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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. Wife, mother and journalist Jess finds her usually cheery muddle of family life turned upside down when her husband Matt is unexpectedly made redundant. For instead of looking upon it as the disaster it is, he sees it as the perfect opportunity to indulge in some kind of second adolescence. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 12. Weight in Grams: 220. Keywords: "Subjects - Fiction - Genre - Family Sagas,Subjects - Fiction - Authors, A-Z - A - Astley, Judy,Subjects - Fiction - General,Subjects - Fiction - Contemporary Fiction: 1970 Onwards - Women's Popular Fi"
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- KHS0048846
- ISBN
- 9780552147644
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. A dark and brilliant debut collection of short stories by a gifted young author. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781786490414
- ISBN
- 9781786490414
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.01
€ 11.99
€ 10.01
Paperback. How far would you go to get the life can't have? Shyama, aged forty-eight, has fallen for a younger man. They want a child together. Meanwhile, in a rural village in India, young Mala, trapped in an oppressive marriage, dreams of escape. When Shyama and Mala meet, they help each other realise their dreams. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 33. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Publisher
- Red Fox
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781862300538
- ISBN
- 9781862300538
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
Paperback. From our greatest novelist of Renaissance Italy comes Sacred Hearts, a stunning tale of passion, betrayal and music set in an enclosed convent in 1570. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 32. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Publisher
- Virago
- Number of pages
- 480
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844089116
- ISBN
- 9781844089116
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. A young and inexperienced sea captain finds that his first command leaves him with a ship stranded in tropical seas and a crew smitten with fever. As he wrestles with his conscience and with the increasing sense of isolation that he experiences, the captain crosses the 'shadow-line' between youth and adulthood. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 126.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140180978
- ISBN
- 9780140180978
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.22
€ 11.99
€ 10.22
Hardcover. Rosemary Fielding is delighted when impresario and family friend Oliver Duncan suggests turning her novel into a mini-series. However, his choice of leading man, the actor Stephen Walker, is rude and arrogant causing Rosemary to retaliate. But, with Oliver insisting they settle their differences, the author and actor spend a weekend together. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 161 x 26. Weight in Grams: 526. 224 pages. Rosemary Fielding is delighted when impresario and family friend Oliver Duncan suggests turning her novel into a mini-series. However, his choice of leading man, the actor Stephen Walker, is rude and arrogant causing Rosemary to retaliate. But, with Oliver insisting they settle their differences, the author and actor spend a weekend together. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 236 x 161 x 26. Weight: 526.
- Publisher
- Robert Hale
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780709080961
- ISBN
- 9780709080961
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.19
€ 30.19
Paperback. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 135. .
- Publisher
- Peepal Tree Press Ltd.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845233341
- ISBN
- 9781845233341
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.69
€ 13.99
€ 11.69
Paperback. Exploring the themes of love and longing and loss with grace, bewilderment, playfulness, and occasionally anger. Num Pages: 80 pages, frontispiece. BIC Classification: DCF; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 146 x 8. Weight in Grams: 157.
- Publisher
- Biblioasis Canada
- Number of pages
- 80
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781897231432
- ISBN
- 9781897231432
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 8.30
€ 17.99
€ 8.30
Paperback. A very funny, energetic, wonderfully engaging novel about where we're from and where we'd like to get to.. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007346721
- ISBN
- 9780007346721
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.63
€ 13.99
€ 10.63
Paperback. Life is sweet for would-be bohemian Artie Conville. Safe at the helm of his subsidised magazine - with a cosy office paid for by the tax-payer - he's content to drift along quoting poetry, lingering over long lunches and flirting with the lovely Rosie McCann. The main thing is to keep the real world at bay. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 19. Weight in Grams: 311.
- Publisher
- Sandstone Press
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908737083
- ISBN
- 9781908737083
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.53
€ 11.99
€ 10.53
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Verso Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784782191
- ISBN
- 9781784782191
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.46
€ 17.99
€ 16.46
Paperback. Meet the Londons, a family in need of a friend. Gerry and Bernie London are proud parents of Tony, Sean and Ned, three wayward lads whose lives have suddenly reached crisis points. The Londons also have a new lodger a mysterious rockabilly called Gervase. Will he turn out to be a friend or foe to the family? Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 121 x 27. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140295979
- ISBN
- 9780140295979
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. The Hugo and Nebula Award-winning masterpiece from one of the all-time greats of Science Fiction. Series: S.F. Masterworks. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781473221628
- ISBN
- 9781473221628
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
€ 13.99
€ 11.09
Paperback. A novel about the hundreds of tiny connections between the public and private worlds and how they affect us. It is about: the legacy of war and the end of innocence; how comedy and politics are battling it out and comedy might have won; and living in a city where bankers need cinemas in their basements and others need food banks down the street. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 26. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241967010
- ISBN
- 9780241967010
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.01
€ 13.99
€ 11.01
Paperback. Num Pages: 276 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 249.
- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- 1st Vintage International Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780679762645
- ISBN
- 9780679762645
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 13.99
€ 18.99
€ 13.99
Paperback. Two short novels, published initially in the 1930s. "Musashi" deals with the dark obsessions of a 16th-century warlord. "Arrowroot" also touches on the pursuit of legend, but in a different mode, that of the uniquely Japanese form of the "essay" novel. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 135 x 13. Weight in Grams: 144.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099283171
- ISBN
- 9780099283171
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- The New York Review of Books, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- New ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780940322233
- ISBN
- 9780940322233
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.29
€ 26.99
€ 20.29
Paperback. When a seaside escape spells a little romance .. A warm, heartwarming novel to make your heart soar from the author of The Cosy Teashop in the Castle. Num Pages: 306 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780008236274
- ISBN
- 9780008236274
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.19
€ 10.99
€ 9.19
Paperback. Clean copy.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Orion London
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- SKU
- KEX0211041
- ISBN
- 9780752893884
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. The stunning new novel from the number 1 bestselling Irish author Num Pages: 400 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 25. Weight in Grams: 278. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- SKU
- KTG0001516
- ISBN
- 9781849838931
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. The stunning new novel from the number 1 bestselling Irish author Num Pages: 400 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 25. Weight in Grams: 278.
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781849838931
- ISBN
- 9781849838931
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Leads us on a kind of psychic Grand Tour, in which a latter-day Candide named Hippolyte's violently imaginative dream life becomes indistinguishable from his surprising experiences in the 'real world'. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 145 x 17. Weight in Grams: 216.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141190099
- ISBN
- 9780141190099
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.62
€ 16.99
€ 12.62
Paperback. Joe Spork, son of the infamous criminal Mathew 'Tommy Gun' Spork just wants a quiet life, repairing clockwork in a wet, unknown bit of London. Edie Banister, former superspy, lives quietly and wishes she didn't. She's nearly ninety and the things she fought to save don't seem to exist anymore. She's beginning to wonder if they ever did. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 46. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Publisher
- Cornerstone
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099538097
- ISBN
- 9780099538097
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.88
€ 13.00
€ 11.88
Paperback. The second novel from an LA Times First Fiction Prize finalist, Dept. of Speculation is an annihilating, electrifying account of marriage and motherhood, love and madness Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 142.
- Publisher
- Granta Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847088741
- ISBN
- 9781847088741
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.75
€ 13.99
€ 10.75