Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 17.95
Paperback. Series: Dover Thrift Editions. Num Pages: 224 pages, 1ill.1M. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 133 x 14. Weight in Grams: 166. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Dover Publications Inc.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- New edition
- SKU
- KKD0002783
- ISBN
- 9780486284958
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. A collection of short stories about the downside of civilization where the reader will encounter long marriages, the polite English countryside, missed opportunities and a child's view of the adult world. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. Weight in Grams: 180. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Virago
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0002128
- ISBN
- 9780860686125
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. David Foster Wallace's fiercely original, bracingly funny first novel, reissued to coincide with his new short story collection. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 31. Weight in Grams: 326. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0002125
- ISBN
- 9780349109237
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. When Roz Rosenzweig, self-described spitfire and loud n' proud New York Jew, meets Edwin Anderson at a party in the 1970s in her friend's Manhatten apartment, she has trouble believing that the earnest Nebraskan is for real. But Roz is quickly attracted to Edwin and is more happy than stunned when their improbable courtship results in marriage. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 320. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0002118
- ISBN
- 9780099422723
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. From the author of "Bilton", this is a funny, macabre thriller about jealousy, drugs, media-friendly Yorkshiremen, salmon fishing, modernist chair design and gruesome death (both accidental and premeditated), all set against a backdrop of beautiful Georgian architecture and the English countryside. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 14. Weight in Grams: 160. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0002089
- ISBN
- 9780571212293
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Janek Janowiec is awaiting trial. In his cramped attic apartment in Krakow, he has decided to set straight the record of his life, and yet he is wracked by the guilt and knowledge of a number of terrible secrets. What happened to his friend, the charismatic revolutionary leader, Fredzio? What exactly did his father do in the war? Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. Weight in Grams: 189. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0002085
- ISBN
- 9780747553083
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. A novel that tells the story of an American company, which starts as a small family soap and candle-making firm in the early 1800s, and of a contemporary woman, living in the company town, who diagnosed and then finally dies of cancer, a cancer that is almost certainly caused by exposure to chemical wastes from the company's factories. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 24. Weight in Grams: 264. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0002082
- ISBN
- 9780099284468
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. In a laboratory in the US, researchers race to complete the Cavern, a blank white room that can become a jungle, a painting, or even a cathedral. In a city in the Middle East, an American is held hostage, chained to a radiator in an empty white room. What links two such remote places? Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 24. Weight in Grams: 360. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0002081
- ISBN
- 9780099286721
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. For Joe, the summer of 1977 meant punk rock, fun and violence. Fast forward to 1988 and Joe is on the Trans-Siberian express coming to terms with his best mate's suicide back in 1977. In the present, Joe still has to come to terms with Smiles's death. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 22. Weight in Grams: 252. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0002075
- ISBN
- 9780099283164
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 144 x 15. Weight in Grams: 186. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Poolbeg Press Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- New edition
- SKU
- KKD0002044
- ISBN
- 9781853714047
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 120 x 17. Weight in Grams: 182. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Poolbeg Press Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0002041
- ISBN
- 9781853714405
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. When Rowena Vincent, Warrior Princess and teenage runaway, flees her Newcastle home to trace her missing dad in Dublin, she sets off armed only with an old photograph. But Rowena has a knack for attracting trouble and, alone in a strange city, her problems begin when Hefty O'Hara appoints himself as her minder. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 132 x 20. Weight in Grams: 210. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0002038
- ISBN
- 9780099410935
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. A wonderfully inventive and entertaining journey through time and the history of chocolate! Num Pages: 258 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 132 x 14. Weight in Grams: 194. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0001993
- ISBN
- 9780007107834
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. 1962, Anchor Bend, Oregon. The sea calls to Eleanor. Like the turn of the waves it beckons her from the heart of the town she's always known, from her husband Hob and their young daughter, Agnes, to the unfathomable depths of the ocean. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 26. Weight in Grams: 272. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0001907
- ISBN
- 9780008132941
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. It is 1936, the height of summer in New Zealand, and the Hopkins family have rented a house at the beach. Alone during the week while her husband works, Lorna is bored. That is until James, the most handsome man in the area, decides to make an amateur western, involving all the locals. Num Pages: 263 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 190. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0001878
- ISBN
- 9780099283744
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. "The Dark Room" tells three stories: that of Helmut a young photographer in the 1930s; Lore a 12-year-old girl at the end of the war; and Micha, a young school teacher, half a century later. Between them, the reader traces the legacy of the Nazi period on the lives of ordinary Germans. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 25. Weight in Grams: 284. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Vintage Book Edition
- SKU
- KKD0001833
- ISBN
- 9780099287179
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Hardback. Marcia Williams thought she knew her son. She thought he was safe. She was wrong. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 242 x 27. Weight in Grams: 492. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear. Dustwrapper has some minor edge wear but remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0001825
- ISBN
- 9781447294450
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. After finishing their exams, four girls laze away an idyllic Oxford summer afternoon speculating about their future. Years later, they return to their college for a reunion to reminisce on the years in between. Num Pages: 429 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 33. Weight in Grams: 458. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0001786
- ISBN
- 9780552999946
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. At the centre of the novel is the crumbling seastack of the Old Man of Hoy and the consuming relationship between a young artist, Kim, coldly passionate, talented, secretive, and Jimmy, a North Sea roughneck, engineer and climber. It deals with the possibility of friendship between men and women. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 21. Weight in Grams: 258. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- Main
- SKU
- KKD0001728
- ISBN
- 9780571212859
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
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
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Edition
- Main
- SKU
- KKD0001659
- ISBN
- 9781843540014
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 17.95
€ 17.95