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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Veering between the comic and tragic, the self-contemptuous and the inspired, Leaving the Atocha Station is a dazzling introduction to one of the smartest, funniest and most audacious writers of a generation Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 131 x 12. Weight in Grams: 140.
Publisher
Granta Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847086914
ISBN
9781847086914
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.69

Paperback. A quirky and often hilarious story - combining the wit of Sophie Kinsella with the emotional resonance of Marisa de los Santos - about a woman who thinks her comfortable world is crumbling but realizes that change can be good after taking matters into her own hands. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 203 x 24. Weight in Grams: 294.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
5 Spot
Edition
Original
Condition
New
SKU
V9780446583947
ISBN
9780446583947
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 18.21

Paperback. Num Pages: 162 pages. BIC Classification: 5SL; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 203 x 11. Weight in Grams: 214.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Caitlin Press Canada
Number of pages
162
Condition
New
SKU
V9781894759748
ISBN
9781894759748
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.81

Paperback. Walk to orchard .. Check inside paper sack: extra diapers, two bottles, four cans of Borden's evaporated milk, five twenty-dollar bills. Set infant under most plentiful tree. Run. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
Publisher
Blackfriars
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349134475
ISBN
9780349134475
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.23

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Bella Books United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781594932212
ISBN
9781594932212
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 15.75

Paperback. Set in 1930s Canada, this novel tells the story of Willa and Grace, two female pilots attempting to break the world record for non-stop flight. Num Pages: 214 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 257 x 14. Weight in Grams: 188.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
214
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
SKU
V9780747542292
ISBN
9780747542292
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 8.52

Paperback. "A delight" says Nobel-prize winning poet Derek Walcott. Lawrence Scott explores a Caribbean world of yearnings and memory, of escape and return underpinned by the disturbing tensions wrought by religion, race, sexuality and crime. Sensuous and evocative, Scott's prose has a glorious lightness of touch and tone that exhilarates and illuminates. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 137 x 14. Weight in Grams: 244.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Papillote Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780957118782
ISBN
9780957118782
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.66

Hardback. This book is the fourth in criminologist Rosemary Aubert's series featuring Ellis Portal, a disgraced former judge turned sleuth. A prequel to the earlier books, it is set in 1965 when Ellis Portal is 23 and a University of Toronto law student. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 150 x 25. Weight in Grams: 467.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Bridge Works Publishing Co ,U.S. United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9781882593736
ISBN
9781882593736
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 22.90

Paperback. Bestselling author Gayle Forman's masterful adult debut, showing us that sometimes you have to leave home in order to find it again Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130. .
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781471156793
ISBN
9781471156793
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.99

Hardcover. Weaving a comic tale of suspense and romance, this book features an adventure story in which crime and even gun-play drive the plot. Series: Everyman's Library P G Wodehouse. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 192 x 137 x 32. Weight in Grams: 442.
Publisher
Everyman
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841591254
ISBN
9781841591254
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.96

paperback. A companion piece to the captivating memoir GIVING UP THE GHOST by the Man Booker-winning author, this collection of loosely autobiographical stories locates the transforming moments of a haunted childhood. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 136.
Publisher
Fourth Estate
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007166442
ISBN
9780007166442
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.66

Paperback. Abigail Jex never expected to see any of the Radley household again, and thought that she'd banished the ghost of her life with them, and the catastrophe that ended it, but thirteen years later, a chance encounter forces her to acknowledge that the spell is far from broken. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 280.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Arrow
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099277637
ISBN
9780099277637
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.00

Paperback. Translator(s): Elias-Bursac, Ellen. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 163 x 13. Weight in Grams: 258.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781628970906
ISBN
9781628970906
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 16.07

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Bella Books United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9781602820012
ISBN
9781602820012
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 16.00

Paperback. Polly has been married to Arthur for ten years when she meets James Hammond. He's her Road Not Taken. The One That Got Away. He's also rich, and in one week he's inviting her to his hotel in the country to give her the job she's always wanted. He also wants her. Polly is so tempted. Arthur is gorgeous, but he's grumpy. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 31. Weight in Grams: 286. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Cornerstone
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
SKU
KRA0013063
ISBN
9780099580447
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Marie-Ange Hawkins has the kind of childhood that most people dream of - freedom, love and security in a beautiful old French chateau. But when she is just eleven, a tragic accident marks the end of her idyllic life. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 116 x 19. Weight in Grams: 136. Good to very good copy. Some light shelf wear
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Corgi
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
SKU
KHS1039510
ISBN
9780552146395
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Fifteen-year-old Charley Thompson wants a home and some structure to his life. But as the son of a single father working at warehouses across the Pacific Northwest, he's been pretty much on his own for some time. This book opens as he and his father arrive in Portland, Oregon and Charley takes a stables job, illegally, at the local race track. Num Pages: 288 pages, maps. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 20. Weight in Grams: 232. Fine copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0003244
ISBN
9780571235735
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.70

paperback. Drenched by rain, the town has been decaying ever since the banana company left. Its people are sullen and bitter, so when the doctor - a foreigner who ended up the most hated man in town - dies, there is no one to mourn him. But also living in the town is the Colonel, who is bound to honour a promise made many years ago. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 9. Weight in Grams: 98.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Penguin Books
Condition
New
SKU
9780241968765
ISBN
9780241968765
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.00
€ 9.99

Hardcover. A man made of leaves blows away, traveling wherever the wind may take him. With illustrations made from actual fall leaves and die-cut pages on every spread that reveal gorgeous landscape vistas, here is a playful, whimisical and evocative book that celebrates the natural world and the rich imaginative life of children. Ages 4-8. Num Pages: 40 pages, illus. BIC Classification: FA; YBC; YBGT; YBLH; YNA; YNN. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 310 x 287 x 8. Weight in Grams: 536.
Publisher
ClarionBks
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780152053048
ISBN
9780152053048
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.87

Paperback. 'A wonderfully observed novel which provides a rare outsider's glimpse of the quiet despair that lurks behind those bright, perfectly-formed American smiles' Literary Review Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 17. Weight in Grams: 208. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0004922
ISBN
9780340637852
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

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