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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Hilary one of the serious and dedicated, working in the Home Office in Westminster, who just happens to know the truth about the case in which Terry is currently interested. But then why is she to be found one evening walking through the back streets behind the Strand, to the run-down block where Terry's pressure group has its headquarters? Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 17. Weight in Grams: 178. Some shelf wear
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
SKU
KTK0099273
ISBN
9780571212613
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Why not program computers to take over the really dull jobs that human beings have to do - such as praying and behaving morally? This book explores computers, technology and automation with customary humour and wit. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 16. Weight in Grams: 158.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571315895
ISBN
9780571315895
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.73

Paperback. Uncumber lives in a dystopian world, where all humanity is divided in two - the Insiders and the Outsiders. Uncumber lives in this luxurious world and is told that she must never go out into the dust and disease of the real world. When she falls in love with an Outsider, she decides to go exploring.. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 12. Weight in Grams: 122.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571315932
ISBN
9780571315932
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.66

Paperback. Raya, a mercurial Moscow blonde who speaks no English, and the affair she is embarking upon with Gordon Proctor-Gould, a British businessman who speaks no Russian. They need an interpreter; which is how Paul Manning is diverted from writing his thesis at Moscow University to become involved in all the deceptions of love and East-West relations. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 14. Weight in Grams: 170.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571315888
ISBN
9780571315888
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.71

Paperback. Set in the crossword and nature notes department of an obscure national newspaper during the declining years of Fleet Street, where John Dyson dreams wistfully of fame and the gentlemanly life - until one day his great chance of glory at last arrives. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 16. Weight in Grams: 194.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571315871
ISBN
9780571315871
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.73

Paperback. When Martin Clay, a young would-be art historian, believes he has discovered a missing masterpiece. The owner of the painting is oblivious to its potential and asks Martin to help him sell it, leaving Martin with the chance of a lifetime: if he could only separate the painter from its owner, he would be able to perform a great public service.. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 26. Weight in Grams: 304.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571283484
ISBN
9780571283484
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.71

Paperback. Small and insignificant Bastian Balthazar Bux is nobody's idea of a hero, least of all his own. Through the pages of an old book he discovers a mysterious world of enchantment - but a world that is falling into decay. The great task of making things well again falls on Bastian. Illustrator(s): Quadflieg, Roswitha. Translator(s): Manheim, Ralph. Num Pages: 384 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 5AK; FA; YFH. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 197 x 131 x 18. Weight in Grams: 262.
Publisher
Penguin
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1984
Edition
Illustrated
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140074314
ISBN
9780140074314
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.41

Paperback. Num Pages: 357 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 154 x 30. Weight in Grams: 496.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
McArthur & Company United States
Number of pages
357
Condition
New
SKU
V9781552787052
ISBN
9781552787052
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 20.23

Paperback. Harry Jones, hero of The Edge of Madness, is caught in a web of international intrigue, with an old friend as bait and a female scorpion at his side Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153. Weight in Grams: 494. Clean copy, with very light shelfwear. Good to very good
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
UK ed.
SKU
KST0017628
ISBN
9781847372871
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Anthony is a British journalist whose American wife, Lucy, has died suddenly. Haunted by her death, he becomes obsessed with her past and the years he missed before he met her. To find out more, he travels to a remote part of the Nevada desert to meet Lucy's first husband. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 114 x 13. Weight in Grams: 116. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
Main
SKU
KSS0004216
ISBN
9780571207787
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Anthony is a British journalist whose American wife, Lucy, has died suddenly. Haunted by her death, he becomes obsessed with her past and the years he missed before he met her. To find out more, he travels to a remote part of the Nevada desert to meet Lucy's first husband. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 114 x 13. Weight in Grams: 116. Well-read paperback in good condition.Some shelf wear; may have some light soiling.
Condition
Used, Good
Edition
Main
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
SKU
KRF0030985
ISBN
9780571207787
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 234 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 141 x 14. Weight in Grams: 326.
Publisher
NeWest Press Canada
Number of pages
234
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
1St Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781897126370
ISBN
9781897126370
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 17.15

Paperback. From the Pultizer Prize-winning author of 'The Hours', comes the story of a marriage thrown off course by a moment of mistaken identity. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 126 x 196 x 17. Weight in Grams: 194.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Edition
01st Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007437849
ISBN
9780007437849
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.67

Paperback.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007156061
ISBN
9780007156061
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 12.50

Paperback. Here are the moments that our fairy tales forgot or deliberately concealed, reimagined by one of the most gifted storytellers of his generation, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Hours, and exquisitely illustrated by Yuko Shimizu. Rarely have our bedtime stories been this dark, this perverse, or this true. Illustrator(s): Shimizu, Yuko. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 264 x 13. Weight in Grams: 210.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
9780008140403
ISBN
9780008140403
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 4.95

Paperback. Meet Bobby, Jonathan and Clare. Three friends, three lovers, three ordinary people trying to make a place for themselves in the Seventies and Eighties. And as our threesome form a new kind of relationship, a new approach to family and love, questioning so much about the world around them, so they hope to create a space, a home, in which to live. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 240.
Publisher
Hamish Hamilton
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241954539
ISBN
9780241954539
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. 'Luminously written .. page-turningly enjoyable, this is a profound novel about love from a highly regarded, Pulitzer-winning novelist' Sunday Times Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 258.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007557691
ISBN
9780007557691
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.67

Paperback. Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize and Pen Faulkner prize. Made into an Oscar-winning film, 'The Hours' is a daring and deeply affecting novel inspired by the life and work of Virginia Woolf. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 128 x 16. Weight in Grams: 176.
Publisher
Fourth Estate
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841150352
ISBN
9781841150352
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.67

Paperback. It is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, six years since the extraordinary dream of science and imagination came to a crashing end - the dinosaurs destroyed, the park dismantled, the island indefinitely closed to the public. But there are rumours that something survived. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 29. Weight in Grams: 314.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Cornerstone
Condition
New
SKU
9781784752231
ISBN
9781784752231
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.45

Paperback. On a remote jungle island, genetic engineers have created a dinosaur game park. An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now one of mankind's most thrilling fantasies has come true and the first dinosaurs that the Earth has seen in the time of man emerge. But there is a dark side to the fantasy. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 33. Weight in Grams: 338.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Cornerstone
Condition
New
SKU
9781784752224
ISBN
9781784752224
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.14

Paperback. In the heart of Africa, three intrepid adventurers are desperate to find the fabulous diamonds of the lost city of Zinj. They encounter the Kigani cannibals, flaming volcanoes and ferocious gorillas - and Amy, the cuddly gorilla who's fluent in sign language. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FH; FJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 111 x 25. Weight in Grams: 214.
Publisher
Arrow
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099544319
ISBN
9780099544319
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. Thomas Sanders' world collapses in just 24 hours - he is passed over for promotion, his new woman boss comes on to him during a drink after work, then, the next morning, he learns that she has accused him of sexually harassing her. She demands his transfer, thereby threatening to cut him off from the millions he would have made. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FH; FJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 110 x 30. Weight in Grams: 248.
Condition
Used, Good
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Arrow
Publication date
1994
Edition
New edition
SKU
KNH0012838
ISBN
9780099303749
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. The bestselling mystery of murder, love and obsession Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 35. Weight in Grams: 412.
Publisher
Hodder And Stoughton Ltd.
Number of pages
608
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
3rd Impession
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719568374
ISBN
9780719568374
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.81

Paperback. The fifth Harry Bosch novel from the award-winning No. 1 bestselling author. The murder of a Hollywood producer has all the signs of a Mafia hit but something doesn't add up for Harry Bosch. Soon to air in Series 2 of BOSCH on Amazon Prime Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781409165910
ISBN
9781409165910
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.68

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