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Paperback. T S makes sense of his chaotic family life by drawing beautiful, meticulous maps kept in innumerable colour-coded notebooks. He is brilliant, and the Smithsonian Institution agrees, though when they award him a major scientific prize they don't suspect for a moment that he is twelve years old. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 190 x 29. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099589990
- ISBN
- 9780099589990
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Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.70
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Paperback. As young girls, Nel and Sula shared each other's secrets and dreams in the poor black mid-West of their childhood. Then Sula ran away to live her dreams and Nel got married. Ten years later Sula returns and no one, least of all Nel, trusts her. This is a story of fear - the fear that traps us, justifying itself through perpetual myth and legend. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 156.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099760016
- ISBN
- 9780099760016
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.33
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Paperback. Explores the cosmological, moral and spiritual origins of man's existence. In this title, the author produced poem of epic scale, conjuring up a cosmos and ranging across huge tracts of space and time, populated by a memorable gallery of grotesques. Editor(s): Leonard, John. Num Pages: 512 pages, notes. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 24. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140424393
- ISBN
- 9780140424393
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.10
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Paperback. In the long hot summer of 1939, Britain is preparing for war. But on a riverside farm in Suffolk there is excitement of another kind: Mrs Petty, the widowed farmer, has had her hunch proved correct that the mounds on her land hold buried treasure. As the dig proceeds, it becomes clear though that this is no ordinary find. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 121 x 16. Weight in Grams: 174.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141016382
- ISBN
- 9780141016382
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.70
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Paperback. Often imitated but never bettered, it is in Marlowe's long shadow that every fictional detective must stand - and under the influence of Raymond Chandler's addictive prose that every crime author must write. Marlowe's entanglement with the Sternwood family - and an attendant cast of colourful underworld figures. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 30. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141182612
- ISBN
- 9780141182612
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.53
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Paperback. Conjuring up a cascade of sexual encounters, this book evokes the essence of female sexuality in a world where only love has meaning. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FP; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 249 x 16. Weight in Grams: 180.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141182841
- ISBN
- 9780141182841
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.45
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Paperback. Includes sixty-five stories of magic and melancholy that display a range of inventiveness, with fairy tales, intellectual games and glimpses into lives of ambiguity and loss. Editor(s): Nabokov, Dmitri. Translator(s): Nabokov, Dmitri. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 816 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 45. Weight in Grams: 566.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141183459
- ISBN
- 9780141183459
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 15.73
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Paperback. In 1930s Paris, where one cheap hotel room is very like another, a young woman is teaching herself indifference. She has escaped personal tragedy and has come to France to find courage and seek independence. She tells herself to expect nothing, especially not kindness, least of all from men. Tomorrow, she resolves, she will dye her hair blonde. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 11. Weight in Grams: 140.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141183930
- ISBN
- 9780141183930
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.33
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Paperback. Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of 'The Daily Beast', has always prided himself on his intuitive flair for spotting ace reporters. That is not to say he has not made the odd blunder, however, and may in a moment of weakness make another. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 188.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141184029
- ISBN
- 9780141184029
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.82
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Paperback. Set among the manicured lawns and euphemisms of Whispering Glades Memorial Park in Hollywood, this novel satirizes the American way of death and offers Waugh's memento mori. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 8. Weight in Grams: 104.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141184241
- ISBN
- 9780141184241
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 10.38
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€ 10.38
Paperback. Tells the story of a man invisible 'simply because people refuse to see me'. In this book, the author from his expulsion from a Southern college to a terrifying Harlem race riot - go far beyond the story of one individual. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141184425
- ISBN
- 9780141184425
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.33
€ 11.99
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Paperback. The Emperor Hadrian writes a valedictory letter to Marcus Aurelius, his future successor. The Emperor meditates on his past, describing his accession, military triumphs, love of poetry and music, and the philosophy that informed his powerful and far-flung rule. This work recreates the life and death of one of the great rulers of the ancient world. Translator(s): Frick, Grace. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 17. Weight in Grams: 216.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141184968
- ISBN
- 9780141184968
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.11
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Paperback. Through the testimony of numerous characters, both fictional and historical figures, the author builds up a composite picture of American society in the first quarter of the 20th century. Num Pages: 1184 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 134 x 50. Weight in Grams: 798.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141185811
- ISBN
- 9780141185811
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 18.37
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€ 18.37
Paperback. Contains the author's three Philip Marlowe novels, "The Lady in the Lake", "The High Window" and "The Little Sister". Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: FFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141186085
- ISBN
- 9780141186085
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 13.73
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Paperback. It's 1959 and Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom, one time high school sports superstar, is going nowhere. At twenty-six he is trapped in a second-rate existence - stuck with a fragile, alcoholic wife, a house full of overflowing ashtrays and discarded glasses, a young son and a futile job. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141187839
- ISBN
- 9780141187839
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.45
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Paperback. In this deeply involved study of the German Upper Class before 1914 , Sybille Bedford has re-created a way of life in a manner that is absorbing, moving and sometimes very funny. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141188058
- ISBN
- 9780141188058
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 10.95
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Paperback. David Schearl arrives in New York in his mother's arms to begin his new life as an immigrant. David is hated by his father, but is fiercely loved and protected by his Yiddish-speaking mother. This novel interweaves the love between a mother and son with the terrors and anxieties David experiences, as he seeks to find his own identity. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141188652
- ISBN
- 9780141188652
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.62
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Paperback. It was the war to end all wars, the global struggle that would finally make the world safe for democracy - at any cost. But one American soldier has paid a price beyond measure. And within the disfigured flesh that was once a vision of youth lives a spirit that cannot accept what the world has become. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FJMF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 216.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141189819
- ISBN
- 9780141189819
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.45
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Paperback. Dix Steele is back in town, and 'town' is post-war LA. His best friend Brub is on the force of the LAPD, and as the two meet in country clubs and beach bars, they discuss the latest case: a strangler is preying on young women in the dark. Dix listens with interest as Brub describes their top suspect, as yet unnamed. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 152.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141192314
- ISBN
- 9780141192314
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.45
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Hardback. For Jay Gatsby - young, handsome, fabulously rich - always seems alone in the crowd, watching and waiting, though no one knows what for. Beneath the shimmering surface of his life he is hiding a secret: a silent longing for the one thing that will always be out of his reach. And soon this destructive obsession will force his world to unravel. Series: Penguin F Scott Fitzgerald Hardback Collection. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 205 x 28. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141194059
- ISBN
- 9780141194059
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 15.29
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Paperback. As Joana, endlessly mutable, moves through different emotional states, different inner lives and different truths, this impressionistic, dreamlike and fiercely intelligent novel asks if any of us ever really know who we are. Her innovation in fiction brought her international renown. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 133 x 13. Weight in Grams: 158.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141197340
- ISBN
- 9780141197340
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 10.45
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Paperback. In the middle of a family lunch Teresa, just married, goes to the bathroom, unbuttons her blouse and shoots herself in the heart. What made her kill herself immediately after her honeymoon? Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 19. Weight in Grams: 234.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141199955
- ISBN
- 9780141199955
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.33
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€ 10.33
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 5AN; YFH; YFU. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141365572
- ISBN
- 9780141365572
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.64
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Paperback. Botchan is a modern young man from the Tokyo metropolis, sent to the ultra-traditional Matsuyama district as a Maths teacher after his the death of his parents. Cynical, rebellious and immature, Botchan finds himself facing several tests. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 10. Weight in Grams: 126.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141391885
- ISBN
- 9780141391885
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.70
€ 10.99
€ 9.70