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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. Series: Carnegie Mellon Series in Short Fiction. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 131 x 23. Weight in Grams: 367.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Carnegie-Mellon University Press United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780887483783
- ISBN
- 9780887483783
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 17.39
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Paperback. Polly, Dennis, Angela, Adrian and the rest are bound to lose their spiritual innocence as well as their virginities on the journey between university in the 1950s and the marriages, families, careers and deaths that follow. On the one hand there's Sex and then the Pill, on the other there is the traditional Catholic Church. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 186.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099554141
- ISBN
- 9780099554141
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Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.38
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Paperback. A man of contradictions. A man of passion. A man of the future. Sequestered in his blitz-battered Regent's Park house in 1944, the ailing Herbert George Wells, 'H G' to his family and friends, looks back on a life crowded with incident, books, and women. This title is a novel of passion, ambition and controversy. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 133 x 39. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099556084
- ISBN
- 9780099556084
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.81
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Paperback. When Philip Swallow and Professor Morris Zapp participate in their universities' Anglo-American exchange scheme, the Fates play a hand, and each academic finds himself enmeshed in the life of his counterpart on the opposite side of the Atlantic. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 176.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099554172
- ISBN
- 9780099554172
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
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Paperback. When it isn't prison, it's hell. Or at least that's the heartfelt belief of conscripts Jonathan Browne and Mike 'Ginger' Brady. For this is the British Army in the days of National Service, a grimy deposit of post-war gloom. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 170.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099554134
- ISBN
- 9780099554134
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.88
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Paperback. When Vic Wilcox (MD of Pringle's engineering works) meets English lecturer Dr Robyn Penrose, sparks fly as their lifestyles and ideologies collide head on. What, after all, are they supposed to learn from each other? But in time both parties make some surprising discoveries about each other's worlds - and about themselves. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 214.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099554189
- ISBN
- 9780099554189
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
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Paperback. The restrictions of a wartime childhood in London and subsequent post-war shortages have done little to enrich Timothy's early youth. But everything changes when his glamorous older sister, Kath, invites him to spend the summer at Heidelberg. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 212.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099554158
- ISBN
- 9780099554158
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.85
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Paperback. Philip Swallow, Morris Zapp, Persse McGarrigle and the lovely Angelica are the jet-propelled academics who are on the move, in the air and on the make in David Lodge's satirical Small World. It is a world of glamorous travel and high excitement, where stuffy lecture rooms are swapped for lush corners of the globe, and romance is in the air.. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099554165
- ISBN
- 9780099554165
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.84
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Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784704681
- ISBN
- 9781784704681
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.23
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Paperback. Beginning in the late 60s Changing Places follows the undistinguished English lecturer Philip Swallow and hotshot American professor Morris Zapp as they exchange jobs, habitats and eventually wives. Small World sees Swallow, Zapp, Persse McGarrigle and the beautiful Angelica Pabst jet-set about the international conference scene. Num Pages: 912 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 198 x 40. Weight in Grams: 626.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Number of pages
- 912
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Combined
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099529132
- ISBN
- 9780099529132
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Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.63
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Paperback. A successful sitcom writer with plenty of money, a stable marraige, a platonic mistress and a flash car, Laurence 'Tubby' Passmore has more reason than most to be happy. Yet neither physiotherapy nor aromatherapy, cognitive-behaviour therapy or acupuncture can cure his puzzling knee pain or his equally inexplicable mid-life angst. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 246.
- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099554196
- ISBN
- 9780099554196
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.68
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Paperback. Once the grandest music-hall south of the river, now its peeling foyer is home to stale popcorn, a depressed manager, and a cast of disparate picture goers who touch and shape each other's destinies. Amongst them is Mark, the cynical intellectual who seeks sensuality and finds spirituality; Clare, his girlfriend, who loses faith and.. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784702694
- ISBN
- 9781784702694
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
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Paperback. Presents the story of hapless, scooter-riding young research student Adam Appleby, who is trying to write his thesis but is constantly distracted - not least by the fact that, as Catholics in the 1960s, he and his wife must rely on 'Vatican roulette' to avoid a fourth child. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 144.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099554226
- ISBN
- 9780099554226
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
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Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Poetry Wales Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 130
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781854114150
- ISBN
- 9781854114150
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Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 9.12
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Paperback. How does one talk about love? Num Pages: 244 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 15. Weight in Grams: 170.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Number of pages
- 244
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007377992
- ISBN
- 9780007377992
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.66
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Paperback. The story of Alan Turing, the persecuted genius who helped break the Enigma code and create the modern computer, and who received a royal pardon in 2013 Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations, port. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 28. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780753822005
- ISBN
- 9780753822005
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Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.88
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Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 19. Weight in Grams: 220.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408854587
- ISBN
- 9781408854587
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.21
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Paperback. The extraordinary true story of the discovery of one of the greatest mathematicians Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 31. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780747596325
- ISBN
- 9780747596325
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 19.44
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Paperback. The brilliant and funny new novel from the author hailed as 'one of his generation's most gifted writers' by the New York Times Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 186.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780747568285
- ISBN
- 9780747568285
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Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.35
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Paperback. *Long-awaited first UK publication of David Leavitt's novel of love and war set during the Spanish Civil War. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 20. Weight in Grams: 226.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349109534
- ISBN
- 9780349109534
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.85
€ 13.00
€ 11.85