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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
paperback. In the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her too is Robbie Turner who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge. By the end of that day, the lives of all three will have changed for ever.. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 29. Weight in Grams: 360. Clean copy with some shelf wear but remains good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Vintage London
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KCW0000479
- ISBN
- 9780099429791
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 5.44
€ 5.44
paperback. In the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her too is Robbie Turner who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge. By the end of that day, the lives of all three will have changed for ever.. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 29. Weight in Grams: 360. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Vintage London
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMK0004714
- ISBN
- 9780099429791
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.44
€ 5.44
Paperback. One windy spring day in the Chilterns Joe Rose's calm, organized life is shattered by a ballooning accident. The afternoon, Rose reflects, could have ended in mere tragedy, but for his brief meeting with Jed Parry. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 16. Weight in Grams: 186. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KJE0000700
- ISBN
- 9780099481249
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth marriage floundering. But this time it is different: his wife is having the affair, and he is still in love with her. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 288. Fine copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KJE0003387
- ISBN
- 9780099549024
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
Paperback. Joe Rose's calm, organised life is shattered by a ballooning accident. The afternoon could have ended in mere tragedy, but for his meeting with Jed Parry. Unknown to Joe, something passes between them that it will test to the limits Joe's scientific rationalism, threaten the love of his wife and drive him to the brink of murder and madness. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 244.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099276586
- ISBN
- 9780099276586
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
€ 13.99
€ 11.09
Paperback. It is July 1962. Edward and Florence, young innocents married that morning, arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in their rooms they struggle to suppress their private fears of the wedding night to come and, unbeknownst to them both, the events of the evening will haunt them for the rest of their lives. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 170.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099512790
- ISBN
- 9780099512790
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.76
€ 13.99
€ 11.76
Paperback. Thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, like Cecilia, has come down from Cambridge. By the end of that day, the lives of all three will have been changed for ever. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 25. Weight in Grams: 306. Some shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KTK0095830
- ISBN
- 9780099507383
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
hardcover. Trudy has betrayed her husband, John. She's still in the marital home - a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse - but not with John. Instead, she's with his brother, the profoundly banal Claude, and the two of them have a plan. But there is a witness to their plot: the inquisitive, nine-month-old resident of Trudy's womb. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 145 x 26. Weight in Grams: 404. Good clean copy showing light age and wear, with light nicks and tears to dust jacket
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape London
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMO0000452
- ISBN
- 9781911214335
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
paperback. The year is 1972, the Cold War is far from over and Serena Frome, in her final year at Cambridge, is being groomed for MI5. Sent on Operation Sweet Tooth - a highly secret undercover mission - she meets Tom Haley, a young writer. First she loves his stories, then she begins to love the man. Can she maintain the fiction of her undercover life? Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 35. Weight in Grams: 358. Good clean copy showing light age and shelfwear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMO0001585
- ISBN
- 9780099578789
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
Paperback. Set in Chicago, this title features Nix, a college instructor whose novel has flopped. Although he and his pregnant wife are struggling financially, their fortunes change when Nix is asked to ghostwrite the memoirs of publishing magnate Zira Fontaine. Num Pages: 225 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 55 x 85 x 23. Weight in Grams: 249.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Northern Illinois University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 225
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875807096
- ISBN
- 9780875807096
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.63
€ 17.99
€ 17.63
Paperback. Visiting Thailand to marry a sex worker, Raymond is informed that his father's body has been discovered in an isolated villa on the Belgian coast. While his bride embarks on a career in the Dutch and German porn industries, Raymond moves into the villa with the intention of renovating the property. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 172.
- Publisher
- Salt Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784630263
- ISBN
- 9781784630263
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.18
€ 11.99
€ 10.18
Mixed media product. A specially designed collector's hardback set of KNOTS AND CROSSES, BLACK AND BLUE and EXIT MUSIC with exclusive extra material only available in this box set. Series: A Rebus Novel. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 132. .
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Box Har/Cr
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781409169017
- ISBN
- 9781409169017
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.34€ 50.94
€ 71.34
€ 50.94
Paperback. Series: The County Guides. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KRS0029516
- ISBN
- 9780008147082
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. As Peter MacAulay writes his will, he reflects on his life and how world events filter through to his home, Stornoway. He reveals his passions for history, engines and fish, and witnesses changing times - and things that don't change - in the Hebrides. It's about stories, a litany of small histories witnessed during one very individual lifetime. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 200 x 38. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Publisher
- Saraband
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908643971
- ISBN
- 9781908643971
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.95
€ 13.99
€ 10.95
Paperback. It is the summer of 1912 in a fishing village, where visitors while away the long, light-filled days. For twelve-year-old Malte, it is a summer of freedom and discovery. But when one day he trips over a salt-eaten coffin, and finds inside the body of a dead sailor, the voice that whispers in Malte's ear starts to take on a life of its own. Translator(s): Haveland, Barbara. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129. Weight in Grams: 181. Clean copy
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- New edition
- SKU
- KEX0200823
- ISBN
- 9780099284031
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. It is the summer of 1912 in a fishing village, where visitors while away the long, light-filled days. For twelve-year-old Malte, it is a summer of freedom and discovery. But when one day he trips over a salt-eaten coffin, and finds inside the body of a dead sailor, the voice that whispers in Malte's ear starts to take on a life of its own. Translator(s): Haveland, Barbara. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129. Weight in Grams: 181. Clean copy with light shelfwear, good to very good
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- New edition
- SKU
- KST0019004
- ISBN
- 9780099284031
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Gold Dust is a classic story of the brotherhood between man and beast, the thread of companionship that is all the difference between life and death in the desert. It is a story of the fight to endure in a world of limitless and waterless wastes, and a parable of the struggle to survive in the most dangerous landscape of all: human society. Translator(s): Colla, Elliott. Num Pages: 171 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 127 x 11. Weight in Grams: 194.
- Publisher
- Arabia Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 171
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906697020
- ISBN
- 9781906697020
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.49
€ 17.99
€ 13.49
Paperback. Set on the eve of the January 1977 'bread riots' against IMF austerity programmes and privatisation that nearly brought down President Anwar Sadat, this novel catches Egypt in the mid-stream of its modern history. Translator(s): Colla, Elliott. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 198 x 13. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Publisher
- The American University in Cairo Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789774163074
- ISBN
- 9789774163074
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.29
€ 18.99
€ 17.29
Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 26. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press Qatar
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789927118401
- ISBN
- 9789927118401
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.51
€ 13.99
€ 13.51
Paperback. 'Slim belongs to the knuckleduster-in-your-face school of storytelling'. Sunday Times Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 200 x 11. Weight in Grams: 148. 176 pages. Blue-eyed, light-haired and fair-skinned, White Folks was to become the most incredible con man the ghetto ever spawned. After the death of his partner and mentor, Blue Howard, White Folks hooks up with the Vicksburg Kid, who completes his con education. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 154 x 200 x 11. Weight: 148.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857869838
- ISBN
- 9780857869838
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.48
€ 16.99
€ 13.48