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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Finland, 1809. Henrik and Erik are brothers who fought on opposite sides in the war between Sweden and Russia. With peace declared, they both return to their snowed-in farm. But who is the master? Sexual tensions, old grudges, family secrets: all come to a head in this dark and gripping saga. Editor(s): Jeremiah, Emily. Translator(s): Jeremiah, Fleur. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 196 x 12. Weight in Grams: 174.
Publisher
Peirene Press
Number of pages
112
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780956284068
ISBN
9780956284068
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.28

Paperback. A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee. He plans to focus on a period in the seventies when, the biographer senses, Coetzee was 'finding his feet as a writer'. He embarks on a series of interviews with people who were important to Coetzee - a married woman with whom he had an affair. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 133 x 18. Weight in Grams: 192.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099540540
ISBN
9780099540540
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.64

Paperback. Lilly and Ceily Carney are only seven and twelve when their mother is cruelly taken from them, leaving them at the mercy of the Church and the authorities. This is a terrifying prospect in 1950s Dublin, where it is likely that the girls will end up in one of Ireland's notorious Magdalen laundries - a fate they are determined to escape. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 127 x 24. Weight in Grams: 226.
Publisher
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848272101
ISBN
9781848272101
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.65

Paperback. A sweeping, compelling story which brings to life the Iranian Revolution, from an author who experienced it first-hand Translator(s): Massotty, Susan. Num Pages: 448 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 132 x 29. Weight in Grams: 304.
Publisher
Canongate Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847672414
ISBN
9781847672414
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.57

Paperback. The adventure continues: time is in flux, and only Jana, Dora and Kaz can fix it. But can they trust each other? Series: Timebomb Trilogy. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FJH; FL; YFG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 131 x 198 x 26. Weight in Grams: 258.
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444752113
ISBN
9781444752113
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.18

Paperback. The stunning first novel in the V.I. Warshawski series, introducing one of the world's best-loved private investigators. Series: V.I. Warshawski. Num Pages: 304 pages, n/a. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 111 x 21. Weight in Grams: 176.
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780340935125
ISBN
9780340935125
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.89

Paperback. *Exquisite, luminous prose from one of the twentieth century's greatest novelists Series: VMC. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 216.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
Translation
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844083169
ISBN
9781844083169
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.97

Paperback. The incredible new novel from internationally bestselling author of The Alchemist. After lying undiscovered for over 700 years, a manuscript holding the answers to a city's final questions is unearthed from a cave in Cairo. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 176.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007520619
ISBN
9780007520619
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.58

Paperback. Discover the original novels behind ITV's Midsomer Murders, featuring favourite characters Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby and Troy. Includes a brand-new foreword from John Nettles, star of the ITV drama. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 196 x 20. Weight in Grams: 202.
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472243652
ISBN
9781472243652
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.73

Paperback. Juxtaposing reality and fantasy, nightmares and dark laughter, this title presents a collection of largely autobiographical stories based on Herta Muller's childhood in the Romanian countryside. Translator(s): Lug, Sieglinde. Series: European Women Writers. Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 143 x 8. Weight in Grams: 180.
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803282544
ISBN
9780803282544
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.38

Paperback. Whoever said the afterlife would be easy..? The new inhabitants of an old house in deepest darkest Kent are about to discover the previous owner - a certain Mr Noel Coward - never quite left the building.. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 270.
Publisher
Ebury Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780091938857
ISBN
9780091938857
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.63

Paperback. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 33. Weight in Grams: 332.
Publisher
Granta Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781783782154
ISBN
9781783782154
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.88

Paperback. DCI Banks encounters a chilling character from his past in the 17th novel in the series - a number one bestseller. Series: DCI Banks. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 190 x 34. Weight in Grams: 378.
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444791969
ISBN
9781444791969
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.95

Paperback. Set in the post-Snowden era of creeping surveillance of ordinary citizens and everyday life, I Am No One explores how a world without privacy is a world without freedom of expression. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 27. Weight in Grams: 328.
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782397984
ISBN
9781782397984
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.82

Paperback. From the winner of the National Book Award for Fiction, 2012 comes this elegantly crafted novel that explores the strange power that lost children exert on the memories of those they leave behind Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 20. Weight in Grams: 212.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007232093
ISBN
9780007232093
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.32

Paperback. Lamont Williams, recently released from prison and working as a hospital janitor, strikes up an unlikely friendship with a patient, an elderly Jewish Holocaust survivor who starts to tell him of his extraordinary past. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 36. Weight in Grams: 426.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
576
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571236855
ISBN
9780571236855
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.81

Paperback. Reveals the astonishing underground partnership that changed the course of history. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 133 x 25. Weight in Grams: 252.
Publisher
Legend Press Ltd
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906558154
ISBN
9781906558154
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.94

Paperback. Upton Sinclair's story exposed the conditions in the Chicago stockyards at the turn of the nineteenth century and brought into focus the odds against which immigrants and other working people struggled. This book was championed by the then president Theodore Roosevelt, and was a catalyst to the passing of the Pure Food and Meat Inspection act. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 308.
Publisher
Penguin Books
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1985
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140390315
ISBN
9780140390315
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.66

Paperback. Guilt, sacrifice and redemption in a freezing Derbyshire winter in this tense psychological thriller from the acclaimed author of 'Black Dog'. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 114 x 35. Weight in Grams: 356.
Edition
1st Paperback Printing
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007130665
ISBN
9780007130665
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.80

Paperback. Kate Flynn has always been a clever girl, brought up to believe in herself as something special. Now Kate is forty-three and has given up her university career in London to come home and look after her mother at Firenze, their big house by a lake in Cardiff. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 133 x 23. Weight in Grams: 228.
Publisher
Vintage
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099499268
ISBN
9780099499268
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.87

Paperback. Part of the twelve-novel sequence, "A Dance to the Music of Time". Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 16. Weight in Grams: 176.
Publisher
Cornerstone United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099472445
ISBN
9780099472445
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.17

Paperback. Past and present collide in this exquisite new love story from the much-loved Sarra Manning Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780751561180
ISBN
9780751561180
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.41

Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. .
Publisher
Picador
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Main Market Ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780330544696
ISBN
9780330544696
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.33

Paperback. Willa Cather's best known novel; a narrative that recounts a life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 176.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844083725
ISBN
9781844083725
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.87

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