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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Pru Plum, owner of the famous Mayfair bakery, is not the confident, successful businesswoman she appears. She has done shameful things to get where she is and will do anything to protect the secrets of her past - especially when, for the first time in her life, she has finally fallen in love.. Series: No Greater Love. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 24. Weight in Grams: 254.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781854983
ISBN
9781781854983
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.00

Paperback. 'Teetotal!' Ma said. 'It's a libel. Whatever will people think? What's he going to say when anybody asks him to have one?' "No," said Dr Conner. And so after a mild heart-attack - Pop Larkin finds himself off the booze. While Ma tries to find ways around 'doctor's orders', young Primrose is finding her own way round a flustered - Mr Candy. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 146.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141029658
ISBN
9780141029658
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.01

Paperback. The third book in John Lawton's Inspector Troy series, selected by Time magazine as one of 'Six Detective Series to Savour' alongside Michael Connelly and Donna Leon. Series: Inspector Troy. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 138 x 34. Weight in Grams: 438. 480 pages. 1963: A Tory government beset by a defection, sexual scandal, cover-up and a ministerial resignation - Frederick Troy, now Britain's most senior police detective, unravels a trail that leads to death at the very heart of the Establishment and a failing administration. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 202 x 138 x 34. Weight: 448.
Publisher
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Number of pages
480
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611855890
ISBN
9781611855890
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.77

Paperback. A LIVERPOOL LULLABY reached number 5 in the Sunday Times bestseller list Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 114 x 29. Weight in Grams: 246.
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780747255338
ISBN
9780747255338
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.01

Paperback. A portrait of a woman who reflects the conventions of her age even as she defies them and whose transformations embody the decline and coarsening of the American frontier. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 132 x 13. Weight in Grams: 138.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844083732
ISBN
9781844083732
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. Editor(s): Mignon, Charles W.; Link, Frederick M.; Ronning, Kari A. Series: Willa Cather Scholarly Edition. Num Pages: 371 pages, Illus. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
371
Condition
New
Edition
Scholarly
SKU
V9780803264304
ISBN
9780803264304
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 19.75

Paperback. From the Times No 1 bestselling author Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 111 x 19. Weight in Grams: 182. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Hodder Paperbacks
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0006176
ISBN
9780340696880
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. A heart-warming story about falling in love with the right person at the wrong time.. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 258.
Publisher
Hachette Books Ireland
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
KSG0019495
ISBN
9781473614680
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Multi-layered, subtle, wonderful short stories from the inimitable Booker-prize winning author, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 19. Weight in Grams: 228.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408705148
ISBN
9781408705148
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

Paperback. A title that began as a vision the author had of five travellers riding with mysterious purpose through remote countryside. This image gives way to another - a hanging corpse with violets stuffed in its mouth - which leads us into a maze of beguiling paths and wrong turnings, disappearances and revelations. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 29. Weight in Grams: 322. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0000786
ISBN
9780099480419
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Hardback. Editor(s): Volta, Ornella. Translator(s): Melville, Antony. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white line drawings, printed music items. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 177 x 19. Weight in Grams: 584.
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Atlas Press
Condition
New
Format
Hardback
SKU
V9781900565660
ISBN
9781900565660
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 22.52

Paperback. The international phenomenon: quirky and bittersweet, heartbreaking yet outrageously funny. Perfect for fans of Rachel Joyce's The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and Jonas Jonasson's The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of a Window and Disappeared. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 23. Weight in Grams: 224.
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444775815
ISBN
9781444775815
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.01

hardcover. Charles Croker, Atlanta real-estate entrepreneur, is having to face the reality of massive debt. Conrad Hensly, idealistic father of two, is fired from his job in the Croker Global Foods warehouse in Oakland. Back in Atlanta, Fareek "The Cannon" Fannon, star running-back, is accused of date rape. Num Pages: 752 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 167. Weight in Grams: 1030. Clean copy fine in dust wrapper. DW showing light shelf wear. Remains a very good copy
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Jonathan Cape London
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KMK0022617
ISBN
9780224030366
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.70

Paperback. A book about earth-shattering experience of becoming a father, the mundane struggles of family life, ridiculously unsuccessful holidays, humiliating antenatal music classes, fights with quarrelsome neighbours, the emotional strains of childrens' birthday parties and pushing a pram around Stockholm when all you really want to do is write. Translator(s): Bartlett, Don. Series: Knausgaard. Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 34. Weight in Grams: 492.
Publisher
Vintage
Number of pages
544
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099555179
ISBN
9780099555179
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. A man of contradictions. A man of passion. A man of the future. Sequestered in his blitz-battered Regent's Park house in 1944, the ailing Herbert George Wells, 'H G' to his family and friends, looks back on a life crowded with incident, books, and women. This title is a novel of passion, ambition and controversy. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 133 x 39. Weight in Grams: 410.
Edition
01st Edition
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099556084
ISBN
9780099556084
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.84

Paperback. As Minister for Culture, the Honourable M A Nanga is 'a man of the people', as cynical as he is charming, and a roguish opportunist. This work deals with modern African history. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 10. Weight in Grams: 126.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141186894
ISBN
9780141186894
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.00

Paperback. Astha has everything an educated, middle-class woman could ask for. So why should she be consumed by a sense of unease and dissatisfaction? And when she begins a relationship with another woman, is she liberating herself from her marriage, past and culture - or foolishly jeopardising everything she has? Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 22. Weight in Grams: 256.
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571260669
ISBN
9780571260669
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.45

Paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 132 x 13. Weight in Grams: 256.
Publisher
The New York Review of Books, Inc United States
Number of pages
232
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781590173008
ISBN
9781590173008
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 16.77

Paperback. "P.S. insights, interviews & more"--Cover. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 136 x 33. Weight in Grams: 436.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780062316899
ISBN
9780062316899
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 18.70

Paperback. On the day that Jacob agrees to accept a slave in lieu of payment of a debt from a plantation owner, little Florens' life changes. With her intelligence and passion for wearing the cast-off shoes of her mistress, Florens has never blended into the background and now at the age of eight she is taken from her family to begin a new life. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 130.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Vintage Books
Number of pages
176
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099502548
ISBN
9780099502548
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

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