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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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

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.
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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. A respected literary biographer, Mark is working on the life of Gilbert Strong - a writer about whom he thinks he knows everything. Happily married, and apparently dedicated to a life of letters, he nevertheless falls in love with Strong's granddaughter Carrie, an unsophisticated young woman more interested in bedding plants than books or passion. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 198 x 14. Weight in Grams: 172.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141196831
ISBN
9780141196831
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.66

Paperback. .
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140256949
ISBN
9780140256949
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.00
€ 16.86

Paperback. Claudia Hampton - beautiful, famous, independent, dying. But she remains defiant to the last, telling her nurses that she will write a 'history of the world.. and in the process, my own'. But Claudia's life is entwined with others and she must allow those who knew her, loved her, the chance to speak, to put across their point of view. Series: Penguin Essentials. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 113 x 182 x 17. Weight in Grams: 130.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241973684
ISBN
9780241973684
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.23

Paperback. Settled into the drowsy village life of Laddenham, where she is playing camp follower to her highly successful husband - clever, agnostic and interested - Clare Paling discovers that small communities offer interesting sideshows of adultery, gossip and carefully adhered to pecking orders. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 171 x 199 x 12. Weight in Grams: 132.
Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1982
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140061185
ISBN
9780140061185
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.23

Paperback. Helen is fifty-two and Edward forty-nine when Dorothy, their mother, dies, ending her reign of terror and leaving them ill-equipped to deal with their lives. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 197 x 14. Weight in Grams: 160.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Penguin UK
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140119329
ISBN
9780140119329
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.00
€ 16.79

Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
SKU
9780241978535
ISBN
9780241978535
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.70

Paperback. Ann Linton leaves her family in Berkshire and sets up camp in her father's house when he is taken into a nursing home in distant Lichfield. As she shares his last weeks she meets David Fielding, and the love they share brings her feelings into sharp focus. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 216.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1983
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140061178
ISBN
9780140061178
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.85

Paperback. Run by Toby and Paula, the centre offers ordinary people a chance to learn from professional artists skilled in poetry, sculpture, ceramics, and the like. Artists like Greg, the New England poet, whose works are strangely absent; or Bob the lascivious potter who sells his Toby jugs to department stores. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 126 x 18. Weight in Grams: 144. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1984
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0000712
ISBN
9780140064810
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Detached and unwordly paleontologist Howard Beamish is on a journey that is to change his life. Travelling to Nairobi, his plane is forced to land in Marsopolis, the capital of Callimbia, where Cleopatra's sister entertained Antony. Also on the flight is Lucy Faulkner, a journalist with a sketchy knowledge of Callimbia's political turbulence. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 134 x 19. Weight in Grams: 206. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0000730
ISBN
9780140175936
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Frances, happily married for many years, and suddenly plunged into mourning. Her international celebrity husband Steve has died leaving her unprepared and vulnerable. This title illuminates two terrifying taboos of the twentieth-century - death and grief. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 196. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1985
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0000731
ISBN
9780140069969
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 350.
Publisher
Persephone Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9781903155677
ISBN
9781903155677
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 19.21

Paperback. With three husbands in her past, one in her present and a numberless army of children, Mrs Armitage is astonished to find herself collapsing one day in Harrods. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 216 x 23. Weight in Grams: 126.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241240106
ISBN
9780241240106
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. Num Pages: 287 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 175 x 109 x 21. Weight in Grams: 146.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc United States
Number of pages
287
Condition
New
SKU
V9780553282153
ISBN
9780553282153
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.50

hardcover. Num Pages: 165 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 140. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1980
Publisher
Marion Boyars United Kingdom
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
165
Condition
New
SKU
V9780714526799
ISBN
9780714526799
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.31

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