Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
paperback. Contains stories that show us truants, seducers, gossips, rally-drivers, generous hostesses, corrupt politicians, failing priests, amateur theologians, struggling musicians, moony adolescents, victims of domestic brutishness, sentimental aunts and poets, patriots earnest or cynical, and people striving to get by. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 127 x 14. Weight in Grams: 132. Good copy with some shelf wear, yellowing of pages
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Wordsworth
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Edition
- New edition
- SKU
- KKD0007877
- ISBN
- 9781853260483
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
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. Good copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Headline Publishing Group
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- SKU
- KKD0007779
- ISBN
- 9780747268178
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. A novel about a character from Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "The Color Purple". This is Tashi's story, a shattering account of a young African woman whose decision to go through the female initiation ceremony has terrible consequences. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 214. Good copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0007752
- ISBN
- 9780099224112
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. In 1789 in Sydney Cove, the remotest penal colony of the British Empire, a group of convicts and one of their captors unite to stage a play. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 30. Weight in Grams: 268. Good copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0007750
- ISBN
- 9780340422632
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. A tale of murder and literary ambition set on an American university campus from a master of the dark side of human nature Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 30. Weight in Grams: 324. Good copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0007736
- ISBN
- 9780753820605
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Tommy's mother has gone. She walked out into the snow one night, leaving him and his sisters with their violent father. Without his best friend Jim, Tommy would be in trouble. But Jim has challenges of his own which will disrupt their precious friendship. Translator(s): Bartlett, Don. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 208. Good copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0007733
- ISBN
- 9780099584551
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Edward Manners - thirty three and disaffected - escapes to a Flemish city in search of a new life. Almost at once he falls in love with seventeen-year-old Luc, and is introduced to the twilight world of the 1890s Belgian painter Edgard Orst. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 5SG; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 26. Weight in Grams: 308. Good copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0007687
- ISBN
- 9780099476917
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Deals with one of America's issues - threat of Islamist terror from within. It also suggests ways in which we can counter it, in our words and our actions. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 21. Weight in Grams: 220. Good copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0007676
- ISBN
- 9780141027845
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Jack Reacher has no place to go, and all the time in the world to get there, so a remote rail road stop on the prairie with the curious name of Mother's Rest seems perfect for an aimless one-day stopover. He expects to find a lonely pioneer tombstone in a sea of nearly-ripe wheat.. Series: Jack Reacher. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF; FH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 42. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780857502681
- ISBN
- 9780857502681
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.45
€ 11.99
€ 10.45
Paperback. Twelve-year-old Fumi Tanaka has a problem - her beautiful and beloved older sister, Sumiko, has disappeared. Determined to find her, Fumi enlists the help of her new classmate Aya, forcibly repatriated with her father from Canada after the war. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 199 x 32. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781784161149
- ISBN
- 9781784161149
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.08
€ 10.99
€ 10.08
Paperback. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408837665
- ISBN
- 9781408837665
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.03
€ 11.99
€ 10.03
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Pan MacMillan
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780330458535
- ISBN
- 9780330458535
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.20
€ 19.99
€ 18.20
Paperback. This novel, by the Brazilian novelist Machado de Assis (originally published in 1900), is one of the unrecognized classics of the turn of the century. This translation provides an informative introduction and notes by John Gledson, which set the novel in its historical context. Translator(s): Gledson, John. Series: Library of Latin America. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc New York
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195103090
- ISBN
- 9780195103090
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 21.79
€ 23.99
€ 21.79
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Dover Publications Inc. United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780486493220
- ISBN
- 9780486493220
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.51
€ 16.51
Paperback. Series: Dover Thrift Editions. Num Pages: 64 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 131 x 4. Weight in Grams: 58.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Dover Publications Inc.
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780486421278
- ISBN
- 9780486421278
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 5.45
€ 5.45
Paperback. A moving story that redefines the meaning of family, friendship, and success among a group of first-generation Indian immigrants. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 142 x 20. Weight in Grams: 252.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Number of pages
- 295
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393345483
- ISBN
- 9780393345483
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.91
€ 16.99
€ 15.91
Paperback. Sally Goodchild is everything you'd expect of a thirty-seven year old American journalist - independent, strong-willed and ambitious. That is until she meets Tony Hobbs, an English foreign correspondent, on assignment in Cairo. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 34. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Arrow Book Edition
- SKU
- V9780099415381
- ISBN
- 9780099415381
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 12.45
€ 25.99
€ 12.45
Paperback. Portia Davenport is the luckiest woman in the world. She and her gorgeous husband, Andrew, have just finished ploughing a fortune into renovating her ancestral home, Davenport Hall, and are now planning to unveil it as one of the most fabulous, luxurious, five-star country house hotels in Kildare. But life never turns out like you think. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 128 x 32. Weight in Grams: 384. Used paperback, in good condition. Some shelf wear.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Bantam
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- KRF0037417
- ISBN
- 9780553816655
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 28. Weight in Grams: 330. Clean copy with some shelf wear, minor nicks and bumps on cover but otherwise clean
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KSS0006239
- ISBN
- 9781447250975
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 11.99€ 5.80
€ 11.99
€ 5.80
Paperback. It is 1941 and Captain Antonio Corelli, a young Italian officer, is posted to the Greek island of Cephallonia as part of the occupying forces. At first he is ostracised by the locals, but as a conscientious but far from fanatical soldier, whose main aim is to have a peaceful war, he proves in time to be civilised, and a consumate musician. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 30. Weight in Grams: 400. Clean copy with some shelf wear, minor nicks and bumps on cover but otherwise clean
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Edition
- First Paperback Edition
- SKU
- KSS0006148
- ISBN
- 9780749397548
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. *A classic coming-of-age novel from one of the best-loved writers of the twentieth century Series: VMC. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 182. Clean copy with some shelf wear, minor nicks and bumps on cover but otherwise clean
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KSS0006009
- ISBN
- 9781844083053
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. 'I didn't want you to come here.' So says the note that the boy Edmund Hooper passes to Charles Kingshaw upon his arrival at Warings. But, young Kingshaw and his mother have come to live with Hooper and his father in the ugly, isolated Victorian house for good. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 166.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1973
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- KSS0005885
- ISBN
- 9780140034912
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.33
€ 10.99
€ 10.33
Paperback. The entrancing new novel by the author of the international bestsellers Mr Rosenblum's List and The Novel in the Viola. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 22. Weight in Grams: 242.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KSS0005781
- ISBN
- 9781444736373
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. For nine years, John Dowell and his wife spend the summer season at a German spa town in the company of the respectable Ashburnhams. Behind the placid exteriors lie the destructive passions of men and women. This text includes biographical and critical apparatus. Series: Ford Madox Ford programme. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSK; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 135 x 18. Weight in Grams: 313. 8vo. Illustrated. Near fine copy in slipcase
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- The Folio Society London
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Edition
- New
- SKU
- KSG0022657
- ISBN
- 9781857543001
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 35.00
€ 35.00