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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

paperback. A story of the twentieth century told through the various lives of one woman: an intoxicating masterpiece of a novel that kneads Time and History like dough Translator(s): Bernofsky, Susan. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 199 x 18. Weight in Grams: 190.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Granta Books
Condition
New
SKU
9781846275159
ISBN
9781846275159
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.75

hardcover. Illustrator(s): Kay, Jim. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FM; YFB; YFH. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 321 x 271. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
9781408884768
ISBN
9781408884768
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 249.99
€ 169.99

paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 134 x 22. Weight in Grams: 282.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
9780345487674
ISBN
9780345487674
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 15.29

paperback. From his prison cell, Jasper Dean tells the story of his scheming father Martin, his crazy Uncle Terry and how the three of them upset - mostly unintentionally - an entire continent. Num Pages: 720 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 494.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Penguin
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
9780141031828
ISBN
9780141031828
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.91

paperback. Written by Ryunosuke Akutagawa - one of Japan's foremost stylists and a modernist master whose short stories are marked by imagery, cynicism, beauty, and wild humour. His other works include: "Rashomon"; "In a Bamboo Grove"; "The Nose"; "O-Gin"; "Loyalty"; "Death Register"; "The Life of a Stupid Man"; and "Spinning Gears". Translator(s): Rubin, Jay. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 236.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Edition
Translation
Condition
New
SKU
9780140449709
ISBN
9780140449709
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 10.45

paperback. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FM; YFB; YFH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 216 x 138. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Condition
New
SKU
9781408869178
ISBN
9781408869178
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 31.22

Paperback. Tells about David's path through the Christian Brothers' regime, from Juniorate through to the Leaving Cert year to Teacher Training, and from there to work on the mission. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 144 x 15. Weight in Grams: 160.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845887391
ISBN
9781845887391
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 13.21

Paperback. THE BEST OF TIMES is the unputdownable new megaseller from No. 1 bestselling Penny Vincenzi Num Pages: 896 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 60. Weight in Grams: 600.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Headline Review
Condition
New
SKU
V9780755320899
ISBN
9780755320899
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.88

Paperback. I don't know how to tell you what I did. Would you read a letter never meant to be opened? Would you want to know secrets never meant to be told? Or should a woman's mistakes stay buried? Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 136 x 30. Weight in Grams: 310. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Mira Books
Edition
First edition
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KTG0003171
ISBN
9780778304661
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 11.99
€ 8.99

paperback. Three-year-old Dillon vanished in the middle of the night. His father Harry can't forgive himself for not protecting his only child. Yet Harry isn't blamed by his wife Robin: she bares her own secret guilt. Five years later, thousands of miles away, Harry spots an eight-year-old boy in a crowd - a boy he is convinced is Dillon. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 270.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
SKU
9781405914048
ISBN
9781405914048
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.14

paperback. Tells a wickedly funny yet poignant tale that reveals how the imagination finds meaning in the most bewildering times, the ways people of all ages strive for connection, and how the darkest of secrets can set us free. Num Pages: 528 pages, 10. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 29. Weight in Grams: 370.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
SKU
9780141024325
ISBN
9780141024325
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.53

paperback. The short stories in this collection take the reader from small-town Wisconsin to the bustling streets of New York and Chicago and back again. It explores the role of women (especially strong or unconventional women) in modern society, the mores of the midwestern small town, and the changes over time in relationships between parents and children. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 24. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252071294
ISBN
9780252071294
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.33

paperback. Presents a personal chronicle of Fanny, a young girl growing up Jewish in a small midwestern town. This novel charts Fanny's emotional growth through her relationship with her mother, the shrewd, sympathetic Molly Brandeis. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; DSB; FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 25. Weight in Grams: 377.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780252069468
ISBN
9780252069468
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.22

paperback. Series: The Radical Novel Reconsidered. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 24. Weight in Grams: 350.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780252066849
ISBN
9780252066849
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.52

paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 198 x 16. Weight in Grams: 176.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Granta Books
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
9781846275975
ISBN
9781846275975
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 10.45

paperback. Somewhere on a rocky patch of the sun-drenched Italian coastline a young innkeeper, chest-deep in daydreams, looks out over the incandescent waters of the Ligurian Sea and views an apparition: a beautiful woman, a vision in white, approaching him on a boat. She is an American starlet, he soon learns, and she is dying. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 197 x 33. Weight in Grams: 258.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Penguin
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
9780670922659
ISBN
9780670922659
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 10.45

paperback. Features short stories that are spread over landscapes ranging from northern California and the urban Southwest to the hills of eastern Kentucky and the Caribbean island of St Lucia. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 128 x 20. Weight in Grams: 208.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
9780571179572
ISBN
9780571179572
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 10.45

paperback. Written in agony, this book features elegiac meditation on the creation of life, and of art. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 12. Weight in Grams: 150.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Edition
Standard Edition
Condition
New
SKU
9780141197371
ISBN
9780141197371
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 10.45

Paperback. Sometimes, a second chance can come out of nowhere.. Martin's rejection by Gabrielle has haunted him all his life. He's now a Parisian cop on the cusp of making a career-defining arrest. Archibald Maclean, the legendary art thief, is in his sights. But things are about to change. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 27. Weight in Grams: 336.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Gallic Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906040345
ISBN
9781906040345
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.20

hardcover. This selection of stories by Katherine Mansfield has been chosen by Claire Tomalin and emphasize the stronger, feminist side of her writing rather than the popular, more sentimental view. The 21 stories are presented in chronological order and include "Prelude", "The Garden Party" and "At the Bay". Num Pages: 268 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABU; FA; FYB; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 210 x 25. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Everyman
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
9781857150483
ISBN
9781857150483
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.14

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