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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 290.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Random House USA Inc
Edition
1st Edition Thus
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9781933633657
ISBN
9781933633657
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.81

paperback. Lise has been driven to distraction by working in the same accountants' office for sixteen years. So she leaves everything behind her, transforms herself into a laughing, garishly-dressed temptress and flies abroad on the holiday of a lifetime. But her search for adventure, sex and the obsessional experience takes on a far darker significance. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 9. Weight in Grams: 102.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141188348
ISBN
9780141188348
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.25

Paperback. A year on, Emma remains haunted by the image of that empty cot, thousands of miles away, the chasm between her and the rest of the family growing with each day that Sam remains missing. Is her son still out there? Will the mystery about what happened that night ever be unravelled? Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 198 x 29. Weight in Grams: 288.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405915311
ISBN
9781405915311
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.85

Paperback. The bestselling modern fairytale, with a new introduction from Luke Cutforth 'I loved it .. so good!' CARRIE HOPE FLETCHER Num Pages: 371 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 270.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
KSG0015275
ISBN
9780007479092
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. When Maude Slocum - beautiful, frightened and angry - comes to Lew Archer's office with a poison pen letter intended for her husband, he reluctantly agrees to help her. As he follows the Slocums around, Archer finds that Mrs Slocum might have the least of the family's troubles. But why is their handsome ex-chauffeur still hanging around? Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 17. Weight in Grams: 200.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141196626
ISBN
9780141196626
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. In a town without rain, some secrets are never washed away.. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
Publisher
Abacus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349142111
ISBN
9780349142111
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

Paperback. It's 1989, and in the dying years of the Apartheid regime, eleven-year-old Jack Viljee considers himself the centre of his world. The son of an Afrikaans father and an English mother, wedged between a strident older and favoured younger sister, Jack allies himself with the family's beloved maid, Susie. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 16. Weight in Grams: 176.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099555070
ISBN
9780099555070
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.50

Paperback. Lucas Corso, a gin-swilling book hunter and an expert in Napoleonic war games, is hired to authenticate an Alexandre Dumas manuscript. At the same time a Spanish bookseller asks him to investigate two other editions of the book. Num Pages: 336 pages, 31. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 238.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099448594
ISBN
9780099448594
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. As a child, Luke's mother often tells him the story of the Dumb House, an experiment on newborn babies raised in silence, designed to test the innateness of language. As Luke grows up, his interest in language and the delicate balance of life and death leads to amateur dissections of small animals. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 21. Weight in Grams: 190.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784870119
ISBN
9781784870119
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. Translator(s): Roberts, Nancy. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 23. Weight in Grams: 224.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408866276
ISBN
9781408866276
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.13

Paperback. In the brief golden years before the outbreak of World War I, Rosie McCosh and her three sisters are growing up in an eccentric household in Kent. But their days of childhood adventure are shadowed by the approach of the conflict. Can she, and her sisters, build new lives out of the opportunities and devastations that follow the Great War? Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 36. Weight in Grams: 370.
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099597834
ISBN
9780099597834
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.88

Paperback. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 236 x 154 x 41. Weight in Grams: 782.
Publisher
Harvill Secker
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
9781846558771
ISBN
9781846558771
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 6.00

Paperback. Harold Pinter's first and only novel, written in the early 1950s before he began writing plays. The novel is set in post-war London's East End, a landscape of bomb-sites, and describes the lives of four young Londoners whose energy and humour lift them above the routine austerity of the time. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 15. Weight in Grams: 175.
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571164172
ISBN
9780571164172
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 8.50

Paperback. William has a lot on his mind. Firstly there's The Alaska Factory, the band he plays in. They're no good and they make his songs sound about as groovy as an unpressed record. Secondly, there's Madeleine, his high-maintenance girlfriend whose idea of a night of passion is an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical followed by a doorstep peck on the cheek. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 14. Weight in Grams: 164.
Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Re-issue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241967737
ISBN
9780241967737
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.85

Paperback. David Kepesh, white-haired, and now in his sixties, is a formidable lecturer at a New York college. For years he's been casually, almost habitually, sleeping with the more spirited of his female students, though with an aesthete's critical distance. But now he's met Consuela Castillo, a twenty-four-year-old Cuban student.. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 159 x 11. Weight in Grams: 148. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Vintage
SKU
KKD0004580
ISBN
9780099422693
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. Series: Atopia. Num Pages: 416 pages. Dimension: 210 x 160 x 25. Weight in Grams: 480.
Publisher
47North
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781477824535
ISBN
9781477824535
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.71

Paperback. Britannia, AD 44. Centurions Macro and Cato (the latter newly promoted) face trouble on two fronts - from the rebellious tribes, and from a deadly plot directly targetting the two soldiers. The powerful fourth novel in Simon Scarrow's bestselling Eagles of the Empire series, which includes BRITANNIA, THE GLADIATOR and CENTURION. Series: Eagles of the Empire. Num Pages: 448 pages, Maps. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 29. Weight in Grams: 322.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Condition
New
SKU
9780755349982
ISBN
9780755349982
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 5.80

Paperback. In the early morning hours of 6 November 1943, SS Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler receives the coded message he has been waiting for: 'The Eagle has landed'. It was to become known as the most daring enemy mission of the entire war: Operation Eagle, Himmler's audacious plan to kidnap Winston Churchill on British soil. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FH; FJM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 199 x 31. Weight in Grams: 352.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
496
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Re-issue
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405917520
ISBN
9781405917520
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. .
Number of pages
259
Publisher
Amazon Publishing United States
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781503936645
ISBN
9781503936645
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.70

Paperback. Time is running out for the Roman invaders. The second novel in Simon Scarrow's popular Roman series Series: Eagles of the Empire. Num Pages: 448 pages, Maps. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 28. Weight in Grams: 302.
Edition
paperback / softback
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780755349968
ISBN
9780755349968
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.89

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