Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. This fourth Jeeves volume contains "Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit", "Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves" and "Jeeves in the Offing". Series: Jeeves & Wooster. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 153 x 35. Weight in Grams: 606.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Hutchinson
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780091753405
- ISBN
- 9780091753405
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 14.93
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Paperback. Another collection of Jeeves novels and short stories. Features "Much Obliged, Jeeves" and "Aunts Aren't Gentlemen" together with the short stories "Extricating Young Gussie", "Jeeves Makes An Omelette" and "Jeeves and the Greasy Bird". The new "Jeeves and Wooster" ITV series will be shown in 1993. Illustrator(s): Norrington, Bob. Series: Jeeves & Wooster. Num Pages: 368 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 155 x 31. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Hutchinson
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780091773540
- ISBN
- 9780091773540
Paperback
Condition: New
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Paperback. Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in over fifty years at his mother's funeral. Accompanying his aunt, Henry joins a shiftless, twilight society: mixing with hippies, war criminals, CIA men; smoking pot, breaking the currency regulations and coming alive after a dull suburban lifetime. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 194.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099282587
- ISBN
- 9780099282587
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 5.80
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Paperback. In a prison in Occupied France one in every ten men is to be shot. The prisoners draw lots among themselves - and for rich lawyer Louis Chavel, it seems that his whole life has been leading up to an agonizing and crucial failure of nerve. Hysterical with a sense of injustice, he offers to barter everything he owns for someone to take his place. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 122.
- Publication date
- 2000
- Condition
- New
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- SKU
- 9780099284147
- ISBN
- 9780099284147
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 5.70
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Paperback. Andrews is a young man who has betrayed his fellow smugglers and fears their vengeance. Fleeing from them, with no hope of pity or salvation, he takes refuge in the house of a young woman, also alone in the world. She persuades him to give evidence against his accomplices in court. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 162.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099286158
- ISBN
- 9780099286158
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.30
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Paperback. This collection comprises: "Fiesta", Hemingway's first major novel; long extracts from "A Farewell to Arms", "To Have and Have Not" and "For Whom the Bell Tolls"; 25 complete short stories; and the Epilogue to "Death in the Afternoon". Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 102 x 27. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099339311
- ISBN
- 9780099339311
Paperback
Condition: New
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Paperback. The love affair between Maurice Bendix and Sarah, flourishing in the turbulent times of the London Blitz, ends when she suddenly and without explanation breaks it off. After a chance meeting rekindles his love and jealousy two years later, Bendix hires a private detective to follow Sarah, and slowly his love for her turns into an obsession. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 131 x 14. Weight in Grams: 144. The love affair between Maurice Bendix and Sarah, flourishing in the turbulent times of the London Blitz, ends when she suddenly and without explanation breaks it off. After a chance meeting rekindles his love and jealousy two years later, Bendix hires a private detective to follow Sarah, and slowly his love for her turns into an obsession. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 131 x 14. Weight in Grams: 144.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- SKU
- 9780099478447
- ISBN
- 9780099478447
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.11
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Paperback. Sisi, Ama, Efe and Joyce are prostitutes, the girls who stand in the windows of the red-light district, promising to make men's dreams come true - if only for half an hour and fifty euros. The murder of Sisi, the most enigmatic of the women, shatters their already fragile world. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 216.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- SKU
- 9780099523949
- ISBN
- 9780099523949
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 9.92
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Paperback. Anthony Patch and Gloria Gibson are the golden children of the Jazz Age. They marry and embark on a life of glittering parties, lavish expenditure and scandalous revelry. When the money dries up their marriage founders. In this wistful novel Fitzgerald portrays the decline of youthful promise with devastating clarity. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 22. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- SKU
- 9780099541493
- ISBN
- 9780099541493
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 6.23
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Paperback. Every weekend, in basements and parking lots across the country, young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded for as long as they have to. Then they go back to those jobs with blackened eyes and loosened teeth and the sense that they can handle anything. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 14. Weight in Grams: 162.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- New Ed
- SKU
- 9780099765219
- ISBN
- 9780099765219
Paperback
Condition: New
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Paperback. A tale of identical twin brothers who grow up on a farm in rural Wales and never leave home. They till the rough soil and sleep in the same bed, touched only occasionally by the advances of the twentieth century. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 133 x 16. Weight in Grams: 196.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099769712
- ISBN
- 9780099769712
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 5.70
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Paperback. It is the late 1960s in Ireland. Nora Webster is living in a small town, looking after her four children, trying to rebuild her life after the death of her husband. She is fiercely intelligent, at times difficult and impatient, at times kind, but she is trapped by her circumstances, and waiting for any chance which will lift her beyond them. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141041759
- ISBN
- 9780141041759
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 9.37
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Paperback. A novella that tells how through a simple sexual admission a husband and wife ware driven apart into rival worlds of erotic revenge. Translator(s): Davies, J.M.Q. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBF; DSK; FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 9. Weight in Grams: 98. Good clean copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141182247
- ISBN
- 9780141182247
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 9.88
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Paperback. Dublin. Midsummer. While absent in New York, the celebrated actor Molly Fox has loaned her house to a playwright friend, who is struggling to write a new work. Why does Molly never celebrate her own birthday, which falls upon this day? What does it mean to be a playwright or an actor? Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 16. Weight in Grams: 184.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571298785
- ISBN
- 9780571298785
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.33
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Hardcover. Contains three novels - "All the Pretty Horses", "The Crossing", and "Cities of the Plain". Num Pages: 1032 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 139 x 48. Weight in Grams: 894.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781857152616
- ISBN
- 9781857152616
Hardback
Condition: New
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paperback. A compelling novel of the emergency medical services on the streets of New York. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. Weight in Grams: 240. Clean copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Edition
- Film tie-in
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KEX0245811
- ISBN
- 9780751523768
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
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Paperback. Humorous novel by bestselling author Helena Frith Powell, about the French art of having affairs Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 30. Weight in Grams: 268. 8vo Good copy .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Gibson Square Books Ltd
- Edition
- First
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KEX0255191
- ISBN
- 9781906142773
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
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Hardback. A thrilling, plot-twisting new novel set in Europe during the first world war, from the bestselling author of Any Human Heart, Restless and Ordinary Thunderstorms Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 158 x 35. Weight in Grams: 614. Very good copy in near fine dustwrapper.First edition signed by the author
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KEX0303521
- ISBN
- 9781408817742
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 50.00
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Hardcover. The new novel by the author of the Booker-shortlisted In Every Face I Meet and Richard & Judy selection The Promise of Happiness. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 164 x 26. Weight in Grams: 490. Very good copy in near fine dustwrapper . First edition signed by the author
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KEX0303544
- ISBN
- 9781408803882
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 35.00
€ 35.00
Paperback. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180. . Used paperback in good condition. Some shelf wear.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- POOLBEG
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KNH0013297
- ISBN
- 9781853719622
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99