Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy boards a huge liner bound for England - a 'castle that was to cross the sea'. As the ship makes its way across the Indian Ocean, through the Suez Canal, into the Mediterranean, the boys become involved in the worlds and stories of the adults around them, tumbling from one adventure and to another. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099554424
- ISBN
- 9780099554424
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Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.85
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Paperback. .
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 226
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007333851
- ISBN
- 9780007333851
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Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.50
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Paperback. A devastating novel of love and desire and one man's search for his soul in a world of violence and political intrigue, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award 1998 Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Headline Publishing Group
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780747260332
- ISBN
- 9780747260332
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
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mass_market. Holden, knowing he is to be expelled from school, decides to leave early. He spends three days in New York City and tells the story of what he did and suffered there. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 170 x 106 x 16. Weight in Grams: 118.
- Edition
- Reprint
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Publication date
- 1995
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780316769488
- ISBN
- 9780316769488
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Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.53
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Paperback. Holden Caulfield is a dropout who has just been kicked out of his fourth school. Navigating his way through challenges of growing up, Holden dissects the 'phony' aspects of society, and the 'phonies' themselves: the headmaster whose affability depends on the wealth of the parents, his roommate who scores with girls using sickly-sweet affection. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 16. Weight in Grams: 172
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780241950432
- ISBN
- 9780241950432
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Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 10.12
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Paperback. Cipriano and his daughter craft a new line of small ceramic figurines and the Centre orders cast quantities and then recants. Resigned to idleness, Cipriano moves to a soulless megaplex, until late one night he comes across a horrifying secret in the bowels of the artificial city. This is an Orwellian nightmare, a family fable and a love story. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 212.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099449157
- ISBN
- 9780099449157
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.06
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Paperback. Num Pages: 190 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 234 x 18. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Publisher
- Somerville Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780992736415
- ISBN
- 9780992736415
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Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 14.46
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Paperback. Presents the story of Michael Caradock, a writer whose life has ended violently on an isolated Welsh island. This book follows his protected Welsh childhood, his crucial first encounters with sex, his literary success in London and his final withdrawal to Wales. Series: Library of Wales. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 140 x 38. Weight in Grams: 554.
- Publisher
- Parthian Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 592
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905762958
- ISBN
- 9781905762958
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.44
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Paperback. Drawing on the ancient wisdom found in a Peruvian manuscript, this book tells you how to make connections between the events happening in your own life right now, and lets you see what is going to happen to you in the years to come. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; FA; VXA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 234. ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDITION
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Bantam
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780553409024
- ISBN
- 9780553409024
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.85
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Paperback. A companion volume which expands on the knowledge contained in each of the nine insights of "The Celestine Prophecy". It aims to foster readers' spiritual growth by putting them in touch with evidence of their own experience. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; FA; VXA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 20. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Bantam
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780553503708
- ISBN
- 9780553503708
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.88
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Paperback. After a nervous collapse while serving at the altar, his college principal sends him on a placement to London where he enters an unfamiliar world of outcasts, down-and-outs, rent boys, religious fundamentalists and people with AIDS. In increasing despair, he embarks on a journey through the world of Jack the Ripper. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 28. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Publisher
- Arcadia Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906413224
- ISBN
- 9781906413224
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Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 6.73
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Paperback. Snipers in the hills overlook the shattered streets of Sarajevo. Knowing that the next bullet could strike at any moment, the ordinary men and women below strive to go about their daily lives as best they can. Kenan faces the agonizing dilemma of crossing the city to get water for his family. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 126 x 19. Weight in Grams: 172. 288 pages. Snipers in the hills overlook the shattered streets of Sarajevo. Knowing that the next bullet could strike at any moment, the ordinary men and women below strive to go about their daily lives as best they can. Kenan faces the agonizing dilemma of crossing the city to get water for his family. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 194 x 126 x 19. Weight: 196.
- Edition
- Main
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843547419
- ISBN
- 9781843547419
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.74
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Paperback. A collection of stories, in which moments of change, chance encounters, the twist of fate leads a person to a new way of thinking or being. It presents a radiant, indelible portrait of just how dangerous and strange ordinary life can be. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 21. Weight in Grams: 244.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Thames & Hudson Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780500300343
- ISBN
- 9780500300343
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Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 10.45
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paperback. In the relentless summer heat, four abruptly orphaned children retreat into a shadowy, isolated world, and find their own strange and unsettling ways of fending for themselves. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 10. Weight in Grams: 122.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099755111
- ISBN
- 9780099755111
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
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Paperback. In a small Pennsylvania town in the late 1940s, schoolteacher George Caldwell yearns to find some meaning in his life. Alone with his teenage son for three days in a blizzard, Caldwell sees his son grow and change as he himself begins to lose touch with his life. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 204.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1978
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140023404
- ISBN
- 9780140023404
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Condition: New
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Paperback. In a small Pennsylvania town in the late 1940s, schoolteacher George Caldwell yearns to find some meaning in his life. Alone with his teenage son for three days in a blizzard, Caldwell sees his son grow and change as he himself begins to lose touch with his life. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 242.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141189048
- ISBN
- 9780141189048
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Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 15.14
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Paperback. * by one of the finest chroniclers of the lives of northern working-class women Series: Virago Modern Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 126 x 19. Weight in Grams: 206.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- Virago
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780860686118
- ISBN
- 9780860686118
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Condition: New
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Paperback. Mallory Book 10: the tenth NYPD detective Kathy Mallory novel from New York Times bestseller Carol O'Connell, master of knife-edge suspense and intricate plotting. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 29. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Headline
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780755385393
- ISBN
- 9780755385393
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
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Paperback. On a summer's day in 1922 Cora Carlisle boards a train from Wichita, Kansas, to New York City, leaving behind a marriage that's not as perfect as it seems and a past that she buried long ago. She is charged with the care of a stunning young girl with a jet-black fringe and eyes wild and wise beyond her fifteen years. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 27. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Publisher
- Michael Joseph
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780718158972
- ISBN
- 9780718158972
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Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.22
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Paperback. First published in 1953, The Charioteer is a tender, intelligent coming-of-age novel and a bold, unapologetic portrayal of homosexuality that stands with Gore Vidal's The City and the Pillar and James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room as a landmark work in gay literature. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 140 x 27. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Publisher
- Virago
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844089505
- ISBN
- 9781844089505
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
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