Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. A haunting and otherworldly tale of the impact on one family of a guest with seemingly magical powers, who alters the course of their lives in ways neither they nor he foresee. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton General Division
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781473630628
- ISBN
- 9781473630628
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
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Hardcover. Originally published in a censored form, this novel is now presented in a form closer to that first written, though not all passages can be restored. Dorothy's plight can be read with clearer understanding of what Orwell intended. Num Pages: 306 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 163 x 30. Weight in Grams: 760.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 306
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780436231292
- ISBN
- 9780436231292
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 26.85
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€ 26.85
Paperback. Even as little girls, Sarah and Emily are very different from each other. Emily looks up to her wiser and more stable older sister and is jealous of her relationship with their absent father, and later her seemingly golden marriage. This novel follows the two sisters from their childhood in the 1920s through the challenges of their adult choices. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 15. Weight in Grams: 178.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099518563
- ISBN
- 9780099518563
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
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Paperback. Werner holds a tedious job in the administration department of the local university and dreams of owning his own gallery. His father is bedridden, hovering on the edge of death, and furious, as he has been for twenty years. As Werner feels his own life slip away, his thoughts turn to murder as a means to correct the course of all their futures. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099597728
- ISBN
- 9780099597728
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.22
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Paperback. Ezeulu, headstrong chief priest of the god Ulu, is worshipped by the six villages of Umuaro. But he is beginning to find his authority increasingly under threat - from his rivals in the tribe, from those in the white government and even from his own family. Yet he still feels he must be untouchable - surely he is an arrow in the bow of his God? Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 182.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141191560
- ISBN
- 9780141191560
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
Paperback. A landmark work of fiction from one of Britain's most exciting new writers: 'The Harmony Silk Factory' is a devastating love story set against the turmoil of mid-twentieth-century Malaysia. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- New Ed
- SKU
- KEX0302723
- ISBN
- 9780007232284
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Hardback. A new paperback edition of the major early novel by the Egyptian Nobel laureate Translator(s): Hutchins, William M. Num Pages: 242 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 594.
- Publisher
- The American University in Cairo Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789774161568
- ISBN
- 9789774161568
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 24.76
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€ 24.76
Paperback. A collection of highly imaginative short pieces that speak to our times with deadly accuracy. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 197 x 30. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Publisher
- Virago Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1800
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349006536
- ISBN
- 9780349006536
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
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€ 11.09
Paperback. A story of friendship, heartbreak and the day that changed two lives forever from the bestselling author of The Vintage Teacup Club. The perfect read for fans of Lucy Diamond and Lucy Dillon. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FRD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 26. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780751563764
- ISBN
- 9780751563764
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.47
€ 10.99
€ 9.47
Paperback. Leningrad, 1952. Andrei, a young hospital doctor and Anna, a nursery school teacher, are forging a life together in the post-war, post-siege wreckage. But their happiness is precarious, like that of millions of Russians who must avoid the claws of Stalin's merciless Ministry for State security. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 170 x 200 x 23. Weight in Grams: 246.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141046839
- ISBN
- 9780141046839
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
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Hardcover. Set during the Napoleonic wars at a time of national economic struggles, this work is an unsentimental, yet passionate depiction of conflict between classes, sexes and generations. Num Pages: 952 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 135 x 46. Weight in Grams: 860.
- Publisher
- Everyman United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 952
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857152920
- ISBN
- 9781857152920
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.95
€ 19.99
€ 14.95
Paperback. The new novel from the bestselling, highly acclaimed and always controversial author of Atomised. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 28. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780753821183
- ISBN
- 9780753821183
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.04
€ 13.99
€ 11.04
Paperback. A collection of stories, in which, a husband and wife wait for a train as their relationship unspools silently around them, a woman contemplates the idea of her lover dying as she queues in a bank, and an almost impossibly uncomfortably lunch culminates in a passionate kiss. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 170.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099587422
- ISBN
- 9780099587422
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.61
€ 23.99
€ 17.61
Paperback. 'Fear and Trembling' tells the story of a young woman who spends a year working at a Japanese firm. She soon learns that at the Yumimoto Corporation hierarchy means everything, and her time there soon turns into a comic nightmare of terror and self-abasement. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 10. Weight in Grams: 142.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571220489
- ISBN
- 9780571220489
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.71
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€ 10.71
Paperback. For identical twins, Kate and Violet are about as unlike as two peas from the same pod can be. Except in one respect - they share a hidden gift. But after Kate inadvertently reveals their secret when they are thirteen years old, their lives are set on diverging paths. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 202 x 34. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780552776592
- ISBN
- 9780552776592
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.80
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€ 11.80
Paperback. The new, internationally bestselling novel from Yann Martel, the Booker-winning author of Life of Pi Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 248 x 25. Weight in Grams: 244.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782114741
- ISBN
- 9781782114741
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.78
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€ 10.78
Paperback. Brimming with gluttony, booze and lust, Roger Micheldene is loose in America. Supposedly visiting Budweiser University to make deals for his publishing firm in England, Roger instead sets out to offend all he meets and to seduce every woman he encounters. But his American hosts seem made of sterner stuff. Who will be Roger's undoing? Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 196 x 11. Weight in Grams: 134.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141194264
- ISBN
- 9780141194264
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
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Paperback. 'Outclasses any spy novel I have ever read' Richard Condon, author of THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 28. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Publisher
- Phoenix
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780753826348
- ISBN
- 9780753826348
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.04
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€ 11.04
Paperback. The new bestselling novel from Britain's favourite gardener and TV presenter Alan Titchmarsh. Mr Gandy escapes his humdrum life with an unexpected Grand Tour of Europe where drama, romance and friendship await in this beguiling tale of self-discovery. Num Pages: 320 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
- V9780340953099
- ISBN
- 9780340953099
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.23
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€ 10.23
Paperback. Half Apache and mostly orphaned, Edgar Presley Mint's trials begin on an Arizona reservation at the age of seven, when the mailman's jeep accidentally runs over his head. Shunted from the hospital to a school for delinquents to a Mormon foster family, comedy, pain and trouble accompany Edgar through a string of larger-than-life experiences. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 27. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099286769
- ISBN
- 9780099286769
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 19.32
€ 25.99
€ 19.32