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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
paperback. Tyrone Slothrop, a GI in London in 1944, has a big problem. Whenever he gets an erection, a Blitz bomb hits. Slothrop gets excited, and then, "a screaming comes across the sky," heralding an angel of death, a V-2 rocket. Soon Tyrone is on the run from legions of bizarre enemies through the phantasmagoric horrors of Germany. Num Pages: 912 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 48. Weight in Grams: 660.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099533214
- ISBN
- 9780099533214
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Condition: New
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paperback. It's the summer of 1985 and Benji is determined that this is the summer when things will change and he'll fit in. For starters, he'll be reinvented as 'Ben'. When that doesn't catch on, it's another summer of the perpetual mortification that is teenage existence. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 206.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099531883
- ISBN
- 9780099531883
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Condition: New
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paperback. A collection of five stories: "The Acid House", "Rattlesnakes", "The DOGS. of Lincoln Park", "Miss Arizona" and "The Kingdom of Fife". Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 26. Weight in Grams: 286.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099483595
- ISBN
- 9780099483595
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paperback. The British Raj in India is in its final days. For Guy Perron, Field Sergeant and historian, these last days are a time to reflect on the legacy the British has left behind in India. And for the British families still residing in India, decisions about their future must be made and final goodbyes must be said. Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 40. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099478836
- ISBN
- 9780099478836
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Condition: New
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paperback. Graham Greene's gripping tragicomedy of a bungled kidnapping in a provincial Argentinian town is considered one of his finest. It tells of Charley Fortnum, the 'Honorary Consul', a whisky-sodden figure of dubious authority taken by a group of revolutionaries. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 132 x 19. Weight in Grams: 216.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099478386
- ISBN
- 9780099478386
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Condition: New
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paperback. Charles Smithson, a respectable engaged man, meets Sarah Woodruff as she stands on the Cobb at Lyme Regis, staring out to sea. Charles falls in love, but Sarah is a disgraced woman, and their romance will defy all the stifling conventions of the Victorian age. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 31. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099478331
- ISBN
- 9780099478331
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Condition: New
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paperback. When young writer Nathan Zuckerman makes his pilgrimage to sit at the feet of his hero, the reclusive master of American Literature, E I Lonoff, he soon finds himself enmeshed in the great Jewish writer's domestic life. As he sits in conversation with his idol, a glimpse of a dark-haired beauty through a closing doorway leaves him reeling. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 144.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099477570
- ISBN
- 9780099477570
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Condition: New
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paperback. Stingo, an inexperienced 22 year old Southerner, takes us back to the summer of 1947 and a boarding house in a leafy Brooklyn suburb. There, he meets Nathan, a fiery Jewish intellectual; and Sophie, a beautiful and fragile Polish Catholic. Ultimately, he arrives at the dark core of Sophie's past: her memories of pre-war Poland, and her choice. Num Pages: 656 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 34. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099470441
- ISBN
- 9780099470441
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Condition: New
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paperback. Steve Almond's stunning first collection of short stories explores the lives of young men in their twenties and thirties, their confusions, their obsessions, their emotional complexities, taking a clear-eyed view of relationships between young men and women who have come of age in an era without innocence. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 134 x 16. Weight in Grams: 174.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099443629
- ISBN
- 9780099443629
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Condition: New
€ 8.99€ 8.57
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paperback. Tusker and Lily Smalley stayed on in India. Given the chance to return 'home' when Tusker, once a Colonel in the British Army, retired, they chose instead to remain in the small hill town of Pangkot, with its eccentric inhabitants and archaic rituals left over from the days of the Empire. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 184.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099443193
- ISBN
- 9780099443193
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Condition: New
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paperback. Jamie has ditched her husband and is running away with her two baby girls. Bill is dreaming of making it big in a life of crime. They meet on a Greyhound bus and decide to team up. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099440833
- ISBN
- 9780099440833
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Condition: New
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paperback. The scene is Ireland. The time, 1916, is the eve of the famous, tragic Easter Rebellion in Dublin, which startled Europe even in the midst of the First World War. A single Anglo Irish family provides the extremely diverse characters. This story weaves these people together into a tragic comic pattern. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 242.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099429135
- ISBN
- 9780099429135
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Condition: New
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paperback. It is April 1204, and Constantinople, the splendid capital of the Byzantine Empire, is being sacked and burned by the knights of the Fourth Crusade. Amid the carnage and confusion, one Baudolino saves a Byzantine historian and high court official from certain death at the hands of the crusading warriors, and proceeds to tell his own story. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 368.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099422396
- ISBN
- 9780099422396
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Condition: New
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paperback. Describes the class tensions of a changing France at the beginning of the twentieth century and exposes the decadence of aristocratic Parisian society and muses upon the subjects of homosexuality and sexual jealousy. Translator(s): Scott-Moncrieff, C. K.; Kilmartin, Terence; Enright, D. J. Num Pages: 656 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 128 x 39. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099362517
- ISBN
- 9780099362517
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Condition: New
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paperback. A divorced, middle-aged English professor finds himself increasingly unable to resist affairs with his female students. When discovered by the college authorities he is expected to apologize to save his job, but instead he refuses and resigns, retiring to live with his daughter on her remote farm. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 15. Weight in Grams: 166.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099289524
- ISBN
- 9780099289524
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Condition: New
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paperback. A story of four boys growing up in the Edinburgh schemes, and about the loyalties, the experiences - and the secrets - that hold them together into their thirties. What binds the four of them is the friendship formed by the scheme, their school, and their ambition to escape from both; their loyalty fused in street morality. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 30. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099285922
- ISBN
- 9780099285922
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Condition: New
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paperback. In the little town of Goray, laid waste by murder and famine, grief becomes joy as good news arrives of the second coming of the Messiah. Once the town's pious rabbi is usurped, the townspeople are free to look forward to the End of Days, when they will wear golden jackets and dine on marzipan candy. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 16. Weight in Grams: 150.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099285472
- ISBN
- 9780099285472
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Condition: New
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paperback. Traces the fortunes of Edward Driffield and his extraordinary wife Rosie, one of the most delightful heroines of twentieth-century literature. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 16. Weight in Grams: 164.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099282778
- ISBN
- 9780099282778
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Condition: New
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hardcover. A postmodern novel which combines a love and a detective story with a sardonic dissection of the publishing industry in an allegory of reading. Two readers attempt to finish the same book, but are comically and repeatedly frustrated. Translator(s): Weaver, William. Num Pages: 254 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 136 x 24. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781857151381
- ISBN
- 9781857151381
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Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 13.91
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Hardcover. A novel, in which Charles Gould returns to South America determined to make a success of the inheritance left to him by his father, the San Tome mine. But his dreams are thwarted as the country is plunged into revolution. Num Pages: 532 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 131 x 29. Weight in Grams: 606.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Edition
- First Thus
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781857150889
- ISBN
- 9781857150889
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 13.91
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