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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Graham Hendrick, an historian, has left his wife Barbara for the vivacious Ann, and is more than pleased with his new life. Until, that is, the day he discovers Ann's celluloid past as a mediocre film actress. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 188.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
2000th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099540076
ISBN
9780099540076
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Paperback. Charts the life of Jean Serjeant, from her beginning as a naive, carefree country girl before the war through to her wry and trenchant old age in the year 2020. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 176.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099540090
ISBN
9780099540090
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Paperback. In May 1937, a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away to the Big House. Any celebrity he has known in the previous decade is no use to him now. And few who are taken to the Big House ever return. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 283 x 18. Weight in Grams: 182.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784703325
ISBN
9781784703325
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 12.19

Paperback. Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they all swore to stay friends for life. Now Tony is retired. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Film Tie-In
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784705633
ISBN
9781784705633
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.10

Paperback. Offers a set of short stories. The author takes as his universal theme the British in France; from the last days of a reclusive English composer, the beef consuming 'navvies' labouring on the Paris-Rouen railway to a lonely woman mourning the death of her brother on the battlefields of the Somme. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 214.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099540151
ISBN
9780099540151
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Paperback. Beginning with an unlikely stowaway's account of life on board Noah's Ark, this book presents a surprising and subversive fictional-history of earth told from several kaleidoscopic perspectives. Num Pages: 320 pages, 1 Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 150 x 21. Weight in Grams: 306.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
9780099540120
ISBN
9780099540120
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.59

Paperback. Whoever said the afterlife would be easy..? The new inhabitants of an old house in deepest darkest Kent are about to discover the previous owner - a certain Mr Noel Coward - never quite left the building.. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 270.
Publisher
Ebury Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780091938857
ISBN
9780091938857
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 16.85

Paperback. When drugged-up Time Traveller and '80s musical burnout Rock Section and his fellow English hooligans get kidnapped during Italia '90, there are ruinous implications. But now Rock has returned to Sardinia one final time to settle some scores and uncover the truth. Series: Gnostic Hooligan Road Novel. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 234 x 34. Weight in Grams: 606.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571270361
ISBN
9780571270361
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.63

Paperback. SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author of SNOBS and creator and writer of the international phenomenon, DOWNTON ABBEY, returns with a thrilling new novel. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 138 x 35. Weight in Grams: 356.
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780229232
ISBN
9781780229232
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Paperback. A reissue of the SUNDAY TIMES bestselling novel, from the award-winning creator of DOWNTON ABBEY and Oscar-winning writer of GOSFORD PARK. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 138 x 23. Weight in Grams: 244.
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780229225
ISBN
9781780229225
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

Paperback. Set in the Depression era, this novel is written by a key literary figure in the pubs of post-war Fitzrovia. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 172.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141187112
ISBN
9780141187112
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 203 x 29. Weight in Grams: 344.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Berkley
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780425277072
ISBN
9780425277072
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.74

Paperback. A family held together by lies but about to be torn apart by a secret .. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 23. Weight in Grams: 252.
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton General Division United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780340918968
ISBN
9780340918968
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.89

Paperback.
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Simon & Schuster United States
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
Edition
Reissue
Format
Paperback
SKU
V9780671670061
ISBN
9780671670061
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.01

Paperback. 'A real feel-good read, full of funny scenes and one-liners, [a] seductive story of love, music and family life' Publishing News Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 22. Weight in Grams: 242.
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Headline Review
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
SKU
KNW0010688
ISBN
9780755306091
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 5.49

Paperback. Sally, who married young to escape her appalling childhood, is often left to bitterly reflect on the hand she has been dealt. She is, on the whole, happy caring for her husband, his mother, her own three children, one of whom has a disability, and her Walter Mitty sister. Then suddenly her world comes crashing down when her husband leaves her.. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 17. Weight in Grams: 230.
Publisher
Black and White Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845027209
ISBN
9781845027209
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.20

Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 135. Weight in Grams: 368.
Publisher
Europa Editions
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781609453756
ISBN
9781609453756
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.33

Paperback. Alice is going to live forever. She's been promised this since childhood. All she has to do is follow the true religion of The Unbelievable Potential of Human Beings. Her mother is a pillar of the church and her brother is a deacon. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 19. Weight in Grams: 196.
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Vintage
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
SKU
KLN0016504
ISBN
9780099506911
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 5.49

Paperback. On a Monday night in October in a seaside town in Suffolk, a woman is brutally murdered. She was not an obvious victim. She just wasn't, thinks her grieving, bewildered friend Tess, the type to have something happen to her. As the police go about their routine investigation, Tess' world of nappies, school runs and baked beans begin to unravel. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 246.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099453529
ISBN
9780099453529
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 16.91

Paperback. Flynn is a thirteen-year-old girl caught between her violent, out-of-control brother, Sam, and her mother, who is struggling to cope. And then, one impossibly hot night, a strange half-feral boy called Alex turns up at the bottom of Flynn's garden. Alex is one of three runaways; there's also Diana, who has just had a baby. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 199 x 19. Weight in Grams: 216.
Publisher
Vintage Books USA
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099516163
ISBN
9780099516163
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.31

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