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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Hardback. Set in the Berlin Nightclub scene, three young men, all from different backgrounds, meet by chance. Tomorrow Berlin depicts the flawed character's lives spiral downwards, their lifestyles drawing them into a grimy abyss that threatens to eclipse them. Translator(s): Miller, George. Num Pages: 170 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 120 x 185 x 21. Weight in Grams: 208.
- Publisher
- Arcadia Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910050460
- ISBN
- 9781910050460
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.04
€ 13.99
€ 11.04
Paperback. Victor, a ghostwriter, is just about to have an affair with Marta, a married woman, when - in the bedroom, half-undressed - she drops dead in his arms. He panics and slips away. But Marta's family are all too aware that she was not alone when she died, and Dean, the widowed husband, is determined to find out who was sharing her bed that night. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 132 x 19. Weight in Grams: 234.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141199986
- ISBN
- 9780141199986
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. Michel is ten years old, living in Pointe Noire, Congo, in the 1970s. His mother sells peanuts at the market, his father works at the Victory Palace Hotel, and brings home books left behind by the white guests. Planes cross the sky overhead, and Michel and his friend Lounes dream about the countries where they'll land. Translator(s): Stevenson, Helen. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 138 x 26. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Publisher
- Profile Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846685842
- ISBN
- 9781846685842
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.68
€ 13.00
€ 11.68
Paperback. An intensely moving and beautifully written novel from the Booker-prize winning author of Last Orders, and Mothering Sunday Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130. .
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781471162022
- ISBN
- 9781471162022
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.02
€ 11.99
€ 10.02
Paperback. From the bestselling author of OUR KID and HIGH HOPES comes his most heartwarming work to date: the story of his father Tommy, and his determined, spirited battle to rise above the slums and the workhouse and build a better life for himself and his family Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 29. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Publisher
- Headline Publishing Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780755359592
- ISBN
- 9780755359592
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.04
€ 13.99
€ 11.04
Paperback. In this semiautobiographical novel, the young French Algerian author Nina Bouraoui introduces us to a girl who feels that Algeria is the country of men. Her childhood years spent in Algeria lead her to explore the borderland between genders as she tries to find her balance between nations, races, and identities. Translator(s): Gavarini, Jehanne-Marie; Salvodon, Marjorie Attignol. Series: European Women Writers. Num Pages: 129 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 215 x 5. Weight in Grams: 168.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 129
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803262591
- ISBN
- 9780803262591
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.33
€ 26.99
€ 25.33
Paperback. Memories of an Irish lad in wartime Liverpool Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 212. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Headline Publishing Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- SKU
- KRA0004817
- ISBN
- 9780755336791
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Memories of an Irish lad in wartime Liverpool Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 212.
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Headline Publishing Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- SKU
- KLN0014208
- ISBN
- 9780755336791
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Poolbeg Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781998618
- ISBN
- 9781781998618
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 7.63
€ 7.63
Paperback. The matchless detective and psychoanalyst Mrs Bradley is visiting the picturesque village of Spey in search of a local witch when Gerald Conway, a junior master at Spey College, is found murdered. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 17. Weight in Grams: 180.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099526230
- ISBN
- 9780099526230
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.67
€ 23.99
€ 17.67
Paperback. Series: Stories to Remember S. Num Pages: 168 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: CJBR; FA; YFB. Category: (ES) Secondary; (UA) A / AS level. Dimension: 122 x 186 x 10. Weight in Grams: 168.
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Macmillan Education
- Number of pages
- 168
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1982
- Edition
- Abridged edition
- SKU
- KLN0014312
- ISBN
- 9780333099261
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. Nineteen classic fairy tales, retold for younger readers in the early twentieth-century, including "Rapunzel," "Little Red Riding-Hood," "Rumpelstiltskin," and "The Sleeping Beauty." Illustrator(s): Watson, A. H. Series: Oddly Modern Fairy Tales. Num Pages: 248 pages, 38 line illus. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 149 x 199 x 21. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Edition
- Updated edition with a New Introduction
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691159218
- ISBN
- 9780691159218
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 34.90
€ 34.90
Paperback. August 1946. One year on from surrender and Tokyo lies broken and bleeding at the feet of its American victors. Against this extraordinary historical backdrop, Tokyo Year Zero opens with the discovery of the bodies of two young women in Shiba Park. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 25. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571231997
- ISBN
- 9780571231997
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.73
€ 13.99
€ 10.73
Paperback. A major international debut novel from a storyteller who couples a timelessly beguiling style with an energetically modern worldscape. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 51. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007182138
- ISBN
- 9780007182138
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.32
€ 13.00
€ 11.32
Paperback. Series: Modern Library. Num Pages: 480 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 131 x 26. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Publisher
- Random House USA Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 480
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- New ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780375761324
- ISBN
- 9780375761324
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.01
€ 23.99
€ 17.01
Paperback. 'Whipsmart, dazzling, darkly comic and deeply touching. I loved it!' Marian Keyes A brilliant new novel from the author of bestselling Where'd You Go, Bernadette, about a woman who wakes up determined to be her best self. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780227337
- ISBN
- 9781780227337
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
€ 13.99
€ 11.09
Paperback. A profoundly moving debut novel about the fragility of family love, the resilience of the living, the durability of memory and the experience of bereavement. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 134 x 14. Weight in Grams: 174. 176 pages. A profoundly moving debut novel about the fragility of family love, the resilience of the living, the durability of memory and the experience of bereavement. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 198 x 134 x 14. Weight: 174.
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848876064
- ISBN
- 9781848876064
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 8.48
€ 9.99
€ 8.48
Paperback. When Toby is reported 'Missing, Believed Killed', another secret casts a lengthening shadow over Elinor's world: how exactly did Toby die - and why? Elinor determines to uncover the truth. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 195 x 20. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141042206
- ISBN
- 9780141042206
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02
Paperback. Toby Sligh is a senior at a Jesuit high school in Tampa who wants only to dance with his boyfriend at the prom. This is the least of his worries, as he finds himself tangled in a web of half truths. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 5SG; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153. Weight in Grams: 407.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780747523659
- ISBN
- 9780747523659
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.35
€ 10.99
€ 9.35
Paperback. Perfect for every woman who loves the family drama of a Penny Vincenzi novel and the glamorous settings of Tasmina Perry.. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 29. Weight in Grams: 282. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Headline Publishing Group
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KRA0011695
- ISBN
- 9780755370320
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. A devasting and unforgettable story of doomed love from the winner of the Booker Prize, reissued with a new introduction by Nadeem Aslam Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 188. 208 pages. A devasting and unforgettable story of doomed love from the winner of the Booker Prize, reissued with a new introduction by Nadeem Aslam. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 197 x 129 x 15. Weight: 148.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780747599395
- ISBN
- 9780747599395
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.72
€ 19.99
€ 14.72
Paperback. Ellie's heart was broken when her lovely husband passed away. Will she ever be truly happy again? Find out in this engaging romantic novel from bestselling author Jill Mansell. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 34. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Headline Publishing Group
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780755355815
- ISBN
- 9780755355815
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
paperback. Provides the author's own early experiences, and while it touches on childhood and children's perceptions and desires, it is most clear when exploring adult relationships, marriage and the changing class-structure in the period spanning the Great War. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 11. Weight in Grams: 118.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781853260919
- ISBN
- 9781853260919
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 7.01
€ 7.01
Hardcover. This is the story of a woman and her family experiencing the passage of time and seeking to recapture meaning from the flux of things. Though Mrs Ramsay's death is the event on which the novel turns, her presence pervades every page in a poetic evocation of loss and memory. Num Pages: 242 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 131 x 22. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Number of pages
- 242
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857150308
- ISBN
- 9781857150308
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.04
€ 19.99
€ 15.04