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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Kalika loses one of her twins at childbirth, a daughter she longs for. Her son survives but loses the love of his mother because he can't be what she wants him to be. An Indian tale of history, religion & gender in a family scarred by its past and struggling with the present. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 600 x 221 x 23. Weight in Grams: 302.
Publisher
Bluemoose Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
9781910422144
ISBN
9781910422144
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.17

Paperback. Five dynamic, powerful and famous couples are invited on the maiden voyage of a Russian billionaire's yacht. Could this be the trip of a lifetime? Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 134 x 33. Weight in Grams: 362. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear to the cover
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
SKU
KIN0034978
ISBN
9781849831420
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 536. A Morgan & McCoy Chronicle. 320 pages, black & white illustrations. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 20. Weight: 536.
Publisher
Lulu.com
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847284143
ISBN
9781847284143
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 5.61

Paperback. The story of two brilliant women and the men to whom they ransomed their hearts. Num Pages: 928 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 118 x 49. Weight in Grams: 542. Some shelf wear, but remains good
Publisher
HarperCollins
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
First Paperback Edition
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KTJ0007304
ISBN
9780586058480
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Features disturbing stories that vividly capture an Ireland in flux and crisis where the coping classes, "the squeezed middle", increasingly face the threat of economic and emotional meltdown. In this title, the protagonists must seek whatever salvation they can as certainties collapse around them. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 139 x 14. Weight in Grams: 226.
Publisher
Liffey Pr
Number of pages
180
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908308177
ISBN
9781908308177
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.56

Paperback. Joseph Connolly's comic outrage skewers over-inflated celebrity culture and dethrones child stardom in this violently funny satire. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 36. Weight in Grams: 344.
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848666313
ISBN
9781848666313
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.30

Paperback. Venice, 1511. In the convent of Sant' Alvise, Oliva is about to take the veil and become a bride of Christ. When her world is shaken, first, literally, by an earthquake, and then, spiritually, by forces that threaten to change the convent for ever. She begins to ask questions about her faith and her future. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 23. Weight in Grams: 270.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571305087
ISBN
9780571305087
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.53

Paperback. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 141 x 10. Weight in Grams: 124.
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780486797038
ISBN
9780486797038
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.77

Paperback. The warm, wise and witty new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Hurricane Sisters Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130. .
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781471140235
ISBN
9781471140235
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.78

Paperback. At moments when reality shows itself to be unstable or uncanny, we experience a form of vertigo. This experience is further complicated when we try to transform experience into writing, and fact clashes with memory. Sebald's novel, part fiction, part travelogue explores this theme. Num Pages: 272 pages, 70. BIC Classification: 2ACG; FA; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 197 x 20. Weight in Grams: 256.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099448891
ISBN
9780099448891
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. Jonathan Taylor's debut novel, Entertaining Strangers, is a tragi-comedy about the eccentric Edwin Prince - a depressive intellectual obsessed with high culture .. and ants. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 160 x 26. Weight in Grams: 342.
Publisher
Salt Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
312
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781907773273
ISBN
9781907773273
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.93

Paperback. Soon after John McPake's marriage falls apart he starts hearing voices. An obsession with the works of Breughel develops into a full blown delusion, and he assumes the personna of Johannes, a 16th century Dutch weaver who travels with his friends, Balthazar and Cornelius, in pursuit of his son who has been abducted by the Spanish mercenaries. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 200 x 26. Weight in Grams: 336.
Publisher
Sandstone Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908737694
ISBN
9781908737694
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.55

Paperback. Abducted from her West African village at the age of eleven and sold as a slave in the American South, Aminata Diallo thinks only of freedom. After escaping the plantation, torn from her husband and child, she passes through Manhattan in the chaos of the Revolutionary War, is shipped to Nova Scotia, and then joins a group of freed slaves. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 126 x 30. Weight in Grams: 352.
Publisher
Black Swan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780552775489
ISBN
9780552775489
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.39

Paperback. Planet savage is a story narrated by Leungo, a nine-year old with a very interesting outlook on life; he views his parents as good-for-nothing savages who care only for themselves; who drink themselves silly with friends who come round every day, leaving any concern for his education by the wayside. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 135 x 12. Weight in Grams: 190.
Publisher
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd South Africa
Number of pages
168
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781770097513
ISBN
9781770097513
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.50

Paperback. A wickedly funny new novel of social climbing, secret emails, art-world scandal and lovesick billionaires from the internationally bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Allen & Unwin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781760290788
ISBN
9781760290788
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.73

Paperback.
Publisher
Freight Books
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
9780956613585
ISBN
9780956613585
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.95

Paperback. Giant freak waves send an unsinkable cargo ship to the bottom of the Atlantic and a herd of killer whales attack a party of kayakers in the Pacific - random events, or evidence of polar shift? For Kurt Austin of NUMA these two seemingly unconnected incidents are harbingers of a global phenomenon that will mark the end of civilization. Series: The NUMA Files. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 37. Weight in Grams: 382.
Publisher
Penguin Books
Number of pages
544
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Re-issue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241955864
ISBN
9780241955864
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.39

Paperback. Num Pages: 285 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 272. Keywords: "Subjects - Fiction - By Period,Subjects - Fiction - General"
Publisher
Brandon
Number of pages
285
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
KHS0044093
ISBN
9780863222801
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 285 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 272. Paperback in very good condition.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Brandon
Number of pages
285
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
SKU
KRF0012039
ISBN
9780863222801
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 285 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 272. Clean copy
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Brandon
Number of pages
285
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
SKU
KEX0220154
ISBN
9780863222801
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Hardcover. 3et in the Malay Archipelago, where the author spent much of his youth as an officer in the British Merchant Navy, this book is a sombre yet brilliant study of good and evil in his mature manner. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 168 x 29. Weight in Grams: 560.
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
480
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857151442
ISBN
9781857151442
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.95

Paperback. The seventh Thursday Next novel from Number One bestselling author Jasper Fforde. Series: Thursday Next. Num Pages: 400 pages, 10 b/w line drawings. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 138 x 200 x 25. Weight in Grams: 272.
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780340963135
ISBN
9780340963135
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

Paperback. A heart-warming and touching romance from James Patterson. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 113 x 19. Weight in Grams: 154. 8vo.Good copy
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Headline
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
SKU
KEX0297228
ISBN
9780755305742
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. A semi autobiographical account of Isherwood's time in 1930s Berlin that shows the lives of people at threat from the rise of the Nazis: Natalia Laundauer, the rich, Jewish heiress, Peter and Otto, a gay couple and the 'divinely decadent' Sally Bowles, a young English woman who was so memorably portrayed by Liza Minnelli. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 196.
Edition
01st Edition
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Condition
New
SKU
V9780749390549
ISBN
9780749390549
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.71

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