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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Twelve-year-old Adele is placed in a bleak, cruel children's home after a family tragedy drives her mother insane. But when the owner betrays her trust Adele has no choice but to run away. Alone and friendless, she heads for Sussex, to seek out the grandmother she has never known. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 37. Weight in Grams: 404.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141046075
ISBN
9780141046075
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.22

Paperback. Beneath the Lion's Gaze opens in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1974, on the eve of a revolution. Yonas kneels in his mother's prayer room, pleading to his god for an end to the violence that has wracked his family and country. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 236.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099539926
ISBN
9780099539926
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. Translator(s): Wright, Jonathan. Num Pages: 98 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 8. Weight in Grams: 110.
Publisher
Comma Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
242
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905583256
ISBN
9781905583256
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 14.44

Paperback. Clean copy with some light shelfwear
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Mira
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
First edition
SKU
KST0022082
ISBN
9780778304685
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. 'Beautifully observed and astute on tangled relationships. It deserves to be her breakthrough novel' Sarah Broadhurst, Bookseller Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 252.
Publisher
Headline Review
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780755303120
ISBN
9780755303120
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.06

Paperback. Translator(s): Weaver, William. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 128 x 21. Weight in Grams: 424.
Publisher
The New York Review of Books, Inc
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781590172223
ISBN
9781590172223
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.66

Paperback. A wonderfully involving family story that begins in Liverpool at the beginning of the Second World War and spans forty turbulent years. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 40. Weight in Grams: 412.
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780752858913
ISBN
9780752858913
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

Paperback. It is 1920. Prohibition and bootlegging are in full swing. When Joseph Van Dorn is shot and nearly killed while in pursuit of a rum-running vessel, his friend and employee, Isaac Bell, swears to him that he will hunt down the lawbreakers. But Bell doesn't know what he is getting into. Series: Isaac Bell. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 130 x 28. Weight in Grams: 314.
Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780718178703
ISBN
9780718178703
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.62

Paperback. The second collection of stories from Yiyun Li, author of the Guardian First Book Award-winning A Thousand Years of Good Prayers and The Vagrants. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 15. Weight in Grams: 174.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007303106
ISBN
9780007303106
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.66

Paperback. LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2015 AND WINNER OF THE 2016 DSC PRIZE FOR SOUTH ASIAN LITERATURE - A stark and unflinching novel by a spellbinding storyteller, about religion, love and violence in the modern world Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 22. Weight in Grams: 178.
Publisher
MacLehose Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848666900
ISBN
9781848666900
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Hardcover. A collection of some of the best sleuths in the business. It includes creators such as Poe and Conan Doyle to Hammet, Christie, Chandler, Rendell and Rankin. Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Classics. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 127 x 28. Weight in Grams: 404.
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
400
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841596044
ISBN
9781841596044
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.06

Paperback. The Irish Top Ten bestselling author of Driving Home for Christmas and The Summer Guest returns with another warm and delightful tale. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 34. Weight in Grams: 250.
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472210340
ISBN
9781472210340
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.69

Paperback. Sara Highbury, forty-eight years old, is the manageress of a boarding house. She lives her life in the past, haunted by a love affair with a diamond digger called Herbert. One day, a young child arrives at Sara's door. Apparently the girl is Herbert's illegitimate daughter and it seems there is no one else to look after her. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 14. Weight in Grams: 173.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099535775
ISBN
9780099535775
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.29

Paperback. Escape into Rosamunde Pilcher's world and meet characters who will become instant friends. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 131 x 16. Weight in Grams: 188.
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton General Division United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444761948
ISBN
9781444761948
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.27

Paperback. Series: Penguin Essentials. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 113 x 181 x 19. Weight in Grams: 148.
Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241978948
ISBN
9780241978948
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.25

Paperback. The Mayor of Casterbridge is a man haunted by his past. In his youth he betrayed his wife and baby daughter in a shocking incident that led him to swear never to touch alcohol again for twenty-one years. He has since risen from his origins to become a respected pillar of the community in Casterbridge, but his secrets cannot stay hidden forever. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 272.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099529576
ISBN
9780099529576
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.47

Paperback. His new massive Top Ten bestseller! Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 36. Weight in Grams: 464. Some minor shelf wear, but remains very good
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
SKU
KTJ0006952
ISBN
9780755347346
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Mr Verloc, the secret agent, is involved in an anarchist plot to blow up the Greenwich Observatory which goes disastrously wrong. Based on the text which Conrad's first English readers enjoyed, this new edition includes a critical introduction which describes Conrad's great London novel as the realization of a 'monstrous town', a place of idiocy, madness, criminality, and butchery. Editor(s): Lyon, John. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 128 x 15. Weight in Grams: 214.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199536351
ISBN
9780199536351
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.65

Paperback. .
Publisher
And Other Stories
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908276520
ISBN
9781908276520
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.66

paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; FA; FH; FR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. .
Publisher
Pan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
9781447297581
ISBN
9781447297581
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.45

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