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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. Helen is fifty-two and Edward forty-nine when Dorothy, their mother, dies, ending her reign of terror and leaving them ill-equipped to deal with their lives. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 197 x 14. Weight in Grams: 160.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Penguin UK
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140119329
- ISBN
- 9780140119329
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.79
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Paperback. Settled into the drowsy village life of Laddenham, where she is playing camp follower to her highly successful husband - clever, agnostic and interested - Clare Paling discovers that small communities offer interesting sideshows of adultery, gossip and carefully adhered to pecking orders. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 171 x 199 x 12. Weight in Grams: 132.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1982
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140061185
- ISBN
- 9780140061185
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.23
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Paperback. Claudia Hampton - beautiful, famous, independent, dying. But she remains defiant to the last, telling her nurses that she will write a 'history of the world.. and in the process, my own'. But Claudia's life is entwined with others and she must allow those who knew her, loved her, the chance to speak, to put across their point of view. Series: Penguin Essentials. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 113 x 182 x 17. Weight in Grams: 130.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241973684
- ISBN
- 9780241973684
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Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.26
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Paperback. A respected literary biographer, Mark is working on the life of Gilbert Strong - a writer about whom he thinks he knows everything. Happily married, and apparently dedicated to a life of letters, he nevertheless falls in love with Strong's granddaughter Carrie, an unsophisticated young woman more interested in bedding plants than books or passion. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 198 x 14. Weight in Grams: 172.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141196831
- ISBN
- 9780141196831
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.69
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Paperback. Series: Penguin Essentials. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 181 x 111. .
- Publisher
- Penguin UK
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241981405
- ISBN
- 9780241981405
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.79
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Paperback. Pauline is spending the summer at World's End, a cottage somewhere in the middle of England. This year the adjoining cottage is occupied by her daughter Teresa and baby grandson Luke; and, of course, Maurice, the man Teresa married. As the hot months unfold, Maurice grows ever more involved in the book he is writing. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 196 x 12. Weight in Grams: 152.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141196824
- ISBN
- 9780141196824
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Condition: New
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.70
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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
€ 13.00€ 11.42
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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€ 9.94
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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
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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
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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
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Condition: New
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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
€ 13.00€ 11.52
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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
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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
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.71
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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
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