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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in over fifty years at his mother's funeral. Accompanying his aunt, Henry joins a shiftless, twilight society: mixing with hippies, war criminals, CIA men; smoking pot, breaking the currency regulations and coming alive after a dull suburban lifetime. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 194.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780099282587
ISBN
9780099282587
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 5.80

Paperback. In a prison in Occupied France one in every ten men is to be shot. The prisoners draw lots among themselves - and for rich lawyer Louis Chavel, it seems that his whole life has been leading up to an agonizing and crucial failure of nerve. Hysterical with a sense of injustice, he offers to barter everything he owns for someone to take his place. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 122.
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Vintage Classics
SKU
9780099284147
ISBN
9780099284147
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 5.70

Paperback. Andrews is a young man who has betrayed his fellow smugglers and fears their vengeance. Fleeing from them, with no hope of pity or salvation, he takes refuge in the house of a young woman, also alone in the world. She persuades him to give evidence against his accomplices in court. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 162.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780099286158
ISBN
9780099286158
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.30

Paperback. This collection comprises: "Fiesta", Hemingway's first major novel; long extracts from "A Farewell to Arms", "To Have and Have Not" and "For Whom the Bell Tolls"; 25 complete short stories; and the Epilogue to "Death in the Afternoon". Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 102 x 27. Weight in Grams: 282.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Arrow
Condition
New
SKU
9780099339311
ISBN
9780099339311
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 6.07

Paperback. The love affair between Maurice Bendix and Sarah, flourishing in the turbulent times of the London Blitz, ends when she suddenly and without explanation breaks it off. After a chance meeting rekindles his love and jealousy two years later, Bendix hires a private detective to follow Sarah, and slowly his love for her turns into an obsession. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 131 x 14. Weight in Grams: 144. The love affair between Maurice Bendix and Sarah, flourishing in the turbulent times of the London Blitz, ends when she suddenly and without explanation breaks it off. After a chance meeting rekindles his love and jealousy two years later, Bendix hires a private detective to follow Sarah, and slowly his love for her turns into an obsession. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 131 x 14. Weight in Grams: 144.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
Edition
01st Edition
SKU
9780099478447
ISBN
9780099478447
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.11

Paperback. Sisi, Ama, Efe and Joyce are prostitutes, the girls who stand in the windows of the red-light district, promising to make men's dreams come true - if only for half an hour and fifty euros. The murder of Sisi, the most enigmatic of the women, shatters their already fragile world. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 216.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
Edition
01st Edition
SKU
9780099523949
ISBN
9780099523949
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 9.92

Paperback. Anthony Patch and Gloria Gibson are the golden children of the Jazz Age. They marry and embark on a life of glittering parties, lavish expenditure and scandalous revelry. When the money dries up their marriage founders. In this wistful novel Fitzgerald portrays the decline of youthful promise with devastating clarity. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 22. Weight in Grams: 286.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
Edition
01st Edition
SKU
9780099541493
ISBN
9780099541493
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 6.23

Paperback. A tale of identical twin brothers who grow up on a farm in rural Wales and never leave home. They till the rough soil and sleep in the same bed, touched only occasionally by the advances of the twentieth century. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 133 x 16. Weight in Grams: 196.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780099769712
ISBN
9780099769712
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 5.70

Paperback. A novella that tells how through a simple sexual admission a husband and wife ware driven apart into rival worlds of erotic revenge. Translator(s): Davies, J.M.Q. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBF; DSK; FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 9. Weight in Grams: 98. Good clean copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780141182247
ISBN
9780141182247
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 9.61

Paperback. Humorous novel by bestselling author Helena Frith Powell, about the French art of having affairs Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 30. Weight in Grams: 268. 8vo Good copy .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Gibson Square Books Ltd
Edition
First
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KEX0255191
ISBN
9781906142773
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Hardback. A thrilling, plot-twisting new novel set in Europe during the first world war, from the bestselling author of Any Human Heart, Restless and Ordinary Thunderstorms Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 158 x 35. Weight in Grams: 614. Very good copy in near fine dustwrapper.First edition signed by the author
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KEX0303521
ISBN
9781408817742
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 50.00

Hardcover. The new novel by the author of the Booker-shortlisted In Every Face I Meet and Richard & Judy selection The Promise of Happiness. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 164 x 26. Weight in Grams: 490. Very good copy in near fine dustwrapper . First edition signed by the author
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KEX0303544
ISBN
9781408803882
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 35.00

Paperback. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180. . Used paperback in good condition. Some shelf wear.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
POOLBEG
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KNH0013297
ISBN
9781853719622
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. The much-anticipated new novel from the bestselling author of GOOD IN BED and IN HER SHOES Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 268. Clean copy with some shelf wear
Publication date
2006
Condition
Used, Good
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
SKU
KOC0022348
ISBN
9780743468954
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Mitch is a 25-year-old with commitment issues. Leonard is a five-year-old kid with asthma and vision problems, who captivates everyone he meets. Pearl is Leonard's teenage mother, who's trying to hide a violent secret from her past. Life has given Pearl every reason to mistrust people, but circumstances force her to trust her neighbour, Mitch. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 218. Used paperback, in good condition. Some shelf wear.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Black Swan
Edition
Reprint
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KRF0037374
ISBN
9780552773645
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. In 1942, Charlotte Gray, a young scottish woman, goes to Occupied France on a dual mission: to run an apparently simple errand for a British special operations group and to search for her lover, an English airman who has gone missing in action. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 354. Good clean copy showing some shelfwear to covers and page edges, remains in good condition
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Vintage
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0009611
ISBN
9780099394310
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.70

Paperback. If the high-profile remarriage of her ex-husband wasn't hard enough on Ursula, now her daughter is missing - and the man she loves is prime suspect Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 256.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Condition
New
Edition
UK ed.
SKU
KSG0019799
ISBN
9781416521990
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 135 x 33. Weight in Grams: 312.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Condition
New
SKU
KSG0019883
ISBN
9780062369475
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. It is the summer of 1948 when a handsome, charismatic stranger, Charlie Beale, back from war in Europe, shows up in the sleepy town of Brownsburg, Virginia. All he has with him are two suitcases: one contains a fine set of butcher knives; the other is full of money. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 200 x 19. Weight in Grams: 220.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Windmill Books
Condition
New
SKU
KSG0019927
ISBN
9780099559153
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Sash has tried to leave the past behind her. But then she gets a phone call from Marcus, her childhood sweetheart. He's looking for her help to prove his innocence.. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Hachette Books Ireland
Condition
New
SKU
KSG0019952
ISBN
9781473636682
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

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