Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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. Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in over fifty years at his mother's funeral. Accompanying his aunt, Henry joins a shiftless, twilight society: mixing with hippies, war criminals, CIA men; smoking pot, breaking the currency regulations and coming alive after a dull suburban lifetime. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 194.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099282587
- ISBN
- 9780099282587
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 5.80
€ 11.99
€ 5.80
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€ 13.93
€ 17.99
€ 13.93
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.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099478423
- ISBN
- 9780099478423
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.70
€ 11.99
€ 9.70
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€ 9.70
€ 11.99
€ 9.70
Paperback. During a vicious persecution of the clergy in Mexico, a worldly priest, the 'whisky priest', is on the run. With the police closing in, his routes of escape are being shut off, his chances getting fewer. But compassion and humanity force him along the road to his destiny, reluctant to abandon those who need him, and those he cares for. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 133 x 15. Weight in Grams: 176.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099286097
- ISBN
- 9780099286097
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.33
€ 13.99
€ 10.33
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. As mankind faces its deadliest battle, two young women must unite to prevent the forces of evil destroying the world as we know it. But theirs is no ordinary alliance, for these two women live at opposite ends of history, until fate brings them together and their destinies are inextricably intertwined. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099532828
- ISBN
- 9780099532828
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.33
€ 11.99
€ 10.33
Paperback. From the Oscar-winning screenwriter comes a superb historical thriller, based on a true story, set in 1880s New York. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130. .
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781471156687
- ISBN
- 9781471156687
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.58
€ 13.99
€ 10.58
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Poetry Wales Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781854115126
- ISBN
- 9781854115126
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.77
€ 20.77
Paperback. Graham Norton's masterful debut is an intelligently crafted story of love, secrets and loss. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton General Division
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781444791983
- ISBN
- 9781444791983
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.34
€ 11.99
€ 10.34
Paperback. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 131 x 23. Weight in Grams: 180.
- Publisher
- Monsoon Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789814625418
- ISBN
- 9789814625418
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.89
€ 11.99
€ 10.89
Paperback. Series: Helfort's War. Num Pages: 357 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 173 x 104 x 30. Weight in Grams: 181.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Del Rey
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Original
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780345513700
- ISBN
- 9780345513700
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.43
€ 9.43
Hardcover. Set in the bleak Fen Country of East Anglia, and spanning some 240 years in the lives of its haunted narrator and his ancestors, this book takes in eels and incest, ale-making and madness, the heartless sweep of history and a family romance as tormented as any in Greek tragedy. Num Pages: 408 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 207 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Publisher
- Everyman's Library
- Number of pages
- 408
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841593562
- ISBN
- 9781841593562
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.64
€ 14.99
€ 11.64
Paperback. An intensely moving and beautifully written novel from the Booker-prize winning author of Last Orders, and Mothering Sunday Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130. .
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781471162022
- ISBN
- 9781471162022
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.90
€ 11.99
€ 9.90
Paperback. Used paperback in good condition. Some shelf wear.
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- SKU
- KRF0023931
- ISBN
- 9781447203247
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Dimension: 237 x 165 x 22. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781471137402
- ISBN
- 9781471137402
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 12.95
€ 17.99
€ 12.95
Paperback. A collection of new stories from the Booker Prize-winning author of Last Ordersand Waterland Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 238.
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781471137419
- ISBN
- 9781471137419
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.83
€ 11.99
€ 9.83
Paperback. An intensely moving and beautifully written novel from the Booker-prize winning author of Last Orders, and Mothering Sunday Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF; FRD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130. .
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781471161964
- ISBN
- 9781471161964
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.57
€ 13.99
€ 10.57
Paperback. An intensely moving and beautifully written novel from the Booker-prize winning author of Last Orders, and Mothering Sunday Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 198 x 130. .
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781471161988
- ISBN
- 9781471161988
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.83
€ 11.99
€ 9.83
Paperback. As a novelist, Graham Swift delights in the possibilities of the human voice, imagining his way into the minds and hearts of an extraordinary range of characters. In Making an Elephant, his first ever work of non-fiction, the voice is his own. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 198 x 130. .
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781471161940
- ISBN
- 9781471161940
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.83
€ 11.99
€ 9.83
Paperback. The Sunday Times bestseller - an intensely moving and beautifully written new novel from the Booker-prize winning author of Last Orders and Waterland Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 197 x 16. Weight in Grams: 170. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSS0003064
- ISBN
- 9781471155246
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95