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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Salzburg, 1946. The Hungarian Gold Train, loaded with Jewish treasure. A dazzling jewelled pendant in the form of a stylized peacock. And three men who find their carefully-wrought lives turned upside-down by three amazing and fierce women, each locked in a struggle against her own history and the history of the last hundred years. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 29. Weight in Grams: 314.
Publisher
John Murray Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444763119
ISBN
9781444763119
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 29 x 128 x 197. Weight in Grams: 334. Used paperback, in very good condition. Some shelf wear.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Hachette Books Ireland
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
SKU
KRF0037676
ISBN
9780340752036
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. It is summer and a stranger has come to quiet Rathmoye. He is noticed by Ellie, the young convent girl, who is married to Dillahan, a farmer still mourning his first wife. Over the long and warm days, Ellie and the stranger form an illicit attachment. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 15. Weight in Grams: 164.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141042190
ISBN
9780141042190
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. Reimagines the lives of a legendary couple - Sun Yat-sen, known as the "Father of the Chinese Revolution," and his wife, Song Qingling. This novel touches on Sun Yat-sen's tormented political life and Song Qingling's rumored affairs and isolation after her husband's death. Translator(s): Du, Nancy. Series: Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan. Num Pages: 192 pages, frontispiece. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231138536
ISBN
9780231138536
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.93

Paperback. The wonderfully evocative new novel from the author of FOOTPRINTS IN THE SAND Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 33. Weight in Grams: 410. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Headline Review
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
SKU
KTG0006032
ISBN
9780755330898
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Takes readers into Sri Lanka, Wales, Spain, India, Morocco and the lives and minds of the characters. This book creates a sense of mild disorientation and unreality that makes readers begin to see the world in a different way. Num Pages: 150 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 142.
Publisher
Parthian Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
150
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906998080
ISBN
9781906998080
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.31

Paperback. Is Emilia, the wicked stepmother incarnate? Passionately in love with her husband, Emilia has a secret, guilty loathing for her precocious little stepson, William - a forty-year-old in a five-year-old's body, whom she picks up from nursery every Wednesday afternoon. How can she forgive William for living, when her own cherished child has gone? Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 22. Weight in Grams: 240. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Black Swan
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KTG0007463
ISBN
9780552772921
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Is Emilia, the wicked stepmother incarnate? Passionately in love with her husband, Emilia has a secret, guilty loathing for her precocious little stepson, William - a forty-year-old in a five-year-old's body, whom she picks up from nursery every Wednesday afternoon. How can she forgive William for living, when her own cherished child has gone? Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 22. Weight in Grams: 240. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Black Swan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
SKU
KTG0007377
ISBN
9780552772921
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

paperback. Young, impoverished and ambitious, science student Mr Lewisham is locked in a struggle to further himself through academic achievement. But when his former sweetheart, Ethel Henderson, re-enters his life his strictly regimented existence is thrown into chaos by the resurgence of old passion. Editor(s): James, Simon. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 124 x 16. Weight in Grams: 204.
Publisher
Penguin Classic
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141441054
ISBN
9780141441054
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 12.50

Paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 135 x 27. Weight in Grams: 294.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780062379849
ISBN
9780062379849
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 14.99

Paperback. Set in contemporary India, this work includes five tales which paint a picture of Bombay - its ghosts, its passions, its feuds, its mysteries - while exploring questions of the human spirit. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 126 x 18. Weight in Grams: 216.
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
2nd
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571234509
ISBN
9780571234509
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.74

Paperback. The narrator of this novel has temporarily abandoned his work-in-progress - an essay on Kafka - and exchanged his writer's pen for the orange vest of a Prague road-sweeper. As he works, he meditates on Czechoslovakia, Kafka, life, art and his passionate and adulterous affair with Daria. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 133 x 14. Weight in Grams: 200.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099429586
ISBN
9780099429586
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 26. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Seren
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781721469
ISBN
9781781721469
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.27

Paperback. From pre-First World War Warsaw to the New York of the 1930s, this title traces the early years of the author's life. It presents his bookish boyhood as the son of an Orthodox rabbi, equally absorbed in science, philosophy and cabbala. It chronicles the intricacies of his first love affairs. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 278.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141391595
ISBN
9780141391595
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.81

Paperback. Erica James at her best - 'A very moving novel about life, families and love' Sunday Express Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 36. Weight in Grams: 384.
Publisher
Orion
Number of pages
560
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780752883410
ISBN
9780752883410
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.00

Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 133 x 24. Weight in Grams: 276.
Publisher
Tuttle Publishing United States
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804841801
ISBN
9780804841801
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.63

Paperback. A dark and marvelous journey from the Industrial Age through Hollywood's Golden Age, into the Digital Age and beyond. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 127 x 20. Weight in Grams: 271.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Bellevue Literary Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781934137642
ISBN
9781934137642
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 15.47

Hardcover. A tale of Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge, one of Wodehouse's favourite protagonists, and his fraught attempt to establish a business farming chickens on the coast of Dorset. Series: Everyman's Library P G Wodehouse. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 186 x 136 x 21. Weight in Grams: 306.
Publisher
Everyman Paperback Classics
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841591766
ISBN
9781841591766
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.91

Paperback. An anthology of 29 modern lesbian short stories compiled by Emma Donoghue. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: 5SL; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 163 x 40. Weight in Grams: 358.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Number of pages
496
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472109859
ISBN
9781472109859
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

Paperback. An electrifying masterclass in international storytelling from one of the most original writers at work in English today Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 131 x 16. Weight in Grams: 168.
Publisher
Picador
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
Reprints
Condition
New
SKU
V9780330464444
ISBN
9780330464444
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.77

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