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| 1 | 1 | # All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye <!--product--> | |
| 2 | 2 | ||
| 3 | 3 | ## Identity <!--identity--> | |
| 4 | 4 | gtin: 09780349117454 | |
| 5 | 5 | name: All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye | |
| 6 | 6 | family: family/all-fun-and-games-until-somebody-loses-an-eye | |
| 7 | 7 | default_observation: abacus-2006 | |
| 8 | 8 | summary: Abacus paperback edition of Christopher Brookmyre's 2005 comic thriller, published in the United Kingdom on 20 April 2006. | |
| 9 | 9 | brand: brand/abacus | |
| 10 | 10 | category: category/10000926 | |
| 11 | 11 | country_of_sale: GB, AU, US | |
| 12 | 12 | pack_format: paperback | |
| 13 | 13 | status: active | |
| 14 | 14 | last_seen: 2026-09-17 | |
| 15 | 15 | last_seen_note: Still listed for sale on the publisher's own title page in September 2026. | |
| 16 | 16 | <!--/identity--> | |
| 17 | 17 | ||
| 18 | 18 | ## Relations <!--relations--> | |
| 19 | 19 | | role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note | | |
| 20 | 20 | | ---------------- | ------------------------------- | ------ | ---- | ----- | ----- | ------- | ---------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | |
| 21 | 21 | | 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. | | |
| 22 | 22 | | 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. | | |
| 23 | 23 | <!--/relations--> | |
| 24 | 24 | ||
| 25 | 25 | ## Markets <!--markets--> | |
| 26 | 26 | | country | status | source | note | observed | condition | origin | price | | |
| 27 | 27 | | ------- | ------- | ----------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ---------- | --------- | ------ | --------- | | |
| 28 | 28 | | 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 | | |
| 29 | 29 | | 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 | | |
| 30 | 30 | | 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 | | |
| 31 | 31 | | AU | sourced | ^amazon-au | Amazon Australia listing 0349117454 prints barcode 9780349117454; Paperback, Abacus, 3 July 2006, 416 pages; details table prints ISBN-13 978-0349117454 (= 9780349117454) and ISBN-10 0349117454. No buybox price of its own was rendered; the page only showed the format swatch 'Paperback from $11.94' and 'Other Used and New from $11.94', which are marketplace-offer a | 2026-09-17 | new | | | | |
| 32 | 32 | <!--/markets--> | |
| 33 | 33 | ||
| 34 | 34 | ## Aliases <!--aliases--> | |
| 35 | 35 | | name | type | locale | from | until | | |
| 36 | 36 | | --------------------------------------------- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- | | |
| 37 | 37 | | All Fun And Games Until Somebody Loses An Eye | name | en | | | | |
| 38 | 38 | | Brookmyre All Fun and Games | search | en | | | | |
| 39 | 39 | <!--/aliases--> | |
| 40 | 40 | ||
| 41 | 41 | ## Book <!--book--> | |
| 42 | 42 | authors: Christopher Brookmyre | |
| 43 | 43 | imprint: brand/abacus | |
| 44 | 44 | publisher: company/little-brown-book-group | |
| 45 | 45 | edition: Abacus paperback | |
| 46 | 46 | binding: paperback | |
| 47 | 47 | pages: 407 | |
| 48 | 48 | language: en | |
| 49 | 49 | published: 2006-04-20 | |
| 50 | 50 | isbn10: 0349117454 | |
| 51 | 51 | <!--/book--> | |
| 52 | 52 | ||
| 53 | 53 | ## Specifications <!--specifications--> | |
| 54 | 54 | | property | value | unit | source | note | observation | key | numeric_value | mode | state | method | qualifier | | |
| 55 | 55 | | ------------- | -------- | ----- | ------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------- | ----------- | --- | ------------- | ---- | ----- | ------- | --------- | | |
| 56 | 56 | | Extent | 407 | pages | ^openlibrary | Open Library records the Abacus 2006 edition as 407 pages. | abacus-2006 | | 407 | | known | printed | exact | | |
| 57 | 57 | | Dewey Decimal | 823.914 | | ^openlibrary | Classification recorded by Open Library for this edition. | abacus-2006 | | | | known | printed | exact | | |
| 58 | 58 | | OCLC number | 63186027 | | ^openlibrary | WorldCat record number for the Abacus 2006 edition. | abacus-2006 | | | | known | printed | exact | | |
| 59 | 59 | <!--/specifications--> | |
| 60 | 60 | ||
| 61 | 61 | ## Observations <!--observations--> | |
| 62 | 62 | | 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 | | |
| 63 | 63 | | ----------- | -------------------------------------------- | ------- | ------ | -------- | ---------- | ----------- | ---------- | --------- | ---------------- | ----------------------- | ------------------------ | ----------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------- | ------------- | ----------- | ----------- | ------------ | | |
| 64 | 64 | | 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 | | | |
| 65 | 65 | | 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 | | | |
| 66 | 66 | <!--/observations--> | |
| 67 | 67 | ||
| 68 | 68 | ## Research gaps <!--research_gaps--> | |
| 69 | 69 | | observation | domain | state | detail | source | | |
| 70 | 70 | | ----------- | ------------- | ------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------ | | |
| 71 | 71 | | | 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 | | |
| 72 | 72 | | | 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. | | | |
| 73 | 73 | | | relationships | unknown | The printer of this edition is not named by any source read, so no manufactured_by row is recorded. | | | |
| 74 | 74 | | | 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 | | |
| 75 | 75 | | | 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 | | |
| 76 | 76 | <!--/research_gaps--> | |
| 77 | 77 | ||
| 78 | 78 | ## Research <!--research--> | |
| 79 | 79 | structure_version: 2 | |
| 80 | 80 | reviewed_on: 2026-09-17 | |
| 81 | 81 | 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. | |
| 82 | 82 | <!--/research--> | |
| 83 | 83 | ||
| 84 | 84 | ## Meta <!--meta--> | |
| 85 | 85 | title: All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye (Abacus paperback, 9780349117454) | |
| 86 | 86 | description: Christopher Brookmyre's ninth novel in the 2006 Abacus paperback edition, ISBN 9780349117454, published by Little, Brown Book Group. | |
| 87 | 87 | <!--/meta--> | |
| 88 | 88 | ||
| 89 | + | ## Images <!--images--> | |
| 90 | + | | asset | kind | source | licence | attribution | url | accessed | note | provider_entity_id | provider_image_id | source_image_url | download_url | retrieved_at | matched_barcode | match_method | match_confidence | original_width | original_height | stored_width | stored_height | upscaled | observation | | |
| 91 | + | | ------------------- | ----- | ------------ | --------- | ------------ | ----------------------------------------- | ---------- | ---- | ------------------ | ----------------- | -------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------ | --------------- | ------------ | ---------------- | -------------- | --------------- | ------------ | ------------- | -------- | ----------- | | |
| 92 | + | | front-1bf7738c.webp | front | open-library | editorial | Open Library | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL28264016M | 2026-09-23 | | OL28264016M | 10192117 | https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/10192117-L.jpg | https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/10192117-L.jpg | 2026-09-23T10:10:27.551Z | 9780349117454 | barcode | 1 | 312 | 500 | 499 | 800 | true | | | |
| 93 | + | <!--/images--> | |
| 94 | + | ||
| 89 | 95 | ## References <!--references--> | |
| 90 | 96 | | ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream | | |
| 91 | 97 | | ----------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ------------------------ | ------------ | ---------- | ----------- | ------------------------ | ------------ | ---------------------- | -------- | | |
| 92 | 98 | | 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 | | | | | | | |
| 93 | 99 | | 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 | | | | | | | | |
| 94 | 100 | | openlibrary | https://openlibrary.org/isbn/9780349117454 | Open Library edition record OL28264016M | 2026-09-17 | Open Library | catalogue | | OL28264016M | | CC0 | Open Library | | | |
| 95 | 101 | | 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 | | | |
| 96 | 102 | | 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 | | | | | | |
| 97 | 103 | | abacus | https://www.littlebrown.co.uk/imprint/abacus/page/lbbg-imprint-abacus/ | LBBG Imprint - Abacus | 2026-09-17 | Little, Brown Book Group | manufacturer | | | | | | | | |
| 98 | 104 | | 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 | | | | | | | | |
| 99 | 105 | | 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 | | | | | | | |
| 100 | 106 | | olus | https://openlibrary.org/isbn/9780316726160 | Open Library edition record OL9620204M (Little, Brown, 2005) | 2026-09-17 | Open Library | catalogue | | OL9620204M | | CC0 | Open Library | | | |
| 101 | 107 | | 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 | | | | | | |
| 102 | 108 | | 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 | | | | | | |
| 103 | 109 | | 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 | | | |
| 104 | 110 | | amazon-au | https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/0349117454 | All Fun And Games Until Somebody Loses An Eye | 2026-09-17 | Amazon.com.au | retailer | | 0349117454 | product details, barcode | | | | | |
| 105 | 111 | <!--/references--> | |
| 106 | 112 | ||
| 107 | 113 | ## About <!--about--> | |
| 108 | 114 | 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] | |
| 109 | 115 | ||
| 110 | 116 | 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] | |
| 111 | 117 | <!--/about--> |
Source of v2
# 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 |
| AU | sourced | ^amazon-au | Amazon Australia listing 0349117454 prints barcode 9780349117454; Paperback, Abacus, 3 July 2006, 416 pages; details table prints ISBN-13 978-0349117454 (= 9780349117454) and ISBN-10 0349117454. No buybox price of its own was rendered; the page only showed the format swatch 'Paperback from $11.94' and 'Other Used and New from $11.94', which are marketplace-offer a | 2026-09-17 | new | | |
<!--/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 | |
| amazon-au | https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/0349117454 | All Fun And Games Until Somebody Loses An Eye | 2026-09-17 | Amazon.com.au | retailer | | 0349117454 | product details, barcode | | | |
<!--/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-->