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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Hardcover. Explores the city's fateful impact through the writing of classical historians, a Renaissance sculptor, 18th-century tourists, American, British and French novelists and the authors of modern Rome, each testing and unravelling the city's ageless paradoxes. Editor(s): Keates, Jonathan. Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Classics. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; DQ; FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 125 x 25. Weight in Grams: 430.
Publisher
Everyman
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841596228
ISBN
9781841596228
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.84

Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 27. Weight in Grams: 286.
Publisher
Pushkin Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782271215
ISBN
9781782271215
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.49

Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 138 x 216 x 19. Weight in Grams: 272.
Publisher
Sort of Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908745545
ISBN
9781908745545
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.25

Paperback. Dominic Pattison's life is one of level contentment: his marriage has proved happy and durable; his business, too, is successful. And then Sam Williams, a builder and ex-squaddie, enters his life. Sam claims to be his son. Yet is Sam who he says he is? After almost thirty years, Dominic can remember little of the affair with Sam's mother. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 136 x 21. Weight in Grams: 332.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Sort of Books
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Edition
Main
SKU
V9780956003867
ISBN
9780956003867
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.57

Paperback. Daniel Brennan, approaching the premature end of his life, retreats to a room in his brother's suburban house. To divert himself and to entertain Ellen, his carer, he writes the journal that is Telescope, blurring truth, gossip and fiction in vignettes of his own life and the lives of those close to him. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 126 x 21. Weight in Grams: 274.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Sort of Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780956308627
ISBN
9780956308627
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.73

Hardcover. A widely-praised author weaves a narrative of art, history and human relationships under the Tuscan sun. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 138 x 38. Weight in Grams: 568.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Sort of Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908745316
ISBN
9781908745316
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.09

Paperback. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 132 x 22. Weight in Grams: 304.
Publisher
Blacksmith Books Hong Kong
Number of pages
296
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9789881900289
ISBN
9789881900289
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.22

Paperback. Sarah is a narcoleptic who has dreams so vivid she mistakes them for real events; Robert has had his life changed for ever by the misunderstandings arising from her condition; and Terry, the insomniac, spends his wakeful nights fuelling his obsession with movies. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 22. Weight in Grams: 258.
Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Re-issue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241967744
ISBN
9780241967744
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. William has a lot on his mind. Firstly there's The Alaska Factory, the band he plays in. They're no good and they make his songs sound about as groovy as an unpressed record. Secondly, there's Madeleine, his high-maintenance girlfriend whose idea of a night of passion is an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical followed by a doorstep peck on the cheek. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 14. Weight in Grams: 164.
Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Re-issue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241967737
ISBN
9780241967737
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.00
€ 16.85

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
€ 11.08

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
€ 11.06

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
€ 11.08

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
€ 11.05

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
€ 11.01

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

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

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

€ 19.00
€ 16.77

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
€ 11.08

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
€ 11.02

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

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.46

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

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Aurora Metro Publications United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906582388
ISBN
9781906582388
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.37

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.36

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.38

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