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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. The seventeen year old Hornblower became infamous as soon as he stepped on board ship as the midshipman who was seasick in the Spithead, but things were soon to change. Amid battle, action and adventure he proves himself time and time again - courageous in danger, resourceful in moments of difficulty and decisive in times of trouble. Num Pages: 640 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 27. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Publisher
- Penguin UK
- Number of pages
- 640
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140119398
- ISBN
- 9780140119398
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 17.77
€ 21.99
€ 17.77
Paperback. Combines seafaring tales about Horatio Hornblower, namely: "Flying Colours", "The Commodore", "Lord Hornblower" and "Hornblower in the West Indies". Num Pages: 768 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 11. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140119404
- ISBN
- 9780140119404
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 16.69
€ 21.99
€ 16.69
Paperback. Some time around his 50th birthday, Ambrose Zephyr fails his annual medical check-up. An illness of inexplicable origin with no known or foreseeable cure is diagnosed and it will kill him within a month. Give or take a day. In the time that remains, he decides to travel to all the places he ever wanted to visit, in strict alphabetical order. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 136.
- Publisher
- Granta Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846271113
- ISBN
- 9781846271113
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 8.51
€ 9.99
€ 8.51
Paperback. From the author of The End of the Alphabet, the magical story of an unlikely romance between an illiterate Parisian baker and a woman with her head permanently buried in a book Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 202.
- Publisher
- Portobello Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846271137
- ISBN
- 9781846271137
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.03
€ 10.99
€ 10.03
Paperback. Illustrator(s): Costantini, Flavio. Num Pages: 364 pages, 1. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 196 x 30. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- PM Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781629631868
- ISBN
- 9781629631868
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99
€ 16.99
Paperback. The Caine Prize for African Writing is Africa's leading literary prize, and is awarded to a short story by an African writer published in English, whether in Africa or elsewhere. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 136 x 19. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Publisher
- New Internationalist Publications Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 2014 ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780261744
- ISBN
- 9781780261744
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 16.07
€ 16.99
€ 16.07
Paperback. I'm fourteen, and I've just decided to kill myself. I don't really want to die, of course! I just need to kill Johanna, and build a new girl. Dolly Wilde will be everything I want to be, and more! But as with all the best coming-of-age stories, it doesn't exactly go to plan.. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 127 x 23. Weight in Grams: 246.
- Publisher
- Ebury Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780091949013
- ISBN
- 9780091949013
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.33
€ 17.99
€ 14.33
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 136 x 19. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Liberties Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781909718999
- ISBN
- 9781909718999
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 15.83
€ 15.99
€ 15.83
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 132. Weight in Grams: 367.
- Publisher
- Random House USA Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780553394788
- ISBN
- 9780553394788
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.13
€ 17.99
€ 16.13
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 296 x 19. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Publisher
- Granta Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847088147
- ISBN
- 9781847088147
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.09
€ 17.99
€ 13.09
Paperback. A collection of twenty stories that are both melancholy and funny, farce and fantasy. It charts the struggles of an Italian peasant to reconcile country habits with urban life, combining comical disasters with a surrealistic view of city life through the eyes of an outsider. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 114.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Vintage Digital
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099428541
- ISBN
- 9780099428541
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 10.25
€ 12.99
€ 10.25
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co
- Edition
- Student
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781585101535
- ISBN
- 9781585101535
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.10
€ 22.10
Paperback. An explicitly sexual, lustful novel about a fevered love affair between a married man and a single woman Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844084456
- ISBN
- 9781844084456
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.12
€ 13.99
€ 11.12
Paperback. This is the story of Thelma, from childhood to adulthood, and her return to England from Canada to study law at Oxford. Through sexual abuse, anorexia and borderline multiple personality disorder, Thelma retains her spirit, wit and imagination. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 10. Weight in Grams: 214.
- Publisher
- Vintage/Ebury (a Division of Random
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099286585
- ISBN
- 9780099286585
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.03
€ 10.99
€ 10.03
Paperback. In Thatcher's London, Lilly, a white Muslim nurse, struggles in a state of invisible exile. As Ethiopian refugees gradually fill the flats of the housing estate where she lives, Lilly tentatively begins to share with them her longing for the home she herself once had in Africa and her heartbreaking search for her missing lover. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 29. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099499190
- ISBN
- 9780099499190
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 19.49
€ 25.99
€ 19.49
Paperback. Surreal, ambitious, and exquisitely conceived, THE DOLL'S ALPHABET is a collection of stories in the tradition of Angela Carter and Margaret Atwood. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 17. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Publisher
- Fitzcarraldo Editions
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910695371
- ISBN
- 9781910695371
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.61
€ 14.99
€ 12.61
Hardback.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Number of pages
- 528
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- KLN0018802
- ISBN
- 9780340922590
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.49
€ 5.49
Paperback. IN ONE MOMENT THE HORROR BECOMES YOUR LIFE. IT'S NOT JUST IN THE PAPERS ANYMORE, IT'S ON YOUR HANDS. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 15. Weight in Grams: 176. Used paperback, in very good condition. Some shelf wear.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- KRF0037663
- ISBN
- 9780007241729
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Abandoned by her mother with only some cash, her birth certificate and the rucksack on her back, a young woman named Maren sets off on a long journey of self-discovery. She doesn't blame her mother for leaving, she's only too aware of the trail of pain and tragedy that lies in her wake, following her like a ghost. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 196 x 22. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405916264
- ISBN
- 9781405916264
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.90
€ 14.99
€ 11.90
Paperback. Num Pages: 334 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Publisher
- Amazon Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781503939974
- ISBN
- 9781503939974
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.63
€ 16.99
€ 15.63