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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, frustrated college professor. In love with his landlady's twelve-year-old daughter Lolita, he'll do anything to possess her. Unable and unwilling to stop himself, he is prepared to commit any crime to get what he wants. Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? Or is he all of these? Series: Penguin Essentials. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 110 x 20. Weight in Grams: 204.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241951644
- ISBN
- 9780241951644
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
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Paperback. A fifteen year-old boy meets a middle-aged woman on the internet. When his long-term girlfriend and first love Alice, betrays him at a house party, Etgar goes looking for cyber solace in the arms of Macy, a stunning but bored housewife he meets online. What could possibly go wrong..? Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 136 x 23. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782111580
- ISBN
- 9781782111580
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.54
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Paperback. Paul Rainey is a 40-year-old functioning alcoholic on anti-anxiety medication who commutes into London every day from Hove to sell advertising space in non-existent trade publications. Perceiving through a fog of psychoactive substances his own dissatisfaction with where his life is going - he only wishes there were something to be done about it. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 17. Weight in Grams: 246.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099515890
- ISBN
- 9780099515890
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
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Paperback. It is 1938 and the prospect of war hangs over every London inhabitant. But the city doesn't stop. Everywhere people continue to work, drink, fall in love, and struggle to get on in life. At the lodging-house at Number 10 Dulcimer Street, Kennington, the buttoned-up clerk Mr Josser returns home with the clock he has received as a retirement gift. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 752 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 752
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141442334
- ISBN
- 9780141442334
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.84
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Paperback. A collection of dazzling London-based short stories, some never before collected, from one of the masters of the genre. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 26. Weight in Grams: 252.
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781473213296
- ISBN
- 9781473213296
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.86
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Paperback. The narrator, Samson Young, enters the Black Cross, a thoroughly undesirable public house, and finds the main players of his drama assembled, just waiting to begin. It's a gift of a story from real life.. all Samson has to do is to write it as it happens. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 31. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099748618
- ISBN
- 9780099748618
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.88
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€ 11.88
Hardcover. Everyone is always out there searching for someone and something, usually for a lover, usually for love. But the murderee - Nicola Six - is searching for something and someone else: her murderer. She knows the time, she knows the place, she knows the motive, she knows the means. She just doesn't know the man. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 143 x 34. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781841593623
- ISBN
- 9781841593623
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 11.69
€ 16.99
€ 11.69
Paperback. Editor(s): Hinnant, Charles H. Series: Broadview Editions. Num Pages: 212 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 321.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Broadview Press Ltd Canada
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781551117379
- ISBN
- 9781551117379
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Condition: New
€ 42.27
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Paperback. A compelling historical novel set in south London 1912 - based on a true story Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 198 x 32. Weight in Grams: 252.
- Publisher
- Virago
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349007830
- ISBN
- 9780349007830
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
Hardcover. London has the greatest literary tradition of any city in the world. Its roll-call of story-tellers includes cultural giants who changed the way the world thought about writing, like Shakespeare, Defoe and Dickens. This title includes stories of fact and fiction and occasionally something in between. Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Classics. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 3J; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 189 x 124 x 30. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Publisher
- Everyman's Library
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841596167
- ISBN
- 9781841596167
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.06
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€ 15.06
Paperback. Num Pages: 420 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 165 x 26. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- M P Publishing Limited United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 420
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849821353
- ISBN
- 9781849821353
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.46
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Paperback. Three men, three lives and three eras sinuously entwine in a dark, startling and unsettling narrative of sex, exploitation and dependence set against London's strangely constant gay underworld. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Publisher
- MYRIAD EDITIONS
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780956251534
- ISBN
- 9780956251534
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.65
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Paperback. It is Christmas, 1940, and Kate is making her debut in New York society. Joe, the brilliant protege of Charles Lindbergh, seems just out of her reach. Unwilling to wait any longer, Kate moves on with her life. But when a chance encounter brings them together again, the time has come to make a choice, one that will have profound consequences. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 106 x 33. Weight in Grams: 266. Some minor shelf wear, but remains very good
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- First Thus
- Publisher
- Corgi
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- SKU
- KTJ0006818
- ISBN
- 9780552148511
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. It is Christmas, 1940, and Kate is making her debut in New York society. Joe, the brilliant protege of Charles Lindbergh, seems just out of her reach. Unwilling to wait any longer, Kate moves on with her life. But when a chance encounter brings them together again, the time has come to make a choice, one that will have profound consequences. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 106 x 33. Weight in Grams: 266.
- Edition
- First Thus
- Publisher
- Corgi
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KEX0226886
- ISBN
- 9780552148511
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
paperback. Weaves characters, themes and language in 22 linked stories that evoke the complex density of life in and around the Spokane Indian Reservation. The author is one of Granta's 20 Best Young American Writers. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 176.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780749386696
- ISBN
- 9780749386696
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.45
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Paperback. The new novel from Sunday Times bestselling author Josephine Cox gets straight to the hope and heartbreak of family drama. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 30. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007476732
- ISBN
- 9780007476732
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.67
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Paperback. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 69. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Brindle and Glass Publishing, Ltd Canada
- Number of pages
- 180
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781897142035
- ISBN
- 9781897142035
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 19.72
€ 27.99
€ 19.72
Paperback. Where there's a will there's a motive for murder! Miss Silver solves this mystery written by one of the Queens of classic crime fiction. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 110 x 18. Weight in Grams: 204.
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780340286456
- ISBN
- 9780340286456
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
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Paperback. The author roams the US, Mexico, Morocco, Paris and London, Kerouac records, in prose of pure poetry, life on the road. In this book, he reveals both the endless diversity of human life and his own high-spirited philosophy of self-fulfilment. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; FA; FC; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 9. Weight in Grams: 126.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141184906
- ISBN
- 9780141184906
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
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Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton General Division
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444796377
- ISBN
- 9781444796377
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 5.37
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€ 5.37
Paperback. London. The Swinging Sixties. Welcome to our manor Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Publisher
- Sceptre
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780340748787
- ISBN
- 9780340748787
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
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Paperback. It is 1936, the height of summer in New Zealand, and the Hopkins family have rented a house at the beach. Alone during the week while her husband works, Lorna is bored. That is until James, the most handsome man in the area, decides to make an amateur western, involving all the locals. Num Pages: 263 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 190. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0001878
- ISBN
- 9780099283744
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. 'He built an imposing artistic social history that promises to join those of his great forebears in the long, noble line of the English novel. His narratives belong in a tradition that goes back to John Galsworthy and Arnold Bennett' Life Magazine Num Pages: 688 pages, Illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 43. Weight in Grams: 285.
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780340922910
- ISBN
- 9780340922910
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.69
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Paperback. .
- Publisher
- New Generation Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906558680
- ISBN
- 9781906558680
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 10.98
€ 14.99
€ 10.98