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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. Set in the summer of 1947, this is a rites-of-passage novel about a lonely boy growing up in Jerusalem in the last years of British rule. From underground resistance he is drawn into friendship with the enemy, in the form of a British soldier to whom he teaches Hebrew in return for English lessons. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 8. Weight in Grams: 98. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSS0003899
- ISBN
- 9780099754015
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Recently divorced, thirty-six-year-old Neill Bassett is engaged in an extraordinary experiment. By day, he works at a Silicon Valley software company, where he is helping to create the world's first 'living' artificial intelligence - a computer programme based on the personality of his late father. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 165 x 25. Weight in Grams: 432. Fine copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- SKU
- KSS0003909
- ISBN
- 9780241964866
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Jo Marie has started to feel at home running the Rose Harbor Inn. Now it's springtime, and in memory of her late husband, Paul, Jo Marie has designed a beautiful rose garden for the property and enlisted handyman Mark Taylor to help make it happen. Jo Marie and Mark don't always see eye-to-eye but deep down, she finds great comfort in his company. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 137 x 31. Weight in Grams: 278. Fine copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- SKU
- KSS0004015
- ISBN
- 9780099564065
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Blackstaff Press Ltd Belfast
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780856408106
- ISBN
- 9780856408106
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.08
€ 11.08
Paperback. The third in the bestselling and much-loved BIG STONE GAP series Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 218. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- KHN0001816
- ISBN
- 9780743450881
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Matt and Susan, two rival palaeontologists and former lovers, are summoned by a secret US government agency to help locate their college mentor, who has disappeared without trace in the remote mountains of Tajikstan. When Matt and Susan finally make contact, the implications of their dramatic discovery are more than simply scientific. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FHD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 114 x 181 x 27. Weight in Grams: 222. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0005644
- ISBN
- 9780099631019
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Familiar with his students' hostile attitude towards both his lectures and himself, a senior school teacher reaches a decision that forces an assessment of his choice of life, of his marriage and ultimately of his values and worth in modern society. This is a story of a man lost in a world that no longer recognises either him or his talent. Translator(s): Lyngstad, Sverre. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 135 x 12. Weight in Grams: 184. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Harvill Secker
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0005757
- ISBN
- 9781843432104
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. When Nicholas Linnear agrees to help Miko Okami, a friend of his father, he does not know that he is the Kaisho, the boss of all the bosses of the Yakuza, the Japanese underworld. Okami possesses "koryoku", the Illuminating Power, that will allow Nicholas to explore the dark side of Tau-tau. Series: A Nicholas Linnear novel. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 111. Weight in Grams: 320. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0005797
- ISBN
- 9780006475965
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
paperback. BABY COME BACK is the gripping, touching and funny story of what happens when a wife discovers her deadly rival is her husband's mother. Another wry, witty novel from a wonderful bestselling author. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 108. Weight in Grams: 210. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0005855
- ISBN
- 9780751529685
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. 'Would you believe me if I told you that I was only nine years of age when I killed him?' In a paint-splattered room, a young and successful Irish painter confronts his shocking and murderous past - a dark day on the beach at Bundoran, Co Donegal, when he quietly dispatched a palaeontologist with his own geological hammer. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 139. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0005875
- ISBN
- 9780099285137
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Second in her enthralling new 2-part SHADOWS series Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 112 x 178 x 26. Weight in Grams: 218. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster UK
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- UK ed.
- SKU
- KKD0005933
- ISBN
- 9781847390271
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
paperback. Ten years on from "Trainspotting", Sick Boy is back in Edinburgh after a long spell in London. Having failed spectacularly as a hustler, pimp, husband, father and businessman, Sick Boy taps into an opportunity which to him represents one last throw of the dice. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 31. Weight in Grams: 346. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Format
- Paperback
- SKU
- KKD0006069
- ISBN
- 9780099422464
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
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