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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. While marooned at his banking job in the bewilderingly damp and insular realm known as Ireland, Claude Martingale is approached by a down-on-his-luck author, Paul, looking for his next great subject. Claude finds that his life gets steadily more exciting under Paul's fictionalizing influence; he even falls in love with a beautiful waitress. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. Weight in Grams: 567.
Publisher
Penguin
Number of pages
480
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241953860
ISBN
9780241953860
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. Centres on an adulterous affair between Saffie, a silent young German woman, who is first maid and then wife to a famous flautist, and Andras, a Jewish flute-mender. The story unfolds in Paris at the height of the Algerian war in the 1950s. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 132 x 20. Weight in Grams: 208. Fine copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KSS0001051
ISBN
9780099283645
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. The only relationship she may not be able to save is her own. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 191 x 31. Weight in Grams: 338.
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780875255
ISBN
9781780875255
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. The bestselling author of The Dovekeepersweaves the story of one of history's most captivating 'invisible' women: Rachel, mother of Camille Pissarro Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 25. Weight in Grams: 272.
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781471112119
ISBN
9781471112119
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.97

Paperback. The new novel from the bestselling author of Middlesex and The Virgin Suicides. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 138 x 200 x 26. Weight in Grams: 296.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007441303
ISBN
9780007441303
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.96

Paperback. A middle-aged American works out in a Paris gym - an ordinary day, except that he catches the eye of a stranger, Julien, a young French architect with a gleam in his eye. Slowly, life takes on the colour of romance. But there is sadness in Julien's past and a grim cloud on the horizon. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 236. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Vintage
Edition
1st Vintage Book Edition
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0001898
ISBN
9780099285144
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. A powerful novel of love and war, righteousness and redemption, and the triumph of the human spirit. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 133 x 29. Weight in Grams: 308.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007359080
ISBN
9780007359080
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.63

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
SKU
V9780755353972
ISBN
9780755353972
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

paperback. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2004, a remarkable novel about Henry James, the American-born novelist and a connoisseur of exile. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 266. Signed on title page. Good clean copy. Covers sunned to spine, showing light shelf wear. Lightly toned text is crisp and clear and remains a very good copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Picador
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0031524
ISBN
9780330485661
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 20.00

Paperback. Kate Flynn has always been a clever girl, brought up to believe in herself as something special. Now Kate is forty-three and has given up her university career in London to come home and look after her mother at Firenze, their big house by a lake in Cardiff. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 133 x 23. Weight in Grams: 228.
Publisher
Vintage
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099499268
ISBN
9780099499268
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.01

Paperback. A powerful novel from one of the most celebrated American writers of her generation, and the winner of the National Book Award for Fiction 2012 Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 105 x 24. Weight in Grams: 314.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers United Kingdom
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007136384
ISBN
9780007136384
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.96

Paperback. Go is a game of strategy in which two players attempt to surround each other's black or white stones. The competition between the Master of Go and his opponent, Otake, is waged over several months and layered in ceremony. But beneath the game's decorum lie tensions that consume not only the players themselves but their families and friends. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 176.
Publisher
Yellow Jersey
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780224078184
ISBN
9780224078184
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.81

Paperback. In The Master of Petersburg J.M. Coetzee dares to imagine the life of Dostoevsky. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 194.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099470373
ISBN
9780099470373
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 302.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Akashic Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9781617754425
ISBN
9781617754425
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.71

Paperback. Bestselling romantic comedy writer Chris Manby gives us her hilarious take on the rivalry between a favourite daughter and her not much older stepmother-to-be. Num Pages: 352 pages, n/a. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 24. Weight in Grams: 240. Used paperback in good condition. Some shelf wear.
Condition
Used, Good
Edition
New edition
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
SKU
KRF0023829
ISBN
9780340838822
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Bestselling romantic comedy writer Chris Manby gives us her hilarious take on the rivalry between a favourite daughter and her not much older stepmother-to-be. Num Pages: 352 pages, n/a. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 24. Weight in Grams: 240. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
New edition
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
SKU
KTG0011281
ISBN
9780340838822
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Translator(s): Lovell, Julia. Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia. Num Pages: 184 pages, 6 illus. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 169 x 205 x 16. Weight in Grams: 230.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231160919
ISBN
9780231160919
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 18.86

Hardback. Translator(s): Lovell, Julia. Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia. Num Pages: 184 pages, 6 illus. BIC Classification: FA; FYB; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 346.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231160902
ISBN
9780231160902
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 22.22

Paperback. A touching novel from bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand in which a dying woman sets out to find love for those closest to her - before it's too late Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 250.
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444724059
ISBN
9781444724059
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Hardcover. Series: Everyman's Library P G Wodehouse. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 136 x 28. Weight in Grams: 376.
Publisher
Everyman
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841591070
ISBN
9781841591070
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.96

Paperback. Each story is in some way inspired by a painting of Henri Matisse, each is also about the intimate connection between seeing and feeling - about the ways in which a glance we meant to be casual may suddenly call forth the deepest reserves of our being. This book includes stories which are all about human beings. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 120.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099472711
ISBN
9780099472711
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.00

Paperback. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781628727586
ISBN
9781628727586
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.78

Paperback. From the bestselling author of The Confession of Katherine Howard, the story of two years at the Seymour family home, Wolf Hall, that changed Jane Seymour's life for ever. 'I loved this powerful book and can't recommend highly enough' Martina Cole Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 310.
Publisher
Abacus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349139463
ISBN
9780349139463
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

Paperback. Stay on the roads. Dont enter the woods. Never go out at night. Those are the rules in Rowans Glen, a remote farming community in the Missouri Ozarks where Ivy Templetons family has lived for centuries. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
HMH Books for Young Readers
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780544937253
ISBN
9780544937253
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.37

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