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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Hardcover. His disreputable career encompasses bookmaking and dog-training, fight-management and insurance broking. Plagued by bad debts, bad luck and the formidable Aunt Julia, Ukridge remains as resourceful and irrepressible as ever. Series: Everyman's Library P G Wodehouse. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; FA; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 136 x 26. Weight in Grams: 374.
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841591025
ISBN
9781841591025
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.91

Paperback. A humorous novel about human limits and how they are abolished in the world of dreams. Translator(s): Almani, Saleh. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9789992195208
ISBN
9789992195208
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 19.02

Paperback. Num Pages: 252 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 193 x 23. Weight in Grams: 316.
Publisher
Galley Beggar Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910296479
ISBN
9781910296479
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 12.52

Paperback. A powerful and disturbing novel about Cambodia from an award-winning Canadian writer - an extraordinary act of empathy for those who suffered under the Khmer Rouge Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 17. Weight in Grams: 192.
Publisher
Granta Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847084910
ISBN
9781847084910
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.95

Paperback. A dark, disturbing and untold story of the shadow espionage battle during the First World War. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 26. Weight in Grams: 258.
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848545885
ISBN
9781848545885
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.81

Paperback. Jonathan Kellerman, the creator of Alex Delaware returns in Twisted - an enthralling novel from the master of psychological suspense. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FH; FJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 116 x 32. Weight in Grams: 310. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Headline
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
Reprint
SKU
KAK0001504
ISBN
9780755307395
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 205 x 24. Weight in Grams: 262.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780062259318
ISBN
9780062259318
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.19

Paperback. Miss Jean Brodie is a schoolmistress with a difference. She is proud, cultured and romantic but her educational ideas are highly progressive and even deeply shocking. So when she decides to transform a group of 'special girls' into the creme de la creme at Marcia Blaine School they are soon known, perhaps suspiciously, as the Brodie set. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 10. Weight in Grams: 128.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241964002
ISBN
9780241964002
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. The final book in the Burracombe series. Come and say goodbye to old friends in the Devonshire village that's a home from home. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 246.
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781409153207
ISBN
9781409153207
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.22

Paperback. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 192 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 296.
Publisher
Persephone Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
216
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9781903155530
ISBN
9781903155530
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 19.30

Hardback. Illustrator(s): Kay, Jim. Num Pages: 336 pages, Colour illustrations throughout. BIC Classification: FA; FM; YFB; YFH. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 267 x 226. .
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408845660
ISBN
9781408845660
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 32.57

Paperback. A novel about parenthood and sacrifice, from the acclaimed author of CHOOSE ME and HER GIANT OCTOPUS MOMENT. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 222.
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444784718
ISBN
9781444784718
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

Paperback. Abandoned as a newborn at the doors of the local YMCA and then bounced between foster homes, Shannon eventually finds stability in the home of Miranda, a single mother with a daughter of her own. But as Shannon grows, so do her questions. Will she ever belong? Who is her true family? Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 23. Weight in Grams: 278.
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571305476
ISBN
9780571305476
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.22

Paperback. .
Publisher
Tilted Axis Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781911284116
ISBN
9781911284116
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.85

Paperback. When a young elephant is brutally orphaned by poachers, it is only a matter of time before he begins terrorising the countryside, earning his malevolent name from the humans he kills and then tenderly buries with leaves. Manu, the son of a rice farmer, loses his cousin to the Gravedigger and is drawn into the alluring world of ivory hunting. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784700584
ISBN
9781784700584
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. A glorious evocation of childhood in the early sixties. Translator(s): Bartlett, Don; Shaw, Don. Num Pages: 276 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 190.
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Number of pages
276
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857386380
ISBN
9780857386380
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

Paperback. 1935. Norfolk. War is looming in Great Britain and the sprawling country estate of Alderberen Hall is shadowed by suspicion and paranoia. Thirteen-year-old Delphine Venner is determined to uncover the secrets of the Hall's elite society, which has taken in her gullible mother and unstable father. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 139 x 34. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782114765
ISBN
9781782114765
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.46

Paperback. High in the Himalayas sits a dilapidated mansion, home to three people, each dreaming of another time. Around the house swirl the forces of revolution and change. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 22. Weight in Grams: 238.
Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141027289
ISBN
9780141027289
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.88

Paperback. Cane, Cob and Chimney Jewett are young Georgia sharecroppers held under the thumb of their domineering, God-struck father Pearl. When he dies unexpectedly, they set out on horseback to rob and loot their way to wealth and infamy, inspired by a lurid dime novel that only one of them can read. But little goes as planned.. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784703240
ISBN
9781784703240
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

paperback. The Rabbitte family, motley bunch of loveable ne'er-do-wells whose everyday purgatory is rich with hangovers, dogshit and dirty dishes. When the older sister announces her pregnancy, the family are forced to rally together and discover the strangeness of intimacy. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 14. Weight in Grams: 164. Some shelf wear, but remains very good
Edition
Gift Inscription on Fep, Cover Torn
Publisher
Vintage Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KTJ0006666
ISBN
9780749391256
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 6.12

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