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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. 'Excellent, a very powerful and moving piece of work' Roddy Doyle Num Pages: 162 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 16. Weight in Grams: 160. Very good copy with light shelf wear. Light nicks & creases, remains very good
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KCW0018622
ISBN
9780753811207
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 222 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 222 x 17. Weight in Grams: 314. 222 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 150 x 222 x 17. Weight: 314.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Central Books
Number of pages
222
Condition
New
SKU
V9780956896971
ISBN
9780956896971
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.44

Paperback. A young man arrives in the Ukraine, clutching in his hand a tattered photograph. He is searching for the woman who fifty years ago saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Unfortunately, he is aided in his quest by Alex, a translator with an uncanny ability to mangle English into bizarre new forms; a "blind" old man; and an undersexed guide dog. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 204.
Edition
01st Edition
Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141008257
ISBN
9780141008257
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.06

Paperback. Series: Penguin Essentials. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 113 x 180 x 20. Weight in Grams: 162.
Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241978894
ISBN
9780241978894
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.23

Paperback. A contemporary saga in the bestselling tradition of Lesley Pearse Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 113 x 35. Weight in Grams: 286. Clean copy
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New Ed
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KEX0224853
ISBN
9780747266464
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Hardback. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 538.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780816655939
ISBN
9780816655939
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 28.46

Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408868454
ISBN
9781408868454
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.13

Paperback. Includes stories wherein: a man is booted out of his home after his wife discovers that the sweat-smudged footprint on the inside of his windscreen doesn't match her own; teenage cousins, drugged by summer, meet with a reckoning in the woods; and, a boy runs off to the carnival after his stepfather bites him in a brawl. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 248.
Publisher
Granta Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
First printing of this edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847081209
ISBN
9781847081209
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.04

Paperback. Absorbing and heartrendingly real tale of one woman's life and feelings laid bare. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 154 x 30. Weight in Grams: 216. Clean copy with light shelfwear. Good to very good
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
1st Paperback Printing
Publisher
HarperCollins
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
SKU
KST0022208
ISBN
9780586217405
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Absorbing and heartrendingly real tale of one woman's life and feelings laid bare. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 154 x 30. Weight in Grams: 216. Used paperback in good condition. Some shelf wear.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
HarperCollins
Edition
1st Paperback Printing
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KNH0013263
ISBN
9780586217405
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Joyce Stevenson is thirteen when her widowed mother takes them to live with Aunt Vera, a formidable teacher neglected by her unfaithful husband. Joyce watches the two sisters - her aunt's unbending dedication to the life of the mind, her mother worn down by housework - and thinks that each of them is powerless in her own way. Num Pages: 432 pages, 22 cm. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 201 x 27. Weight in Grams: 306.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099462002
ISBN
9780099462002
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. Frustrated and appalled by his life and the way he lives it, Nathan Staples is sustained only by his passionate devotion for his estranged wife and teenage daughter. Nathan's path to becoming complete and alive again will be strewn with obstacles. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 38. Weight in Grams: 404. Minor damage to bottom left of back cover. Otherwise remains like new
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
New Ed
SKU
KOC0009543
ISBN
9780099730613
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Sally wakes up in the middle of nowhere, with a suicide note in her pocket and no memory of the previous twenty four hours. When she discovers what happened to her, she is shocked to the core.. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 23. Weight in Grams: 230.
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782396277
ISBN
9781782396277
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.98

paperback. A beautiful story of an American couple and their adopted son, and how a very innocent knowledge and fascination of 'things that glow' leads to a loss of faith and their lives being ripped apart. Num Pages: 400 pages, Step back cover. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 139 x 30. Weight in Grams: 365.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Simon & Schuster United States
Edition
Simon & Schuster Pbk ed.
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780743258098
ISBN
9780743258098
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 17.67

Paperback. In 1950s Leicestershire, a young girl searches for love and adventure Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 173 x 112 x 28. Weight in Grams: 236.
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780747239949
ISBN
9780747239949
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. The natural heir to Arthur C. Clarke dramatises the epic story of evolution. A novel that tells the story of life on Earth.. Series: Gollancz S.F. Num Pages: 768 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 175 x 114 x 50. Weight in Grams: 412.
Edition
UK ed.
Publisher
Gollancz
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9780575074095
ISBN
9780575074095
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.41

Paperback.
Publisher
Gibson Square Books
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908096562
ISBN
9781908096562
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.73

Hardback. Probably Pym's most famous novel 'I'd sooner read a new Barbara Pym than a new Jane Austen' Philip Larkin Series: VMC Designer Collection. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 207 x 131 x 28. Weight in Grams: 442.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Number of pages
304
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844085262
ISBN
9781844085262
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.02

Paperback. Some shelf wear, and a little dusty, but remains good.
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Black Swan
Number of pages
287
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
1st Paperback Edition
SKU
KTJ0006531
ISBN
9780552998420
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 424 pages, maps. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 153 x 31. Weight in Grams: 676.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226103556
ISBN
9780226103556
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 33.53

Paperback. President Elect Jack Meade wakes up in a hospital bed after being found near death on a beach. His last memory was of cruising off the Florida coast. No one believes he is the new President. Then on TV he sees a live interview with his doppelganger - he has been replaced with a dead ringer. Num Pages: 506 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FH; FJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 109. Weight in Grams: 262. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Arrow
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0005474
ISBN
9780099269946
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Penguin
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
New Ed
SKU
KNW0014461
ISBN
9780141006536
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. The first novel in a major trilogy exposing the guilt, loneliness and nihilism of the ex-pat experience in post-colonial Africa. Translator(s): Petersen, Mette. Series: The Africa Trilogy. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 230.
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857051103
ISBN
9780857051103
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

Paperback. Explores the dilemma of being an outsider - even in one's own country - and of allegiance. This book evokes beautiful but harsh landscapes, whether the shimmering deserts of author's native Algeria or the wild, mysterious jungles of Brazil. Translator(s): Cosman, Carol. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 8. Weight in Grams: 102.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
Re-issue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141188256
ISBN
9780141188256
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

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