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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Presents a funny, bittersweet tale of love in the south of England. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 156. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSS0001826
ISBN
9780747557708
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. The four novellas that make up this book share a common theme: deception and self-deception, practised on or by the protagonists. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 135 x 17. Weight in Grams: 225. Clean copy with some shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KSS0001768
ISBN
9780099273745
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Meet Fred Kaufmann, disillusioned husband of competent Claudia and father of surly teenager Franka. He is trapped in the throes of a midlife crisis, made worse when a young guru and Franka find each other irresistible. This work takes you along with Fred as he embarks on a journey of self discovery that only a special kind of hero can survive. Translator(s): Brownjohn, John. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 131 x 18. Weight in Grams: 212. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSS0001551
ISBN
9780747557814
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

paperback. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 111 x 28. Weight in Grams: 250. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1900
Publisher
Hachette Books Ireland
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSS0001549
ISBN
9780340837764
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Kate Thomas was beautiful, intelligent, witty, passionate and sexy. Now, at 99, she is trapped in a hospital ward of sad, mad and bad old women. She escapes by playing to herself the video of her life. What a life it has been. Her six marriages have ended in suicide. But, Kate's journey through the twentieth century is also a search for the truth. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 199 x 25. Weight in Grams: 294. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Arrow
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSS0001508
ISBN
9780099414650
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Problem: Best friends keep giving extremely generous gifts Solution: Give better ones in return Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 220. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSS0001491
ISBN
9780007140787
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Catrine Evans, a young American, is sent to an English boarding school after her mother dies of cancer. Thrust into an unfriendly world and ridiculed for her accent, Catrine lays bare her thoughts in a luminous stream-of-consciousness narrative. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 23. Weight in Grams: 226. Clean copy with some slight markings to the page edges, otherwise a clean copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KSS0001485
ISBN
9780571206711
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. The seductive new novel from Nicholas Blincoe, set amid the glamour and grime of the fashion world Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 175 x 111 x 17. Weight in Grams: 149. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Sceptre
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSS0001354
ISBN
9780340750476
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. A blackly-comic novel about the price of celebrity. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 15. Weight in Grams: 186. Fine copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KSS0001134
ISBN
9780747557357
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. The Geordie couple George and Nellie Creedy can read minds. Unfortunatly after using this power to win some big money, George finds himself in trouble with the local heavies. Meanwhile, in London, a rock star called Lucious is causing a stir getting up to some unlawful activites. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 135 x 20. Weight in Grams: 224. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Blake Publishing
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSS0001102
ISBN
9781903402924
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Centres on an adulterous affair between Saffie, a silent young German woman, who is first maid and then wife to a famous flautist, and Andras, a Jewish flute-mender. The story unfolds in Paris at the height of the Algerian war in the 1950s. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 132 x 20. Weight in Grams: 208. Fine copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KSS0001051
ISBN
9780099283645
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 278 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200. Weight in Grams: 211. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Attic Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSS0000982
ISBN
9781855941809
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Gaby Harvey's uncle is a media baron who is keen on setting up a privatized media faculty at the university where she works as a researcher. His choice of professor is Piers Gaveston, a narcissistic type whom Gaby finds both repulsive and attractive. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 134 x 30. Weight in Grams: 450. Fine copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KSS0000950
ISBN
9780571210558
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. A story full of myth, mystery and great imaginative power about a young woman who, searching for her lost baby son like Mother Courage, appears in different guises across different centuries and cultures. She is the eternal refugee but ultimately, the survivor. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 134 x 28. Weight in Grams: 346. Fine copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KSS0000912
ISBN
9780099284659
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. The rules of engagement.. When Cristiano Marchetti proposes to former mistress Alice Piper, the deal has an expiry date. He has six months to fulfil the conditions of his grandmother's will. But the hotelier has another agenda..exacting revenge on Alice for daring to walk away seven years before! Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FRD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 108 x 170 x 14. Weight in Grams: 100. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Mills & Boon
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSS0000690
ISBN
9780263924060
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Includes stories that examine the moments where lives split like a stone, where people are healed or broken by a word or the touch of a hand. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 151 x 20. Weight in Grams: 178. Clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSS0000642
ISBN
9780099453116
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Ged, Moby and Ratter are blaggers, old-fashioned highwaymen. But crime is out of control in Liverpool, as violent gangs fight it out for control of the drug trade. Blaggers are a dying breed.. Ged is planning a big job that will last them through the winter, and all they have to do is stay out of trouble until then. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 21. Weight in Grams: 229. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0000763
ISBN
9780099422235
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. 'A beautiful mad romp of a novel .. Prepare to be dazzled' (Daily Mail) Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 143 x 22. Weight in Grams: 248. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0003432
ISBN
9780340632437
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. The narrator meets Helen, a tiny, blonde, serious girl when they are both looking after children during a summer holiday in Normandy. Helen's adventures in search of a morally satisfying life lead her into situations that are neither satisfying nor moral. Series: A chronicle of modern twilight. Num Pages: 306 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128. Weight in Grams: 230. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0003342
ISBN
9780099286028
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. * *'Brilliant .. do not miss this novel' * DAILY TELEGRAPH * *'A moving, microcosmic portrait of an era's bitter end' THE TIMES Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 158. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
New Ed
SKU
KKD0003099
ISBN
9780349108704
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Hardcover. From the very beginning, Oliver Walzer is a natural - at ping-pong. Without even a bat, he can chop, flick, half-volley like a champion. This is a story of one man's coming of age in the Manchester of the 1950s. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 144 x 36. Weight in Grams: 525. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear. Dust wrapper has some minor edge wear but remains very good
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Jonathan Cape
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
First Edition
SKU
KKD0002984
ISBN
9780224051576
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. For readers of Melissa Bank or Jhumpa Lahiri: witty, seductive stories of expatriate women, their loves and losses. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 150. Weight in Grams: 318. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0002932
ISBN
9780007135042
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. When Mabelline visits her pen pal Rosa, she quickly takes Rosa and her son Carlos to her heart, but she knows right away there is something different about the boy. When tragedy occurs, Mabelline becomes responsible for Carlos as he struggles to fit into a world based on rules he doesn't understand, and finds himself in serious trouble. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA; YF; YX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 159 x 233 x 9. Weight in Grams: 228. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0002905
ISBN
9781843102564
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. When the renowned aviation hero and rabid isolationist Charles A Lindbergh defeats Franklin Roosevelt by a landslide in the 1940 presidential election, fear invades every Jewish household in America. Lindbergh publicly blamed the Jews for pushing America towards a pointless war with Nazi Germany. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 278. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
01st Edition
SKU
KKD0002897
ISBN
9780099478560
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

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