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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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
€ 14.99
€ 11.14
Paperback. The tragic story of a rebellious, fiercely intelligent young slave who breaks all the rules: in learning to read and write; in falling in love with a white girl, the daughter of his owner, and finally in trying to escape and joining her in the free North. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 112.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099462217
- ISBN
- 9780099462217
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.70
€ 11.99
€ 9.70
Paperback. Dr Thomas Underhill, a notorious seventeenth-century practitioner of black arts and sexual deviancy. However, the landlord, Maurice Allington, is the sole witness to the renaissance of the malevolent Underhill. Led by an anxious desire to vindicate his sanity, Allington strives to uncover the key to Underhill's satanic powers. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 176.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099461074
- ISBN
- 9780099461074
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.45
€ 13.99
€ 10.45
Paperback. Serge Valene wants to create an elaborate painting of the building he has made his home for the last sixty years. As he plans his picture, he contemplates the lives of all the people he has ever known there. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 37. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099449256
- ISBN
- 9780099449256
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.14
€ 14.99
€ 11.14
Paperback. A biographical novel of Michelangelo. Michelangelo Buonarotti lived in the time of the turbulent Renaissance, the years of poisoning princes, warring popes, the powerful Medici family, and the fanatic monk Savonarola. Working with a God-driven fury he created "David", painted the Sistine ceiling, and was the architect of the dome of St Peter's. Num Pages: 784 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 112 x 34. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099416272
- ISBN
- 9780099416272
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.14
€ 14.99
€ 11.14
Paperback. Kate Leonard is a young lawyer. Smart, sexy and successful, she seems to have it all, except a life outside the office ..until she meets Tom Faulkener. Tom comes from a different world: the privileged, idle world of private incomes, breathtaking bills and the pursuit of pleasure. The last thing he wants is a relationship ..until he meets Kate. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 110 x 41. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099415046
- ISBN
- 9780099415046
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.38
€ 10.38
Paperback. Years after the First World War's end, the narrator returns to Paris. He reflects on time, reality, jealousy, artistic creation, and the raw material of literature - his past life. Translator(s): Scott-Moncrieff, C. K.; Kilmartin, Terence; Enright, D. J. Num Pages: 704 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 43. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099362715
- ISBN
- 9780099362715
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.14
€ 14.99
€ 11.14
Paperback. A leak is traced to a small sub-section of SIS, sparking off the inevitable security checks, tensions and suspicions. The sort of atmosphere, perhaps, where mistakes could be made? For Maurice Castle, it is the end of the line anyway, and time for him to retire to live peacefully with his African wife, Sarah. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 208.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099288527
- ISBN
- 9780099288527
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.70
€ 11.99
€ 9.70
Paperback. Reissued to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Keneally's first novel. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 274. Clean copy with some shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KCW0000512
- ISBN
- 9780340624746
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 200 x 14. Weight in Grams: 154. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Vintage, London
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KCW0000496
- ISBN
- 9780099147718
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
paperback. In the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her too is Robbie Turner who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge. By the end of that day, the lives of all three will have changed for ever.. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 29. Weight in Grams: 360. Clean copy with some shelf wear but remains good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Vintage London
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KCW0000479
- ISBN
- 9780099429791
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 5.44
€ 5.44
Paperback. Tells the story of a haunted childhood, lived out in two dimensions. One is legendary: the Sun-fort of Grianan, home of the warrior Fianna; the Field of the Disappeared, over which no gulls fly; the house in Donegal where children are stolen away by demonic forces. The other is actual: the city of Derry in the Northern Ireland of the 40s and 50s. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 200. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KCW0000163
- ISBN
- 9780099744412
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. At the far end of the long white gallery is a painting of a woman, in pale flowing clothes and lying on a sofa beside an open window. It is a painting which leads Flora on, beckoning her away from her childhood, her complaining mother, pert younger sister, and the confines of a small community. Num Pages: 271 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 200.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099274629
- ISBN
- 9780099274629
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.65
€ 23.99
€ 17.65
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: 624 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781471110825
- ISBN
- 9781471110825
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.02
€ 11.99
€ 10.02
Paperback. On the night of her thirteenth birthday, Jane Howard made a vow to her warring parents - she would never get married and she would never have children. But life, as Jane discovers, is a random business. Many years and many lives later, she is a professor in Boston, in love with an erratic man named Theo. And then she falls pregnant. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 38. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099509684
- ISBN
- 9780099509684
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 18.56
€ 24.99
€ 18.56
Paperback. Num Pages: 346 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 140 x 29. Weight in Grams: 256. Good, clean copy. Covers and page edges showing minor shelfwear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Poolbeg Press Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0005986
- ISBN
- 9781842235461
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 570 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 164 x 33. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Poolbeg Press Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KEX0199792
- ISBN
- 9781853711862
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 7.99€ 4.99
€ 7.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. To those customers who visit her Indian spice shop in Oakland, California, Tilo dispenses wisdom and the appropriate spice: coriander for sight, tumeric for wrinkles, and fenugreek to make a rejected wife desirable. However Tilo's powers are conditional - they vanish the moment she falls in love. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 15. Weight in Grams: 238.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780552996709
- ISBN
- 9780552996709
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. Sarah Stratford is a wedding planner hiding a rather inconvenient truth - she doesn't believe in love. Or not for herself, anyway. But as the confetti flutters away on the June breeze of yet another successful wedding she somehow finds herself agreeing to organise two more, on the same day and only two months away. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 29. Weight in Grams: 336. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KI20003425
- ISBN
- 9780099502128
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. * Highly original 'detective' stories with unique setting and characters featuring Mma Ramotswe and her No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency. Series: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 174.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Abacus
- Edition
- New
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349117423
- ISBN
- 9780349117423
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
€ 13.99
€ 11.09
Paperback. Ranging from the rural wilds of Australia to Manhattan via Tokyo, this is a moving exploration of art, fraud, friendship and redemption. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 20. Weight in Grams: 252. ***THIS IS A PREORDER TO BE DELIVERED ON OR AROUND THE PUBLICATION DATE IN JUNE 2022***
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571231508
- ISBN
- 9780571231508
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 11.08
€ 12.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. Life in general is getting in the way of Pam, Maggie, Ellie and Toni losing weight. And the men aren't helping either. There's an ex-husband who suddenly wants his children; a rich, powerful playboy who has everything. No doubt about it, drastic action is needed. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 19. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Bantam
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780553816846
- ISBN
- 9780553816846
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.32
€ 10.32
paperback. A story that is told by a young 'unknown soldier' in the trenches of Flanders during the First World War. Through his eyes we see all the realities of war; under fire, on patrol, waiting in the trenches, at home on leave, and in hospitals. Although there are vividly described incidents which remain in mind, there is no sense of adventure here. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 174.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099496946
- ISBN
- 9780099496946
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 14.60
€ 18.99
€ 14.60
Paperback. He is born into a world of poverty, ignorance and injustice, but Azaro awakens with a smile on his face. Despite belonging to a spirit world made of enchantment, where there is no suffering, Azaro chooses to stay in the land of the Living: to feel it, endure it, know it and love it. Num Pages: 592 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 37. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099929307
- ISBN
- 9780099929307
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 10.38
€ 12.99
€ 10.38