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The Handmaid's Tale

series Contemporary classics
Paperback / softback 19 Sep 1996
Publisher Vintage
ISBN: 9780099740919
Dewey: 813.54
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His Dark Materials : Gift Edition including all three novels: Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass

series Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
Hardback 28 Oct 2011
Publisher Everyman's Library
ISBN: 9781841593425
Dewey: 823.92
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Plague, Fall, Exile And The Kingdom And Selected Essays

series Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
Hardback 5 Aug 2004
Publisher Everyman's Library
ISBN: 9781857152784
Dewey: 848.91209
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Steven Berkoff Plays 1 : East; West; Greek; Sink the Belgrano!; Massage Lunch; The Bow of Ulysses; Sturm und Drang

series Contemporary classics
Paperback / softback 31 Dec 2000
Publisher Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571207213
Dewey: 822.914
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Harold Pinter Plays 1 : The Birthday Party; The Room; The Dumb Waiter; A Slight Ache; The Hothouse; A Night Out; The Black and White; The Examination

series Contemporary classics
Paperback / softback 10 Sep 1996
Publisher Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571178445
Dewey: 822.914
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Nineteen Eighty-Four

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Hardback 29 Oct 1992
Publisher Everyman's Library
ISBN: 9781857151343
Dewey: 823.912
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Life and Fate

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Dewey: 891.7344
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The African Trilogy: Things Fall Apart No Longer at Ease Arrow of God

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Hardback 26 Mar 2010
Publisher Everyman's Library
ISBN: 9781841593272
Dewey: 823.914
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Mavis Gallant Collected Stories

series Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
Hardback 2 Jun 2016
Publisher Everyman's Library
ISBN: 9781841593739
Dewey: 813.54
£11.99
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The Handmaid's Tale

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Hardback 7 Sep 2006
Publisher Everyman's Library
ISBN: 9781841593012
Dewey: 813.54
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The Fire Next Time; Nobody Knows My Name ; No Name In The Street; The Devil Finds Work

series Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
Hardback 7 Nov 2024
Publisher Everyman's Library
ISBN: 9781841594248
Dewey: 814.54
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The Remains of the Day

series Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
Hardback 28 Sep 2012
Publisher Everyman's Library
ISBN: 9781841593494
Dewey: 823.92
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If This is Man and The Truce

series Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
Hardback 25 Aug 2000
Publisher Everyman's Library
ISBN: 9781857152227
Dewey: 940.547243092
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All Quiet on the Western Front

series Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
Hardback 3 Sep 2018
Publisher Everyman's Library
ISBN: 9781841593869
Dewey: 833.912
£11.99
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Timberlake Wertenbaker Plays 1 : New Anatomies; Grace of Mary Traverse; Our Country's Good; Love of a Nightingale; Three Birds Alighting on a Field

series Contemporary classics
Paperback / softback 15 Jan 1996
Publisher Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571177431
Dewey: 812.54
£14.99
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Letters Home

series Caribbean Contemporary Classics
Paperback / softback 26 Feb 2021
Publisher Hodder Education
ISBN: 9781398307797
Dewey: 813.6
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Harold Pinter Plays 2 : The Caretaker; Night School; The Dwarfs; The Collection; The Lover

series Contemporary classics
Paperback / softback 15 Jan 1996
Publisher Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571177448
Dewey: 822.914
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Roald Dahl Collected Stories

series Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
Hardback 7 Sep 2006
Publisher Everyman's Library
ISBN: 9781841593005
Dewey: 823.914
£15.00
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The Leopard

series Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
Hardback 26 Sep 1991
Publisher Everyman's Library
ISBN: 9781857150230
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One Hundred Years Of Solitude

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Hardback 21 Sep 1995
Publisher Everyman's Library
ISBN: 9781857152234
Dewey: 863
£12.74
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Lolita

series Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
Hardback 17 Dec 1992
Publisher Everyman's Library
ISBN: 9781857151336
Dewey: 813.54
£12.74
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The Second Sex

series Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
Hardback 18 Mar 1993
Publisher Everyman's Library
ISBN: 9781857151374
Dewey: 305.42
£15.00
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The Cairo Trilogy : Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street

series Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
Hardback 28 Sep 2001
Publisher Everyman's Library
ISBN: 9781857152487
Dewey: 892.73
£22.50
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Goodbye to all that

series Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
Hardback 1 Mar 2018
Publisher Everyman's Library
ISBN: 9781841593845
Dewey: 821.912
£9.74
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

series Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
Hardback 21 Sep 1995
Publisher Everyman's Library
ISBN: 9781857152197
Dewey: 891.7344
£9.74
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The Patrick Melrose Novels

series Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
Hardback 21 Nov 2024
Publisher Everyman's Library
ISBN: 9781841594286
Dewey: 823.92
£18.75
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Animal Farm

series Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
Hardback 20 May 1993
Publisher Everyman's Library
ISBN: 9781857151503
Dewey: 823.912
£9.74
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Giovanni's Room

series Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
Hardback 4 Feb 2016
Publisher Everyman's Library
ISBN: 9781841593722
Dewey: 813.54
£11.99
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Go Tell It on the Mountain

series Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
Hardback 4 Feb 2016
Publisher Everyman's Library
ISBN: 9781841593715
Dewey: 813.54
£11.99
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Catch 22

series Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
Hardback 21 Sep 1995
Publisher Everyman's Library
ISBN: 9781857152203
Dewey: 813.54
£11.99
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