Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Waiting in Line At the Drugstore C by Acosta J
(Hardback 277 pages)€19.49 (RRP €22.92)
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Yellow Woman by Leslie Silko & Melody Graulich
(Hardback 235 pages)€48.44 (RRP €56.98)
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F. Scott Fitzgerald: the Love of the Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald(Hardback 448 pages)This critical edition of The Love of The Last Tycoon utilises Fitzgerald's manuscript drafts, revised typescipts, and working notes to establish the first authoritative text Read more...
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The Invitation by Catherine Cookson(Paperback 336 pages)Maggie Gallacher had all but read the print off the elegant, gold-trimmed card. An invitation from the Duke of Moorshire to an evening at Lea Hall? She could still scarcely believe her eyes, even if it was a Read more...
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Gentlemen From England by Maud Hart Lovelace & Delos Lovelace
(Paperback 376 pages)€21.72 (RRP €25.54)
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The Quantity Theory of Insanity by Will Self(Hardback 256 pages)Features a collection of stories in which: mother crops up dead but talking in Crouch End; a cellular telephone scam ends in drugged psychosis; a mental ward captivates and then captures an art therapist; and, Read more...
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The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum by Heinrich Boll(Paperback 144 pages)Gradually disclosing an entire panorama of human relationship and motive, this novel is a comment on the law and the press, the labyrinth of social truth and the relentless collision of fact and Read more...
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Long Made Short by Stephen Dixon(Paperback 160 pages)From the author of "Frog", these short stories are about loss: culture, allurement, reliability, continuity, potency, companions, skill, child, parent, footing, prize, collection; as well as the flip-side of loss: Read more...
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Angels and Insects by a. S. Byatt(Paperback 304 pages)A collection of short stories including subjects as diverse as memories, marriage, insects and ghosts. A.S. Byatt's other books include "Possession", winner of the 1990 Booker Prize. Read more...
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Fanny McBride by Catherine Cookson
(Paperback 352 pages)Fanny McBride was a cheerful and indomitable Tyneside widow with a large, cheerful family. Being a woman of resource, Fanny took on a job at the local 'Ladies', which was to prove a surprisingly stimulating Read more...
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The Barrytown Trilogy by Roddy Doyle(Paperback 640 pages)Together in one volume, this book contains Roddy Doyle's trilogy about the Rabbitte family of Barrytown, north Dublin. "The Commitments", "The Snapper" and "The Van", which was shortlisted for the 1991 Booker Prize. Read more...
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Autumn Manoeuvres by Melvyn Bragg
(Paperback 304 pages)An absorbing novel of politics, family fractures and scandal in late 70s Britain. Read more...
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Summer by Edith Wharton(Paperback 224 pages)Charity Royall lives unhappily with her hard-drinking adoptive father in a village, until a visiting architect awakens her sexual passion and the hope for escape. Exploring Charity's relation to her father and her lover, this Read more...
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The Vendor of Sweets by R. K. Narayan
(Paperback 144 pages)A widower of Gandhian principles, Jagan harbours affection for his son Mali. Yet even Jagan's patience begins to fray when Mali descends on the city of Malgudi full of modern notions. From different generations and Read more...
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The Call of the Toad by Gunter Grass
(Paperback 256 pages)Gdansk 1989. A polish woman, a guilding specialist, meets a German man, a professor in art history. A walk together in a graveyard gives rise to an ambition to establish a Cemetery of Reconciliation as a mark of the Read more...
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Creation by Gore Vidal(Paperback 672 pages)Vidal's historical novel set in the 5th century BC and narrated by Cyrus Spitama, son of a Persian prince and Greek sorceress, grandson of the prophet Zoroaster, and ambassador to the courts of India, China and Greece. Pericles, Read more...
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Julian by Gore Vidal(Paperback 544 pages)Gore Vidal's fictional recreation of the Roman Empire teetering on the crux of Christianity and ruled by an emperor who was an inveterate dabbler in arcane hocus-pocus, a prig, a bigot, and a dazzling and brilliant leader. Read more...
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Live From Golgotha by Gore Vidal(Paperback 256 pages)Thanks to the wonders of modern technology, a TV crew will record the Crucifixion, live from Golgotha, in order to boost NBC in the ratings war. In this iconoclastic novel, Vidal japes at the expense of religion, history Read more...
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Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks(Hardback 416 pages)Set in France before and during World War I, this is the story of a young Englishman who is impelled through a series of extreme experiences, from a traumatic clandestine love affair which tears apart the bourgeois Read more...
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Like Water For Chocolate by Laura Esquivel(Paperback 224 pages)Relates the bizarre history of the all-female De La Garza family. Tita, the youngest daughter of the house, has been forbidden to marry, condemned by Mexican tradition to look after her mother until she dies. Read more...
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Faces At the Bottom of the Well by USA) Derrick (Visiting Professor At New York University Law School Bell
(Paperback 240 pages)The noted civil rights activist uses allegory and historical example to present a Read more...
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The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller(Paperback 192 pages)A man. A woman. The heat of an Iowa summer. And the brief encounter whose passion will last a lifetime. Read more...
€7.78 (RRP €9.16)
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Carn by Patrick McCabe
(Paperback 256 pages)From the winner of the Irish Times Award for Fiction 1992 and the Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Butcher Boy Read more...
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Kaleidoscope by Danielle Steel(Paperback 390 pages)Three sisters, bonded by blood, separated by fate... could they ever find each other again? Read more...
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The Promise of Light by Paul Watkins(Paperback 224 pages)In 1921, on an island off the New England coast, Ben Sheridan is settling down as a clerk at a small local bank. Across the bay at Newport, the roaring 1920s are just beginning to roar. When, through an accident, Read more...
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