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paperback. * Fascinating and perceptive new biography of one of the most brilliant writers of his age: novelist, essayist and born-again mystic Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), author of BRAVE NEW WORLD and EYELESS IN GAZA Num Pages: 512 pages, Section: 16, b/w. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 127 x 33. Weight in Grams: 366. Good clean copy with minor age & shelf wear, remains very good
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Abacus
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0038689
ISBN
9780349113487
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.70

paperback. Signed and inscribed by the author. Good clean copy with minor age & shelf wear, remains very good
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Matador
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0038764
ISBN
9781848764958
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 7.43

paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations (some col.), maps, ports. (some col.). BIC Classification: 1HF; 3JF; BTP; HBJH; HBLL; HBTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 22. Weight in Grams: 310. Good clean copy with minor age & shelf wear. Lightly toned, remains very good
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0038821
ISBN
9780571210725
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.70

paperback. They are one of the world's legendary couples. Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre - those passionate, free-thinking Existentialist philosopher-writers - had a committed but notoriously open union that generated no end of controversy. Through original interviews and access to new primary sources, Hazel Rowley portrays them up close. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 334. Good clean copy with minor age & shelf wear. Lightly toned, remains very good
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0038832
ISBN
9780099455547
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 7.43

hardcover. Good clean copy with minor age & shelf wear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears. Lightly toned, remains very good
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1968
Publisher
The Bodley Head Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0038849
ISBN
9780370003856
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 7.43

paperback. Good clean copy showing a little age & shelf wear. Lightly toned, remains very good
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1970
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0039122
ISBN
9780140212105
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 7.43

hardcover. A deeply moving meditation on dying, and a joyful and wise tribute to life Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: BM; VFJB; VFJX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 251 x 20. Weight in Grams: 252. Good clean copy with minor age & shelf wear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Canongate Books
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0039175
ISBN
9781782119760
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 7.43

paperback. Presents the biography of Napoleon who lived one of the extraordinary of all human lives. This book shows how after seizing power in a coup d'etat he ended the corruption and incompetence into which the Revolution had descended. Num Pages: 976 pages, 32pp. colour. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; 3JH; BGH; HBJD; HBLL; HBWH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 201 x 51. Weight in Grams: 710. Good clean copy with minor age & shelf wear to covers, remains very good
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0039191
ISBN
9780141032016
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.70

paperback. Presents stories which are based on the author's own experiences surviving Auschwitz and Dachau. This title describes a world where the will to survive overrides compassion and prisoners eat, work and sleep a few yards from where others are murdered; and, where the difference between human beings is reduced to a second bowl of soup. Translator(s): Kandel, Michael; Vedder, Barbara. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVP; 3JJH; BG; HBJD; HBTZ1; HBWQ; JPVR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 12. Weight in Grams: 156. Good clean copy with minor age & shelf wear, remains very good
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0039249
ISBN
9780140186246
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.70

paperback. What would possess a gifted young man recently graduated from college to literally walk away from his life? Num Pages: 224 pages, map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BT; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 164. Good clean copy with minor age & shelf wear, remains very good
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Pan
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0039272
ISBN
9780330351690
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 7.43

paperback. Tomi Reichental, who lost 35 members of his family in the Holocaust and was the subject of the documentary "Till The Tenth Generation", gives his account of being imprisoned as a child at Belsen concentration camp. Num Pages: 304 pages, 30 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DVKS; 3JJH; BM; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 412. Good clean copy with minor age & shelf wear, remains very good
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
O'Brien Press Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0039274
ISBN
9781847172273
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.47

paperback. Giving an account of the life of a surgeon, this book looks at what it is like to cut into people's bodies and the - literally life and death - decisions that have to be made. It includes chronicles of operations that go wrong; of doctors who go to the bad; why autopsies are necessary; and what it feels like to insert your knife into someone. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: BGA; MN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 131 x 23. Weight in Grams: 238. Good clean copy with minor age & shelf wear, remains very good
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Profile Books Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0039287
ISBN
9781846681325
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 7.43

Hardcover. Clean copy. Fine in dustjacket. DJ has minor wear to edges but remains very good
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Little, Brown
Edition
First Edition First Printing
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KOC0021854
ISBN
9780316861014
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. A vivid and moving memoir of a young nurse who left behind an idyllic rural life in post-war Britain to work in the world's most hostile places. Num Pages: 400 pages, 8xpp colour. BIC Classification: BGA; MQC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 302. A vivid and moving memoir of a young nurse who left behind an idyllic rural life in post-war Britain to work in the world's most hostile places. Num Pages: 400 pages, 8xpp colour. BIC Classification: BGA; MQC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 302. Good, clean copy. Covers showing minor shelfwear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Simon & Schuster UK
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0005965
ISBN
9781847397898
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.59

Paperback. 40pp. Keywords: Biography
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1978
Publisher
Melbourne University Press
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KHS1006811
ISBN
9780522841558
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 25.00

Paperback. Is it possible for humans to discover the key to happiness through a larger than life, bad-boy dog? Just ask the Grogans. Num Pages: 368 pages, 8 pp plate section. BIC Classification: BM; WNGD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 26. Weight in Grams: 272. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear to the cover
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KIN0034943
ISBN
9780340922101
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Hardcover. Used hardback, with dustjacket, in very good condition. Some light shelf wear. CULLEN
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
The Mercier Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KRF0043471
ISBN
9781856353816
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

paperback. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BG; RGR; WN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 26. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1985
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press United Kingdom
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9780299097240
ISBN
9780299097240
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 23.75

paperback. A portrait of Frank Marshall Davis, prominent poet, journalist, jazz critic and civil rights activist on the Chicago and Atlanta scene in the 1920s through the 1940s. Davis was an intimate of Langston Hughes and Richard Wright and an influential editor at a number of American newspapers. Series: Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography. Num Pages: 408 pages, 14 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; BGA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 603.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
SKU
V9780299135041
ISBN
9780299135041
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.21

paperback. Jurgen Herbst's account of growing up in Nazi Germany from 1928 to 1948 is an understated tale of moral awakening. He illustrates how easy it was for a German boy without strong convictions to climb into a position of leadership in the Nazi Jungvolk. Num Pages: 256 pages, 20 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; BGA; HBJD; HBWQ; JPFQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 372.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780299164140
ISBN
9780299164140
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.73

Paperback. Blending poetry, prose and autobiographical details, "Development" and "Two Selves" together constitute a compelling bildungsroman that follows a young woman's process of coming out. Through the fictionalized character Nancy, the novels trace Bryher's life through her childhood and young adulthood. Series: Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiographies. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; 5SL; BG; DCF; DNF; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 191 x 127 x 18. Weight in Grams: 327.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780299167745
ISBN
9780299167745
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.14

paperback. The simple idea - a day set aside to focus on protecting our natural environment - was the brainchild of US Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin. This book presents the life of Nelson, a small-town boy who learned his values and progressive political principles at an early age, is woven through the political history of the twentieth century. Num Pages: 704 pages, 29 b/w photos. BIC Classification: BG; RN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 43. Weight in Grams: 1225.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press United States
Edition
Large Print
Number of pages
704
Condition
New
SKU
V9780299196462
ISBN
9780299196462
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.27

paperback. Editor(s): Poletti, Anna; Rak, Julie. Series: Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: BGA; GTC; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 151 x 24. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780299296445
ISBN
9780299296445
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.41

Paperback. Examines the life of the androgynous nineteenth-century American actress and her work on the Anglo-American stage Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance. Num Pages: 344 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; AN; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 550.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780472087495
ISBN
9780472087495
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.95