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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. Reissued in a new look is this richly imagined historical novel that combines mystery, history, politics and passion in a story of gripping power, from the author of SACRED HEARTS Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 132 x 30. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Publisher
- Virago
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844089123
- ISBN
- 9781844089123
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.81
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Paperback. Vienna 1865: Dr Ignaz Semmelweis has been hounded into a lunatic asylum, ridiculed for his claim that doctors' unwashed hands are the root cause of childbed fever. London in 2009: Michael Stone's novel about Semmelweis has been published, after years of rejection. While Michael absorbs his success, his mother is dying and asks to see him again. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 198 x 21. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571245185
- ISBN
- 9780571245185
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.98
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Paperback. Elizabeth Richmond is almost too quiet to be believed, with no friends, no parents, and a job that leaves her strangely unnoticed. But soon she starts to behave in ways she can neither control nor understand, to the increasing horror of her doctor, and the humiliation of her self-centred aunt. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 202.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141391946
- ISBN
- 9780141391946
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
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Paperback. When James proposes, it seems like an opportunity for Jane to leave her lonely past behind and become part of a family. But the presence of a woman in the cottage near their remote farmhouse threatens Jane's new-found happiness. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 198 x 10. Weight in Grams: 130.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571298761
- ISBN
- 9780571298761
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.75
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Paperback. Awarm, tender and utterly hilarious story about love and betrayal from the author of the hugely successful The Yorkshire Pudding Club Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 132 x 30. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 448
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849834094
- ISBN
- 9781849834094
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.99
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Paperback. * This collection of short stories enabled du Maurier's devoted readership to see her, for the first time, in a very different guise -- as an exponent of the sinister and macabre. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 204.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- New Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844080878
- ISBN
- 9781844080878
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.26
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Paperback. Every family has its secrets.. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 184.
- Publisher
- John Murray General Publishing Division United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719523625
- ISBN
- 9780719523625
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.26
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Paperback. In Alex Gray's page-turning new Glasgow-set crime novel, Detective Lorimer must protect his city from a terrifying threat in the countdown to the 2014 Commonwealth Games. Series: William Lorimer. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 142 x 33. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780751548273
- ISBN
- 9780751548273
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
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Paperback. From the award-winning author of White Ghost Girls comes an evocative tale of memory, loss - and the redemptive power of friendship. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 159 x 25. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848873674
- ISBN
- 9781848873674
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.05
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Paperback. 'Much of The Bird Room's appeal is down to Killen's taut, sharp prose style - not flashy but alternately laconic, melancholy and dryly witty - that gives an edgy, sometimes creepy and very contemporary sense of beauty to the everyday and the banal.' Metro Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 150.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847672612
- ISBN
- 9781847672612
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 9.22
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Paperback. Fed up with stultifying criticism, Phineas decides to study the messiness of 'real life'. Doing nothing by halves, he sets out to write a biography of a great biographer. But a 'whole life' is hard to find. How do we put the idea of a person together? Everywhere he looks, he finds fragments and gaps. Trails run cold and mysteries are unresolved. Num Pages: 272 pages, portraits. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 18. Weight in Grams: 200. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0001474
- ISBN
- 9780099283935
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. The bumper book of Billy Palmer: following our hero from his apple-scrumping childhood in post-war Somerset and his coming-of-age in the Soho of the swinging sixties, to his romp through '80s New York and his final return to London Num Pages: 544 pages, ill. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 36. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Publisher
- Granta Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 544
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846272141
- ISBN
- 9781846272141
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.02
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Paperback. 196 pages. Alma Nel leaves her home on the edge of the Kalahari to retrieve the body of her gay son in Amsterdam. Driven by guilt and grief, she resolves to reconstruct Staal's life and the events leading up to his death, undertaking a bizarre quest in a strange and surreal world. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 212 x 137 x 15. Weight: 224.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Jacana Media
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781431402687
- ISBN
- 9781431402687
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.50
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Paperback. Often imitated but never bettered, it is in Marlowe's long shadow that every fictional detective must stand - and under the influence of Raymond Chandler's addictive prose that every crime author must write. Marlowe's entanglement with the Sternwood family - and an attendant cast of colourful underworld figures. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 30. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141182612
- ISBN
- 9780141182612
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.53
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€ 12.53
Paperback. Bo Mason, his wife, Elsa, and their two boys live a transient life of poverty and despair. Drifting from town to town and from state to state, the violent, ruthless Bo seeks out his fortune - in the hotel business, in new farmland and eventually, in illegal rum-running through the treacherous back roads of the American Northwest. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 656 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 31. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 656
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Printing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141392349
- ISBN
- 9780141392349
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.94
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Paperback. *A fiendishly clever, yet serious tale of middle-class frustration that will touch anyone who has ever wanted to escape their life. The Thriller goes into a new domain - The Real World. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 26. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Abacus
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349117386
- ISBN
- 9780349117386
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
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paperback. A Sunday Times bestseller in hardback, THE BIG OVER EASY heralds the start of an ingenious new series from the creator of the international phenomenon Thursday Next. Series: Nursery Crime Adventures. Num Pages: 416 pages, b/w line illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 288.
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780340897102
- ISBN
- 9780340897102
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
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Paperback. Presented as a collection of found papers, appendices and notes, this book tells the story of John Sutherland of 'The Grey House', who is dying and creating in the last days of his life a musical composition that will define it. It takes you to a new understanding of how fiction can affect you. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 126 x 32. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 496
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571282340
- ISBN
- 9780571282340
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.69
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Paperback. The big man is Dan Scoular, a legend of physical prowess in a decaying Ayrshire mining community. When a bare-knuckle fight offers both money and a purpose, he finds it turns into a monumental struggle to keep his heritage and integrity intact. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 196 x 18. Weight in Grams: 190.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782113027
- ISBN
- 9781782113027
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.75
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Paperback. 'I feel like The Wurzels visiting Buckingham Palace!' Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Digital original ePub edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KEX0295742
- ISBN
- 9780008226589
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. A.B. Guthrie Jr. is best known for his historical fiction; his classic novel The Way West earned him a Pulitzer Prize. The Big It and Other Stories collects his diverse shorter tales, written between 1946 and 1960. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 142 x 12. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803240551
- ISBN
- 9780803240551
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.92
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Paperback. The Big Green Tent is the kind of book for which the term "Russian novel" was invented. A sweeping saga, it tells the story of three school friends who meet in 1950s Moscow and go on to embody the heroism, folly, compromise, and hope of the Soviet dissident experience. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 210 x 39. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Picador USA
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781250097446
- ISBN
- 9781250097446
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 23.71
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Paperback. The beguiling story of a man, a woman and a nasty crime, from 'the hottest thriller writer in the US' [Time]. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780753822456
- ISBN
- 9780753822456
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
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Paperback. A quirky, stylish, feelgood novel of high stakes, lost love and poker from the bestselling author of GOODNIGHT STEVE MCQUEEN. Num Pages: 352 pages, n/a. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 242. Good clean copy with some reader wear.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- SKU
- KTM0006148
- ISBN
- 9780340820322
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99