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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. The medical hierarchy of "The House of God" is like a pyramid - a lot at the bottom and one at the top. Roy Basch, a Rhodes scholar, thinks differently, until he meets Hyper Hooper, out to win the most post-mortems of the year award, or Molly, the nurse with the crash helmet. Num Pages: 400 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 29. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780552991223
- ISBN
- 9780552991223
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
Paperback. Johnny Truant, an employee in a LA tattoo parlour, finds a notebook kept by Zampano, a reclusive old man found dead in a cluttered apartment. Herein is the heavily annotated story of the Navidson Report. Will Navidson, a photojournalist, and his family move into a new house. What happens next is recorded on videotapes and in interviews. Num Pages: 736 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 179 x 39. Weight in Grams: 1126.
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780385603102
- ISBN
- 9780385603102
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 32.89
€ 42.99
€ 32.89
Paperback. A gripping family drama of secrets and lies Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 21. Weight in Grams: 218. Used paperback, in good condition. Some shelf wear.
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Headline Review
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- paperback / softback
- SKU
- KRF0037376
- ISBN
- 9780755323302
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. A gripping family drama of secrets and lies Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 21. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publisher
- Headline Review
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- paperback / softback
- SKU
- KNW0010705
- ISBN
- 9780755323302
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 139 x 8. Weight in Grams: 132.
- Publisher
- Beacon Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- Later Printing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807068113
- ISBN
- 9780807068113
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 15.60
€ 18.99
€ 15.60
Paperback. There were conjugal visits in the slave camps of the USSR. Valiant women would travel continental distances, over weeks and months, in the hope of spending a night, with their particular enemy of the people, in the House of Meetings. The consequences of these liaisons were almost invariably tragic. This title is about one such liaison. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 13. Weight in Grams: 150. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAC0001783
- ISBN
- 9780099488682
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. This sequel to "The Woman of the House" and "Across the River" is a story of love for the home place and of the passions and jealousies it can inspire. A story of grief and trying to cope with loss, but also of resilience in the face of family tragedy. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 210.
- Publisher
- Brandon
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780863223525
- ISBN
- 9780863223525
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 9.98
€ 9.99
€ 9.98
Hardback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135. . Very good copy in bright and clean dustwrapper. First edition.
Includes neat newsclippings on the author.
Includes neat newsclippings on the author.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- SKU
- KEX0303152
- ISBN
- 9780241257685
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 45.00
€ 45.00
Paperback. Eeva, orphaned daughter of a failed revolutionary, also battles to find her independence and identity. Destitute when her father dies, she is sent away to a country orphanage, and then employed as servant to a widowed doctor, Thomas Eklund. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 238.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141015026
- ISBN
- 9780141015026
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.82
€ 13.00
€ 11.82
Paperback. When Kathy, a young recovering alcoholic recently separated from her husband, fails to open a series of tax letters that have been sent to her in error, the State of California seizes the house she and her brother have inherited from her father. The State sells the house at auction to Behrani, a former Iranian Air Force officer. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 23. Weight in Grams: 262. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSS0003877
- ISBN
- 9780099283140
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. After the failed revolutions of 1848, Galicia has been brought under the rule of the Habsburg Empire, and the Zemka family find themselves embroiled in the struggle for Polish independence. This is a history of Eastern Europe told in miniature through the tumultuous saga of one family as they try to reclaim their estate. Translator(s): Fagan, Teresa Lavender. Series: The French List. Num Pages: 456 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 162 x 40. Weight in Grams: 774.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 484
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857420282
- ISBN
- 9780857420282
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 28.31
€ 35.99
€ 28.31
Paperback. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 182.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- NeWest Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 112
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781897126875
- ISBN
- 9781897126875
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.62
€ 16.99
€ 12.62
Paperback.
- Edition
- Reissue
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Number of pages
- 110
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780679734772
- ISBN
- 9780679734772
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 13.12
€ 14.99
€ 13.12
paperback. The number one bestseller: just because your son can't look you in the eye .. does that make him guilty? Autism and families are entwined in Picoult's gripping novel, reissued with new cover treatment. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 200 x 40. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Publisher
- Hodder Paperbacks
- Number of pages
- 640
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444754421
- ISBN
- 9781444754421
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
€ 13.99
€ 11.09
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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 26.99
€ 18.34
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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 13.00€ 11.85
€ 13.00
€ 11.85
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
€ 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
€ 13.99
€ 11.05