Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. A zestful comedy of personal and social upheaval, this book captures a fateful moment in British politics - the collapse of 'Old Labour' - and imagines its impact on the topsy-turvy world of the bemused teenager: a world in which a lost pair of swimming trunks can be just as devastating as an IRA bomb. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 26. Weight in Grams: 292.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Re-issue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241967768
- ISBN
- 9780241967768
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.95
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Paperback. London, 1958: unassuming civil servant Thomas Foley is plucked from his desk job and sent on a six-month trip to Brussels. His task: to keep an eye on The Britannia, a brand new pub which will form the heart of the British presence at Expo 58 - the biggest World's Fair of the century. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 22. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241966907
- ISBN
- 9780241966907
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.94
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Paperback. Maxwell Sim seems to have hit rock bottom: separated from his wife and daughter, estranged from his father, and with no one to confide in even though he has 74 friends on Facebook. He's not even sure whether he's got a job until suddenly a strange business proposition comes his way which involves a long journey to the Shetland Isles. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Re-issue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241967775
- ISBN
- 9780241967775
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.95
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Paperback. On Millennium night, with Blair presiding over a sexed-up new version of the country, Benjamin Trotter finds himself watching the celebrations on his parents' TV. Watching, in fact, his younger brother, Paul, now a New Labour MP who has bought wholeheartedly into the Blairite dream. Neither of them can know that their lives are about to implode. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 28. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Re-issue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241967720
- ISBN
- 9780241967720
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.87
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Paperback. A novel about the hundreds of tiny connections between the public and private worlds and how they affect us. It is about: the legacy of war and the end of innocence; how comedy and politics are battling it out and comedy might have won; and living in a city where bankers need cinemas in their basements and others need food banks down the street. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 26. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241967010
- ISBN
- 9780241967010
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.87
€ 13.99
€ 10.87
Paperback. Series: Penguin Essentials. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 113 x 180 x 36. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241978917
- ISBN
- 9780241978917
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.17
€ 11.99
€ 10.17
Paperback. Robin, a postgrad student in Coventry, has spent four and a half years not writing his thesis. Now it languishes in a drawer, and Robin hides in his room, increasingly frightened by a world he doesn't understand. His friends have failed him and romance eludes him. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 16. Weight in Grams: 174.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Re-issue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241967782
- ISBN
- 9780241967782
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.66
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€ 16.66
Paperback. Rosamund lies dying in her remote Shropshire home. But before she does so, she has one last task: to put on tape not just her own story but the story of the young blind girl, her cousin's granddaughter, who turned up mysteriously at her party all those years ago. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 18. Weight in Grams: 212.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Re-issue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241967751
- ISBN
- 9780241967751
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.95
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Paperback. For Maria, nothing is certain. Her life is a chain of accidents. Friendship passes her by, and she's unimpressed by the devoted Ronny and his endless proposals of marriage. Maria lives in a world of her own - yet not of her own making. Stumbling through university, work, marriage and motherhood, she finds it hard to see what all the fuss is about. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 128.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Re-issue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241967713
- ISBN
- 9780241967713
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.79
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€ 10.79
Paperback. Inexplicably, Michael is commissioned to write the family history of the Winshaws, an upper class Yorkshire clan whose members have a finger in every establishment pie. But as a murderous maniac stalks the family, Michael realizes that his favourite film is coming true. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 32. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780241967799
- ISBN
- 9780241967799
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.70
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Paperback. Ben and Helen Armstead have reached breaking point and it takes one afternoon - and a single act of recklessness - for Ben to deal the final blow to their marriage, spectacularly demolishing everything they built together. Helen and her teenage daughter Sara leave for Manhattan where Helen takes a job in PR. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 18. Weight in Grams: 232.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472108333
- ISBN
- 9781472108333
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Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.41
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Paperback. From acclaimed author Jonathan Dee comes a lyrical novel about the ways wealth can change and fortify a family over time, forcing them to re-examine what really matters. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 292. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KCG0004829
- ISBN
- 9781849015936
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Aurora Metro Publications United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906582388
- ISBN
- 9781906582388
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Condition: New
€ 12.24
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Paperback. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. .
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007532780
- ISBN
- 9780007532780
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Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.26
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Paperback. From the author of 'Freedom', a richly realistic and darkly hilarious masterpiece about a family breakdown in an age of easy fixes. Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 43. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007232444
- ISBN
- 9780007232444
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Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.33
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Paperback. The critically acclaimed second novel from the author of 'The Corrections'. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 34. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Publisher
- Harper Perennial
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841157498
- ISBN
- 9781841157498
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.16
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Paperback. Passionate, independent-minded nonfiction from the international bestselling author of 'The Corrections'. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DNF; FA; JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007153589
- ISBN
- 9780007153589
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.18
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€ 11.18
Paperback. Paul Dukach is heir apparent at Purcell & Stern, one of the last independent publishing houses in New York. Paul remains obsessed by one dazzling writer: poet Ida Perkins. When Paul finally meets Ida, at her secluded Venetian palazzo, she entrusts him with her greatest secret - one that will change all of their lives forever. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 199 x 26. Weight in Grams: 226.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784701109
- ISBN
- 9781784701109
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.09
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€ 10.09
Paperback. Starting life in the gutter, Jean-Marie d'Aumout rises through the ranks of eighteenth-century French society propelled by his wits and an obsession with finding the perfect taste. But beyond the palace walls, revolution is in the air and the country is clamouring with a hunger of a different kind. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 136 x 24. Weight in Grams: 252.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857868817
- ISBN
- 9780857868817
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.45
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Paperback. 'Having the same name as a 70s pop star was just the start of her troubles ..' Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 168 x 197 x 31. Weight in Grams: 290. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Pan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Main Market Ed.
- SKU
- KOC0016355
- ISBN
- 9780330544399
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. From the award-winning author of All She Wants and the writer of Coronation Street and Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, comes this comedy with a huge, beating heart. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 26. Weight in Grams: 278. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- SKU
- KRA0011671
- ISBN
- 9781447238461
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. From the award-winning author of All She Wants and the writer of Coronation Street and Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, comes this comedy with a huge, beating heart. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 26. Weight in Grams: 278. Some light shelf wear else as new.
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- SKU
- KTG0006018
- ISBN
- 9781447238461
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. As a criminal pathologist, Dr Edward Jenner has seen many bad deaths in his day, but none as crazed as the ritual slayings perpetrated by Robert Farrar, The Inquisitor. He survived the final denouement of Farrar's killing spree, but not the fall-out from the authorities which saw his medical license suspended and him banished from New York. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 28. Weight in Grams: 328. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Cornerstone
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- SKU
- KRA0010720
- ISBN
- 9780099538646
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback.
- Publisher
- Headline Publishing Group
- Number of pages
- 544
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780755342914
- ISBN
- 9780755342914
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.89
€ 13.99
€ 10.89