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Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

paperback. A Blandings', the fattest pig in Shropshire and England, omnibus. It contains "Something Fresh", "Summer Lightning" and three short stories. Series: Blandings Castle. Num Pages: 656 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 42. Weight in Grams: 462.
Publisher
Arrow
Number of pages
656
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099514244
ISBN
9780099514244
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.27

Paperback. An omnibus of Jeeves and Wooster stories. It contains "Carry On, Jeeves", "The Inimitable Jeeves", "Very Good, Jeeves" and the short stories "Jeeves Makes an Omelette" and "Jeeves and the Greasy Bird". Series: Jeeves & Wooster. Num Pages: 784 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 45. Weight in Grams: 574.
Publisher
Arrow
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099514237
ISBN
9780099514237
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.00

Hardcover. Psmith helps acting editor Billy Windsor change the image of Cosy Moments magazine and they are stalked by gangsters when their expose of slum tenements angers an unscrupulous landlord. Series: Everyman's Library P G Wodehouse. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 189 x 131 x 22. Weight in Grams: 322.
Publisher
Everyman
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841591568
ISBN
9781841591568
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.71

Hardcover. John Maude and Betty Silver are in love, but when John turns out to be heir to the principality of Mervo, a small Mediterranean island not a thousand miles from Monte Carlo, he finds himself ensnared in the establishment of a new casino on the island, much to his beloved's high-minded disgust. Series: Everyman's Library P G Wodehouse. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 134 x 24. Weight in Grams: 254.
Publisher
Everyman
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841591971
ISBN
9781841591971
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.70

Paperback. Tells the tale of two imposters, each with an eye on a valuable scarab which Lord Emsworth has acquired without quite realizing how it came into his pocket. But of course things get a lot more complicated than this. Series: Blandings Castle. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 18. Weight in Grams: 198.
Publisher
Arrow
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
2008th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099513780
ISBN
9780099513780
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.98

CD-Audio. Bertie Wooster blithely attempting to assume the role of Jeeves himself as a matters-of-the-heart adviser. Very unwise: from Gussie Fink-Nottle's romance with Madeline Bassett, to Tuppy Glossop and his stop/go engagement to Angela Travers, the young master succeeds only in making a bally mess of everyone's love-lives. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 149 x 129 x 31. Weight in Grams: 194.
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd United Kingdom
Format
CD
Publication date
2009
Edition
Abridged
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906147402
ISBN
9781906147402
CD
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 17.49

Hardcover. Blandings Castle lacks its usual balm for the Earl of Emsworth, as his stern sister Lady Constance Keeble is once more in residence. The Duke of Dunstable is also infesting the place again, along with the standard quota of American millionaires, romantic youths, con artists, imposters and so on. Series: Everyman's Library P G Wodehouse. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 189 x 134 x 23. Weight in Grams: 344.
Publisher
Everyman
Number of pages
240
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841591698
ISBN
9781841591698
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.00

Paperback. A classic collection of linked stories featuring some of the funniest episodes in the life of Bertie Wooster, gentleman, and Jeeves, his gentleman's gentleman - in which Bertie's terrifying Aunt Agatha stalks the pages, seeking whom she may devour, while Bertie's friend Bingo Little falls in love with seven different girls in succession. Series: Jeeves & Wooster. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 194.
Publisher
Arrow
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
paperback / softback
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099513681
ISBN
9780099513681
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.81

Hardcover. A collection of stories that concern relationships, sports and household pets. Series: Everyman's Library P G Wodehouse. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 189 x 128 x 27. Weight in Grams: 356.
Publisher
Everyman
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841591636
ISBN
9781841591636
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.83

Hardcover. A hilarious tale of mistaken identity that features Lord Emsworth's prized pig, the Empress of Blandings. It features the triumph of young love, and general mayhem among the twits at Blandings Castle. Series: Everyman's Library P G Wodehouse. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 191 x 136 x 23. Weight in Grams: 322.
Publisher
Everyman
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841591612
ISBN
9781841591612
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.83

Hardcover. Typical - just when Bertie thinks that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world, things start to go wrong again.. Only one man can save the day - the inimitable Jeeves. Series: Everyman's Library P G Wodehouse. Num Pages: 253 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 132 x 25. Weight in Grams: 358.
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
253
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841591483
ISBN
9781841591483
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.83

hardcover. Contains further stories of members of the Drones Club and several adventures related by the Oldest Member of the golf club. This title contains stories including: "The Shadow Passes", "Bramley is so Bracing", "Up From the Depths", "Feet of Clay", "Excelsior", "Rodney Has a Relapse", "Tangled Hearts", and, "Birth of a Salesman". Series: Everyman's Library P G Wodehouse. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 191 x 137 x 26. Weight in Grams: 360.
Publisher
Everyman
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841591575
ISBN
9781841591575
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.83

Hardcover. Mike is a seriously good cricketer who forms an unlikely alliance with old Etonian Psmith ('the P is silent') after they both find themselves fish out of water at a new school, Sedleigh, where they eventually overcome the hostility of others and their own prejudices to become stars. Series: Everyman's Library P G Wodehouse. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 192 x 135 x 23. Weight in Grams: 328.
Publisher
Everyman
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Edition
New ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841591834
ISBN
9781841591834
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.83

Paperback. Unwelcome guests are descending on Blandings Castle, particularly the overbearing Duke of Dunstable, who settles in the Garden Suite with no intention of leaving, and Lady Constance, Lord Emsworth's sister and a lady of firm disposition, who arrives unexpectedly from New York. Skulduggery is also afoot involving the sale of a modern nude painting. Series: Blandings Castle. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 184.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Arrow
Condition
New
SKU
9780099514022
ISBN
9780099514022
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.36

Paperback. Set in the delightfully dysfunctional mess of Blandings Castle these 6 gems follow the trials of poor Earl Emsworth and his beloved pig Empress as they clash with a panoply of friends and family, servants and spongers, bookies and hucksters. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 285.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Cornerstone
Condition
New
SKU
9780099580690
ISBN
9780099580690
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 6.28

CD-Audio. AUDIOBOOK Volume 1 of The Inimitable Jeeves also follows the trials and tribulations of one of the more idiotic of Bertie's chums, Bingo Little, who has a tendency to fall in love.. frequently and disastrously! BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 128 x 32. Weight in Grams: 108.
Format
CD
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Canongate CSA Audio
Condition
New
SKU
9781906147372
ISBN
9781906147372
CD
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.67

Hardcover. While pursuing the love of his life, American heiress Pauline Stoker, Lord 'Chuffy' Chuffnell borrows the services of Jeeves, the perfect gentleman's gentleman. But when Chuffy finds out that Jeeves' employer, Bertie Wooster, was once engaged to Pauline himself - until the engagement was broken by her tough-egg father. Series: Everyman's Library P G Wodehouse. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 188 x 133 x 28. Weight in Grams: 378.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Everyman
Condition
New
SKU
9781841591278
ISBN
9781841591278
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.99

Paperback. A collection of short stories. It includes such stories as "The Amazing Hat Mystery". Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 17. Weight in Grams: 194. Fine in good cloth covers, lacking dust wrapper. Covers showing shelf wear especially to spine. Ex-libris label to inside front cover. Pages edges browned, and with foxing, however text is clean and clear and remains a nice copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Arrow
Edition
paperback / softcover
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KSG0017197
ISBN
9780099514039
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 11.99
€ 9.61

Paperback. Can the Empress of Blandings win the Fat Pigs class at the Shropshire Show for the third year running? Galahad Threepwood, Beach the butler and others have put their shirt on this, and for Lord Emsworth it will be paradise on earth. But a substantial obstacle lurks in the way: Queen of Matchingham, the new sow of Sir Gregory Parsloe Bart. Series: Blandings Castle. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 18. Weight in Grams: 198. First edition. Fine in good red cloth covers, lacking dust wrapper. Covers faded, sunned to spine and with bumps to edges. Covers loose internally however all pages intact. Internally marking on ffeps and with light spotting otherwise text is clean and crisp and remains a fine copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Arrow
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KSG0017428
ISBN
9780099513988
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 11.99
€ 11.00

Paperback. Translator(s): Jull Costa, Margaret. Series: Dedalus European Classiucs. Num Pages: 356 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
Publisher
The Illustrious House of Ramires
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910213391
ISBN
9781910213391
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.10

Paperback. Presents a tale from the Viking Age that ranges across Scandinavia and Viking Britain. Series: Penguin Little Black Classics. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 113 x 162 x 7. Weight in Grams: 54.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Publication date
2015
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141397863
ISBN
9780141397863
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 5.49

Paperback. In A Game for the Living threads of sexual jealousy and guilt are shot through with all Patricia Highsmith's uncanny talent for the unexpected. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349004921
ISBN
9780349004921
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.83

Paperback. Completed just months before Patricia Highsmith's death in 1995, Small g explores the labyrinthine intricacies of passion, sexuality, and jealousy in a kinky, charming tale of love misdirected. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349004990
ISBN
9780349004990
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.85

Paperback. Seventeen menacing spine-chillers full of Patricia Highsmith's trademark simmering malice. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 110 x 11. Weight in Grams: 106.
Publisher
Virago
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349004938
ISBN
9780349004938
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.85

Paperback. People Who Knock on the Door, is a tale about blind faith and the slippery notion of justice that lies beneath the peculiarly American veneer of righteousness. Series: Virago Modern Classics. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 127 x 31. Weight in Grams: 306.
Publisher
Virago
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349004976
ISBN
9780349004976
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.94

Paperback. Highsmith blends savage humour with brilliant social satire in this dark tale. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349004891
ISBN
9780349004891
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.75

Paperback. Found in the Street is a haunting psychological thriller, by the queen of the genre, in which there is only a breath between nightmare and reality. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349004884
ISBN
9780349004884
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.01

Paperback. Those Who Walk Away is a brilliant psychological thriller - a deadly game of cat-and-mouse in the labyrinthine streets of Venice. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 214.
Publisher
Virago
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
paperback / softback
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349004860
ISBN
9780349004860
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.75

Paperback. In 1961, Patricia Highsmith received a fan letter from a prison inmate. A correspondence ensued and Highsmith became fascinated with the psychological traumas that incarceration can inflict. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 226.
Publisher
Virago
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
paperback / softback
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349004952
ISBN
9780349004952
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.75

Paperback. To everyone around them, Melinda and Vic Van Allen are the perfect couple - young, wealthy and attractive. But when their love sours, their mind games reach a twisted, dangerous climax Series: VMC. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 197 x 23. Weight in Grams: 216.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Virago
Condition
New
SKU
9780349006260
ISBN
9780349006260
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.19

paperback. First published in 1980, this is the fourth novel in Highsmith's hugely influential, groundbreaking Ripley series. Series: Ripley Series. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 198 x 35. Weight in Grams: 282.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Virago
Condition
New
SKU
9780349006253
ISBN
9780349006253
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 10.33

Paperback. The classic novel from the author of Rope and Hangover Square. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 199 x 45. Weight in Grams: 492.
Publisher
Abacus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349141473
ISBN
9780349141473
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.44

Paperback. Abacus is reissuing all of Patrick Hamilton's novels for a new audience. In The Gorse Trilogy, Patrick Hamilton creates one of fiction's most captivating anti-heroes. Num Pages: 864 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
Publisher
Abacus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349141497
ISBN
9780349141497
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.17

Paperback. A pitch-black comedy set in London overshadowed by the looming threat of the Second World War, Hangover Square is a true classic. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 200 x 32. Weight in Grams: 274.
Publisher
Abacus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349141565
ISBN
9780349141565
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.52

Paperback. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
Publisher
Abacus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349141510
ISBN
9780349141510
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.61

Paperback. A man's mother can be a terrible burden sometimes. For Tarry Flynn - poet, farmer and lover-from-afar of beautiful young virgins - the responsibility of family, farm, poetic inspiration and his own unyielding lust is a heavy one. The only solution is to rise above all - or escape over the nearest horizon. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 150.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141183619
ISBN
9780141183619
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.87

audioCD. Beasts Royal is the second book written by Patrick O'Brian - made available, at last, for the first time since the 1930s and beautifully repackaged. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 112.
Publication date
2015
Publisher
HarperCollins
Edition
Unabridged edition
Condition
New
SKU
9780008154660
ISBN
9780008154660
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.55

Paperback. Sinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, this title opens in New York City in the spring of 1967 when twenty-year-old Adam Walker, an aspiring poet and student at Columbia University meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born, and his silent and seductive girlfriend Margot. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 252.
Edition
Main
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571249527
ISBN
9780571249527
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.51

Paperback. A novel, in which, one man's obsession with the mysterious life of a silent film star takes him on a journey into a shadow-world of lies, illusions, and unexpected love. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 197 x 22. Weight in Grams: 270.
Edition
Main
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
9780571276639
ISBN
9780571276639
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.47

Paperback. A triology of three cleverly interconnected novels that exploit the elements of standard detective fiction. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 256.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
Edition
Main
SKU
9780571276653
ISBN
9780571276653
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 5.86

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