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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Grumpy old women meet Bridget Jones in the continuing story of Marie Sharp, first met in the bestseller 'No! I Don't Want to Join a Bookclub'. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 199 x 23. Weight in Grams: 252.
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780878607
ISBN
9781780878607
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.85

Paperback. The final instalment in the diaries of Marie Sharp, the Bridget Jones for the SAGA generation - still growing old disgracefully Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 26. Weight in Grams: 252.
Publisher
Quercus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782069355
ISBN
9781782069355
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.62

Paperback. Too young to get whisked away by a Stannah Stairlift, or to enjoy the luxury of a walk-in bath, Marie is all the same getting on in years - and she's thrilled about it. She's a bit preoccupied about whether to give up sex, but there are compensations, like falling in love with her baby grandson, and maybe falling in love with someone else too. Num Pages: 256 pages, no pictures. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 188. Some shelf wear, but remains good
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Penguin
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
1st Paperback Printing
SKU
KTJ0007221
ISBN
9780141025834
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Hardback. Grumpy Old Women meet Bridget Jones in the continuing story of Marie Sharp, first met in the bestseller No! I Don't Want to Join a Bookclub. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 142 x 33. Weight in Grams: 490. Good, clean copy in dust wrapper DW showing minor shelfwear
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
SKU
KSG0004306
ISBN
9781780878584
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. One family. Two mothers. Which one will they choose? A moving family drama perfect for fans of Harriet Evans, Lisa Jewell and Jojo Moyes. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 127 x 33. Weight in Grams: 332.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780751554236
ISBN
9780751554236
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.05

Paperback. A BIG story about a small boy who sees the world a little differently - for fans of The Rosie Project and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 30. Weight in Grams: 346.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780751554274
ISBN
9780751554274
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.05

Paperback. From an astonishing new voice, this debut charts the life of Roscoe T Martin, first as a farm owner with a fractured family, then as prison inmate.. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 19. .
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781471152238
ISBN
9781471152238
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.78

Paperback. Virginia Woolf portrays her elder sister Vanessa in the person of Katharine Hilbery - the gifted daughter of a distinguished literary family, trapped in an environment which will not allow her to express herself. This title deals with their story. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 131 x 31. Weight in Grams: 376.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
528
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099982708
ISBN
9780099982708
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.81

Paperback. Katharine Hilbery is beautiful and privileged, but uncertain of her future. She must choose between becoming engaged to the oddly prosaic poet William Rodney, and her dangerous attraction to the passionate Ralph Denham. Num Pages: 496 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 352.
Publisher
Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140185683
ISBN
9780140185683
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.50

Paperback. Tracing the lives of a group of friends, this book follows their development from childhood to youth and middle age. It presents rich poetic language that expresses the inner life of its characters: their aspirations, their triumphs and regrets, and their awareness of unity and isolation. Editor(s): Flint, Kate. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 15. Weight in Grams: 214.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141182711
ISBN
9780141182711
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.30

Paperback. A party of English people board the Euphrosyne bound for South America. Among them is Rachel Vinrace, young, innocent and wholly ignorant of the world of politics and society. She is a free spirit, half-caught, momentarily and passionately, by Terence Hewet, an aspiring writer. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 28. Weight in Grams: 308.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099982906
ISBN
9780099982906
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.89

Paperback. WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY VALENTINE CUNNINGHAM AND CAROL ANN DUFFY In this vivid portrait of one day in a woman's life, Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of party she is to give that evening. As she readies her house she is flooded with memories and re-examines the choices she has made over the course of her life. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 154.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099470458
ISBN
9780099470458
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.05

Hardcover. This is the story of a woman and her family experiencing the passage of time and seeking to recapture meaning from the flux of things. Though Mrs Ramsay's death is the event on which the novel turns, her presence pervades every page in a poetic evocation of loss and memory. Num Pages: 242 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 131 x 22. Weight in Grams: 420.
Publisher
Everyman
Number of pages
242
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857150308
ISBN
9781857150308
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.83

Paperback. Jacob Flanders is a young man passing from adolescence to adulthood in a hazy rite of passage. From his boyhood on the windswept shores of Cornwall to his days as a student at Cambridge, his elusive, chameleon-like character is gradually revealed in a stream of loosely related incidents and impressions. Num Pages: 240 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 15. Weight in Grams: 180.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140185706
ISBN
9780140185706
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.05

Paperback. Series: Modern Library. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 208 x 135 x 24. Weight in Grams: 470.
Publisher
Random House USA Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
1st Thus.
Condition
New
SKU
9780375757273
ISBN
9780375757273
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. One of the author's works was published shortly after her death in 1941. The story takes place at Pointz Hall, the country home of the Oliver family for 120 years. Its central focus is the performance of a village pageant, written and directed by the Miss La Trobe, encompassing the whole history of England from the Middle Ages to the verge of war. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 11. Weight in Grams: 132.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099982609
ISBN
9780099982609
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.27

Paperback. A captivating fusion of elegy, autobiography, socio-political critique and visionary thrust, To the Lighthouse is the most accomplished of all Woolf's novels. This new edition includes a full contextualizing introduction and notes by David Bradshaw. Editor(s): Bradshaw, David. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 127 x 13. Weight in Grams: 194.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199536610
ISBN
9780199536610
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.78

Hardcover. First published in 1925, this traces a day in the life of society hostess, Clarissa Dalloway. It is Woolf's first complete rendering of her "stream of consciousness" mode, which displays the inner workings of the mind as it considers the surface and darker depths of reality. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 209 x 136 x 27. Weight in Grams: 398.
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857151572
ISBN
9781857151572
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.83

Paperback. Editor(s): Kermode, Frank. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 182.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199536573
ISBN
9780199536573
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.81

Paperback. Orlando is a passionate young nobleman whose days are spent in rowdy revelry, filled with the colourful delights of Queen Elizabeth's court. By the close, he will have transformed into a modern, thirty-six-year-old woman and three centuries will have passed. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 244.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099478287
ISBN
9780099478287
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.07

Paperback. A portrait of a young man, tracing his life from childhood, to Cambridge University, and to his early adult life in artistic London. Jacob always yearns for something greater, and embarks on a voyage to the Mediterranean before the war begins and his fate is forever altered. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 152.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099478263
ISBN
9780099478263
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.09

Paperback. Follows the lives of the Pargiters, a large middle-class London family, from an uncertain spring in 1880 to a party on a summer evening in the 1930s. We see them each endure and remember heart-break, loss, radical change and stifling conformity, marriage and regret. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 296.
Publisher
Vintage
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099982807
ISBN
9780099982807
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.85

Paperback. A party of English people are aboard the Euphrosyne, bound for South America. Among them is Rachel Vinrace, innocent and wholly ignorant of the world of politics and society, sex, love and marriage. This is an exploration of a young woman's mind, signalling the beginning of her fascination with capturing the mysteries and complexities of life. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 300.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140185638
ISBN
9780140185638
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.81

Paperback. For years now the Ramsays have spent every summer in their holiday home in Scotland, and they expect these summers will go on forever; but as the First World War looms, the integrity of family and society will be fatally challenged. Editor(s): McNichol, Stella. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 238.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141183411
ISBN
9780141183411
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.38

Paperback. 'To the Lighthouse' was Virginia Woolf's fifth novel, and was the first book to win her a large public. The story of an English middle class family in the years leading up to the First World War, it has remained the most popular of all her works. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 162.
Edition
New Ed
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099478294
ISBN
9780099478294
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 7.05

Paperback. Society hostess, Clarissa Dalloway is giving a party. Her thoughts and sensations on that one day, and the interior monologues of others whose lives are interwoven with hers gradually reveal the characters of the central protagonists. Clarissa's life is touched by tragedy as the events in her day run parallel to those of Septimus Warren Smith. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 10. Weight in Grams: 120.
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Edition
New
Condition
New
SKU
V9781853261916
ISBN
9781853261916
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 6.56

Paperback. Orlando, a young nobleman in Elizabeth's England, awaits a visit from the Queen. Now, an ambassador in Costantinople, awakes to find that he is a woman. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations, notes. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 126 x 12. Weight in Grams: 140.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions
Condition
New
SKU
9781853262395
ISBN
9781853262395
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.05

Paperback. Series: Modern Library. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 208 x 135 x 24. Weight in Grams: 470. Very good copy with light shelf wear. Light nicks, remains very good
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Random House USA Inc
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KCW0018216
ISBN
9780375757273
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Hardback. Set in the years leading up to the First World War, this work is an elegy, not just for an individual character, but for a generation lost in and affected by the war. Editor(s): Bishop, Edward. Series: Shakespeare Head Press Edition of Virginia Woolf. Num Pages: 224 pages, 0. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 160 x 14. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631177227
ISBN
9780631177227
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 213.03

paperback. Provides the author's own early experiences, and while it touches on childhood and children's perceptions and desires, it is most clear when exploring adult relationships, marriage and the changing class-structure in the period spanning the Great War. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 11. Weight in Grams: 118.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9781853260919
ISBN
9781853260919
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 6.74

Paperback. Translator(s): Reynolds, Sian. Num Pages: 365 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 202 x 21. Weight in Grams: 312.
Publisher
The Feminist Press at CUNY
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781558619272
ISBN
9781558619272
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.98

Paperback. Num Pages: 96 pages, 5 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 9. Weight in Grams: 114.
Publisher
Copy Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780955379239
ISBN
9780955379239
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.12

Paperback. This haunting, elegiac tale about the secret love of a man destined shortly to die, was published in the year before the author's death and is her last novel. She also wrote "All Passion Spent", "The Edwardians", "Family History", "Seducers in Ecuador" and "The Heir". Series: VMC. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 11. Weight in Grams: 110.
Publisher
Virago
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1985
Condition
New
SKU
V9780860685784
ISBN
9780860685784
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.86

Paperback. CHALLENGE was written in 1920, but at the last moment it was withdrawn from publication because of the scandal it would have caused. It was inspired by Vita's relationship with Violet Trefusis. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 21. Weight in Grams: 256.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844087655
ISBN
9781844087655
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.52

paperback. Having spent some time in Rome, Antonio returns to his native town with the reputation of being a playboy and with a long list of amorous adventures behind him. To please his father, Antonio agrees to marry the beautiful Barbara. A year after their marriage however - scandal erupts. Barbara is still a virgin. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 131 x 22. Weight in Grams: 226.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Penguin Classic
Condition
New
SKU
9780141189062
ISBN
9780141189062
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.29

Paperback. Focusing on several central themes, this title illustrate with clarity the changing face and fortunes of this great city, Belfast during the century of so after the Great Irish Famine (1845-50). It includes images that have been drawn from the collections of the Ulster Museum. Series: In Old Photographs. Num Pages: 128 pages, illustrations, map, ports. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 171 x 9. Weight in Grams: 366. 8vo.Illustrated. Belfast History. Very good clean copy. First edition
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
The History Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
UK ed.
SKU
KEX0287338
ISBN
9780750917544
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 20.00

Paperback. Num Pages: 226 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 172 x 216 x 16. Weight in Grams: 314. Clean copy showing some shelf wear and foxing to edges
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
CATBIRD PRESS
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KMK0001082
ISBN
9780945774174
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Translator(s): Katz, Michael R. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 308.
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801489037
ISBN
9780801489037
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.34

Paperback. Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, frustrated college professor. In love with his landlady's twelve-year-old daughter Lolita, he'll do anything to possess her. Unable and unwilling to stop himself, he is prepared to commit any crime to get what he wants. Is he in love or insane? A tortured soul or a monster? Or is he all of these? Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 188 x 23. Weight in Grams: 264.
Publisher
Penguin
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241953242
ISBN
9780241953242
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.93

Paperback. Dr Philip Wild, a man of brilliance, wit, fortune and tremendous bulk, is used to suffering humiliations at the hands of his wife, the younger, slender, and rudely promiscuous Flora. But in a novel, a 'maddening masterpiece' documenting her infidelities, written by one of her lovers and given to the doctor, she appears as My Laura. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 196 x 23. Weight in Grams: 286.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141191164
ISBN
9780141191164
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.61

Paperback. 'Look at the harlequins ..Play! Invent the world! Invent reality'. This is the childhood advice given by an aunt to Russian born writer Vadim Vadimovich, who emigrates to England, then Paris, then Germany and then the US, and, now dying, reconstructs his past. He remembers Iris his first wife, Annette his long-necked typist and Bel his daughter. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 248.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141198033
ISBN
9780141198033
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.81

Paperback. Professor Timofey Pnin, previously of Tsarist Russia, is now precariously positioned at the heart of campus America. Battling with American life and language, Pnin must face great hazards in this new world. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 166.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
Re-issue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141183756
ISBN
9780141183756
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.86

Paperback. Spurred on by admiration for his novelist half-brother and irritation at the biography written about him by Mr Goodman ('his slapdash and very misleading book'), the narrator, V, sets out to record Sebastian Knight's life as he understands it. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 12. Weight in Grams: 212.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141185996
ISBN
9780141185996
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.85

Paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241302484
ISBN
9780241302484
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.85

Paperback. Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, fastidious college professor. He also likes little girls. And none more so than Lolita, who he'll do anything to possess. Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster?! Or is he all of these? Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 113 x 28. Weight in Grams: 266.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141023496
ISBN
9780141023496
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.05

Paperback. Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, frustrated college professor. In love with his landlady's twelve-year-old daughter Lolita, he'll do anything to possess her. Unable and unwilling to stop himself, he is prepared to commit any crime to get what he wants. Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? Or is he all of these? Series: Penguin Essentials. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 110 x 20. Weight in Grams: 204.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin
Publication date
2011
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241951644
ISBN
9780241951644
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.81

Paperback. The state has been recently taken over and is being run by the tyrannical and philistine 'Average Man' party. Under the slogans of equality and happiness for all, it has done away with individualism and freedom of thought. Only John Krug, a brilliant philosopher, stands up to the regime. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 186.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141185767
ISBN
9780141185767
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.81

Paperback. Includes sixty-five stories of magic and melancholy that display a range of inventiveness, with fairy tales, intellectual games and glimpses into lives of ambiguity and loss. Editor(s): Nabokov, Dmitri. Translator(s): Nabokov, Dmitri. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 816 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 45. Weight in Grams: 748.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
816
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141183459
ISBN
9780141183459
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 15.40

Hardcover. A novel constructed around the last great poem of a fictional American poet, John Shade, and an account of his death. The poem appears in full and the narrative develops through the lengthy, and increasingly eccentric, notes by his posthumous editor. Num Pages: 318 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 128 x 22. Weight in Grams: 412.
Publisher
Everyman
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857150674
ISBN
9781857150674
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.56

Paperback. The American poet John Shade is dead; murdered. His last poem, Pale Fire, is put into a book, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade's editor, Charles Kinbote. Known on campus as the 'Great Beaver', Kinbote is haughty, inquisitive, intolerant, but is he also mad, bad - and even dangerous? Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 242.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141185262
ISBN
9780141185262
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.93

hardcover. Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, out of love, 'to fix once for all the perilous magic of nymphets'. Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster? Or is he all of these? Num Pages: 329 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 134 x 28. Weight in Grams: 530.
Publisher
Everyman's Library
Number of pages
329
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857151336
ISBN
9781857151336
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 16.27

paperback. An annotated edition of "Lolita". It attempts to elaborate on the verbal textures and show how they contribute to the novel's overall meaning. It also provides observations on the novel's artifice, games and verbal patternings. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 544 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 24. Weight in Grams: 376.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
544
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141185040
ISBN
9780141185040
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.83

Paperback. A novella in which a middle-aged man weds an unattractive widow in order to indulge his paedophilic obsession with her daughter. Translator(s): Nabokov, Dmitri. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 8. Weight in Grams: 108.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141191188
ISBN
9780141191188
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.27

Paperback. A romance that follows Ada from her first childhood meeting with Van Veen on his uncle's country estate, in a 'dream-bright' America, through eighty years of rapture, as they cross continents, are continually parted and reunited, come to learn the strange truth about their singular relationship. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 36. Weight in Grams: 456.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
496
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141181875
ISBN
9780141181875
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.57

Paperback. Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, out of love, 'to fix once for all the perilous magic of nymphets'. Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster? Or is he all of these? Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 14. Weight in Grams: 234.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
9780141182537
ISBN
9780141182537
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 10.45

Paperback.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141196329
ISBN
9780141196329
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.74

Paperback. Translator(s): Ready, Oliver. Series: Dedalus Europe. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
Publisher
Dedalus Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910213148
ISBN
9781910213148
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 15.99

Paperback. Translator(s): Ready, Oliver. Series: Dedalus Europe 2013. Num Pages: 348 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 334.
Publisher
Dedalus Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781907650710
ISBN
9781907650710
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.10

Paperback. Translator(s): Gambrell, Jamey. Num Pages: 704 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 127 x 39. Weight in Grams: 718.
Publisher
The New York Review of Books, Inc United States
Number of pages
704
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781590173862
ISBN
9781590173862
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 22.68

Paperback. Translator(s): Laird, Sally. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 128 x 16. Weight in Grams: 286.
Publisher
The New York Review of Books, Inc United States
Number of pages
280
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781590172742
ISBN
9781590172742
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 15.92

Paperback. Combining traditional elements with the fantastic and the surreal, Ivanov's stories address not only the themes of the Russian revolution but also the quiet world of man and nature, and the elemental bond that tied peasants to their native land. Translator(s): Brougher, Valentina; Miller, Frank J. Series: Sources & translations series of the Harriman Institute, Columbia University US. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 25. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Edition
Translated
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810115477
ISBN
9780810115477
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.26

Paperback. Translator(s): Steiger, Krystyna A. Num Pages: 186 pages, 1. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 278. 186 pages, 1. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Dimension: 201 x 140 x 16. Weight: 278. Translator(s): Steiger, Krystyna A.
Publisher
Twisted Spoon Press
Number of pages
186
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9788086264363
ISBN
9788086264363
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.12

Paperback. Series: A Dog's Purpose. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. .
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
New Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781509852826
ISBN
9781509852826
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.67

Paperback. Tells how led by the reliably under-insightful Binder, a team of seven British men including Dr Prone (constantly ill); Jungle the route finder (constantly lost), Constant the diplomat (constantly arguing) and 3,000 Yogistani porters, set out to conquer the highest peak in the Himalayas. Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 13. Weight in Grams: 166.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
2841st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099530381
ISBN
9780099530381
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.81

Paperback. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 147 x 218 x 15. Weight in Grams: 206.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
NeWest Press Canada
Number of pages
120
Condition
New
SKU
V9781897126813
ISBN
9781897126813
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.12

Paperback. Series: Dover Thrift S. Num Pages: 176 pages, music. BIC Classification: 1KBB; FA; FC; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 203 x 11. Weight in Grams: 162. Series: Dover Thrift S. 176 pages, music. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1KBB; FA; FC; HBJK. Dimension: 209 x 132 x 11. Weight: 140.
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780486280417
ISBN
9780486280417
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 6.48

Paperback. In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with foster parents. This childless couple promptly erase from the boy all knowledge of his identity and he grows up ignorant of his past. Translator(s): Bell, Anthea. Num Pages: 448 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 198 x 30. Weight in Grams: 316.
Publisher
Penguin
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Re-issue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241951804
ISBN
9780241951804
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.03

Paperback. Editor(s): Mendelson, Edward. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 132 x 21. Weight in Grams: 281.
Publisher
Random House USA Inc United States
Number of pages
344
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
Expanded ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780307278081
ISBN
9780307278081
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.23

Paperback. Here are his notorious First Nation narratives of indigenous Canadians, and a literary homage to J. D. Salinger. Alongside the "real" story of the 1951 Giants and the afterlife of Roberto Clemente, are the legends of a pirated radio station and a hockey game rigged by tribal magic. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FM; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 156 x 47. Weight in Grams: 471.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Tachyon Publications
Condition
New
SKU
9781616961879
ISBN
9781616961879
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 6.23

Paperback. Arthur and his beautiful, innocent fiancee Margaret look forward to an idyllic life together, until they encounter the mesmerising and repulsive Oliver Haddo. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 188.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099289005
ISBN
9780099289005
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.86

Paperback. The second of four volumes of short stories which reflect Somerset Maugham's wry perception of human foibles and gift for evoking drama from a sense of time and place. Set in Malaya, America and England, they include "Flotsam and Jetsam", "The Man With the Scar" and "The Vessel of Wrath". Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 38. Weight in Grams: 390.
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Number of pages
544
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099428848
ISBN
9780099428848
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.27

Paperback. On his way home from a remote Pacific island, Dr Saunders travels with two strangers: the treacherous Captain Nichols, and Fred, a handsome Australian with a shadowy past. Driven to shelter from a storm on the island of Banda, the trio meet good-natured Erik Christessen and his fiancee, the cool and beautiful Louise. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 168.
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099286882
ISBN
9780099286882
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.85

paperback. Mary Panton walls up her desires in a beautiful villa high up in the hills above Florence, as she calmly contemplates her disastrous marriage. But a single act of compassion begins a nightmare of violence that shatters her serenity. She turns for help to the notorious Rowley Flint. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 9. Weight in Grams: 100.
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099478324
ISBN
9780099478324
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.09

Paperback. At the age of twenty-three, Charlie Mason is endowed with good looks, good manners and a cheerful disposition. Following three years at Cambridge and one working in his father's business, he is looking forward to a jaunt in Paris with one of his oldest friends. Yet Paris is not what he expects. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 133 x 18. Weight in Grams: 198.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099286851
ISBN
9780099286851
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.81

Paperback. A collection of short stories born of the author's experiences in Malaya, Singapore and other outposts of the former British Empire. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 20. Weight in Grams: 210.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099282846
ISBN
9780099282846
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.00

Paperback. Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of this spiritual odyssey involves him with - his fiancee Isabel, whose choice between love and wealth have lifelong repercussions, and Elliot Templeton, her uncle, a classic expatriate American snob. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 23. Weight in Grams: 258.
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099284864
ISBN
9780099284864
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.74

Paperback. Introducing the world of Machiavelli, this title covers three important months in the career of that crafty politician, worldly seducer and high priest of schemers. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 106 x 17. Weight in Grams: 178.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099286868
ISBN
9780099286868
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.81

Paperback. When war broke out in 1914, Somerset Maugham was dispatched by the British Secret Service to Switzerland under the guise of completing a play. This title collects stories that are rooted in author's own experiences as an agent, reflecting the ruthlessness and brutality of espionage, its intrigue and treachery, as well as its absurdity. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FHD; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 250.
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099289708
ISBN
9780099289708
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.81

Paperback. Series: Modern Library. Num Pages: 656 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 131 x 35. Weight in Grams: 478.
Publisher
Random House USA Inc United States
Number of pages
656
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780375753152
ISBN
9780375753152
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 15.71

Paperback. After a few months studying in Heidelberg, and a brief spell in Paris as would-be artist, Philip Carey settles in London to train as a doctor. And that is where he meets Mildred, the loud but irresistible waitress with whom he plunges into a formative, tortured and masochistic affair which very nearly ruins him. Num Pages: 720 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 39. Weight in Grams: 526.
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Number of pages
720
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099284963
ISBN
9780099284963
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.11

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