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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. The love affair between Maurice Bendix and Sarah, flourishing in the turbulent times of the London Blitz, ends when she suddenly and without explanation breaks it off. After a chance meeting rekindles his love and jealousy two years later, Bendix hires a private detective to follow Sarah, and slowly his love for her turns into an obsession. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 131 x 14. Weight in Grams: 144.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099478447
- ISBN
- 9780099478447
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099529033
- ISBN
- 9780099529033
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.81
€ 20.99
€ 16.81
Paperback. Tells the chilling story of a small boy caught up in the games that adults play. Left in the care of the butler and his wife whilst his parents go on a fortnight's holiday, Philip realises too late the danger of lies and deceit. But the truth is even deadlier. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 11. Weight in Grams: 120.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099286233
- ISBN
- 9780099286233
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.29
€ 11.99
€ 10.29
Paperback. In a prison in Occupied France one in every ten men is to be shot. The prisoners draw lots among themselves - and for rich lawyer Louis Chavel, it seems that his whole life has been leading up to an agonizing and crucial failure of nerve. Hysterical with a sense of injustice, he offers to barter everything he owns for someone to take his place. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 122.
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099284147
- ISBN
- 9780099284147
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
Paperback. Querry, a world famous architect, is the victim of a terrible attack of indifference: he no longer finds meaning in art or pleasure in life. Arriving anonymously at a Congo leper village, he is diagnosed as the mental equivalent of a 'burnt-out case', a leper who has gone through a stage of mutilation. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 166.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- Centenary Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099478430
- ISBN
- 9780099478430
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. Pyle is a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through a mysterious 'Third Force'. As his naive optimism starts to cause bloodshed, his friend Fowler, a cynical foreign correspondent, finds it hard to stand aside and watch. But even as he intervenes he wonders why: for the sake of politics, or for love? Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 154.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099478393
- ISBN
- 9780099478393
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.47
€ 9.47
Paperback. With Sancho Panza, a deposed Communist mayor, his faithful Rocinate, an antiquated motorcar, Monsignor Quixote roams through modern-day Spain in this picaresque fable. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 133 x 17. Weight in Grams: 154.
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099283942
- ISBN
- 9780099283942
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.04
€ 13.99
€ 11.04
Paperback. Doctor Fischer despises the human race. The notorious toothpaste millionaire decides to hold the last of his famous parties. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 10. Weight in Grams: 124.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099288497
- ISBN
- 9780099288497
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. Raven is an assassin, a hired killer, and his brutal murder of the Minister raises the spectre of war across Europe. As the nation prepares for battle, Raven goes on the run, hunted by the police and hunting the man who paid him in stolen banknotes, eventually unearthing the terrible truth behind the killing. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 156.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099286141
- ISBN
- 9780099286141
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
paperback. A gripping spy thriller that unfolds aboard the majestic Orient Express as it crosses Europe from Ostend to Constantinople. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FHD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 162.
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- Centenary Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099478362
- ISBN
- 9780099478362
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
Paperback. A young boy, Victor, is collected from school by a stranger in a bowler hat - the stranger says he has won Victor in a game of backgammon with Victor's father. The stranger, known as the Captain, takes Victor to live with the sweet but withdrawn Lisa, where he serves as her conduit to the outside world. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 13. Weight in Grams: 142.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099529149
- ISBN
- 9780099529149
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
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Paperback. Anthony Farrant has always found his way, lying to get jobs and borrowing money to get by when he leaves them in a hurry. His twin suster Kate persuades him to move and sets him up with a job as a bodyguard to Krogh, which has drastic results. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 158.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099286172
- ISBN
- 9780099286172
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.29
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Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099286226
- ISBN
- 9780099286226
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.20
€ 17.99
€ 14.20
Paperback. Wormold is a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of powercuts. His adolescent daughter spends his money with a skill that amazes him so when a mysterious Englishman offers him an extra income he's tempted. In return all he has to do is file a few reports. But when his fake reports start coming true things suddenly get more complicated. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FH; FJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 17. Weight in Grams: 186.
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099286080
- ISBN
- 9780099286080
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.45
€ 10.45
Paperback. Andrews is a young man who has betrayed his fellow smugglers and fears their vengeance. Fleeing from them, with no hope of pity or salvation, he takes refuge in the house of a young woman, also alone in the world. She persuades him to give evidence against his accomplices in court. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 162.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099286158
- ISBN
- 9780099286158
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.78
€ 13.99
€ 10.78
paperback. In this portrait of the murkier areas of London, Drover, a communist bus-driver, has been sentenced to death for killing a policeman in a political riot because he thought the policeman was going to strike his wife. A bitter irony hovers over the ensuing battles to save Drover. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 152.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099282228
- ISBN
- 9780099282228
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.25
€ 17.99
€ 14.25
Paperback. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JAMES WOOD Scobie, a police officer serving in a wartime West African state, is distrusted, being scrupulously honest and immune to bribery. But then he falls in love, and in doing so he is forced to betray everything he believes in, with drastic and tragic consequences. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 208. Good clean copy. Showing light shelfwear, remains a nice copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0021669
- ISBN
- 9780099478423
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 11.99€ 9.15
€ 11.99
€ 9.15
Paperback. A leak is traced to a small sub-section of SIS, sparking off the inevitable security checks, tensions and suspicions. The sort of atmosphere, perhaps, where mistakes could be made? For Maurice Castle, it is the end of the line anyway, and time for him to retire to live peacefully with his African wife, Sarah. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 208.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099288527
- ISBN
- 9780099288527
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.70
€ 11.99
€ 9.70
paperback. Graham Greene's gripping tragicomedy of a bungled kidnapping in a provincial Argentinian town is considered one of his finest. It tells of Charley Fortnum, the 'Honorary Consul', a whisky-sodden figure of dubious authority taken by a group of revolutionaries. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 132 x 19. Weight in Grams: 216.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099478386
- ISBN
- 9780099478386
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.45
€ 11.99
€ 10.45
paperback. For Arthur Rowe, the charity fete was a trip back to childhood, to innocence, a welcome chance to escape the terror of the Blitz, to forget twenty years of his past and a murder. Then he guesses the weight of the cake, and from that moment on he's a hunted man, the target of shadowy killers. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 15. Weight in Grams: 164.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099286189
- ISBN
- 9780099286189
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 10.45
€ 12.99
€ 10.45