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Short stories
Paperback. How do you ever know the whole story? How do you ever know even part of the story? How do you find meaning when chance and coincidence could, just be chance and coincidence? Presenting connections and missed connections, this collection of stories is an inquiry into things ranging from flies and trees and books to sex, art, drunkenness, and love. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 210.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140296808
- ISBN
- 9780140296808
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.82
€ 13.99
€ 10.82
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.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241974599
- ISBN
- 9780241974599
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.81
€ 13.99
€ 10.81
Hardcover. Illustrator(s): Wood, Sarah. Num Pages: 96 pages, full colour artwork. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Publisher
- Full Circle Editions Ltd
- Number of pages
- 96
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780957152823
- ISBN
- 9780957152823
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 18.09
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€ 18.09
Paperback. Always intellectually playful, but also very moving and funny, the author explores the ways and whys of storytelling. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 154.
- Edition
- 1st Edition Thus.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd London
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141038018
- ISBN
- 9780141038018
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.81
€ 13.99
€ 10.81
paperback. Num Pages: 354 pages. BIC Classification: FYB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 139 x 30. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- At Bay Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 354
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780991761036
- ISBN
- 9780991761036
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 21.74
€ 31.99
€ 21.74
paperback. The author has a genius for entering the lives of ordinary people and capturing the passions and contradictions that lie just below the surface. This title takes mainly the lives of women - unruly, ungovernable, unpredictable, unexpected, funny, sexy and completely recognisable - and brings their hidden desires bubbling to the surface. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 22. Weight in Grams: 258. The author has a genius for entering the lives of ordinary people and capturing the passions and contradictions that lie just below the surface. This title takes mainly the lives of women - unruly, ungovernable, unpredictable, unexpected, funny, sexy and completely recognisable - and brings their hidden desires bubbling to the surface. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 22. Weight in Grams: 258. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Random House
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMK0022753
- ISBN
- 9780099287865
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.96
€ 5.96
Paperback. A collection of short stories from Alice Walker. Opening with an account of her early marriage to a Jewish lawyer and their life in racist Mississippi, the collection goes on to cover themes of idealism, lost love and hope. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. Weight in Grams: 190. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- The Women's Press Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSS0000620
- ISBN
- 9780704346888
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 214 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 141 x 14. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Publisher
- NeWest Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 214
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781897126387
- ISBN
- 9781897126387
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 15.47
€ 20.99
€ 15.47
Paperback. Composed of many layered scenes, unforgettable characters, snapshots, and vignettes, this collection of quick-witted poems and short fiction mixes deceit and conceit with moments of tenderness and the elusive nature of humanity, asking if identity is more than a festival of masks and self-invention. Translator(s): Galasso, Regina. Num Pages: 150 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 299.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Swan Isle Press United States
- Number of pages
- 150
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780983322078
- ISBN
- 9780983322078
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 17.10
€ 19.99
€ 17.10
Paperback. Num Pages: 156 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 10. Weight in Grams: 176.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Indigo Dreams Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781909357105
- ISBN
- 9781909357105
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.12
€ 12.12
Paperback. The Pre-War House and Other Stories is the debut collection from Alison Moore, whose first novel, The Lighthouse, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 216.
- Publisher
- Salt Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784630843
- ISBN
- 9781784630843
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.66
€ 13.99
€ 10.66
Paperback. These short stories are set against the unforgiving landscape of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. They are all concerned with the complexities and mysteries of the human heart, the unbreakable bonds between man and woman, parent and child. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099422327
- ISBN
- 9780099422327
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.60
€ 14.99
€ 11.60
Paperback. Travel to the revolutionary closing years of 18th century England. Meet Jack Cockshutt, arsonist by trade, returning to rescue his victims and profit from their relief, finding the woman who just might save him. Meet the beauty who castigates her customers with passages from Paine's Rights of Man. Num Pages: 170 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 12. Weight in Grams: 146.
- Publisher
- Parthian Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 170
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908946317
- ISBN
- 9781908946317
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.62
€ 11.99
€ 10.62
Paperback. Presents short stories, written by Welsh men and women, for the most part about Welsh people, providing depictions of valley and mountain, country and town, as well as insights into the nature of the people. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 137 x 22. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Publisher
- Viking
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241955468
- ISBN
- 9780241955468
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.39
€ 20.99
€ 16.39
Paperback. Series: Dover Thrift Editions. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DNF; FYB; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 131 x 7. Weight in Grams: 100. Good copy with some shelf wear, yellowing of pages but otherwise a good copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Dover Publications Inc.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0008782
- ISBN
- 9780486280387
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. A collection of stories, in which the lives of ordinary Israelis are set against the backdrop of community life in Kibbutz. The fate of these individuals, their drives, ambitions and idiosyncrasies are grounded by the physical and social structure of their community as the stories portray their world as a microcosm of the wider world. Translator(s): Lange, Nicholas de; Simpson, P. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 14. Weight in Grams: 160.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099982005
- ISBN
- 9780099982005
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.89
€ 13.99
€ 10.89
Paperback. Features characters from folklore, archetypal figures from Yoruba society, supernatural or magical happenings, acute human observation and often a moral point. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 146 x 8. Weight in Grams: 106.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571316885
- ISBN
- 9780571316885
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.42
€ 13.99
€ 11.42
Paperback. A gorgeous, wise and witty new collection of stories about the complexities of love, family and friendship, from the author of Away. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Publisher
- Granta Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847081698
- ISBN
- 9781847081698
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.07
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€ 9.07
Paperback. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 33. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Publisher
- Granta Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781783782154
- ISBN
- 9781783782154
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.50
€ 13.99
€ 11.50
Paperback. A collection of salacious reimaginings of great literary works by popular, contemporary authors based on the wildly popular SF-based reading series Shipwrecked. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FYB; WHP; WHX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 211 x 23. Weight in Grams: 276.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Little, Brown & Company
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781455566426
- ISBN
- 9781455566426
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.12
€ 17.99
€ 13.12
Paperback. A collection of micro-fictions by one of Argentina's most prolific and distinguished authors. Translator(s): Stewart, Steven J. Series: Latin American Women Writers. Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 11. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803220904
- ISBN
- 9780803220904
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 21.42
€ 21.99
€ 21.42
Paperback. Conjuring up a cascade of sexual encounters, this book evokes the essence of female sexuality in a world where only love has meaning. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FP; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 178.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141182841
- ISBN
- 9780141182841
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.87
€ 13.99
€ 10.87
Paperback. A collection of erotic short stories which capture a moment of pure desire, in its complexity and paradoxical simplicity. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FP; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 8. Weight in Grams: 112.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141183404
- ISBN
- 9780141183404
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.05
€ 11.99
€ 10.05
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Main Market Ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447298403
- ISBN
- 9781447298403
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.91
€ 17.99
€ 13.91