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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. Jay Mackintosh is trapped by memory in the old familiar landscape of his childhood, to which he longs to return. A bottle of home-brewed wine left to him by a long-vanished friend seems to provide the key to an old mystery. As the unusual properties of the strange brew take effect, Jay escapes to a derelict farmhouse in the French village. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 21. Weight in Grams: 290. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KOC0012773
- ISBN
- 9780552998000
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
paperback. An exceptionally powerful novel exploring the themes of betrayal, guilt and memory against the background of the Holocaust. An international bestseller. Translator(s): Janeway, Carol Brown. Num Pages: 240 pages, 32 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 134 x 19. Weight in Grams: 232. Well-read paperback, in good condition. Some shelf wear.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Weidenfeld & Nicholson London
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KIN0006995
- ISBN
- 9780753804704
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Num Pages: Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 113 x 29. Weight in Grams: 234. Good clear copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Poolbeg Press Ltd
- Edition
- New
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KYB0000374
- ISBN
- 9781842232088
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. From the author of THE HUSTLER, THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT is a modern classic about a troubled chess prodigy and her battle to survive. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 196 x 27. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781474600842
- ISBN
- 9781474600842
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. Series: Penguin Essentials. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 181 x 111. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780241981214
- ISBN
- 9780241981214
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.05
€ 11.99
€ 10.05
Paperback. A collection of short stories from Alice Walker. Opening with an account of her early marriage to a Jewish lawyer and their life in racist Mississippi, the collection goes on to cover themes of idealism, lost love and hope. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. Weight in Grams: 190. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- The Women's Press Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSS0000620
- ISBN
- 9780704346888
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Journalist Maxime Touta is the perfect eye through which to observe an Egypt poised on the brink of change. The Suez Canal is nearing completion, and Ottoman Egypt is torn between the French and the British. For Maxime the political machinations of the day are woven in with the life of his family. Translator(s): Brownjohn, J.Maxwell. Series: Harvill Panther S. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 220. Fine copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- SKU
- KSS0000593
- ISBN
- 9781860469688
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Billy Casper is a boy with nowhere to go and nothing to say; part of the limbo generation of school leavers too old for lessons and too young to know anything about the outside world. He hates and is hated. His family and friends are mean and tough and they're sure he's going to end up in big trouble. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 112 x 11. Weight in Grams: 98. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Publication date
- 1973
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Format
- Paperback
- SKU
- KSS0000584
- ISBN
- 9780140029529
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Jolene Iolas, a student in upstate New York, encounters the work of Martin Sloane while visiting a Toronto gallery. She strikes up a correspondence with the older artist and eventually they become lovers. Then, without a word of warning, he vanishes, and Jolene loses everything to her grief. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 263. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Cornerstone
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSS0000041
- ISBN
- 9780099460268
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. The fantastic new edition of the bestselling second novel from the author of 'Miss Garnet's Angel'. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 226. The fantastic new edition of the bestselling second novel from the author of 'Miss Garnet's Angel'. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 226. Fine copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Harper Perennial
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Edition
- 2nd Impression
- SKU
- KKD0000983
- ISBN
- 9781841156590
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Sean Tallow has two desires in life. One is to step into the shoes of his glamorous friend Daniel Pagett and the other is to establish the truth about the School of the Night, a shadowy group of Elizabethans who clustered around Sir Walter Raleigh. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130. Weight in Grams: 218. Sean Tallow has two desires in life. One is to step into the shoes of his glamorous friend Daniel Pagett and the other is to establish the truth about the School of the Night, a shadowy group of Elizabethans who clustered around Sir Walter Raleigh. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130. Weight in Grams: 218. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0000980
- ISBN
- 9780099285861
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. The warm, engrossing new novel from the No. 1 bestseller, Cathy Kelly Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 28. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007373635
- ISBN
- 9780007373635
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.38
€ 13.00
€ 11.38
Paperback. THE FINAL NOVEL IN THE BESTSELLING RAVENSCAR TRILOGY Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 152 x 35. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007197668
- ISBN
- 9780007197668
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.41
€ 13.00
€ 11.41
Paperback. Belfast, 1970s: Craig, St John and Mazine meet while at secondary school. Three very different people, they each come from testing backgrounds, and become friends just as life gets exciting and adulthood beckons. The years pass, and they try to live with themselves and the darker deeds of their hometown as honestly as they can. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 197 x 23. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571305230
- ISBN
- 9780571305230
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.99
€ 11.99
€ 9.99
Paperback. A study of a young woman coming to terms with herself in a changing world. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 163 x 11. Weight in Grams: 153.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571298815
- ISBN
- 9780571298815
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.55
€ 13.99
€ 10.55
Paperback. When Lara was twelve, and her younger brother Alfie eight, their father died in a helicopter crash. A prominent plastic surgeon, and Irishman, he had honed his skills on the bomb victims of the Troubles. But the family grew up used to him being absent: he only came to London for two weekends a month to work at the Harley Street Clinic. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 125 x 17. Weight in Grams: 214.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571270569
- ISBN
- 9780571270569
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 8.70
€ 11.99
€ 8.70
Paperback. The stories in this debut collection present a harsh and unsentimental view of the mundane, underscored by moments of beauty, humour and pathos. The characters inhabit a world that can seem dangerously indifferent to human feeling, but alive to the thrills of living on the edge. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 12. Weight in Grams: 142.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Main
- SKU
- 9780571206544
- ISBN
- 9780571206544
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 8.05
€ 9.99
€ 8.05
Paperback. Three cities, two years, one chance: from the author of the critically acclaimed debut So It Is - shortlisted for best first book at the Scottish Book Awards 2013 - comes the hard-hitting story of a young man determined to find his voice. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 146 x 23. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Myriad Editions
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908434371
- ISBN
- 9781908434371
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.83
€ 11.99
€ 10.83
Paperback. Spanning the decades that saw Northern Ireland move from brutal conflict to uncertain peace in the 1990s, this powerful new take on the literature of the Troubles is both a political coming-of-age novel and a fast-paced literary thriller. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 27. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Myriad Editions United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908434142
- ISBN
- 9781908434142
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.83
€ 11.99
€ 10.83
Paperback. Ross O'Carroll-Kelly is broke and out of love. His wife has gone to America, taking his daughter with him; his mother has become a celebrity chef on daytime television, with a particular skill for handling phallic ingredients; and his father continues to languish in Mountjoy Jail. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 126 x 23. Weight in Grams: 234.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- UK ed.
- SKU
- V9781844881277
- ISBN
- 9781844881277
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.79
€ 20.99
€ 16.79
Paperback. The Phelans have owned Mossgrove for generations. But when it is put up for sale, the lengths to which Irish people will go to keep their land become clear. An enchanting novel by Ireland's favourite writer. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 234.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Brandon
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780863222498
- ISBN
- 9780863222498
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 9.98
€ 9.99
€ 9.98
Paperback. * The bestselling novel behind the Hollywood blockbuster - at cinemas autumn 2014 * An epic love story from the bestselling author of The Last Song and The Notebook Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 22. Weight in Grams: 234.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780751553338
- ISBN
- 9780751553338
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.25
€ 11.99
€ 10.25
Paperback. Right in the middle of everywhere, which could be anywhere. WWII has ended and the joyous transitions to peace are being - mostly - embraced. This book portrays characters ranging from Bobby Smith, the son of the well-known radio hostess Neighbour Dorothy, to the phenomena known as the Sunset Club, Dinner on the Ground and the Funeral King. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 33. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099448938
- ISBN
- 9780099448938
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.61
€ 23.99
€ 17.61
paperback. Summoning up more than 20 years of Japan's most dramatic history, the geisha's story uncovers a hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation. It moves from a small fishing village in 1929 to the glamorous and decadent Kyoto of the 30s and on to postwar New York. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 31. Weight in Grams: 356. Good clean copy with some light shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- SKU
- KTK0080838
- ISBN
- 9780099771517
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95