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Paperback. * Reissued to coincide with her new book 'Feisty and wise stories about sex and the wild..touching and clever and as gripping as good gossip' - Nicolette Jones, SUNDAY TIMES Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 212. Clean copy with some shelf wear, minor nicks and bumps on cover but otherwise clean
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Virago
Condition
Used, Good
Edition
SKU
KSS0003516
ISBN
9781853817311
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. A electrifying collection of stories from one of the most blazing talents working in English today Num Pages: 240 pages, map. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 16. Weight in Grams: 196. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Picador
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0005397
ISBN
9780330393485
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. A highly acclaimed collection of short stories set in the great outdoors of New England, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'The Shipping News' and 'Brokeback Mountain'. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 128. A highly acclaimed collection of short stories set in the great outdoors of New England, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'The Shipping News' and 'Brokeback Mountain'. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 128. Fine copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Fourth Estate
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KSS0003858
ISBN
9781857024043
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Shot through with the colours and flavours of the Parisian world and fertile French countryside, this title includes such short stories as "Bella-Vista", "The Tender Shoot" and "Le K-pi" that reverberate with the fine-spun desire, wit and psychological acuity. Editor(s): Phelps, Robert. Num Pages: 624 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 44. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099449089
ISBN
9780099449089
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.89

Paperback. The story of the title deals with a little boy named Larry and his feelings towards his father. When his father returns home from World War II, Larry is resentful and jealous of losing his mother's undivided attention, and finds himself in a constant struggle to win back her affections. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 284. 369pp
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780141187877
ISBN
9780141187877
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.23

Paperback. This collection is a companion to "Modern Short Stories One". The 15 short stories included are by writers from Africa, America, Australia, India, Ireland, Italy and Great Britain. The writers include Dino Buzzati, Dorothy Parker, Primo Levi, Maeve Binchy, Garrison Keillor and Peter Carey. Editor(s): Hunter, Jim. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA; FYB. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 178 x 113 x 16. Weight in Grams: 128. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0006264
ISBN
9780571169863
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. This collection is set against the background of places already familiar to Catherine Cookson's readers - the North-East, the South Coast and London, with a time-scale stretching from the 1920's to the modern day. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FT; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 108 x 15. Weight in Grams: 130. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Corgi
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0006349
ISBN
9780552145329
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. Taking the Irish short story into the twenty-first century, a ground-breaking collection from the new generation of short story writers. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135. . Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Simon & Schuster UK
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSS0004457
ISBN
9781903650554
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Editor(s): Haining, Peter. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 137 x 23. Weight in Grams: 412. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Souvenir Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSS0004458
ISBN
9780285636590
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Editor(s): Hill, Susan. Num Pages: 368 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 278.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1979
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140431247
ISBN
9780140431247
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.76

Paperback. Janice and Nelson Angstrom, and several other survivors of the irreducible Rabbit, fitfully entertain his memory while pursuing their own happiness over the edge of the millennium, as a number of old strands come together in entirely unexpected ways. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 197 x 24. Weight in Grams: 256.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140298963
ISBN
9780140298963
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 15.74

Paperback. A collection of short stories that examines the lives and experiences of mixed-blood and metis people in modern America. Series: Native Storiers: A Series of American Narratives. Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 10. Weight in Grams: 227.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803226340
ISBN
9780803226340
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 21.09

Paperback. A young video shop assistant exchanges the home comforts of one mother-figure for a fleeting encounter with another; a brother and sister find themselves at the bottom of a coal mine with a Japanese tourist; a Welsh stag on a debauched weekend in Dublin confesses an unimaginable truth; and more. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 226.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
SKU
9780571317028
ISBN
9780571317028
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 9.61

Paperback. Paris Tales is a collection of stories by French or Francophone writers who have been inspired by specific locations in this capital city. The collection brings together writers from the mid-19th century to the present day, from Maupassant and Zola to Colette and Ravalec. Translator(s): Constantine, Helen. Series: City Tales. Num Pages: 256 pages, numerous halftones and 2 maps. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 126 x 64. Weight in Grams: 266. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSS0006042
ISBN
9780192805744
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. A collection of Canadian short stories. The book includes works by Alastair Macleod, Gabrielle Roy, Wallace Stegner, George Bowering, Margaret Atwood, Sinclair Ross, Alice French, Mordecai Richler, Audrey Thomas, Sean Virgo, Sandra Birdsell, Elizabeth Smart, Alice Munro and many others. Editor(s): Ondaatje, Michael. Num Pages: 736 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 37. Weight in Grams: 480. Good clean copy with some shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Faber and Faber
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0008408
ISBN
9780571142767
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

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

Hardback. Three classic Saadawi novels in one volume, tackling religion, love and women's emancipation. Translator(s): Hetata, Sherif; Eber, Shirley. Num Pages: 504 pages. BIC Classification: FW; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 138 x 206 x 44. Weight in Grams: 650.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
504
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9781783605972
ISBN
9781783605972
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 84.98
€ 75.20

Paperback. An unprecedented collection of hard-hitting, poignant short stories written by thirteen young veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Editor(s): Scranton, Roy; Gallagher, Matt. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 211 x 17. Weight in Grams: 260. Short Stories from the Long War. 256 pages. Editor(s): Gallagher, Matt; Scranton, Roy.
An unprecedented collection of hard-hitting, poignant short stories written by thirteen young veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DQ; FYB. Dimension: 153 x 211 x 17. Weight: 260.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Hachette Books
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780306821769
ISBN
9780306821769
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.96

Paperback. Features hunters, wives, old men of wisdom, waiters, fighters, women loved, women lost: living on the raw edge, making love, and facing the inevitable reality of death. As an introduction to the author's work, or as an overview of the themes he developed in his novels, this work presents a collection of stories. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 124 x 12. Weight in Grams: 100.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Arrow
Condition
New
SKU
9780099909705
ISBN
9780099909705
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.99
€ 5.70

Paperback. A dazzling book of short stories from one of modern fiction's greatest and most imaginative writers Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 308.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Edition
New ed.
Condition
New
SKU
9780755334148
ISBN
9780755334148
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 5.70

Paperback. A collection of Vargas Llosa's short fiction whose domain is the Peru of male youth and machismo, where life's dramas play themselves out on the soccer field, on the dance floor and on street corners. The author has published many novels, including "The Storyteller". Translator(s): Kolovakos, Gregory; Christ, Ronald J. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 11. Weight in Grams: 133. Good copy with some shelf wear, yellowing of pages
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Faber & Faber London
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KKD0010097
ISBN
9780571162123
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. The diverse tales selected for this volume display the astonishing virtuosity of Rudyard Kipling's early writings Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 125 x 13. Weight in Grams: 158. 2010 printing with new introduction by Cedric Watts
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
V9781853261794
ISBN
9781853261794
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 6.41

Paperback. Series: Tell Tales. 212 pages. Editor(s): Newland, Courttia; Roffey, Monique. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DQ; FYB. Dimension: 204 x 135 x 17. Weight: 256.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Peepal Tree Press Ltd.
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845230791
ISBN
9781845230791
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 10.73

Hardcover. A title that takes us from A private Life of 1892 to Henry James' last story, A Round of Visits, published in 1910. It includes: The Death of the Lion, The Altar of the Dead, The Figure in the Carpet, The Turn of the Screw, In the Cage, The Beast in the Jungle and more. Num Pages: 1168 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 137 x 48. Weight in Grams: 950.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Edition
New Edition
Number of pages
1168
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857157864
ISBN
9781857157864
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 21.99

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