Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. On Millennium night, with Blair presiding over a sexed-up new version of the country, Benjamin Trotter finds himself watching the celebrations on his parents' TV. Watching, in fact, his younger brother, Paul, now a New Labour MP who has bought wholeheartedly into the Blairite dream. Neither of them can know that their lives are about to implode. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 28. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Re-issue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241967720
- ISBN
- 9780241967720
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.10
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Paperback. Returning to Afghanistan after his photographer friend is killed by a sniper, war reporter Stephen Sharkey seeks release from his nightmares in an England seemingly at peace with itself. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140270754
- ISBN
- 9780140270754
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.00€ 16.89
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Paperback. Defeated and embittered by a country which treats him as a non-being, the 'invisible man' retreats into an underground cell, where the author smokes, drinks, listens to jazz and recounts his search for identity in white society. Series: Penguin Essentials. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 113 x 181 x 38. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Publisher
- Penguin Essentials
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- PENGUIN ESSENTIALS
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241970560
- ISBN
- 9780241970560
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.10
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Paperback. A band of savage 13-year-old boys reject the adult world as hypocritical and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness. When the mother of one of them begins an affair with a ship's officer, he and his friends idealise the man at first; but it is not long before they conclude that he is in fact soft and romantic. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 142.
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099284796
- ISBN
- 9780099284796
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.10
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Paperback. Ann Widdecombe's controversial novel about the position of men in today's society. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 23. Weight in Grams: 266.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780226842
- ISBN
- 9781780226842
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
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Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 126 x 31. Weight in Grams: 292.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472119827
- ISBN
- 9781472119827
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.10
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Paperback. The Burden of the Desert is fast-paced and gripping, and asks questions that will linger long after the last page is turned. Via the lives of a fascinating group of characters, former war correspondent Justin Huggler memorably evokes the atmosphere of a military occupation whose aftershocks are still being felt today. BIC Classification: FA; FJM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 31. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Publisher
- Short Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780722009
- ISBN
- 9781780722009
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.97
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Paperback. Patrick Leigh Fermor's first and only novel, now back in print. Num Pages: 144 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 110.
- Publisher
- John Murray Publishers Ltd
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719555299
- ISBN
- 9780719555299
Paperback
Condition: New
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Paperback. It is a sweltering August in Aberystwyth. A man wearing a Soviet museum curator's uniform walks into Louie Knight's office and spins a wild and impossible tale of love, death, madness and betrayal. Sure, Louie had heard about Hughesovka, the legendary replica of Aberystwyth built in the Ukraine by some crazy nineteenth-century czar. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 212. 288 pages. It is a sweltering August in Aberystwyth. A man wearing a Soviet museum curator's uniform walks into Louie Knight's office and spins a wild and impossible tale of love, death, madness and betrayal. Sure, Louie had heard about Hughesovka, the legendary replica of Aberystwyth built in the Ukraine by some crazy nineteenth-century czar. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 197 x 130 x 20. Weight: 210.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408801024
- ISBN
- 9781408801024
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.73
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Hardcover. A collection of short stories that starts with "Broomsticks and Other Tales of 1925", with its twelve stories, and continues with "The Lord Fish of 1933" with seven stories. The famous story called 'The Riddle' is also included as it is a story that appeals equally to adults and children. Editor(s): de la Mare, Giles. Num Pages: 508 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 164 x 40. Weight in Grams: 898.
- Publisher
- Giles de la Mare Publishers United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 508
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781900357036
- ISBN
- 9781900357036
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 19.91
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Paperback. Marion and Shiva Stone, born in a mission hospital in Ethiopia in the 1950s, are twin sons of an illicit union between an Indian nun and British doctor. Bound by birth but with widely different temperaments they grow up together, in a country on the brink of revolution, until a betrayal splits them apart. But fate has not finished with them. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 31. Weight in Grams: 404 541pp
- Edition
- First Vintage Books Edition
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099443636
- ISBN
- 9780099443636
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.14
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Paperback. A virtuoso performance of spellbinding storytelling, sensuous, hilarious, compassionate and profound. Translator(s): Harshav, Barbara. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 236. 336 pages. A story of Zayde, his enigmatic mother Judith and her three lovers. When Judith arrives in a small, rural village in Palestine in the early 1930s, three men compete for her attention: Globerman, the cunning, coarse cattle-dealer who loves women, money and flesh. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 197 x 129 x 22. Weight: 276. Translator(s): Harshav, Barbara.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841951140
- ISBN
- 9781841951140
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.40
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Paperback. Bob Slocum is anxious, bored and fearful of his job. So why is it he wants nothing more than the chance to speak at the next company convention? In this book, the author takes us for a turn on the maddening hamster wheel of work. Series: Vintage Minis. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 110 x 6. Weight in Grams: 66.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784872786
- ISBN
- 9781784872786
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 8.99€ 7.91
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€ 7.91
Hardcover. One of the most famous novels of the 20th century, available in a beautiful new hardback VMC set of Daphne du Maurier classics. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 204 x 37. Weight in Grams: 586.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Little Brown Hardbacks (a & C)
- Number of pages
- 448
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844088799
- ISBN
- 9781844088799
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.67
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Paperback. A French publishing sensation, shortlisted for every major literary award and perfect for everyone who loved HHhH. Translator(s): Underwood, J. A. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 197 x 25. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Abacus
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349139531
- ISBN
- 9780349139531
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.95
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Paperback. Joey Perrone is a woman with a mission. She's just been pushed overboard from a cruise liner by Chaz, her scumbag husband, and survived to tell the tale. But rather than reporting him to the police, she decides to stay dead and - with a little help from her friends and a few of Chaz's enemies - instead of getting mad, she's going to get even. Num Pages: 480 pages, 1 port. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 26. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780552772532
- ISBN
- 9780552772532
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.89
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Paperback. One warm summer's day at the beach, forty-year-old Cordelia Grinstead, dressed only in a swimsuit and beach robe, walks away from her family and just keeps on going. After hitching a ride with a stranger to a new town where she knows no one, she reinvents herself as a single woman with no ties and begins living a new life altogether. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 19. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- Vintage Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099479413
- ISBN
- 9780099479413
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.04
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Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781409146230
- ISBN
- 9781409146230
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 4.74
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€ 4.74
Paperback. The International Bestselling Sensation Translator(s): Bradbury, Rod. Series: Little Old Lady. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 30. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447250616
- ISBN
- 9781447250616
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.23
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Hardcover. Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel award 2013, this bitterly humorous debut is a novel of love, narcissism, and ailing cattle. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 159 x 39. Weight in Grams: 608. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Dustwrapper has some minor shelf wear, otherwise as new
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- SKU
- KCG0000894
- ISBN
- 9780007412082
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99