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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 152. Weight in Grams: 587. Used paperback, in very good condition. Some shelf wear.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KRF0037981
ISBN
9781847372611
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. From the number one bestselling author of Tempting Fate and The Accidental Husband comes Jane Green's stunning new novel about a shattered marriage and a devastating betrayal. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 28. Weight in Grams: 288. Good clean copy showing light shelf wear, remains a nice copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0016881
ISBN
9781447258636
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Twelve years ago, Cassie Carter chose the wrong man, and one fateful event drove three sisters apart. Now, hoping to leave her past behind, Cassie has returned to Washington with her daughter. Though her sisters don't live too far away, she doesn't expect to see them. Karen, the oldest, is a busy wife and mother, balancing her career with.. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 273. Good copy with some shelf wear.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Arrow
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KTG0003759
ISBN
9780099595076
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 11.99
€ 9.70

Paperback. Num Pages: 422 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 134 x 27. Weight in Grams: 406.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Gwasg Carreg Gwalch
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845274313
ISBN
9781845274313
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.29

Paperback. Across the ocean, in early sixteenth-century Mexico, the Aztec Empire is under the fatal grip of Hernan Cortes and his Mayan lover. While they scheme and conquer, fight and fuck, their domestic comedy will change the course of history, throwing the world - and Rome's tennis match - into a mind-bending reverie of assassinations, and executions. Translator(s): Wimmer, Natasha. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
9780099598053
ISBN
9780099598053
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.45

Paperback. Born into the oppressive, colonialist society of 1930s Jamaica, white Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway meets a young Englishman who is drawn to her innocent beauty and sensuality. After their marriage, however, disturbing rumours begin to circulate which poison her husband against her. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBH; DSK; FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 148.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780141182858
ISBN
9780141182858
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 8.97

Paperback. A chemist by training, the author became one of the witnesses to twentieth-century atrocity. In these haunting reflections inspired by the elements of the periodic table, he ranges from young love to political savagery; from the inert gas argon - and 'inert' relatives like the uncle who stayed in bed for twenty-two years - to life-giving carbon. Translator(s): Rosenthal, Raymond. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DN; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 172.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780141185149
ISBN
9780141185149
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 10.42

Paperback. This novel looks at life in the dark underside of Edinburgh, the AIDS capital of Europe, through the jaded eyes and harsh vernacular of heroin addict Mark Renton, who is sick of his friends, sick with the city and its deserted docklands, and above all sick with himself. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 252.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Minerva
Condition
New
SKU
9780749336509
ISBN
9780749336509
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.45

Paperback. The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop. Trapped between caring for her alcoholic father and her job as a secretary at the boys' prison, she tempers her dreary days with dreams of escaping to the big city. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 234 x 19. Weight in Grams: 194.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
9781784701468
ISBN
9781784701468
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.33

Hardcover. A story of the Galactic Empire, crumbling after twelve thousand years of rule. Num Pages: 664 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 137 x 36. Weight in Grams: 702.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Everyman
Edition
Later Edition
Condition
New
SKU
9781841593326
ISBN
9781841593326
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 16.34

Paperback. A festive treat from the author of the bestselling I HEART series Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 32. Weight in Grams: 280.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Harper
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007582372
ISBN
9780007582372
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.63

Paperback. All big-hearted Katie Mehan ever wanted was health and happiness for her family and the love of her husband, Pat. But as work at the docks gets scarcer and the political unrest of the 1930s begins to impinge on them, she wonders if even this is too much to ask. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 111 x 34. Weight in Grams: 276.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Arrow
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099280484
ISBN
9780099280484
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.61

Paperback. Fifth in the Blackwood "Royal Marines" series, this title is set in fifties Malaya and Singapore, at the height of the new terrorist attempts to subvert the creation of the new federation. The Royal Marines, the Commandoes, were used in jungle operations at a time when it was said that the post-war promise of a stable Malaya was on a knife-edge. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 111 x 22. Weight in Grams: 186.
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Arrow
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Format
Paperback
SKU
V9780099436294
ISBN
9780099436294
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.65

Paperback. It's not as if Nel hadn't enough on her plate already: organising a farmers' market in the picturesque Paradise Fields and keeping track of her unnervingly beautiful teenage daughter - plus sorting out a houseful of animals - are quite enough to keep her busy. The last thing she needs is another complication in her life.. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 26. Weight in Grams: 296.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Cornerstone
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099446620
ISBN
9780099446620
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.29

Paperback. On the eve of her ninth birthday, Rose Edelstein bites into her mother's homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift: she can taste her mother's emotions in the slice. All at once her cheerful, can-do mother tastes of despair and desperation. Suddenly, and for the rest of her life, food becomes perilous. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 168 x 21. Weight in Grams: 238.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Cornerstone
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099538264
ISBN
9780099538264
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. Andy Larkham, is a recently jilted lover, and resentfully underpaid publishing minion. Arriving late to the funeral of his favourite schoolteacher, he ends up in the wrong chapel with one other mourner, too embarrassed to leave. Pressured to sign the register, little does he realise what effect that signature will have upon his life. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 200.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099540465
ISBN
9780099540465
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.01

Paperback. When retired actor Buffy decides to up sticks from London and move to rural Wales, he has no idea what he is letting himself in for. In possession of a run-down B&B that leans more towards the shabby than the chic and is miles from nowhere, he realises he needs to fill the beds - and fast. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 149 x 25. Weight in Grams: 322.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099578628
ISBN
9780099578628
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. Ari is 19, Greek, gay, unemployed and looking for something to take him away from his aimless existence in suburban Melbourne. Caught between the traditional Greek world of his parents and friends and the alluring destructive world of clubs and drugs, Ari eases his pain the only way he knows how. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 5SG; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 267 x 12. Weight in Grams: 122.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Vintage Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099757719
ISBN
9780099757719
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. From teenage love in an eighties holiday park to flatshares, relationships, career crises and children, Vince and Joy is the unforgettable story of two lives lived separately but forever entwined. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 33. Weight in Grams: 344.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
BCA
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141012186
ISBN
9780141012186
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.88

Paperback. Where has she come from? Why can't she remember who she is - or what happened? She's wearing an old-fashioned dress and her hair has been hacked off. She's obviously been bound by the wrists and ankles. But without knowing her own name or who did this to her, she can't begin to piece together who she is and what led her to this unfamiliar place. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 33. Weight in Grams: 352.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141030500
ISBN
9780141030500
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.23

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