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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. In London's changing heartland, architect Matthew Halland is aware of how the past and the present blend. It stirs memories of his boyhood, the early years of his daughter Jane and the failed marriage that he has almost put behind him. Here too is the London of prehistory, of Georgian elegance, of the Blitz. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 160.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140156676
- ISBN
- 9780140156676
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.82
€ 20.99
€ 16.82
Paperback. Allersmead is a big shabby Victorian suburban house. The perfect place to grow up for elegant Sandra, difficult Gina, destructive Paul, considerate Katie, clever Roger and flighty Clare. But was it? Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 17. Weight in Grams: 176.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141041223
- ISBN
- 9780141041223
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
Paperback. Claudia Hampton lies dying in hospital. There is Gordon, her adored brother; Jasper, the charming, untrustworthy lover and father of Lisa, her cool, conventional daughter; and Tom, her one great love, both found and lost in wartime Egypt. This novel weaves a mesh of memories, flashbacks and shifting voices, in a story of loss and desire. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 15. Weight in Grams: 168.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141188317
- ISBN
- 9780141188317
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
Paperback. When.. Charlotte is mugged and breaks her hip, her daughter Rose cannot accompany her employer Lord Peters to Manchester, which means his niece Marion has to go instead, which means she sends a text to her lover which is intercepted by his wife, which is ..just the beginning in the ensuing chain of life-altering events. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 16. Weight in Grams: 184.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241957271
- ISBN
- 9780241957271
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
Paperback. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In a small East Anglian town, Florence Green decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 130. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Fourth Estate
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAC0002268
- ISBN
- 9780006543541
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In a small East Anglian town, Florence Green decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 130. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Fourth Estate
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAC0002160
- ISBN
- 9780006543541
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Hardcover. Includes three novels that display author's characteristic wit, intellectual breadth and narrative brilliance, applied to the different traditional forms into which she breathed new life. Num Pages: 608 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 135 x 29. Weight in Grams: 546.
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857152470
- ISBN
- 9781857152470
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.58
€ 23.99
€ 16.58
Paperback. From the Booker Prize-winning author of 'Offshore' comes this unusual romance between the poet Novalis and his fiancee Sophie, newly introduced by Candia McWilliam. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FRH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Publisher
- Flamingo
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780006550198
- ISBN
- 9780006550198
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.70
€ 13.99
€ 10.70
Paperback. From the Booker Prizewinning author of 'Offshore' and 'The Blue Flower'; a funny, touching, authentic story of life at Broadcasting House during the Blitz. Num Pages: 208 pages, port. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 158.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780006542544
- ISBN
- 9780006542544
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.70
€ 13.99
€ 10.70
Paperback. A new edition of the Booker Prize winner Penelope Fitzgerald's best-loved novel of romance in post-war Italy, with a new introduction by Julian Barnes. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 21. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Publisher
- Flamingo
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780006542377
- ISBN
- 9780006542377
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.42
€ 14.99
€ 11.42
Paperback. Penelope Fitzgerald's Booker Prize-winning novel of loneliness and connecting is set among the houseboat community of the Thames and has a new introduction from Alan Hollinghurst. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 200.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007320967
- ISBN
- 9780007320967
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.93
€ 11.99
€ 9.93
Paperback. 'The Golden Child', Penelope Fitzgerald's first work of fiction, is a classically plotted British mystery centred around the arrival of the Golden Child at a London museum. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 19. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Publisher
- Fourth Estate
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780006546252
- ISBN
- 9780006546252
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.66
€ 13.99
€ 10.66
Hardcover. Translator(s): Turner, Gerald. Num Pages: 359 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 151 x 35. Weight in Grams: 602.
- Publisher
- Jantar Publishing
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780956889041
- ISBN
- 9780956889041
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.52
€ 19.99
€ 18.52
Paperback. Albert Honig is haunted by the murder and loss of one woman - his friend and neighbour since childhood - whose presence and long absence in his life have never been reconciled. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 27. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Publisher
- Oneworld Publications
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780748016
- ISBN
- 9781780748016
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.70
€ 11.99
€ 10.70
Paperback. Pedro Juan was a reporter in Havana, but as existence in Cuba and his own life begin to collapse around him, he gives up the farce of a daily job, and begins to "train himself to take nothing seriously". His training involves lots of sex, drugs, rum, jazz, beat literature and street philosophy. Translator(s): Wimmer, Natasha. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 30. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571206261
- ISBN
- 9780571206261
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.52
€ 14.99
€ 11.52
Hardback. Johnny is from New Jersey, and Kari is from Oslo. They meet in New York in the late 1950s and soon fall in love, get married, and move to Asbury Park, where their life unfolds like a dream: Kari gives birth to two beautiful daughters, and Johnny is a wildly successful entrepreneur. Translator(s): Oatley, Diane. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 211 x 27. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Seagull Books London Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857422361
- ISBN
- 9780857422361
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 21.26
€ 25.99
€ 21.26
Paperback. A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the life and labours of a Chinese farmer during the sweeping reign of the country's last emperor Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130. .
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781471151873
- ISBN
- 9781471151873
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.71
€ 13.99
€ 10.71
paperback. Translator(s): Lloyd-Jones, Antonia. Num Pages: 218 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 260. 224 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Dimension: 198 x 130 x 17. Weight: 260.
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd.
- Number of pages
- 218
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905583393
- ISBN
- 9781905583393
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.43
€ 13.99
€ 13.43
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Twisted Spoon Press Czech Republic
- Edition
- Tra
- Number of pages
- 156
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788086264271
- ISBN
- 9788086264271
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 11.90
€ 11.99
€ 11.90
Paperback. Num Pages: 243 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 145 x 203 x 16. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Clinical Press Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781854570802
- ISBN
- 9781854570802
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
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€ 11.05
Paperback. Num Pages: 271 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 21. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Clinical Press Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781854570567
- ISBN
- 9781854570567
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
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Paperback. Num Pages: 257 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 199 x 25. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Clinical Press Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781854570550
- ISBN
- 9781854570550
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
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Paperback. Driving home, Paulo passes an indigenous girl at the side of the road. Paulo gives her a lift to her family's camp. From cocaine-fuelled rich kids and the Guarani Indians camped along Brazil's highways to a squatter's life in London, Nowhere People is a raw and passionate classic in the making, about our need for human connections and a home. Translator(s): Hahn, Daniel. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Publisher
- And Other Stories
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908276384
- ISBN
- 9781908276384
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.69
€ 13.99
€ 11.69
paperback. The 25th anniversary edition of The Pilgrimage, the precursor to The Alchemist. Translator(s): Clarke, Alan R. Num Pages: 320 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: FA; HRQM2; VXA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 230. Clean copy with minor shelf wear. Previous owner's name to half-title page. Remains a very good copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- HarperCollins UK
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMK0018827
- ISBN
- 9780722534878
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99