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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Deals with Flaubert, parrots, bears and railways; with our sense of the past and our sense of abroad; with France and England, life and art, sex and death, George Sand and Louise Colet, aesthetics and redcurrant jam; and, with its narrator, a retired English doctor, whose life and secrets are slowly revealed. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 186.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099540083
ISBN
9780099540083
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.10

Paperback. As every schoolboy knows, you can fit the whole of England on the Isle of Wight. Grotesque, visionary tycoon Sir Jack Pitman takes the saying literally and does exactly that. He constructs on the island 'The Project', a vast heritage centre containing everything 'English', from Manchester United to the white cliffs of Dover. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 11. Weight in Grams: 254.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099526544
ISBN
9780099526544
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.95

Paperback. Christopher and Toni found in each other the perfect companion for that universal adolescent pastime: smirking at the world as you find it. In between training as flaneurs and the grind of school they cast a cynical eye over their various dislikes: parents with their lives of spotless emptiness, and the inhabitants of Metroland, and more. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 174.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099540069
ISBN
9780099540069
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.10

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
€ 10.87

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
€ 10.95

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
€ 10.86

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
€ 10.95

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
€ 10.95

Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 111 x 177 x 14. Weight in Grams: 120.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Vintage Publishing GB
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099570332
ISBN
9780099570332
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.91

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

€ 20.99
€ 16.63

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
€ 14.44

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
€ 10.89

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
€ 10.97

Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 236.
Publisher
Old Street
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905847242
ISBN
9781905847242
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.18

Hardcover. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 337.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Old Street Publishing
Edition
First edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905847334
ISBN
9781905847334
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.22

Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 150 x 28. Weight in Grams: 506.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Old Street Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905847839
ISBN
9781905847839
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.21

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
€ 10.86

Paperback. * A devastating portrait of a love affair played out at the height of one of the most violent episodes in British colonial history Num Pages: 464 pages, maps. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 127 x 30. Weight in Grams: 312.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Abacus
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349119328
ISBN
9780349119328
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.97

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

€ 15.99
€ 14.91

Paperback. Mille is just a girl. But she's the only one strong enough to break the family cycle. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 215 x 29. Weight in Grams: 304.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Condition
New
SKU
V9780718081256
ISBN
9780718081256
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.59

Paperback. Historian Lia Carrer has finally returned to southwestern France, determined to rebuild her life after the death of her husband. But instead of finding solace in the region's quiet hills and medieval ruins, she falls in love with Raoul, a man whose very existence challenges everything she knows about life-and about her husband's death. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FM; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Publisher
Sourcebooks, Inc United States
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781492625209
ISBN
9781492625209
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.59

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
€ 10.10

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

€ 11.38

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

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