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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

paperback. The short stories in this collection take the reader from small-town Wisconsin to the bustling streets of New York and Chicago and back again. It explores the role of women (especially strong or unconventional women) in modern society, the mores of the midwestern small town, and the changes over time in relationships between parents and children. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 24. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252071294
ISBN
9780252071294
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.67

paperback. Tells a wickedly funny yet poignant tale that reveals how the imagination finds meaning in the most bewildering times, the ways people of all ages strive for connection, and how the darkest of secrets can set us free. Num Pages: 528 pages, 10. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 29. Weight in Grams: 370.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
SKU
9780141024325
ISBN
9780141024325
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.53

paperback. Three-year-old Dillon vanished in the middle of the night. His father Harry can't forgive himself for not protecting his only child. Yet Harry isn't blamed by his wife Robin: she bares her own secret guilt. Five years later, thousands of miles away, Harry spots an eight-year-old boy in a crowd - a boy he is convinced is Dillon. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 270.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
SKU
9781405914048
ISBN
9781405914048
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.45

Paperback. I don't know how to tell you what I did. Would you read a letter never meant to be opened? Would you want to know secrets never meant to be told? Or should a woman's mistakes stay buried? Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 136 x 30. Weight in Grams: 310. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Mira Books
Edition
First edition
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KTG0003171
ISBN
9780778304661
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 11.99
€ 8.99

Paperback. THE BEST OF TIMES is the unputdownable new megaseller from No. 1 bestselling Penny Vincenzi Num Pages: 896 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 60. Weight in Grams: 600.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Headline Review
Condition
New
SKU
V9780755320899
ISBN
9780755320899
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.61

paperback. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FM; YFB; YFH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 216 x 138. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Condition
New
SKU
9781408869178
ISBN
9781408869178
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 31.22

paperback. From his prison cell, Jasper Dean tells the story of his scheming father Martin, his crazy Uncle Terry and how the three of them upset - mostly unintentionally - an entire continent. Num Pages: 720 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 494.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Penguin
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
9780141031828
ISBN
9780141031828
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.91

paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 134 x 22. Weight in Grams: 282.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
9780345487674
ISBN
9780345487674
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 15.29

Paperback. A major novel from the internationally bestselling author of 'The Joy Luck Club', 'The Kitchen God's Wife' and 'The Hundred Secret Senses'. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 266.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780006550433
ISBN
9780006550433
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

paperback. An Italian poolside, Summer, 1970. Sex is very much on everyone's mind. The girls are acting like boys and the boys are going on acting like boys. Keith Nearing - a bookish twenty year old, in that much disputed territory between five foot six and five foot seven - is struggling to twist feminism towards his own ends. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 31. Weight in Grams: 334.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Vintage
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
9780099488736
ISBN
9780099488736
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.14

Paperback. A sweeping story of upstairs, downstairs, love and loss by the author of Mr Rosenblum's List. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 26. Weight in Grams: 274.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780340995693
ISBN
9780340995693
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.12

paperback. Britain's former prime minister is holed up in a remote, ocean-front house in America, struggling to finish his memoirs, when his long-term assistant drowns. A professional ghostwriter is sent out to rescue the project - a man more used to working with fading rock stars and minor celebrities than ex-world leaders. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 133 x 28. Weight in Grams: 290.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Arrow
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099527497
ISBN
9780099527497
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

paperback. The prize-winning, bestselling debut novel from Anne Michaels, reissued with a striking new cover Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 234.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
9780747599258
ISBN
9780747599258
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.14

paperback. Ibuki loves widow Yasuko who is young, charming and sparkling with intelligence as well as beauty. His friend, Mikame, desires her too but that is not the difficulty. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2019
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780099589440
ISBN
9780099589440
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 9.80

paperback. Orphaned at an early age, raised by his aunt and uncle, and apprenticed for seven years to a draper, Artie Kipps is stunned to discover upon reading a newspaper advertisement that he is the grandson of a wealthy gentleman and the inheritor of his fortune. Editor(s): James, Simon. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 298.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Edition
New
Condition
New
SKU
9780141441108
ISBN
9780141441108
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 9.99

mass_market. In the early eighteenth century, Susan Barton finds herself adrift from a mutinous ship and cast ashore on a remote desert island. There she finds shelter with its only other inhabitants: a man named Cruso and his tongueless slave, Friday. In time, she builds a life for herself as Cruso's companion and, eventually, his lover. Series: Penguin Essentials. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 112 x 180 x 11. Weight in Grams: 94.
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Penguin
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
9780241973691
ISBN
9780241973691
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 9.80

paperback. * The highly anticipated new novel by the author of the international bestseller THE HISTORIAN. Num Pages: 624 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 41. Weight in Grams: 452.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Sphere
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
9780751541427
ISBN
9780751541427
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 11.93

paperback. Peace and violence, faith and mistrust, thriller and literary fiction - this is a supreme story of a young man caught between two worlds. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: AVGJ; FA; HBWS5; HR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 230 x 22. Weight in Grams: 338.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Little Island
Condition
New
SKU
9781910411315
ISBN
9781910411315
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 9.99

paperback. *A poignant and humorous tale of love between an older woman and a younger man Series: VMC. Num Pages: 416 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 128 x 26. Weight in Grams: 484.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Virago United Kingdom
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844082780
ISBN
9781844082780
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.88

paperback. From the prison cell where Chloe Smith, 43, is awaiting trial for the merciful murder of the only man who ever loved her with honesty, she recalls the men in her life who lied to her. She remembers her adored father, who drank too much, the loss of her virginity at Stonehenge to a schoolboy, all these men, and many others, have let Chloe down. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 132 x 30. Weight in Grams: 216.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Arrow United Kingdom
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099550242
ISBN
9780099550242
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 16.85

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