Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. The protagonist of this novel is a 15-year-old North London schoolboy called Gabriel. He is forced to come to terms with a new life, and use his gift for painting in order to make sense of his world, once the equilibrium of the family has been shattered by his father's departure. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 140. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- SKU
- KSS0002232
- ISBN
- 9780571209293
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages, YES. BIC Classification: BGL; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 26 x 151 x 232. Weight in Grams: 479. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Hachette Books Ireland
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSS0002172
- ISBN
- 9780340752395
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Rosa Fiore is a solitary woman who has resigned herself to a loveless life, and expresses her passionate nature through her cooking. Then, one day, she meets an enigmatic chef, known only as l'Inglese, whose research on the heritage of Sicilian cuisine leads him into Rosa's library and her heart. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 194. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- paperback / softback
- SKU
- KSS0002166
- ISBN
- 9780552999090
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Orphaned at a cruelly young age by the death of both parents, diminutive Hugo Dinsmore goes to live with brutish country relatives. It is there that he is drawn into the entourage of the Eggman, a local gangster, before breaking free in his own spectacular but hazardous fashion. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 378. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSS0002056
- ISBN
- 9780099422259
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. This volume has a whole range of characters, such as the guru who preaches that "nobody's anything" or the old comrade in the anti-sexist struggle who reveals that the feminist she most admires is Scarlett O'Hara. This book tackles the taboos of modern America. Series: A Women's Press classic. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 127 x 13. Weight in Grams: 136. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- The Women's Press Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSS0001999
- ISBN
- 9780704347090
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Catalina is the one person unable to join in the festivities of the Feast of the Assumption. But then she has a vision of the Virgin, and is miraculously cured. In the dark days of the Spanish Inquisition, such a claim to blessedness has serious consequences, especially when she seems more inclined to obey her heart than the demands of the Church. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 182. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSS0001975
- ISBN
- 9780099286844
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. 'Mona Simpson is a wonderful writer, very spare and economical but with extraordinary emotional power. Off Keck Road is her best book yet - lucid and beautiful' Kate Atkinson 'Mona Simpson is a wonderful writer, very spare and economical but with extraordinary emotional power. Off Keck Road is her best book yet - lucid and beautiful' Kate Atkinson Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 147. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- Main
- SKU
- KSS0001827
- ISBN
- 9781843540014
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
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
€ 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
€ 4.99
Paperback. Contains diverse writing from the Spanish-speaking world. This book explores stylistic contrasts and gives an insight into the cultural and social milieu of the Spanish-speaking world. It includes notes on unusual Spanish words and phrases and is suitable for English students of the language as well as Spanish-speaking students of English. Editor(s): Lawaetz, Gudie. Num Pages: 208 pages, notes. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 158. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1972
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSS0001703
- ISBN
- 9780140033786
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
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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
€ 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
€ 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
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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
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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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 4.99