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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. When legendary polo player Carlos Del Campo's will is read to his grieving family they're shocked to discover he has a daughter, Antonia, he'd never mentioned. Not long after this revelation, Carlos' eldest son, Alejandro, sets out to find his long-lost half-sister.
Having always dreamt of one day being reunited with her father, Antonia - better known as Noni - is heartbroken when the half-brother she's never met arrives on her doorstep with news of Carlos' death. She is struck by Alejandro's kindness towards her and, despite worrying about her outsider status, willingly accepts his offer of a job in the family polo business in Florida.
When Enzo, the Del Campos' loyal stable master, sees what a brilliant rider Noni is he's convinced she could transform the family team's lagging fortunes. But Noni isn't so sure about finally accepting her place within the Del Campo dynasty, or about what could happen if she lets Enzo into her heart . . .
Betrayal, secrets and passion all feature in this compelling novel about overcoming fear to find fulfilment. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. .
Having always dreamt of one day being reunited with her father, Antonia - better known as Noni - is heartbroken when the half-brother she's never met arrives on her doorstep with news of Carlos' death. She is struck by Alejandro's kindness towards her and, despite worrying about her outsider status, willingly accepts his offer of a job in the family polo business in Florida.
When Enzo, the Del Campos' loyal stable master, sees what a brilliant rider Noni is he's convinced she could transform the family team's lagging fortunes. But Noni isn't so sure about finally accepting her place within the Del Campo dynasty, or about what could happen if she lets Enzo into her heart . . .
Betrayal, secrets and passion all feature in this compelling novel about overcoming fear to find fulfilment. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. .
- Publisher
- Allen & Unwin
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781760292409
- ISBN
- 9781760292409
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.24
€ 10.99
€ 9.24
Paperback. "Nightwood" was acknowledged by T S Eliot as one of the great novels of the 20th-century. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 12. Weight in Grams: 158.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- Revised edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571235285
- ISBN
- 9780571235285
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.74
€ 13.99
€ 10.74
Paperback. Paris, 1939: The pavement rumbles with the footfall of Nazi soldiers marching along the Champs Elysees. A young writer, recently arrived from Ireland to make his mark, smokes one last cigarette with his lover before the city they know is torn apart. Soon, he will put is life and those of his loved ones in mortal danger by joining the Resistance.. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 1DDF; FA; FJMS; FR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 224 x 28. Weight in Grams: 278.
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780552779524
- ISBN
- 9780552779524
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.85
€ 15.99
€ 11.85
Paperback. Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. She longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending and, eventually, in adultery. But even her affairs bring her disappointment and the consequences are devastating. Translator(s): Davis, Lydia. Series: Penguin Classics. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 145 x 26. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780143106494
- ISBN
- 9780143106494
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.25
€ 17.99
€ 14.25
Paperback. *A collection of personal essays - surprising, disarming, heartbreakingly funny - from the No. 1 bestselling writer Time named America's Favorite Humorist. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 200.
- Publisher
- ABACUS (LITT)
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349119762
- ISBN
- 9780349119762
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.85
€ 15.99
€ 11.85
Paperback. The Number One eBook Bestseller, The Stranger In My Home, is the compelling new novel from Adele Parks, which begins with a knock on the door that will change a family's life completely.. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 29. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Publisher
- Headline Publishing Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472205520
- ISBN
- 9781472205520
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
Paperback. Translator(s): Eschleman, Clayton. Num Pages: 342 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 202 x 22. Weight in Grams: 516.
- Publisher
- Exact Change,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 342
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781878972187
- ISBN
- 9781878972187
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.53
€ 20.99
€ 19.53
Paperback. A collection of short stories by the author of An Angel at My Table. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 21. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844084623
- ISBN
- 9781844084623
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. From the infamous Glasgow slum, the Gorbals, the author chronicles a week in his life, in the last days before the demolishers move in. In this book, he tells about his old-timers and eccentrics, navigating his pregnant wife, frisky bedfellows and debt collectors. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 131 x 31. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784870126
- ISBN
- 9781784870126
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.84
€ 13.00
€ 11.84
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Peepal Tree Press Ltd.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845233006
- ISBN
- 9781845233006
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.16
€ 26.99
€ 20.16
Paperback. Volume One of the Border Trilogy Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 232.
- Edition
- New Edit/Cover
- Publisher
- Picador
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780330510936
- ISBN
- 9780330510936
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 7.88
€ 7.88
Paperback. A heartbreakingly brilliant novel by one of Ireland's greatest living writers Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 122.
- Publisher
- Headline Publishing Group London
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780747259343
- ISBN
- 9780747259343
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02
paperback. Summer, 1972: In the claustrophobic heat, eleven-year-old Byron and his friend begin 'Operation Perfect', a hapless mission to rescue Byron's mother from impending crisis. Winter, present day: As frost creeps across the moor, Jim cleans tables in the local cafe, a solitary figure struggling with OCD. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 136 x 28. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780552778107
- ISBN
- 9780552778107
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
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€ 11.05
Paperback. A heartwrenching and tense drama about a troubled family, who give up everything to join an experimental 'family camp' - with life-changing consequences. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton General Division
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780340978191
- ISBN
- 9780340978191
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.30
€ 11.99
€ 10.30
Paperback. The bestselling author of A WEDDING IN DECEMBER returns with a scintillating new novel about a young widow torn between two brothers during one long New England summer Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 18. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Abacus
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- SKU
- KLN0016788
- ISBN
- 9780349119014
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. A wry, moving and dark story about Russians adrift in New York by award-winning Ludmila Ultiskaya, hailed by Gary Shteyngart as 'one of the most important living writers'. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 15. Weight in Grams: 170.
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474602051
- ISBN
- 9781474602051
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.06
€ 13.99
€ 11.06
Paperback. 'To the Lighthouse' was Virginia Woolf's fifth novel, and was the first book to win her a large public. The story of an English middle class family in the years leading up to the First World War, it has remained the most popular of all her works. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 162.
- Edition
- New Ed
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099478294
- ISBN
- 9780099478294
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 7.12
€ 7.12
Paperback. A family mystery dripping with Eastern exoticism. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 36. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Publisher
- Quercus
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782067627
- ISBN
- 9781782067627
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02
Paperback. Covers nine stories of vastly different styles and structures, including "L De Bard and Aliette" that recreates the tale of Abelard and Heloise in New York during the 1918 flu epidemic; "Lucky Chow Fun"; and, the title story of "Delicate Edible Birds". Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 133 x 22. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Publisher
- Cornerstone United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099537267
- ISBN
- 9780099537267
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.84
€ 15.99
€ 11.84
Paperback. One lie sends a family into turmoil in a heart-rending new novel from a worldwide bestselling author, perfect for fans of Jodi Picoult Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 264. 8vo. Some light shelfwear.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- SKU
- KEX0272862
- ISBN
- 9780007248094
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Sunday Times bestseller Adele Parks writes novels that real women want to read. With her trademark tell-it-like-it-is style, she gets right to the heart of the dilemmas people face in their lives and takes her stories to unexpected places. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 271. 8vo Good copy .
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Headline Publishing Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- SKU
- KEX0255122
- ISBN
- 9780755371273
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Tells the story of Adebisi, a brave African huntress who sets out for the Jungle of the Pigmies to rescue her four brothers. Along the way, she conquers a giant, serves as the barber to a king and endures the horrors of the pigmies' prison. Yet she will not give up. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 157 x 11. Weight in Grams: 140.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571316892
- ISBN
- 9780571316892
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.78
€ 13.99
€ 10.78
Paperback. The triumphant follow-up to THE PRIDE OF LANCASHIRE from Hodder's fastest-growing saga author. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 114 x 31. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Number of pages
- 528
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780340840740
- ISBN
- 9780340840740
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.26
€ 11.99
€ 10.26
Paperback. Charles Highway, a precociously intelligent and highly sexed teenager, is determined to sleep with an older woman before he turns twenty. Rachel fits the bill perfectly and Charles plans his seduction meticulously, sets the scene with infinite care - but it doesn't come off quite as Charles expects. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 14. Weight in Grams: 168.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099455424
- ISBN
- 9780099455424
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08