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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Jack Flowers, saint or sinner, caught a passing bumboat into Singapore and got a job as a water-clerk to a Chinese ship chandler. Now, on the side, he offers girls (indeed 'anything, anything at all') to tourists, sailors, residents and expatriates, but he is haunted by his lack of worldly success and his fifty-three years weight heavily on him. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 137 x 15. Weight in Grams: 152.
Publisher
Penguin
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241955147
ISBN
9780241955147
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.00
€ 16.79

Paperback. A diamond is forever. But forever isn't for everyone .. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 42. Weight in Grams: 420.
Publisher
Virago
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844089376
ISBN
9781844089376
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

Paperback. Eventually sundered from every human attachment, Samya lapses into despair and despondence, and finally an emotionally caused paralysis. But when she shakes off the torpor of sleep, the sleep of avoidance, she awakens to action with the explosive energy of one who has been reborn. Translator(s): Spencer, S. Num Pages: 157 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 217 x 11. Weight in Grams: 230.
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Number of pages
157
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1983
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804008372
ISBN
9780804008372
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 18.62

Paperback.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Arrow Books Ltd London
Number of pages
296
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
New edition
SKU
KNW0005794
ISBN
9780099278436
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Translator(s): Schifino, Martin. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 135 x 20. Weight in Grams: 272. 288 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Dimension: 215 x 135 x 20. Weight: 272. Translator(s): Schifino, Martin.
Publisher
Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780714531540
ISBN
9780714531540
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.39

Paperback. A newly-widowed woman has done a runner. She just jumped in her car, abandoned her (very nice) house in north London and kept on driving until she reached the Norfolk coast. Now she's rented a tiny cottage and holed herself away there, if only to escape the ceaseless sympathy and insincere concern. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 17. Weight in Grams: 208.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571254415
ISBN
9780571254415
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.24

Paperback. Sheila O'Flanagan is a Sunday Times paperback bestseller in the UK and a No. 1 Irish Times bestseller in Ireland. The repackage of her titles and transfer to hardback launch have helped to consolidate her position amongst the cream of women's fiction writers Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 131 x 39. Weight in Grams: 338. Clean copy.
Edition
1st Paper Back - 1st Impression
Publisher
Headline Review
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KEX0233034
ISBN
9780755332212
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Sheila O'Flanagan is a Sunday Times paperback bestseller in the UK and a No. 1 Irish Times bestseller in Ireland. The repackage of her titles and transfer to hardback launch have helped to consolidate her position amongst the cream of women's fiction writers Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 131 x 39. Weight in Grams: 338. Clean copy in good condition. Some shelf wear.
Edition
1st Paper Back - 1st Impression
Publisher
Headline Review
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KRF0008936
ISBN
9780755332212
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. The old man has gone 84 days without catching a fish, everything about him is old except his eyes, they are the colour of the sea. He finally catches a fish, but this is no ordinary fish, nor is his fierce and determined response. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 112 x 8. Weight in Grams: 64.
Edition
01st Edition
Publisher
Arrow
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099908401
ISBN
9780099908401
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.42

Hardback. Prepare to be chilled, electrified and entertained - a gem of a novel from 'one of the most brilliantly inventive writers of this, or any country' (Independent). Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 218 x 31. Weight in Grams: 476.
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781473617377
ISBN
9781473617377
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.42
€ 42.54

Paperback. The Career Girls are back. Louise Bagshawe writing as Louise Mensch. At the top of her game. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780755359028
ISBN
9780755359028
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

Paperback. An absorbing and original novel of politics, family ties and betrayal set in Soviet Georgia Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 19. Weight in Grams: 216.
Publisher
Granta Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847087430
ISBN
9781847087430
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.99

Paperback. Tsukuru Tazaki had four best friends at school. By chance all of their names contained a colour. The two boys were called Akamatsu, meaning 'red pine', and Oumi, 'blue sea', while the girls' names were Shirane, 'white root', and Kurono, 'black field'. Tazaki was the only last name with no colour in it. Translator(s): Gabriel, Philip. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 218.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099590378
ISBN
9780099590378
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 20. Weight in Grams: 216.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408865125
ISBN
9781408865125
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.64

Paperback. Sunday Times bestseller Adele Parks gets right to the heart of the dilemmas women - and men - face in their lives in this unforgettable and heart-wrenching novel of love, loss, and the secrets we all keep. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 302.
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780755371396
ISBN
9780755371396
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. A traveler shuts himself up in his hotel room, with no-one but room service to talk to; a teenager stalks her long-lost father; a journalist interviews a great poet with a dark past; a woman pursues a doomed liaison with an anonymous man she meets once a month at the casino; and a bar lady locked in with the regulars at night.. Translator(s): Gramich, Eluned. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 128 x 14. Weight in Grams: 208.
Publisher
Parthian Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910409633
ISBN
9781910409633
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.36

paperback. The number one bestseller: just because your son can't look you in the eye .. does that make him guilty? Autism and families are entwined in Picoult's gripping novel, reissued with new cover treatment. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 200 x 40. Weight in Grams: 438.
Publisher
Hodder Paperbacks
Number of pages
640
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444754421
ISBN
9781444754421
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

Paperback. Shows how legends of betrayal and defeat simmered in European civilisation for six hundred years, culminating in the agony of one tiny population at the end of the twentieth century. Translator(s): Constantine, Peter. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 133 x 7. Weight in Grams: 78.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099560951
ISBN
9780099560951
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.25

Paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 135 x 23. Weight in Grams: 294.
Publisher
William Morrow Paperbacks
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780062499950
ISBN
9780062499950
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 15.72

Paperback. A heart-warming story about falling in love with the right person at the wrong time.. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 258.
Publisher
Hachette Books Ireland
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
KSG0019495
ISBN
9781473614680
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. The 'progress' of the modern industrialised world had led to the carnage of the First World War. What, then, did it mean to call ourselves 'human'? What are the definitive forms of our relationships - love, marriage, family, friendship - really worth? Without directly referring to the war, this novel explores these questions. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 464 pages, notes, bibliography. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 25. Weight in Grams: 294. Used Copy But Remains Readable
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Edition
New edition
SKU
KDK0015037
ISBN
9781853260070
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. The 'progress' of the modern industrialised world had led to the carnage of the First World War. What, then, did it mean to call ourselves 'human'? What are the definitive forms of our relationships - love, marriage, family, friendship - really worth? Without directly referring to the war, this novel explores these questions. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 464 pages, notes, bibliography. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 25. Weight in Grams: 294. Well read copy, but binding still tight. 508pp.
Condition
Used, Acceptable
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Edition
New edition
SKU
KLN0007979
ISBN
9781853260070
Paperback
Condition: Used, Acceptable

€ 4.99

Paperback. Absorbing and heartrendingly real tale of one woman's life and feelings laid bare. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 154 x 30. Weight in Grams: 216. Clean copy with light shelfwear. Good to very good
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
1st Paperback Printing
Publisher
HarperCollins
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
SKU
KST0022208
ISBN
9780586217405
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

paperback. On the verandah of a great New Orleans house, now faded, a mute and fragile woman sits rocking. And the witching hour begins. This title is from the author of "The Vampire Chronicles". Num Pages: 1216 pages. BIC Classification: FK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 114 x 68. Weight in Grams: 636.
Publisher
Arrow
Number of pages
1216
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099471424
ISBN
9780099471424
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.44

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