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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
paperback. Chronicles about Henry Wilt, the hero who is no longer the victim of his own uncontrolled fantasies. As Head of a reconstituted Liberal Studies Department, he has assumed power without authority at the Fenland College of Arts and Technology and the fantasies he confronts are those of political bigots and reactionary bureaucrats. Series: Wilt Series. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 133 x 19. Weight in Grams: 232.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099466499
- ISBN
- 9780099466499
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Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 10.27
€ 12.99
€ 10.27
Paperback. A powerful and moving tale of family, love and loyalty from the author of the million-copy bestseller THE FLOWERS OF THE FIELD and A FLOWER THAT'S FREE. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 145 x 31. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781409128892
- ISBN
- 9781409128892
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.85
€ 13.00
€ 11.85
paperback. Max likes to make noise, get dirty, ride his bike without a helmet and howl like a wolf. In any other age he would have just been considered a boy. These days he is considered wilful and deranged. After a row with his mother, Max runs away. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 196.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141037134
- ISBN
- 9780141037134
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.79
€ 20.99
€ 16.79
Paperback. In New Orleans in 1937, a man and woman embark on a headlong flight into the wilderness of illicit passion. In Mississippi ten years earlier, a convict sets forth across a flooded river, risking his one chance at freedom to rescue a pregnant woman. From these separate stories, the author composes a symphony of deliverance and damnation. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 19. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Publisher
- Vintage/Ebury (a Division of Random
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099282921
- ISBN
- 9780099282921
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.04
€ 13.99
€ 11.04
Paperback. Charts the riotous and stormy lives of Sailor Ripley and Lula Pace Fortune - the horribly likeable, sex-driven, star-crossed lovers immortalised in David Lynch's movie "Wild at Heart". Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 34. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 528
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- New ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841954349
- ISBN
- 9781841954349
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.11
€ 23.99
€ 16.11
Paperback. Series: Pike's Peak. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; FA; FT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press Ohio
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KEX0227536
- ISBN
- 9780804010474
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. A novel that sees wild boys engage in vigorous, ritualistic sex and drug taking, as well as pranksterish guerrilla warfare and open combat with a confused and outmatched army. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 150.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141189833
- ISBN
- 9780141189833
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
paperback. A tale of sex, death and reproduction, by the author of "The Portable Virgin". When Stephen arrives on her doorstep and asks for a cup of tea, Grace's life is transfigured. He committed suicide in 1934, but now, nostalgically, he spends his nights hanging by the neck in Grace's shower. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 128 x 15. Weight in Grams: 166.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780749397159
- ISBN
- 9780749397159
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.06
€ 13.99
€ 11.06
Paperback. Joe is thinking about the prestigious literary prize he will receive there, while Joan is plotting how to leave him. For too long she has played the role of supportive wife, turning a blind eye to his misdemeanours, whilst quietly being the keystone of his success. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 131 x 15. Weight in Grams: 162.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099478195
- ISBN
- 9780099478195
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
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€ 11.02
Paperback. A newly-widowed woman has done a runner. She just jumped in her car, abandoned her (very nice) house in north London and kept on driving until she reached the Norfolk coast. Now she's rented a tiny cottage and holed herself away there, if only to escape the ceaseless sympathy and insincere concern. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 17. Weight in Grams: 208.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571254415
- ISBN
- 9780571254415
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Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.24
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Paperback. Bella Wallis is a respectable society woman with a secret identity: she writes sensationalist novels exposing the scoundrels that litter high society. So when a crested cigar case is found near the body of a murdered prostitute, Bella and her friends are determined to trace the murderer and write a mystery that will avenge the poor girl's death. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 133 x 17. Weight in Grams: 200.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099539483
- ISBN
- 9780099539483
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Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.50
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Paperback. When the three witches - now old, remarried and widowed - decide to go back to Eastwick to spend a summer together, many things have changed. Darryl Van Horne is gone. Their husbands and lovers have gone. The lithe and supple bodies with which they wrecked marriages and wreaked havoc many years before have gone. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 220.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st Edition/1st Printing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141038032
- ISBN
- 9780141038032
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
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Paperback. Happy ending, take two: a novel romance from the merry widow of New York.. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 161 x 19. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Publisher
- QUERCUS
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782067580
- ISBN
- 9781782067580
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
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Paperback. By the author of SCHINDLER'S ARK, an enthralling, thought-provoking story of wartime exploits, and the price paid for men's misguided heroism by their widows Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 133 x 17. Weight in Grams: 224. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAC0001970
- ISBN
- 9780340825280
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. A riveting new novel by the bestselling author of December, a Richard & Judy pick. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 145 x 31. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton United Kingdom
- Edition
- Unabridged
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444755480
- ISBN
- 9781444755480
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 17.38
€ 24.99
€ 17.38
Paperback. By the bestselling author of DECEMBER. 'This haunting, shimmering novel reminds us how all of us know our families: with unimaginable intimacy, and hardly at all.' Andrew Solomon Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 198 x 21. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton General Division
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444755497
- ISBN
- 9781444755497
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.26
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€ 10.26
Paperback. Presents a collection of stories. In this title story, a septuagenarian nun resolutely invades the narrator's college writing workshop with an incredible saga; a seasoned Hollywood moviemaker uncovers a 25 year old flame he never knew he'd harboured; another child is forced into a harrowing cross-country escape; and more. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 132 x 10. Weight in Grams: 212.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099437529
- ISBN
- 9780099437529
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Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.85
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Paperback. A composite novel written by 12 authors, including Henry James, William Dean Howells, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. The introduction presents an account of the creation of the novel, and June Howard offers additional context and critical perspective. Num Pages: 416 pages, 12 illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 136 x 56. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Duke University Press London
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822328384
- ISBN
- 9780822328384
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.73
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€ 29.73
Paperback. A modern classic, a beautifully written story of the English Civil War. Num Pages: 452 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton General Division
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781473656000
- ISBN
- 9781473656000
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
€ 13.99
€ 11.09
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. Num Pages: 414 pages, map. BIC Classification: FA; FH; FJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 137 x 29. Weight in Grams: 588. Clean copy with minor nicks to cover at spine. Pages age toned and with light spotting to edges. Remains a good copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- House of Stratus United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 414
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KMK0024588
- ISBN
- 9781842321614
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 16.99€ 12.88
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Paperback. Offers an exercise in the bizarre leaving you disoriented and on edge. From the first page, the author turns even fundamental truths upside-down, as his character Ambrose explains, "there have been those who have sounded the very depths of sin, who all their lives have never done an 'ill deed'" setting the stage for a tale entirely without logic. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 1 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 18. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 1
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780143105596
- ISBN
- 9780143105596
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.01
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Paperback. A darkly enthralling literary novel about secrets and murder. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 196 x 35. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Publisher
- Short Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780720906
- ISBN
- 9781780720906
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.45
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Paperback. Eleven-year-old Djata makes sure he is always home on Sundays. It is the day the State Security came to take his father away, and he believes it will be a Sunday when his father finally comes home again. While he waits, Djata lives out a life of adventure. Translator(s): Olchvary, Paul. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 205 x 24. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Publisher
- Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784161439
- ISBN
- 9781784161439
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.88
€ 13.00
€ 11.88