Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Hardcover. Follows the fortunes of Mr Biswas, the outsider who refuses to conform to the customs of his grander in-laws whose house he lives in. Finally finding a house of his own, he triumphs over the smaller minds who would repress him. Num Pages: 564 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 139 x 32. Weight in Grams: 632.
- Publisher
- Everyman United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 564
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Edition
- 56272nd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857152135
- ISBN
- 9781857152135
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.61
€ 23.99
€ 16.61
Paperback. Marcia Willett's wonderful debut novel is a moving and fascinating story of the ups and downs of Navy life Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 114 x 33. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Publisher
- Headline Publishing Group
- Number of pages
- 512
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780747248699
- ISBN
- 9780747248699
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.04
€ 13.99
€ 11.04
Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 405.
- Publisher
- Rare Bird Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781942600534
- ISBN
- 9781942600534
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.01
€ 17.99
€ 17.01
Paperback. Magical realism in Venezuela; this prize-winning fable is a short but epicwork from a major new talent. Translator(s): Boyce, Emily. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 80.
- Publisher
- Gallic Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910477311
- ISBN
- 9781910477311
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 14.21
€ 16.99
€ 14.21
paperback. "In Search of Lost Time" is one of the greatest, most entertaining reading experiences in any language. This book is an English translation of the French original. Editor(s): Prendergast, Christopher. Translator(s): Patterson, Ian. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 26. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classic
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 6 Rev ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141180366
- ISBN
- 9780141180366
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02
Paperback. Decades ago Massachusetts salesman Ellis Hock spent four years in Africa - and the continent has never left him. So when his wife walks out and his business goes belly up, Ellis turns back to the one place in which he briefly found happiness. Yet returning to the village of Malabo shocks him. The school he built is a ruin. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 238.
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241957745
- ISBN
- 9780241957745
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.00€ 16.77
€ 19.00
€ 16.77
Paperback. A heart-rending tale of harship in pre-war Belfast. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 115 x 18. Weight in Grams: 176. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- SKU
- KRA0006821
- ISBN
- 9780751511345
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. When two young couples meet for the first time during the Great Depression, they quickly find they have much in common: Charity Lang and Sally Morgan are both pregnant, while their husbands Sid and Larry both have jobs in the English department at the University of Wisconsin. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 262.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141394954
- ISBN
- 9780141394954
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.00
€ 13.99
€ 11.00
Paperback. An extraordinary story of inheritance, belonging and the stories that bind us to our past, set in modern-day London and 1920s Kashgar Num Pages: 384 pages, map. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 24. Weight in Grams: 264. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- SKU
- KRA0011103
- ISBN
- 9781408830918
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Danielle Steel is a master storyteller and one of the best-known and best-loved writers of women's fiction of all time Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 108 x 26. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780751550658
- ISBN
- 9780751550658
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02
Paperback. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Publisher
- Poolbeg Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781842236277
- ISBN
- 9781842236277
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.42
€ 11.42
Paperback. Maddie Ashman is left devastated when she is forced to give up her baby for adoption. Can a job in a funeral parlour really be the thing that heals her broken heart? Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 113 x 26. Weight in Grams: 210.
- Publisher
- Headline Publishing Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780747261223
- ISBN
- 9780747261223
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.04
€ 13.99
€ 11.04
Paperback. On the side of a mountain, in eighteenth century Japan, sits a man in perfect stillness as the summit erupts, spitting fire and molten rock onto the land around him. The man is Hakuin. He will become the world's most famous teacher of zen. This is not the first time he has seen hell. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 30. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857868541
- ISBN
- 9780857868541
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.48
€ 15.99
€ 11.48
Paperback. The Dowells, a wealthy American couple, have been close friends with the Ashburnhams for years. Edward Ashburnham, a first-rate soldier, seems to be the perfect English gentleman, and Leonora his perfect wife, but beneath the surface their marriage seethes with unhappiness and deception. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 192.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141441849
- ISBN
- 9780141441849
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.22
€ 11.99
€ 10.22
Paperback. A collection of nine stories that provides an idiosyncratic guide to female existence. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 148.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571260850
- ISBN
- 9780571260850
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.69
€ 13.99
€ 10.69
Paperback. Set in the Italian colony of Eritrea during the Second World War, The Good Italian is a love story, a war story, a story of heroism and of ordinary people caught up in extraordinary events. Will appeal to fans of Louis de Berniere's Captain Corelli's Mandolin and the novels of William Boyd. Num Pages: 320 pages, n/a. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 21. Weight in Grams: 220.
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848549173
- ISBN
- 9781848549173
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.04
€ 13.99
€ 11.04
Paperback. Streetwise George and his childlike friend Lennie are drifters, searching for work in the fields and valleys of California. They have nothing except the clothes on their back, and a hope that one day they'll find a place of their own and live the American dream. But do dreams come at a price! Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 183 x 10. Weight in Grams: 98.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141023571
- ISBN
- 9780141023571
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.21
€ 11.99
€ 10.21
Paperback. Marcia Willett's fifth novel is reissued in A format to reflect her growing status as a bestselling author Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 112 x 26. Weight in Grams: 264.
- Publisher
- Headline Publishing Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780747254270
- ISBN
- 9780747254270
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02
Paperback. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 114 x 30. Weight in Grams: 244. Well-read paperback in good condition.Some shelf wear; may have some light soiling.
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Poolbeg Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- Paperback Edition
- SKU
- KRF0030923
- ISBN
- 9781842232743
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 114 x 30. Weight in Grams: 244. Clean copy. Good to very good
- Publisher
- Poolbeg Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- Paperback Edition
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KST0015688
- ISBN
- 9781842232743
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. A fictionalised autobiography of the period between the spring of 1916 and the summer of 1917, in which the story moves from the trenches to the Fourth Army School, to Morlancourt and a raid, and then to the Battle of the Somme. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 2AB; FA; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 198.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber London
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1974
- Edition
- Faber Library - Fab Lib 1
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571064106
- ISBN
- 9780571064106
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.78
€ 13.99
€ 10.78
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 148 x 20. Weight in Grams: 327.
- Publisher
- Old Street Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906964474
- ISBN
- 9781906964474
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.57
€ 17.99
€ 16.57
Paperback. Angel's glamour days are behind her, she's happily married to Cal and hoping to have another baby. But, as ever, drama is just around the corner, when Angel meets her half sister Tiffany for the first time.. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 256. Clean copy with minor shelf wear and yellowing
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- SKU
- KOC0008234
- ISBN
- 9780099564768
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. A child is found standing on the street, with an empty bucket in her hand, and no memory of her name, her family or her past. Elsewhere, a girl grows up surrounded by familiar faces - a wet nurse, a piano teacher, a gardener, a best friend and a distant mother - but soon finds them slipping mysteriously from her life. Translator(s): Bernofsky, Susan. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 176.
- Publisher
- Portobello Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846270581
- ISBN
- 9781846270581
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.74
€ 13.99
€ 10.74