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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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
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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
€ 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
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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
€ 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
€ 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
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€ 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
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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
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€ 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
€ 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
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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
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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
€ 13.00
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paperback. The stunning new cover style will bring the fifth novel in Simon Scarrow's popular Eagle series to the attention of a whole new army of fans Series: Eagles of the Empire. Num Pages: 480 pages, Maps. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 31. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Publisher
- Headline Publishing Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780755349999
- ISBN
- 9780755349999
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.08
€ 11.08
Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153. .
- Publisher
- Quercus
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784297923
- ISBN
- 9781784297923
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 14.27
€ 18.99
€ 14.27
Hardcover. A poignant follow-up to The Future Homemakers of America - warm-hearted and sparklingly witty women's fiction for fans of The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Fannie Flagg and Anne Tyler Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Quercus
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784297916
- ISBN
- 9781784297916
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 19.02
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€ 19.02
Paperback. Gathering together almost all the short fiction that John Updike published between 1953 and 1975, this collection opens with Updike's autobiographical stories about a young boy growing up during the Depression in a small Pennsylvania town. Num Pages: 864 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 153 x 53. Weight in Grams: 772.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 864
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141016085
- ISBN
- 9780141016085
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 19.02
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Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241202425
- ISBN
- 9780241202425
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
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Paperback. An astounding novel that penetrates the 20th-century experience, from one of Europe's most feted authors Translator(s): Strachan, Geoffrey. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 13. Weight in Grams: 136.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton United Kingdom
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780340831267
- ISBN
- 9780340831267
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
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Paperback. Detective fiction from a moving, nostalgic and truly authentic new voice Num Pages: 346 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 21. Weight in Grams: 242. Detective fiction from a moving, nostalgic and truly authentic new voice. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 197 x 128 x 21. Weight: 238.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books Ltd London
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847673053
- ISBN
- 9781847673053
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.52
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Paperback. Even as little girls, Sarah and Emily are very different from each other. Emily looks up to her wiser and more stable older sister and is jealous of her relationship with their absent father, and later her seemingly golden marriage. This novel follows the two sisters from their childhood in the 1920s through the challenges of their adult choices. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 15. Weight in Grams: 178.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099518563
- ISBN
- 9780099518563
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
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Paperback. A wickedly funny novel about life's saddest moments, The Easy Way Out asks the most difficult questions most of us will ever have to consider. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Quercus Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781786480842
- ISBN
- 9781786480842
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.30
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Paperback. A journalist visiting a celebrated but reclusive painter is intrigued by the elderly artist's relationship with two beautiful young women. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 131 x 20. Weight in Grams: 216.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099480518
- ISBN
- 9780099480518
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.88
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Paperback. On a winter night on a remote road in Nebraska, Mark Schluter's truck turns over in a near fatal accident. His sister, Karin, returns reluctantly to their home town to look after him. But when he finally awakes from his coma, Mark believes that Karin - who looks, acts and sounds just like his sister - is really an identical imposter. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 39. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Number of pages
- 576
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099506027
- ISBN
- 9780099506027
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.81
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Paperback. *One of Rosamond Lehmann's most acclaimed novels * A widely acclaimed novel by one of Virago Modern Classic's bestselling and best-loved classic novelists Series: VMC. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 20. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844083121
- ISBN
- 9781844083121
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.88
€ 13.00
€ 11.88