Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
paperback. Gary is a sweet and decent man. Only two things would improve his life - having children with his gorgeous wife Pauline, and a lower golf handicap. Both are unlikely. Pauline is wondering how she ended up living in an ugly little house, driving a second-hand car and making a living dressing up as Tinkerbell. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 25. Weight in Grams: 278.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Windmill Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099592129
- ISBN
- 9780099592129
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paperback. When song-and-dance star Jimmy Sutane falls victim to a string of malicious practical jokes, there's only one man who can get to the bottom of the apparent vendetta against the music hall darling - Albert Campion. Soon, however, the backstage pranks escalate and an ageing starlet is killed. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 22. Weight in Grams: 220.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099593546
- ISBN
- 9780099593546
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paperback. Celebrating the power of the imagination as it playfully juggles with our perception of history and reality, this book features the story about love and sex; lies and truths; and twelve dancing princesses who lived happily ever after, but not with their husbands. Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 12. Weight in Grams: 142.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099598176
- ISBN
- 9780099598176
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Paperback. You live on a picturesque communal garden square, an oasis in urban London where your children run free, in and out of other people's houses. You've known your neighbours for years and you trust them. Implicitly. You think your children are safe. But are they really? Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 196 x 30. Weight in Grams: 302.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099599470
- ISBN
- 9780099599470
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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. Presents a vicar's ludicrous expedition in 1857 to the Garden of Eden in Tasmania. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 32. Weight in Grams: 338.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140285215
- ISBN
- 9780140285215
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paperback. "In Search of Lost Time" is one of the greatest, most entertaining reading experiences in any language. This book is an English translation of the French original. Editor(s): Prendergast, Christopher. Translator(s): Clark, Carol; Collier, Peter. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 720 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 31. Weight in Grams: 492.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141180359
- ISBN
- 9780141180359
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paperback. Sabrina is a firebird blazing through 1950s New York: she is a woman daring to enjoy the sexual licence that men have always known. Wearing extravagant outfits and playing dangerous games of desire, she deliberately avoids committment, gripped by the pursuit of pleasure for its own sake. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 9. Weight in Grams: 102.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141183718
- ISBN
- 9780141183718
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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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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. 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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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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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.
- Format
- 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.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Corgi Books, London
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780552145817
- ISBN
- 9780552145817
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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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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.
- Format
- 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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