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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Juliet Ashton weaves a story of love, friendship and community that will move you to laughter and to tears. Think Cold Feet meets David Nicholls, with a dash of the joy of Jill Mansell added for good measure. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FRD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 26. .
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781471158896
ISBN
9781471158896
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.23

Paperback. Fifty-six and overweight, Harry Rabbit Angstrom has a struggling business on his hands and a heart that is starting to fail. His family, too, is giving him cause for concern. His son is a wreck of a man and his wife has decided that she wants to be a working girl. He has to make the most of life. After all, he doesn't have much time left. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 23. Weight in Grams: 362.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
512
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141188447
ISBN
9780141188447
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.37

Paperback. Kicked out of college and harassed by his lawyer, Miles Faber abandons New York and embarks on a defiant pilgrimage across the Caribbean to find the shrine of Sib Legeru, an obscure poet and painter. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 160.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141187808
ISBN
9780141187808
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.29

Paperback. Remakes old stories: of Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel, and Beauty (who married her Beast and spends a lifetime suffering his doggy stink). Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 192.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141192956
ISBN
9780141192956
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.28

Paperback. One dark and rainy night, Sir James Monmouth returns to London after years spent travelling alone. Intent on uncovering the secrets of his childhood hero, the mysterious Conrad Vane, he begins to investigate Vane's life, but he finds himself warned off at every turn. Before long he realises he is being followed too. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 222.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099284369
ISBN
9780099284369
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. Pablo Escobar: billionaire drugs baron, ruthless manipulator brutal killer and jefe of the infamous Madellin cartel. A man whose importance in the international drug trade and renown for his charitable work among the poor brought him influence and power in his home country of Colombia, and the unwanted attention of the American courts. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 224.
Publisher
PENGUIN BOOKS
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Re-issue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241968697
ISBN
9780241968697
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.06

Paperback. Karsan Dargawalla, heir to the shrine of a mysterious, medieval sufi begins to tell the story of his family and the destroyed shrine in the aftermath of the violence that gripped western India in 2002. His tale begins in the 1960s, and young Karsan wishes above all else to be ordinary. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 224.
Publisher
Canongate Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847672834
ISBN
9781847672834
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.95

paperback. 'I'm off', says Felix Ferrer to his wife. 'I'm leaving you'. And closing the door on their suburban home, Ferrer, a creature of appetite, impulse and habit, a man of our times, embarks on a journey to the extremes. Not weighing up every girl he sees. Not ignoring his doctor's warnings to avoid the very hot and the very cold. Translator(s): Waldman, Guido. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 15. Weight in Grams: 190.
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9781860469503
ISBN
9781860469503
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.23

Paperback. The internationally-acclaimed, definitive account of immigrant life in early-twentieth century New York. Series: Mercy of a Rude Stream. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 199 x 30. Weight in Grams: 352.
Publisher
Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857993561
ISBN
9781857993561
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.25

Paperback. An intricate, atmospheric and utterly gripping mystery in the vein of Carlos Ruiz Zafon's novels, in the 1950s Barcelona of The Whispering City violence and rumour are rife, and every secret can be lethal. Translator(s): Lethem, Mara Faye. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 233 x 31. Weight in Grams: 546. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Abacus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
SKU
KIN0033298
ISBN
9780349139937
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. An intensely moving and beautifully written novel from the Booker-prize winning author of Last Orders, and Mothering Sunday Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130. .
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
SKU
V9781471162022
ISBN
9781471162022
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.02

Paperback. In Egypt, Nuri, a teenage boy, falls in love with Mona - the woman his father will marry. Consumed with longing, Nuri wants to get his father out of the way - to take his place in Mona's heart. But when his father disappears, Nuri regrets what he wished for. Alone, he and Mona search desperately for the man they both love. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 128 x 19. Weight in Grams: 244.
Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141027500
ISBN
9780141027500
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.01

Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 314.
Publisher
NYRB Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781590177624
ISBN
9781590177624
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.19

Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; HRCV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 137 x 17. Weight in Grams: 258.
Publisher
Zondervan United States
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Media Tie In
Condition
New
SKU
V9780310336105
ISBN
9780310336105
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.38

Paperback. A family affair. In more ways than one. The irresistible new novel from the No. 1 bestselling Penny Vincenzi. The Original and The Best. Num Pages: 768 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 52. Weight in Grams: 490.
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780755377596
ISBN
9780755377596
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.88

Paperback. * The wonderful new Isabel Dalhousie novel -- out now in paperback Series: Isabel Dalhousie Novels. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 18. Weight in Grams: 186.
Publisher
Abacus
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349123127
ISBN
9780349123127
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. Nora Roberts - The World's Greatest Storyteller Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 200 x 38. Weight in Grams: 394.
Publisher
Piatkus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780749941567
ISBN
9780749941567
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.30

Paperback. .
Publisher
Poolbeg Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781998618
ISBN
9781781998618
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 7.63

Paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 110 x 246 x 30. Weight in Grams: 186.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780345483959
ISBN
9780345483959
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 9.08

Paperback. Purposefully imitating Voltaire's classic Candide, another dark comedy which derives its humour from life's tragedies, Habiby's The Secret of Saeed the Pessoptimist is a classic of Arab literature. The story of Saeed, a Palestinian who becomes a citizen of Israel, is a story of fact and fantasy, tragedy and comedy. Translator(s): Jayyusi, Salma; Gassick, Trevor Le. Num Pages: 234 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 128 x 15. Weight in Grams: 190.
Publisher
Arabia Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
234
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906697266
ISBN
9781906697266
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.66

Paperback. Ellie Woods spends her days immersed in the escapist pages of the romantic novels she lovingly edits. But her reality is somewhat less rose-tinted. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 22. Weight in Grams: 274. Clean copy with some reader wear.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Cornerstone
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
SKU
KTM0000694
ISBN
9780099525226
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. A stunning high-concept post-apocalyptic debut novel in the vein of The Passage by Justin Cronin and Wool by Hugh Howey. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 199 x 35. Weight in Grams: 314.
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782398929
ISBN
9781782398929
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.95

Paperback. From the lauded, bestselling author of The Cazalet Chronicles. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 197 x 29. Weight in Grams: 306.
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
New Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781447272250
ISBN
9781447272250
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.00

Paperback. Liam Pennywell has spent most of his life dodging issues and skirting adventure when suddenly, in his sixty-first year, something happens that jolts him out of his certainty and leaves him with a frightening gap in his memory. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 134 x 19. Weight in Grams: 210.
Edition
Reprint
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099539582
ISBN
9780099539582
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.01

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