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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. Jeff Atman, a journalist, is in Venice to cover the opening of the Biennale. He's expecting to see a load of art, go to a lot of parties and drink too many bellinis. He's not expecting to meet the spellbinding Laura, who will completely transform his few days in the city. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 214.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Main - Dyer series cover
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782115144
- ISBN
- 9781782115144
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.77
€ 13.99
€ 10.77
Paperback. Walker is at a party where he meets Rachel. Two days later she turns up at his apartment. However, it's not Walker she wants but her husband Malory, who has gone missing. She asks Walker to find him. And as Walker's search grows in its weird intensity, it seems that somebody else is following, searching for him too. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 146 x 11. Weight in Grams: 126. 176 pages. Walker is at a party where he meets Rachel. Two days later she turns up at his apartment. However, it's not Walker she wants but her husband Malory, who has gone missing. She asks Walker to find him. And as Walker's search grows in its weird intensity, it seems that somebody else is following, searching for him too. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 204 x 146 x 11. Weight: 126.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857862730
- ISBN
- 9780857862730
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.53
€ 13.00
€ 11.53
Paperback. 'A beautifully composed rave generation rhapsody .. dripping with eroticism.' Sunday Times Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 202. A Romance. 288 pages. 'A beautifully composed rave generation rhapsody . dripping with eroticism.' Sunday Times. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 198 x 130 x 18. Weight: 202.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857864055
- ISBN
- 9780857864055
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.74
€ 13.99
€ 10.74
Paperback. 'Not since Colin MacInnes's City of Spades and Absolute Beginners thirty years ago has a novel stuck a flick-knife so accurately into the young and marginal city' The Times Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 199 x 18. Weight in Grams: 198. 288 pages. 'Not since Colin MacInnes's City of Spades and Absolute Beginners thirty years ago has a novel stuck a flick-knife so accurately into the young and marginal city' The Times. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 164 x 199 x 18. Weight: 198.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857862716
- ISBN
- 9780857862716
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.50
€ 13.00
€ 11.50
Paperback. Num Pages: 374 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 142 x 25. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Publisher
- Harbour Books (East) Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Paperback re-issue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905128273
- ISBN
- 9781905128273
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.01
€ 10.99
€ 10.01
Paperback. Packer has a new assignment. A wealthy businessman, Kamata, wants to rescue an ailing car company, but the moment the announcement is made, death threats are made against him by a former prisoner-of-war. Kamata is kidnapped and Packer is soon in the jungle, both hunter and hunted as he searches for the missing man and is tracked by his enemies. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF; FH; FJM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 111 x 31. Weight in Grams: 212. 8vo. Very good former library copy.Religon
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- SKU
- KEX0286927
- ISBN
- 9780099427957
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Twenty years out of the combat zone, hidden from killers, but now fate has thrust Alex Crawford back into the front line. Though he is an aid worker, the secret service minders who have protected him for twenty years have reactivated him: they want information about the man who perpetrated a massacre in a Muslim village in Bosnia. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FH; FJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 170 x 178 x 30. Weight in Grams: 328. Good copy with some shelf wearth
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Arrow London
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- SKU
- KYB0000429
- ISBN
- 9780099549413
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Twenty years out of the combat zone, hidden from killers, but now fate has thrust Alex Crawford back into the front line. Though he is an aid worker, the secret service minders who have protected him for twenty years have reactivated him: they want information about the man who perpetrated a massacre in a Muslim village in Bosnia. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FH; FJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 170 x 178 x 30. Weight in Grams: 328. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Arrow London
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- SKU
- KAK0009719
- ISBN
- 9780099549413
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
paperback. Num Pages: 182 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 19. Weight in Grams: 249.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Dedalus Limited United Kingdom
- Edition
- REV ed.
- Number of pages
- 182
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781903517048
- ISBN
- 9781903517048
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.38
€ 11.38
Paperback. The gripping sequel to the 1939 classic crime masterpiece, ROGUE MALE. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780222103
- ISBN
- 9781780222103
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.06
€ 13.99
€ 11.06
Paperback. Features observations on life complemented by illustrations. Illustrator(s): Searle, Ronald. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 432 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; FA; FC; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141186009
- ISBN
- 9780141186009
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.88
€ 13.00
€ 11.88
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- K A Nitz
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780473281809
- ISBN
- 9780473281809
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 6.01
€ 24.99
€ 6.01
Paperback. Coming back home from the Far East after years serving in Burma, George returns to South Wales to deal with ferociously Communist self-appointed commissars of the local colliery, and getting enough black market coupons off Jack Bach the butcher's wife to buy a suit and marry beautiful, dark-haired Peggy the Papers. Num Pages: ill. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 143 x 22. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Parthian Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908069955
- ISBN
- 9781908069955
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.44
€ 13.99
€ 13.44
Paperback. Num Pages: 458 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Broadview Press Ltd Canada
- Number of pages
- 458
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781551115740
- ISBN
- 9781551115740
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 32.80
€ 33.99
€ 32.80
Hardcover. A story which evokes a bygone rural life, and is charged with a personal passion that intensifies the novel's outer dramas of seduction and betrayal and inner dramas of moral growth and redemption. Num Pages: 598 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 136 x 35. Weight in Grams: 700.
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857150599
- ISBN
- 9781857150599
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.65
€ 16.99
€ 12.65
Paperback. Set in a rural mining village in South Wales in the years leading up to the Second World War, this book recreates a magical but alive world that will resonate with our memories, real and imagined, of childhood. Series: Library of Wales. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 133 x 13. Weight in Grams: 190.
- Publisher
- Parthian Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905762514
- ISBN
- 9781905762514
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.38
€ 11.38
Paperback. Features three novels that come together in the humorous parable of greed, religion and slum youth that is The Boy Who Wanted Peace; in the fate of old and disturbed Miss Partridge who is obsessed with the innocence of young Grace; and in the mental collapse of Mr Alfred, a middle-aged schoolteacher who is in love with one of this pupils. Series: Canongate Classics. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 36. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Publisher
- Canongate UK
- Number of pages
- 616
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780862418854
- ISBN
- 9780862418854
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.31
€ 26.99
€ 20.31
Paperback. Series: Caribbean Modern Classics. Num Pages: 436 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 137 x 33. Weight in Grams: 506.
- Publisher
- Peepal Tree Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 436
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845231453
- ISBN
- 9781845231453
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.96
€ 19.99
€ 15.96
Paperback. A compelling and intricate novel of emigration and the effects of colonialism on a people Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly. Dimension: 139 x 216 x 22. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472064700
- ISBN
- 9780472064700
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.61
€ 24.61
Paperback. George MacDonald Fraser's hilarious stories of the most disastrous soldier in the British Army - collected together for the first time in one volume. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 38. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
- Number of pages
- 608
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- New ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780006513711
- ISBN
- 9780006513711
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.40
€ 19.99
€ 14.40
Paperback. Repackaged to tie-in with hardback publication of 'The Reavers' and to appeal to a new generation of George MacDonald Fraser fans, 'The Pyrates' is a swashbuckling romp of a novel. Num Pages: 416 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780006470175
- ISBN
- 9780006470175
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.38
€ 13.00
€ 11.38
Hardcover. One of a series of fiction titles for schools. In Orwell's classic story the animals, led by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, drive out Farmer Jones and set up an Animals' Republic in which all are to be free and equal. But the saviours turn out to be just as greedy, vain and oppressive. Series: New Windmills. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: FA; YFH; YQEF. Category: (ES) Secondary; (UA) A / AS level. Dimension: 196 x 132 x 10. Weight in Grams: 152.
- Publisher
- Pearson Education Limited United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 96
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1972
- Edition
- reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780435121655
- ISBN
- 9780435121655
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 22.16
€ 22.16
Paperback. George Bowling, forty-five, mortgaged, married with children, is an insurance salesman with an expanding waistline, a new set of false teeth - and a desperate desire to escape his dreary life. He fears modern times - since, in 1939, the Second World War is imminent - foreseeing food queues, soldiers, secret police and tyranny. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 196.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141185699
- ISBN
- 9780141185699
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.26
€ 11.99
€ 10.26
Paperback. Gordon Comstock loathes dull, middle-class respectability and worship of money. He gives up a 'good job' in advertising to work part-time in a bookshop, giving him more time to write. But he slides instead into a self-induced poverty that destroys his creativity and his spirit. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141183725
- ISBN
- 9780141183725
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.25
€ 11.99
€ 10.25