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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Number One bestselling author Jodi Picoult's first novel is a compelling drama of family, loss and misunderstanding, and reconciliation. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 28. Weight in Grams: 366.
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444754384
ISBN
9781444754384
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. In this, her second novel, (awarded the 1967 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize) Angela Carter's brilliant imagination and starting intensity of style explore and extend the nature and boundaries of love. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 164.
Publisher
Virago
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1981
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780860681908
ISBN
9780860681908
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. "A fugitive framed for murder gets a new face and a new life from a mysterious foreigner. So why are the cops still after him?" Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 126 x 27. Weight in Grams: 330. 352 pages. "A fugitive framed for murder gets a new face and a new life from a mysterious foreigner. So why are the cops still after him?". Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 195 x 126 x 27. Weight: 330.
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848875371
ISBN
9781848875371
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.01

Paperback. A gripping novel which vividly brings to life the negotiations which led to the betrayal of Czechoslovakia by England and France at the Munich Conference in 1938. Translator(s): Whiteside, Shaun. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 194. Clean copy. Good to very good
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Quercus
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
SKU
KST0016741
ISBN
9781847247865
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Hardcover. Prague, I see a city..takes the form of a novel of quest, in which the heroine abandons the material world of everyday society and linear history, perceiving it as false, temporary and distracting and journeys in search of her true identity. Num Pages: 104 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 135 x 210 x 18. Weight in Grams: 248.
Publisher
Jantar Publishing
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780956889065
ISBN
9780956889065
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.95

Paperback. Kundera whirls through comedy and tragedy towards his central question: how does a person, any person, live today? In constructing his answer, he writes of politics, sex, literature, modern man's alienation - and of their antidotes: laughter and forgetting. Translator(s): Asher, Aaron. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 248.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571174379
ISBN
9780571174379
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.78

Paperback. One woman runs from her past, as another tries to escape her future; a young boy holds close a terrible secret, and a father does everything he can to protect him. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 126 x 21. Weight in Grams: 496. 464 pages. One woman runs from her past, as another tries to escape her future; a young boy holds close a terrible secret, and a father does everything he can to protect him. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 197 x 126 x 21. Weight: 432.
Publisher
Allen & Unwin
Number of pages
464
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781742379210
ISBN
9781742379210
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.19

Paperback. The Sin of Abbe Mouret is the fifth novel in Zola's Rougon-Macquart series. It follows Serge Mouret, a young priest, aspiring to perfect purity and sanctity. An illness leaves him with amnesia, and no longer knowing he is a priest, he falls in love with his nurse. Together they roam an Eden-like garden called the 'Paradou'. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198736639
ISBN
9780198736639
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.69

Paperback. We catch up with the latest delightful goings-on in the fictitious 44 Scotland Street from Alexander McCall Smith. Series: 44 Scotland Street. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 26. Weight in Grams: 270.
Publisher
Abacus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349141046
ISBN
9780349141046
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.30

Paperback. The Ravenscar Dynasty, introducing the house of DeRavenel, launches Barbara Taylor Bradford's epic new series spanning a century. Num Pages: 784 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 112 x 40. Weight in Grams: 378. Well-read paperback in good condition.Some shelf wear; may have some light soiling.
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
SKU
KRF0031116
ISBN
9780007197620
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

paperback. * 'A book of formidable creative intelligence, and real moral purpose' OBSERVER Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 19. Weight in Grams: 220.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349111889
ISBN
9780349111889
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.84

Paperback. Without a mother, Rosie is at the mercy of her father and thuggish brothers. Then one day a friend comes to the farm in the form of cockney housekeeper Heather Farley. But soon enough Heather vanishes, abandoning Rosie to her fate. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 40. Weight in Grams: 446.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141046013
ISBN
9780141046013
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

Paperback. Port and Kit Moresbury, a sophisticated American couple, are finding it more than a little difficult to live with each other. Endeavoring to escape this predicament, they set off for North Africa intending to travel through Algeria - uncertain of exactly where they are heading, but determined to leave the modern world behind. Editor(s): Hoffman, Michael. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 274.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141187778
ISBN
9780141187778
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

Paperback. Is the meaning of life to find the meaning of life? Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 133 x 18. Weight in Grams: 194. Some light shelf wear, else as new
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
SKU
KRA0011659
ISBN
9780007332182
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. It's the 1970s and cracks are starting to appear in the alliance between China and its Communist cohort Albania. When an Albanian steps on the foot of a Chinese diplomat the tension cranks up - couriers between Tirana and Beijing carry annotated x-rays of the foot back and forth. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 29. Weight in Grams: 314.
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099560890
ISBN
9780099560890
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.47

Paperback. * Full of the wit and irreverence for which Carter is renowned Series: VMC. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 11. Weight in Grams: 122.
Publisher
Virago
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
SKU
V9781860490941
ISBN
9781860490941
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

Paperback. June the first, a bright summer's evening, a Monday ..And into the busy, bustling homes at 66 Star Street slips, unseen, a mysterious visitor. As the couples, flatmates and repentant singletons of No 66 fall in and out of love, clutch at and drop secrets, laugh, cry and simply try to live. Num Pages: 640 pages, port. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 43. Weight in Grams: 448. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KOC0016005
ISBN
9780141028675
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 11.99
€ 9.44

Paperback. June the first, a bright summer's evening, a Monday ..And into the busy, bustling homes at 66 Star Street slips, unseen, a mysterious visitor. As the couples, flatmates and repentant singletons of No 66 fall in and out of love, clutch at and drop secrets, laugh, cry and simply try to live. Num Pages: 640 pages, port. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 43. Weight in Grams: 440. Some minor shelf wear, but remains good.
Edition
01st Edition
Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KTJ0007974
ISBN
9780141028675
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 11.99
€ 9.44

Paperback. A first novel which has been a bestseller in New Zealand, and has been made into a film. It is a portrayal of Maoris in New Zealand society, and a story in which everyone is a victim until the strength and vision of one woman transcends brutality and leads the way to a new life. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 152.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099578413
ISBN
9780099578413
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. It is 1938 and Sigmund Freud, suffering from the debilitating effects of cancer, has been permitted by the Nazis to leave Vienna. He seeks refuge in England, taking up residence in the house in Hampstead in which he will die only fifteen months later. Series: Myths. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 196 x 15. Weight in Grams: 150. 224 pages. Sigmund Freud, suffering from the debilitating effects of cancer, has been permitted by the Nazis to leave Vienna. He seeks refuge in England, taking up residence in the house in Hampstead in which he will die 15 months later. But his last months are made vivid by the arrival of a stranger, who comes and goes according to Freud's state of health. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 135 x 196 x 15. Weight: 150.
Publisher
Canongate Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847670724
ISBN
9781847670724
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.74

paperback. .
Publisher
Sandstone Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910985403
ISBN
9781910985403
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.58

Paperback. A charming, witty and stunning debut with the breadth of appeal from Ardal O'Hanlon to Mike Gayle. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 21. Weight in Grams: 234.
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780340793459
ISBN
9780340793459
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback.
Edition
First edition
Publisher
Mira Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780778304838
ISBN
9780778304838
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.27

Paperback. Christopher and Toni found in each other the perfect companion for that universal adolescent pastime: smirking at the world as you find it. In between training as flaneurs and the grind of school they cast a cynical eye over their various dislikes: parents with their lives of spotless emptiness, and the inhabitants of Metroland, and more. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 174.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099540069
ISBN
9780099540069
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.29

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