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Hardcover. This book explores the rich philosophical content of the writings of Jonathan Swift. It discusses these philosophical topics against their ideengeschichtliche background and demonstrates that Swift's work offers starting points for philosophical reflection that are still topical today. Editor(s): Potzsch, Janelle. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; 3JD; 3JF; BGL; DNF; HBJD1; HPCD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 248 x 28. Weight in Grams: 570.
- Publisher
- Lexington Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781498521536
- ISBN
- 9781498521536
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 96.19€ 80.26
€ 96.19
€ 80.26
Paperback. A collection of essays by some of the major international literary and cultural critics on the Shakespeare authorship question and controversy. It explores the Authorship question as a social, cultural and even theological phenomenon and consider it in all its rich diversity and significance. Editor(s): Leahy, William. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: BGL; DSGS. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 159 x 14. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826426116
- ISBN
- 9780826426116
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 43.12
€ 44.99
€ 43.12
Paperback. Editor(s): Epstein, Barbara. Num Pages: 316 pages. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 364. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- NYRB Collections
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSS0007212
- ISBN
- 9781590173343
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. On the day that Homes was born in 1961, she was given up for adoption. Thirty years later, out of the blue, Homes was contacted by a lawyer on behalf of her birth mother, and they began to correspond; her biological father contacted her soon after. These two individuals and their effect on the adult Homes are strange and unexpected. Num Pages: 238 pages, ports. BIC Classification: BGLA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 192.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Granta Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847080110
- ISBN
- 9781847080110
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 8.95
€ 10.99
€ 8.95
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Picador
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Main Market Ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447299912
- ISBN
- 9781447299912
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.13
€ 11.13
Paperback. Joy Davidman is known, if she is known at all, as the wife of C. S. Lewis. Now, Abigail Santamaria brings Joy Davidman Gresham Lewis to the page in the fullness and depth she deserves. Num Pages: 413 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 2AB; 3JJ; BGL; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 35. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Publisher
- SPCK Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780281074297
- ISBN
- 9780281074297
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.95
€ 15.99
€ 12.95
Paperback. Adam Gopnik's memoir of five years as an American family man in Paris Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 242.
- Publisher
- Quercus Publishing Plc United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847243928
- ISBN
- 9781847243928
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.97
€ 16.99
€ 12.97
Paperback. Num Pages: 672 pages. Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Paperbacks
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408849460
- ISBN
- 9781408849460
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 15.95
€ 18.99
€ 15.95
Paperback. The first book to explore the extraordinary story of the legendary friendship - and quarrel - between Wordsworth and Coleridge, two giants of English Romanticism. Num Pages: 544 pages, (8pp B/W plates). BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 30. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 544
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007160532
- ISBN
- 9780007160532
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 13.92
€ 18.99
€ 13.92
Hardcover. An accessible and original book about Joyce, by a hugely respected figure in Ireland. A brilliant recreation of the late 19th- and early 20th-century legal system in Ireland. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JJC; BGL; LNA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153. . Clean copy. Fine in dust jacket. DJ has minimal wear and tear to edges.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Publisher
- Head of Zeus
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKE0000283
- ISBN
- 9781786691583
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.12
€ 5.12
Paperback. The highly acclaimed memoir of growing up with Dylan Thomas Editor(s): Campomar, Andreas. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: BGLA; BM; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 188. 288 pages, Illustrations, ports. In 1949, after years of nomadic existence, Aeronwy Thomas and her family arrived at the Boat House in Laugharne, a small village on the Welsh coast. Here her father, the poet Dylan Thomas and mother, Caitlin, hoped to find peace, a place to settle and work. This book contains a portrait of growing up and an insight into Dylan Thomas' poetry. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: BGLA; BM; DSC. Dimension: 197 x 129 x 13. Weight: 190.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Constable
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849013642
- ISBN
- 9781849013642
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.95
€ 11.99
€ 9.95
Audio CD. Dame Agatha Christie published 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections in her lifetime, but to the public she remained an enigmatic figure. This quartet of BBC radio programmes looks at the woman behind the books, and explores the career of one of Britain's most famous mystery writers. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 143 x 11. Weight in Grams: 108.
- Publisher
- BBC Books
- Format
- CD
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Unabridged edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785295126
- ISBN
- 9781785295126
CD
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.43
€ 17.99
€ 13.43
Paperback. Agatha Christie's 'most absorbing mystery' - her own autobiography, with new exclusive CD containing newly discovered priceless recordings from more than 40 years ago of Agatha dictating excerpts about her life as a writer. Num Pages: 544 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 197 x 45. Weight in Grams: 582.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Number of pages
- 544
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007314669
- ISBN
- 9780007314669
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 13.92
€ 18.99
€ 13.92
Paperback. Agatha Christie's personal memoirs about her travels to Syria and Iraq in the 1930s with her archaeologist husband Max Mallowan, where she worked on the digs and wrote some of her most evocative novels. Num Pages: 304 pages, 40 b/w plates. BIC Classification: BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 158 x 30. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780007487240
- ISBN
- 9780007487240
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 9.97
€ 13.99
€ 9.97
Hardcover. Num Pages: 736 pages, 2 plate sections of 8 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 169 x 262 x 61. Weight in Grams: 1284.
- Publisher
- Profile Faber
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781256497
- ISBN
- 9781781256497
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.96
€ 40.96
Paperback. A collection of Alan Bennett's prose writings. It brings together diaries, reminiscences and reviews to give us a unique and unforgettable portrait of one of England's leading playwrights. It covers the production of his very first play, Forty Years On, which starred John Gieldgud, as well as many other important productions. Num Pages: 656 pages, illustrations (black and white). BIC Classification: 2AB; BGFA; BGLA; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 42. Weight in Grams: 564.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571315727
- ISBN
- 9780571315727
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.58
€ 16.99
€ 12.58
Paperback.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752455389
- ISBN
- 9780752455389
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.13
€ 20.13
Hardcover. AJ Cronin, author of some of the best-loved novels of the mid-twentieth century and the creator of Dr Finlay, has been unjustly overlooked by literary biographers. This title tells the story of Cronin's Scottish childhood as the son of a Protestant mother and Catholic father, his subsequent medical career, and his rise to literary prominence. Num Pages: 384 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 215 x 29. Weight in Grams: 504. The Man Who Created Dr Finlay. 384 pages, Illustrations. AJ Cronin, author of some of the best-loved novels of the mid-twentieth century and the creator of Dr Finlay, has been unjustly overlooked by literary biographers. This title tells the story of Cronin's Scottish childhood as the son of a Protestant mother and Catholic father, his subsequent medical career, and his rise to literary prominence. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: BGL. Dimension: 150 x 215 x 29. Weight: 500.
- Publisher
- Alma Books
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846881121
- ISBN
- 9781846881121
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 23.15
€ 23.15
Hardcover. The autobiography in words and pictures of one of Britain's most fascinating and acclaimed writers and artists, Alasdair Gray Num Pages: 312 pages, Colour throughout. BIC Classification: BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 267 x 252 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1662. 312 pages, Colour throughout. The autobiography in words and pictures of one of Britain's most fascinating and acclaimed writers and artists, Alasdair Gray. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: BGLA. Dimension: 267 x 252 x 25. Weight: 1656.
- Publisher
- Canongate UK
- Number of pages
- 312
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- First
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841956404
- ISBN
- 9781841956404
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 31.73
€ 44.99
€ 31.73
Paperback. Features Hisham Matar on his father, who was kidnapped while living in Egypt and imprisoned by Muammar al-Gaddafi in Libya; Helen Epstein on 'fatherhood' within the prisons of San Francisco; a dictator who has styled himself as the Father of the Nation; and, Rawi Hage on Beirut, as seen through his father's eyes. Editor(s): Clark, Alex. Series: Granta: The Magazine of New Writing. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 148 x 209 x 22. Weight in Grams: 395.
- Publisher
- Granta Publications Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905881048
- ISBN
- 9781905881048
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.13
€ 14.99
€ 11.13