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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. When Grace and her brother Andrew inherit their grandmother's house in Hampstead, they decide to move in together. They've always got on well, the house is large enough to split down the middle, and neither of them likes partying or loud music. There's one thing they've forgotten though: what if one of them wants to bring a lover into the house? Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 270.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241963579
ISBN
9780241963579
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.39

Paperback. Joint Winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize 1979 Series: Heinemann African Writers Series. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 172.
Publisher
Pearson Education Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
2nd edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780435895983
ISBN
9780435895983
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.05

Paperback. What if our 24-hour day grew longer, first in minutes, then in hours until day becomes night and night becomes day? Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 136 x 31. Weight in Grams: 278. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
SKU
KRA0012648
ISBN
9780857207258
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. .
Publisher
Cassava Republic Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781911115007
ISBN
9781911115007
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 15.12

Paperback. When he asked her to be his wife, he also wanted a mother for his children.. When Andi marries Ethan she gets a ready-made family in the shape of his daughters Emily and Sophia. Unable to have a child of her own, and crazy in love with Ethan, she has a chance to make the perfect family. Can Andi and Ethan heal the rift in their relationship? Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 201 x 31. Weight in Grams: 372. Good clean copy with some reader wear.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
SKU
KTM0004546
ISBN
9780141038650
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Translator(s): Barton, Polly. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 21. Weight in Grams: 156.
Publisher
Pushkin Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782272700
ISBN
9781782272700
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.42

Paperback. Spolit, feckless Temple Drake, the daughter of a judge, runs away from school with an unsuitable man. Abandoned by him with a gang of moonshiners, Temple falls into the clutches of the psychotic Popeye. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 178.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099541028
ISBN
9780099541028
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.81

Hardcover. Translator(s): Moncrieff, Scott; Kilmartin, Terence. Num Pages: 700 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 138 x 37. Weight in Grams: 694.
Publisher
Everyman
Number of pages
700
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841598994
ISBN
9781841598994
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 18.49

Paperback. Gabriel Noone, whose late night radio stories have brought him into the homes of millions, gets the proofs of a memoir of a sickly thirteen-year-old boy who suffered sexual abuse at the hands of his parents. When Noone phones the boy, it becomes clear that Pete sees in this heartsick, middle-aged storyteller, the loving father he's always wanted. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 258. Good clean copy. Showing some shelf and reading wear, remains a nice copy
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Black Swan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
SKU
KSG0010541
ISBN
9780552142403
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. Tatiana, a young Mexican woman, is adrift in Berlin. Choosing a life of solitude, she takes a job transcribing notes for the reclusive Doktor Weiss. Through him she meets 'an illustrator turned meteorologist' Jonas, a Berliner who has used clouds and the sky's constant shape-shifting as his escape from reality. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 170.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099539599
ISBN
9780099539599
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.81

Paperback. The highly acclaimed romantic tragedy of love, migration, and the search for identity from the Granta 'Best of Young British' author Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 197 x 29. Weight in Grams: 292.
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847679789
ISBN
9781847679789
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.25

Paperback. A collection of tales that range from one man's honeymooning epiphany in "Hassan's Tower" to the journeying fantasies of "A Voyage to Cythera", and the joy of "The Merry Widow" which explore cruel and loving relationships, social change and personal obsessions. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 198 x 15. Weight in Grams: 192.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141196435
ISBN
9780141196435
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.71

Paperback. This is an utterly gripping psychological drama for reading groups, in the vein of Sophie Hannah. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 29. Weight in Grams: 324.
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780755377992
ISBN
9780755377992
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.89

Paperback. Meet Madison, whip-tongued daughter of a narcissistic film star and a billionaire, abandoned at a Swiss boarding school over Christmas. Madison dies of a marijuana overdose and awakes to find herself in Hell, sharing her cell with a motley crew of young sinners that's almost too good to be true. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 190.
Publisher
Vintage
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099552598
ISBN
9780099552598
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.82

Paperback. The fabulous new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of RSVP Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 288. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
UK ed.
SKU
KI20003418
ISBN
9781849832953
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages, chiefly Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 188.
Publisher
Viz Media, Subs. of Shogakukan Inc United States
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9781591163275
ISBN
9781591163275
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.10

Paperback. If you live for your family, would you die for your family? The third novel in the compulsive Mitchells and O'Haras trilogy. Series: The Mitchells and O'Haras Trilogy. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKES; 1DBKESL; 2AB; 3JJPR; FA; FH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 376 x 215 x 33. Weight in Grams: 304.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780008228705
ISBN
9780008228705
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.50

Paperback. This critique of modern Kenya highlights the greed and capitalism prevalent in society. Despair drives Wariinga to leave Nairobi and seek refuge in her home town of Ilmorog. On her journey she is handed an invitation to a feast of thieves, a competition organized by the devil. Series: Heinemann African Writers Series. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 15. Weight in Grams: 208. Series: Heinemann African Writers Series. 256 pages. This critique of modern Kenya highlights the greed and capitalism prevalent in society. Despair drives Wariinga to leave Nairobi and seek refuge in her home town of Ilmorog. On her journey she is handed an invitation to a feast of thieves, a competition organized by the devil. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 199 x 128 x 15. Weight: 212.
Publisher
Heinemann
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780435908447
ISBN
9780435908447
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.83

Paperback. Evelyn is struggling to come to terms with the loss of her brother in the Great War, and to make her own way in the world - when a woman arrives with her brother's illegitimate child.. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 33. Weight in Grams: 328.
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780753825471
ISBN
9780753825471
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.47

Paperback. Will a chance encounter with a stranger completely wreck Elyse's safe but stale life? Intense, honest and sexy - an irresistible, smart and thought-provoking novel about a woman exploring what's missing in her marriage. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 25. Weight in Grams: 304. 320 pages. Will a chance encounter with a stranger completely wreck Elyse's safe but stale life? Intense, honest and sexy - an irresistible, smart and thought-provoking novel about a woman exploring what's missing in her marriage. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 196 x 132 x 25. Weight: 304.
Publisher
Allen & Unwin
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781742377155
ISBN
9781742377155
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 8.35

Paperback. A diary of a middle-aged man who is in love with his younger wife, Ikuko. In spite of that love, the pair have grown physically apart, each unsure of the other's desires ..until the day Ikuko discovers her husband's diary with its desperate hints of jealousy and voyeurism. Ikuko realises she has found the key to his very soul. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 12. Weight in Grams: 132.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099289999
ISBN
9780099289999
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.82

Paperback. .
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
768
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140119633
ISBN
9780140119633
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 18.86

Paperback. Danielle Steel explores the seasons of an extraordinary friendship, weaving the story of three couples, lifelong friends, for whom a month's holiday in St. Tropez becomes a summer of change, revelation, secrets, surprises, and new beginnings. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 107 x 18. Weight in Grams: 154. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Publisher
Corgi London
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
New Ed
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAK0012130
ISBN
9780552149112
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

CD-Audio. Offers a complete audio collection of Alan Bennett's celebrated monologues. This collection includes all twelve Talking Heads, the precursor of that series, and, A Woman of No Importance. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 143 x 24. Weight in Grams: 198.
Publisher
BBC Audio, A Division Of Random House
Format
CD
Publication date
2015
Edition
Unabridged
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785291661
ISBN
9781785291661
CD
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 22.98

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