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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Author of MUD, SWEAT AND TEARS and star of MAN VS. WILD and THE ISLAND, Bear Grylls delivers a hair-raising, adrenaline-fuelled sequel to his SUNDAY TIMES bestselling novel, GHOST FLIGHT. Will Jaeger is back! Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781409156871
ISBN
9781409156871
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.10

Paperback. Pin is a bawdy, adolescent cobbler's assistant, both arrogant and insecure who - while the Second World War rages - sings songs and tells jokes to endear himself to the grown-ups of his town - particularly jokes about his sister, who they all know as the town's 'mattress'. Translator(s): Colquhoun, Archibald; Parks, Tim; Creagh, Patrick; McLaughlin, Martin. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 150.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141189734
ISBN
9780141189734
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.87

Paperback. Little girls dream. Libby Marlowe did. And a fairy godmother sprinkled her with gold dust and it came true. She got her castle and her prince, and they even threw in a career as a celebrity chef. As one half of the couple everyone wanted to be like, it was all going in the direction of happy ever after until when the dream began to unravel. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 109 x 32. Weight in Grams: 254. Clean copy
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Bantam
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
SKU
KEX0230608
ISBN
9780553814781
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Little girls dream. Libby Marlowe did. And a fairy godmother sprinkled her with gold dust and it came true. She got her castle and her prince, and they even threw in a career as a celebrity chef. As one half of the couple everyone wanted to be like, it was all going in the direction of happy ever after until when the dream began to unravel. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 109 x 32. Weight in Grams: 254. Used paperback in good condition. Some shelf wear.
Publisher
Bantam
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KRF0024050
ISBN
9780553814781
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Lydia, Robyn and Dean don't know each other - yet. They live very different lives but each of them, independently, has always felt that something is missing. What they don't know is that a letter. It is a letter containing a secret - one that will bind them together, and shows them what love and family and friendship really mean.. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 32. Weight in Grams: 350.
Publisher
Cornerstone
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099533696
ISBN
9780099533696
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.98

Paperback. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Edition
Reprint
SKU
9781853260087
ISBN
9781853260087
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.00

Paperback. When her son Calum dies in a car crash, Alison is left stunned and dazed. But instead of turning to those around her for comfort, she impulsively leaves them behind, desperate to hide from her loss. Even in death, though, Calum has a way of pushing her, making her do things she would never normally have done. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 20. Weight in Grams: 254. 256 pages. When her son Calum dies in a car crash, Alison is left stunned and dazed. But instead of turning to those around her for comfort, she impulsively leaves them behind, desperate to hide from her loss. Even in death, though, Calum has a way of pushing her, making her do things she would never normally have done. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 198 x 128 x 20. Weight: 254.
Publisher
Black & White Publishing
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845024420
ISBN
9781845024420
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.02

Paperback.
Publisher
Thomas Nelson Publishers United States
Number of pages
402
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9781595541598
ISBN
9781595541598
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.94

Paperback. This is a short, powerful novel dealing with the complicities and accomodations of power within Italian politics. Translator(s): Foulke, Adrienne. Series: Black and White Series. Num Pages: 146 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 182. Series: Black and White Series. 146 pages. This is a short, powerful novel dealing with the complicities and accomodations of power within Italian politics. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 200 x 130 x 13. Weight: 186. Translator(s): Foulke, Adrienne.
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd
Number of pages
146
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856359910
ISBN
9780856359910
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.56

Paperback. An old copper beech overlooks a school, and witnesses all the hopes and loves, dreams and ambitions of the children who grew up there.. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 30. Weight in Grams: 296.
Edition
Re-issue
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KIN0005368
ISBN
9780752876818
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Gustav grows up in a small town in Switzerland, where the horrors of the Second World War seem a distant echo. But Gustav's father has mysteriously died, and his adored mother Emilie is strangely cold and indifferent to him. Gustav's life is a lonely one until he meets Anton. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 198 x 21. Weight in Grams: 226.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784700201
ISBN
9781784700201
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.86

Paperback. New to Simon & Schuster with a stunning new package Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 38. Weight in Grams: 420.
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
608
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781471132124
ISBN
9781471132124
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.58

Paperback. A young Japanese girl's world is about to be turned upside down. When black ships carrying barbarians arrive on the shores of Japan, the Satsuma clan's way of life is threatened. But it's not just the samurai who must come together to fight: the beautiful, headstrong Okatsu is also given a new destiny by her feudal lord - to save the realm. Num Pages: 544 pages, B & W map. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127. .
Publisher
Corgi
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780552163491
ISBN
9780552163491
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.17

Paperback. The central story in this book tells of an upright man resisting the temptations of easy bribes and easy satisfactions and winning for his honesty nothing but scorn. Series: Heinemann African Writers Series. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 200 x 11. Weight in Grams: 162. Series: Heinemann African Writers Series. 192 pages. The central story in this book tells of an upright man resisting the temptations of easy bribes and easy satisfactions and winning for his honesty nothing but scorn. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 199 x 130 x 13. Weight: 166.
Publisher
Heinemann
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Condition
New
SKU
V9780435905408
ISBN
9780435905408
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.01

Paperback. Monday January 3, 2000. So how do I greet the New Millennium? In despair. I'm a single parent, I live with my mother.. I have a bald spot the size of a jaffa cake on the back of my head.. Adrian Mole has become a martyr: a single-father bringing up two young boys in an uncaring world. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 149 x 197 x 21. Weight in Grams: 260.
Publisher
Penguin
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241959398
ISBN
9780241959398
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.18

Paperback. The international bestseller from the master of suspense.Jennifer Parker is brilliant, beautiful and bold. . She seems unbeatable - but is she really? Num Pages: 624 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 115 x 39. Weight in Grams: 340.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
1st Paperback Printing
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007228256
ISBN
9780007228256
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.68

Paperback. Sometimes love is closer to home than you think .. From Sunday Times bestselling and readers' favourite Carole Matthews Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 28. Weight in Grams: 316.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Digital original
Condition
New
SKU
V9780751551488
ISBN
9780751551488
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.89

Paperback. Life is tough and cheerless for Billy Casper, a troubled teenager growing up in the small Yorkshire mining town of Barnsley. Treated as a failure at school, and unhappy at home, Billy discovers a new passion in life when he finds Kes, a kestrel hawk. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 160.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141184982
ISBN
9780141184982
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.60

Paperback. It's 1989, and in the dying years of the Apartheid regime, eleven-year-old Jack Viljee considers himself the centre of his world. The son of an Afrikaans father and an English mother, wedged between a strident older and favoured younger sister, Jack allies himself with the family's beloved maid, Susie. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 16. Weight in Grams: 176.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099555070
ISBN
9780099555070
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.31

paperback. The new novel from literary great Margaret Drabble is by turns dark and joyous, hilarious and heartbreaking, and asks us what makes a good life, and a good death Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Canongate Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782118336
ISBN
9781782118336
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.66

Paperback. The people of a Yoruba village gather on ten memorable nights to hear the stories and wisdom of their chief. They learn of his adventures, among them his encounter with the Jungle Witch and her ostrich, his visit to the town of the water people and his imprisonment by the Goddess of Diamonds. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 199 x 11. Weight in Grams: 126.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571320738
ISBN
9780571320738
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.66

Paperback. A poignant yet hilarious tale of unrequited love from bestselling Manby, reissued in fresh packaging for a wide new readership. Num Pages: 352 pages, n/a. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 240. Good clean copy
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
SKU
KSG0011774
ISBN
9780340837238
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 589 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 29. Weight in Grams: 682.
Publisher
New Falcon Publications,U.S. United States
Number of pages
589
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
2nd
Condition
New
SKU
V9781561841295
ISBN
9781561841295
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.99
€ 35.03

Paperback. The son of an English father and Russian mother, Charlie Doig is a naturalist. In 1914, he's on a mission in Russian Turkestan when war breaks out. Doig has no intention of volunteering to be killed, so returns to the Pink House, his family's home near Smolensk, and to the woman he loves, his cousin Elizaveta. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 25. Weight in Grams: 318.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099497080
ISBN
9780099497080
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.09

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