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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Hardback. The new bestselling novel from Britain's favourite gardener and TV presenter Alan Titchmarsh. Mr Gandy escapes his humdrum life with an unexpected Grand Tour of Europe where drama, romance and friendship await in this beguiling tale of self-discovery. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 242 x 32. Weight in Grams: 548.
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
KTG0019399
ISBN
9780340953075
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Beautifully rejacked edition of this wonderful novel from the best-selling author of 'Miss Garnet's Angel' and 'Instances of the Number 3'. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 25. Weight in Grams: 290. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
First Thus
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
SKU
KRA0010709
ISBN
9780007156481
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. People find Mr Hire strange, disconcerting. The tenants he shares his building with try to avoid him. He is a peeping Tom, a visitor of prostitutes, a dealer in unsavoury literature. He is also the prime suspect for a brutal murder that he did not commit. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 10. Weight in Grams: 124.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141978468
ISBN
9780141978468
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.27

Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; FA; FQ; HRG; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408881590
ISBN
9781408881590
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.09

Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Valley Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908853608
ISBN
9781908853608
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.81

Paperback. Mr Kafka is avoiding his landlady's blueberry wine breath, a stonemason witnesses the destruction of a monument to Stalin he risked his life to build, and factory men strain to catch a glimpse of a beautiful bathing murderess. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784871178
ISBN
9781784871178
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.01

Paperback. French Barrington Jedidiah Walker is seventy-four and leads a double life. Born and bred in Antigua, he's lived in Hackney since the sixties. Barrington is a husband, father and grandfather - but he is also secretly homosexual, lovers with his great childhood friend, Morris. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 158 x 20. Weight in Grams: 234.
Publisher
Penguin
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241145784
ISBN
9780241145784
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 216.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408857212
ISBN
9781408857212
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.89

Paperback. .
Publisher
Simon & Schuster United States
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
New ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780743478472
ISBN
9780743478472
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.91

Paperback. The New York Times bestselling author of Be Cool and Get Shorty Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 144 x 12. Weight in Grams: 156.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co United Kingdom
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780753822364
ISBN
9780753822364
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

Paperback. At twenty-seven, Libby thinks there's a lot to be said for a rich husband. So when Nick comes along - lovely, funny, handsome Nick, who has no money whatsoever, lives in a grotty bedsit and thinks the perfect night out consists of the pub and his mates - she decides he's only good for a fling. No strings attached. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 8. Weight in Grams: 270. Clean copy
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
1st Paperback Edition
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
SKU
KEX0237628
ISBN
9780140276510
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. At twenty-seven, Libby thinks there's a lot to be said for a rich husband. So when Nick comes along - lovely, funny, handsome Nick, who has no money whatsoever, lives in a grotty bedsit and thinks the perfect night out consists of the pub and his mates - she decides he's only good for a fling. No strings attached. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 8. Weight in Grams: 306. Good, clean copy showing minor shelfwear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Edition
1st Paperback Edition
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KSG0005498
ISBN
9780140276510
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Series: Dedalus Original Fiction in Paperback. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 136 x 20. Weight in Grams: 320.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Dedalus Ltd
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781909232945
ISBN
9781909232945
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.39

Hardcover. More stories about the incredible Mulliner clan, following on from Meet Mr Mulliner. This volume includes such classic Wodehouse tales as 'The Man Who Gave Up Smoking', 'The Awful Gladness of the Mater', 'Unpleasantness at Bludleigh Court' and 'The Passing of Ambrose'. Series: Everyman's Library P G Wodehouse. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 136 x 23. Weight in Grams: 338.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Everyman
Condition
New
SKU
9781841591384
ISBN
9781841591384
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.29

paperback. After a chance encounter on a train the English teacher William Bradshaw starts a close friendship with the mildly sinister Arthur Norris. Norris is a man of contradictions; lavish but heavily in debt, excessively polite but sexually deviant. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 178.
Edition
1st Edition
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099771418
ISBN
9780099771418
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.06

paperback. Num Pages: 218 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 132 x 15. Weight in Grams: 220.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
New Directions United States
Number of pages
218
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780811220262
ISBN
9780811220262
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.38

Paperback. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 219 x 24. Weight in Grams: 400.
Publisher
Ward Wood Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908742582
ISBN
9781908742582
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 14.42

Paperback. A New York Times bestseller, Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore is an entirely charming and lovable first novel of mysterious books and dusty bookshops; it is a witty and delightful love-letter to both the old book world and the new. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 134 x 199 x 16. Weight in Grams: 210.
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782391210
ISBN
9781782391210
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.71

Paperback. One warm July morning Mr Phillips climbs out of bed, leaving Mrs Phillips dozing. He prepares for his commute into the city - but this is no ordinary Wednesday. It is a day on which Mr Phillips will chat with a pornographer, stalk a tv mini-celebrity, have lunch with an aspiring record mogul, and get caught up in a bank robbery. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 127 x 19. Weight in Grams: 202.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571294862
ISBN
9780571294862
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.78

Paperback. Equipped with love, Mr Harold Pye lands on the island of Sark, his mission to convert the islanders into a crusading force for the undiluted goodness that he feels within. The extraordinary inhabitants of the island range from the formidable Miss George in her purple busby to the wanton, raven-haired Tintagieu, 'five foot three inches of sex'. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 16. Weight in Grams: 190.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099283263
ISBN
9780099283263
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. A charming novel about an irrepressible man, his long-suffering wife and a Very English dream. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 228.
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780340995662
ISBN
9780340995662
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.00

Paperback. Ross O'Carroll-Kelly is broke and out of love. His wife has gone to America, taking his daughter with him; his mother has become a celebrity chef on daytime television, with a particular skill for handling phallic ingredients; and his father continues to languish in Mountjoy Jail. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 126 x 23. Weight in Grams: 234.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
Edition
UK ed.
SKU
V9781844881277
ISBN
9781844881277
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.00
€ 16.79

Paperback. Mr Artur Sammler, intellectual and occasional lecturer at Columbia University in 1960s New York City, is a registrar of madness, a refined and civilized being caught among people crazy with the promises of the future. His Cyclopean gaze reflects on the degradations of city life while looking deep into the sufferings of the human soul. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 218.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141188812
ISBN
9780141188812
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.84

Paperback. *A touching and funny novel about a once-beautiful woman who, approaching her fiftieth birthday, realises she is no longer the belle of the ball. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 127 x 13. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844082797
ISBN
9781844082797
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.75

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