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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. 100 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 198 x 127 x 9. Weight: 140. Translator(s): Costa, Margaret Jull.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Dedalus Limited
Number of pages
100
Condition
New
SKU
V9781903517598
ISBN
9781903517598
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.29

Paperback. Shy, sensible banker Stuart has trouble with women; that is, until a fortuitous singles night, where he meets Gillian, a picture restorer recovering from a destructive affair. Stuart's best friend Oliver is his complete opposite - a language teacher who 'talks like a dictionary', brash and feckless. Soon Stuart and Gillian are married. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 274.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099540137
ISBN
9780099540137
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.00

Hardcover. Examines the attempts of an increasingly bemused researcher to establish certain facts about a famous French novelist and the stuffed bird which used to sit on his desk. This book blends fact and fiction in a virtuoso kaleidoscope of vignettes from Noah's time to the present. Num Pages: 488 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 132 x 31. Weight in Grams: 604.
Publisher
Everyman Guides
Number of pages
488
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841593487
ISBN
9781841593487
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.39

Paperback. Featuring characters, who in their different ways, square up to death and rage against the dying light, this book is written by the winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 15. Weight in Grams: 186.
Edition
01st Edition
Publisher
Vintage Books USA
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099554998
ISBN
9780099554998
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.01

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: 316.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099540120
ISBN
9780099540120
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.37

Paperback. In Talking it Over Gillian and Stuart were married until Oliver - witty, feckless Oliver - stole Gillian away. In this book, the author revisits the three of them. It is an exploration of contemporary love and its betrayals. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 244.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099540168
ISBN
9780099540168
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. A collection of stories, in which a divorcee falls in love with a mysterious European waitress; a widower relives a favourite holiday; two writers rehearse familiar arguments; and, a couple bond, fall out and bond again over flowers and vegetable patches. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 137 x 16. Weight in Grams: 182.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099552475
ISBN
9780099552475
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 111 x 177 x 20. Weight in Grams: 142.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784703332
ISBN
9781784703332
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.81

Paperback. Stoyo Petkanov, the deposed Party leader of a former Soviet satellite country, is on trial. His adversary, the prosecutor general, stands for the new government's ideals and liberal certainties, and is attempting to ensare Petkanov with the dictator's own totalitarian laws. But he is not beaten yet. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 10. Weight in Grams: 116.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099540144
ISBN
9780099540144
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

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

€ 13.99
€ 10.26

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
€ 11.02

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
€ 10.29

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
€ 11.08

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
€ 11.02

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
€ 11.00

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
€ 11.08

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
€ 11.02

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
€ 9.95

hardcover. 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. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 139 x 19. Weight in Grams: 266. Good clean copy, showing light age and shelfwear. Light wear to dust jacket
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Jonathan Cape London
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KMO0000965
ISBN
9780224094153
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.70

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

€ 19.00
€ 16.81

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
€ 14.51

Paperback. The sequel to Michel Deon's critically acclaimed classic, The Foundling Boy, following Jean Arnaud in Second World War Paris. Translator(s): Evans, Professor of Tropical Forestry Julian (Imperial College at Silwood Park, UK Imperial College at Silwood Park Imperial College at Silwood Park Imperial College at Silwood Park Imperial College at Silwood Park, UK Imperial College at Silwood Park Imperial College at Silwood Park, UK). Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC; FT; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 35. Weight in Grams: 440.
Publisher
Gallic Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908313713
ISBN
9781908313713
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.98

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
€ 11.00

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
€ 11.05

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