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Paperback. A collection of stories by novelist, journalist, teacher and Palestinian activist Ghassan Kanafani. Titles such as ""The Land of Sad Oranges"", ""If You Were a Horse.."" and ""Letter from Gaza"" offer a gritty look at the agonized world of the Middle East in general, particularly Palestine. Translator(s): Kilpatrick, Hilary. Num Pages: 117 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 155 x 7. Weight in Grams: 176.
Publisher
Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
117
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
2nd edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780894108570
ISBN
9780894108570
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.30

Paperback. Translator(s): Javadi, Hasan; Neshat, Amin. Num Pages: 189 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 12. Weight in Grams: 266.
Publisher
Mage Publishers United States
Number of pages
189
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9781933823201
ISBN
9781933823201
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.72

Paperback. Num Pages: 141 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 137 x 13. Weight in Grams: 160.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Texas Review Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781933896700
ISBN
9781933896700
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 22.42

Paperback. Num Pages: 419 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FK; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 125 x 19. Weight in Grams: 214.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Bantam USA
Publication date
1983
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780553212280
ISBN
9780553212280
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 6.99
€ 6.95

Paperback. Noted for narrative complexity, stylistic variety, and feminist themes, Pardo Bazan's stories, written a century ago, explore many aspects of the relationships between men and women." Series: Texts & Translations. Num Pages: 141 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 141 x 10. Weight in Grams: 209.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
The Modern Language Association of America
Condition
New
SKU
V9780873527842
ISBN
9780873527842
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 30.46

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: 268.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140447866
ISBN
9780140447866
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.72

paperback. A collection of 100 of author's finest stories; it describes life south of the Rio Grande and chronicles the activities and concerns of 'the four million' ordinary citizens who inhabited turn-of-the-century New York. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 768 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 42. Weight in Grams: 492.
Edition
Revised ed.
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Condition
New
SKU
V9781853262418
ISBN
9781853262418
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 6.23

Paperback. New York is a city of writers. And when the city was attacked on 9/11, its writers began to do what writers do, they began to look and feel and think and write. This book gathers a multi-hued range of voices that convey, with immediacy and imagination, the shock and loss suffered in September. Editor(s): Baer, Ulrich. Num Pages: 344 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JM; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 121 x 18. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Edition
New edition
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814799352
ISBN
9780814799352
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.12

Paperback. Translator(s): Jull Costa, Margaret. Series: Dedalus European Classiucs. Num Pages: 356 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
Publisher
The Illustrious House of Ramires
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910213391
ISBN
9781910213391
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.31

Paperback. Over the past 20 years, judges such as Raymond Carver, Joyce Carol Oates, Margaret Atwood, Russell Banks, Tobias Wolff and Alice McDermott have selected the best collections submitted annually for the Drue Heinz Literature Prize. This is a collection of 20 winning stories, Editor(s): Wideman, John Edgar. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 513.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822958154
ISBN
9780822958154
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.36

Paperback. From the No. 1 bestselling author of THE MISSING AND THE DEAD comes the short novel: 22 DEAD LITTLE BODIES, plus two short stories: STRAMASH and DI STEEL'S BAD HEIR DAY, and a novella: THE 45% HANGOVER, all featuring his most popular characters - DS Logan McRae and DCI Roberta Steel. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FF; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 29. Weight in Grams: 240.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780008141769
ISBN
9780008141769
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.25

Paperback. .
Publisher
PULP Faction
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
SKU
V9781899571062
ISBN
9781899571062
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 4.32

Paperback. 'Enriches and enlarges our own sense of the world we thought we knew' Marylinne Robinson Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 197 x 15. Weight in Grams: 172.
Publisher
Granta Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847084989
ISBN
9781847084989
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.11

Paperback. Charts the course of the author's long writing career: from his schooldays through to his first writing job on the Bucks Free Press; to the origins of his debut novel, "The Carpet People"; and on again to the dizzy mastery of the phenomenally successful "Discworld" series. Num Pages: 368 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 124 x 200 x 25. Weight in Grams: 292.
Publisher
Corgi
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780552163330
ISBN
9780552163330
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.44

Paperback. Written in agony, this book features elegiac meditation on the creation of life, and of art. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 12. Weight in Grams: 150.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141197371
ISBN
9780141197371
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.89

Paperback. Translator(s): Elias-Bursac, Ellen. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810116351
ISBN
9780810116351
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 26.41

Hardcover. By the winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, these 15 short stories illuminate the vast territory of pleasure and pain created within modern families. In the title story, April is an involuntary witness to the parade of lovers who frequent her mother's bed. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 139 x 21. Weight in Grams: 395.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820315713
ISBN
9780820315713
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 29.52

Paperback. Series: Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of North Texas Press
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781574412918
ISBN
9781574412918
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.34

Paperback. A new Pushkin Collection edition of this classic Zweig novella-an epic chess match on a transatlantic liner unearths a story of persecution and obsession Translator(s): Starritt, Alexander. Series: Pushkin Collection. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 135 x 10. Weight in Grams: 124.
Publisher
Pushkin Press
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782270119
ISBN
9781782270119
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.52

Paperback. A woman is found murdered in her bathtub, and the murder made to look like a suicide. A strange symbol is found near the body. Then a second victim is discovered. How are these deaths, and rumours of an Icelandic demon, linked to the secretive Association for the Study of the Writings of Maximilien Robespierre? Translator(s): Reynolds, Sian. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FF; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. Weight in Grams: 368.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784702625
ISBN
9781784702625
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.65

Paperback. With the ink still wet on his diploma, the twenty-five-year-old Dr Mikhail Bulgakov was flung into the depths of rural Russia in 1916-17. This book show how his alter-ego copes (or fails to cope) with the new and often appalling responsibilities of a lone doctor in a vast country practice - on the eve of the Revolution. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 36. Weight in Grams: 122.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
9780099529569
ISBN
9780099529569
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 9.55

Paperback. When a French professor visiting the quiet, Dutch coastal town of Delfzjil is accused of murder, Maigret is sent to investigate. The community seem happy to blame an unknown outsider, but there are people much closer to home who seem to know much more than they're letting on. Translator(s): Reynolds, Sian. Series: Inspector Maigret. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FFC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 10. Weight in Grams: 128.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
paperback / softback
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141393490
ISBN
9780141393490
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.18

Paperback. A pair of lovers - a young female journalist and an older man who owns an isolated farm in the Brazilian outback - spend the night together. The next day they proceed to destroy each other. Amid vitriolic insults, cruelty and warring egos, their sexual adventure turns into a savage power game. Translator(s): Tobler, Stefan. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
64
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141396804
ISBN
9780141396804
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 8.56

Hardcover. Susan Muaddi Darraj's short story collection about the inhabitants of a Palestinian West Bank village, Tel al-Hilou, spans generations and continents to explore ideas of memory, belonging, connection, and, ultimately, the deepest and richest meaning of home. A Curious Land gives voice to the experiences of Palestinians in the last century. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 150 x 31. Weight in Grams: 510.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781625341877
ISBN
9781625341877
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 25.46

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