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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 9.64

Paperback. Suitable for those who enjoyed "The Story of Lucy Gault" and "Love and Summer", this title deals with themes of missed opportunities, the inevitability of change and the powerful but fragmentary quality of our memories. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 168 231pp. The paperback edition of the latest excellent collection of short stories from one of the great Masters of the genre.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd London
Condition
New
SKU
9780141032450
ISBN
9780141032450
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.38

Paperback. William Trevor is one of the most renowned figures in contemporary literature, described as 'the greatest living writer of short stories in the English language' by the New Yorker and acclaimed for his haunting and profound insights into the human heart. This title offers a collection of his short fiction. Num Pages: 1280 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 158 x 52. Weight in Grams: 1190.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
1280
Condition
New
SKU
9780140232455
ISBN
9780140232455
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 15.29

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

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

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

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

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.80

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

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 12.98

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

€ 13.00
€ 11.81

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
€ 12.91

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Baen Books
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9781451638714
ISBN
9781451638714
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.34

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

€ 10.11

paperback. An eighteen-year-old Irish girl arrives in London to study drama and falls violently in love with an older actor. This older man has a disturbing past that the young girl is unprepared for. The young girl has a troubling past of her own. This is her story and their story. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FRD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
9780571327881
ISBN
9780571327881
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 4.82

Paperback. Axl and Beatrice, set off across a troubled land of mist and rain in the hope of finding a son they have not seen for years. They expect to face many hazards - some strange and other-worldly - but they cannot yet foresee how their journey will reveal to them dark and forgotten corners of their love for one another. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 29. Weight in Grams: 304.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
SKU
9780571315079
ISBN
9780571315079
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 10.45

Paperback. Julius Winsome lives in a cabin in the hunting heartland of the Maine woods, with only his books and his dog for company. That is until the morning he finds that his dog has been shot dead - and not by accident. This story tells the tale of revenge. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 128 x 15. Weight in Grams: 184.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
Edition
Main
SKU
9780571235377
ISBN
9780571235377
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.84

Paperback. Includes stories that are set in ordinary places, in the streets and suburbs and dancehalls of Dublin, the small towns and fields of the midlands, the big houses of the beleaguered Anglo-Irish in the aftermath of their ascendancy, and the whole changing country propelled in a generation from the nineteenth into the late twentieth century. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 11. Weight in Grams: 135.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Edition
Main
SKU
9780571225699
ISBN
9780571225699
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.94

Paperback. The undergraduate narrator lives with his uncle in Dublin, drinks too much with his friends and invents stories peopled with hilarious and unlikely characters, one of whom, creates a means by which women can give birth to full-grown people. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 170.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780141182681
ISBN
9780141182681
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.06

Paperback. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 290.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Random House USA Inc
Edition
1st Edition Thus
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9781933633657
ISBN
9781933633657
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.17

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