabama owned by the notorious Captain Archer. Intimidating guards with fierce dogs protect the land. prevent any slaves from leaving. That is until a supernatural spirit visits Tommy offering a way out. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Publisher
- Darf Publishers Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781850772859
- ISBN
- 9781850772859
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.75
€ 10.99
€ 9.75
Paperback. With a letter announcing the imminent arrival of Madame Dupont, Pop and Ma Larkin learn that little Oscar and Blenheim - are to be christened. Pop, who needs no excuse to open a few bottles and host the perfick party, rushes out and buys a fun fair to celebrate. But there are one or two gatecrashers even Pop hadn't counted on turning up. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 8. Weight in Grams: 100.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141029665
- ISBN
- 9780141029665
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.23
€ 11.99
€ 10.23
Paperback. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 168 x 104 x 20. Weight in Grams: 136.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Kensington Publishing United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780758287144
- ISBN
- 9780758287144
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 9.86
€ 9.99
€ 9.86
Paperback. Everyone knows the real Silvia, don't they? Silvia Shute lies in hospital in a coma. Family and friends gather at her bedside, each thinking they know the real Silvia. But do they? For Silvia hides a secret. One she can never tell. And as her visitors congregate so the truth about Silvia is slowly revealed. Again, and again and again.. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 27. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141046358
- ISBN
- 9780141046358
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.01
€ 13.99
€ 11.01
Paperback. Robert Mitchum was a Hollywood bad-boy and one of the greatest screen actors of the twentieth century. But his pre-fame life is cloaked in mystery, the truth hidden within conflicting tales of time spent as a Depression-era hobo, prizefighter, escaped felon - and secret poet. This book provides a personification of Film Noir, Robert Mitchum. Num Pages: 544 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 215 x 38. Weight in Grams: 586.
- Publisher
- Parthian Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 544
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905762132
- ISBN
- 9781905762132
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.39
€ 13.99
€ 13.39
Paperback. Penelope Fitzgerald's Booker Prize-winning novel of loneliness and connecting is set among the houseboat community of the Thames and has a new introduction from Alan Hollinghurst. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 200.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007320967
- ISBN
- 9780007320967
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.94
€ 11.99
€ 9.94
Paperback. Guy Crouchback is now attached to a commando unit undergoing training on the Hebridean isle of Mugg, where the whisky flows freely and HM forces have to show respect for the laird. But the comedy of Mugg is followed by the bitterness of Crete. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 192 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 196.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141184678
- ISBN
- 9780141184678
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. Bea Maxwell has been kissed only once and has never been in love. Apart form a stint away in Chicago, she has always lived in Green Bay where she cares for her invalid mother. This story charts her solitary but self-possessed life. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128. Weight in Grams: 148.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Main
- SKU
- KEX0200325
- ISBN
- 9781843540014
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. 'Mona Simpson is a wonderful writer, very spare and economical but with extraordinary emotional power. Off Keck Road is her best book yet - lucid and beautiful' Kate Atkinson 'Mona Simpson is a wonderful writer, very spare and economical but with extraordinary emotional power. Off Keck Road is her best book yet - lucid and beautiful' Kate Atkinson Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 147. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- Main
- SKU
- KSS0001827
- ISBN
- 9781843540014
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. 'Mona Simpson is a wonderful writer, very spare and economical but with extraordinary emotional power. Off Keck Road is her best book yet - lucid and beautiful' Kate Atkinson 'Mona Simpson is a wonderful writer, very spare and economical but with extraordinary emotional power. Off Keck Road is her best book yet - lucid and beautiful' Kate Atkinson Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 147. Good clean copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Edition
- Main
- SKU
- KKD0001659
- ISBN
- 9781843540014
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Bea Maxwell has been kissed only once and has never been in love. Apart form a stint away in Chicago, she has always lived in Green Bay where she cares for her invalid mother. This story charts her solitary but self-possessed life. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128. Weight in Grams: 148.
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KEX0200310
- ISBN
- 9781843540014
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Hardcover. Here is a quirky and fantastical novel about things lost and things found from a startling new voice in fiction. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 218 x 27. Weight in Grams: 420. Good clean copy in dustwrapper. DW with some minor shelf wear.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- SKU
- KTG0003631
- ISBN
- 9780007562473
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardcover. Here is a quirky and fantastical novel about things lost and things found from a startling new voice in fiction. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 218 x 27. Weight in Grams: 420. Some light shelf wear, else as new
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- SKU
- KRA0009974
- ISBN
- 9780007562473
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Drifters in search of work, George and his childlike friend Lennie, have nothing in the world except the clothes on their back - and a dream that one day they will have some land of their own. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 14. Weight in Grams: 112.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- SKU
- 9780141185101
- ISBN
- 9780141185101
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.44
€ 10.99
€ 9.44
Paperback. Streetwise George and his childlike friend Lennie are drifters, searching for work in the fields and valleys of California. They have nothing except the clothes on their back, and a hope that one day they'll find a place of their own and live the American dream. But do dreams come at a price! Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 183 x 10. Weight in Grams: 98.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141023571
- ISBN
- 9780141023571
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.21
€ 11.99
€ 10.21
hardcover. Describes how in 1949, as a young reporter, the author witnessed the opening of several tombs as an old convent made way for a new hotel. One of the tombs contained a skeleton of a young girl with reddish hair that measured 22 metres, 11 centimetres long. This novel talks about her legend as a popular saint. Num Pages: 5 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 145. Weight in Grams: 379. Good clean copy, showing light age and shelfwear. Light wear to dust jacket
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape London
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMO0000898
- ISBN
- 9780224040259
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
Paperback. When a witch doctor appears on the Marquis de Casalduero's doorstep prophesising a plague of rabies in the Colombian seaport, he dismisses her claims - until he hears that his young daughter, Sierva Maria, was one of four people bitten by a rabid dog, and the only one to survive. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 12. Weight in Grams: 132.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780241968741
- ISBN
- 9780241968741
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.45
€ 13.99
€ 10.45