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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Most of us can remember a defining moment in our lives. A split second when time stood still and our lives changed forever. For Lily Ormond, that moment came late one night when she answered a knock on the door and discovered that while she'd been smashing garlic and rosemary and watching the soaps, her sister Alison had drowned. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 33. Weight in Grams: 362. Clean copy with some shelf wear, minor nicks and bumps on cover but otherwise clean
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Condition
Used, Good
Edition
1st ed
SKU
KSS0007540
ISBN
9781848270114
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. An army doctor investigates a plague in a Polish village. What he finds there is deeply unsettling and harrowing. Meanwhile, a colleague is unravelling a similar tale 300 years old - one that arose only to be twisted into its current form, as the fairy-story, the Pied Piper of Hamelin. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. Weight in Grams: 230. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Flamingo
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSS0007345
ISBN
9780006550778
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. A compulsive and haunting tale of the passion, betrayal, sensuality and ambiguity at the heart of shifting metropolitan lives Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 228. Clean copy with some shelf wear, minor nicks and bumps on cover but otherwise clean
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Condition
Used, Good
Edition
01st Edition
SKU
KSS0007313
ISBN
9780747268178
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. * An irresistible narrative of courage and endeavour. A story that captures nature at its most beautiful and most brutal and which unlocks the intricacies at the heart of human relationships. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 189 x 110 x 30. Weight in Grams: 304. Clean copy with some shelf wear, minor nicks and bumps on cover but otherwise clean
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Abacus
Condition
Used, Good
Edition
New edition
SKU
KSS0007242
ISBN
9780349116525
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. It is the freakishly hot, drought summer of 1921; dust storms in London, parched and cracking earth, autumn tints in July. Holed up in a cottage in the Chilterns, a young writer strives to write the first great novel of the War, impelled by his own suffering. Outward events and inner crises deflect him from his purpose, and love intervenes. Series: Vintage War. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 27. Weight in Grams: 271. Clean copy with some shelf wear, minor nicks and bumps on cover but remains a clean copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KSS0007025
ISBN
9780099272984
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Hardback. The magnificent new novel from the million-selling Booker Prize-winning author of The White Tiger: one of the most eagerly anticipated literary novels of 2011, 'a kaleidoscopic portrait of a changing Mumbai' Guardian Best Books of 2011 Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 242 x 37. Weight in Grams: 718. Good copy with some minor shelf wear. Dustwrapper with minor edge wear but remains good
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Atlantic Books London
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0008955
ISBN
9781848875166
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Hardcover. The Uncommon Reader is none other than HM the Queen who drifts accidentally into reading when her corgis stray into a mobile library parked at Buckingham Palace. She reads widely and intelligently. Her reading naturally changes her world view and her relationship with people such as the oleaginous prime minister and his repellent advisers. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 175 x 134 x 14. Weight in Grams: 215. Good copy with some minor shelf wear. Dustwrapper with minor edge wear but remains good
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Faber and Faber
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
1st
SKU
KKD0008952
ISBN
9781846680496
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

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. 'Excuse me, sir, but may I be of assistance? Ah, I see I have alarmed you. Do not be frightened by my beard. I am a lover of America..' So speaks the mysterious stranger at a Lahore cafe. In this title, this speaker of immaculate English tells you his story, of how he embraced the Western dream - and a Western woman - and how both betrayed him. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 162. Good clean copy with some shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Penguin London
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0008454
ISBN
9780141029542
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. A short, gripping suspense novel in which an elderly aristocrat becomes obsessed with a young girl. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 154. Good clean copy with some shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0008410
ISBN
9781849162609
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. A collection of Canadian short stories. The book includes works by Alastair Macleod, Gabrielle Roy, Wallace Stegner, George Bowering, Margaret Atwood, Sinclair Ross, Alice French, Mordecai Richler, Audrey Thomas, Sean Virgo, Sandra Birdsell, Elizabeth Smart, Alice Munro and many others. Editor(s): Ondaatje, Michael. Num Pages: 736 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 37. Weight in Grams: 480. Good clean copy with some shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Faber and Faber
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0008408
ISBN
9780571142767
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 161 x 298 x 49. Weight in Grams: 1348.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Galaxy Press
Edition
First Edition, New Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781592129577
ISBN
9781592129577
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 22.06

Paperback. In Sheila O'Flanagan's unputdownable bestseller BETTER TOGETHER, Sheridan discovers a secret that could transform her life - but revealing it could hurt those she loves. What would YOU do? Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 32. Weight in Grams: 346. In Sheila O'Flanagan's unputdownable bestseller BETTER TOGETHER, Sheridan discovers a secret that could transform her life - but revealing it could hurt those she loves. What would YOU do? Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 32. Weight in Grams: 346. Good, clean copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KSG0006650
ISBN
9781472206619
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. A wickedly funny and wonderfully deranged literary debut introducing a brilliant new voice in contemporary Irish fiction Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 199 x 17. Weight in Grams: 238.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Oneworld Publications
Condition
New
SKU
9781780743592
ISBN
9781780743592
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 10.08

Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 29. Weight in Grams: 258.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Condition
New
SKU
9781408852057
ISBN
9781408852057
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 10.38

Paperback. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 193 x 34. Weight in Grams: 362.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Condition
New
SKU
9781408831007
ISBN
9781408831007
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 11.64

Paperback. Num Pages: 86 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 142 x 8. Weight in Grams: 160.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Africa Research & Publications United States
Number of pages
86
Condition
New
SKU
V9780865433199
ISBN
9780865433199
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.53

Paperback. Ellie's heart was broken when her lovely husband passed away. Will she ever be truly happy again? Find out in this engaging romantic novel from bestselling author Jill Mansell. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 34. Weight in Grams: 334.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Condition
New
SKU
V9780755355815
ISBN
9780755355815
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. One of the most impressive accounts of madness to be found in literature .. A masterpiece' Anita Brookner Series: Virago Modern Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 16. Weight in Grams: 170.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Condition
New
SKU
9781844084616
ISBN
9781844084616
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.25

Paperback. A collection of stories, set in the mid-West among the lonely men and women who drink, fish and play cards to ease the passing of time. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 10. Weight in Grams: 110.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
Edition
01st Edition
SKU
9780099530329
ISBN
9780099530329
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.45

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