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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Hardcover. Anthony, fifth Earl of Droitwich, is engaged to Violet, a millionaires daughter which was a result of their families planning rather than natures course. Their plan to maintain the family coffers is undermined by the arrival of his Nanny whom under the influence of too much medicinal Brandy allows certain skeletons out of the family tomb. Series: Everyman's Library P G Wodehouse. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 189 x 134 x 23. Weight in Grams: 318.
Publisher
Everyman
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841591872
ISBN
9781841591872
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.98

Hardcover. Mulliner has an endless supply of brothers, nephews and cousins who feature in the tales with which he entertains the regulars in his favourite pub. There is George, the stammerer, who finds the courage to propose only after being chased by a mob; Wilfred, the chemist, who muddles his cosmetic potions with dire results and more. Series: Everyman's Library P G Wodehouse. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 191 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 312.
Publisher
Everyman
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841591131
ISBN
9781841591131
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.06

Hardcover. Concerns Bill Oakshott's struggle to find ways of getting his girl while financing his inheritance at Ashenden Manor. But, the real hero of this book is Frederick Altamont Cornwallis, fifth Earl of Ickenham. This noble lord describes himself as 'one of the hottest earls that ever donned a coronet'. Series: Everyman's Library P G Wodehouse. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 192 x 141 x 29. Weight in Grams: 430.
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841591476
ISBN
9781841591476
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.41

Hardcover. Includes stories that reflect author's own happy schooldays at Dulwich College but they also do a good deal more. Series: Everyman's Library P G Wodehouse. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 186 x 129 x 30. Weight in Grams: 424.
Publisher
Everyman
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841591797
ISBN
9781841591797
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.99

Hardcover. When Jimmy falls for a girl in London and vows to reform himself as a result, the quest for love leads him to his Aunt Nesta's house in New York, where his escapades involve impersonating himself and attempting to kidnap Nesta's odious son Ogden - with the boy demanding a cut of the ransom money. Series: Everyman's Library P G Wodehouse. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 191 x 134 x 30. Weight in Grams: 412.
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841591353
ISBN
9781841591353
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.95

hardcover. Three American sisters leave their chicken farm on Long Island for a holiday in Europe. In France they encounter the charming but penniless Marquis de Maufringneuse, his writer son Jeff, and the marquis' tough American ex-wife. Series: Everyman's Library P G Wodehouse. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 192 x 139 x 22. Weight in Grams: 322.
Publisher
Everyman
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841591865
ISBN
9781841591865
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.99

paperback. This is an omnibus collection of stories and novels about Jeeves, Bertie Wooster's inimitable manservant. Series: Jeeves & Wooster. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 154 x 43. Weight in Grams: 774.
Publisher
Hutchinson
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Edition
reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780091739874
ISBN
9780091739874
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.43

Hardcover. Always to be found in the bar-parlour of the Angler's Rest where he is a favourite with the accomplished barmaid, Miss Postlethwaite, Mr Mulliner, the narrator of Meet Mr Mulliner, returns for another series of stories about his extraordinary relations, including Lancelot, Adrian, Cyril, Sacheverell, Eustace, Egbert and Augustine Mulliner. Series: Everyman's Library P G Wodehouse. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 342.
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841591261
ISBN
9781841591261
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.47

Hardcover. Series: Everyman's Library P G Wodehouse. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 192 x 139 x 24. Weight in Grams: 400.
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841591247
ISBN
9781841591247
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.41

Paperback. We were not the first to live here. Two teenagers living in medieval Ireland, one a descendant of a race that shares their planet, discover a truth that was only told in fairy tales or myths. Why must the lighthouse fire never be extinguished? Who is Cailleach? Where is Tir na Leasa? What do the invaders want?" Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 228 x 21. Weight in Grams: 384. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
New Generation Publishing
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KCW0001717
ISBN
9781906558291
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. A lead title for Spring 2016, Armadillos is far more than a coming of age story. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. Weight in Grams: 280.
Publisher
Legend Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785079597
ISBN
9781785079597
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.98

Paperback. Casting Off is a hilarious, poignant story of friendship, loyalty and sacrifice. It's a story about never giving up and how reaching out to strangers can completely change our lives. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 272 x 27. Weight in Grams: 306.
Publisher
Black and White Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785300578
ISBN
9781785300578
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.15

paperback. A humorous look at golf by the acclaimed author of the "Jeeves and Wooster" stories. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 154 x 36. Weight in Grams: 620.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Hutchinson
Condition
New
SKU
9780091745752
ISBN
9780091745752
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 16.68

Hardcover. Offering a collection of stories, this book includes various feeble-minded men and lively young women. Series: Everyman's Library P G Wodehouse. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 131 x 27. Weight in Grams: 390.
Publisher
Everyman's Library
Number of pages
288
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841591216
ISBN
9781841591216
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.04

Hardcover. Weaving a comic tale of suspense and romance, this book features an adventure story in which crime and even gun-play drive the plot. Series: Everyman's Library P G Wodehouse. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 192 x 137 x 32. Weight in Grams: 442.
Publisher
Everyman
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841591254
ISBN
9781841591254
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.96

Paperback. Originally published in Turkish in 2008 by Kalem Agency. Translator(s): Ates, Stephanie. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 27. Weight in Grams: 336.
Publisher
Peter Owen Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
KTG0012781
ISBN
9780720613476
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Editor(s): Wright, Dr. Julia M. Series: Broadview Editions. Num Pages: 337 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 406.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd Canada
Number of pages
337
Condition
New
SKU
V9781551112633
ISBN
9781551112633
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 30.94

Paperback. Fintan Buckley is a pleasant, rather conventional and unimaginative man, who works as a legal adviser in Dublin. As he goes about his life, working and spending time with his family, Fintan begins to experience states of altered consciousness and auditory hallucinations, which seem to take him out of a linear experience of time. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 132 x 18. Weight in Grams: 278. Nice copy in clean dustwrapper. First edition signed by the author.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
Main
Number of pages
240
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
SKU
KEX0303028
ISBN
9780571290864
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 35.00

mass_market. Felicito Yanaque has raised himself from poverty to ownership of a trucking business. He receives a threatening letter demanding protection money. The police don't take him seriously, Felicito refuses to pay up and gets sucked into a nightmare. Then his mistress is kidnapped, and matters become seriously complicated. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 112 x 34. Weight in Grams: 226.
Edition
Open Market - Airside ed
Number of pages
400
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
KTG0016393
ISBN
9780571310722
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 6.99
€ 4.99

Paperback. Resistance opens in 1944, as the women of a small Welsh farming community wake one morning to find that their husbands have gone. Soon after that a German patrol arrives in their valley. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 27. Weight in Grams: 290.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571326129
ISBN
9780571326129
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.74

Hardback. Another restrained yet monumental epic-in-miniature by one of the most elegant and lucid of modern European writers Translator(s): Watkinson, Laura. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 144 x 22. Weight in Grams: 302.
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857056085
ISBN
9780857056085
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.00

Paperback. The heartbreaking tale of a doomed love affair in Hitler's Germany. Translator(s): Rilke, Ina. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 134 x 198 x 14. Weight in Grams: 136.
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857051110
ISBN
9780857051110
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.29

Paperback. The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop. Trapped between caring for her alcoholic father and her job as a secretary at the boys' prison, she tempers her dreary days with dreams of escaping to the big city. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 234 x 19. Weight in Grams: 194.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
9781784701468
ISBN
9781784701468
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.33

Paperback. They said I've done something wrong?.. And they've just left me down here to starve. Haven't had a drop in days more so.. Salem, Massachusetts, 1851: McGlue is in the hold, still too drunk to be sure of his name or situation or orientation - he may have killed a man. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784706623
ISBN
9781784706623
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.29

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