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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. When Theodore Gumbril hits upon the notion of designing a type of pneumatic trouser to ease the discomfort of a sedentary life, he decides the time has come to leave his position as housemaster in a boys' public school and seek his fortune in the metropolis. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 236.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
9780099458180
ISBN
9780099458180
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 4.99

Paperback. Twenty year old Jenny Bunn is supernally beautiful and stubbornly chaste, which is why Patrick Standish, an arrogant schoolmaster, wants her so much. This novel about a northern girl who moves south, wants to fit in and yet wants to preserve her principles, challenges our assumptions about the battle of the sexes and classes in Britain. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 133 x 20. Weight in Grams: 238.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141194271
ISBN
9780141194271
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.01

Paperback. A wonderful tale about life in the 1960s from a bestselling author Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 34. Weight in Grams: 374.
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Number of pages
528
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780755343225
ISBN
9780755343225
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. 1980s Syria, our young narrator is living a secluded life behind the veil in the vast and perfumed house of her grandparents in Aleppo. Her three aunts, Maryam the pious one; Safaa, the liberal; and the free-spirited Marwa, bring her up with the aid of their ever-devoted blind servant. Translator(s): Price, Leri. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 20. Weight in Grams: 234.
Publisher
Transworld Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780552776134
ISBN
9780552776134
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.41

Paperback. Another classic novel from the internationally bestselling author Danielle Steel Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 122 x 178 x 17. Weight in Grams: 154.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780751550061
ISBN
9780751550061
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. Summer in the City establishes Pauline McLynn as an accomplished writer who artfully analyses themes of marriage, grief, self-loathing and friendship in a South London neighbourhood. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 260. Clean copy
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Headline Review
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
SKU
KEX0237772
ISBN
9780755326358
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Summer in the City establishes Pauline McLynn as an accomplished writer who artfully analyses themes of marriage, grief, self-loathing and friendship in a South London neighbourhood. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 260. Clean copy with some reader wear.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Headline Review
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
SKU
KTM0000620
ISBN
9780755326358
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. A giant adolescent puppet becomes self-aware in a dystopian world of love and treachery. Series: Robert Kroetsch Series. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 133 x 5. Weight in Grams: 140.
Publisher
University of Alberta Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781772122961
ISBN
9781772122961
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.92

Paperback. Liz, Alix and Esther are old friends whose lives continue to cross and uncross. As the years pass, they are more than ever disposed to question, to re-evaluate, to examine their motives and directions in the brutally prosperous, atrocity-hungry society of Britain. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 124 x 23. Weight in Grams: 298. Good clean copy showing light age, shelf and reading wear, remains a nice copy
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
Reprint
Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
SKU
KSG0020161
ISBN
9780140122282
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 139 x 8. Weight in Grams: 132.
Publisher
Beacon Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Edition
Later Printing
Condition
New
SKU
V9780807068113
ISBN
9780807068113
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 15.60

Paperback. Back in 1970s Winship, Massachusetts, Billy Mogavero was everything his friends wanted to be - tough, sexy, graceful, a leader of young men. After a reunion twenty years later, Timmy O'Kane watches his old best friend charm his way into career success and an ideal marriage, and begins to question his own cosy, sensible life. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 262.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099501657
ISBN
9780099501657
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 8.70

Paperback. Num Pages: 235 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; FA; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 308.
Publisher
New European Publications United Kingdom
Number of pages
235
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781872410050
ISBN
9781872410050
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 14.47

Hardcover. Translator(s): Grossman, Edith. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 136 x 21. Weight in Grams: 426.
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857152821
ISBN
9781857152821
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.47

Hardcover. Series: Everyman's Library P G Wodehouse. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 136 x 28. Weight in Grams: 376.
Publisher
Everyman
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841591070
ISBN
9781841591070
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.00

Paperback. In May 1937, a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away to the Big House. Any celebrity he has known in the previous decade is no use to him now. And few who are taken to the Big House ever return. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 283 x 18. Weight in Grams: 182.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784703325
ISBN
9781784703325
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. It's Summer, 1944. In the 'stifling heat of equatorial Newark', a terrifying epidemic is raging. Vigorous, decent, twenty-three year old playground director Bucky Cantor is devoted to his charges and disappointed with himself because his weak eyes have excluded him from serving in the war. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 196 x 21. Weight in Grams: 218.
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099542261
ISBN
9780099542261
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. An enchanting, humorous and heart-warming novel set in an English village A Richard & Judy Book Club selection Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 276. 400 pages. An enchanting, humorous and heart-warming novel set in an English village A Richard & Judy Book Club selection. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 197 x 130 x 26. Weight: 280.
Edition
First Edition
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408809556
ISBN
9781408809556
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.89

Paperback. AD 44. Britannia. General Plautius's wife and children are being held hostage by Druids. Can Centurion Macro and Optio Cato save them? The third gripping novel in Simon Scarrow's bestselling Eagles of the Empire series, which includes CENTURION, BRITANNIA and THE GLADIATOR. Series: Eagles of the Empire. Num Pages: 448 pages, Maps. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 132 x 32. Weight in Grams: 356.
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group London
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
paperback / softback
Condition
New
SKU
V9780755349975
ISBN
9780755349975
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.85

Hardback. Translator(s): Rojas, Carlos. Series: Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 161 x 27. Weight in Grams: 542.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231168120
ISBN
9780231168120
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.52

Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 264.
Publisher
Random House Trade Paperbacks
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Ballantine Books Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780449912492
ISBN
9780449912492
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 14.00

Paperback. * The magnificent concluding volume of Vidal's epic NARRATIVES OF EMPIRE, embodying the passage of American history. Series: Narratives of Empire. Num Pages: 480 pages, genealogical table. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 31. Weight in Grams: 334.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Number of pages
480
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349114279
ISBN
9780349114279
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.06

Paperback. In the pent-up heat of Colombo, piece by piece a family comes apart .. A stunning debut novel from a fresh new voice in Australian fiction, for fans of Zadie Smith and Rohinton Mistry. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: F; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 211 x 42. Weight in Grams: 362.
Publisher
Hachette Australia
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780733635052
ISBN
9780733635052
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 16.65

Paperback.
Publisher
Gibson Square Books
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908096562
ISBN
9781908096562
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.73

Paperback. A gripping and surreal story of madness and redemption, about one man's struggle to reclaim his life and family after the death of his son and the news of a pregnancy. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Legend Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785079689
ISBN
9781785079689
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.98

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