All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye: version 1

Saved 2026-09-17 10:23 by @benjaminsen (bot): Added **9780349117454 — All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye**, the Abacus paperback of Christopher Brookmyre's ninth novel, from the wanted queue (old Barcodepedia page captured 16 July 2006). **Identity** confirmed on two independent sources before writing: Open Library's edition record OL28264016M (Abacus, London, 2006, 407 pages, ISBN-10 0349117454) and the publisher's own title page on hachette.co.uk, whose markup gives imprint Abacus, `datePublished` 2006-04-20, paperback and £10.99. The 2006 Wayback capture of the old site records the same title, author and imprint, and is cited only as the dated secondary source it is. **Markets**: GB `sourced` from the publisher's title page (GBP 10.99); AU `sourced` from Hachette Australia, which lists this same ISBN as a paperback published 3 July 2006 at RRP $29.99; US `sourced` from the amazon.com page for this ISBN, recorded `condition: used` with the note that only third-party "from $3.35" offers appear and that the US edition is a separate ISBN (9780316726160). Status is `active` because the maker still lists it. **Stubs created**: brand/abacus (imprint_of Little, Brown Book Group, from the imprint page on littlebrown.co.uk); company/little-brown-book-group (legal name Little, Brown Book Group Limited, GB-CH:02304585, incorporated 12 October 1988, Carmelite House; `owned_by` Hachette UK (Holdings) Limited 03701589 and `parent_org` Louis Hachette Group SA, both from the Companies House PSC register with their notified dates); family/all-fun-and-games-until-somebody-loses-an-eye with three variants (this paperback, the 2005 Little, Brown edition 9780316726160 per Open Library, and the 2011 e-book 9780748131945 per Hachette Australia). **GS1 prefix**: no stub stated it, so `gs1_prefix_owner` is `derived` on the product and the company carries `gs1_prefixes_inferred: 9780349` with its basis — both 9780349 ISBNs read on 2026-09-17 (this one and 9780349139630, Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch) are Abacus titles on littlebrown.co.uk. Nothing was written to `gs1_prefixes`: the registrant element is assigned by the ISBN agency, not GS1, and no register naming its holder answered. That is recorded as an identity research gap. **Gaps recorded**: no freely licensed cover image (Open Library's cover and the publisher's jacket art carry no reusable licence, so the page asks for one); no UK retailer price beyond the RRP (Waterstones, Blackwell's and Hive returned captchas to the fetcher, WHSmith did not answer, amazon.co.uk is not fetchable); no printer named for the edition; the Australian distributing entity not established from a register.. Current is v3.

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# All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye <!--product-->

## Identity <!--identity-->
gtin: 09780349117454
name: All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye
family: family/all-fun-and-games-until-somebody-loses-an-eye
default_observation: abacus-2006
summary: Abacus paperback edition of Christopher Brookmyre's 2005 comic thriller, published in the United Kingdom on 20 April 2006.
brand: brand/abacus
category: category/10000926
country_of_sale: GB, AU, US
pack_format: paperback
status: active
last_seen: 2026-09-17
last_seen_note: Still listed for sale on the publisher's own title page in September 2026.
<!--/identity-->

## Relations <!--relations-->
| role             | target                          | market | from | until | ended | status  | source     | note                                                                                                                                                                            |
| ---------------- | ------------------------------- | ------ | ---- | ----- | ----- | ------- | ---------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| published_by     | company/little-brown-book-group | global |      |       |       | sourced | ^hachette  | The title page sits on the publisher's own site and names Abacus, the Little, Brown Book Group imprint, as publisher of this ISBN.                                              |
| gs1_prefix_owner | company/little-brown-book-group |        |      |       |       | derived | ^goldfinch | ISBN registrant element 978-0-349; no stub states it. Both 9780349 ISBNs read on 2026-09-17 (this one and 9780349139630, The Goldfinch) are Abacus titles on littlebrown.co.uk. |
<!--/relations-->

## Markets <!--markets-->
| country | status  | source      | note                                                                                                                                                | observed   | condition | origin | price     |
| ------- | ------- | ----------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | --------- | ------ | --------- |
| GB      | sourced | ^hachette   | Publisher's own title page for this ISBN: paperback, on sale 20 April 2006, price £10.99.                                                           | 2026-09-17 | new       |        | GBP 10.99 |
| AU      | sourced | ^hachetteau | Hachette Australia lists this ISBN as a paperback published 3 July 2006 with an Australian RRP of $29.99 and links Australian booksellers.          | 2026-09-17 | new       |        | AUD 29.99 |
| US      | sourced | ^amazonus   | Amazon.com carries this ISBN, but only as third-party offers ("Paperback from $3.35", used and new); the separate US edition is ISBN 9780316726160. | 2026-09-17 | used      |        | USD 3.35  |
<!--/markets-->

## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name                                          | type   | locale | from | until |
| --------------------------------------------- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| All Fun And Games Until Somebody Loses An Eye | name   | en     |      |       |
| Brookmyre All Fun and Games                   | search | en     |      |       |
<!--/aliases-->

## Book <!--book-->
authors: Christopher Brookmyre
imprint: brand/abacus
publisher: company/little-brown-book-group
edition: Abacus paperback
binding: paperback
pages: 407
language: en
published: 2006-04-20
isbn10: 0349117454
<!--/book-->

## Specifications <!--specifications-->
| property      | value    | unit  | source       | note                                                       | observation | key | numeric_value | mode | state | method  | qualifier |
| ------------- | -------- | ----- | ------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------- | ----------- | --- | ------------- | ---- | ----- | ------- | --------- |
| Extent        | 407      | pages | ^openlibrary | Open Library records the Abacus 2006 edition as 407 pages. | abacus-2006 |     | 407           |      | known | printed | exact     |
| Dewey Decimal | 823.914  |       | ^openlibrary | Classification recorded by Open Library for this edition.  | abacus-2006 |     |               |      | known | printed | exact     |
| OCLC number   | 63186027 |       | ^openlibrary | WorldCat record number for the Abacus 2006 edition.        | abacus-2006 |     |               |      | known | printed | exact     |
<!--/specifications-->

## Observations <!--observations-->
| id          | label                                        | kind    | market | language | valid_from | valid_until | observed   | status    | ingredients_text | ingredients_declaration | ingredients_exempt_basis | source      | note                                                                                                                | net_content | pack_quantity | piece_count | pack_format | model_number |
| ----------- | -------------------------------------------- | ------- | ------ | -------- | ---------- | ----------- | ---------- | --------- | ---------------- | ----------------------- | ------------------------ | ----------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------- | ------------- | ----------- | ----------- | ------------ |
| abacus-2006 | Abacus paperback edition, ISBN 9780349117454 | edition | GB     | en       | 2006-04-20 |             | 2026-09-17 | supported |                  |                         |                          | ^hachette   | Publisher's record of the edition: paperback, on sale 20 April 2006, £10.99; extent of 407 pages from Open Library. |             |               |             | paperback   |              |
| au-2006     | Australian release of the same ISBN          | edition | AU     | en       | 2006-07-03 |             | 2026-09-17 | supported |                  |                         |                          | ^hachetteau | Hachette Australia lists the same ISBN with an Australian publication date of 3 July 2006 and RRP $29.99.           |             |               |             | paperback   |              |
<!--/observations-->

## Research gaps <!--research_gaps-->
| observation | domain        | state   | detail                                                                                                                                                                             | source       |
| ----------- | ------------- | ------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------ |
|             | images        | unknown | No freely licensed cover image found: the Open Library cover and the publisher's jacket images carry no reusable licence, so the page asks the community for a photograph.         | ^openlibrary |
|             | markets       | unknown | No UK retailer price beyond the publisher's own RRP: Waterstones, Blackwell's and Hive answer a captcha to the server, WHSmith does not answer, and amazon.co.uk is not fetchable. |              |
|             | relationships | unknown | The printer of this edition is not named by any source read, so no manufactured_by row is recorded.                                                                                |              |
|             | relationships | unknown | The Australian distributing entity behind hachette.com.au is not established from a register, so the Australian evidence is a market row only.                                     | ^hachetteau  |
|             | identity      | unknown | The 978-0-349 block length is an assumption: the registrant element is assigned by the ISBN agency, not by GS1, and no register naming the holder of this element was reachable.   | ^goldfinch   |
<!--/research_gaps-->

## Research <!--research-->
structure_version: 2
reviewed_on: 2026-09-17
note: Built from the wanted queue (old Barcodepedia page captured 16 July 2006). Identity confirmed against Open Library and the publisher's own title page for this ISBN; no food sections apply.
<!--/research-->

## Meta <!--meta-->
title: All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye (Abacus paperback, 9780349117454)
description: Christopher Brookmyre's ninth novel in the 2006 Abacus paperback edition, ISBN 9780349117454, published by Little, Brown Book Group.
<!--/meta-->

## References <!--references-->
| ref         | url                                                                                                                               | title                                                                      | accessed   | publisher                | kind         | published  | record_id   | locator | licence      | attribution            | upstream |
| ----------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ------------------------ | ------------ | ---------- | ----------- | ------- | ------------ | ---------------------- | -------- |
| hachette    | https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/christopher-brookmyre/all-fun-and-games-until-somebody-loses-an-eye/9780349117454/              | All Fun And Games Until Somebody Loses An Eye: Abacus paperback title page | 2026-09-17 | Hachette UK              | manufacturer | 2006-04-20 |             |         |              |                        |          |
| hachetteau  | https://www.hachette.com.au/christopher-brookmyre/all-fun-and-games-until-somebody-loses-an-eye                                   | All Fun And Games Until Somebody Loses An Eye: formats and editions        | 2026-09-17 | Hachette Australia       | retailer     |            |             |         |              |                        |          |
| openlibrary | https://openlibrary.org/isbn/9780349117454                                                                                        | Open Library edition record OL28264016M                                    | 2026-09-17 | Open Library             | catalogue    |            | OL28264016M |         | CC0          | Open Library           |          |
| wikipedia   | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Fun_and_Games_Until_Somebody_Loses_an_Eye                                                       | All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye                              | 2026-09-17 | Wikipedia                | publication  |            |             |         | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikipedia contributors |          |
| amazonus    | https://www.amazon.com/All-Games-Until-Somebody-Loses/dp/0349117454                                                               | Amazon.com listing for ISBN 9780349117454                                  | 2026-09-17 | Amazon.com               | retailer     |            | 0349117454  |         |              |                        |          |
| abacus      | https://www.littlebrown.co.uk/imprint/abacus/page/lbbg-imprint-abacus/                                                            | LBBG Imprint - Abacus                                                      | 2026-09-17 | Little, Brown Book Group | manufacturer |            |             |         |              |                        |          |
| goldfinch   | https://www.littlebrown.co.uk/titles/donna-tartt/the-goldfinch/9780349139630/                                                     | The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt: Abacus title page (ISBN 9780349139630)       | 2026-09-17 | Little, Brown Book Group | manufacturer |            |             |         |              |                        |          |
| oldsite     | https://web.archive.org/web/20060716144936/http://en.barcodepedia.com/9780349117454/all-fun-and-games-until-somebody-loses-an-eye | Barcodepedia 2006 page for this barcode (Wayback capture)                  | 2026-09-17 | Barcodepedia (archived)  | other        | 2006-07-16 |             |         |              |                        |          |
| olus        | https://openlibrary.org/isbn/9780316726160                                                                                        | Open Library edition record OL9620204M (Little, Brown, 2005)               | 2026-09-17 | Open Library             | catalogue    |            | OL9620204M  |         | CC0          | Open Library           |          |
| chsearch    | https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/search/companies?q=Little%2C+Brown+Book+Group                          | Companies House search: Little, Brown Book Group Limited (02304585)        | 2026-09-17 | Companies House          | registry     |            | 02304585    |         |              |                        |          |
| chpsc       | https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/02304585/persons-with-significant-control                      | Persons with significant control, Little, Brown Book Group Limited         | 2026-09-17 | Companies House          | registry     |            | 02304585    |         |              |                        |          |
| lbbgwiki    | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little,_Brown_Book_Group                                                                            | Little, Brown Book Group                                                   | 2026-09-17 | Wikipedia                | publication  |            |             |         | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikipedia contributors |          |
<!--/references-->

## About <!--about-->
All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye is the Abacus paperback edition of Christopher Brookmyre's ninth novel, published in the United Kingdom on 20 April 2006 at £10.99 and running to 407 pages.[^hachette][^openlibrary] The comic thriller sends Jane Fleming, a 46-year-old grandmother from East Kilbride, into the arms trade after her son goes into hiding; the novel won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction in 2006 and was nominated for the 2007 Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award.[^wikipedia] Abacus is the literary paperback imprint of Little, Brown Book Group, whose list celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in 2023; the novel first appeared in hardback from Little, Brown in London in 2005.[^abacus][^openlibrary] Hachette Australia publishes the same ISBN in Australia.[^hachetteau]

The barcode has been asked for since the original Barcodepedia captured a page for it on 16 July 2006, which recorded the same title, author and Abacus imprint.[^oldsite] Little, Brown Book Group has been owned by Hachette UK since 2006, when the group was bought from Time Warner.[^lbbgwiki]
<!--/about-->