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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. The marriage of Gertrude and Walter Morel has become a battleground. Repelled by her uneducated and violent husband, delicate Gertrude devotes her life to her children, especially to her sons, William and Paul - determined they will not follow their father into working down the coal mines. Editor(s): Baron, Helen; Baron, Carl. Num Pages: 528 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 358.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
528
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141441443
ISBN
9780141441443
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.88

Paperback. Reissue of this highly acclaimed Virago title, a 'finely written, beautiful and tragic novel' - Hermione Lee, FT Series: VMC. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 23. Weight in Grams: 234.
Publisher
Virago
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Edition
paperback / softback
Condition
New
SKU
V9781860491818
ISBN
9781860491818
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.86

Paperback. The Irish bestseller about putting down roots in unfamiliar soil; about falling in love; and about how tradition and tales are born, nurtured and handed from one generation to the next. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 250. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
SKU
KRA0004876
ISBN
9781782398592
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. A novel that is written by Anthony Powell. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 16. Weight in Grams: 186.
Publisher
Cornerstone United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099472483
ISBN
9780099472483
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. Through bustling, hustling city, its slum tenements and sumptuous villas, this book follows Zuleika the daughter of Sudanese immigrants. Married to a fat, rich absent Roman, she is stranded in luxurious neglect, until, one day, Septimus Severus, Emperor himself, comes to town, bringing with him not just love - but danger.. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 256.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140297812
ISBN
9780140297812
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.26

Paperback. Lisa has sworn off love and relationships after a really bad experience, but lately she's been tempted to take a chance on a more exciting life. First she meets other fans of the TV show Poldark online. Then she proposes a very special road trip to Cornwall. But can four strangers find friendship, as well as a certain sexy hunk on their trip? Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 197 x 11. Weight in Grams: 84.
Publisher
Ebury Press (Fiction)
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Quick Reads
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785033186
ISBN
9781785033186
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 5.72

Paperback. Translator(s): Thomas, Dominic. Series: Global African Voices. Num Pages: 132 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 8. Weight in Grams: 177.
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253019257
ISBN
9780253019257
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 20.92

Paperback. *The cult TV series now becomes a major film Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 196. Clean copy in good condition.
Publisher
Abacus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KRF0000902
ISBN
9780349121161
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Assistant D A Alexa Hamilton has just been handed the kind of case that makes careers: the trial of accused serial killer Luke Quentin. Sifting through mountains of forensic evidence, Alexa relentlessly builds her case and prepares for a high-stakes trial ..until threatening letters throw her private life into turmoil. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 30. Weight in Grams: 320. Good clean copy with some reader wear.
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Corgi
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
SKU
KTM0004405
ISBN
9780552154789
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Welcome to a world where you reputation, clothes and attitude are everything. Chris and his year eleven mates trade in cut-price sweets, cadged fags and favours for Graham who has a police scanner in his living room for company. Chris' plans to meet Keely, the girl of his dreams, are put on hold when his mate Zeb gets beaten up and wants revenge. Num Pages: 308 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 135 x 15. Weight in Grams: 91.
Publisher
Parthian Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9781902638928
ISBN
9781902638928
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.35

Paperback. 'Once there was a widow with three sons, and their names were Black, Brown and Blue. Black was the eldest; moody and aggressive. Brown was the middle child; timid and dull. But Blue was his mother's favourite. And he was a murderer.' Blueeyed boy is the brilliant new novel from Joanne Harris. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 34. Weight in Grams: 376. Good copy with some shelf wear. Minor marking to cover.
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Black Swan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
SKU
KTG0011368
ISBN
9780552773164
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. For eight-year-old Ajay and his older brother Birju, life in Dehli in the late 1970s follows a comfortable, predictable routine: bathing on the roof, queuing for milk, playing cricket in the street. Yet, everything changes when their father finds a job in America - a land of carpets and elevators, swimsuits and hot water on tap. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 180.
Edition
Main
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571224548
ISBN
9780571224548
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.74

Paperback. A heart-warming tale of one woman's explosive spring clean .. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 32. Weight in Grams: 344.
Publisher
Pocket Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847392824
ISBN
9781847392824
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.02

Paperback. Filled with suspense, unlikely coincidences, wrenching tragedies and marvellous flights of lyricism and erudition, the novel carries the reader effortlessly along with Marco's search - for love, for his unknown father, and for the key to the elusive riddle of his origins and his fate. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 22. Weight in Grams: 246.
Edition
Main
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
320
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571142200
ISBN
9780571142200
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.71

Paperback. A deliciously sexy blockbuster of Hollywood ambition, greed and intrigue. Num Pages: 656 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 113 x 41. Weight in Grams: 408.
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
1st Paperback Printing
Condition
New
SKU
V9780752865553
ISBN
9780752865553
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.81

Paperback. After thirty years at St Oswald's Grammar in North Yorkshire, Latin master Roy Straitley has seen all kinds of boys come and go - the clowns, the rebels, the underdogs, and those he calls his Brodie boys. But every so often there's a boy who doesn't fit the mould. A troublemaker. A boy capable of twisting everything around him. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF; FH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 2. Weight in Grams: 354.
Publisher
Black Swan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780552777018
ISBN
9780552777018
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. Multi-layered, subtle, wonderful short stories from the inimitable Booker-prize winning author, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 19. Weight in Grams: 228.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408705148
ISBN
9781408705148
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 197 x 26. Weight in Grams: 290.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408842607
ISBN
9781408842607
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.13

Paperback. Features such characters as: Satsuki who has spent thirty years hating one man: did her desire for revenge cause the earthquake? Miyake who left his family in Kobe to make midnight bonfires on a beach hundreds of miles away; and, fourteen-year-old Sala who has nightmares that the Earthquake Man is trying to stuff her inside a little box. Translator(s): Rubin, Jay. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 112.
Edition
01st Edition
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099448563
ISBN
9780099448563
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. The stunning new love story from the multi-million-copy bestselling author of The Notebook, The Lucky One and The Longest Ride. Nicholas Sparks is one of the world's most beloved authors. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FRD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 38. Weight in Grams: 354.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780751550009
ISBN
9780751550009
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. A richly observed British-Asian domestic saga, for fans of Monica Ali and Hanif Kureishi. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 18. Weight in Grams: 216.
Publisher
Oneworld Publications
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780743820
ISBN
9781780743820
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.71

Paperback. Num Pages: 500 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 113 x 34. Weight in Grams: 276. Clean copy in good to very good condition.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Poolbeg Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
KLJ0002677
ISBN
9781842231418
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. .
Publisher
Persephone Books Ltd
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
Facsimile of 1938 ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781903155103
ISBN
9781903155103
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 19.26

Paperback. A novel about a man in flight from his rural past, in thrall to his job and in despair about his life. Dexter Bucknell is a 40-year-old single parent hoping to inveigle his live-in girlfriend into marrying him and being a mother to his two young sons. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 21. Weight in Grams: 222.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Vintage
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
1st Vintage Book Edition
SKU
KMR0005468
ISBN
9780099772415
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

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