Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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€ 10.95
€ 13.99
€ 10.95
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€ 8.34
€ 9.99
€ 8.34
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€ 10.97
€ 13.99
€ 10.97
Paperback. Betsy Canning is dissatisfied with life. She has always taken pains to be healthy, popular and well-treated, but despite her wealth, her comfortable homes and beautiful children, happiness eludes her. The problem must lie, she thinks, in her marriage to Alec, and a neat, civilised divorce seems the perfect solution. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 197 x 26. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099589785
- ISBN
- 9780099589785
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.66
€ 20.99
€ 16.66
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
€ 17.99€ 16.70
€ 17.99
€ 16.70
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
€ 14.99€ 11.32
€ 14.99
€ 11.32
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€ 10.66
€ 13.99
€ 10.66
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
€ 26.99€ 20.41
€ 26.99
€ 20.41
Paperback. Num Pages: 166 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 190 x 133 x 15. Weight in Grams: 123.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Random House USA Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 166
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780679848042
- ISBN
- 9780679848042
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.67
€ 9.67
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
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
€ 21.99€ 17.53
€ 21.99
€ 17.53
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Poolbeg Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781998618
- ISBN
- 9781781998618
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 7.63
€ 7.63
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. 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. 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€ 25.02
€ 26.99
€ 25.02
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€ 10.97
€ 13.99
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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€ 9.90
€ 11.99
€ 9.90
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
€ 14.99€ 11.52
€ 14.99
€ 11.52
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€ 10.95
€ 13.99
€ 10.95
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€ 10.97
€ 13.99
€ 10.97
paperback. Even after 100 years, this is a captivating fable - witty and biting - of a Thomas Edison-like inventor who creates the radiant and tragic android Hadaly, and the lovelorn aristocrat who falls for the manmade perfect woman who is conveniently adjustable so he may make her at his will to his taste and social needs. Num Pages: 248 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780252069550
- ISBN
- 9780252069550
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 17.01
€ 19.99
€ 17.01
Paperback. A fabulously fun read for fans of Wendy Holden Num Pages: 688 pages, maps. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 44. Weight in Grams: 456. Clean copy. Some shelfwear
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- SKU
- KST0021529
- ISBN
- 9780340895795
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. The gift of tongues, prophecy exorcism.. what might such concepts mean in a complacent backwater of North London? For Richard Bowen, adolescence becomes a nightmare when his parents join the charismatic movement and find a devil in his brother. Winner of the Somerset Maugham and Betty Trask Awards. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 110. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAC0001416
- ISBN
- 9780749396176
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Presented as a miraculous cure-all, Tono-Bungay is in fact nothing other than a pleasant-tasting liquid with no positive effects. Nonetheless, when the young George Ponderevo is employed by his Uncle Edward to help market this ineffective medicine, he finds his life overwhelmed by its sudden success. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 136 x 20. Weight in Grams: 310. Clean copy in original cloth covers. Covers dulled and showing some age and shelf wear. No dust wrapper. Remains a good copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KMK0005473
- ISBN
- 9780141441115
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 15.99€ 11.39
€ 15.99
€ 11.39