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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. When aspiring novelist Christopher Flinders drops out of university to write his masterpiece (in between shifts as a fish delivery man and builder's mate), his family is sceptical. But when he is taken up by the London editor Owen Goddard and his charming wife Diana it seems success is just around the corner. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Cornerstone
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099469322
- ISBN
- 9780099469322
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 9.57
€ 16.99
€ 9.57
Paperback. Beneath the surface lies a terrible secret.. Hollywood, 1975: Tragedy sends troubled film star Vivien Lockhart into the arms of Giovanni Moretti, and it seems her fortunes have finally changed. Until she meets his sister, and learns that dark shadows haunt her new husband's past.. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JJPL; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 127 x 32. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KSG0014918
- ISBN
- 9781848455009
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. On a warm summer night in 1974, six teenagers play at being cool. They smoke pot, drink vodka, share their dreams and vow always to be interesting. Decades later, aspiring actress Jules has resigned herself to a more practical occupation; Cathy has stopped dancing; Jonah has laid down his guitar and Goodman has disappeared. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 30. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099584094
- ISBN
- 9780099584094
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.45
€ 13.99
€ 10.45
Hardback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 646.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780062397836
- ISBN
- 9780062397836
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 23.86
€ 27.99
€ 23.86
Paperback. Num Pages: 501 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 175 x 107 x 25. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Publication date
- 1984
- Publisher
- Bantam USA
- Condition
- New
- Format
- Paperback
- SKU
- V9780553213430
- ISBN
- 9780553213430
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.77
€ 9.77
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Persephone Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781903155165
- ISBN
- 9781903155165
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 19.21
€ 23.99
€ 19.21
Paperback. Hugh Graham captures the passage of years, the progression of accumulation and recurrence, the present as dammed up history. Without warning, a world on the road to epiphany. And that world, threatened with disaster. Figures emerge, often from twilight. Here are eleven stories of clarity and dark empathy. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 249.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Exile Editions Canada
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781550964868
- ISBN
- 9781550964868
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.33
€ 18.99
€ 17.33
Paperback. Daniel Brennan, approaching the premature end of his life, retreats to a room in his brother's suburban house. To divert himself and to entertain Ellen, his carer, he writes the journal that is Telescope, blurring truth, gossip and fiction in vignettes of his own life and the lives of those close to him. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 126 x 21. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Sort of Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780956308627
- ISBN
- 9780956308627
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.73
€ 11.99
€ 10.73
Hardcover. Mary Turner has little use for sacrifice. As the niece of Erastus Corning, the prominent railway magnate, she is accustomed to financial security, society balls, and the flirtatious attention of her many suitors. When she marries the ambitious banker Isaac Burch, she secures an upper-class social position at the cost of a loveless relationship. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 676.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815609315
- ISBN
- 9780815609315
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 21.90
€ 21.90
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. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 186 x 132 x 13. Weight in Grams: 210.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Feminist Press at The City University of New York United States
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781558617483
- ISBN
- 9781558617483
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 14.42
€ 15.99
€ 14.42
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 134 x 14. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Brindle and Glass Publishing, Ltd Canada
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781897142073
- ISBN
- 9781897142073
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 22.06
€ 32.99
€ 22.06
Paperback. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 228 x 23. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226412610
- ISBN
- 9780226412610
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 20.04
€ 24.99
€ 20.04
Paperback. Fourteen-year-old Alma Singer is trying to find a cure for her mother's loneliness. Believing she might discover it in an old book her mother is lovingly translating, she sets out in search of its author. Across New York an old man called Leo Gursky is trying to survive a little bit longer. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 194.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141019970
- ISBN
- 9780141019970
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. Danny is in trouble. A wannabe animal rights activist and modern day hero, none of this was supposed to happen. It's treble or nothing time, and the circus is coming to town. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 137 x 15. Weight in Grams: 234.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Luath Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908373724
- ISBN
- 9781908373724
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.04
€ 13.99
€ 11.04
Paperback. Num Pages: 187 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 113 x 11. Weight in Grams: 122. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Hachette
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Format
- Paperback
- SKU
- KAC0001380
- ISBN
- 9782253003106
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 26. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Seren
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781721469
- ISBN
- 9781781721469
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.27
€ 24.27
Paperback. 'An amazing book, written with force and passion. And Denny is a very funny and slightly demented tour guide to twenty-first century Dublin.' Matt Haig Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 21. Weight in Grams: 242.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Canongate Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781847673305
- ISBN
- 9781847673305
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 8.05
€ 12.99
€ 8.05
Paperback. A bittersweet tale of grief and renewal - the exhilarating debut of an exceptionally gifted young writer Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 210.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780340839539
- ISBN
- 9780340839539
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.04
€ 13.99
€ 11.04
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Cleis Press United States
- Number of pages
- 283
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781573443692
- ISBN
- 9781573443692
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 14.56
€ 15.99
€ 14.56
Hardcover. From the author of 'Black Bread White Beer'. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 143 x 20. Weight in Grams: 306. Some light shelf wear else as new.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- SKU
- KTG0003632
- ISBN
- 9780007580491
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. The story of a woman struggling to reclaim her dignity after a violent, abusive marriage and a worsening drink problem. Paula Spencer recalls her contented childhood, the audacity she learned as a teenager, the exhilaration of her romance with Charlo, and the marriage to him that left her powerless. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 176. 226pp
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Edition
- First Thus
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780749395995
- ISBN
- 9780749395995
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.45
€ 11.99
€ 10.45
Paperback. The classic tale of a Nigerian woman who overcomes strict tribal domination only to encounter the hardships of immigration. Available again. Num Pages: 174 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 137 x 12. Weight in Grams: 180.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1983
- Publisher
- George Braziller Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 174
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807610664
- ISBN
- 9780807610664
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.42
€ 16.99
€ 15.42
Paperback. * Set in Bethnal Green, this story opens just after the Ripper murders. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 110 x 25. Weight in Grams: 244.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780751548419
- ISBN
- 9780751548419
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.47
€ 10.99
€ 9.47