Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. A couple on a journey across Mexico are excited by the idea of a particular ingredient, suggested by ancient rituals of human sacrifice. Precariously balanced on his throne, a king is able only to listen to the sounds around him - sure that any deviation from their normal progression would mean the uprising of the conspirators that surround him. Translator(s): Parks, Tim; Creagh, Patrick; McLaughlin, Martin; Weaver, William. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 7. Weight in Grams: 80.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141189727
- ISBN
- 9780141189727
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Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 6.23
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Paperback. A collection of stories. Set in Italy in the summer of 1940, it explores the relationships between the different generations caught up in the war as well as the author's own experiences as a teenager. It features such stories as: "Into the War", "The Avanguardisti in Menton" and "UNPA Nights". Translator(s): McLaughlin, Martin. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 197 x 8. Weight in Grams: 102.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141193731
- ISBN
- 9780141193731
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Condition: New
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Paperback. Relates the addict's life: from initial heroin bliss to an unabated hunger for the needle, and the horrors of cold turkey and back again. Series: Penguin Essentials. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 181 x 112 x 9. Weight in Grams: 86.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780241956786
- ISBN
- 9780241956786
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Condition: New
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Paperback. * Highly original 'detective' stories with unique setting and characters Series: No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 125 x 16. Weight in Grams: 184.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Abacus
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780349116655
- ISBN
- 9780349116655
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Condition: New
€ 17.95
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Paperback. * The new novel from Alexander McCall Smith, full of his trademark humour and wisdom. Series: 44 Scotland Street. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 22. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Abacus
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780349118970
- ISBN
- 9780349118970
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Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 4.99
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Paperback. The tenth wonderful story in Alexander McCall Smith's much-loved Isabel Dalhousie series. Series: Isabel Dalhousie Novels. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 197 x 22. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Abacus
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780349141022
- ISBN
- 9780349141022
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 5.70
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Paperback. Once more, we catch up with the delightful goings-on in the fictitious 44 Scotland Street from Alexander McCall Smith .. Series: 44 Scotland Street. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Abacus
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780349142661
- ISBN
- 9780349142661
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Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 4.99
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paperback. THE SECOND PATRICK MELROSE NOVEL Series: The Patrick Melrose Novels. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 16. Weight in Grams: 192.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- Format
- Paperback
- SKU
- 9781447202950
- ISBN
- 9781447202950
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Condition: New
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Paperback. THE THIRD PATRICK MELROSE NOVEL Series: The Patrick Melrose Novels. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 14. Weight in Grams: 170.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781447202967
- ISBN
- 9781447202967
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Condition: New
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Paperback. THE FOURTH PATRICK MELROSE NOVEL Series: The Patrick Melrose Novels. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 208.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781447203025
- ISBN
- 9781447203025
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Condition: New
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Paperback. Ira Levin's classic novel reissued with a new introduction by Chuck Palahniuk. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 200 x 17. Weight in Grams: 172.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781849015882
- ISBN
- 9781849015882
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.25
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Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- O'Brien Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780862785604
- ISBN
- 9780862785604
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Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 9.27
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Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780007341931
- ISBN
- 9780007341931
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Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 5.70
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Paperback. A baby girl is abandoned, banished from London to the storm-ravaged American city of New Bohemia. Her father has been driven mad by jealousy, her mother to exile by grief. Seventeen years later, Perdita doesn't know a lot about who she is or where she's come from - but she's about to find out. Series: Hogarth Shakespeare. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 25. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099598190
- ISBN
- 9780099598190
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Condition: New
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Paperback. Craiglockhart War Hospital, Scotland, 1917, and army psychiatrist William Rivers is treating shell-shocked soldiers. Under his care are the poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, as well as mute Billy Prior, who is only able to communicate by means of pencil and paper. Rivers's job is to make the men in his charge healthy enough to fight. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FJMF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 17. Weight in Grams: 184.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141030937
- ISBN
- 9780141030937
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.33
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Paperback. Viktor, with only his pet penguin for company, composes obituaries for the local newspaper, even though their subjects cling to life. When he sees his work in print for the first time, his pride turns to terror. He and Misha are drawn into a trap from which there appears to be no escape. Translator(s): Bird, George. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 172.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781860469459
- ISBN
- 9781860469459
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Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 5.47
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Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Random House
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Limited Ed
- Number of pages
- 464
- SKU
- 9780091887193
- ISBN
- 9780099497028
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 7.50
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Paperback. Sharp-eyed Marianne lives in a white tower made of steel and concrete with her father and other Professors. Outside, where land is thickly wooded and wild beasts roam, live Barbarians, who raid and pillage in order to survive. Marianne is strictly forbidden to leave her civilized world but, fascinated by these savage outsiders, decides to escape. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 10. Weight in Grams: 142.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141192383
- ISBN
- 9780141192383
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Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.27
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Hardback. Waldo, a feted filmmaker, is confined by old age and ill health to his London apartment. Frail and frustrated, he is cared for by his lovely younger wife, Zee. But when he suspects that Zee is beginning an affair with Eddie, Waldo is pressed to action: determined to expose the couple, he sets himself first to prove his suspicions correct and more. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571332014
- ISBN
- 9780571332014
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 4.99
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Paperback. Jean Paget is just twenty years old and working in Malaya when the Japanese invasion begins. When she is captured she joins a group of other women and children whom the Japanese force to walk for miles through the jungle leading to the deaths of many. Due to her courageous spirit, Jean takes on the role of leader of the sorry gaggle of prisoners. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 112 x 178 x 24. Weight in Grams: 190.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- Publication date
- 2015
- Format
- Paperback
- SKU
- 9781784870027
- ISBN
- 9781784870027
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 7.99€ 5.80
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Hardcover. The tenth of the hugely successful 44 Scotland Street series, written by one of the world's best-loved authors. Series: 44 Scotland Street. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 146 x 224 x 31. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781846973284
- ISBN
- 9781846973284
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 5.70
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Paperback. An essay on aesthetics. It explores architecture, jade, food, toilets, and combines an acute sense of the use of space in buildings, as well as perfect descriptions of lacquerware under candlelight and women in the darkness of the house of pleasure. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: FA; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 199 x 8. Weight in Grams: 66.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099283577
- ISBN
- 9780099283577
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.06
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Paperback. In 1918 the author went to war. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his experience came A Farewell to Arms. This title tells a love story of immense drama and uncompromising passion. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 133 x 23. Weight in Grams: 264.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099582564
- ISBN
- 9780099582564
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.45
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Paperback. Charles Mason (1728 -1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the British Surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that we know today as the Mason-Dixon Line. This title tells their story. Num Pages: 784 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 42. Weight in Grams: 566.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099771913
- ISBN
- 9780099771913
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 12.53
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€ 12.53