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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

paperback. Jimmy Rabbitte is unemployed and rapidly running out of money. His best friend Bimbo has been made redundant at the company where he has worked for many years. The two old friends are out of luck and out of options. That is, until Bimbo finds a dilapidated 'chipper van' and the pair decide to go into business. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 216.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Vintage Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9780749399900
ISBN
9780749399900
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.94

Paperback. 'One brilliantly compelling page-turner' Closer Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 30. Weight in Grams: 366.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Condition
New
SKU
V9780755335572
ISBN
9780755335572
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.94

Paperback. Heartbreaking and uplifting, Me and You is a story about how hard it is to leave our old selves behind, the tough choices we sometimes have to make and how love and friendship can heal the most damaged of hearts. Num Pages: 424 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 28. Weight in Grams: 326. Good, clean copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0006026
ISBN
9781847562746
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Desperate to safeguard its ally on China's doorstep and stop the arrival of the Kilo-Class subs, America launches itself into a secret war. As the battle over peace, power and money is played out in the icy depths of the world's oceans and the hinterland of Russia's rivers and lakes, it becomes clear that there can only be one victor. Num Pages: 560 pages, 8. BIC Classification: FA; FH; FJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 113 x 36. Weight in Grams: 300.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Arrow
Edition
New Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099269045
ISBN
9780099269045
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.95

Paperback. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 154 x 37. Weight in Grams: 634. Used paperback in very good condition. Some shelf wear.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Hachette Books Ireland
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KRF0038430
ISBN
9780340963494
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

paperback. *'Her work is certainly far too little known in relation to the greatness of her talent. But her masterpiece THE RECTOR'S DAUGHTER, is in print again' SUSAN HILL *A wonderfully moving, harrowing but ultimately uplifting novel of love. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 25. Weight in Grams: 252.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
Virago
Condition
New
SKU
9780860689119
ISBN
9780860689119
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

paperback. Return to Everdene Sands, setting for the THE BEACH HUT, and discover secrets, love, tragedy and dreams. It's going to be a summer to remember.. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 292.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Orion
Condition
New
SKU
9781409146735
ISBN
9781409146735
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.80

paperback. Home isn't always where the heart is.. From the bestselling author of THE BEACH HUT and A NIGHT ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 34. Weight in Grams: 350.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Orion
Condition
New
SKU
9781409146919
ISBN
9781409146919
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.80

paperback. It stirs depths that Cat's Eye did not reach, and grants deeper stronger powers to women's friendship in distress' MARINA WARNER An exceptional novel from the winner of the 2000 Booker Prize Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 125 x 38. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
A Virago Book
Condition
New
SKU
9781853817229
ISBN
9781853817229
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.20

paperback. Narrated by a 15-year-old autistic savant obsessed with Sherlock Holmes, this dazzling novel weaves together an old-fashioned mystery, a contemporary coming-of-age story, and a fascinating excursion into a mind incapable of processing emotions. Num Pages: 288 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 133 x 21. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KAC0004434
ISBN
9780099450252
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.82

paperback. Tells a story spanning all levels of Victorian society. This book centre's on an inheritance - Old Harmon's profitable dust heaps - and its legatees, young John Harmon, presumed drowned when a body is pulled out of the River Thames, and kindly dustman Mr Boffin, to whom the fortune defaults. Editor(s): Poole, Adrian. Num Pages: 928 pages, facsimiles. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 41. Weight in Grams: 622. Good clean copy. Covers showing light shelf wear, remains a very good copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0004519
ISBN
9780140434972
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.12

mass_market. Shy, dreamy, and incurably romantic, Harriet Poole was shattered when her brief affair with Simon Villiers, Oxford's leading playboy undergraduate, ended abruptly, leaving her penniless, alone and pregnant. Still hopelessly in love with Simon, she took baby William and buried herself in deepest Yorkshire as nanny to the children of Cory Erskine.. Num Pages: 288 pages, 1 col. port. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 204.
Publication date
1977
Publisher
Corgi
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KAC0004784
ISBN
9780552152518
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 5.12

Hardcover. Fine in fine original cloth covers. Covers showing some wear including wear to spine and cover edges. Pages showing light soiling. Ownership signature on ffep, in pencil. Binding showing some wear but pages remain tightly bound. Remains a fine copy
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Cornerstone United Kingdom
Number of pages
253
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KAC0004862
ISBN
9780434456147
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 19.99
€ 13.79

paperback. Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy. The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his pleasantly simplified life suddenly turned upside down. As their parallel odysseys unravel, cats converse with people; fish tumble from the sky. Series: Vintage Magic. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 33. Weight in Grams: 354. Clean copy with minor wear otherwise in very good condition
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KGS0000021
ISBN
9780099458326
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 12.99
€ 10.50

Paperback. Good clean copy with some shelf wear. Leather bound
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
House of Stratus United Kingdom
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
199
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KGS0000384
ISBN
9781842329559
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 11.99
€ 4.99

hardcover. Num Pages: 350 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 150 x 25. Weight in Grams: 640. Good clean copy with light wear to dust jacket
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Hesperus Press Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KMO0001695
ISBN
9781843917045
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.70

paperback. With a depiction of a group of Parisians as they flee the Nazi invasion, this book tells about the inhabitants of a small rural community under occupation. Translator(s): Smith, Sandra. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 292. Very good copy showing light age and shelfwear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KMO0001778
ISBN
9780099488781
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 6.28

paperback. After signing up for the US army in the 1850s, barely seventeen, Thomas McNulty and his brother-in-arms, John Cole, fight in the Indian Wars and the Civil War. Having both fled terrible hardships, their days are now vivid and filled with wonder, despite the horrors they both see and are complicit in. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 252. Very good copy showing light age and shelfwear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KMO0001782
ISBN
9780571277049
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.70

hardcover. * A wonderful novel about first love and childhood summers by Elizabeth Taylor. Series: VMC Designer Collection. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 137 x 28. Weight in Grams: 420. Good clothbound copy showing light age and shelfwear. Slight discolouration to front cover. Remains a very nice reading copy with clean text throughout
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Virago
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KMO0001847
ISBN
9781844085293
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.70

paperback. It is 1938 and headstrong eighteen-year-old Mari Carrera leaves a gossipy small town in rural New Zealand aboard the SS Rimutaka. Rather too careless with her reputation, Mari is bound for the bustling anonymity of London - but she is all too willing to be seduced by the temptations of the glittering West End. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 34. Weight in Grams: 394. Good clean copy showing light age and shelfwear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KMO0002143
ISBN
9780241961520
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.15

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