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All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye

Abacus paperback edition of Christopher Brookmyre's 2005 comic thriller, published in the United Kingdom on 20 April 2006.

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Barcode 97803491174549780349117454

Australian release of the same ISBN[2]

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Evidence observed
2026-09-17
Known applicable from
2006-07-03
Pack
paperback

Hachette Australia lists the same ISBN with an Australian publication date of 3 July 2006 and RRP $29.99.

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Barcode
9780349117454 check digit OK
Brand
Abacus
Pack
paperback
Last observed on sale
2026-09-17
Last sale evidence
Still listed for sale on the publisher's own title page in September 2026.
Status
active
Authors
Christopher Brookmyre
Imprint
Abacus
Edition
Abacus paperback
Binding
paperback
Pages
407
Language
en
Published
2006-04-20
ISBN-10
0349117454

About this product

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.[1][4] 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.[5] 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.[6][4] Hachette Australia publishes the same ISBN in Australia.[2]

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.[7] Little, Brown Book Group has been owned by Hachette UK since 2006, when the group was bought from Time Warner.[8]

Where it's sold

  • All Fun And Games Until Somebody Loses An Eye [2] Australia AUD 29.99 · new · sourced Hachette Australia lists this ISBN as a paperback published 3 July 2006 with an Australian RRP of $29.99 and links Australian booksellers.
  • Amazon.com [3] United States USD 3.35 · used · sourced 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.
  • Amazon.com.au [10] Australia new · sourced 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
  • All Fun And Games Until Somebody Loses An Eye information[1] United Kingdom GBP 10.99 · new · sourced Publisher's own title page for this ISBN: paperback, on sale 20 April 2006, price £10.99.

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Evidence reviewed

Hachette UK

All Fun And Games Until Somebody Loses An Eye: Abacus paperback title page

manufacturer · Accessed 2026-09-17

Source & attribution [1] ↗

Hachette Australia

All Fun And Games Until Somebody Loses An Eye: formats and editions

retailer · Accessed 2026-09-17

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Amazon.com

Amazon.com listing for ISBN 9780349117454

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  • Identity: 3 / 3 · Name, brand and classification recorded
  • Book details: 6 / 6 · Profile fields recorded: authors, publisher, language, binding, pages, published. Missing fields may require research or an applicability note.
  • Context: 2 / 3 · Evidence groups assigned to a researched label, edition or analysis
  • Label photographs: 0 / 2 · Researched contexts with an assigned photograph
  • Specifications: 0 / 3 · Recorded specifications mapped to comparable property keys
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • schema · schema_gap: Review and assign legacy facts to coherent observations.
  • schema · schema_gap: Some specifications retain source labels without comparable property keys.

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References

  1. ↑ All Fun And Games Until Somebody Loses An Eye: Abacus paperback title page Hachette UK. manufacturer. Published 2006-04-20. Accessed 2026-09-17.
  2. ↑ All Fun And Games Until Somebody Loses An Eye: formats and editions Hachette Australia. retailer. Accessed 2026-09-17.
  3. ↑ Amazon.com listing for ISBN 9780349117454 Amazon.com. retailer. Accessed 2026-09-17. Record: 0349117454.
  4. ↑ Open Library edition record OL28264016M Open Library. catalogue. Accessed 2026-09-17. Record: OL28264016M. CC0. Open Library.
  5. ↑ All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye Wikipedia. publication. Accessed 2026-09-17. CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikipedia contributors.
  6. ↑ LBBG Imprint - Abacus Little, Brown Book Group. manufacturer. Accessed 2026-09-17.
  7. ↑ Barcodepedia 2006 page for this barcode (Wayback capture) Barcodepedia (archived). other. Published 2006-07-16. Accessed 2026-09-17.
  8. ↑ Little, Brown Book Group Wikipedia. publication. Accessed 2026-09-17. CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikipedia contributors.
  9. ↑ The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt: Abacus title page (ISBN 9780349139630) Little, Brown Book Group. manufacturer. Accessed 2026-09-17.
  10. ↑ All Fun And Games Until Somebody Loses An Eye Amazon.com.au. retailer. Accessed 2026-09-17. Record: 0349117454. product details, barcode.

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