Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. 'a sad and splendid book' New York Times Book Review Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 150.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141022826
- ISBN
- 9780141022826
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.81
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Paperback. An old man looks into the eyes of a burglar left to guard him while his brother is beaten; an Irish priest in a war-torn Syrian town teaches its men the art of hurling; a squad of broken friends assemble to take revenge on a rapist; a young man sets off on his morning run, reflecting on the ruins of his relationship, but all is not as it seems. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 16. Weight in Grams: 170.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781784160241
- ISBN
- 9781784160241
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.24
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Paperback. Gormenghast is the vast, crumbling castle to which Titus Groan, is lord and heir. Titus is expected to rule this gothic labyrinth of turrets and dungeons, and his subjects, according to age-old rituals, but things are changing in the castle. He must contend with treachery, manipulation and murder and his longing for a life beyond the castle walls. Num Pages: 960 pages, 20. BIC Classification: FA; FL; FM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 146 x 42. Weight in Grams: 794.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Thus
- SKU
- 9780099288893
- ISBN
- 9780099288893
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 20.83
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Paperback. It was Rome, 63 BC. In a city on the brink of acquiring a vast empire, seven men are struggling for power - Cicero is consul; Caesar, his ruthless young rival; Pompey, the republic's greatest general; Crassus, its richest man; Cato, a political fanatic; Catilina, a psychopath; and, Clodius, an ambitious playboy. Series: Cicero Trilogy. Num Pages: 464 pages, map. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 132 x 27. Weight in Grams: 324.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099406327
- ISBN
- 9780099406327
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.10
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Paperback. Sumire is in love with a woman seventeen years her senior. But whereas Miu is glamorous and successful, Sumire is an aspiring writer who dresses in an oversized second-hand coat and heavy boots like a character in a Kerouac novel. Sumire spends hours on the phone talking to her best friend K about the big questions in life. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 172.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- SKU
- 9780099448471
- ISBN
- 9780099448471
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.45
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Paperback. Features a girl whose ears are so exquisite that, when uncovered, they improve sex a thousand-fold, a runaway friend, a right-wing politico, an ovine-obsessed professor, and a manic-depressive in a sheep outfit. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 216.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- SKU
- 9780099448778
- ISBN
- 9780099448778
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.04
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Paperback. Cassandra Mortmain lives with her impoverished family in a crumbling castle. Her journal records her life with her bored sister Rose, her stepmother Topaz, her little brother Thomas and her novelist father who suffers from a financially crippling writer's block. However, all their lives are turned upside down when American heirs to castle arrive. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 27. Weight in Grams: 302.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- New Edition
- SKU
- 9780099460879
- ISBN
- 9780099460879
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.75
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Paperback. A sweltering week in late August. Where better to enjoy the last days of summer than on the beautiful Bay of Naples? But even as Rome's richest citizens relax in their villas around Pompeii and Herculaneum, there are ominous warnings that something is going wrong. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Cornerstone
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099527947
- ISBN
- 9780099527947
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.10
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Paperback. As a girl, Clara del Valle can read fortunes, make objects move as if they had lives of their own, and predict the future. Following the mysterious death of her sister, Rosa the Beautiful, Clara is mute for nine years. When she breaks her silence, it is to announce that she will be married soon to the stern and volatile landowner Esteban Trueba. Series: Vintage Magic. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 33. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099528562
- ISBN
- 9780099528562
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.27
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Paperback. Bee and Ana were half-sisters. But, since Bee left home when Ana was four, the two never really bonded. When Bee is found dead, Ana doesn't know what to feel. Ana packs up Bee's belongings and realizes there was more to her sister than she had imagined. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 33. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Paperback Edition
- SKU
- 9780140295962
- ISBN
- 9780140295962
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.76
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Paperback. Every life is both ordinary and extraordinary, but Logan Mountstuart's - lived from the beginning to the end of the twentieth century - contains more than its fair share of both. As a writer who finds inspiration with Hemingway in Paris and Virginia Woolf in London, as a spy recruited by Ian Fleming and betrayed in the war. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 33. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- 9780141044170
- ISBN
- 9780141044170
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.07
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Paperback. Finally given the heave-ho by Pandora, Adrian Mole finds himself in the unenviable situation of living with the love-of-his-life as she goes about shacking up with other men. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 149 x 196 x 21. Weight in Grams: 252.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Re-issue
- SKU
- 9780141046457
- ISBN
- 9780141046457
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Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.61
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Paperback. One of the first things ninety-two-year-old Marian Leatherby overhears when she is given an ornate hearing trumpet is her family plotting to commit her to an institution. Soon, she finds herself trapped in a sinister retirement home, where the elderly must inhabit buildings shaped like igloos and birthday cakes. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 138.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141187990
- ISBN
- 9780141187990
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.45
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Paperback. In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with foster parents. This childless couple promptly erase from the boy all knowledge of his identity and he grows up ignorant of his past. Translator(s): Bell, Anthea. Num Pages: 448 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 198 x 30. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780241951804
- ISBN
- 9780241951804
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.53
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Paperback. Blending political reality with magic realism, fantasy and comic invention, this book is one of the most daringly original works of the twentieth century. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 302.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780241968581
- ISBN
- 9780241968581
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Condition: New
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Paperback. Ella Rubinstein has a husband, three teenage children, and a pleasant home. Everything that should make her confident and fulfilled. Yet there is an emptiness at the heart of Ella's life - an emptiness once filled by love. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 26. Weight in Grams: 258.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1800
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780241972939
- ISBN
- 9780241972939
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Condition: New
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Paperback. A Russian woman named Lara arrives in Afghanistan at the house of Marcus Caldwell, an Englishman and widower living in the shadow of the Tora Bora mountains. Marcus' daughter, Zameen, may have known Lara's brother, a Soviet soldier who disappeared in the area many years previously. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 30. Weight in Grams: 352 436pp
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Main
- SKU
- 9780571238804
- ISBN
- 9780571238804
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.33
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Paperback. For Jack Reacher being invisible has become a habit. He spends his days digging swimming pools by hand and his nights as the bouncer in the local strip club in the Florida Keys. He doesn't want to be found. But someone has sent a private detective to seek him out. Then Reacher finds the guy beaten to death with his fingertips sliced off. Series: Jack Reacher. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF; FH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 34. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- SKU
- 9780857500069
- ISBN
- 9780857500069
Paperback
Condition: New
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Paperback. Six shots. Five dead. A heartland city thrown into terror. But within hours the cops have it solved. A slam-dunk case. Apart from one thing. The accused gunman refuses to talk except for a single phrase: Get Jack Reacher for me. Reacher lives off the grid. He's not looking for trouble. But sometimes trouble looks for him. Series: Jack Reacher. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF; FH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 30. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- SKU
- 9780857500120
- ISBN
- 9780857500120
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Condition: New
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Paperback. On a remote jungle island, genetic engineers have created a dinosaur game park. An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now one of mankind's most thrilling fantasies has come true and the first dinosaurs that the Earth has seen in the time of man emerge. But there is a dark side to the fantasy. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 33. Weight in Grams: 338.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Cornerstone
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781784752224
- ISBN
- 9781784752224
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.14
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Paperback. This title involves left-wing academics, right-wing capitalists, true-blue country gentry, workers, peasants, police and lawyers. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099435532
- ISBN
- 9780099435532
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Condition: New
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Paperback. What if a demented London cabbie called Dave Rudman wrote a book to his estranged son to give him some fatherly advice? What if that book was buried in Hampstead and hundreds of years later, when rising sea levels have put London underwater, spawned a religion? This book offers a historical detective story set in the far future. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141014548
- ISBN
- 9780141014548
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Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.61
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Paperback. Okonowo is the greatest warrior alive and he is one of the powerful men of his clan. But he also has a fiery temper. Determined not to be like his father, he refuses to show his weakness. When outsiders threaten the traditions of his clan, he takes violent action. Will the great man's pride eventually destroy him? Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 113 x 15. Weight in Grams: 152.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- SKU
- 9780141023380
- ISBN
- 9780141023380
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.64
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Paperback. A work of Proust that is translated from French original into English. Editor(s): Prendergast, Christopher. Translator(s): Davis, Lydia. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141180311
- ISBN
- 9780141180311
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 10.45
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€ 10.45