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Short stories

Paperback. Includes eight tales such as 'Parson's Pleasure', a piece of furniture is the subject of a deceitful bargain; in 'William and Mary', a wife revenges herself on her dead husband; and in 'Royal Jelly' some new parents find an unusual and unsettling way to give their newborn its start in life. Num Pages: 832 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 36. Weight in Grams: 558.
Publisher
Penguin
Number of pages
832
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405910118
ISBN
9781405910118
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.64

Paperback. Dimension: 237 x 165 x 22. Weight in Grams: 384.
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781471137402
ISBN
9781471137402
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.72

Paperback. A collection of outstanding short stories by a master storyteller. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FH; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 298.
Publisher
Pan Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781447221883
ISBN
9781447221883
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.74

Paperback. These stories cover the whole span of Kafka's writing career, from "Looking to See" written in his twenties, to his last work, "Josephine", and culminating in "The Metamorphosis" Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 192.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349106595
ISBN
9780349106595
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.60

Paperback. The best collection ever of Arthur C. Clarke's short fiction, including the stories on which 2001: A Space Odyssey and Childhood's End were based. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FL; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 112 x 21. Weight in Grams: 168.
Publisher
HarperVoyager
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780586212042
ISBN
9780586212042
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.46

Paperback. Each story is in some way inspired by a painting of Henri Matisse, each is also about the intimate connection between seeing and feeling - about the ways in which a glance we meant to be casual may suddenly call forth the deepest reserves of our being. This book includes stories which are all about human beings. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 120.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099472711
ISBN
9780099472711
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.85

Paperback. A collection of short stories from an award-winning writer. The characters in these stories are driven by paranoia and doubts, as well as hopes and fears of things only half-glimpsed. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 192 x 124 x 21. Weight in Grams: 224.
Condition
Used, Good
Edition
Main
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
SKU
KST0006822
ISBN
9781841958088
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. With pathos and humour, the author imagines the unexamined life of a servant girl. Series: Penguin Little Black Classics. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 111 x 7. Weight in Grams: 54.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Publication date
2015
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141397504
ISBN
9780141397504
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 5.46

Paperback. A collection of stories set during the fall-out of the Cultural Revolution, which capture the collision of the old China of vanished dynasties, with communism and the tiger economy. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 20. Weight in Grams: 199.
Publisher
Transworld Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780552774529
ISBN
9780552774529
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 22.62

Paperback. How can a girl possibly have married a lion? How can a man have a tress growing out of his head? And how can a woman have children made of wax? This title deals with these questions. Illustrator(s): Holwill, Naomi. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 5AK; FQ; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 164. Folktales from Africa. Adult Edition. 192 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 5AK; FQ; FYB. Dimension: 201 x 140 x 13. Weight: 162.
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841956299
ISBN
9781841956299
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.51

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. Num Pages: 166 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 135 x 14. Weight in Grams: 268.
Publisher
Seagull Books Pvt. Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
2002nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9788170461401
ISBN
9788170461401
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 13.77

Paperback. A collection of forty stories drawn from all corners of Brazil: the Amazon, the Northeast, the Central West, and the South, as well as from Brazil's two dominant cities, Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Editor(s): Levitin, Alexis. Series: Traveler's Literary Companion. Num Pages: 256 pages, Maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; DQ; FYB; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 185 x 127 x 21. Weight in Grams: 274.
Publisher
Whereabouts Press United States
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9781883513214
ISBN
9781883513214
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.46

Paperback. 13 visions of the future from China, translated by Hugo award-winning translator and author Ken Liu. Editor(s): Liu, Ken. Translator(s): Liu, Ken. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FL; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781786692788
ISBN
9781786692788
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.79

Paperback. Explores the dilemma of being an outsider - even in one's own country - and of allegiance. This book evokes beautiful but harsh landscapes, whether the shimmering deserts of author's native Algeria or the wild, mysterious jungles of Brazil. Translator(s): Cosman, Carol. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 8. Weight in Grams: 102.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
Re-issue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141188256
ISBN
9780141188256
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.82

Paperback. .
Publisher
Parthian Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Second edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910409039
ISBN
9781910409039
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 11.96

Hardback. "I adore Mary Miller's stories and you will too. Read this book and then read her others. Like, now." -Tom Franklin, author of Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 147 x 25. Weight in Grams: 350.
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
First Printing
Condition
New
SKU
V9781631492181
ISBN
9781631492181
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.13

Paperback. Collected here for the first time in a deluxe paperback volume are six of John Steinbeck's most widely read and beloved novels--"Tortilla Flat, The Red Pony, Of Mice and Men, The Moon Is Down, Cannery Row," and "The Pearl." Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 624 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 145 x 214 x 41. Weight in Grams: 674.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
624
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780143105770
ISBN
9780143105770
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 23.83

Paperback. Presents four works that offers the preoccupations of the German Romantic movement. Goethe's "Fairy Tale" depicts an ethereal underground realm and the marriage of a beautiful man and woman. In "Eckbert the Fair", two outsiders seek refuge in the solitude of dark woods to conceal their incestuous passion from the world. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 150.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140447323
ISBN
9780140447323
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 15.64

Paperback. A collection of stories written by the South African Nobel laureate. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 214. 256 pages. A collection of stories written by the South African Nobel laureate. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FYB. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 16. Weight: 208.
Edition
New edition
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC London
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9780747565383
ISBN
9780747565383
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.97

Paperback. Combining terror and nostalgia, surreal comedy and the poetry of the commonplace, this book is a triumph of storytelling by our writer. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 126 x 201 x 13. Weight in Grams: 150.
Publisher
Penguin
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Re-issue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241968659
ISBN
9780241968659
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.82

Paperback. The million-copy bestseller, which is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FJMV; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 200 x 17. Weight in Grams: 174.
Publisher
Flamingo
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780006543947
ISBN
9780006543947
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.45

Paperback. Contains fifteen stories, many of which are set in the author's native New Zealand, and others in England and the French Riviera. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 14. Weight in Grams: 146.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141441801
ISBN
9780141441801
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.05

paperback. .
Publisher
Persephone Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
200
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
SKU
V9780953478071
ISBN
9780953478071
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 17.94

Hardcover. A collection of stories, in which moments of change, chance encounters, the twist of fate leads a person to a new way of thinking or being. It presents a radiant, indelible portrait of just how dangerous and strange ordinary life can be. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 21. Weight in Grams: 248.
Publisher
Four Courts Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846823602
ISBN
9781846823602
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.00
€ 42.31

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