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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Repackaged to tie-in with hardback publication of 'The Reavers' and to appeal to a new generation of George MacDonald Fraser fans, 'The Pyrates' is a swashbuckling romp of a novel. Num Pages: 416 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 308.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers United Kingdom
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780006470175
ISBN
9780006470175
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.38

Paperback. Igor is confident his old Soviet policeman's uniform will be the best costume at the party. But he hasn't gone far before he realises something is wrong. The streets are unusually dark and empty, and the only person to emerge from the shadows runs away from him in terror. Translator(s): Darragh, Amanda Love. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 232.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099571872
ISBN
9780099571872
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. Dimension: 182 x 114 x 19. Weight in Grams: 170.
Publisher
Penguin Export
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241969946
ISBN
9780241969946
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.83

Paperback. Heather O'Neill is an extremely gifted writer and Lullabies for Little Criminals is her breathtaking first novel about one girl's struggle for survival on the mean streets of Montreal Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 266.
Publisher
Quercus Publishing Plc United Kingdom
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847243935
ISBN
9781847243935
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 19. Weight in Grams: 242.
Publisher
Profile Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781257807
ISBN
9781781257807
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.68

Paperback. Georgy is young, gregarious and fun - she is also large, self- confessedly ugly and desperate for love. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 12. Weight in Grams: 210.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099478492
ISBN
9780099478492
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 15.10

Paperback. At a small gallery in Florence, a Peruvian writer comes across a photograph of a tribal storyteller deep in the Amazon jungle. As he stares at the photograph, it dawns on him that he knows this man. The storyteller is not an Indian at all but his university classmate, Saul Zuratas, who was thought to have disappeared in Israel. Translator(s): Lane, Helen. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 14. Weight in Grams: 446.
Publisher
Faber and Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571161348
ISBN
9780571161348
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.48

Paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 196 x 25. Weight in Grams: 272. Clean copy with some reader wear.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Hachette Books Ireland
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
SKU
KTM0000681
ISBN
9781444743357
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. The timeless and unique collection of short stories is Ali Smith's first. 'I love her prose' - Kate Atkinson Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 11. Weight in Grams: 136.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
V9781860495847
ISBN
9781860495847
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

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

Hardcover. A man made of leaves blows away, traveling wherever the wind may take him. With illustrations made from actual fall leaves and die-cut pages on every spread that reveal gorgeous landscape vistas, here is a playful, whimisical and evocative book that celebrates the natural world and the rich imaginative life of children. Ages 4-8. Num Pages: 40 pages, illus. BIC Classification: FA; YBC; YBGT; YBLH; YNA; YNN. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 310 x 287 x 8. Weight in Grams: 536.
Publisher
ClarionBks
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780152053048
ISBN
9780152053048
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.96

Paperback. It is in 1950s' Brighton that Marion first catches sight of Tom. He teaches her to swim in the shadow of the pier and Marion is smitten - determined her love will be enough for them both. A few years later in Brighton Museum Patrick meets Tom. Patrick is besotted with Tom and opens his eyes to a glamorous, sophisticated new world. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 252.
Publisher
Vintage
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099555254
ISBN
9780099555254
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.29

Paperback. A collection of short stories that reveals various facets of an extraordinary imagination. In prose that is full of imagery and word-play, it creates physical and psychological worlds that are at once familiar and yet shockingly strange. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 132 x 16. Weight in Grams: 178.
Publisher
Trafalgar Square
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099274537
ISBN
9780099274537
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.85

Paperback. The absorbing new saga by the author of OUR LIZZIE Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 115 x 33. Weight in Grams: 318.
Publisher
Hodder Paperbacks
Number of pages
512
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780340750612
ISBN
9780340750612
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.23

Hardback. Probably Pym's most famous novel 'I'd sooner read a new Barbara Pym than a new Jane Austen' Philip Larkin Series: VMC Designer Collection. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 207 x 131 x 28. Weight in Grams: 442.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Number of pages
304
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844085262
ISBN
9781844085262
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.02

Paperback. Tells stories of the casualties of social and emotional struggle, who defy defeat with humour, resilience and inspiring faith in their dreams. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 136.
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
190
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782113058
ISBN
9781782113058
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.74

Paperback. A collection of stories, which describes life in Russia before and after the collapse of Communism, and the plight of Russian emigres in the USA in post communist times. It includes characters that are recognisable and bizarre, bewildered but also invigorated by the challenge that everyday life presents - whatever economic system they live under. Translator(s): Moore, Thomas. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 286.
Publisher
Peter Owen
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
KTG0007714
ISBN
9780720613001
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Hardcover. In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the English countryside and into his past.. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 131 x 20. Weight in Grams: 380.
Publisher
Everyman
Number of pages
264
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841593494
ISBN
9781841593494
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 16.53

Paperback. Kurt Neder was once Einstein's accomplice and the brightest young physicist of his generation, now a lost soul wandering Europe in the hope that someone will pay him heed. Enter Lena - an intrepid young British journalist, hoping for a story to kick-start her stalled career, and driven by her own needs and beliefs, and her own need to believe. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 30. Weight in Grams: 310.
Publisher
Granta Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
New ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846271090
ISBN
9781846271090
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.02

Paperback. If Antoinette Cosway, a spirited Creole heiress, could have foreseen the terrible future that awaited her, she would not have married the young Englishman. Initially drawn to her beauty and sensuality, he becomes increasingly frustrated by his inability to reach into her soul. Series: Penguin Essentials. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 112 x 10. Weight in Grams: 94.
Edition
01st Edition
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
9780241951552
ISBN
9780241951552
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.75

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