Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. Young Chris Guthrie lives a brutal life in the harsh landscape of northern Scotland, torn between her passion for the land, duty to her family and her love of books. When her mother, broken by repeated childbirths, takes her own life and poisons her two youngest children, Chris is left with her father to run the farm on her own. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 21. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141188409
- ISBN
- 9780141188409
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.95
€ 13.99
€ 10.95
Paperback. One of the UK's most respected and well-known journalists and broadcasters moves into fiction. The Legacy of Elizabeth Pringle is a multi-generational story of love and belonging set on the Scottish island of Arran. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 28. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Publisher
- John Murray Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444777628
- ISBN
- 9781444777628
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.97
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Paperback. For fans of THE UNLIKELY PILGRIMAGE OF HAROLD FRY, THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU, Mark Watson and Mark Haddon, here is a cleverly written mystery about fate, circumstance, destiny and coincidence from COSTA AWARD-shortlisted author, John Ironmonger. This quirky read is hard to put down and spans philosophy, conflict, relationships and romance. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 20. Weight in Grams: 216.
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780220840
- ISBN
- 9781780220840
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.86
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€ 10.86
Paperback. Barbara Comyns' classic first novel weaves a vivid, funny tale - told in the unique style of her young narrator - of a chaotic and ultimately tragic childhood on the banks of the River Avon. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 14. Weight in Grams: 170.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844088379
- ISBN
- 9781844088379
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.97
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Paperback. Four friends, and a shared passion for Downton Abbey that will change their lives. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 174 x 23. Weight in Grams: 258. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- SKU
- KAK0006500
- ISBN
- 9781409147855
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 136 x 21. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Publisher
- Old Street Publishing United Kingdom
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908699244
- ISBN
- 9781908699244
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.24
€ 12.24
Paperback. A young girl's mutilated body is discovered in a sealed room. Her remains are carefully arranged, in what seems to have been a cruel and macabre ritual, which appears to have taken place over 60 years ago. For newly appointed Edinburgh Detective Inspector Tony McLean this baffling cold case ought to be a low priority. Series: Inspector Mclean. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 29. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Number of pages
- 464
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405913140
- ISBN
- 9781405913140
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.73
€ 14.99
€ 11.73
Paperback. Series: Virago Modern Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349010021
- ISBN
- 9780349010021
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.95
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paperback. Tells the story of Anne, a young woman who breaks her ankle in a daring escape from prison. She makes it to a highway where she's picked up by a motorcyclist, Julien, who's also on the run. As they travel through nights and days together, they fall in love and must do whatever they can to survive, living their lives always on the edge of danger. Series: Serpent's Tail Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 134 x 14. Weight in Grams: 174.
- Publisher
- Serpent's Tail
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846689413
- ISBN
- 9781846689413
Paperback
Condition: New
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Paperback. From the author of Reconstructing Ameliacomes a gripping crime novel about a community struggling with the consequences of a devastating discovery Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 230 x 26. Weight in Grams: 280. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- SKU
- KAK0001402
- ISBN
- 9781471111334
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. A bold psychological debut from a captivating voice. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 16. Weight in Grams: 210.
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780330544481
- ISBN
- 9780330544481
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.33
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€ 9.33
Paperback.
- Publisher
- Quercus Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849161831
- ISBN
- 9781849161831
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Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.18
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Paperback. Taliesin Jones is a boy on the brink of adulthood, faced for the first time with life's biggest questions. Taliesin's life is falling apart: his mother has run off with her hairdresser, his father's temper is out of control and his brother has been ominously mute for weeks. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 198 x 14. Weight in Grams: 154.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241972144
- ISBN
- 9780241972144
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.11
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Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408889398
- ISBN
- 9781408889398
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.56
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€ 11.56
Paperback. Series: Modern Library. Num Pages: 416 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 141 x 23. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Publisher
- Random House USA Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- Modern Library Pbk. Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812970159
- ISBN
- 9780812970159
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 15.28
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Paperback. Alan Harrison is mourning the death of his wife. A trip to Sweden is in the offing - but will it help him get over it? Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 216 x 21. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Publisher
- John Hunt Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785355318
- ISBN
- 9781785355318
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.26
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Paperback. The second volume of short stories by Stanley Donwood, Radiohead's artist. Donwood writing is an existentialist commentary on society wrapped in dark humour. This first edition designed by Dowood is a strictly limited run of 1,000 copies. Num Pages: 144 pages, Black and white lino cuts. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 112 x 14. Weight in Grams: 144.
- Publisher
- Tangent Books
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906477554
- ISBN
- 9781906477554
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.49
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Paperback. On to the shores of Texas a raging sea coughs up two castaways: Jim and Natty, shipwrecked on their way home from Treasure Island. The Nightingale sunk, their silver gone, captured, weak and afraid, the pair steal a treasure they should have left well alone. The adventure of the New World lies in wait.. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 200 x 35. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099583783
- ISBN
- 9780099583783
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.09
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Paperback. A profound and moving and often humorous novel that evokes a colonial man's experience in the post-colonial world. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Publisher
- Picador USA
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780330522922
- ISBN
- 9780330522922
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.83
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€ 10.83
Paperback. This stunning, literary commercial novel in the vein of Curtis Sittenfeld's Prep is a New York Times bestseller and a stand-out debut launch for Tinder Press Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 197 x 26. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Publisher
- Headline Publishing Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780755395194
- ISBN
- 9780755395194
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.31
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Paperback. It is 1948. Japan is rebuilding her cities after the calamity of World War Two, her people putting defeat behind them and looking to the future. The celebrated artist, Masuji Ono, fills his days attending to his garden, his house repairs, his two grown daughters and his grandson; his evenings drinking with old associates in quiet lantern-lit bars. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 127 x 13. Weight in Grams: 170.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571283873
- ISBN
- 9780571283873
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.67
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€ 10.67
Paperback. Rabih Alameddine follows his international bestseller The Hakawati with an enchanting story of the life of a book-loving, obsessive, seventy-two-year-old, blue-haired 'unnecessary woman', living in Beirut. This is a novel to savour. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 23. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472119209
- ISBN
- 9781472119209
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.97
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Paperback. From the writer of The Crying Game, Mistaken is part thriller, part gothic tragedy, part comedy of manners, brilliantly evoking the divided Dublin of the 1960s and the trauma of adolescence Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 195 x 27. Weight in Grams: 264. Clean copy with some shelf wear
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- John Murray Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- SKU
- KOC0018155
- ISBN
- 9781848544192
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. This year's Big American Novel is a high-concept epic that races through one family's experience of the twentieth century Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 197 x 35. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847672322
- ISBN
- 9781847672322
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.87
€ 11.99
€ 9.87