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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Includes three stories where characters are tested by dramatic events 'that show in the light of day the inner worth of a man, the edge of his temper, and the fibre of his stuff; that reveal the quality of his resistance and the secret stuff of his pretences, not only to others but also to himself'. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 304 pages, glossary. BIC Classification: FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 196 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 206. Very good copy with light shelf wear. Light nicks, remains very good
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KCW0019544
ISBN
9781853267437
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. *The fifth in the No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency series *Highly original 'detective' stories with unique setting and characters for people who are fed up with aggressive literature which dwells on selfishness, discourtesy and conflict. Series: No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 17. Weight in Grams: 158. Very good copy with light shelf wear. Light nicks, remains very good
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Abacus
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KCW0019530
ISBN
9780349117256
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. 'Excellent, a very powerful and moving piece of work' Roddy Doyle Num Pages: 162 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 16. Weight in Grams: 160. Very good copy with light shelf wear. Light nicks & creases, remains very good
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KCW0018622
ISBN
9780753811207
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. When you're confronted with the ultimate betrayal, how far would you go for revenge? Translator(s): Murray, Steven T. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 212. Good clean copy. Covers and page edges showing minor shelfwear, remains in good condition
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Canongate Books
Edition
Main
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0009122
ISBN
9780857861641
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 392 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 214 x 27. Weight in Grams: 532.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780226321417
ISBN
9780226321417
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 19.22

Paperback. On a promontory jutting out into the Atlantic wind stands the home run by Brother Benedict, where boys are taught a little of God and a lot of fear. To Michael Lamb, one of the Brothers, the regime is without hope, and when he inherits a small legacy he runs away, taking a 12-year-old boy with him. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 11. Weight in Grams: 120 152pp
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
9780099284598
ISBN
9780099284598
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 8.05

Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 176 x 24. Weight in Grams: 320.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2023
Publisher
Y Lolfa
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847719232
ISBN
9781847719232
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.80

Paperback. Series: The County Guides. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. Weight in Grams: 270.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Condition
New
SKU
KRS0029516
ISBN
9780008147082
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. A summary of the "roaring twenties", and a expose of the "Jazz Age", this book, through the narration of Nick Carraway, takes the reader into the world of the mansions which lined the Long Island shore in the 1920s, to encounter Nick's cousin Daisy, her brash but wealthy husband Tom Buchanan, Jay Gatsby and the mystery that surrounds him. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 197 x 9. Weight in Grams: 100.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions
Condition
New
SKU
KKE0000943
ISBN
9781853260414
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 6.74

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. Contains stories that show us truants, seducers, gossips, rally-drivers, generous hostesses, corrupt politicians, failing priests, amateur theologians, struggling musicians, moony adolescents, victims of domestic brutishness, sentimental aunts and poets, patriots earnest or cynical, and people striving to get by. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 127 x 14. Weight in Grams: 132. Contains stories that show us truants, seducers, gossips, rally-drivers, generous hostesses, corrupt politicians, failing priests, amateur theologians, struggling musicians, moony adolescents, victims of domestic brutishness, sentimental aunts and poets, patriots earnest or cynical, and people striving to get by. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 127 x 14. Weight in Grams: 132.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Wordsworth
Condition
New
SKU
KKE0000935
ISBN
9781853260483
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.95

Paperback. Num Pages: 446 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 136 x 35. Weight in Grams: 562 446pp. A posthumous novel from the late beloved Nuala Ó Faoláin, this one explores the challenges women, who have lived a full life, face in late middle age
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
New Island Books
Condition
New
SKU
9781848400450
ISBN
9781848400450
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.95

Paperback. From the bestselling author of Slammed, comes Colleen Hoover's next big hit. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 191 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 276.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9781471125683
ISBN
9781471125683
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 5.47

Paperback. Set in the Northern Ireland of the 1980's, this book tells the story of a young Catholic man living in a Protestant area. Springing out of the fear and violence of Ulster, it is a haunting love story that unfolds in a land where tenderness and innocence can only flicker briefly in the dark. Num Pages: 176 pages, port. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 16. Weight in Grams: 148 154pp
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Vintage
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
9780099767114
ISBN
9780099767114
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 11.35

Paperback. An ancient race of lycanthropes survives in modern LA and its numbers are growing as packs convert the city's downtrodden into their fold. Stuck in the middle are a local dogcatcher and the woman he loves, whose secret past haunts her as she fights a bloody one-woman battle to save their relationship. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 228.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
9780099512462
ISBN
9780099512462
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 10.95

Paperback. With a depiction of a group of Parisians as they flee the Nazi invasion, this book tells about the inhabitants of a small rural community under occupation. Translator(s): Smith, Sandra. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 292.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099488781
ISBN
9780099488781
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

Paperback. Charlotte is hovering between life and death, but it's taken a coma for her to realize she's made a complete mess of her short time on earth. Not to mention the five precious dating years she's just wasted on the cheating, faithless James Kane. But after a quick peek at the afterlife, she decides it's not all it's cracked up to be either. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 30. Weight in Grams: 330. Good copy with some shelf wear.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KTJ0050998
ISBN
9781848270268
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. A collection of stories, in which moments of change, chance encounters, the twist of fate leads a person to a new way of thinking or being. It presents a radiant, indelible portrait of just how dangerous and strange ordinary life can be. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 21. Weight in Grams: 244.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780500300343
ISBN
9780500300343
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 10.45

Paperback. A collection of short stories that twist and inspire the imagination. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 15. Weight in Grams: 152.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141020044
ISBN
9780141020044
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.82

Paperback. A vivid and passionate love story from the Booker Shortlisted author Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 37. Weight in Grams: 372.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Condition
New
SKU
V9780747545637
ISBN
9780747545637
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.25

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