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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Jen has discovered a secret. It's not hers to share, but is it hers to keep? If she tells her husband Jason, he might get over the shock but will he forgive her for telling the truth? She might drive a wedge through their marriage. If she tells someone else in Jason's family - the family she's come to love more than her own. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 29. Weight in Grams: 318.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141047263
ISBN
9780141047263
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.10

Paperback. Nine stories make up Haslett's first collection. They are set in Los Angeles, the Midwest, New England and England, but each summons its own distinctive world. The characters include a widower, a young couple, middle-aged siblings and an orphaned boy who finds solace in a classmate's violence. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 194.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099443643
ISBN
9780099443643
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 16.91

Paperback. By the time Grace is eighteen, she has been orphaned, moved countries and lost touch with her only brother. Talented, awkward and a little fierce, she can't help thinking that she's managed to lose anything she's ever loved. So she decides to revisit her past in America, and she's brought her camera - she's going to catch these memories. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 258. Clean copy.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
New
SKU
KEX0216169
ISBN
9780747568100
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. A spellbinding debut: heartwarming and heartbreaking in equal measure, this is a story of love, loss and the lengths that people go to when driven by grief and by hope. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 122 x 19. Weight in Grams: 206. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
Reprint
SKU
KAK0002718
ISBN
9780340827932
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. A spellbinding debut: heartwarming and heartbreaking in equal measure, this is a story of love, loss and the lengths that people go to when driven by grief and by hope. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 122 x 19. Weight in Grams: 206. Good clean copy with shelf wear and yellowing
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
Reprint
SKU
KOC0015840
ISBN
9780340827932
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. It's Manchester, July 1996, the month after the IRA bomb, and the Evening News is carrying reports of two murders. On the front page is a glamorous Egyptian woman, a socialite and heiress to an oil fortune, whose partially clothed body has been found in a basement. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 199 x 27. Weight in Grams: 223.
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
KTG0007685
ISBN
9780099554066
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. On a crisp winter morning just before the start of deer season, Ethan and his three-year-old son Nate set off together to discover the beauties of the forest. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 225. Clean copy
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Vintage Publishing London
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
SKU
KEX0245749
ISBN
9780099474739
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Hardback. From the Pulitzer and Story Prize winner: sixteen new stories - provocative, funny, disturbing, magical - that delve into the secret lives and desires of ordinary people, alongside retellings of myths and legends that highlight the aspirations of the human spirit. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 243 x 29. Weight in Grams: 534.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472114303
ISBN
9781472114303
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 19.09

Paperback. The second novel from an LA Times First Fiction Prize finalist, Dept. of Speculation is an annihilating, electrifying account of marriage and motherhood, love and madness Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 142.
Publisher
Granta Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847088741
ISBN
9781847088741
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.81

Paperback. Joe Spork, son of the infamous criminal Mathew 'Tommy Gun' Spork just wants a quiet life, repairing clockwork in a wet, unknown bit of London. Edie Banister, former superspy, lives quietly and wishes she didn't. She's nearly ninety and the things she fought to save don't seem to exist anymore. She's beginning to wonder if they ever did. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 46. Weight in Grams: 432.
Publisher
Cornerstone
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099538097
ISBN
9780099538097
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.61

Paperback. Leads us on a kind of psychic Grand Tour, in which a latter-day Candide named Hippolyte's violently imaginative dream life becomes indistinguishable from his surprising experiences in the 'real world'. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 145 x 17. Weight in Grams: 216.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141190099
ISBN
9780141190099
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.71

Paperback. The stunning new novel from the number 1 bestselling Irish author Num Pages: 400 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 25. Weight in Grams: 278.
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
9781849838931
ISBN
9781849838931
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. The stunning new novel from the number 1 bestselling Irish author Num Pages: 400 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 25. Weight in Grams: 278. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
SKU
KTG0001516
ISBN
9781849838931
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Clean copy.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Orion London
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
SKU
KEX0211041
ISBN
9780752893884
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. When a seaside escape spells a little romance .. A warm, heartwarming novel to make your heart soar from the author of The Cosy Teashop in the Castle. Num Pages: 306 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. Weight in Grams: 270.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780008236274
ISBN
9780008236274
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 10.03

Paperback. .
Publisher
The New York Review of Books, Inc United States
Number of pages
360
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
New ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780940322233
ISBN
9780940322233
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.35

Paperback. Two short novels, published initially in the 1930s. "Musashi" deals with the dark obsessions of a 16th-century warlord. "Arrowroot" also touches on the pursuit of legend, but in a different mode, that of the uniquely Japanese form of the "essay" novel. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 135 x 13. Weight in Grams: 144.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099283171
ISBN
9780099283171
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.10

Paperback. Num Pages: 276 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 249.
Publisher
Vintage Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Edition
1st Vintage International Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780679762645
ISBN
9780679762645
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 15.19

Paperback. A novel about the hundreds of tiny connections between the public and private worlds and how they affect us. It is about: the legacy of war and the end of innocence; how comedy and politics are battling it out and comedy might have won; and living in a city where bankers need cinemas in their basements and others need food banks down the street. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 26. Weight in Grams: 258.
Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241967010
ISBN
9780241967010
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Paperback. Four friends get together to watch the 1998 World Cup final. One of them has an idea: let's write down our wishes for the next few years, put them away, and during the next final, we'll get them out and see how many we've achieved. The four men's bond is deep, but tested by betrayal, death, and distance their alliance comes under pressure. Translator(s): Silverston, Sondra. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 137 x 29. Weight in Grams: 386.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
First Translated Edition, First Printing
Condition
New
SKU
V9780701184421
ISBN
9780701184421
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 16.91

Paperback. The Hugo and Nebula Award-winning masterpiece from one of the all-time greats of Science Fiction. Series: S.F. Masterworks. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781473221628
ISBN
9781473221628
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.12

Paperback. Meet the Londons, a family in need of a friend. Gerry and Bernie London are proud parents of Tony, Sean and Ned, three wayward lads whose lives have suddenly reached crisis points. The Londons also have a new lodger a mysterious rockabilly called Gervase. Will he turn out to be a friend or foe to the family? Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 121 x 27. Weight in Grams: 302.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140295979
ISBN
9780140295979
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.10

Hardback. .
Publisher
Verso Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784782191
ISBN
9781784782191
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.61

Paperback. A very funny, energetic, wonderfully engaging novel about where we're from and where we'd like to get to.. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 260.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007346721
ISBN
9780007346721
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.73

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