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Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

hardcover. Set at Rudge Hall, home to the obese miser Lester Carmody, and at Healthward Ho, a health farm run by 'Chimp Twist, along with his cohorts 'Soapy' and 'Dolly' Molloy. Series: Everyman's Library P G Wodehouse. Num Pages: 307 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 191 x 134 x 30. Weight in Grams: 420.
Publisher
Everyman
Number of pages
307
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841591490
ISBN
9781841591490
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.20

Paperback. Contains a series of golfing stories: From Evangeline, Bradbury Fisher's fifth wife and a notorious 'golfing giggler', to poor Rollo Podmarsh whose game was so unquestionably inept that 'he began to lose his appetite and would moan feebly at the sight of a poached egg'. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 134 x 22. Weight in Grams: 192.
Publisher
Cornerstone United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099513872
ISBN
9780099513872
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.82

Hardcover. A collection of stories, featuring Wodehouse characters, that includes Jeeves and Wooster, Ukridge and his fearsome Aunt Julia, Bingo Little and his wife, romantic novelist Rosie M Banks, twin Mulliner brothers George (the screenwriter) and Alfred (the conjuror), Galahad Threepwood, dotty Lord Emsworth and his younger son Freddie. Series: Everyman's Library P G Wodehouse. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 192 x 137 x 31. Weight in Grams: 428.
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841591537
ISBN
9781841591537
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.20

Paperback. Lady Constance Keeble, sister of Lord Emsworth of Blandings Castle, has both an imperious manner and a valuable diamond necklace. The precarious peace of Blandings is shattered when her necklace becomes the object of dark plottings, for within the castle lurk some well-connected jewel thieves. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 254.
Publisher
Arrow
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099513797
ISBN
9780099513797
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.05

Paperback. There's a bitter feud between peppery Colonel Wyvern and the Squire of Rudge Hall, rich but miserly Lester Carmody. The arch-villain Chimp Twist has opened a health farm - and he and Soapy and Dolly Molloy are planning a fake burglary so Lester can diddle his insurance company. But will Lester's nephew John win over his true love? Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 220.
Edition
1st Arrow Paperback
Publisher
Arrow
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099514183
ISBN
9780099514183
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.87

Paperback. It takes a lot of effort for Jimmy Crocker to become Piccadilly Jim - nights on the town roistering, headlines in the gossip columns, a string of broken hearts and breaches of promise. In a dizzying plot, impersonations pile on impersonations so that Jimmy ends up having to pretend he's himself. Does he deserve a happy ending? Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 226.
Edition
1st Arrow Paperback
Publisher
Arrow
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099513889
ISBN
9780099513889
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.82

Paperback. Within the ivied walls of Blandings Castle there are snakes in the rolling parkland ready to nip Clarence, the absent-minded Ninth Earl of Emsworth, when he least expects it. Empress of Blandings, in the running for her first prize in the Fat Pigs Class, is off her food - and can only be coaxed back to the trough by a call in her own language. Series: Blandings Castle. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 21. Weight in Grams: 232.
Publisher
Arrow
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099513834
ISBN
9780099513834
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.81

Hardcover. Sally leaves her boarding-house at last, and looks forward to a quiet life in a small apartment. Instead, she finds herself swept up in a series of adventures with her ambitious brother, an accident-prone, dog-loving Englishman she meets on a French beach, and his supercilious cousin who pursue her across the Atlantic. Series: Everyman's Library P G Wodehouse. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 189 x 146 x 28. Weight in Grams: 382.
Publisher
Benediction Classics
Number of pages
250
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841591742
ISBN
9781841591742
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.66

Hardcover. Much married American movie mogul Ivor Llewellyn depends on his friends at Bachelors Anonymous to keep him out of romantic entanglements on his trip to London. First, they arrange for Joe Pickering to be his bodyguard. Then his lawyer, Ephraim Trout, is sent to England to fend off the actress Vera Dalrymple who is determined to ensnare Llewellyn. Series: Everyman's Library P G Wodehouse. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 187 x 167 x 18. Weight in Grams: 270.
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841591759
ISBN
9781841591759
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.20

paperback. A collection of Jeeves stories, every one a winner, in which Jeeves endeavours to give satisfaction: by saving a grumpy cabinet minister from being marooned and attacked by a swan - in the process saving Bertie Wooster from his impending doom, and by rescuing Bingo Little and Tuppy Glossop from the soup (twice each). Series: Jeeves & Wooster. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 1. Weight in Grams: 228.
Publisher
Arrow
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099513728
ISBN
9780099513728
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.89

Paperback. Num Pages: 592 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 133 x 40. Weight in Grams: 418.
Edition
01st Edition
Publisher
Arrow
Number of pages
592
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099551287
ISBN
9780099551287
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.82

Paperback. When the moon is full at Blandings, strange things happen: among them the painting of a portrait of The Empress. Landseer, the painter may have been dead, but that doesn't prevent Threepwood from introducing him to the castle - or rather introducing Bill Lister, so in love with Prudence that he's determined to enter Blandings in an imposture. Series: Blandings Castle. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 20. Weight in Grams: 208.
Publisher
Arrow
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099513858
ISBN
9780099513858
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.81

Hardcover. The Frozen Assets belong to Edmund Biffen Christopher and they are the legacy of his Godfather which he will receive if he manages to avoid been arrested, something of a habit of Biffen's, until after his thirtieth birthday one week hence. Lord Tilbury, proprietor of the Mammoth publish company, is keen that Biffen does fall foul of the law. Series: Everyman's Library P G Wodehouse. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 191 x 137 x 24. Weight in Grams: 324.
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841591650
ISBN
9781841591650
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.11

Hardcover. Using multiple narrators, playing with literary stereotypes and identities, this title tells the story of an aspiring young writer, James Orlebar Cloyster, prepared to do almost anything, first for success and then for gratification. Series: Everyman's Library P G Wodehouse. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 189 x 135 x 22. Weight in Grams: 308.
Publisher
Everyman
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841591926
ISBN
9781841591926
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.66

Paperback. Young Jerry West has a few problems. Although already engaged, Jerry has just fallen in love with the wonderful Jane Hunnicutt, whom he's just met on jury service. But she's an heiress, and that's a problem too - because even if he can extricate himself from his grasping fiancee Jerry can't be a gold-digger. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 14. Weight in Grams: 168.
Edition
1st Arrow Paperback
Publisher
Arrow
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099514190
ISBN
9780099514190
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.87

Hardcover. With the Duke of Dunstable trying to steal his pig to sell to Lord Tilbury, mischievous Church Lads camping in his park, his sister Constance bossing him unmercifully, and Lavender Briggs, his secretary, making life miserable, Lord Emsworth has little time to concentrate on the invasion of Blandings Castle by yet another impostor. Series: Everyman's Library P G Wodehouse. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 191 x 136 x 23. Weight in Grams: 324.
Publisher
Everyman
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841591667
ISBN
9781841591667
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.13

Paperback. Clarence, Ninth Earl of Emsworth, has an occasional duty to leave the Empress of Blandings, surely the most considerable pig in the whole world, and travel to London for the opening of parliament. It comes hard to him, for he has a proper sense of the priorities in life, which rate pigs and flowerbeds higher than politicians. Series: Blandings Castle. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 172.
Publisher
Arrow
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099513995
ISBN
9780099513995
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.85

Paperback. If you come into a lot of money, life becomes easier, right? No, wrong - at least not for Sally Nicholas, whose generosity of spirit immediately runs into all the slings and arrows outrageous fortune can send. Her handsome fiance turns out not to be all he seems - and then there is the show he's written, which Sally puts on in the theatre. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 220.
Edition
1st Arrow Paperback
Publisher
Arrow
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099514176
ISBN
9780099514176
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.87

Hardcover. .
Publisher
Everyman
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841591643
ISBN
9781841591643
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.75

Hardcover. A butler named Keggs who, having overheard the planning of a scheme, later decides to try and make money out of his knowledge. Series: Everyman's Library P G Wodehouse. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 326.
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841591551
ISBN
9781841591551
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.21

Paperback. Captain Biggar, big-game hunter and all round tough guy, should make short work of the two bookies who have absconded with his winnings after a freak double made him a fortune. But on this occasion Honest Patch Perkins and his clerk are not as they seem. Series: Jeeves & Wooster. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 60. Weight in Grams: 184.
Publisher
Arrow
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099513926
ISBN
9780099513926
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.87

Paperback. Joey Cooley is a golden-curled child film star, the idol of American motherhood. Reginald, Third Earl of Havershot, is a boxing blue on a mission to save his wayward cousin from the fleshpots of Hollywood. Both are under anesthetic at the dentists when something strange happens - and their identities are swapped in the ether. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 132 x 19. Weight in Grams: 222.
Publisher
Arrow
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Arrow Paperback
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099514121
ISBN
9780099514121
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.87

Paperback. Mr J Wellington Gedge wants none of it - and particularly none of the domineering Mrs Gedge's imperious wish that he should become American Ambassador to Paris. Mrs Gedge has powerful allies - including the prohibitionist Senator Opal. But will she get her way? And will the Senator's delightful daughter Jane get her man?. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 18. Weight in Grams: 226.
Publisher
Arrow
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Arrow Paperback
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099514152
ISBN
9780099514152
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.89

Hardcover. The 'Beckford College' is a private school for boys. A mischievous young boy called Farnie, who turns out to be the uncle of the older 'Bishop' Gethryn, a prefect, cricketer and popular figure in the school, arrives at the school. His arrival, along with that of another youngster, leads to much excitement and scandal in the school. Series: Everyman's Library P G Wodehouse. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 136 x 17. Weight in Grams: 252.
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841591681
ISBN
9781841591681
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.42

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