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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. Two families living the dream in small town America are forced to confront their guilty secrets in the aftermath of a shocking death. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 27. Weight in Grams: 234.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Head of Zeus
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781784974961
- ISBN
- 9781784974961
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 7.00
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Paperback. When eleven-year-old Henrietta arrives at the Fishers' residence in Paris, little does she know what fascinating secrets the house itself contains. Henrietta finds that her visit coincides with that of Leopold, an intense child who has come to Paris to be introduced to the mother he has never known. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 196.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099276487
- ISBN
- 9780099276487
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.44
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Paperback. Joe and Kate Ruttledge have come to Ireland from London in search of a different life. In passages of beauty and truth, the drama of a year in their lives and those of the memorable characters that move about them unfolds through the action, the rituals of work, religious observances and play. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 21. Weight in Grams: 258 314pp
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Main
- SKU
- 9780571225729
- ISBN
- 9780571225729
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.38
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Paperback. Offers unusual insights into the social history of the late colonial period. Set in pre-World War II Burmese society, this title tells the story that centers on the relationship and marriage of seventeen-year-old Way with U Saw Han, a much older Burmese agent for a British trading company. Series: Ohio RIS Southeast Asia Series. Num Pages: 260 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white halftones, frontispiece. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2019
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780896801677
- ISBN
- 9780896801677
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.87
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€ 28.87
Paperback. Makina knows how to survive in a macho world. Leaving her native Mexico in search of her brother, she's smuggled into the USA bearing two secret messages - one from her mother and one from the Mexican underworld. In this grippingly original novel Herrera explores the actual and psychological crossings and translations people make. Translator(s): Dillman, Lisa. Num Pages: 140 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 148.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- And Other Stories
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781908276421
- ISBN
- 9781908276421
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.04
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Paperback. A novel of extraordinary intelligence and heart, a masterful depiction of heartbreak, and a dark and haunting examination of the tyranny of experience and memory. Num Pages: 736 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 197 x 49. Weight in Grams: 516.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781447294832
- ISBN
- 9781447294832
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.14
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Paperback. The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother Liam. It wasn't the drink that killed him - it was what happened to him as a boy in his grandmother's house, in the winter of 1968. This novel is about love and disappointment, about thwarted lust and limitless desire. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 198 261pp
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Vintage Books USA
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- 9780099501633
- ISBN
- 9780099501633
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.50
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€ 10.50
Paperback. Toru Watanabe is looking back on the love and passions of his life and trying to make sense of it all. As his first love Naoko sinks deeper into mental despair, he is inexorably pushed to find a new meaning and a new love in order to survive. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099448822
- ISBN
- 9780099448822
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 10.50
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Paperback. Twelve years ago, Cassie Carter chose the wrong man, and one fateful event drove three sisters apart. Now, hoping to leave her past behind, Cassie has returned to Washington with her daughter. Though her sisters don't live too far away, she doesn't expect to see them. Karen, the oldest, is a busy wife and mother, balancing her career with.. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 273. Good, clean copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0006211
- ISBN
- 9780099595076
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 11.99€ 9.70
€ 11.99
€ 9.70
Paperback. Edward Lannion, the young master of Hatting Hall, is about to marry Marian Fox. At Penndean, a nearby house, preparations are under way for the wedding, overseen by the anxious Benet. Family and friends gather together for a celebratory dinner on the eve of the ceremony. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 173 x 19. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780701188474
- ISBN
- 9780701188474
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 15.16
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Paperback. Holden Caulfield is a dropout who has just been kicked out of his fourth school. Navigating his way through challenges of growing up, Holden dissects the 'phony' aspects of society, and the 'phonies' themselves: the headmaster whose affability depends on the wealth of the parents, his roommate who scores with girls using sickly-sweet affection. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 16. Weight in Grams: 172
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780241950432
- ISBN
- 9780241950432
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 10.12
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Paperback. Hidden away in the Record Department of the Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in, which demands absolute obedience and controls him through the all-seeing telescreens and the watchful eye of Big Brother, symbolic head of the Party. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- SKU
- 9780141187761
- ISBN
- 9780141187761
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Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.45
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Paperback. Alec and Jerry shouldn't have been friends: Alec's life was one of privilege, while Jerry's was one of toil. But this hardly mattered to two young men whose shared love of horses brought them together and whose whole lives lay ahead of them. When war breaks out in 1914, both Jerry and Alec sign up - yet for quite different reasons. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 11. Weight in Grams: 122.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141046969
- ISBN
- 9780141046969
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 9.64
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Paperback. Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal morality their lives are changed profoundly and for ever. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 196 x 29. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- 9780140167771
- ISBN
- 9780140167771
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.14
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Paperback. The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FL; FM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 127 x 21. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- SKU
- 9780099740919
- ISBN
- 9780099740919
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.45
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Paperback. Presents a story of different loves; and of how a man may need two women in such a way that he can be happy with neither. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099433576
- ISBN
- 9780099433576
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.71
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Paperback. The story of two prodigal sons that questions the nature of love, whether it is a route to salvation or a type of demonic possession. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 27. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099429081
- ISBN
- 9780099429081
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.80
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Paperback. Yvonne believes there's more to life than marriage to Sam, the young man who's courting her. But when she tries to have fun, she gets caught up in a fracas in a bar. Sam's idea of "something special" meanwhile is to take her to St Stephen's Green later that night to show her a ghostly tree! Illustrator(s): McCurdy, Michael. Num Pages: 80 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 7. Weight in Grams: 56.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099422655
- ISBN
- 9780099422655
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Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.80
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Paperback. Features Bruno, dying, obsessed with spiders and preoccupied with death and reconciliation. He lies at the center of an intricate spider's web of relationships and passions: Bruno's estranged and grieving son Miles; Danby, Bruno's widowed son-in-law, creepy Nigel the nurse and his besotted twin Will, fighter of duels. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 24. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099285373
- ISBN
- 9780099285373
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.71
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Paperback. Stuart Cuno has decided to become good. Not believing in God, he invents his own methods, which include celibacy, chastity and the abandonment of a promising academic career. Stuart's step-brother Edward Baltram is tormented by guilt because he has, he believes, killed his best friend. He dreams sometimes of redemption, sometimes of suicide. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 39. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099285250
- ISBN
- 9780099285250
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Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.98
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Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 33. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Quercus Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910050538
- ISBN
- 9781910050538
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.92
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Paperback. The unforgettable story of the rise, fall and ultimate redemption of an American family. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 29. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2020
- Publisher
- Fourth Estate
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841156996
- ISBN
- 9781841156996
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.33
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Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Baen Books
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781451638714
- ISBN
- 9781451638714
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Condition: New
€ 17.09
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Paperback. 768 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 172 x 109 x 32. Weight: 268.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Baen Books
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 768
- Condition
- New
- Format
- Paperback
- SKU
- V9781451637724
- ISBN
- 9781451637724
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.50
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