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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they all swore to stay friends for life. Now Tony is retired. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Film Tie-In
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784705633
ISBN
9781784705633
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. In May 1937, a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away to the Big House. Any celebrity he has known in the previous decade is no use to him now. And few who are taken to the Big House ever return. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 283 x 18. Weight in Grams: 182.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784703325
ISBN
9781784703325
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.00

Paperback. Charts the life of Jean Serjeant, from her beginning as a naive, carefree country girl before the war through to her wry and trenchant old age in the year 2020. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 176.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099540090
ISBN
9780099540090
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. Graham Hendrick, an historian, has left his wife Barbara for the vivacious Ann, and is more than pleased with his new life. Until, that is, the day he discovers Ann's celluloid past as a mediocre film actress. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 188.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
2000th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099540076
ISBN
9780099540076
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. Christopher and Toni found in each other the perfect companion for that universal adolescent pastime: smirking at the world as you find it. In between training as flaneurs and the grind of school they cast a cynical eye over their various dislikes: parents with their lives of spotless emptiness, and the inhabitants of Metroland, and more. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 174.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099540069
ISBN
9780099540069
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.29

Paperback. As every schoolboy knows, you can fit the whole of England on the Isle of Wight. Grotesque, visionary tycoon Sir Jack Pitman takes the saying literally and does exactly that. He constructs on the island 'The Project', a vast heritage centre containing everything 'English', from Manchester United to the white cliffs of Dover. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 11. Weight in Grams: 254.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099526544
ISBN
9780099526544
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. Deals with Flaubert, parrots, bears and railways; with our sense of the past and our sense of abroad; with France and England, life and art, sex and death, George Sand and Louise Colet, aesthetics and redcurrant jam; and, with its narrator, a retired English doctor, whose life and secrets are slowly revealed. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 186.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099540083
ISBN
9780099540083
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.26

Paperback. Stoyo Petkanov, the deposed Party leader of a former Soviet satellite country, is on trial. His adversary, the prosecutor general, stands for the new government's ideals and liberal certainties, and is attempting to ensare Petkanov with the dictator's own totalitarian laws. But he is not beaten yet. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 10. Weight in Grams: 116.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099540144
ISBN
9780099540144
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 111 x 177 x 20. Weight in Grams: 142.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784703332
ISBN
9781784703332
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.81

Paperback. A collection of stories, in which a divorcee falls in love with a mysterious European waitress; a widower relives a favourite holiday; two writers rehearse familiar arguments; and, a couple bond, fall out and bond again over flowers and vegetable patches. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 137 x 16. Weight in Grams: 182.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099552475
ISBN
9780099552475
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. In Talking it Over Gillian and Stuart were married until Oliver - witty, feckless Oliver - stole Gillian away. In this book, the author revisits the three of them. It is an exploration of contemporary love and its betrayals. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 244.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099540168
ISBN
9780099540168
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. Beginning with an unlikely stowaway's account of life on board Noah's Ark, this book presents a surprising and subversive fictional-history of earth told from several kaleidoscopic perspectives. Num Pages: 320 pages, 1 Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 150 x 21. Weight in Grams: 316.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099540120
ISBN
9780099540120
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.37

Paperback. Featuring characters, who in their different ways, square up to death and rage against the dying light, this book is written by the winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 15. Weight in Grams: 186.
Edition
01st Edition
Publisher
Vintage Books USA
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099554998
ISBN
9780099554998
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.01

Hardcover. Examines the attempts of an increasingly bemused researcher to establish certain facts about a famous French novelist and the stuffed bird which used to sit on his desk. This book blends fact and fiction in a virtuoso kaleidoscope of vignettes from Noah's time to the present. Num Pages: 488 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 132 x 31. Weight in Grams: 604.
Publisher
Everyman Guides
Number of pages
488
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841593487
ISBN
9781841593487
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.39

Paperback. Shy, sensible banker Stuart has trouble with women; that is, until a fortuitous singles night, where he meets Gillian, a picture restorer recovering from a destructive affair. Stuart's best friend Oliver is his complete opposite - a language teacher who 'talks like a dictionary', brash and feckless. Soon Stuart and Gillian are married. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 274.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099540137
ISBN
9780099540137
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.00

Paperback. 100 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 198 x 127 x 9. Weight: 140. Translator(s): Costa, Margaret Jull.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Dedalus Limited
Number of pages
100
Condition
New
SKU
V9781903517598
ISBN
9781903517598
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.29

Paperback. A sparkling new Christmas novel from Julia Williams Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 25. Weight in Grams: 258.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Condition
New
SKU
KEX0302322
ISBN
9781847563606
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. A sparkling new Christmas novel from Julia Williams Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 25. Weight in Grams: 258. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear. Cover slightly soiled.
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
SKU
KTG0013998
ISBN
9781847563606
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. A sparkling new Christmas novel from Julia Williams Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 25. Weight in Grams: 258.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
KSG0013137
ISBN
9781847563606
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. One for all and all for one.. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 25. Weight in Grams: 256. Used paperback, in good condition. Some shelf wear.
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
UK ed.
SKU
KIN0007462
ISBN
9781847560872
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. An absorbing novel about family, love and friendship from the bestselling author of Last Christmas. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 274. Clean copy with some reader wear.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
UK ed.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
SKU
KTM0000726
ISBN
9781847560896
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Bella Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9781594933967
ISBN
9781594933967
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.63

Paperback. McBride is having a tough time. The last expert in the ancient art of pearl fishing, he's on a quest to track down the pearl that will complete a necklace for his wife, Elspeth, convinced that the love token will save their marriage. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 248.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784704292
ISBN
9781784704292
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.65

Paperback. The fifth and final novel in the Fogas Chronicles: the battle is on to save the little village of Fogas in the French Pyrenees, and this time the stakes are higher than ever. Series: Fogas Chronicles. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 35. Weight in Grams: 258.
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444764499
ISBN
9781444764499
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

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