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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. With the festive season almost upon him, Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson is winding down at work and gearing up socially - kicking off Christmas with a week of sex and drugs in Amsterdam. There are irritating flies in the ointment, though, including a missing wife, a nagging cocaine habit, and a dramatic deterioration in his genital health. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 296. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0006071
- ISBN
- 9780099591115
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. An evocative historical novel with a sting in the tail, Shipwrecks is a powerful and deeply moving Japanese classic Translator(s): Ealey, Mark. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FJH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 126 x 11. Weight in Grams: 124. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Canongate Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- Main
- Number of pages
- 160
- SKU
- KKD0006098
- ISBN
- 9781841952215
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. This first novel tells the story of the growing up of the children of an educated but impoverished New Zealand family. Janet Frame is the author of "The Carpathians", which won the Commonwealth Prize for Literature in 1989. Num Pages: 196 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 130. Weight in Grams: 140. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1985
- Publisher
- The Women's Press Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0006107
- ISBN
- 9780704339583
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Liverpool, 1934. Hester Lowe agrees to act as governess to spoilt, self-willed, little Lonnie Hetherington-Smith when they leave India to live with Lonnie's elderly aunt in Shaw Street, Liverpool. Hester speedily realises that her new employer dislikes her niece and means to make life uncomfortable for both of them. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 113 x 32. Weight in Grams: 264. Fine in fine dust wrapper. Showing light shelf wear, remains a fine copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0022150
- ISBN
- 9780099436522
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. The second novel by the author of Clutch of Phantoms, this is another highly intelligent, powerfully paced psychological suspense novel. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 111. Weight in Grams: 176. Good clean copy. Showing light shelf wear, remains a nice copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0022176
- ISBN
- 9780007107841
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. It is late spring, the year of our Lord 1370. Owen Archer, ex-soldier and spy, is preparing to depart Wales, his work for John of Gaunt completed. But his attempts to arrange safe passage home to York are thwarted by a mysterious suicide. And in York, Lucie Wilton is disheartened by her husband's long absence. Num Pages: 400 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3H; FA; FF; FFH; FH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 112 x 25. Weight in Grams: 216. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSS0004209
- ISBN
- 9780099277972
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Anthony is a British journalist whose American wife, Lucy, has died suddenly. Haunted by her death, he becomes obsessed with her past and the years he missed before he met her. To find out more, he travels to a remote part of the Nevada desert to meet Lucy's first husband. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 114 x 13. Weight in Grams: 116. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- Main
- SKU
- KSS0004216
- ISBN
- 9780571207787
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Inspector Constantin Vadim leaves his native Russia for New York, only to find himself caught up in the middle of a presidential campaign. The victory of the leading candidate is threatened only by the public behaviour of his Russian wife. Soon Vadim is in the middle of her murder investigation. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF; FH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 113 x 33. Weight in Grams: 275. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- KSS0004275
- ISBN
- 9780099410645
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Another thriller featuring Inspector Constatin Vadim, back in his Arctic home town after a short and nearly catastrophic appointment in Moscow. But now Vadim is faced with personal tragedy, his wife Natalya, a doctor, answers an emergency medical call and goes missing. Num Pages: 522 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 109. Weight in Grams: 274. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- New edition
- SKU
- KSS0004276
- ISBN
- 9780099279020
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Abigail Jex never expected to see any of the Radley household again, and thought that she'd banished the ghost of her life with them, and the catastrophe that ended it, but thirteen years later, a chance encounter forces her to acknowledge that the spell is far from broken. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099277637
- ISBN
- 9780099277637
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
Paperback. Offers a collection of stories about the American family. This book brings to life a world of lost fathers and redemptive con men, of personal struggles and diminished dreams, a world marked by the wry wit and generosity of spirit that has made Jess Walter one of America's most talked-about writers. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 203 x 12. Weight in Grams: 144.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Viking
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241003855
- ISBN
- 9780241003855
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.25
€ 17.99
€ 14.25
Paperback. Offers the reader insight into the double-life of Andre Parent in six compelling snapshots. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 38. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton
- Number of pages
- 576
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241950494
- ISBN
- 9780241950494
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 18.52
€ 24.99
€ 18.52
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 23. Weight in Grams: 156.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241979518
- ISBN
- 9780241979518
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.87
€ 20.99
€ 16.87
Paperback. Humphrey and Ailsa meet as children by a grey, northern sea. Humphrey is quiet, serious - and will in time explore the sea's mysteries; Ailsa is angry, a freckled cobra ready to strike. Yet they fascinate one another and when they meet again years later they fall briefly - and disastrously - in love. Num Pages: 352 pages, no pictures. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 242.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141027456
- ISBN
- 9780141027456
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.82
€ 20.99
€ 16.82
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 23. Weight in Grams: 178.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241979402
- ISBN
- 9780241979402
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.85
€ 20.99
€ 16.85
Paperback. In Karen Rose's brilliant thriller I CAN SEE YOU, the first in her Minneapolis series, a killer is targeting the participants of an online role-playing game called Shadowland. Series: Minneapolis Series. Num Pages: 656 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 42. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Headline Publishing Group
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780755370979
- ISBN
- 9780755370979
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.06
€ 13.99
€ 11.06
Paperback. She was born Princess Marguerite Alexandrovna Valensky. But everyone called her Daisy. She was a blonde beauty living in a world of aristocrats and countless wealth. Her father was a prince, a Russian nobleman. Her mother was an American movie goddess. Men desired her. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 108 x 33. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Transworld Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 512
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857501653
- ISBN
- 9780857501653
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.66
€ 23.99
€ 17.66
Paperback. A man's mother can be a terrible burden sometimes. For Tarry Flynn - poet, farmer and lover-from-afar of beautiful young virgins - the responsibility of family, farm, poetic inspiration and his own unyielding lust is a heavy one. The only solution is to rise above all - or escape over the nearest horizon. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 150.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141183619
- ISBN
- 9780141183619
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.10
€ 11.99
€ 10.10
Paperback. Follows the intertwined destinies of two families - the Trasks and the Hamiltons - whose generations hopelessly re-enact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- SKU
- 9780141185071
- ISBN
- 9780141185071
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.45
€ 13.99
€ 10.45
Paperback. Jody Tiflin is given a red pony, and later he is promised the colt of a bay mare. Yet both of these gifts bring him tragedy as well as joy, and Jody is taught not only the harsh lessons of life and death, but made painfully aware of the fallibilty of adults. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 9. Weight in Grams: 102.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- 9780141185095
- ISBN
- 9780141185095
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.75
€ 11.99
€ 9.75
Paperback. Drifters in search of work, George and his childlike friend Lennie, have nothing in the world except the clothes on their back - and a dream that one day they will have some land of their own. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 14. Weight in Grams: 112.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- SKU
- 9780141185101
- ISBN
- 9780141185101
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.44
€ 10.99
€ 9.44
Paperback. When Kino, a poor Indian pearl-diver, finds 'the Pearl of the world' he believes that his life will be magically transformed. He will marry Juana and their son Coyotito will be able to attend school. Obsessed by his dreams, Kino is blind to the greed and even violence the pearl arouses in him and his neighbours. Illustrator(s): Orozco, Jose Luis. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 128 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 8. Weight in Grams: 106.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141185125
- ISBN
- 9780141185125
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.70
€ 11.99
€ 9.70
Paperback. A collection of short stories, set in the idyllic Salinas Valley in California, where simple people farm the land and struggle to find a place for themselves in the world. This book includes the tales: The Murderer and The Chrysanthemums. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 214.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141185514
- ISBN
- 9780141185514
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 12.53
€ 17.99
€ 12.53
Paperback. Explores the effects of invasion on both the conquered and the conquerors. Dealing with the motivations and emotions of the enemy, this title uncovers profound and often unsettling truths both about war and human nature. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 9. Weight in Grams: 114.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141185538
- ISBN
- 9780141185538
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.80
€ 11.99
€ 10.80