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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2008 WINNER OF THE GALAXY BRITISH BOOK AWARDS 'AUTHOR OF THE YEAR' 2009 '[An] extraordinary and brilliant first novel.. Adiga is a real writer - that is to say, someone who forges an original voice and vision.' Sunday Times Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Main
- SKU
- 9781848878082
- ISBN
- 9781848878082
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.50
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Paperback. 'a sad and splendid book' New York Times Book Review Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 150.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141022826
- ISBN
- 9780141022826
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.81
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Paperback. An old man looks into the eyes of a burglar left to guard him while his brother is beaten; an Irish priest in a war-torn Syrian town teaches its men the art of hurling; a squad of broken friends assemble to take revenge on a rapist; a young man sets off on his morning run, reflecting on the ruins of his relationship, but all is not as it seems. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 16. Weight in Grams: 170.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781784160241
- ISBN
- 9781784160241
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.24
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Paperback. Sumire is in love with a woman seventeen years her senior. But whereas Miu is glamorous and successful, Sumire is an aspiring writer who dresses in an oversized second-hand coat and heavy boots like a character in a Kerouac novel. Sumire spends hours on the phone talking to her best friend K about the big questions in life. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 172.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- SKU
- 9780099448471
- ISBN
- 9780099448471
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.45
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Paperback. Cassandra Mortmain lives with her impoverished family in a crumbling castle. Her journal records her life with her bored sister Rose, her stepmother Topaz, her little brother Thomas and her novelist father who suffers from a financially crippling writer's block. However, all their lives are turned upside down when American heirs to castle arrive. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 27. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- New Edition
- SKU
- 9780099460879
- ISBN
- 9780099460879
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.75
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€ 9.75
Paperback. A sweltering week in late August. Where better to enjoy the last days of summer than on the beautiful Bay of Naples? But even as Rome's richest citizens relax in their villas around Pompeii and Herculaneum, there are ominous warnings that something is going wrong. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Cornerstone
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099527947
- ISBN
- 9780099527947
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.10
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€ 10.10
Paperback. As a girl, Clara del Valle can read fortunes, make objects move as if they had lives of their own, and predict the future. Following the mysterious death of her sister, Rosa the Beautiful, Clara is mute for nine years. When she breaks her silence, it is to announce that she will be married soon to the stern and volatile landowner Esteban Trueba. Series: Vintage Magic. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 33. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099528562
- ISBN
- 9780099528562
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.27
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€ 10.27
Paperback. Finally given the heave-ho by Pandora, Adrian Mole finds himself in the unenviable situation of living with the love-of-his-life as she goes about shacking up with other men. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 149 x 196 x 21. Weight in Grams: 252.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Re-issue
- SKU
- 9780141046457
- ISBN
- 9780141046457
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.61
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€ 9.61
Paperback. One of the first things ninety-two-year-old Marian Leatherby overhears when she is given an ornate hearing trumpet is her family plotting to commit her to an institution. Soon, she finds herself trapped in a sinister retirement home, where the elderly must inhabit buildings shaped like igloos and birthday cakes. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 138.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141187990
- ISBN
- 9780141187990
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.45
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€ 10.45
Paperback. In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with foster parents. This childless couple promptly erase from the boy all knowledge of his identity and he grows up ignorant of his past. Translator(s): Bell, Anthea. Num Pages: 448 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 198 x 30. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780241951804
- ISBN
- 9780241951804
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.53
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€ 12.53
Paperback. Blending political reality with magic realism, fantasy and comic invention, this book is one of the most daringly original works of the twentieth century. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780241968581
- ISBN
- 9780241968581
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.45
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€ 10.45
Paperback. A Russian woman named Lara arrives in Afghanistan at the house of Marcus Caldwell, an Englishman and widower living in the shadow of the Tora Bora mountains. Marcus' daughter, Zameen, may have known Lara's brother, a Soviet soldier who disappeared in the area many years previously. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 30. Weight in Grams: 352 436pp
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Main
- SKU
- 9780571238804
- ISBN
- 9780571238804
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.33
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Paperback. For Jack Reacher being invisible has become a habit. He spends his days digging swimming pools by hand and his nights as the bouncer in the local strip club in the Florida Keys. He doesn't want to be found. But someone has sent a private detective to seek him out. Then Reacher finds the guy beaten to death with his fingertips sliced off. Series: Jack Reacher. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF; FH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 34. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- SKU
- 9780857500069
- ISBN
- 9780857500069
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.45
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Paperback. This title involves left-wing academics, right-wing capitalists, true-blue country gentry, workers, peasants, police and lawyers. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099435532
- ISBN
- 9780099435532
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.76
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Paperback. What if a demented London cabbie called Dave Rudman wrote a book to his estranged son to give him some fatherly advice? What if that book was buried in Hampstead and hundreds of years later, when rising sea levels have put London underwater, spawned a religion? This book offers a historical detective story set in the far future. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141014548
- ISBN
- 9780141014548
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Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.61
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Paperback. Okonowo is the greatest warrior alive and he is one of the powerful men of his clan. But he also has a fiery temper. Determined not to be like his father, he refuses to show his weakness. When outsiders threaten the traditions of his clan, he takes violent action. Will the great man's pride eventually destroy him? Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 113 x 15. Weight in Grams: 152.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- SKU
- 9780141023380
- ISBN
- 9780141023380
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.64
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€ 9.64
Paperback. A work of Proust that is translated from French original into English. Editor(s): Prendergast, Christopher. Translator(s): Davis, Lydia. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141180311
- ISBN
- 9780141180311
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 10.45
€ 12.99
€ 10.45
Paperback. Sharing a room with criminals is an occupational hazard for probation counsellor Daniel Brasher. But he's ready to move on; he's looking forward to leaving it behind for good. That was the plan at least. Until, before leaving work for the evening, Daniel finds a letter in his pigeonhole. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 33. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Penguin London
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405912587
- ISBN
- 9781405912587
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.84
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€ 11.84
Paperback. A mesmerising meditation on memory, madness and the lesser known horrors of Nazi Germany. Translator(s): Hawkesworth, Celia. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2021
- Publisher
- MacLehose Press
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848665873
- ISBN
- 9781848665873
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.85
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€ 11.85
Paperback. This time the shockingly sensual, ruthlessly clever Lucky is out to conquer Hollywood! Num Pages: 656 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 145 x 41. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Number of pages
- 656
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849836272
- ISBN
- 9781849836272
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.71
€ 13.99
€ 10.71
Paperback. Set in the rural French town in Burgundy that would also form the backdrop to the bestselling Suite Francaise, this title tells the story of Silvio, his cousin's wife Helene, her second husband Francoise, and of the truths, deaths, marriages, children, houses and mills that bind them with love and hatred, deception and betrayal. Translator(s): Smith, Sandra. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 132. Good copy with some shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KKD0007486
- ISBN
- 9780099516095
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2013 WINNER OF THE SPECSAVERS POPULAR FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014 WINNER OF THE BETTY TRASK PRIZE 2014 Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 196 x 25. Weight in Grams: 228. Good copy with some shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KKD0007508
- ISBN
- 9780007491452
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. A novel first published in 1952 as THREE BEAR WITNESS which, set in Wales, tells a tale of love and death centred around an Oxford don who leaves for a Welsh farm and for the wife of a neighbouring farmer. From the author of the AUBREY/NATURIN novels. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 133 x 14. Weight in Grams: 172. Good copy with some shelf wear, yellowing of pages and damage to author's introductory page, otherwise good and remains intact
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Flamingo
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KKD0007539
- ISBN
- 9780006476528
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. For nine years, John Dowell and his wife spend the summer season at a German spa town in the company of the respectable Ashburnhams. Behind the placid exteriors lie the destructive passions of men and women. This text includes biographical and critical apparatus. Series: Ford Madox Ford programme. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSK; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 135 x 18. Weight in Grams: 313. 8vo. Illustrated. Near fine copy in slipcase
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- The Folio Society London
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Edition
- New
- SKU
- KSG0022657
- ISBN
- 9781857543001
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 35.00
€ 35.00