Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. Gertrude has lost her husband and Anne, an ex-nun, her God. They plan to live together and do good works. Tim is a different sort of soldier. He plans to live off rich friends. Who will judge whom in this story? Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 134 x 31. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 528
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099285359
- ISBN
- 9780099285359
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Paperback. Edmund has escaped from his family into a lonely life. Returning for his mother's funeral he finds himself involved in the old, awful problems, together with some new ones. One by one his relatives reveal their secrets to a reluctant Edmund: illicit affairs, hidden passions, shameful scandals. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 122 x 11. Weight in Grams: 134.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099285236
- ISBN
- 9780099285236
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Paperback. After his wife's death, Hugh contemplates returning to his former mistress. His son, Randall, longs to abandon his shapeless marriage for a perfect partner. Randall's young daughter, Miranda, is adored by her Australian cousin Penn, but has attachments elsewhere. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 134 x 198 x 19. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099285380
- ISBN
- 9780099285380
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Paperback. When Charles Arrowby retires from his glittering career in the London theatre, he buys a remote house on the rocks by the sea. He hopes to escape from his tumultuous love affairs but unexpectedly bumps into his childhood sweetheart and sets his heart on destroying her marriage. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 36. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099284093
- ISBN
- 9780099284093
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Paperback. The quiet life of schoolteacher Bill Mor and his family is disturbed when Rain Carter arrives at the school to paint the portrait of the headmaster. Mor becomes aware of new desires and his wife and children fight discreetly and ruthlessly against Rain and her influence over him. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 22. Weight in Grams: 242.
- Publisher
- VINTAGE (RAND)
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099433583
- ISBN
- 9780099433583
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€ 14.99€ 10.86
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Paperback. Martin believes he can possess both a beautiful wife and a delightful lover. But when his wife, Antonia, suddenly leaves him for her psychoanalyst, Martin is plunged into an intensive emotional re-education. Then he meets a woman whose demonic splendor at first repels him and later arouses a consuming and monstrous passion. How will he survive it? Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 197 x 15. Weight in Grams: 166.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099285366
- ISBN
- 9780099285366
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Paperback. Dora Greenfield, erring wife, returns to live with her husband in a lay community encamped outside Imber Abbey, home to a mysterious enclosed order of nuns. Watched over by its devout director and the discreet authority of the wise old Abbess, Imber Court is a haven for lost souls seeking tranquility. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 22. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099470489
- ISBN
- 9780099470489
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Paperback. It's the midsummer ball at Oxford, and a group of men and women - friends since university days - have gathered under the stars. Included in this group is David Crimond, a genius and fervent Marxist. Num Pages: 624 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 39. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099433545
- ISBN
- 9780099433545
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Paperback. Stuart Cuno has decided to become good. Not believing in God, he invents his own methods, which include celibacy, chastity and the abandonment of a promising academic career. Stuart's step-brother Edward Baltram is tormented by guilt because he has, he believes, killed his best friend. He dreams sometimes of redemption, sometimes of suicide. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 39. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099285250
- ISBN
- 9780099285250
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Paperback. Features Bruno, dying, obsessed with spiders and preoccupied with death and reconciliation. He lies at the center of an intricate spider's web of relationships and passions: Bruno's estranged and grieving son Miles; Danby, Bruno's widowed son-in-law, creepy Nigel the nurse and his besotted twin Will, fighter of duels. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 24. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099285373
- ISBN
- 9780099285373
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Paperback. Yvonne believes there's more to life than marriage to Sam, the young man who's courting her. But when she tries to have fun, she gets caught up in a fracas in a bar. Sam's idea of "something special" meanwhile is to take her to St Stephen's Green later that night to show her a ghostly tree! Illustrator(s): McCurdy, Michael. Num Pages: 80 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 7. Weight in Grams: 56.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099422655
- ISBN
- 9780099422655
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Paperback. The story of two prodigal sons that questions the nature of love, whether it is a route to salvation or a type of demonic possession. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 27. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099429081
- ISBN
- 9780099429081
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Paperback. Presents a story of different loves; and of how a man may need two women in such a way that he can be happy with neither. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099433576
- ISBN
- 9780099433576
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Paperback. Edward Lannion, the young master of Hatting Hall, is about to marry Marian Fox. At Penndean, a nearby house, preparations are under way for the wedding, overseen by the anxious Benet. Family and friends gather together for a celebratory dinner on the eve of the ceremony. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 173 x 19. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780701188474
- ISBN
- 9780701188474
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paperback. The scene is Ireland. The time, 1916, is the eve of the famous, tragic Easter Rebellion in Dublin, which startled Europe even in the midst of the First World War. A single Anglo Irish family provides the extremely diverse characters. This story weaves these people together into a tragic comic pattern. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 242.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099429135
- ISBN
- 9780099429135
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paperback. When Marian Taylor takes the post of governess at Gaze castle, remote house on a beautiful but desolate coast, she finds herself confronted with many strange mysteries. What kind of crime or catastrophe in the past still keeps the house under a brooding spell? Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 214.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099285342
- ISBN
- 9780099285342
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paperback. Carel is widowed rector presiding over a London church destroyed during the war. The rectory is home to an array of residents: his daughter, Muriel; his beautiful invalid ward, Elizabeth; their West Indian servant, Pattie; Eugene, a Russian emigre, and his delinquent son, Leo. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 17. Weight in Grams: 186.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099429098
- ISBN
- 9780099429098
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Paperback. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 13. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Publisher
- The New York Review of Books, Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781590173633
- ISBN
- 9781590173633
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Paperback. A compelling coming of age story with an unlikely and utterly memorable heroine, Child of the River is a timeless tale of heartbreak and triumph set in South Africa at the dawn of apartheid. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 213 x 33. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Publisher
- Thomas Nelson
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780718083106
- ISBN
- 9780718083106
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€ 18.99€ 17.97
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Paperback. Kully knows some things you don't learn at school. She knows the right way to roll a cigarette and pack a suitcase. She knows that cars are more dangerous than lions. She knows you can't enter a country without a passport or visa. And she knows that she and her parents can't go back to Germany again - her father's books are banned there. Translator(s): Hofmann, Michael. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 162.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141188454
- ISBN
- 9780141188454
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Paperback. A novel by the masterful storyteller and psychotherapist Irvin Yalom interweaves the philosophical life of Benedict Spinoza with the story of the obsessive Nazi "philosopher" Alfred Rosenberg Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 142 x 23. Weight in Grams: 344. 336 pages. Tells the story of the seventeenth-century thinker Baruch Spinoza, his philosophy and subsequent excommunication from the Jewish community, and his apparent influence on the Nazi ideologue Alfred Rosenberg, whose einsatzgruppe was dispatched during the Second world war to investigate a mysterious "Spinoza Problem". Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 210 x 142 x 23. Weight: 334.
- Publisher
- Basic Books
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780465061853
- ISBN
- 9780465061853
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Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 136 x 24. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Publisher
- Harper Perennial
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2020
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780060928513
- ISBN
- 9780060928513
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Paperback. Lets you enjoy Christmas dinner with Begbie, and see how warmly Franco greets his sister's boyfriend and the news of their engagement. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 16. Weight in Grams: 210.
- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099506997
- ISBN
- 9780099506997
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Paperback. Having failed spectacularly as a hustler, pimp, husband, father and businessman, Sick Boy taps into an opportunity which to him represents one last throw of the dice. However, to realise his ambitions within the Adult industries, Sick Boy must team up with old pal and fellow exile Mark Renton. Series: Trainspotting. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 196 x 32. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Film Tie-In
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784704735
- ISBN
- 9781784704735
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Condition: New
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