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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. As Peter MacAulay writes his will, he reflects on his life and how world events filter through to his home, Stornoway. He reveals his passions for history, engines and fish, and witnesses changing times - and things that don't change - in the Hebrides. It's about stories, a litany of small histories witnessed during one very individual lifetime. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 200 x 38. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Publisher
- Saraband
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908643971
- ISBN
- 9781908643971
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.93
€ 13.99
€ 10.93
Paperback. Series: The County Guides. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KRS0029516
- ISBN
- 9780008147082
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. A warm, humane, and sharply observed tale of small town life that is by equal turns hilarious and moving. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007156542
- ISBN
- 9780007156542
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.91
€ 11.99
€ 9.91
Mixed media product. A specially designed collector's hardback set of KNOTS AND CROSSES, BLACK AND BLUE and EXIT MUSIC with exclusive extra material only available in this box set. Series: A Rebus Novel. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 132. .
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Box Har/Cr
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781409169017
- ISBN
- 9781409169017
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.14€ 50.58
€ 71.14
€ 50.58
Paperback. Visiting Thailand to marry a sex worker, Raymond is informed that his father's body has been discovered in an isolated villa on the Belgian coast. While his bride embarks on a career in the Dutch and German porn industries, Raymond moves into the villa with the intention of renovating the property. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 172.
- Publisher
- Salt Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784630263
- ISBN
- 9781784630263
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.15
€ 11.99
€ 10.15
Paperback. Set in Chicago, this title features Nix, a college instructor whose novel has flopped. Although he and his pregnant wife are struggling financially, their fortunes change when Nix is asked to ghostwrite the memoirs of publishing magnate Zira Fontaine. Num Pages: 225 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 55 x 85 x 23. Weight in Grams: 249.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Northern Illinois University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 225
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875807096
- ISBN
- 9780875807096
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.54
€ 17.99
€ 17.54
paperback. The year is 1972, the Cold War is far from over and Serena Frome, in her final year at Cambridge, is being groomed for MI5. Sent on Operation Sweet Tooth - a highly secret undercover mission - she meets Tom Haley, a young writer. First she loves his stories, then she begins to love the man. Can she maintain the fiction of her undercover life? Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 35. Weight in Grams: 358. Good clean copy showing light age and shelfwear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMO0001585
- ISBN
- 9780099578789
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
hardcover. Trudy has betrayed her husband, John. She's still in the marital home - a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse - but not with John. Instead, she's with his brother, the profoundly banal Claude, and the two of them have a plan. But there is a witness to their plot: the inquisitive, nine-month-old resident of Trudy's womb. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 145 x 26. Weight in Grams: 404. Good clean copy showing light age and wear, with light nicks and tears to dust jacket
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape London
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMO0000452
- ISBN
- 9781911214335
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
Paperback. Thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, like Cecilia, has come down from Cambridge. By the end of that day, the lives of all three will have been changed for ever. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 25. Weight in Grams: 306. Some shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KTK0095830
- ISBN
- 9780099507383
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. It is July 1962. Edward and Florence, young innocents married that morning, arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in their rooms they struggle to suppress their private fears of the wedding night to come and, unbeknownst to them both, the events of the evening will haunt them for the rest of their lives. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 170.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099512790
- ISBN
- 9780099512790
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.04
€ 13.99
€ 11.04
Paperback. Joe Rose's calm, organised life is shattered by a ballooning accident. The afternoon could have ended in mere tragedy, but for his meeting with Jed Parry. Unknown to Joe, something passes between them that it will test to the limits Joe's scientific rationalism, threaten the love of his wife and drive him to the brink of murder and madness. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 244.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099276586
- ISBN
- 9780099276586
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth marriage floundering. But this time it is different: his wife is having the affair, and he is still in love with her. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 288. Fine copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KJE0003387
- ISBN
- 9780099549024
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
Paperback. One windy spring day in the Chilterns Joe Rose's calm, organized life is shattered by a ballooning accident. The afternoon, Rose reflects, could have ended in mere tragedy, but for his brief meeting with Jed Parry. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 16. Weight in Grams: 186. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KJE0000700
- ISBN
- 9780099481249
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
paperback. In the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her too is Robbie Turner who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge. By the end of that day, the lives of all three will have changed for ever.. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 29. Weight in Grams: 360. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Vintage London
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMK0004714
- ISBN
- 9780099429791
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.44
€ 5.44
paperback. In the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her too is Robbie Turner who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge. By the end of that day, the lives of all three will have changed for ever.. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 29. Weight in Grams: 360. Clean copy with some shelf wear but remains good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Vintage London
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KCW0000479
- ISBN
- 9780099429791
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 5.44
€ 5.44
Paperback. Perowne makes his way to his weekly squash game through London streets filled with hundreds of thousands of anti-war protestors. A minor car accident brings him into a confrontation with Baxter, a fidgety, aggressive, young man, on the edge of violence. To Perowne's professional eye, there appears to be something profoundly wrong with him. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing London
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099469681
- ISBN
- 9780099469681
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.06
€ 13.99
€ 11.06
Paperback. Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth marriage floundering. But this time it is different: his wife is having the affair, and he is still in love with her. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 288.
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- SKU
- KEX0302721
- ISBN
- 9780099549024
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
Paperback. Taut, brooding and densely atmospheric, these stories show us the ways in which murder can arise out of boredom, perversity can result from adolescent curiosity, and sheer evil might be the solution to unbearable loneliness. Num Pages: 208 pages, 1. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784703608
- ISBN
- 9781784703608
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. A true story of the Berlin Tunnel or Operation Gold, the abortive brainchild of the CIA and MI6. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 202.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099277095
- ISBN
- 9780099277095
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
Paperback. Charles Frieth, pre-eminent composer and conductor, is preparing for a performance of one of his works, Demonic Aubade. Obstinate and myopic, he is oblivious to the growing turmoil around him. As the performance draws near, the maestro is awoken to the chaos, and as Charles struggles to regain control of his life, a tragedy begins to unfold. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 7. Weight in Grams: 86.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 80
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099526995
- ISBN
- 9780099526995
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
Paperback. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 178 x 110. .
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784705121
- ISBN
- 9781784705121
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.82
€ 11.99
€ 10.82
Paperback. A collection of macabre short stories. Ian McEwan received the Somerset Maugham Award in 1976 for a previous collection of short stories entitled "First Love, Last Rites". Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 128 x 10. Weight in Grams: 124.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099754718
- ISBN
- 9780099754718
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. Fiona Maye, a leading High Court judge, renowned for her fierce intelligence and sensitivity is called on to try an urgent case. For religious reasons, a seventeen-year-old boy is refusing the medical treatment that could save his life. Time is running out. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 188.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099599630
- ISBN
- 9780099599630
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.06
€ 13.99
€ 11.06
Paperback. On a chilly February day two old friends meet in the throng outside a crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane. Both Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday had been Molly's lovers in the days before they reached their eminence, Clive as Britain's composer, and Vernon as editor of the quality broadsheet, The Judge. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 188.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099272779
- ISBN
- 9780099272779
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.06
€ 13.99
€ 11.06