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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. Perennially drunk, broke and in search of a woman, the author takes on the guise of a wise fool as he ventures through America's seedy lowlife. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 14. Weight in Grams: 154.
Edition
1st
Publisher
Virgin Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
9780753513828
ISBN
9780753513828
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 5.80

Features eleven stories set in and around the fictional town of Spivey, Kentucky, which spotlight small-town lives that are thrown into quiet turmoil by unexpected events or outsiders. Adept at juxtaposing light and dark elements, this title displays compassion for characters searching for moments of found grace and earned redemption. Series: Kentucky Voices. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 404.
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813125404
ISBN
9780813125404
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.64

Paperback. Introduces the village of Notwithstanding where a lady dresses in plus fours and shoots squirrels, a retired general gives up wearing clothes altogether, a spiritualist lives in a cottage with the ghost of her husband, and people think it quite natural to confide in a spider that lives in a potting shed. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 22. Weight in Grams: 250.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099542025
ISBN
9780099542025
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.86

Paperback. Exposing and exploring the sinuous undercurrents of violence, anguish and love, this title examines the nature of the individual, both in isolation and society, as characters define and deny their chosen identities. It reveals the subversive liberation of impotence, and, the humour of discomfort as human beings chafe together. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 178.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099457114
ISBN
9780099457114
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.86

Paperback. Driving home, Paulo passes an indigenous girl at the side of the road. Paulo gives her a lift to her family's camp. From cocaine-fuelled rich kids and the Guarani Indians camped along Brazil's highways to a squatter's life in London, Nowhere People is a raw and passionate classic in the making, about our need for human connections and a home. Translator(s): Hahn, Daniel. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 300.
Publisher
And Other Stories
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908276384
ISBN
9781908276384
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.60

Paperback. A collection of short stories covering the length of the author's writing career, from when he was a teenager to shortly before his death. It includes fables; a town where everything has been forbidden apart from the game of tip-cat; and a pitiable tribe watching the flight paths of guided missiles from outside their mud huts. Translator(s): Parks, Tim; McLaughlin, Martin; Creagh, Patrick; Weaver, William. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages, integrated black and white. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 218.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141189741
ISBN
9780141189741
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.95

Paperback. One of the great SF writers returns with a collection of stories including a brand new novella! From the co author (with Terry Pratchett) of the LONG EARTH series. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FL; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781473212763
ISBN
9781473212763
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.97

Paperback. Set at the beginning of the nineteenth century, when idleness was still looked upon by Russia's serf-owning rural gentry as a plausible and worthy goal, Ivan Goncharov's "Oblomov" follows the travails of an unlikely hero, a young aristocrat incapable of making a decision. This title presents the translation the novel. Translator(s): Schwartz, Marian. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 152 x 38. Weight in Grams: 614.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
576
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300162288
ISBN
9780300162288
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 15.16

Hardback. IN Series: SB - The Swiss List. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 134 x 19. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857423078
ISBN
9780857423078
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 20.95

Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FK; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 397.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Night Shade Books
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781597805148
ISBN
9781597805148
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.50

Family pleasures, marriage, the essential moments and mysteries of a seemingly ordinary world that break into magical territory before we can brace ourselves-Jean McGarry puts us in life's rough seas with what the New York Times has called a "deft, comic, and devastatingly precise" hand. Series: Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 390.
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801896583
ISBN
9780801896583
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.92

Hardcover. Over the course of a long summer in a distant fishing village, Eliot becomes friends with kids who can look out for themselves and for each other. But when faced with a tragic dilemma, he will confront having to betray those he loves-making a decision that will change him forever in the process. Num Pages: 120 pages, COLOUR ILLUSTRATIONS. BIC Classification: FY. .
Publisher
Astra Publishing House
Number of pages
120
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2023
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781935179955
ISBN
9781935179955
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 15.66

Paperback. Collecting seven one-shots and short stories created with Image Comics over the past 15 years, this volume includes out of print and rarely seen stories. It collects 86 Voltz, Parliament of Justice, God Complex, six and more. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FX; FYB. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 171 x 260 x 15. Weight in Grams: 714.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Image Comics
Condition
New
SKU
V9781632154811
ISBN
9781632154811
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 20.56

paperback. Num Pages: 188 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 139 x 13. Weight in Grams: 248.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
At Bay Press Canada
Edition
2nd Second Edition, Second ed.
Number of pages
188
Condition
New
SKU
V9780991761098
ISBN
9780991761098
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 15.59

Paperback. These warm and humorous stories are ideal for fireside reading for young and old. Illustrator(s): Hayes, William J. Num Pages: 264 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 435.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Derrydale Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9781568331430
ISBN
9781568331430
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.66

paperback. Monsieur Goriot is one of a disparate group of lodgers at Mademe Vauquer's dingy Parisian boarding house. At first his wealth inspires respect, but as his circumstances are mysteriously reduced he becomes shunned by those around him, and soon his only remaining visitors are his two beautifully dressed daughters. Translator(s): McCannon, Olivia. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 151 x 21. Weight in Grams: 254.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140449723
ISBN
9780140449723
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.95

Paperback. Focuses on the trauma of a mother who awakens one morning to the shattering news that her son is lying dead in the morgue and her struggle to understand his decision to be a Naxalite. Editor(s): Devi, Mahasweta; Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 143 x 7. Weight in Grams: 184.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Seagull Books Pvt.Ltd India
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
Edition
Translation
SKU
V9788170461449
ISBN
9788170461449
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 13.84

Paperback. Translator(s): Castells, Jordi. Num Pages: 196 pages. BIC Classification: FM; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 297 x 17. Weight in Grams: 228.
Number of pages
196
Publisher
Amazon Publishing United States
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781503937567
ISBN
9781503937567
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.62

paperback. .
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141184234
ISBN
9780141184234
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.67

Paperback. Num Pages: 238 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 258.
Publisher
Amberjack Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780692487129
ISBN
9780692487129
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.38

Paperback. Translator(s): Lane, Helen. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141985862
ISBN
9780141985862
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.74

Paperback. Lene is a beautiful, orphaned young seamstress, and Botho is a handsome, aristocratic cavalry officer. They are in love, yet know they have only a short time together as society deems their relationship impossible and refuses to acknowledge the seriousness of their feelings. Translator(s): Bowman, Peter James. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 11. Weight in Grams: 146.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141392172
ISBN
9780141392172
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.87

Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 254.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Baraka Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9781926824932
ISBN
9781926824932
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.64

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