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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Follows the fortunes of several wildly different characters - including an expat farmer and a young English aristocrat - as they are swept up in the fighting in German East Africa during the First World War, their lives converging amid battle, betrayal, love, comedy and tragedy. Series: Penguin Decades. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 196 x 27. Weight in Grams: 294.
Publisher
Hamish Hamilton
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241953563
ISBN
9780241953563
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 10.86

Paperback. Readers fell in love with Sarah Addison Allen's debut novel, GARDEN SPELLS. Now the tale of the Waverley women is to be revisited with a magical sequel. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton General Division United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444787115
ISBN
9781444787115
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.87

Paperback. The brilliant second novel from GMTV's Penny Smith. A sequel to 'Coming Up Next', Katie Fisher's back in front of the cameras, but not exactly on the sofa. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 286.
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
SKU
KLN0014231
ISBN
9780007315284
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Ring the bells and lock up your homes. Karen Maitland, author of the bestselling Company of Liars, is back. And so is the plague.. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FM; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472235862
ISBN
9781472235862
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.19

Paperback. Translator(s): Malberg, Carl. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 217 x 57. Weight in Grams: 632.
Publisher
Nordisk Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780995485204
ISBN
9780995485204
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.27

Paperback. It isn't just Nanny who finds it difficult in France when Grace and her young son Sigi are finally able to join her dashing aristocratic husband Charles-Edouard after the war. For Grace is out of her depth among the fashionably dressed and immaculately coiffured French women, and shocked by their relentless gossiping and bedhopping. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 182.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241974728
ISBN
9780241974728
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.87

Paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 197 x 27. Weight in Grams: 298.
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781509801671
ISBN
9781509801671
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.33

Paperback. The stunning and emotional second novel in the Chadwick Family trilogy set in Devonshire Num Pages: 512 pages, genealogy tab. BIC Classification: FA; FT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 113 x 32. Weight in Grams: 280.
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780747259978
ISBN
9780747259978
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.95

Paperback. Savagely funny, compelling and a cult classic, A Private Place has struck a chord with generations. It's now available with a new afterword by the author. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 19. Weight in Grams: 200.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Digital original
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349139548
ISBN
9780349139548
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.64

Paperback. An affecting, evocative and often funny story of the ultimate British immigrant, a man who fits in everywhere and nowhere, who cannot help but cause harm to those around him, but ultimately, inspires love. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 24. Weight in Grams: 250.
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780755383405
ISBN
9780755383405
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 12.45

Paperback. Despite its apparent spontaneity, this is a work of art, which rearranges language and plays in the gaps between reality and fiction. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 7. Weight in Grams: 92.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
112
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141197364
ISBN
9780141197364
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.17

Paperback. In the summer of 1920 two men, both war survivors meet in the quiet English countryside. One is living in the church, intent upon uncovering and restoring an historical wall painting while the other camps in the next field in search of a lost grave. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 8. Weight in Grams: 92.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
112
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141182308
ISBN
9780141182308
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.95

Paperback. Tells of Arthur Koestler's travels through Russia and remote parts of Soviet Central Asia and of his life as an exile. This book puts in perspective his experiences in Franco's prisons under sentence of death and in concentration camps in Occupied France, and ends with his escape from there in 1940 to England, where he found stability and a home. Num Pages: 528 pages, Illustrations, 1 map, ports. BIC Classification: BGLA; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 34. Weight in Grams: 382.
Publisher
Vintage Classics London
Number of pages
528
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099490685
ISBN
9780099490685
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.86

Paperback. Features stories ranging from teenagers coming into awareness of their sexual and artistic powers to humdrum housewives whose lives are shattered by unexpected epiphanies to old people who don't know what to do with themselves. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 34. Weight in Grams: 468.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141197388
ISBN
9780141197388
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.86

Paperback. Num Pages: 104 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 194 x 128 x 7. Weight in Grams: 108.
Publisher
University of Hawaii Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780824815943
ISBN
9780824815943
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.12

Paperback. The story of two young Jewish girls living in a village in Persia at the turn of the century. Nazie has been long engaged to her cousin and anxiously awaits their marriage whilst Flora is married, pregnant and seemingly abandoned. Translator(s): Lotan, Yael. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 131 x 18. Weight in Grams: 168.
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841955100
ISBN
9781841955100
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.66

Paperback. 'Not since Colin MacInnes's City of Spades and Absolute Beginners thirty years ago has a novel stuck a flick-knife so accurately into the young and marginal city' The Times Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 199 x 18. Weight in Grams: 198. 288 pages. 'Not since Colin MacInnes's City of Spades and Absolute Beginners thirty years ago has a novel stuck a flick-knife so accurately into the young and marginal city' The Times. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 164 x 199 x 18. Weight: 198.
Publisher
Canongate Books
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857862716
ISBN
9780857862716
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.42

Paperback. Series: Fusion. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FRD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 135 x 17. Weight in Grams: 294.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780062674876
ISBN
9780062674876
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 14.86

Paperback. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 112 x 39. Weight in Grams: 310. Well-read paperback, in good condition. Some shelf wear.
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Poolbeg Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
SKU
KRF0030442
ISBN
9781842233146
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. .
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Paperback Original
Condition
New
SKU
V9781471154942
ISBN
9781471154942
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 8.40

Paperback. Travelling from chilly Edinburgh to sunbaked Malawi to investigate, Lexy uncovers a story of love, deceit and loyalty spanning three generations - but to discover the truth about who she really is, she must must embark on a perilous journey. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 42. Weight in Grams: 360.
Publisher
Bonnier Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785300080
ISBN
9781785300080
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.02

paperback. An atmospheric, vibrant and moving tale of pain and passion at the heart of war-torn Spain, from the million-copy bestselling author of The Island Num Pages: 592 pages, Map. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 38. Weight in Grams: 404.
Publisher
Headline Review
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780755332953
ISBN
9780755332953
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.98

Paperback. When she was still a child, Lucy Nelson had her alcoholic failure of a father thrown in jail. Ever since then she has been trying to reform the men around her, even if that ultimately means destroying herself in the process. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 234.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099484998
ISBN
9780099484998
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.95

Hardcover. In these three sea stories, based on his own experience, the author invests his portraits of mundane steamers and their crews with epic qualities of fortitude and courage in the face of overwhelming natural odds. Num Pages: 305 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 211 x 27. Weight in Grams: 514.
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
305
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857150049
ISBN
9781857150049
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 15.64

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