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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. 'These 39 Arab writers are all under the age of 40. They have flung open the doors on Arabic culture inviting the reader to transcend cultural boundaries and land in a region known as the "Arab World".' Hanan al-Shaykh Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; DQ; FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 133 x 21. Weight in Grams: 222. New Writing from the Arab World. 320 pages. 'These 39 Arab writers are all under the age of 40. They have flung open the doors on Arabic culture inviting the reader to transcend cultural boundaries and land in a region known as the "Arab World".' Hanan al-Shaykh. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1FB; DQ; FA; FYT. Dimension: 198 x 133 x 21. Weight: 222.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408809631
- ISBN
- 9781408809631
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.78
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Paperback. Through a dialogue between two lovers, this book retells the history of Europe of the twenties and thirties. It weaves together disparate strands of landscape to take the reader on a journey through Spain, London, Soviet Russia, North Africa and middle Europe. Num Pages: 604 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 151 x 30. Weight in Grams: 652.
- Publisher
- Eland Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 604
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906011116
- ISBN
- 9781906011116
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.72
€ 19.99
€ 14.72
Paperback. Following her UK No 2 success with DADDY'S LITTLE GIRL, this is Mary Higgins Clark's new bestseller. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 112 x 23. Weight in Grams: 186. Clean copy in good condition. Some shelf wear.
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- 1st Paperback Printing
- SKU
- KRF0009148
- ISBN
- 9780743467735
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Following her UK No 2 success with DADDY'S LITTLE GIRL, this is Mary Higgins Clark's new bestseller. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 112 x 23. Weight in Grams: 186. Clean copy with some light shelfwear
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- 1st Paperback Printing
- SKU
- KST0022099
- ISBN
- 9780743467735
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Based on the author's own experiences, this book presents the story of the crew of HMS Compass Rose, a corvette assigned to protect convoys in World War Two. It offers descriptions of agonizing U-boat hunts. It tells of ordinary, heroic men who had to face a brutal menace which would strike without warning from the deep. Series: Penguin World War II Collection. Num Pages: 448 pages, maps. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141042831
- ISBN
- 9780141042831
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.85
€ 13.00
€ 11.85
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 141 x 20. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Publisher
- Baker Publishing Group United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- Repack
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764228513
- ISBN
- 9780764228513
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 12.53
€ 13.00
€ 12.53
Paperback. Jenny Bunn and Patrick Standish have settled into London life with their troubled courtship long behind them. Patrick works in publishing and Jenny teaches sick children in a hospital. They have reached a certain level of maturity, or so they think. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 135 x 17. Weight in Grams: 212.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141194226
- ISBN
- 9780141194226
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. A heartbreaking story of love, loss and grief. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 22. Weight in Grams: 285. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- Main Market
- Publisher
- Picador
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- SKU
- KTG0005995
- ISBN
- 9780330544115
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 210 x 16. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Publisher
- Harbour Books (East) Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905128228
- ISBN
- 9781905128228
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.50
€ 16.99
€ 15.50
Paperback. Dori's father has gone travelling in South America and, suffering from some kind of breakdown, following the death of his wife, he goes missing. Dori sets out to find him, leaving his wife and young son at home in Israel. Translator(s): Silverston, Sondra. Num Pages: 624 pages, -. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 624
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099578550
- ISBN
- 9780099578550
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 21.04
€ 27.99
€ 21.04
Paperback. * A new tense psychological thriller from the award-winning author, Russell Celyn Jones. * TEN SECONDS FROM THE SUN is an extraordinary story about what happens when a man is forced to construct a shiny new identity in an effort to escape a dark and terrible past. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 20. Weight in Grams: 206. Used paperback in very good condition. Some shelf wear.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- New
- Publisher
- Abacus
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- SKU
- KRF0038157
- ISBN
- 9780349117799
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin, a 'half-Jewish' farmer's daughter from the plains of the Midwest, has come to university. When she takes a job as a part-time nanny to a couple who seem at once mysterious and glamorous, Tassie is drawn into the life of their newly-adopted child and increasingly complicated household. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 22. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Edition
- Main
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571249466
- ISBN
- 9780571249466
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.78
€ 13.99
€ 10.78
Paperback. When Midlands housewife Coventry Dakin kills her neighbour in a wild bid to prevent him from strangling his wife, she goes on the run. Finding herself alone and friendless in London she tries to lose herself in the city's maze of streets. There, she meets a bewildering cast of eccentric characters. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 186.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780718194833
- ISBN
- 9780718194833
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.04
€ 13.99
€ 11.04
Paperback. Translator(s): Brookshaw, David. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 166 x 39. Weight in Grams: 506.
- Publisher
- Archipelago
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780914671480
- ISBN
- 9780914671480
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 17.05
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€ 17.05
Paperback. A story inspired by the emigration to America in 1876 of Helena Modrzejewska, Poland's most celebrated actress, accompanied by her husband, Count Karol Chlapowski, her fifteen-year-old son, Rudolf, the young journalist and future author of "Quo Vadis", Henryk Sienkiewicz, and a few friends; their brief sojourn in Anaheim, California. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141190105
- ISBN
- 9780141190105
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.66
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€ 12.66
Paperback. Three women in love with the same man meet for the first time at his funeral. Can they separate the truth from the lies and learn to trust again? Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 29. Weight in Grams: 318. Good clean copy
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- SKU
- KSG0011851
- ISBN
- 9781781857861
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 9.99€ 4.99
€ 9.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Louise married Paul, brother to Johnnie.. Yet she doesn't get one man with this union - she gets two. Born twelve years apart in a one-bedroom flat in Barking, Paul and Johnnie are close: they're good at making money and make taking power look easy. But while Paul deals on contaminated land, Johnnie is adept at dealing in crime. Num Pages: 256 pages, no pictures. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 17. Weight in Grams: 170. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- SKU
- KAK0002911
- ISBN
- 9780141033617
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 247 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Publisher
- Brindle and Glass Publishing, Ltd Canada
- Number of pages
- 247
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781897142462
- ISBN
- 9781897142462
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 19.76
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€ 19.76
Paperback. The year is eighteen hundred and thirty one when fifteen-year-old Mary begins the difficult task of telling her story. A scrap of a thing with a sharp tongue and hair the colour of milk, Mary leads a harsh life working on her father's farm alongside her three sisters. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 128.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241959541
- ISBN
- 9780241959541
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. One of the best-known experimental novels of the 1960s, this uninhibited tale centres on the hapless members of a love triangle, and their sexual obsession and shared fascination with a mythic saint. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 119 x 27. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007318384
- ISBN
- 9780007318384
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.66
€ 13.99
€ 10.66
Hardcover. A story which evokes a bygone rural life, and is charged with a personal passion that intensifies the novel's outer dramas of seduction and betrayal and inner dramas of moral growth and redemption. Num Pages: 598 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 136 x 35. Weight in Grams: 700.
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857150599
- ISBN
- 9781857150599
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.66
€ 16.99
€ 12.66
Paperback. Grains of sand, bridges, shampoo, a bike, board games, yoga, sellotape, birds, balloons, tattoos, wandering hands, tweezers, maths, fish, letterboxes, puppets, a vacuum cleaner, a ball of string - and love. In this novel of yous and mes, of hims and hers, Pagano choreographs the objects, gestures, places and persons through which love is made real. Translator(s): Higgins, Jennifer; Lewis, Sophie. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 15. Weight in Grams: 176.
- Publisher
- And Other Stories
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908276766
- ISBN
- 9781908276766
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.73
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Hardcover. Illustrator(s): Knowleden, Martin. Num Pages: 126 pages, 5ill. BIC Classification: BG; FA; WSXH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 145 x 15. Weight in Grams: 350. 126 pages, 5ill. Illustrator(s): Knowleden, Martin. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: BG; FA; WSXH. Dimension: 218 x 144 x 15. Weight: 354.
- Publisher
- Coch-Y-Bonddu Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 126
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780953364862
- ISBN
- 9780953364862
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 22.04
€ 22.04
Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 193 x 28. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Publisher
- Persephone Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781903155912
- ISBN
- 9781903155912
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 19.29
€ 23.99
€ 19.29