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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 142 x 26. Weight in Grams: 424.
Publisher
Persephone Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
312
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781903155622
ISBN
9781903155622
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 19.36

Paperback. Written in the form of a diary, kept by the Cameroonian houseboy Toundi, this book looks at Toundi's innocence and his awe of the white world of his masters. Editor(s): Oyono, Ferdinand. Translator(s): Reed, John. Series: Heinemann African Writers Series. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 8. Weight in Grams: 114.
Publisher
Pearson Education Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780435905323
ISBN
9780435905323
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.26

Paperback. Taken from completed drafts on the author's desk, this title tells of the accidental meeting and the complex union between a white man and a black woman in times of racial tension and sexual violence. Set in a North American city in midwinter, it expands into a universal allegory of suffering and death. Num Pages: 536 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 35. Weight in Grams: 362.
Publisher
Canongate Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
480
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841951256
ISBN
9781841951256
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 18.34

Paperback. The second volume of short stories by Stanley Donwood, Radiohead's artist. Donwood writing is an existentialist commentary on society wrapped in dark humour. This first edition designed by Dowood is a strictly limited run of 1,000 copies. Num Pages: 144 pages, Black and white lino cuts. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 112 x 14. Weight in Grams: 144.
Publisher
Tangent Books
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906477554
ISBN
9781906477554
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.73

Paperback. When Jamie Hall finds a boy tied to a tree and cuts him loose, she can have no idea of the desperate chain of events her act of humanity will trigger. Tense, passionate and unflinching, this is a novel of tenderness and relentless momentum. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 210.
Publisher
Vintage Books USA
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099502494
ISBN
9780099502494
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.50

Paperback. 'Housekeeping' is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, the eccentric and remote sister of their dead mother. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 15. Weight in Grams: 184.
Edition
Main
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571230082
ISBN
9780571230082
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.74

Paperback. How does a gunman retire? Frank MacLeod was the best at what he does. Thoughtful. Efficient. Ruthless. But is he still the best?A new job. A target. But something is about to go horribly wrong. Someone is going to end up dead.Most gunmen say goodbye to the world with a bang. Frank's still here. He's lasted longer than he should have.. Series: The Glasgow Trilogy. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF; FH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 232 x 26. Weight in Grams: 480.
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Open market & Airside ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781447235965
ISBN
9781447235965
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.35

Paperback. Polly, Dennis, Angela, Adrian and the rest are bound to lose their spiritual innocence as well as their virginities on the journey between university in the 1950s and the marriages, families, careers and deaths that follow. On the one hand there's Sex and then the Pill, on the other there is the traditional Catholic Church. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 186.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
9780099554141
ISBN
9780099554141
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.38

Paperback. Growing up in a mining community in rural South Wales, Huw Morgan is taught many harsh lessons. Looking back, where difficult days are faced with courage and the valleys swell with the sound of Welsh voices, it becomes clear that there is nowhere so green as the landscape of his own memory. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 122 x 20. Weight in Grams: 316.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd London
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141185859
ISBN
9780141185859
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.88

Paperback. Could a famous musician ever completely disappear? Num Pages: 191 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 139 x 10. Weight in Grams: 190.
Publisher
John Hunt Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782798965
ISBN
9781782798965
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.36

Paperback. When.. Charlotte is mugged and breaks her hip, her daughter Rose cannot accompany her employer Lord Peters to Manchester, which means his niece Marion has to go instead, which means she sends a text to her lover which is intercepted by his wife, which is ..just the beginning in the ensuing chain of life-altering events. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 16. Weight in Grams: 184.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241957271
ISBN
9780241957271
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. A novel in three parts, written in short paragraphs, which tell (abruptly, cajolingly, bleakly) of a narrator lying in the dark, in the mud, repeating his life as he hears it uttered - or remembered - by another voice. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 180.
Edition
Main
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571243747
ISBN
9780571243747
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.74

Paperback. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 31. Weight in Grams: 556.
Publisher
Hachette Books Ireland
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
9781444744156
ISBN
9781444744156
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. A compelling story of love, loss and belonging Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 34. Weight in Grams: 332. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Hachette Books Ireland
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
SKU
KRA0013067
ISBN
9781444744163
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Alec and Jerry shouldn't have been friends: Alec's life was one of privilege, while Jerry's was one of toil. But this hardly mattered to two young men whose shared love of horses brought them together and whose whole lives lay ahead of them. When war breaks out in 1914, both Jerry and Alec sign up - yet for quite different reasons. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 11. Weight in Grams: 122.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780141046969
ISBN
9780141046969
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 9.64

Paperback. Alec and Jerry shouldn't have been friends: Alec's life was one of privilege, while Jerry's was one of toil. But this hardly mattered to two young men whose shared love of horses brought them together and whose whole lives lay ahead of them. When war breaks out in 1914, both Jerry and Alec sign up - yet for quite different reasons. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 11. Weight in Grams: 122. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAK0012389
ISBN
9780141046969
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 13.99
€ 9.64

Paperback. Series: Penguin Essentials. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 113 x 181 x 17. Weight in Grams: 96.
Publisher
Penguin UK
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241978979
ISBN
9780241978979
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.25

Paperback. A brilliant collection of seven original stories by award-winning authors, inspired by different concepts of love. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781473649453
ISBN
9781473649453
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.30

Paperback.
Condition
Used, Acceptable
Publisher
Corgi
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
SKU
KST0006886
ISBN
9780552158855
Paperback
Condition: Used, Acceptable

€ 4.99

Paperback. Clean copy, good to very good condition.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Corgi
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
SKU
KLJ0000801
ISBN
9780552158855
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback.
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Corgi
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
SKU
KLN0016528
ISBN
9780552158855
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Series: Heinemann African Writers Series. Num Pages: 104 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 6. Weight in Grams: 96.
Publisher
Pearson Education Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
104
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780435075415
ISBN
9780435075415
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.26

Paperback. Sheila's twenties were going to plan. She got married. She hosted parties. A theatre asked her to write a play. Then she realised that she didn't know how to write a play. That her favourite part of the party was cleaning up after the party. And that her marriage made her feel like she was banging into a brick wall. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 228.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
9780099583561
ISBN
9780099583561
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.51

Paperback. Num Pages: 150 pages, 5ill. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 12. Weight in Grams: 176.
Publisher
Quince Tree Press
Number of pages
150
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Edition
New
Condition
New
SKU
V9780900847943
ISBN
9780900847943
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.31

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