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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. When John Franklin brings his plane down into Occupied France at the height of the Second World war, there are two things in his mind, the safety of his crew and his own badly injured arm. It is a stroke of unbelievable luck when the family of a French farmer risk their lives to offer the airmen protection. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 196.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141188164
- ISBN
- 9780141188164
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. Enter Rosamunde Pilcher's world of simple joys, of crisp country air and crackling log fires, the pleasures of family reunions and rediscovered friendships. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 18. Weight in Grams: 208.
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Digital original
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444761740
- ISBN
- 9781444761740
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.27
€ 11.99
€ 10.27
Paperback. Would you fight to save the world your parents have destroyed? Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 127 x 21. Weight in Grams: 218. 320 pages. One choice. One chance to make a difference. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 194 x 127 x 21. Weight: 218.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857864185
- ISBN
- 9780857864185
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.54
€ 15.99
€ 11.54
paperback. In a country recovering from a brutal and divisive civil war, a young boy, Jamie, is knocked off his bike and dies in a city street. His father agrees to allow one of Jamie's lungs to be removed and flown over the border for a transplant. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 149.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- SKU
- KNW0008641
- ISBN
- 9780099497233
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 14.99€ 6.75
€ 14.99
€ 6.75
Paperback. Revolves around the character of Hend, an Arabic teacher and would-be writer in her late thirties, who emigrates to the United States from Cairo with her eight year old son after the painful break-up of her marriage. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 135 x 17. Weight in Grams: 174.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571280056
- ISBN
- 9780571280056
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.75
€ 13.99
€ 10.75
Paperback. Tells the story of four sisters, and the declining fortunes of a traditional Japanese family. This title presents a loving and nostalgic recreation of the sumptuous, intricate upper-class life of Osaka immediately before World War Two. With surgical precision, it lays bare the sinews of pride, and brings a vanished era to vibrant life. Translator(s): Seidensticker, Edward G. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 34. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780749397104
- ISBN
- 9780749397104
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.88
€ 15.99
€ 11.88
Paperback. After more than twenty years together, Jean and Mark revel in a sabbatical on a remote tropical island. Life seems idyllic. Until, that is, Jean opens a salacious love-letter addressed to Mark. Looking for answers she goes undercover with a surreptitious correspondence that propels her on to alarming and illuminating adventures of her own.. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 220.
- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099513384
- ISBN
- 9780099513384
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.50
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€ 9.50
Paperback. This is no ordinary tale of innocence lost .. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 197 x 19. Weight in Grams: 188.
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447283706
- ISBN
- 9781447283706
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.41
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€ 9.41
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Severn House Publishers Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- First World Publication
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780727887320
- ISBN
- 9780727887320
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 11.45
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€ 11.45
Paperback. A richly imaginative tale of alien cultures set on a collision course from an author who continues to build on his substantial fan-base to attain a wider readership. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 42. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Publisher
- Quercus Publishing
- Number of pages
- 464
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849160902
- ISBN
- 9781849160902
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.39
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€ 13.39
Paperback. IN ONE MOMENT THE HORROR BECOMES YOUR LIFE. IT'S NOT JUST IN THE PAPERS ANYMORE, IT'S ON YOUR HANDS. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 15. Weight in Grams: 176. Used paperback, in very good condition. Some shelf wear.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- KRF0037663
- ISBN
- 9780007241729
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. 1913. Unmarried sisters Nellie and Vivian Marsh live an impoverished existence in a tiny cottage on the banks of the Little River in Suffolk. Their life is quiet and predictable, until a sudden flood throws up a strange fish on their doorstep and a travelling man who will change them forever. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905490714
- ISBN
- 9781905490714
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.77
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€ 16.77
Paperback. The first of Trollope's six Palliser novels, Can You Forgive Her? explores the dilemma of Alice Vavasor, torn between two suitors, and the choices faced by two other independent women. The tensions within Victorian society highlighted by the plot are illuminated in the introduction and notes to this new edition. Editor(s): Birch, Dinah. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 752 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 153 x 34. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 752
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199578177
- ISBN
- 9780199578177
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.36
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€ 13.36
Paperback. A novel that offers an account of the constant cycle of drug dependency, cures and relapses. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 158.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141189826
- ISBN
- 9780141189826
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.29
€ 11.99
€ 10.29
Paperback. From pre-First World War Warsaw to the New York of the 1930s, this title traces the early years of the author's life. It presents his bookish boyhood as the son of an Orthodox rabbi, equally absorbed in science, philosophy and cabbala. It chronicles the intricacies of his first love affairs. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 278.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141391595
- ISBN
- 9780141391595
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.81
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Paperback. Jodi Picoult explores the issues of bullying and teenage school shootings in this riveting, thought-provoking and compelling number one bestseller, reissued with an exciting new cover treatment. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 150 x 45. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444754360
- ISBN
- 9781444754360
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
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Paperback. A father, finally free of his daughter's demands, embarks on a long swim from his Canadian lakeside retreat. And in the grandest house of all, Danni the Polish housekeeper catches the eye of an enigmatic visitor. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 24. Weight in Grams: 200.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099548447
- ISBN
- 9780099548447
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
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€ 11.02
Paperback. The ruthlessly ambitious Joe Lampton rises swiftly from the petty bureaucracy of local government into the unfamiliar world of inherited wealth, fast cars and glamorous women. But the price of success is high. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 144 x 15. Weight in Grams: 176.
- Publisher
- Cornerstone United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099445364
- ISBN
- 9780099445364
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
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Paperback. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a murder mystery novel like no other. The detective, and narrator, is Christopher Boone. Christopher is fifteen and has Asperger's, a form of autism. He knows a very great deal about maths and very little about human beings. He loves lists, patterns and the truth. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 117 x 19. Weight in Grams: 154.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099470434
- ISBN
- 9780099470434
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.82
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Paperback. Tells the story of Chicago's Mafia and the power struggle that ensues when the greedy Don, Jimmy Collucci, attempts to become the king-pin of Chicago's "Honored Society". For Jimmy Collucci has had a lifelong hatred pf dedicated Black Warrior, Jesse Taylor, against whom he has regularly competed for turf on the streets of Chicago. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 14. Weight in Grams: 186. 224 pages. Tells the story of Chicago's Mafia and the power struggle that ensues when the greedy Don, Jimmy Collucci, attempts to become the king-pin of Chicago's "Honored Society". For Jimmy Collucci has had a lifelong hatred pf dedicated Black Warrior, Jesse Taylor, against whom he has regularly competed for turf on the streets of Chicago. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 198 x 131 x 14. Weight: 186.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857869753
- ISBN
- 9780857869753
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 10.78
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Paperback. A collection of short stories from Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 310 x 26. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Publisher
- Headline Publishing Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472217721
- ISBN
- 9781472217721
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.88
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Hardcover. A humorous novel in which an Earl and his aristocratic family are divided by what is seen as a socially unsuitable marriage. Series: Everyman's Library P G Wodehouse. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 188 x 133 x 46. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841591117
- ISBN
- 9781841591117
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.96
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€ 14.96
paperback. The Gropes are an old English family based in Northumberland, separated from the rest of society and as eccentric as they come. At the dawn of the new millenium, timid and gormless teenager Esmond is abducted and lured to Grope Hall by a descendant of the Gropes. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 198.
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099534686
- ISBN
- 9780099534686
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
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Paperback. A surprising and dark novel of female passion from one of Ireland's best-loved novelists Series: VMC. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 18. Weight in Grams: 184.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844083237
- ISBN
- 9781844083237
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
€ 13.99
€ 11.09