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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
paperback. Delivering stories that span generations, and offering warmth, wisdom and love on every page - if you treasured Maeve Binchy, read Patricia Scanlan Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 235 x 39. Weight in Grams: 662. Signed by the author. Good clean copy showing light age and shelfwear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMO0001594
- ISBN
- 9781471151132
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
Paperback. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 216 x 27. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Edition
- New edition
- Publisher
- Tramp Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780993459207
- ISBN
- 9780993459207
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.00€ 12.73
€ 15.00
€ 12.73
Paperback. Tells the story of Jeanette, adopted and brought up by her mother as one of God's elect. Zealous and passionate, she seems destined for life as a missionary, but then she falls for one of her converts. At sixteen, Jeanette decides to leave the church, her home and her family, for the young woman she loves. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 15. Weight in Grams: 172.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099598183
- ISBN
- 9780099598183
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.45
€ 13.99
€ 10.45
Paperback. 'There isn't anyone remotely like him in contemporary American literature' New York Times Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 19. Weight in Grams: 198.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Picador
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780330511254
- ISBN
- 9780330511254
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 10.45
€ 14.99
€ 10.45
Paperback. January 1961, and the beaten, stabbed and strangled body of a nineteen year old Pearl Gambol is discovered, after a dance the previous night at the Newry Orange Hall. Returning from London to investigate the case, Detective Eddie McCrink soon suspects that their may be people wielding influence over affairs. Series: The Blue Trilogy. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 21. Weight in Grams: 244. 298pp
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571237562
- ISBN
- 9780571237562
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 6.75
€ 10.99
€ 6.75
Paperback. A brilliant, fast-paced comedy about what happens when all of your dreams become true. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 29. Weight in Grams: 226.
- Publisher
- The Borough Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KRA0009090
- ISBN
- 9780008118778
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. A brilliant, fast-paced comedy about what happens when all of your dreams become true. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 29. Weight in Grams: 226.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- The Borough Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KRA0009154
- ISBN
- 9780008118778
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. The first of two thematically linked novellas, each investigating the dream of the perfect family. It gives voice to a mother, loving but unsure of her love's value. In forfeiting her powerful husband, she fears that she has done her children irrevocable harm. The second novella is "Good Will". Series: Flamingo S. Num Pages: 208 pages, port. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130. Weight in Grams: 160. Clean copy, good to very good
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Flamingo
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- (Reissue)
- SKU
- KST0016776
- ISBN
- 9780006543930
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. One May evening in London, as a result of a chance encounter and a split-second decision, the young climatologist Adam Kindred loses everything - home, job, reputation, passport, credit cards, money - never to get them back. With the police and a hit man in merciless pursuit, Adam has no choice but to go underground. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 28. Weight in Grams: 294. 416 pages. One May evening in London, as a result of a chance encounter and a split-second decision, the young climatologist Adam Kindred loses everything - home, job, reputation, passport, credit cards, money - never to get them back. With the police and a hit man in merciless pursuit, Adam has no choice but to go underground. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 197 x 130 x 28. Weight: 292.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408802854
- ISBN
- 9781408802854
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.90
€ 13.99
€ 10.90
paperback. From the prize-winning author of The Still Point, a bewitching, brilliant novel which dances the fine line between reality and fantasy to explore the dark edges of desire Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 194.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Granta Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781847086655
- ISBN
- 9781847086655
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 10.25
€ 16.99
€ 10.25
Paperback. Orlando is a passionate young nobleman whose days are spent in rowdy revelry, filled with the colourful delights of Queen Elizabeth's court. By the close, he will have transformed into a modern, thirty-six-year-old woman and three centuries will have passed. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 244.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099478287
- ISBN
- 9780099478287
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.06
€ 11.99
€ 9.06
Paperback. Orlando, a young nobleman in Elizabeth's England, awaits a visit from the Queen. Now, an ambassador in Costantinople, awakes to find that he is a woman. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations, notes. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 126 x 12. Weight in Grams: 140.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781853262395
- ISBN
- 9781853262395
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 8.05
€ 8.05
Paperback. Born in Taiwan, raised in the scholarly traditions of ancient China but forced into the Japanese educational system, Hu Taiming, the protagonist of Orphan of Asia, ultimately finds himself estranged from all three cultures. This autobiographical novel is regarded as an expression of the postwar Taiwanese national consciousness. Translator(s): Mentzas, Ioannis. Series: Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 281.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231137263
- ISBN
- 9780231137263
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.56
€ 26.99
€ 20.56
Hardcover. .
- Publisher
- Ebury Press (Fiction)
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785036323
- ISBN
- 9781785036323
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.71
€ 26.99
€ 23.71
Paperback. The author of "Bird in Hand" and "The Way Life Should Be" delivers a captivating story of two very different women who build an unexpected friendship: a 91-year-old woman with a hidden past as an orphan-train rider and the teenage girl whose own troubled adolescence leads her to seek answers. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 238.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- F First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780061950728
- ISBN
- 9780061950728
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.66
€ 13.99
€ 10.66
Paperback. A magical retelling of the myth of Eldorado, the Enchanted City of the Amazon, by one of Brazil's most acclaimed writers Translator(s): Gledson, John. Series: Myths. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 142 x 14. Weight in Grams: 196.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847673008
- ISBN
- 9781847673008
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.74
€ 13.99
€ 10.74
Paperback. The dazzling new novel, evoking the thrilling world of the Victorian carnival, from the Man Booker-shortlisted author of Jamrach's Menagerie Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782116561
- ISBN
- 9781782116561
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.02
€ 11.99
€ 10.02
hardcover. The dazzling new novel, evoking the strange and thrilling world of the Victorian carnival, from the Man Booker-shortlisted author of Jamrach's Menagerie Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 222 x 36. Weight in Grams: 518. Lacking dust jacket. Good clean copy showing light age and shelfwear
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMO0001500
- ISBN
- 9781782116547
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
Paperback. Presents a translation of Turkish author Nazli Eray's "Orphee". This work is a rewriting of the myth from the perspective of Eurydice, the wife of Orpheus. Set in junta-ruled Turkey of the 1980s, it resonates with references to the film "Last Tango in Paris", and evolves as a mystery story. Series: CMES Modern Middle East Literatures in Translation Series. Num Pages: 114 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 9. Weight in Grams: 202.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 114
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292714090
- ISBN
- 9780292714090
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.59
€ 17.99
€ 17.59
Paperback. The outrageous imagination of Margaret Atwood has never been better. Dark, witty, scary and very credible, this is a mystery, an adventure story, a page-turner and a brilliant novel. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 125 x 199 x 28. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Publisher
- Virago Press Ltd
- Number of pages
- 448
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349004068
- ISBN
- 9780349004068
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.85
€ 13.00
€ 11.85
Paperback. A love story and a historical tour de force set in Victorian times, which deals with the undeclared love between clergyman Oscar Hopkins and the heiress Lucinda Leplastrier. Made for each other, the two are gamblers - one obsessive, the other compulsive - incapable of winning at the game of love. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 36. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Number of pages
- 544
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Main - Re-issue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571270163
- ISBN
- 9780571270163
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.48
€ 13.00
€ 11.48
Paperback. Oscar is ill and no one, especially not his parents, will tell him what he already knows: that he is dying. Granny Rose, the oldest of the 'ladies in pink' who visit Oscar and his fellow patients, makes friends with him. She suggests that he play a game: to pretend that each of the following twelve days is a decade of his imagined future. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 132 x 10. Weight in Grams: 80.
- Edition
- Main
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books London
- Number of pages
- 96
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843548867
- ISBN
- 9781843548867
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.01
€ 11.99
€ 10.01
Paperback. Translator(s): Miller, George; Schwartz, Ros. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Quercus Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910050699
- ISBN
- 9781910050699
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.04
€ 16.99
€ 13.04
Paperback. In OSCAR WILDE AND THE CANDLELIGHT MURDERS, the first in Gyles Brandreth's acclaimed Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries series featuring Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle, the brutal murder of a young rent-boy puts Oscar in grave danger.. 'Intelligent, amusing and entertaining' Alexander McCall Smith Series: Oscar Wilde Mystery. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 252.
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Hodder
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- SKU
- KEX0302766
- ISBN
- 9780719569302
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 12.99€ 10.41
€ 12.99
€ 10.41