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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. A student in 1950s South Africa has long been plotting an escape from his country. Studying mathematics, reading poetry, saving money, he tries to ensure that when he arrives in the real world, he will be prepared to experience life to its full intensity. Arriving at last in London, however, he finds neither poetry nor romance. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 134.
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099433620
ISBN
9780099433620
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. Eleanor Lee has lived a fiercely independent existence for over ninety years, but now it's time to tidy her life away - books, photographs, paintings, letters - a lifetime of possessions all neatly boxed up for the last time. But amongst them there are some things that must be kept hidden. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 198 x 26. Weight in Grams: 300.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405919838
ISBN
9781405919838
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.67

Paperback. Carey and Randall are in early 80s LA. A young Chinese girl with silver hair is the Empty One that seems to run things there, and her ex-lover, an Empty One named Zang, has turned against them and may or may not be on Carey's side. Series: The Unnoticeables. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FK; FM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130. .
Publisher
Titan Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781783298013
ISBN
9781783298013
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.15

Paperback. It is Christmas, 1940, and Kate is making her debut in New York society. Joe, the brilliant protege of Charles Lindbergh, seems just out of her reach. Unwilling to wait any longer, Kate moves on with her life. But when a chance encounter brings them together again, the time has come to make a choice, one that will have profound consequences. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 106 x 33. Weight in Grams: 266. Some minor shelf wear, but remains very good
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
First Thus
Publisher
Corgi
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
SKU
KTJ0006818
ISBN
9780552148511
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. The Sunday Times No. 1 paperback bestseller. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 30. Weight in Grams: 324. Good copy with some shelf and reading wear. Some wear to the cover.
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
SKU
KTG0010684
ISBN
9780007240463
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. It is Christmas, 1940, and Kate is making her debut in New York society. Joe, the brilliant protege of Charles Lindbergh, seems just out of her reach. Unwilling to wait any longer, Kate moves on with her life. But when a chance encounter brings them together again, the time has come to make a choice, one that will have profound consequences. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 106 x 33. Weight in Grams: 266.
Edition
First Thus
Publisher
Corgi
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KEX0226886
ISBN
9780552148511
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

The Last Hangman is a powerful, sparsely written novel that explores, in brutal detail and measured prose, the life of a man who killed for a living. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 149 x 18. Weight in Grams: 283. Good clean copy
Condition
Used, Like New
Edition
Main
Number of pages
240
Publisher
Atlantic Books United Kingdom
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
SKU
KSG0015732
ISBN
9780857897497
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 10.99
€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 135 x 24. Weight in Grams: 294.
Publisher
William Morrow Paperbacks
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780062474070
ISBN
9780062474070
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.70

Paperback. An award-winning Barcelona novel with Bolano-esque humor: including lovers, a Mexican maid, Marilyn (a cat), and Bret Easton Ellis (a dog). Translator(s): Perry, Frank. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
And Other Stories United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908276643
ISBN
9781908276643
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.70

Paperback. Ranulph Fiennes' bestselling novel The Feather Men now filmed as Killer Elite. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 276.
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444707922
ISBN
9781444707922
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.89

Paperback. Seven-year-old Che was abandoned by his radical Harvard-student parents during the upheaval of the 1960s, and since then has been raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother. He yearns to see or hear news of his famous outlaw parents, but his grandmother refuses to tell him anything. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 19. Weight in Grams: 236. Good clean copy. Showing light shelf and reading wear, remains a nice copy
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
Main - Re-issue
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
SKU
KSG0010419
ISBN
9780571231546
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.82

Paperback. Seven-year-old Che was abandoned by his radical Harvard-student parents during the upheaval of the 1960s, and since then has been raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother. He yearns to see or hear news of his famous outlaw parents, but his grandmother refuses to tell him anything. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 19. Weight in Grams: 236. T
Edition
Main - Re-issue
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
KTJ0004092
ISBN
9780571231546
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.82

Paperback. Part of the twelve-novel sequence, "A Dance to the Music of Time". Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 17. Weight in Grams: 192.
Publisher
Cornerstone
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099472469
ISBN
9780099472469
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. Num Pages: 345 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 184 x 112 x 25. Weight in Grams: 220.
Publisher
Empire
Number of pages
345
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781901746723
ISBN
9781901746723
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.23

Paperback. Guy Crouchback is now attached to a commando unit undergoing training on the Hebridean isle of Mugg, where the whisky flows freely and HM forces have to show respect for the laird. But the comedy of Mugg is followed by the bitterness of Crete. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 192 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 196.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141184678
ISBN
9780141184678
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; FA; FH; FR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. .
Publisher
Pan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
9781447297581
ISBN
9781447297581
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.45

Paperback. .
Publisher
And Other Stories
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908276520
ISBN
9781908276520
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.66

Paperback. Mr Verloc, the secret agent, is involved in an anarchist plot to blow up the Greenwich Observatory which goes disastrously wrong. Based on the text which Conrad's first English readers enjoyed, this new edition includes a critical introduction which describes Conrad's great London novel as the realization of a 'monstrous town', a place of idiocy, madness, criminality, and butchery. Editor(s): Lyon, John. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 128 x 15. Weight in Grams: 214.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199536351
ISBN
9780199536351
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.65

Paperback. His new massive Top Ten bestseller! Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 36. Weight in Grams: 464. Some minor shelf wear, but remains very good
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
SKU
KTJ0006952
ISBN
9780755347346
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. The Mayor of Casterbridge is a man haunted by his past. In his youth he betrayed his wife and baby daughter in a shocking incident that led him to swear never to touch alcohol again for twenty-one years. He has since risen from his origins to become a respected pillar of the community in Casterbridge, but his secrets cannot stay hidden forever. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 272.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099529576
ISBN
9780099529576
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.47

Paperback. Series: Penguin Essentials. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 113 x 181 x 19. Weight in Grams: 148.
Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241978948
ISBN
9780241978948
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.29

Paperback. Escape into Rosamunde Pilcher's world and meet characters who will become instant friends. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 131 x 16. Weight in Grams: 188.
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton General Division United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444761948
ISBN
9781444761948
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.27

Paperback. Sara Highbury, forty-eight years old, is the manageress of a boarding house. She lives her life in the past, haunted by a love affair with a diamond digger called Herbert. One day, a young child arrives at Sara's door. Apparently the girl is Herbert's illegitimate daughter and it seems there is no one else to look after her. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 14. Weight in Grams: 173.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099535775
ISBN
9780099535775
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.29

Paperback. The Irish Top Ten bestselling author of Driving Home for Christmas and The Summer Guest returns with another warm and delightful tale. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 34. Weight in Grams: 250.
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472210340
ISBN
9781472210340
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.69

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