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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Hardcover. Num Pages: 255 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 510.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Clear Light Publishers United States
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
255
Condition
New
SKU
V9780940666269
ISBN
9780940666269
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 23.67

Paperback. Tells the story of four people whose intertwined lives span Asia's last seventy years. This novel covers the complacency of colonial life in the 1930s; the horrors of the Japanese occupation during the Second World War; and the post-war boom and the handover of the city to the Chinese. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 127 x 20. Weight in Grams: 252.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571294855
ISBN
9780571294855
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.74

Paperback. Winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award 1996. Series: Picador Classic. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 216.
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Main Market Ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781447275381
ISBN
9781447275381
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.98

Paperback. One warm July morning Mr Phillips climbs out of bed, leaving Mrs Phillips dozing. He prepares for his commute into the city - but this is no ordinary Wednesday. It is a day on which Mr Phillips will chat with a pornographer, stalk a tv mini-celebrity, have lunch with an aspiring record mogul, and get caught up in a bank robbery. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 127 x 19. Weight in Grams: 202.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571294862
ISBN
9780571294862
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.77

Paperback. The residents of Pepys Road, London - a banker and his shopaholic wife, an elderly woman dying of a brain tumour, the Pakistani family who run the local shop, the young football star from Senegal and his minder - all receive anonymous postcards with a simple message: We Want What You Have. Who is behind it? What do they want? Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 199 x 38. Weight in Grams: 438. Fine copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0003391
ISBN
9780571234622
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.70

Paperback. To celebrate the release of A Lily of the Field in paperback, Grove Press are reissuing the Frederick Troy series, starting with the original classic - Black Out. Num Pages: 342 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 196 x 27. Weight in Grams: 344. To celebrate the release of A Lily of the Field in paperback, Grove Press are reissuing the Frederick Troy series, starting with the original classic - Black Out. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 127 x 196 x 27. Weight: 340.
Publisher
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611855920
ISBN
9781611855920
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.70

Paperback. The third book in John Lawton's Inspector Troy series, selected by Time magazine as one of 'Six Detective Series to Savour' alongside Michael Connelly and Donna Leon. Series: Inspector Troy. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 138 x 34. Weight in Grams: 438. 480 pages. 1963: A Tory government beset by a defection, sexual scandal, cover-up and a ministerial resignation - Frederick Troy, now Britain's most senior police detective, unravels a trail that leads to death at the very heart of the Establishment and a failing administration. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 202 x 138 x 34. Weight: 448.
Publisher
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Number of pages
480
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611855890
ISBN
9781611855890
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.73

Paperback. Old Flames is the second title in the Frederick Troy series, which Grove Press UK are reissuing to celebrate the release of A Lily of the Field in paperback. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 34. Weight in Grams: 420. Old Flames is the second title in the Frederick Troy series, which Grove Press UK are reissuing to celebrate the release of A Lily of the Field in paperback. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 131 x 198 x 34. Weight: 422.
Publisher
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611855906
ISBN
9781611855906
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.77

Paperback. Bringing to life pre-war Vienna and post-war London - spanning the rise of Hitler to the post-atomic age - this breathtaking novel is espionage fiction at its best. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 374. 400 pages. Bringing to life pre-war Vienna and post-war London - spanning the rise of Hitler to the post-atomic age - this breathtaking novel is espionage fiction at its best. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 199 x 130 x 18. Weight: 368.
Publisher
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611855913
ISBN
9781611855913
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.98

Paperback. 1959: Bodies have started turning up around London, dismembered in the same bizarre and horrifying way. Is it possible that the blood trail leads back to Troy's police force and his own forgotten past? Series: Inspector Troy. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 30. Weight in Grams: 356.
Publisher
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press United States
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611855876
ISBN
9781611855876
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.01

Paperback. Jonathan Pine is merely the night manager at a luxury hotel. But when a single attempt to pass on information to the British authorities about an international businessman at the hotel with suspicious dealings - backfires terribly, and people close to Pine begin to die. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 126 x 201 x 21. Weight in Grams: 328.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141393018
ISBN
9780141393018
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. Barley Blair is not a Service man: he is a small-time publisher, whose only loves are whisky and jazz. But it was Barley who, one drunken night at a dacha in Peredelkino during the Moscow Book Fair, was befriended by a high-ranking Soviet scientist who could be the greatest asset to the West since perestroika began, and made a promise. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 197 x 21. Weight in Grams: 324.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141196350
ISBN
9780141196350
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

CD-Audio. A complete collection of acclaimed BBC Radio dramas based on John le Carre's bestselling novels. It includes dramatisations that perfectly capture the atmosphere of le Carre's taut, thrilling spy novels. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 145 x 139 x 36. Weight in Grams: 436.
Publisher
BBC Audio, A Division Of Random House
Format
CD
Publication date
2016
Edition
Unabridged
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785293184
ISBN
9781785293184
CD
Condition: New

€ 60.63
€ 43.81

Paperback. The Cold War is over and Ned has been demoted to the training academy. He asks his old mentor, George Smiley, to address his passing-out class. There are no laundered reminiscences; Smiley speaks the truth - perhaps the last the students will ever hear. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 134 x 197 x 25. Weight in Grams: 312.
Edition
01st Edition
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141196367
ISBN
9780141196367
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. Britain is in the depths of recession. A left-leaning young Oxford academic and his barrister girlfriend take an off-peak holiday on the Caribbean island of Antigua. By seeming chance they bump into a Russian millionaire called Dima who owns a peninsula and a diamond-encrusted gold watch. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 29. Weight in Grams: 368.
Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241967850
ISBN
9780241967850
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.26

Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FHD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 196 x 35. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780241291733
ISBN
9780241291733
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.45

hardcover. Features a book of stories, drawings and poems that was first published in 1964 to great critical acclaim and became a phenomenon, selling over 600,000 copies in the UK alone and revealing a hitherto unseen side to author's artistic output and talent. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 183 x 138 x 10. Weight in Grams: 168.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Canongate Books
Condition
New
SKU
9781782115403
ISBN
9781782115403
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.54

Hardcover. 329 pages. John Lucas's riveting novel is about the role of memory in how we shape and come to terms with the past. Waterdrops is about what is lost, what endures, about, as one of the characters says, "the terrible things that happen in war, and not only on the battlefield". It is also about love. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 210 x 136 x 26. Weight: 400.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Greenwich Exchange
Number of pages
329
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906075668
ISBN
9781906075668
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.44

Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 266 x 20. Weight in Grams: 332.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Greenwich Exchange Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910996065
ISBN
9781910996065
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.47

Paperback. Set in his native Northern Ireland, John Lynch's debut novel is a lyrically told and exquisitely tender story of innocence and loss. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 17. Weight in Grams: 196. Used paperback in very good condition. Some light shelf wear.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KRF0036774
ISBN
9780007202690
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 424 pages, maps. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 153 x 31. Weight in Grams: 676.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226103556
ISBN
9780226103556
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 33.53

Paperback. Iain Martin hopes that by returning to his Hebridean roots and embarking on a quest to reconstruct the ancient family home, he might find new purpose. But then he uncovers a secret from the past. Series: Hebrides. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 204.
Publisher
Luath Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
3rd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910021903
ISBN
9781910021903
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.47

Paperback. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 182.
Publisher
Luath Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910021910
ISBN
9781910021910
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.98

Clean copy, good to very good
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Corgi
Number of pages
528
Publication date
2008
SKU
KST0015879
ISBN
9780552154628
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

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