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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. 1959: Bodies have started turning up around London, dismembered in the same bizarre and horrifying way. Is it possible that the blood trail leads back to Troy's police force and his own forgotten past? Series: Inspector Troy. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 30. Weight in Grams: 356.
Publisher
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press United States
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611855876
ISBN
9781611855876
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.98

Paperback. On a freezing January morning in 1961, eight-year-old Anna's mother disappears into the fog. That same morning, a spy case breaks in the news. Obsessed by stories of espionage, Anna's brother Peter begins to construct a theory that their mother, a refugee from eastern Germany, was an undercover spy and might even still be alive. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 21. Weight in Grams: 226. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
SKU
KIN0032527
ISBN
9781408801000
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Coming home for Christmas? That's what this time of year is supposed to be about, isn't it? Back to your perfect, loving family. Or not quite, if you're Rachel or Laurie. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 24. Weight in Grams: 254.
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780876627
ISBN
9781780876627
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

Paperback. An epic, involving and exquisitely told story of inheritance and chance as it plays out in one family, across one century and four generations. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 29. Weight in Grams: 322.
Publisher
Portobello Books Ltd
Number of pages
464
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846273827
ISBN
9781846273827
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.95

Paperback. Keywords: Fiction - General - War In August 1941 Hiroko leaves Japan for an education in America. It is a different world. But when Pearl Harbor is bombed by the Japanese, Hiroko suddenly becomes an enemy in a strange land. Hiroko and her Californian family end up at a detention centre, where they have to fight to stay alive. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 109 x 29. Weight in Grams: 236
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
Reprint
Publisher
Corgi
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
SKU
KHS0058273
ISBN
9780552141321
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Don Rigoberto - by day a grey insurance executive, by night a pornographer and sexual enthusiast - misses Lucrecia, his estranged second wife. The pair separated following a sexual encounter between Lucrecia and Alfonso, Rigoberto's son. To compensate for her absence, Rigoberto fills his notebooks with memories, fantasies and unsent letters. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 21. Weight in Grams: 298.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571195756
ISBN
9780571195756
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.77

Paperback. Julie Guilles is in trouble. She's fled her home in Occupied France for a seedy neighbourhood in New York and has been laying low - but not low enough. Because now she has the Gestapo, the FBI and her shady Uncle, the Duc de Guille, all on her tail, and her options are running out. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 200.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784870492
ISBN
9781784870492
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. Obaba is peopled with innocents and intellectuals, shepherds and schoolchildren, whilst everyone from a lovelorn schoolmistress to a cultured but self-hating dwarf wanders across the page. This is a novel about life in Obaba, a remote, exotic, Basque village. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 242.
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099512998
ISBN
9780099512998
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.83

Paperback. Illustrator(s): Barnard, Bryn. Num Pages: 44 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: CJBR; FA. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 149 x 5. Weight in Grams: 106.
Publisher
Random House Books for Young Readers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780375813078
ISBN
9780375813078
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 7.03

Paperback. How can you long for someone who doesn't exist? An emotional, moving story about a London power couple with pregnancy problems trying to get pregnant. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 130 x 28. Weight in Grams: 330.
Publisher
Blackbird Digital Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780995473522
ISBN
9780995473522
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.34

Paperback. Hazel Motes who, released from the armed services, returns to the evangelical Deep South. There he begins a private battle against the religiosity of the community and in particular against Asa Hawkes, the 'blind' preacher, and his degenerate fifteen-year-old daughter. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 12. Weight in Grams: 150.
Edition
Main
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571241309
ISBN
9780571241309
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.71

Paperback. In a remote dale in a northern English county, a centuries-old rural community has survived into the mid-1930s almost unchanged. But then Jack Liggett drives in from the city, the spokesman for a Manchester waterworks company with designs on the landscape for a vast new reservoir. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 274 x 21. Weight in Grams: 242.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571315604
ISBN
9780571315604
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.71

Paperback. The phenomenal fifth thriller in Faye Kellerman's bestselling Pete Decker series Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 114 x 24. Weight in Grams: 244.
Publisher
Headline Feature
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Condition
New
SKU
V9780747239550
ISBN
9780747239550
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Hardcover. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 157 x 49. Weight in Grams: 1242.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
640
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Edition
Leatherbound edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780436205552
ISBN
9780436205552
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 235.10
€ 160.36

Paperback. Nuclear war has devastated the world, bringing with it a host of genetic mutations. In the bleak, primitive society that has emerged from its ruins, any sign of deviation, no matter how small, is ruthlessly rooted out and destroyed. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 160.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141181479
ISBN
9780141181479
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. Memories of an Irish lad in wartime Liverpool Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 212. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
SKU
KRA0004817
ISBN
9780755336791
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Memories of an Irish lad in wartime Liverpool Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 212.
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
SKU
KLN0014208
ISBN
9780755336791
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Adam Lambsbreath dresses up as Father Christmas in two of Judith's red shawls. There are unsuitable presents, unpleasant insertions into the pudding and some good Starkadder table talk over. Aunt Ada Doom orders Amos to carve the turkey, adding: "Ay, would it were a vulture, 'twere more fitting". Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 5HC; FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 198 x 21. Weight in Grams: 232.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099528678
ISBN
9780099528678
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. Agatha Heterodyne returns to her ancestral home, the warped little town of Mechanicsburg, to convince the artificial intelligence that animates her family's castle that she is, in fact, the new Heterodyne. But things get complicated when an imposter claiming to be the legitimate heir appears. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: FM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 133 x 41. Weight in Grams: 442.
Publisher
Titan Books Ltd
Number of pages
258
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781166512
ISBN
9781781166512
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.16

Paperback. 'It is the saddest night, for I am leaving and not coming back.' Jay is leaving his partner and their two sons. As the long night before his departure unfolds, in an unforgettable, and often pitiless, reflection on their time together he analyses the joys and agonies of trying to make a life with another person. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571333554
ISBN
9780571333554
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.78

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