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Fiction: special features

Paperback. Why are books so very powerful? What do the books we've read over our lives - our own personal libraries - make of us? What does the unravelling of our tradition of public libraries, so hard-won but now in jeopardy, say about us? This is about what we do with books and what they do with us: how they travel with us; how they shock us, and more. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 19. Weight in Grams: 176.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
SKU
9780241974599
ISBN
9780241974599
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.45

Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
SKU
9780241978535
ISBN
9780241978535
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.70

Paperback. Acclaimed as one of America's most successful playwrights, the author also published four volumes of short stories. In this title, these volumes are combined with a wealth of unpublished and uncollected work, ranging from his first his story published in "Weird Tales" when he was seventeen, to his later frank homosexual fantasies. Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 39. Weight in Grams: 470.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780749395810
ISBN
9780749395810
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.53

Paperback. Taking you on a trip to the shopping malls and theme parks and enviromental hazards that lie just around the chronological corner, this book introduces you to a gang of misfits and losers struggling to survive in an increasingly haywire world. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 19. Weight in Grams: 150.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
9781784871291
ISBN
9781784871291
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.75

Paperback. Tells the story of an orphan who beguiles the world with her astonishing visions, triumphing over the worst of adversity and bringing light to a dark place. Translator(s): Sayers Peden, Margaret. Series: Penguin Essentials. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 138 x 161 x 19. Weight in Grams: 168.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
SKU
9780241951651
ISBN
9780241951651
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 9.70

Paperback. Tells stories from the middle period of the author's career - influenced by his own experiences as a doctor. In this title, all the stories feature characters who face madness, alienation and frustration before they experience brief, ephemeral moments of insight, often earned at great cost, where they confront the reality of their existence. Translator(s): Wilks, Ronald. Num Pages: 368 pages, notes. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 23. Weight in Grams: 276.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780140447866
ISBN
9780140447866
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.14

Paperback. Alienated from society and paralysed by a sense of the author's own insignificance, this book tells the story of his tortured life. It describes his refusal to become a worker in the 'anthill' of society and his gradual withdrawal to an existence 'underground'. Translator(s): Wilks, Ronald. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 260.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780140455120
ISBN
9780140455120
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.45

Paperback. Whether it is taking a troublesome cow to be mated with a prime bull; dealing with a rat-infested hayrick; learning the ways and means of maggot farming; or describing the fine art of poaching pheasants using nothing but raisins and sleeping pills, the author brings his stories of everyday country folk and their strange passions to life. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 197 x 13. Weight in Grams: 136.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
SKU
9780241955734
ISBN
9780241955734
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.70

Paperback. Translator(s): Searls, Damion. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 125 x 203 x 14. Weight in Grams: 252.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
NYRB Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9781590176726
ISBN
9781590176726
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.57

Paperback. Short stories of hardscrabble lives in the Carolina foothills, sharing anew the early fiction from an acclaimed storyteller Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 227.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of South Carolina Press
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611175141
ISBN
9781611175141
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 19.13

Paperback. A collection of stories by a young American writer. They are centred around the Orthodox Jewish community and span the Jewish experience from the Holocaust and Stalin's Russia to modern-day New York and Jerusalem. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 19. Weight in Grams: 252. Used paperback in very good condition. May have some light shelfwear.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KRF2232015
ISBN
9780571201310
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 10.99
€ 4.99

Paperback. Set in 1797, Billy Budd is a tale of satanic treachery, tragedy and great pathos that explores human relationships and the inherently ambiguous nature of man-made justice. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 17. Weight in Grams: 208. Used paperback in very good condition. May have some light shelfwear.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KRF2232033
ISBN
9781853267499
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 10.99
€ 4.99

Paperback. Turgenev is an author who no longer belongs to Russia only. During the last fifteen years of his life he won for himself the reading public, first in France, then in Germany and America, and finally in England. As regards his method of dealing with his material and shaping it into mould, he stands even higher than as a pure creator. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 16. Weight in Grams: 188. Vintage paperback in good condition, with some light shelfwear.
Publication date
1950
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
Used, Good
Format
Paperback
SKU
KRF2232311
ISBN
9780140440096
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Includes tales such as 'The Steadfast Tin Soldier' and 'Big Klaus and Little Klaus'. Series: Penguin Little Black Classics. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 113 x 7. Weight in Grams: 54. Clean copy with damage to cover but pages remain ini very good condition
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
Used, Good
Format
Paperback
SKU
KEA0000181
ISBN
9780141398044
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. The new bestselling novel, now in paperback, from international literary phenomenon Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist. Translator(s): Jull Costa, Margaret. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 21. Weight in Grams: 228.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007166046
ISBN
9780007166046
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.70

Hardback. A collection of dark, funny short stories: Miranda July channelling Beyonce.. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 145 x 282 x 23. Weight in Grams: 338. Fine clean copy in good dust wrapper
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KCW0003736
ISBN
9781471153792
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Series: Dover Thrift Editions. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 131 x 8. Weight in Grams: 94. Series: Thrift Editions. 112 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA; FC; FYB. Dimension: 208 x 131 x 8. Weight: 94.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc.
Edition
Unabridged
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
SKU
V9780486275529
ISBN
9780486275529
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 7.44

Hardback. Translator(s): Taylor, John. Series: SB - The Swiss List. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 127 x 23. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857423726
ISBN
9780857423726
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 20.64

Paperback. Includes translations of the earliest preserved novels in ancient Greek that offer us a glimpse of the beginning of prose fiction in the western world. Translator(s): Trzaskoma, Stephen M. Num Pages: 236 pages, maps. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 142 x 12. Weight in Grams: 286.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
195
Condition
New
SKU
V9781603841924
ISBN
9781603841924
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.82

Paperback. Series: Dover Thrift Editions. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 207 x 222 x 7. Weight in Grams: 74.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc.
Number of pages
80
Condition
New
SKU
V9780486419251
ISBN
9780486419251
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 5.46

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