Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. London, 1958: unassuming civil servant Thomas Foley is plucked from his desk job and sent on a six-month trip to Brussels. His task: to keep an eye on The Britannia, a brand new pub which will form the heart of the British presence at Expo 58 - the biggest World's Fair of the century. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 22. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241966907
- ISBN
- 9780241966907
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.94
€ 13.99
€ 10.94
Paperback. Num Pages: 185 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 132 x 13. Weight in Grams: 206.
- Publisher
- Pantheon
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Edition
- American ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780394744209
- ISBN
- 9780394744209
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.77
€ 17.99
€ 16.77
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Persephone Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910263075
- ISBN
- 9781910263075
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 17.97
€ 20.99
€ 17.97
Paperback. A journalist notices a link between a number of victims of cot death. All of the children had the same poem read to them the night before they died. The journalist desperately fights to find all copies of the book containing the accursed poem. This title is by the author of "Fight Club". Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 131 x 19. Weight in Grams: 198.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099437963
- ISBN
- 9780099437963
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.86
€ 13.99
€ 10.86
Paperback. A nostalgic collection on rural schools, childhood and English country life from the much-loved author of VILLAGE SCHOOL. Num Pages: 336 pages, line drawings throughout. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 232.
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781409148142
- ISBN
- 9781409148142
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.97
€ 13.99
€ 10.97
Paperback. Acclaimed novelist of the Italian Renaissance Sarah Dunant now takes on the era's most infamous family: the Borgias. Num Pages: 544 pages, map (black and white). BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 34. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Publisher
- Virago
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844087457
- ISBN
- 9781844087457
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.89
€ 13.99
€ 10.89
Paperback. The Nobel Prize-winner Doris Lessing's first novel is a taut and tragic portrayal of a crumbling marriage, set in South Africa during the years of Arpartheid. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 13. Weight in Grams: 154.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007498802
- ISBN
- 9780007498802
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.83
€ 11.99
€ 9.83
Paperback. When her husband Johnny suddenly walks out on ten years of marriage, their ten-year-old daughter and the crumbling house they're up to their eyeballs renovating, Olivia is at first totally devastated. How could he? How could she not have noticed his unhappiness? But she's not one to weep for long. Num Pages: 624 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 39. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 624
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241958315
- ISBN
- 9780241958315
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.17
€ 11.99
€ 10.17
Paperback. Robert Mitchum was a Hollywood bad-boy and one of the greatest screen actors of the twentieth century. But his pre-fame life is cloaked in mystery, the truth hidden within conflicting tales of time spent as a Depression-era hobo, prizefighter, escaped felon - and secret poet. This book provides a personification of Film Noir, Robert Mitchum. Num Pages: 544 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 215 x 38. Weight in Grams: 586.
- Publisher
- Parthian Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 544
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905762132
- ISBN
- 9781905762132
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.32
€ 13.99
€ 13.32
Paperback. Series: Dover Thrift Editions. Num Pages: 176 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 134 x 13. Weight in Grams: 148. Series: Dover Thrift S. 176 pages, illustrations. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 209 x 134 x 13. Weight: 158.
- Publisher
- Dover Publications Inc.
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780486282404
- ISBN
- 9780486282404
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 8.92
€ 9.99
€ 8.92
Paperback. Shows the reality of what is true battling against what is permitted to be true. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 14. Weight in Grams: 126.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141982960
- ISBN
- 9780141982960
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.95
€ 13.99
€ 10.95
Paperback. Louisa and Clem: two sisters who love each other more the further they move apart. Louisa is the elder one, the conscientious student, precise and careful, who yearns for a good marriage, a career, a family. Clem, the archetypal younger sibling, is the rebel: uncontainable, iconoclastic, committed to her work but not to the men who fall for her. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 218. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- SKU
- KCG0002559
- ISBN
- 9780099502937
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. The finest, most powerful novel yet from a modern master of storytelling and author of the 500k-copy selling The Other Hand. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FJMS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 37. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton General Division
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781473618718
- ISBN
- 9781473618718
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.85
€ 13.99
€ 10.85
Paperback. Eugene Burnside joined the Firm before he left school, running drugs. Clever and ambitious, he's now 28 and going places: he's come to the attention of the Faron Brothers and, as everyone knows, the brothers are the Firm. Promotion couldn't come too soon for Eugene - it means he no longer has to deal with middleman Shifter and his two old aunts. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 276. 415pp
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- New Ed
- SKU
- KNW0010717
- ISBN
- 9780552773737
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 5.49
€ 5.49
Paperback. Some shelf wear, and a little dusty, but remains good.
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Number of pages
- 287
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- 1st Paperback Edition
- SKU
- KTJ0006531
- ISBN
- 9780552998420
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Includes bonus section with information about the author and the book. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FR; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 142 x 24. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780062316868
- ISBN
- 9780062316868
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.20
€ 22.20
Paperback. Jessica discovers secrets her mother, Doris, kept from her long before her memory began to erode under Alzheimer's Disease. The knowledge Jessica uncovers as the family secrets are revealed and past memories are stirred, is fleshed out by the revelations Doris herself provides as her story unravels backwards. Num Pages: 224 pages, 1 geneal. table. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Publisher
- Luath Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 2nd edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906817787
- ISBN
- 9781906817787
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.37
€ 10.99
€ 9.37
Paperback. This collection of stories digs deep into American society and reveals the loss of connection that lurks under the surface. Cast in many forms - domestic comedy, pseudo-fairytale, philosophical argument - these stories are linked by themes of loss, pleasure, and the difficulty of expressing love. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 175 x 22. Weight in Grams: 224. Clean copy
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Number of pages
- 306
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- New Ed
- SKU
- KEX0200950
- ISBN
- 9780571204984
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. It is the mid-1800s and as slavery looks to be coming to an end, Sethe is haunted by the violent trauma it wrought on her former enslaved life at Sweet Home, Kentucky. Her dead baby daughter, whose tombstone bears the single word, Beloved, returns as a spectre to punish her mother, but also to elicit her love. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 22. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Format
- Paperback
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Publication date
- 1997
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099760115
- ISBN
- 9780099760115
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.45
€ 13.99
€ 10.45
Paperback. When jack Hunt is lured from his native Dublin to Chicago's top hospital, the talented young heart specialist sees a new life ahead for his family. The day he's appointed head of the unit, his own dreams are fulfilled. But he's promoted into a nightmare. Within months Jack Hunt's world collapses. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 112 x 28. Weight in Grams: 234. Clean copy, some shelfwear. Good to very good
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KST0028964
- ISBN
- 9780099415190
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. The 1970 Booker Prize-winning novel. Norman is the clever one of a closely-knit Jewish family in London's East End. Infant prodigy, brilliant barrister, the apple of his parents' eyes - until at 41 he becomes a drug addict, confined to his bedroom, at the mercy of his hallucinations and paranoia. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 156.
- Publisher
- Abacus
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349130224
- ISBN
- 9780349130224
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.97
€ 13.99
€ 10.97
Paperback. As their holiday unfolds, Colin and Maria are locked into their own intimacy. They groom themselves meticulously, as though there waits someone who cares deeply about how they appear. Then, they meet a man with a disturbing story to tell and become drawn into a fantasy of violence and obsession. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 8. Weight in Grams: 90.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099754916
- ISBN
- 9780099754916
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.98
€ 13.99
€ 10.98
Paperback. She fell for the enemy. Now she must pay the price. The gripping second novel from the #1 bestselling author in the Mitchells & O'Haras trilogy. Series: The Mitchells and O'Haras Trilogy. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKES; 1DBKESL; 2AB; 3JJPR; FA; FH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 197 x 35. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780008228675
- ISBN
- 9780008228675
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.28
€ 14.99
€ 11.28
Paperback. Etta Bancroft - sweet, kind, still beautiful - adores racing and harbours a crush on one of its stars, the handsome high-handed owner-trainer Rupert Campbell-Black. When her bullying husband dies, Etta 's selfish, ambitious children drag her from her lovely Dorset house to live in a hideous modern bungal win the Cotswold village of Willow wood. Num Pages: 928 pages, map. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 134 x 205 x 51. Weight in Grams: 556. Used paperback in good condition. Some shelf wear.
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Corgi
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- SKU
- KRF0023684
- ISBN
- 9780552157803
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99