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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Features stories of dysfunctional marriages, abnormal goings on in rural outposts, urban alienation and kitchen sink dramas where the woman is no longer tied to the kitchen sink, but railing against past wrongs. This work also talks about various issues of domestic violence, child abuse, and abortion. Editor(s): O'Connor, Rebecca. Series: Short Stories by Women from Around the World S. Num Pages: 170 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 133 x 14. Weight in Grams: 176.
Publisher
Telegram Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
170
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846590030
ISBN
9781846590030
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.04

paperback. Series: Irish Literature Series. Num Pages: 204 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press United States
Number of pages
204
Condition
New
SKU
V9781564783875
ISBN
9781564783875
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 13.81

Paperback. Winner of the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, this is the new novel from the author of 'King of the Badgers' and the Man Booker-shortlisted 'The Northern Clemency'. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 230.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
9780007450107
ISBN
9780007450107
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Winner of the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, this is the new novel from the author of 'King of the Badgers' and the Man Booker-shortlisted 'The Northern Clemency'. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 230.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Condition
New
SKU
KSG0013688
ISBN
9780007450107
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Translator(s): La Shure, Charles. Num Pages: 171 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 150 x 19. Weight in Grams: 344.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press United States
Number of pages
171
Condition
New
SKU
V9781628970685
ISBN
9781628970685
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.21

Paperback. A teenage son shoots himself under his parents' bed. They sleep that night unaware he is lying dead beneath them. A stranger turns up at a man's door to persude him that they must get rid of his ageing mother in order to sell the house. An old man grumbles to his daughter about the unexplained digging and banging he hears under the house at night. Translator(s): Lange, Nicholas de. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 18. Weight in Grams: 196.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099541363
ISBN
9780099541363
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.88

Paperback. Translator(s): Boguslawski, Alexander. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 367.
Publisher
NYRB Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781590178461
ISBN
9781590178461
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 16.47

Paperback. As the new school year begins, Jack Sheffield prepares for an eventful year than usual. A teacher is appointed, and before long tongues start to wag. Meanwhile, five-year old Madona Fazackerly makes her mark in an unexpected way, life changes dramatically for Ruby the caretaker and, in village Coffee Shop, Dorothy Humpleby plans a dirty weekend. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 248.
Publisher
Corgi
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780552167031
ISBN
9780552167031
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.81

Paperback. Catrine Evans, a young American, is sent to an English boarding school after her mother dies of cancer. Thrust into an unfriendly world and ridiculed for her accent, Catrine lays bare her thoughts in a luminous stream-of-consciousness narrative. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 23. Weight in Grams: 226. Clean copy with some slight markings to the page edges, otherwise a clean copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KSS0001485
ISBN
9780571206711
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. The second novel by an award-winning Caribbean novelist, playwright and poet. It deals with the impingements of modern life on a remote village in the interior of Trinidad which wants a school and a schoolmaster. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 17. Weight in Grams: 160.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571196760
ISBN
9780571196760
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.74

Paperback. When a teacher is found dead, having apparently committed suicide, his friend Pierre Hoffman takes over class 4F and finds himself responsible for a group of strangely subdued, well-behaved and yet menacing pupils. Over the weeks that follow, he receives a series of signals that cause him to question the circumstances of his colleague's suicide. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 21. Weight in Grams: 228.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099466727
ISBN
9780099466727
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.43

Paperback. Attending a New England summer camp as an adolescent, young Erik Schroder - a first generation East German immigrant - adopts a new name and a new persona - Eric Kennedy - in the hopes that it will help him fit in. This fateful white lie will set him on an improbable and ultimately tragic course. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 126 x 19. Weight in Grams: 222.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571296729
ISBN
9780571296729
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.20

Paperback. A new collection of short stories from the author of the highly acclaimed Canary Wharf. Num Pages: 116 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 151 x 11. Weight in Grams: 210.
Publisher
COIS LIFE
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781907494383
ISBN
9781907494383
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.09

Paperback. In the name of Rome, Scipio Africanus systematically destroyed the hard-won empires of Hannibal and Alexander the Great. This work reveals the aristocrat, general, politician, and aesthete behind the Roman triumph. Series: Carthage Trilogy. Num Pages: 400 pages, 1 map,. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 26. Weight in Grams: 282. 400 pages, 1 map,. In the name of Rome, Scipio Africanus systematically destroyed the hard-won empires of Hannibal and Alexander the Great. This work reveals the aristocrat, general, politician, and aesthete behind the Roman triumph. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 196 x 128 x 26. Weight: 282.
Publisher
Canongate Books
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847671004
ISBN
9781847671004
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.49

Paperback. Along with his siblings, Raphael Hardin left his childhood home in rural Kentucky. Grappling with an AIDS diagnosis, he returns to care for his dying father. Told from the perspectives of Raphael, his family, and their lifelong neighbour, Fenton Johnson's landmark novel reveals the blood struggles and binding loves of a broken family made whole. Series: Kentucky Voices. Num Pages: 258 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky United States
Number of pages
258
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813166568
ISBN
9780813166568
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.58

Paperback. Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of 'The Daily Beast', has always prided himself on his intuitive flair for spotting ace reporters. That is not to say he has not made the odd blunder, however, and may in a moment of weakness make another. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 188.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780141184029
ISBN
9780141184029
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.82

paperback. Sir Robert Rannaldini had two ambitions: to seduce his stepdaughter Tabitha Campbell-Black, and to put his mark on musical history by making the film of Verdi's opera, Don Carlos. As the crew gather at Rannaldini's haunted abbey for filming, it is inevitable that violent feuds, temperamental screaming, and devious plotting will ensue. Num Pages: 800 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 156 x 44. Weight in Grams: 532.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Corgi
Condition
New
SKU
9780552156363
ISBN
9780552156363
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.91

Paperback. Twenty years out of the combat zone, hidden from killers, but now fate has thrust Alex Crawford back into the front line. Though he is an aid worker, the secret service minders who have protected him for twenty years have reactivated him: they want information about the man who perpetrated a massacre in a Muslim village in Bosnia. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FH; FJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 170 x 178 x 30. Weight in Grams: 328. Good copy with some shelf wearth
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Arrow London
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
SKU
KYB0000429
ISBN
9780099549413
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Twenty years out of the combat zone, hidden from killers, but now fate has thrust Alex Crawford back into the front line. Though he is an aid worker, the secret service minders who have protected him for twenty years have reactivated him: they want information about the man who perpetrated a massacre in a Muslim village in Bosnia. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FH; FJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 170 x 178 x 30. Weight in Grams: 328. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Arrow London
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
SKU
KAK0009719
ISBN
9780099549413
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Written by one of the all-time greats of Scottish literature, this work is a trilogy of novels: "Sunset Song" (1932), "Cloud Howe" (1933) and "Grey Granite" (1934). At each book's core is the heroine Chris Guthrie, as she grows from a child into adulthood through the Great War to the development of communism in the 1920s. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 46. Weight in Grams: 590. Good clean copy with some shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Polygon
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0008456
ISBN
9781904598824
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. This book, the first modern study of the subject, examines the history and nature of fairy belief, the major themes and motifs, the demonising attack upon the tradition, and the attempted reinstatement of the reality of fairies at the end of the seventeenth century, as well as their place in ballads and in Scottish literature. Num Pages: 252 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 157 x 235 x 20. Weight in Grams: 424. 252 pages. This book, the first modern study of the subject, examines the history and nature of fairy belief, the major themes and motifs, the demonising attack upon the tradition, and the attempted reinstatement of the reality of fairies at the end of the seventeenth century, as well as their place in ballads and in Scottish literature. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 157 x 235 x 20. Weight: 422.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
John Donald
Condition
New
SKU
V9781904607588
ISBN
9781904607588
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.73

Paperback. Num Pages: 32 pages, colour illus. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 216 x 6. Weight in Grams: 138.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Gazelle Book Services
Condition
New
SKU
V9788120740167
ISBN
9788120740167
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.46

Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 368.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Caitlin Press Canada
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781894759687
ISBN
9781894759687
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.81

Paperback. The cult classic reissued for its 35th anniversary - the original sexy read. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 34. Weight in Grams: 372.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Condition
New
SKU
V9780751551266
ISBN
9780751551266
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

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