Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. When Audrey makes a devastating discovery about her husband, New York radial lawyer Joel Litvinoff, she is forced to re-examine everything she thought she knew about their forty-year marriage. Joel's children will soon have to come to terms with this unsettling secret themselves, but for meantime, they are trying tot cope with their own dilemmas. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 21. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Edition
- 1st Penguin Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141024677
- ISBN
- 9780141024677
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.00€ 16.65
€ 19.00
€ 16.65
Paperback. Short stories of hardscrabble lives in the Carolina foothills, sharing anew the early fiction from an acclaimed storyteller Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 227.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of South Carolina Press
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611175141
- ISBN
- 9781611175141
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 19.99
€ 21.99
€ 19.99
Paperback. This work presents Juan Rulfo's cinematic second novel in English for the first time ever alongside several stories never before translated. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: FA. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Deep Vellum Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781941920589
- ISBN
- 9781941920589
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.43
€ 18.99
€ 17.43
Paperback. From one of this generation's most talked about young writers comes a novel about failed relationships, drug-induced depression, marriage, and death Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 180.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781782111856
- ISBN
- 9781782111856
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.38
€ 10.99
€ 10.38
Paperback. A collection of stories by a young American writer. They are centred around the Orthodox Jewish community and span the Jewish experience from the Holocaust and Stalin's Russia to modern-day New York and Jerusalem. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 19. Weight in Grams: 252. Used paperback in very good condition. May have some light shelfwear.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KRF2232015
- ISBN
- 9780571201310
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 10.99€ 4.99
€ 10.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. For twins Olivia and Victoria, their bond was mysterious, marvellous, and often playful - a secret realm only they inhabited. Shy, serious Olivia, born eleven minutes before her sister, had taken over the role of mother in their lush New York estate. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 108 x 35. Weight in Grams: 274. Clean copy with some wear to cover, spine and page edges. Remains a good reading copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Corgi
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KMK0002262
- ISBN
- 9780552141345
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. An enchanting love story and a portrayal of innocence brutally curtailed Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 121 x 14. Weight in Grams: 156.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780340494806
- ISBN
- 9780340494806
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.74
€ 15.99
€ 11.74
Paperback. From the author of Fierce People comes a blistering, haunting, aching novel about what you do when the unthinkable happens - and when the memory of it refuses to be left behind Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 272. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KCW0001591
- ISBN
- 9781408800744
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. We were not the first to live here. Two teenagers living in medieval Ireland, one a descendant of a race that shares their planet, discover a truth that was only told in fairy tales or myths. Why must the lighthouse fire never be extinguished? Who is Cailleach? Where is Tir na Leasa? What do the invaders want?" Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 228 x 21. Weight in Grams: 384. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- New Generation Publishing
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KCW0001717
- ISBN
- 9781906558291
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
hardcover. SUNDAY TIMES bestseller Cathy Kelly returns with a funny, emotional, heart-warming new novel. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 237 x 34. Weight in Grams: 662. Clean copy with minor shelf wear. Lacking dust jacket
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Orion
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KOG0002330
- ISBN
- 9781409153597
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 5.44
€ 5.44
Paperback. The paperback edition of Joan London's celebrated first novel: 'Readers will finish it feeling that they are holding something rare and precious' (Daily Mail) Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 310. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KCW0001785
- ISBN
- 9781843541837
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Set in the Malay Archipelago, this novel not only provides a gripping account of maritime adventure and romance, but also an exotic tale of the East. It explores the dilemmas of conscience, of moral isolation, of loyalty and betrayal confronting a sensitive individual whose romantic quest for an honourable ideal are tested to the limit. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 125 x 17. Weight in Grams: 202. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KCW0001805
- ISBN
- 9781853260377
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. From the bestselling author of Snow Falling on Cedars, a dazzling, darkly funny, compulsively readable retelling of Sophocles's Oedipus Rex that takes us from the 1962 Seattle World's Fair to the twenty-first century headquarters of an Internet search giant. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 218. Good copy with some shelf wear. Minor foxing appears, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KCW0001812
- ISBN
- 9781408821992
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Faith Madison is the very picture of a sophisticated New Yorker. Slim, blonde, stylish, married to a successful merchant banker and having raised two daughters, Faith has a life many would envy. But Faith has overcome a childhood marred by tragedy, and has carried within herself a secret she could divulge to no-one. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 104 x 27. Weight in Grams: 216. Paperback in very good condition, with some light shelfwear.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Corgi
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KRF2232431
- ISBN
- 9780552148542
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Nathalie and David have been good and dutiful children to their parents. They were both adopted and now Nathalie discovers a need to trace her birth parents and insists that David makes the same journey. And through this, both learn one of the hardest lessons of all. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 278.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780552771733
- ISBN
- 9780552771733
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 10.38
€ 12.99
€ 10.38
Paperback. * A novel that is as beautiful and as dangerous as the Oleander * Chosen by Oprah Winfrey for her bookclub * Over a million copies in print Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 126 x 31. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Virago
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781860498046
- ISBN
- 9781860498046
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.74
€ 15.99
€ 11.74
Paperback. A stunning new novel from the author of The Promise of Happiness Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 165 x 19. Weight in Grams: 238. Fine clean copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KTJ0020491
- ISBN
- 9780747585947
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. This collection of short stories depicts human relationships, encounters, landscapes and the multitude of details that make up human life. Translator(s): Heim, Michael Henry. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 18. Weight in Grams: 249.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810115149
- ISBN
- 9780810115149
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.82
€ 29.82
Leather / fine binding.
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Canterbury Classics United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 724
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781607103141
- ISBN
- 9781607103141
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.58
€ 28.58
Paperback. The new bestselling novel, now in paperback, from international literary phenomenon Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist. Translator(s): Jull Costa, Margaret. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 21. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007166046
- ISBN
- 9780007166046
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.58
€ 13.99
€ 10.58