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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. Robbed of his ancestral home, Ianto pledges revenge not only on the English yuppies who have turned his grandmother's cottage into a weekender' barbecue party but on all those who have violated him and the land that is his. This latest act of colonial oppression and desecration triggers his lurid and strange information into unspeakable savagery. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 18. Weight in Grams: 194.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099285182
- ISBN
- 9780099285182
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
Hardcover. The thought of being cooped up in Blandings Castle with Clarence, the Earl of Emsworth, Galahad and Freddie, appalled Colonel Wedge. But the arrival of Tipton Plimsoll, a rich young American, brightened his horizon. Tip-ton, in his opinion, was quite the companion for his daughter, Veronica, the dumbest beauty listed in the pages of Debrett. Series: Everyman's Library P G Wodehouse. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 192 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841591445
- ISBN
- 9781841591445
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 13.37
€ 19.99
€ 13.37
Paperback. Num Pages: 290 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 157 x 24. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Publisher
- Spinifex Press
- Number of pages
- 290
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781876756970
- ISBN
- 9781876756970
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.00
€ 19.99
€ 15.00
Hardcover. Includes stories that are set in the gruelling camps and sweltering training fields that marked the limbo point between civilian life and the horrors of war. This collection focuses on young men who, always conscious of the imminence of action, try to maintain their sanity in the wake of their abrupt removalfrom normal life. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KTG0003677
- ISBN
- 9780224087384
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FRH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Publisher
- Truran United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781850221791
- ISBN
- 9781850221791
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 8.20
€ 8.20
paperback. Phillip Roth confronts his double, an imposter whose self-appointed task is to lead the jews out of Israel and back to Europe, a moses in reverse and a monstrous nemesis to the 'real' Philip Roth. This work is at once a spy story, a political thriller, a meditation on identity, and a confession. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099307914
- ISBN
- 9780099307914
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.84
€ 15.99
€ 11.84
Paperback. A man barges into a writer's house and, holding a gun to his head, demands that he tell him a story, something to take him away from real world. A pathological liar discovers one day that the lies he tells come true. A young woman finds a zip in her boyfriend's mouth, and when she opens it he unfolds to reveal a completely different man inside. Translator(s): Silverston, Sondra; Shlesinger, Miriam; Englander, Nathan. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 131 x 20. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099563327
- ISBN
- 9780099563327
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
Paperback. When Oliver 'Lol' Lawrence was recruited for an undercover assignment in the Arabian Gulf, the stakes were as high as they get: the players were gambling with the lifeblood of the industrialized world - the flow of oil. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FJM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 110. Weight in Grams: 165.
- Publisher
- 22 Books
- Number of pages
- 280
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781898125471
- ISBN
- 9781898125471
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 7.03
€ 7.03
Paperback. This journey down the assembly lines of the Centaur Carr Company frequently borders on the surreal and is studded with bizzare characters and the grit and banter of factory life. Num Pages: 225 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. Weight in Grams: 179.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Number of pages
- 225
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Edition
- New edition
- SKU
- KNW0005442
- ISBN
- 9780749397623
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Hardcover. What do a dead cat, a computer whizz-kid, an electric monk, quantum mechanics, a chronologit over 200 years old, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and pizza have in common? Apparently not much, until Dirk Gently begins his investigation. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FL; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 146 x 41. Weight in Grams: 650.
- Publisher
- William Heinemann
- Number of pages
- 512
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- First Edition, First Impression
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780434009190
- ISBN
- 9780434009190
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 18.94
€ 26.99
€ 18.94
Paperback. An emotional, heartwarming story from New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand about a grieving family that finds solace where they least expect it. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton General Division
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781473611214
- ISBN
- 9781473611214
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
€ 13.99
€ 11.09
Hardcover. This is a history of India since independence, seen through the eyes of characters born on the day that independence was granted. The book is a multi-layered narrative, in which the complexities of the sub-continent are projected through the minds of its many characters. Num Pages: 589 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 141 x 37. Weight in Grams: 670.
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857152173
- ISBN
- 9781857152173
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 17.38
€ 24.99
€ 17.38
Paperback. The complete edition of a timeless classic, includes the recently rediscovered Part Four and 'Last Words' by Richard Bach.Jonathan Livingston Seagull, the most celebrated inspirational fable of our time, tells the story of a bird determined to be more than ordinary. Num Pages: 144 pages, (1 x 8pp mono plate section). BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 170 x 129 x 6. Weight in Grams: 168.
- Publisher
- Harper Thorsons
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- New Illustrated Thorsons Classics edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780006490340
- ISBN
- 9780006490340
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.67
€ 13.99
€ 10.67
Paperback. Beijing intellectual Chen Zhen volunteers to live in a remote settlement on the border of Inner and Outer Mongolia. But when members of the People's Republic swarm in from the cities to bring modernity and productivity to the grasslands, the peace of Chen's solitary existence is shattered, and the balance between humans and wolves is disrupted. Num Pages: 544 pages, map. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 146 x 36. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Number of pages
- 544
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141027876
- ISBN
- 9780141027876
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 18.56
€ 24.99
€ 18.56
paperback. Translator(s): Reeck, Matt; Ahmad, Aftab. Num Pages: 574 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 206 x 138 x 39. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Translation
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780811224130
- ISBN
- 9780811224130
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.60
€ 20.99
€ 19.60
Paperback. As a novelist, Graham Swift delights in the possibilities of the human voice, imagining his way into the minds and hearts of an extraordinary range of characters. In Making an Elephant, his first ever work of non-fiction, the voice is his own. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 198 x 130. .
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781471161940
- ISBN
- 9781471161940
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.02
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€ 10.02
Paperback. Follows the life of Serge Carrefax, a man who surges into the electric modernity of the early twentieth century, transfixed by the technologies that obliterate him. Born to the sound of one of the experimental wireless stations, Serge finds himself steeped in a weird world of transmissions. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 22. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099547020
- ISBN
- 9780099547020
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.85
€ 15.99
€ 11.85
Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153. .
- Publisher
- Quercus
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784297923
- ISBN
- 9781784297923
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 14.27
€ 18.99
€ 14.27
Paperback. An eminent Australian writer is invited to contribute to a book entitled "Strong Opinions". For him, troubled by Australia's complicity in the wars in the Middle East, it is a chance to air some urgent concerns: how should a citizen of a modern democracy react to their state's involvement in a war that involves the use of torture? Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 176.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099516224
- ISBN
- 9780099516224
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
Paperback. The vibrant new novel from Isabel Allende takes her back to her homeland of Chile, and tells the story of the first Spanish woman to arrive on its shores with the Conquistadors in the 1500s. Num Pages: 356 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 23. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007241187
- ISBN
- 9780007241187
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.42
€ 19.99
€ 14.42
Paperback. Vish Puri is as fond of butter chicken as the next Punjabi. And when there's plenty on offer at the Delhi Durbar hotel where he's attending an India Premier League cricket match dinner, he's the first to tuck in. Irfan Khan, father of Pakistani star cricketer Kamran Khan, can't resist either. But the creamy dish proves his undoing. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 264.
- Publisher
- Cornerstone United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099561873
- ISBN
- 9780099561873
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
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Paperback. This is the story of John Self, consumer extraordinaire. Rolling around New York and London, he makes deals, spends wildly and does reckless movie-world business, all the while grabbing everything he can to sate his massive appetites: alcohol, tobacco, pills, pornography, a mountain of junk food and more. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 25. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099461883
- ISBN
- 9780099461883
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02
Paperback. Walk to orchard .. Check inside paper sack: extra diapers, two bottles, four cans of Borden's evaporated milk, five twenty-dollar bills. Set infant under most plentiful tree. Run. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
- Publisher
- Blackfriars
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349134475
- ISBN
- 9780349134475
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.30
€ 11.99
€ 10.30
Paperback. When Harold Fry nips out one morning to post a letter, leaving his wife hoovering upstairs, he has no idea that he is about to walk from one end of the country to the other. He has no hiking boots or map, let alone a compass, waterproof or mobile phone. All he knows is that he must keep walking. To save someone else's life. Num Pages: 384 pages, chapter heads. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780552778091
- ISBN
- 9780552778091
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08