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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Hardcover. This story of a boy who grows to manhood, and of a tree that gives him her bounty through the years, is a moving parable about the gift of giving and the capacity to love. Num Pages: 64 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education; (G) General (US: Trade); (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 264 x 200 x 12. Weight in Grams: 470.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
64
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780060256654
ISBN
9780060256654
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 19.06

Paperback. Where do you go when you've lost the centre of your world? Since I Don't Have You is a powerful, emotional story of lives rebuilt and love rediscovered. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 28. Weight in Grams: 330. Clean copy.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
Reprint
SKU
KEX0233070
ISBN
9780751538090
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Captures the foibles and fancies of the English upper class. Set in the privileged world of the county house party and the London season, this is a comedy of English manners. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 354.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141181493
ISBN
9780141181493
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.80

Paperback. A pregnant mother's plans for the future unravel at the hospital; a travelling salesman learns the consequences of an almost-missed exit on the motorway in the newspaper the next morning. In those crucial moments, the author demonstrates her magical skill in conveying love, lust, longing, and loneliness. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 110 x 22. Weight in Grams: 194.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
47551st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099506010
ISBN
9780099506010
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. .
Publisher
Comma Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905583768
ISBN
9781905583768
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.39

Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages, 1 port. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 139 x 29. Weight in Grams: 446.
Publisher
Persephone Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9781903155493
ISBN
9781903155493
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 19.22

Paperback. This novel tells the story of a young girl, Lizzie, who was rescued from the streets and given the chance of a new life. Lizzie blossomed into a woman with ideals and expectations, and began to realize that she no longer needed the support of the man she had once regarded as her saviour. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 108 x 22. Weight in Grams: 170. Paperback, in good condition.
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Corgi
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Edition
Reprint
SKU
KRF0014697
ISBN
9780552150156
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. It is midsummer in Sweden - when the light lingers through dawn and the long winter comes to an end. Now, in this magical time, a brutal killer has chosen to strike, and the murder of a female priest sends shockwaves through the community. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 27. Weight in Grams: 292.
Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241956458
ISBN
9780241956458
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.00
€ 16.87

Paperback. Glamour, ambition, love and sex. It's all here in the page-turning bestsellers by Louise Bagshawe Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 35. Weight in Grams: 386. Good, clean copy. Covers and page edges showing minor shelfwear
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
SKU
KSG0006131
ISBN
9780755336074
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Glamour, ambition, love and sex. It's all here in the page-turning bestsellers by Louise Bagshawe Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 35. Weight in Grams: 386. Clean copy with some shelf wear and yellowing
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
SKU
KOC0008002
ISBN
9780755336074
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. A journalist - the autobiographical features are quite deliberate - is trying to find out what happened to Lidia, who disappeared in Luanda in 1992, a point in time when the civil war flared up again with ferocity after rebel leader Jonas Savimbi and his UNITA movement refused to accept defeat in the country's first free and democratic elections. Translator(s): Hahn, Daniel. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 348.
Publisher
Arcadia Books
Number of pages
264
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906413200
ISBN
9781906413200
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.95

Paperback. .
Publisher
North Atlantic Books,U.S.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9781583941270
ISBN
9781583941270
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 14.95

Hardcover. Monty Bodkin's pursuit of Gertude Butterwick is temporarily interrupted by his encounter with silver-screen siren Miss Lotus Blossom, who sees in him a means of restoring relations with her idol, the novelist Ambrose Tennyson. But Monty is not the only one with problems. Series: Everyman's Library P G Wodehouse. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 133 x 36. Weight in Grams: 478.
Publisher
Everyman
Number of pages
358
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841591179
ISBN
9781841591179
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.96

Paperback. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408856758
ISBN
9781408856758
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.14

Paperback. Seventeen-year-old Hannah disappears without a trace. Her family receives a ransom note demanding half a million pounds for Hannah's safe return. But it's when Hannah comes home that the story really begins. The family loses their house, their wealth, and disintegrates under the pressures of guilt and poverty, forced to confront their true selves. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 23. Weight in Grams: 240.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099477723
ISBN
9780099477723
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.00
€ 16.69

Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FH; FJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 139 x 21. Weight in Grams: 470.
Publisher
TFM Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780966524055
ISBN
9780966524055
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.48

Paperback. Peter is a gifted young writer, and Maureen Tarnopol is the woman who wants to be his muse but who instead is his nemesis. Their union is based on fraud and shored up by moral blackmail, but it is so perversely durable that, long after Maureen's death, Peter is still trying - and failing - to write his way free of it. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 21. Weight in Grams: 244.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099515319
ISBN
9780099515319
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. Ten fascinating fictions featuring Joyce, Swift, O'Casey, Lady Gregory, Behan, and others Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 136. Weight in Grams: 272. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear. Minor creasing on the cover but in good condition
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
The Lilliput Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
SKU
KAK0000098
ISBN
9781874675662
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Bernie Gibbs, living on her memories on the seventh floor of an East End high-rise. Her diet is mainly chocolate bars and she yearns for action, or at least for the re-opening of the old Imperial Dance Hall, where she used to have good times. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 158.
Publisher
Quercus Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849163989
ISBN
9781849163989
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.81

Paperback. The sixth wonderful novel from Tina Reilly, an author who is going from strength to strength on Time Warner's commercial list. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 115 x 24. Weight in Grams: 228. Some minor shelf wear, but remains very good
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
Export ed
SKU
KTJ0007360
ISBN
9780751538632
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Offers a mix of autobiographical episodes and Egyptian theology. This novel blends war films and pornography. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 198.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141189949
ISBN
9780141189949
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.66

Paperback. Maximilian Ponder has been shut away for 30 years, attempting to record every memory he has ever had .. A stunning debut about friendship, memory and what makes up a life. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 286.
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780220833
ISBN
9781780220833
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.46

Paperback. In this collection of award-winning stories, Melbourne writer Maxine Beneba Clarke has given a voice to the disenfranchised, the lost, the downtrodden and the mistreated. It will challenge you, it will have you by the heartstrings. This is contemporary fiction at its finest. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 24. Weight in Grams: 238.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472151476
ISBN
9781472151476
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

Paperback. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198736790
ISBN
9780198736790
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.23

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