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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. You never know when your luck's about to change .. A heart-wrenching tale about real love and real life from the Sunday Times bestselling and readers' favourite Carole Matthews Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 128 x 29. Weight in Grams: 314.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Digital original
Condition
New
SKU
V9780751551440
ISBN
9780751551440
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.06

Paperback. A novel that marks the maturing of a singular British writing talent - and perhaps the most significant writer to come out of Wales in a generation Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 141 x 11. Weight in Grams: 128.
Publisher
Granta Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847088802
ISBN
9781847088802
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.63

Paperback. In the long hot summer of 1939, Britain is preparing for war. But on a riverside farm in Suffolk there is excitement of another kind: Mrs Petty, the widowed farmer, has had her hunch proved correct that the mounds on her land hold buried treasure. As the dig proceeds, it becomes clear though that this is no ordinary find. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 121 x 16. Weight in Grams: 174.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
SKU
9780141016382
ISBN
9780141016382
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.70

Paperback. A complex marriage, treachery and blackmail are the themes of this gripping novel from Sunday Times Number One bestseller Penny Vincenzi. Num Pages: 832 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 53. Weight in Grams: 570.
Publisher
Headline Review
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780755332670
ISBN
9780755332670
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.86

paperback. In this East End saga set during the 1960s, Patsy Hemmingway gave her son Jac to his natural father and his wife because he didn't fit into her lifestyle. Now Jac is six and Patsy is on her own and she wants him back. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 112 x 21. Weight in Grams: 189.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
1st Hodder & Stoughton Edition
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
SKU
KNW0005699
ISBN
9780340818541
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. "How have I been lucky enough to come here, to be alive, when so many others are not? I should have died.. But I am here." Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 24. Weight in Grams: 256.
Publisher
MIRA
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
First edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780778302001
ISBN
9780778302001
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.94

Paperback. A deeply moving novel that shows the strength of love and friendship in confronting the dark sorrows of life Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 122 x 178 x 26. Weight in Grams: 268.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
416
Publication date
1996
Condition
New
SKU
V9780747252023
ISBN
9780747252023
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. Offers fiction intended for both Western and Middle Eastern readers. The stories in this volume deal with issues both traditional and modern, including relations between parents and children, between husbands and wives, and between citizens of independent Morocco and its nationalist representative government. Translator(s): Abouzeid, Leila. Series: CMES Modern Middle East Literatures in Translation Series. Num Pages: 127 pages, 20 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1HBM; FA; FYB; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 214 x 141 x 8. Weight in Grams: 182.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
127
Condition
New
SKU
V9780292712652
ISBN
9780292712652
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.30

Hardcover. What do a dead cat, a computer whizz-kid, an electric monk, quantum mechanics, a chronologit over 200 years old, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and pizza have in common? Apparently not much, until Dirk Gently begins his investigation. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FL; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 146 x 41. Weight in Grams: 650.
Publisher
William Heinemann
Number of pages
512
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Edition
First Edition, First Impression
Condition
New
SKU
V9780434009190
ISBN
9780434009190
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 18.94

Paperback. Now available in paperback, the original English-language translation of O Cadhain's raucous masterpiece Translator(s): Titley, Alan (Professor Emeritus of Modern Irish UCC). Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127. .
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
9780300219821
ISBN
9780300219821
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.00
€ 11.93

Paperback. Dennis Huggins drifts into the dangerous life of drug dealer and discovers that, hard as the struggle for respect on the streets is, the struggle for love is harder still. At least Dennis has involved parents looking out for him; too many of his friends have no guidance other than that offered by their fellow shottaz, or the black Muslims. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 192.
Publisher
Profile Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846686573
ISBN
9781846686573
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.15

Paperback. On a lazy, quiet afternoon, in the blink of an eye, our world shatters into two parallel universes, as men vanish from women and women from men. After families and loved ones separate from one another, life continues in different ways for men and women, boys and girls. An explosion of violence sweeps one world that still operates technologically. Series: Bison Frontiers of Imagination. Num Pages: 416 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 201 x 135 x 23. Weight in Grams: 449.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803298415
ISBN
9780803298415
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 18.65

Paperback. An enthralling story of secrets, scandal, identity and infidelity, from the bestselling author of The Day You Saved My Life Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 27. Weight in Grams: 310.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780751543568
ISBN
9780751543568
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. A wonderfully inventive and entertaining journey through time and the history of chocolate! Num Pages: 258 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 132 x 14. Weight in Grams: 194. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0001993
ISBN
9780007107834
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. The internationally-renowned author of "The Assault" delivers a rich mosaic of 20th-century trauma in which many themes--loyalty, friendship, family, art, fate, good and evil--suffuse a suspenseful and resplendent narrative. Num Pages: 736 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 136 x 34. Weight in Grams: 496.
Edition
01st Edition
Publisher
Penguin Books, Limited (UK)
Number of pages
736
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241953204
ISBN
9780241953204
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.06

Paperback. Felicito Yanaque has raised himself from poverty to ownership of a trucking business. He receives a threatening letter demanding protection money. The police don't take him seriously, Felicito refuses to pay up and gets sucked into a nightmare. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 28. Weight in Grams: 338.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571310746
ISBN
9780571310746
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.54

mass_market. Felicito Yanaque has raised himself from poverty to ownership of a trucking business. He receives a threatening letter demanding protection money. The police don't take him seriously, Felicito refuses to pay up and gets sucked into a nightmare. Then his mistress is kidnapped, and matters become seriously complicated. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 112 x 34. Weight in Grams: 226.
Edition
Open Market - Airside ed
Number of pages
400
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
KTG0016393
ISBN
9780571310722
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 6.99
€ 4.99

Paperback. Translator(s): Beaumont, Barbara. Num Pages: 905 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 148 x 50. Weight in Grams: 1176.
Publisher
Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Condition
New
SKU
V9780714530222
ISBN
9780714530222
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.53

Hardcover. Translator(s): Beaumont, Barbara. Num Pages: 902 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 165 x 53. Weight in Grams: 1383.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
New
Number of pages
902
Condition
New
SKU
V9780714529097
ISBN
9780714529097
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 19.56

Paperback. 'Part glamorous travelogue, part slow-burn mystery, this full-bodied tale of a runaway is at once formally inventive and heartbreakingly familiar.. (It's also insanely funny.)' Lena Dunham Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 18. Weight in Grams: 170.
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782397717
ISBN
9781782397717
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.73

Hardback. Part glamorous travelogue, part slow-burn mystery, this full-bodied tale of a runaway is at once formally inventive and heartbreakingly familiar.. (It's also insanely funny.)' Lena Dunham Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 376.
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782397694
ISBN
9781782397694
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.59

Paperback. The brilliant novel from the bestselling author of The Horse Whisperer Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 157 x 29. Weight in Grams: 308. Good copy with some shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KHN0001834
ISBN
9780751539349
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. The brilliant novel from the bestselling author of The Horse Whisperer Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 157 x 29. Weight in Grams: 308. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KRA0009140
ISBN
9780751539349
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Hardback. Craig Raine's dazzlingly original second novel, The Divine Comedy is a gripping meditation on sex and death and God and the myriad ways in which the human body plays dirty tricks on us. Its publication is an important literary event. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 225 x 24. Weight in Grams: 417. 192 pages. Craig Raine's dazzlingly original second novel, The Divine Comedy is a gripping meditation on sex and death and God and the myriad ways in which the human body plays dirty tricks on us. Its publication is an important literary event. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 159 x 225 x 24. Weight: 414.
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Number of pages
192
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848872837
ISBN
9781848872837
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 15.35

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