Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
paperback. When eighteen-year-old Ian Bedloe pricks the bubble of his family's optimistic self-deception, his brother Danny drives into a wall, his sister-in-law falls apart, and his parents age before his eyes. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 372.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099914709
- ISBN
- 9780099914709
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paperback. A collection of eight short stories, which help students gain deeper insights into French literature and life. Editor(s): Lyon, Pamela. Series: Parallel Text. Num Pages: 272 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 20. Weight in Grams: 204.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1971
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140023855
- ISBN
- 9780140023855
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paperback. The final appearance of Nicholas de Fleury, who started in the first of the Niccolo series as an 18-year-old apprentice. Now in his 30s, his flair for numbers means he could find a place almost anywhere in 15th century Europe. But first he has to return to Scotland where men wait to kill him. Series: House of Niccolo. Num Pages: 768 pages, geneal. table, maps. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 138 x 198 x 45. Weight in Grams: 580.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140252316
- ISBN
- 9780140252316
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Paperback. A pornographic fantasy in which the young male narrator and his lovers Simone and Marcelle embark on a sexual quest involving sadism, torture, orgies, madness and defilement, culminating in a final act of transgression. Translator(s): Neugroschel, Joachim. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 9. Weight in Grams: 102.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141185385
- ISBN
- 9780141185385
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Condition: New
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paperback. A collection of stories of the author whose stories - whether they are set in Italy, Greece, India, or in England itself - contrast the freedom of paganism with the restraints of English civilization, the personal, sensual delights of the body with the impersonal, inhibiting rules imposed by society. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 190.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141186191
- ISBN
- 9780141186191
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paperback. Anthony Patch and his wife Gloria are the essence of Jazz Age glamour. A brilliant and magnetic couple, they fling themselves at life with an energy that is thrilling. Their marriage is a passionate theatrical performance; they are young, rich, alive and lovely and they intend to inherit the earth. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 284.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141187815
- ISBN
- 9780141187815
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Condition: New
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paperback. A complete collection of short fiction by one of the masters of twentieth-century American literature. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 168 x 19. Weight in Grams: 238.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141188089
- ISBN
- 9780141188089
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Condition: New
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paperback. Features twenty classic tales of Horace Rumpole in which he battles through the Old Bailey, whether defending various members of an incompetent South London crime family, taking on haute-cuisine chefs and showfolk or mocking the pomposity of his own profession, all the while being held in check by his wife, Hilda: the wonderful, fearsome. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 656 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 199 x 134 x 29. Weight in Grams: 456.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141198293
- ISBN
- 9780141198293
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Condition: New
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paperback. Includes two of the author's critically acclaimed stories. This title contains a story that recounts the author's meeting with a young girl before being sent into combat. It also contains a story that features the Glass family, the loveable and idiosyncratic family. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 12. Weight in Grams: 140.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780241950456
- ISBN
- 9780241950456
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paperback. Presents short stories, written by Welsh men and women, for the most part about Welsh people, providing depictions of valley and mountain, country and town, as well as insights into the nature of the people. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 137 x 22. Weight in Grams: 272.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780241955468
- ISBN
- 9780241955468
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paperback. It is the early 1920s and Kate Hannigan is happily married to Dr Rodney Prince, who has willingly accepted her illegitimate daughter, Annie, as the eldest child of their household. Everything seems to be going well for the Prince family, but soon spiteful rumours about Kate's earlier life seem to haunt both her and Annie. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 106 x 24. Weight in Grams: 186.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Corgi Books, London
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780552145817
- ISBN
- 9780552145817
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Condition: New
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paperback. Sweet, bookish Neve Slater always plays by the rules. And the number one rule is that good-natured fat girls like her don't get guys like gorgeous, handsome William, heir to Neve's heart since university. But William's been in LA for three years, and Neve's been slimming down and re-inventing herself. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 134 x 198 x 36. Weight in Grams: 388.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Corgi
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780552163293
- ISBN
- 9780552163293
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paperback. Jess Penhaligon is on her way to Devon to receive an award for her botanical painting. Hosting her will be Kate, who gladly welcomes her into her home. Jess' own family fell apart several years ago, so she is grateful for Kate's friendliness - and her close unit of extended family and friends, who embrace Jess just as warmly. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 170 x 24. Weight in Grams: 278.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Corgi
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780552164542
- ISBN
- 9780552164542
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paperback. Features a collection of short stories. This book explores the world we think we know whilst offering a vision of another world which lurks just beneath the surface of our consciousness, a world where the myths we have banished from our lives are startlingly present and where imagination has the power to transform reality. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 234.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780552771054
- ISBN
- 9780552771054
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Condition: New
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paperback. When seven-year-old Irish orphan Lavinia is transported to Virginia to work in the kitchen of a wealthy plantation owner, she is absorbed into the life of the kitchen house and becomes part of the family of black slaves whose fates are tied to the plantation. But Lavinia's skin will always set her apart, whether she wishes it or not. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 286.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780552779128
- ISBN
- 9780552779128
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paperback. Vicky thought that nobody would know if she just stepped out for twenty minutes. Everything was quiet; it was so easy for her to slip away ..One little lie. One little secret. One little mistake has changed everything. Now Vicky's best friend is going to help stop her whole life from falling apart. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780552779791
- ISBN
- 9780552779791
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perfect. At 6'6", 240 pounds, Forrest Gump is a difficult man to ignore, so follow Forrest from the football dynasties of Bear Bryant to the Vietnam War, from encounters with Presidents Johnson and Nixon to powwows with Chairman Mao. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 16. Weight in Grams: 170.
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780552996099
- ISBN
- 9780552996099
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Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.85
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paperback. Once it had been the great forest of Lythe. And here, in the beginning, lived the Fairfaxes, grandly, at Fairfax Manor. But over the centuries the forest had been destroyed, replaced by Streets of Trees. The Fairfaxes have dwindled too; now they live in 'Arden' at the end of Hawthorne Close and are hardly a family at all. Num Pages: 448 pages, 1 illustration. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 30. Weight in Grams: 318.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780552996198
- ISBN
- 9780552996198
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paperback. Nora, at first, recounts nothing that Effie really wants to hear, like who her father was - variously Jimmy, Jack, or Ernie. Effie tells of her life at college in Dundee, where she lives in a lethargic relationship with Bob, a student who never goes to lectures, seldom gets out of bed, and to whom the Klingons are as real as the French and more. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 28. Weight in Grams: 342.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780552997348
- ISBN
- 9780552997348
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Condition: New
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paperback. The tale of an outsider told from the inside. It speaks to the resilience of the human spirit. Cadence Roth holds the world record of shortest woman and is trying to renew her failed acting career, Maupin narrates the story through Cadence's journal entries. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 230.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780552998758
- ISBN
- 9780552998758
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paperback. Weaves characters, themes and language in 22 linked stories that evoke the complex density of life in and around the Spokane Indian Reservation. The author is one of Granta's 20 Best Young American Writers. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 176.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780749386696
- ISBN
- 9780749386696
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Condition: New
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paperback. Vineland, a zone of blessed anarchy in northern California, is the last refuge of hippiedom, a culture devastated by the sobriety epidemic, Reaganomics, and the Tube. Here, in an Orwellian 1984, Zoyd Wheeler and his daughter Prairie search for Prairie's long-lost mother, a Sixties radical who ran off with a narc. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 26. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780749391416
- ISBN
- 9780749391416
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Condition: New
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paperback. One snowy day in Copenhagen, six-year-old Isaiah falls to his death from a city rooftop. The police pronounce it an accident. But Isaiah's neighbour, Smilla, an expert in the ways of snow and ice, suspects murder. She embarks on a dangerous quest to find the truth, following a path of clues as clear to her as footsteps in the snow. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 50. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Harvill
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781860461675
- ISBN
- 9781860461675
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Condition: New
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paperback. 'I'm off', says Felix Ferrer to his wife. 'I'm leaving you'. And closing the door on their suburban home, Ferrer, a creature of appetite, impulse and habit, a man of our times, embarks on a journey to the extremes. Not weighing up every girl he sees. Not ignoring his doctor's warnings to avoid the very hot and the very cold. Translator(s): Waldman, Guido. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 15. Weight in Grams: 190.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781860469503
- ISBN
- 9781860469503
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Condition: New
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