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Fiction: Irish and International
Paperback. A biographical novel of Michelangelo. Michelangelo Buonarotti lived in the time of the turbulent Renaissance, the years of poisoning princes, warring popes, the powerful Medici family, and the fanatic monk Savonarola. Working with a God-driven fury he created "David", painted the Sistine ceiling, and was the architect of the dome of St Peter's. Num Pages: 784 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 112 x 34. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099416272
- ISBN
- 9780099416272
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Condition: New
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Paperback. Serge Valene wants to create an elaborate painting of the building he has made his home for the last sixty years. As he plans his picture, he contemplates the lives of all the people he has ever known there. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 37. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099449256
- ISBN
- 9780099449256
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Condition: New
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Paperback. Joss le Guern is a town crier in Paris's 14th arrondissement. Over the course of a few days, however, a number of enigmatic and disturbing messages are slipped in to the daily news, and he becomes increasingly alarmed. In the course of his inquiries he begins to sense a sinister and often grotesque menace. Series: Commissaire Adamsberg. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 131 x 22. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099453642
- ISBN
- 9780099453642
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Condition: New
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Paperback. Dr Thomas Underhill, a notorious seventeenth-century practitioner of black arts and sexual deviancy. However, the landlord, Maurice Allington, is the sole witness to the renaissance of the malevolent Underhill. Led by an anxious desire to vindicate his sanity, Allington strives to uncover the key to Underhill's satanic powers. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 176.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099461074
- ISBN
- 9780099461074
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Condition: New
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Paperback. The tragic story of a rebellious, fiercely intelligent young slave who breaks all the rules: in learning to read and write; in falling in love with a white girl, the daughter of his owner, and finally in trying to escape and joining her in the free North. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 112.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099462217
- ISBN
- 9780099462217
Paperback
Condition: New
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Paperback. In an 18th-Century England of wit, womanising and powdered wigs, provincial Philip Jettan runs the risk of irreproachability. Cleone Charteris stands in no such danger. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 132.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Cornerstone
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099474432
- ISBN
- 9780099474432
Paperback
Condition: New
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Paperback. How does a man addicted to routine - a man who flosses his teeth before love-making - cope with the chaos of everyday life? With the loss of his son, the departure of his wife and the arrival of Muriel, a dog trainer from the Meow-Bow dog clinic, Macon's attempts at ordinary life are tragically and comically undone. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099480013
- ISBN
- 9780099480013
Paperback
Condition: New
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Paperback. An English bobbie returning from night patrol finds a corpse in evening dress locked in the stocks on the village green. He identifies the body immediately. Andrew Vereker was not a well-loved man, and narrowing down the suspects is not going to be an easy job. The Vereker family are corrupt and eccentric - and hardly cooperative. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099493624
- ISBN
- 9780099493624
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Condition: New
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Paperback. The Priory may be ramshackled in appearance, but Peter, Margaret and Celia, who have inherited it from their uncle, love it for its rambling charm. But there's more to this house than is at first apparent: for years hardly a single person has set foot in the place, and even their uncle chose to live in a different house. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 21. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099493693
- ISBN
- 9780099493693
Paperback
Condition: New
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Paperback. Tells the tale of a pair of young scholars investigating the lives of two Victorian poets. This book features a trail of letters, journals and poems they uncover a web of passion, deceit and tragedy, and their quest becomes a battle against time. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099503927
- ISBN
- 9780099503927
Paperback
Condition: New
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Paperback. He is a brilliant maths professor with a peculiar problem - ever since a traumatic head injury seventeen years ago, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory. She is a sensitive but astute young housekeeper who is entrusted to take care of him. Each morning, a strange, beautiful relationship blossoms between them. Translator(s): Snyder, Stephen. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 146.
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- Format
- Paperback
- SKU
- 9780099521341
- ISBN
- 9780099521341
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.64
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Paperback. Gladys and Annie Barnes are impoverished sisters who have seen better times. They live in a modest cottage in the backstreets of Highate with Mr Fisher, a mild but eccentric old man living secretively in the attic above them. Their quiet lives are thrown into confusion when a new landlord takes over, a dreaded and unscrupulous 'rackman'. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 22. Weight in Grams: 238.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099528692
- ISBN
- 9780099528692
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Condition: New
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Paperback. With the ink still wet on his diploma, the twenty-five-year-old Dr Mikhail Bulgakov was flung into the depths of rural Russia in 1916-17. This book show how his alter-ego copes (or fails to cope) with the new and often appalling responsibilities of a lone doctor in a vast country practice - on the eve of the Revolution. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 36. Weight in Grams: 122.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099529569
- ISBN
- 9780099529569
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Condition: New
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Paperback. Describes the lives of a group of Soviet workers who believe they are laying the foundations for a radiant future. Translator(s): Chandler, Robert; Chandler, Elizabeth; Meerson, Olga. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 176.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099529743
- ISBN
- 9780099529743
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Condition: New
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Paperback. A young English woman leaves her ageing parents to visit friends living in the Australian outback. She falls in love, both with the country and with Carl, a doctor and Czech refugee. Brought together through dramatic encounters and strange twists of fate, their relationship hangs in the balance when Jennifer is called back to England. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 186.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099530039
- ISBN
- 9780099530039
Paperback
Condition: New
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Paperback. Nevil Shute was a power and a pioneer in the world of flying long before he began to write the stories that made him a bestselling novelist. This autobiography charts Shute's path from childhood to his career as a gifted aeronautical engineer working at the forefront of the technological experimentation of the 1920s and 30s. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 133 x 19. Weight in Grams: 204.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099530176
- ISBN
- 9780099530176
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Condition: New
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Paperback. Shows how humour and tragedy dwell in the hearts of ordinary people. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 142.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099530343
- ISBN
- 9780099530343
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Condition: New
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Paperback. Children are vanishing. The village of Lafferton is shattered. There are no witnesses and no leads - just a kidnapper at large. Then Detective Chief Inspector Simon Serrailler receives a call: a child has been snatched in Yorkshire. Has the abductor struck again? And will they find this child alive? Series: Simon Serrailler. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 31. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099535027
- ISBN
- 9780099535027
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Condition: New
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Paperback. Christmas 1951, Los Angeles: a city where the police are as crooked as the criminals. Six prisoners are beaten senseless in their cells by cops crazed on alcohol. For the three L A P D detectives involved, it will expose the guilty secrets on which they have built their corrupt and violent careers.. Series: L.A. Quartet. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 197 x 31. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Cornerstone
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099537885
- ISBN
- 9780099537885
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.38
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Paperback. Ray Atlee, a Professor of Law at the University of Virginia, is forty-three and newly single. His father, a very sick old man who lives the life of a recluse in the ancestral home in Clanton, Mississippi, was once a beloved and powerful official who towered over local law and politics for many years. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Cornerstone
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099538332
- ISBN
- 9780099538332
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Condition: New
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Paperback. Features settings that are simple - a kitchen, a bedroom, a party - and the relationships between the husbands and wives that are more complicated. This title presents fraught relationships with humour, bathos and an understanding of human nature. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 16. Weight in Grams: 172.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099541639
- ISBN
- 9780099541639
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 11.04
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Paperback. From his early days Wodehouse adored cricket and references to the game run like a golden thread though his writings. He not only wrote about this glorious British pastime, but also played it well, appearing six times at Lords, where his first captain was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This book presents Wodehouse's writings on cricket. Num Pages: 224 pages, facsims., ports. BIC Classification: DNF; WSJC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 141 x 21. Weight in Grams: 164.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099551362
- ISBN
- 9780099551362
Paperback
Condition: New
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Paperback. It is Midsummer's Eve. Three young friends meet in a wood to act out an elaborate masque. But, unknown to them, they are being watched. Each is killed by a single bullet. Soon afterwards, one of Inspector Wallander's colleagues is found murdered. Is it the same killer, and what could the connection be? Translator(s): Segerberg, Ebba. Series: Kurt Wallander. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 126 x 36. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099571759
- ISBN
- 9780099571759
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Condition: New
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Paperback. Born at the stroke of midnight, at the precise moment of India's independence, Saleem Sinai is destined from birth to be special. For he is one of 1,001 children born in the midnight hour, children who all have special gifts, children with whom Saleem is telepathically linked. Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 35. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099578512
- ISBN
- 9780099578512
Paperback
Condition: New
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