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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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

€ 19.00
€ 16.79

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

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

€ 19.00
€ 16.77

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
€ 11.00

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
€ 11.02

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
€ 11.02

Paperback. Presents an acutely observed study of marriage and manipulation. This title tells the story of the dangers of digging up the dark secrets of the past. Series: Penguin Decades. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 190.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141044859
ISBN
9780141044859
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.68

Paperback.
Publisher
Word Publishing,US United States
Number of pages
308
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9780849944659
ISBN
9780849944659
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 16.21

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

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

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
€ 16.63

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

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

€ 15.99
€ 11.38

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

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
€ 10.65

Paperback. From the Booker Prize-winner of 'Offshore' comes this entertaining tale of a chaotic stage school and its singular headmistress. With a new introduction by Simon Callow. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 17. Weight in Grams: 208.
Publisher
Flamingo
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780006542551
ISBN
9780006542551
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.62

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

Hardcover. When Phillip Creighton faces his diagnosis of cancer alone, he thinks back on his humble beginnings and painful love affairs. Moving from 1930's Wyoming, through 1950's Spain and Kenya, to modern Texas and Tanzania, Crossing Stars tells the story of three generations and one man's chance to become the father he had wanted to be. Num Pages: 584 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FRD; FT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 162 x 36. Weight in Grams: 862.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
584
Condition
New
SKU
V9780761861218
ISBN
9780761861218
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 45.60

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Bella Books United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9781594930676
ISBN
9781594930676
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 14.79

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

Paperback. Bonnie, never domestically inclined, has given up her life as a musician to become a stay-at-home mother to three small children. She tells herself she has no regrets, but sometimes the isolation and endless drudgery are overwhelming, and threaten to swamp the love between Bonnie and her partner, Pete. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 234 x 25. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Scribe Publications Australia
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781921844270
ISBN
9781921844270
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 18.32

Paperback. An acclaimed, award-winning comic novel about truth, lies and storytelling, with an unforgettably unreliable narrator, translated from its innovative Swiss vernacular back into the Glaswegian that was its original inspiration. Translator(s): McLaughlin, Donal. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 200.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Freight Books
Edition
Tra
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908754226
ISBN
9781908754226
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 14.35

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

€ 15.99
€ 11.45

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
€ 21.18

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