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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. A story that tells about the confession of Alexander Portnoy who is thrust through life by his unappeasable sexuality, yet held back at the same time by the iron grip of his unforgettable childhood. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 206.
Edition
01st Edition
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099399018
ISBN
9780099399018
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. Best selling international author, Isabel Allende tackles her homeland head-on in this staggering, epic romance. Translator(s): Peden, Margaret Sayers. Num Pages: 320 pages, genealogy tab. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 145 x 22. Weight in Grams: 226. Clean copy in good to very good condition.
Condition
Used, Acceptable
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
paperback / softback
SKU
KRF0000798
ISBN
9780007123018
Paperback
Condition: Used, Acceptable

€ 4.99

Paperback. The recently discovered first novel by the world famous author of Life: A User's Manual and A Void Translator(s): Bellos, David. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 14. Weight in Grams: 126.
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782060963
ISBN
9781782060963
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. Part One of the Brensham Trilogy. 280 pages, black & white illustrations. This is the first book of the famous trilogy of English country life, "The Brensham Trilogy," by John Moore.A wonderful and exuberant chronicle of an English market town between the wars, distinguished with a historic abbey, a winding river and bustling pubs with a cast of characters that could have stepped out of Hogarth or Shakespeare.. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 15. Weight: 424.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
280
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781448204250
ISBN
9781448204250
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 15.06

Paperback. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man represents the transitional stage between the realism of Joyce's "Dubliners" and the symbolism of "Ulysses", and is essential to the understanding of the later work Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 180. Clean copy with some shelf wear and yellowing
Condition
Used, Good
Edition
New Ed
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
SKU
KOC0018278
ISBN
9781853260063
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 10.99
€ 4.99

Paperback. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man represents the transitional stage between the realism of Joyce's "Dubliners" and the symbolism of "Ulysses", and is essential to the understanding of the later work Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 178. Good clean copy with some reader wear.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
New Ed
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
SKU
KTM0007720
ISBN
9781853260063
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 10.99
€ 4.99

Paperback. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man represents the transitional stage between the realism of Joyce's "Dubliners" and the symbolism of "Ulysses", and is essential to the understanding of the later work Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 180.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions
Condition
New
SKU
KKE0000942
ISBN
9781853260063
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 4.99

Paperback. Ossyane, a young Lebanese man and his Jewish wife Clara return to live in Haifa after World War II. Just as war breaks out in the new-born state of Israel, Ossayne is forced to go to Beirut. The border with Israel closes behind him and he becomes separated from his wife with tragic consequences. Translator(s): Manguel, Alberto. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 156.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New e.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781860468902
ISBN
9781860468902
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.01

paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 134 x 22. Weight in Grams: 282.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
9780345487674
ISBN
9780345487674
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 15.29

Paperback. A novel about a character from Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "The Color Purple". This is Tashi's story, a shattering account of a young African woman whose decision to go through the female initiation ceremony has terrible consequences. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 214. Good copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0007752
ISBN
9780099224112
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Hardcover. .
Publisher
Everyman
Number of pages
568
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841593555
ISBN
9781841593555
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 16.49

Paperback. Tells the tale of a pair of young scholars investigating the lives of two Victorian poets. This book features a trail of letters, journals and poems they uncover a web of passion, deceit and tragedy, and their quest becomes a battle against time. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 372.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780099503927
ISBN
9780099503927
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.14

Paperback. Winner of the 1990 Booker Prize, this novel describes the romance between two 19th-century poets and the parallel relationship of their two biographers and includes passages of "Victorian verse". It is structured in the form of a literary and biographical treasure hunt. Num Pages: 528 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 33. Weight in Grams: 370.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Vintage
Edition
1st, First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099800408
ISBN
9780099800408
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.81

Paperback. An intense and ingenious novel about a writer's inspiration, a father's love, and a man's fear of losing his legacy. Translator(s): Watkinson, Laura. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 24. Weight in Grams: 178.
Publisher
MacLehose Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782066187
ISBN
9781782066187
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.30

Paperback. 'He built an imposing artistic social history that promises to join those of his great forebears in the long, noble line of the English novel. His narratives belong in a tradition that goes back to John Galsworthy and Arnold Bennett' Life Magazine Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 42. Weight in Grams: 326.
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780340922927
ISBN
9780340922927
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. This is story of Loyal Blood, a man who spends a lifetime on the run from a crime so terrible that it renders him forever incapable of touching a woman. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 262.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Fourth Estate
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
9781841155012
ISBN
9781841155012
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.34

Paperback. 'A fresh, funny new voice. Ella Griffin can make you laugh and then cry in the turn of a page' MARIAN KEYES Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 133 x 28. Weight in Grams: 274. Good clean copy. Showing light shelfwear, remains a nice copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0021690
ISBN
9781409120698
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Siblings Billa and Ed share their beautiful, grand old childhood home in rural Cornwall. Their lives are uncomplicated. With family and friends nearby and their free and easy living arrangements, life seems as content as can be. But when postcards start arriving from a sinister figure they thought belonged well and truly in their pasts. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 246.
Publisher
Corgi
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780552169004
ISBN
9780552169004
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.61

Paperback. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FJMS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 224.
Publisher
Old Street Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906964566
ISBN
9781906964566
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.97

Paperback. Features a benign old monk who listens to a prospective novice's tale of depravity, violence, and carnivorous excess while a nice little family drama - in which nearly everyone dies - unfurls. In this title, the author also treats us to a cornucopia of cooked animal flesh - ostrich, camel, donkey, dog, as well as the more common varieties. Translator(s): Goldblatt, Howard. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 237 x 22. Weight in Grams: 542.
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857422217
ISBN
9780857422217
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.10

Paperback. Can any young pop group evade the pitfalls of fame, sex, drugs and all their inherent baggage? Will the Grams headline Glastonbury? And, crucially, can their guitarist achieve orgasm with a fully-limbed lover? Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 134 x 38. Weight in Grams: 426. Good copy with some shelf wear
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
New Ed
SKU
KAK0002901
ISBN
9780099289968
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 171 x 105. Weight in Grams: 168.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Pinnacle
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780786040421
ISBN
9780786040421
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.46

Paperback. .
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Pinnacle
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780786036295
ISBN
9780786036295
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 9.11

Paperback. Paul Power Clay and Tanya Beauty Long have only each other when the woman who loved them, Power's mother, Charlotte, unexpectedly dies. Sexually drawn to each other, the sixteen year olds know they must keep their attraction hidden, especially from their new guardian, Charlie "Slim" Simmons, a rich hustler who has his own plans for them. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 137 x 22. Weight in Grams: 284.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780062067661
ISBN
9780062067661
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.16

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