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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. A love story - as beautiful as it is unbearably sad - about two people who choose each other when others have abandoned them. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 21. Weight in Grams: 222.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Quercus
Number of pages
320
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847247643
ISBN
9781847247643
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. From the double Man Booker prize-winning author of 'Wolf Hall', this is a dark fable of lost faith and awakening love amidst the moors. Num Pages: 208 pages, 1 port. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 160.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007172894
ISBN
9780007172894
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.65

Paperback. The duke has just completed a network of tunnels beneath his estate. His health is failing, but his imagination seems to know no bounds. While he spends more time underground and retreats ever deeper into the darker corners of his house, there are some ghosts that demand to be acknowledged and some memories which insist on making themselves known. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 220.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571236299
ISBN
9780571236299
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.73

Paperback. * A coming-of-age novel set in 1930s Europe * Introduction by Elaine Dundy Series: VMC. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 21. Weight in Grams: 220.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844080694
ISBN
9781844080694
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

Paperback. #1 CONTEMPORARY FICTION BESTSELLER As compelling and powerful as Jojo Moyes and Liane Moriarty, PIECES OF YOU is a heart-rending, but ultimately life-affirming novel about a love tested to its limits. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 28. Weight in Grams: 310. #1 CONTEMPORARY FICTION BESTSELLER As compelling and powerful as Jojo Moyes and Liane Moriarty, PIECES OF YOU is a heart-rending, but ultimately life-affirming novel about a love tested to its limits. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 28. Weight in Grams: 310. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Avon
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
SKU
KTG0013108
ISBN
9780007581108
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Razumov aims to overcome the denial of his noble birth by a brilliant career in the tsarist bureaucracy created by Peter the Great. But in pre-revolutionary Russia Peter's legacy is autocracy tempered by assassination, and Razumov is soon caught in a tragic web with Haldin's trustful sister Natalia in spy-haunted Geneva. Editor(s): Donovan, Stephen. Num Pages: 400 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 302.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141441948
ISBN
9780141441948
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.37

Paperback. At home, Paul shares a private world with his sister Elisabeth, a world from which parents are tacitly excluded. Their room is where the Game is played, the Game being their own bizarre version of life. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 112.
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
9780099561378
ISBN
9780099561378
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 5.70

Paperback. Sweeping in scope, both historically and geographically, the author weaves a rich tapestry of characters (real and imagined) in a Kenya poised between colonialism and independence. He intertwines political and personal - rise of Mau Mau in last days of colonialism looms large over a plot centring on two love stories and a deep friendship. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 29. Weight in Grams: 306. 448 pages. Sweeping in scope, both historically and geographically, the author weaves a rich tapestry of characters (real and imagined) in a Kenya poised between colonialism and independence. He intertwines political and personal - rise of Mau Mau in last days of colonialism looms large over a plot centring on two love stories and a deep friendship. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 196 x 129 x 29. Weight: 358.
Publisher
Canongate Books
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841956060
ISBN
9781841956060
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 11.54

Paperback. When Tiro, the confidential secretary of a Roman senator, opens the door to a terrified stranger on a cold November morning, he sets in motion a chain of events which will eventually propel his master into one of the most famous courtroom dramas in history. The stranger is a Sicilian, a victim of the island's corrupt Roman governor, Verres. Series: Cicero Trilogy. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 31. Weight in Grams: 338.
Publisher
Cornerstone
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099527664
ISBN
9780099527664
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. Ranging from the seventeenth century to our current moment, and crossing multiple continents, Counternarratives' stories and novellas draw upon memoirs, newspaper accounts, detective stories, interrogation transcripts, and speculative fiction to create new and strange perspectives on our past and present. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 36. Weight in Grams: 498.
Publisher
Fitzcarraldo Editions
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910695135
ISBN
9781910695135
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.07

Paperback. Life as a single mother is hard. Emma loves her thirteen-month-old son Ritchie, she really does - but sometimes, she dreams about what life would be like without him. But when Ritchie is abducted from the London Underground, Emma's dream becomes a nightmarish reality. So why don't the police seem to believe her? Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127. .
Publisher
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857503749
ISBN
9780857503749
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.43

Paperback. Carole Barber has come to Paris, with its rain-slick slate roofs and winding streets, to work on her novel - and to find herself after a lifetime in the spotlight. But on this cool November evening, as her taxi speeds into a tunnel just past the Louvre, a fiery instant of terror shatters hundreds of lives - and leaves Carole alone, unconscious. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 33. Weight in Grams: 356. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
1st Corgi Edition
Publisher
Corgi
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
SKU
KRA0010718
ISBN
9780552154741
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Book 2: The Agnes Browne Trilogy Continuing the hilarious saga of the ups and downs, minor scrapes and major run-ins of the seven children of Agnes Browne. Full of joy, humour, pathos and Dublinese. With a new introduction by the author, Brendan O'Carroll. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 13. Weight in Grams: 148.
Publisher
O´Brien Press Ltd
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847173232
ISBN
9781847173232
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 10.63

Paperback. Spanning the centuries from the late eighteenth to the late twentieth, this collection opens with a rumbustious tale from the Marquis de Sade, takes in the masters of the nineteenth century, from Stendhal and Balzac to Maupassant, and reaches to Quebec, Africa, and the French Carribbean in the twentieth century. Editor(s): Fallaize, Elizabeth. Series: Oxford Books of Prose & Verse. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 280.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
376
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199583171
ISBN
9780199583171
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.39

Paperback. Translator(s): Balderston, Daniel. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 203 x 29. Weight in Grams: 386.
Publisher
NYRB Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781590177679
ISBN
9781590177679
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 18.96

Paperback. The story of Eva Kershaw - sister of OUR LIZZIE and OUR POLLY Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 113 x 34. Weight in Grams: 334.
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Number of pages
528
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780340821329
ISBN
9780340821329
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.25

Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 149 x 214 x 22. Weight in Grams: 452.
Publisher
NeWest Press Canada
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781897126769
ISBN
9781897126769
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.00
€ 15.86

Paperback. A chance acquaintance brings together the preposterous bourgeois Wilcox family and the clever, cultured and idealistic Schlegel sisters. As clear-eyed Margaret develops a friendship with Mrs Wilcox, the impetuous Helen brings into their midst a young bank clerk named Leonard Bast, who lives at the edge of poverty and ruin. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 258.
Edition
Reprint
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141182131
ISBN
9780141182131
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.80

Paperback. * In her wonderfully witty fifth novel, bestselling author Candace Bushnell tells the stories of five women living in Manhattan's swankiest apartment building Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 31. Weight in Grams: 328. Clean copy in good condition. Some shelf wear.
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Abacus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
SKU
KRF0008990
ISBN
9780349119540
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. * In her wonderfully witty fifth novel, bestselling author Candace Bushnell tells the stories of five women living in Manhattan's swankiest apartment building Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 31. Weight in Grams: 334. Some light shelf wear, else as new
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Abacus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
SKU
KRA0009082
ISBN
9780349119540
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. * In her wonderfully witty fifth novel, bestselling author Candace Bushnell tells the stories of five women living in Manhattan's swankiest apartment building Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 31. Weight in Grams: 328. Clean copy in good to very good condition.
Publisher
Abacus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KLJ0001989
ISBN
9780349119540
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Wife. Mother. Daughter. What happens when it all becomes too much? Series: No Greater Courage. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Head of Zeus United Kingdom
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784970352
ISBN
9781784970352
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.06

Paperback. At the turn of the twentieth century, Nathan Walker comes to New York City to take the most dangerous job in the country: digging the tunnel far beneath the Hudson that will carry trains from Brooklyn to Manhattan. In the bowels of the riverbed, the workers - black, white, Irish and Italian - dig together, the darkness erasing all differences. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 214. 256 pages. At the turn of the twentieth century, Nathan Walker comes to New York City to take the most dangerous job in the country: digging the tunnel far beneath the Hudson that will carry trains from Brooklyn to Manhattan. In the bowels of the riverbed, the workers - black, white, Irish and Italian - dig together, the darkness erasing all differences. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 197 x 130 x 17. Weight: 182.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408805916
ISBN
9781408805916
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.90

Paperback. Anya has been backpacking in the Spice Islands, but her last postcard home arrived months ago. Now her anxious father, Francesco, has gone in search of her. Almost within sight of land, the ferry he's travelling on sinks and Francesco and two other Europeans are washed ashore on the island Anya was heading for. Translator(s): Jamieson, Christopher. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 170.
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
SKU
KLN0016503
ISBN
9780747586012
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 5.49

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