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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. Adrian Mole is thirty-nine and a quarter. He lives in the country in a semi-detached converted pigsty with his wife Daisy and their daughter. His parents George and Pauline live in the adjoining pigsty. But all is not well. The secondhand bookshop in which Adrian works is threatened with closure. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 134 x 28. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241959497
- ISBN
- 9780241959497
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
Paperback. Italia '90 - Gazza cried and football changed forever. Once you could ignore football, avoid the back pages, turn the telly over, leave the pub. Now that's not possible because on 4 July 1990 in Turin's Stadium of the Alps Gazza cried, England lost and football changed forever. This book gives the inside story of this show. Num Pages: 480 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 27. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Publisher
- Yellow Jersey
- Number of pages
- 480
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780224083348
- ISBN
- 9780224083348
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.95
€ 19.99
€ 14.95
Hardback. In this sinuous meditation on heartbreak, youth, and guilt, a man looks back over twenty years to his relationship with his first love, Valeria, who died of an overdose at the age of 18. She was at Nirvana's only gig in Brazil, in 1993, and he was on military service and failed to join her. Translator(s): Hahn, Daniel. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 138. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910701478
- ISBN
- 9781910701478
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.63
€ 23.99
€ 16.63
Paperback. One of the last artistic expressions of life under communism, this novel captures the atmosphere in Prague between 1983 and 1987, where a dance could be broken up by the secret police, a traffic offence could lead to surveillance and where contraband books were the currency of the underworld. Num Pages: 282 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 279.
- Publisher
- Granta UK
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- Reprint, Subsequent
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781862071032
- ISBN
- 9781862071032
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.66
€ 13.99
€ 11.66
Paperback. A new bestseller from the immensely popular Lindsey Kelk Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 25. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007501533
- ISBN
- 9780007501533
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.63
€ 13.99
€ 10.63
Paperback. The US government and big business teamed up to build dams and bridges across the American West. A band of individuals teamed up to prevent it happening. In this chaotic comedy their aim is to dismantle the machinery of progress through peaceful means, or otherwise. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141187624
- ISBN
- 9780141187624
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Spinifex Press Australia
- Number of pages
- 215
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781876756208
- ISBN
- 9781876756208
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.96
€ 19.99
€ 14.96
Paperback. John Emmerson was a lonely man. He had a wife, a son, friends, but he was isolated from all the people and events about him by the tragedy of his past. Then, he met Cissie, and for the first time his loneliness eased a little. Cissie was everything his wife Ann was not. And, she was quick to sense the needs of a desolate, unhappy man. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 110 x 21. Weight in Grams: 160. 336pp
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Corgi
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Edition
- New Ed
- SKU
- KEX0192190
- ISBN
- 9780552140768
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardcover. Pongo Twistleton is in a state of financial embarrassment, again. Uncle Fred, meanwhile, has been asked by Lord Emsworth to foil a plot to steal the Empress, his prize pig. Along with Polly Pott (daughter o old Mustard), they form a deputation to Blandings Castle, bent on doin a "bit of good". Series: Everyman's Library P G Wodehouse. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 137 x 27. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841591308
- ISBN
- 9781841591308
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.64
€ 16.99
€ 12.64
Paperback. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 30. Weight in Grams: 296. Good copy with some shelf wear.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Hachette Books Ireland
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- SKU
- KTG0009264
- ISBN
- 9780755332328
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. First love can last a lifetime..Set in the beautiful city of Venice, a captivating novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of SUMMER AT THE LAKE. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 131 x 33. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KTG0016253
- ISBN
- 9781409153221
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. London 1997: New Labour is sweeping into power and Britpop is at its zenith. A&R man Stelfox is slashing and burning his way through the music industry, fuelled by greed and inhuman quantities of cocaine, searching for the next hit record amid a relentless orgy of self-gratification. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 22. Weight in Grams: 232.
- Publisher
- Windmill Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099592099
- ISBN
- 9780099592099
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 132 x 24. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Publisher
- Anchor
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804169967
- ISBN
- 9780804169967
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.78
€ 19.99
€ 14.78
Paperback. In this dazzling collection, prize-winning short story writer Kelly Link takes the ordinary and makes it strange - and the strange and makes it ordinary. Engaging, funny, eerie and magical, these nine stories prove Link to be an original and important talent. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007242009
- ISBN
- 9780007242009
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.58
€ 15.99
€ 12.58
Hardcover. Translator(s): Lowe-Porter, H.T. Num Pages: 890 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 132 x 46. Weight in Grams: 928.
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857151961
- ISBN
- 9781857151961
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 18.93
€ 26.99
€ 18.93
Hardback. One of a series of fiction titles for schools. Scout, the keen-eyed narrator, and her brother Jem interrupt their games to champion their lawyer father when, in a hostile, racist town in the American South, he battles to defend Tom, who is black and accused of murder. Series: New Windmills. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; YFA; YFU; YQEF. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 131 x 193 x 18. Weight in Grams: 336. Reprint edition.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Pearson Education Limited
- Publication date
- 1966
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780435120962
- ISBN
- 9780435120962
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 22.16
€ 22.16
Paperback. A collector unearths the find of a lifetime: an eighteenth-century portrait of a man uncannily like him. Translator(s): Boyce, Emily; Aitken, Jane. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198. .
- Publisher
- Gallic Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910477434
- ISBN
- 9781910477434
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.65
€ 13.99
€ 11.65
Paperback. Young, handsome and fabulously rich, Jay Gatsby is the bright star of the Jazz Age, but as writer Nick Carraway is drawn into the decadent orbit of his Long Island mansion, where the party never seems to end, he finds himself faced by the mystery of Gatsby's origins and desires. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 196 x 18. Weight in Grams: 182.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141182636
- ISBN
- 9780141182636
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 8.78
€ 9.99
€ 8.78
Paperback. In this chilling novel of the future, Daphne du Maurier explores the implications of a political, economic and military alliance between Britain and the United States Series: VMC. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 24. Weight in Grams: 244.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844080632
- ISBN
- 9781844080632
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
€ 13.99
€ 11.09
Paperback. From the lauded, bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 25. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- New Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447272342
- ISBN
- 9781447272342
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.94
€ 13.99
€ 10.94