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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. A sequel to "Virgin in the Garden" and "Still Life". A cast of characters play out their personal dramas amid the clashing politics, passionate ideals and stirring languages of the early-1960s. Their crises mirror some of the major world events of the age in which they live. Num Pages: 624 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 33. Weight in Grams: 462. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0000111
ISBN
9780099839408
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. * A major paperback from one of our great writers:following the first of her speculative fiction, ORYX AND CRAKE Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 169 x 33. Weight in Grams: 416.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Virago Press Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780349004075
ISBN
9780349004075
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.29

Paperback. Another warm, wise and witty offering from Sunday Times bestseller Trisha Ashley. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 33. Weight in Grams: 358. 400 pages. Another warm, wise and witty offering from Sunday Times bestseller Trisha Ashley. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 33. Weight: 356.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847562814
ISBN
9781847562814
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.15

Paperback. Fall in back in love with life in this gripping read about fate and second chances. The eagerly awaited new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 292.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847562791
ISBN
9781847562791
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.89

Paperback. "A delight" says Nobel-prize winning poet Derek Walcott. Lawrence Scott explores a Caribbean world of yearnings and memory, of escape and return underpinned by the disturbing tensions wrought by religion, race, sexuality and crime. Sensuous and evocative, Scott's prose has a glorious lightness of touch and tone that exhilarates and illuminates. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 137 x 14. Weight in Grams: 244.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Papillote Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780957118782
ISBN
9780957118782
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.69

paperback. Num Pages: 338 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 127 x 19. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Edition
1st Vintage international ed., Female ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780679727545
ISBN
9780679727545
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 15.50

Paperback. In Ponyboy's world there are two types of people. There are the Socs, the rich society kids who get away with anything. Then there are the greasers, like Ponyboy, who aren't so lucky. Ponyboy has a few things he can count on: his older brothers, his friends, and trouble with the Socs, whose idea of a good time is beating up greasers like Ponyboy. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 10. Weight in Grams: 124.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780141189116
ISBN
9780141189116
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.13

Paperback. I didn't realise my mother was a person until I was thirteen years old and she pulled me out of bed, put me in the back of her car, and we left home and my dad with no explanations. I thought that Ma was all that she was and all that she had ever wanted to be. I was wrong.. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 213.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Windmill Books
Condition
New
SKU
9780099510642
ISBN
9780099510642
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.92

paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
RANDOM HOUSE UK
Condition
New
SKU
9781784751371
ISBN
9781784751371
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.85

Paperback. The celebrated debut short story collection from the author of Solar Bones, winner of the 2016 Goldsmiths Prize and BGE Irish Book of the Year Series: Canons. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FM; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9781786891396
ISBN
9781786891396
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 10.74

Paperback. 'Like Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections without the bitterness, mixed with Jeffrey Eugenides's The Virgin Suicides without the eccentricity, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee is a thoroughly enjoyable and engrossing read' - Sunday Telegraph Series: Canons. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 184.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Canongate Canons
Condition
New
SKU
9781782119159
ISBN
9781782119159
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.02

Paperback. Anarchic, irreverent and razor-sharp, this new collection of Muriel Spark's satires confirms its creator as the mistress of British wit Series: Canons. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 36. Weight in Grams: 310.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Canongate Books
Condition
New
SKU
9781782117674
ISBN
9781782117674
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.47

Paperback. 'A deft masterpiece with never a false note' - Guardian Translator(s): Hunt, Jonathan. Series: Canons. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 130 x 34. Weight in Grams: 196.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Canongate Canons
Condition
New
SKU
9781782117155
ISBN
9781782117155
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.50

Paperback. WINNER OF THE GREATEST WELSH NOVEL Translator(s): Mitchell, Philip. Series: Canons. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 199 x 14. Weight in Grams: 154.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Canongate Canons
Condition
New
SKU
9781782116769
ISBN
9781782116769
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.50

Paperback. Reissued to mark the 30th Anniversary of Brautigan's death. Introduced by Jarvis Cocker Series: The Canons. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 148.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Canongate Books
Condition
New
SKU
9780857862648
ISBN
9780857862648
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 10.45

Paperback. An exquisitely-crafted tale of love and loss from the author of Four Letters of Love and Only Say the Word Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 20. Weight in Grams: 260.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Picador
Edition
Main Market
Condition
New
SKU
V9780330375313
ISBN
9780330375313
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.73

paperback. In this portrait of the murkier areas of London, Drover, a communist bus-driver, has been sentenced to death for killing a policeman in a political riot because he thought the policeman was going to strike his wife. A bitter irony hovers over the ensuing battles to save Drover. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 152.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099282228
ISBN
9780099282228
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.20

Paperback. Jack Reacher jumps off a bus and walks fourteen miles down a country road into Margrave, Georgia. An arbitrary decision he's about to regret. Reacher is the only stranger in town on the day they have had their first homicide in thirty years. The cops arrest Reacher and the police chief turns eyewitness to place him at the scene. Series: Jack Reacher. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF; FH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 31. Weight in Grams: 378.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Bantam
Condition
New
SKU
9780553826166
ISBN
9780553826166
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.78

Paperback. Series: Penguin Essentials. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 181 x 111. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
SKU
9780241981450
ISBN
9780241981450
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.75

Paperback. Two men have been enlisted to kill the head of the Gestapo. This is Operation Anthropoid, Prague, 1942: two Czechoslovakian parachutists sent on a daring mission by London to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich - chief of the Nazi secret services, 'the hangman of Prague', 'the blond beast', 'the most dangerous man in the Third Reich'. Translator(s): Taylor, Sam. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 198 x 21. Weight in Grams: 242.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
9780099555643
ISBN
9780099555643
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.45

Paperback. When Thomas Lang, a hired gun with a soft heart, is contracted to assassinate an American industrialist, he opts instead to warn the intended victim - a good deed that doesn't go unpunished. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 254.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Cornerstone
Condition
New
Edition
01st Edition
SKU
9780099469391
ISBN
9780099469391
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.45

Paperback. A modern-day Greek tragedy, this story revolves around Marco Morelli, an aspiring filmmaker with a passion for heights. Set in New York, Toronto, and on top of Mount Olympus, this sexy, vivid novel weaves mythology with current events. It will especially interest academics, members of the gay community, and film and art lovers. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 15. Weight in Grams: 295.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Tightrope Books
Edition
1St Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781926639604
ISBN
9781926639604
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 6.40

Paperback. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 332.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Five Leaves Publications United Kingdom
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905512300
ISBN
9781905512300
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.41

Paperback. The new novel of life in nineteenth century Lancashire and Australia from one of Hodder's fastest growing saga writers. Num Pages: 528 pages, 3 maps. BIC Classification: FA; FT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 113 x 34. Weight in Grams: 332.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Condition
New
SKU
V9780340821367
ISBN
9780340821367
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.30

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