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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
paperback. A powerful and perceptive coming-of-age story, in the tradition of The Catcher in the Rye, from a talented young filmmaker, screenwriter and novelist. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 131 x 15. Weight in Grams: 168. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster UK
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMK0018547
- ISBN
- 9781471100482
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
paperback. Aaron Greidinger is an aspiring young writer and the son of a rabbi, who struggles to be true to his art when he is faced with the chance of riches and a passport to America. But as the Nazis threaten to invade Poland, Aaron rediscovers Shosha, his childhood sweetheart who has been waiting for him all these years. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 194 x 16. Weight in Grams: 202.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics London
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- SKU
- KMK0026156
- ISBN
- 9780141197630
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 5.12
€ 5.12
hardcover. Features a book of stories, drawings and poems that was first published in 1964 to great critical acclaim and became a phenomenon, selling over 600,000 copies in the UK alone and revealing a hitherto unseen side to author's artistic output and talent. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 183 x 138 x 10. Weight in Grams: 168.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781782115403
- ISBN
- 9781782115403
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.54
€ 14.99
€ 11.54
Paperback. 'Reading Pauline McLynn's ambitious new novel is like watching the pieces of a puzzle slot together with a series of satisfying clicks. The Time is Now is a fascinating shift for McLynn, who has developed a lot as a writer since her amiable debut.. This compelling, intelligent and moving novel bodes well for the future' Irish Times Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 23. Weight in Grams: 258 402pp
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Headline Publishing Group
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780755343430
- ISBN
- 9780755343430
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.58
€ 11.99
€ 9.58
paperback. An Irish Times bestseller, Bright Lights and Promises is a mesmerising novel that deals with family relationships in touching detail. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 24. Weight in Grams: 261.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Headline Review
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780755326389
- ISBN
- 9780755326389
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 9.58
€ 12.99
€ 9.58
paperback. Moving away from crime fiction, Pauline McLynn has crafted a mesmerising novel about human relationships. 'This is Pauline McLynn's fourth novel, and the author is going from strength to strength with every outing. Fizzing with vividly sketched characters, The Woman on the Bus is a skilfully written story' Sunday Tribune Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 27. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Headline Review
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780747267829
- ISBN
- 9780747267829
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 9.58
€ 12.99
€ 9.58
paperback. Pauline McLynn, who shot to fame playing Mrs Doyle in Father Ted, introduces us to an irresistible female private investigator, Leo Street, in her first crime caper. 'A breezy, humorous debut..fast-moving, entertaining' Sunday Tribune Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 112 x 25. Weight in Grams: 214.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Headline
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780747263975
- ISBN
- 9780747263975
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 9.58
€ 12.99
€ 9.58
paperback. Competition is stiff for the position of sub-librarian in Aberdarcy Library. For John Lewis, the situation is complicated by the attentions of daunting and desirable village socialite, Elizabeth Gruffyd-Williams, who is married to a member of the local Council. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 134 x 16. Weight in Grams: 192.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141194288
- ISBN
- 9780141194288
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 10.34
€ 16.99
€ 10.34
Paperback. It is July 1962. Edward and Florence, young innocents married that morning, arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in their rooms they struggle to suppress their private fears of the wedding night to come and, unbeknownst to them both, the events of the evening will haunt them for the rest of their lives. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 170.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099512790
- ISBN
- 9780099512790
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.04
€ 13.99
€ 11.04
paperback. Three people are frozen in a conspiracy of silence that prevents love's consummation; a nine-year-old dreams that a movie part heals her fragmented family life; a brother and sister forge a new life amid terrible beauty of Ireland after Rebellion; and in title story, a man chooses between his longtime love and a life of solitude on family farm. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 18. Weight in Grams: 178. Good clean copy. Covers showing light shelf wear. Lightly toned, text is crisp and clear and remains a very good copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0031526
- ISBN
- 9780140294699
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 18.00
€ 18.00
paperback. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2004, a remarkable novel about Henry James, the American-born novelist and a connoisseur of exile. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 266. Signed on title page. Good clean copy. Covers sunned to spine, showing light shelf wear. Lightly toned text is crisp and clear and remains a very good copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Picador
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0031524
- ISBN
- 9780330485661
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 20.00
€ 20.00
paperback. Series: Modern Irish Classics. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 132 x 15. Weight in Grams: 208. Good clean copy. Covers showing a little shelf wear. Internally, crisp and clean and remains a very good copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- New Island Books
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0031500
- ISBN
- 9781848400832
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 12.00
€ 12.00
paperback. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages, forms transparencies. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 220. Good copy showing light age and wear. Ex Libris stamp to title page
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics U.K.
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KMK0025988
- ISBN
- 9780140186802
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 5.12
€ 5.12
paperback. From one of the world's best loved storytellers, the trilogy that began with City of the Beasts comes to a thrilling climax. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 240. Good copy showing light age and wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- HarperPerennial London
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KMK0025980
- ISBN
- 9780007199648
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 5.12
€ 5.12
paperback. An exceptionally powerful novel exploring the themes of betrayal, guilt and memory against the background of the Holocaust. An international bestseller. Translator(s): Janeway, Carol Brown. Num Pages: 240 pages, 32 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 134 x 19. Weight in Grams: 230. Very good copy showing minor age and wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Weidenfeld & Nicholson London
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMK0025843
- ISBN
- 9780753804704
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
paperback. An exceptionally powerful novel exploring the themes of betrayal, guilt and memory against the background of the Holocaust. An international bestseller. Translator(s): Janeway, Carol Brown. Num Pages: 240 pages, 32 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 134 x 19. Weight in Grams: 230. Very good copy showing minor age and wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Weidenfeld & Nicholson London
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMK0025709
- ISBN
- 9780753804704
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
paperback. Andrew Miller's extraordinarily acclaimed and prizewinning debut, featuring an 18th-century surgeon who is unable to feel pain Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 224. Very good copy showing minor age and wear. Slight scuffing to cover
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Sceptre London
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMK0025698
- ISBN
- 9780340682081
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.12
€ 5.12
paperback. A collection that outlines the author's early preoccupation with issues of mental illness, creativity and femininity, all of which would become recurrent themes in her later work. It contains the thirteen stories together with five pieces of her journalism, as well as a further nine stories selected from the Indiana archive. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; DQ; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 284. From the library of June Levine. Ownership details to ffep. Very good copy showing minor age and wear. Sunning to spine
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1979
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber London
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMK0025686
- ISBN
- 9780571049899
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.12
€ 5.12
paperback. Vishnu, the odd-job man in a Bombay apartment block, lies dying on the staircase landing. Around him the lives of the apartment dwellers unfold - the warring housewives on the first floor, and the widower, alone and quietly grieving at the top of the building. Vishnu looks back on his affair with the seductive Padmini and comedy becomes tragedy. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 25. Weight in Grams: 248. Very good copy showing minor age and wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Paperbacks London
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMK0025671
- ISBN
- 9780747593812
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.12
€ 5.12
paperback. On Valentine's Day, 1989, Vina Apsara, a famous and much-loved singer, disappears in a devastating earthquake. Her lover, the singer Ormus Cama, cannot accept that he has lost her, and so begins his eternal quest to find her and bring her back. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 38. Weight in Grams: 472. Good clean copy showing light age and wear. Very slight soiling to exterior page edges. Interior is very clean
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Vintage London
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KMK0025650
- ISBN
- 9780099766018
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 5.12
€ 5.12
paperback. Num Pages: 61 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 197 x 6. Weight in Grams: 90. Very good clean copy showing minor age and shelfwear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- Attic Press Dublin
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMK0025624
- ISBN
- 9780946211272
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.12
€ 5.12
paperback. Ten witty and enchanting animal fables in verse which, like a modern Aesop's Fables, can be enjoyed by young and old alike Num Pages: 144 pages, 35. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 142. Very good copy with minor wear and age
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Orion Books London
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMK0025554
- ISBN
- 9780753807743
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.12
€ 5.12
paperback. * Spare and deft, The Life and Death of Harriett Frean is the quintessential modernist novel * Sinclair's work is hugely important in terms of the development of the novel and the representation of women's lives Series: VMC. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 13. Weight in Grams: 130. Very good clean copy showing light age and wear. Light foxing to interiors of cover
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Virago London
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMK0025530
- ISBN
- 9780860681069
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.12
€ 5.12
paperback. The major and stunning new novel about wartime espionage from bestselling author William Boyd Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 21. Weight in Grams: 232. Good clean copy showing light age and wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC London
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KMK0025462
- ISBN
- 9780747586203
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 5.12
€ 5.12