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Paperback. Presents Hemingway stories, in which men and women of passion live, fight, love and die in scenes of dramatic intensity. They range from the haunting tragedy on the snow-capped peak of Kilimanjaro, to brutal America with its deceptive calm, and war-ravaged Europe. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 113 x 11. Weight in Grams: 86.
Publisher
Arrow
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099908807
ISBN
9780099908807
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.95

Paperback. Features stories which are partly autobiographical, men and women of passion live, fight, love and die in scenes of dramatic intensity. In this book, the stories range from haunting tragedy on the snow-capped peak of Kilimanjaro, to brutal America with its deceptive calm, and war-ravaged Europe. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 133 x 10. Weight in Grams: 124.
Edition
01st Edition
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099460923
ISBN
9780099460923
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.81

Hardback. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Union Square & Co.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781435160699
ISBN
9781435160699
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 57.14

Paperback. Translator(s): Weaver, William. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200. Weight in Grams: 148. Good clean copy with some slight shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Quartet Books
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0000495
ISBN
9780704302211
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

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. Translator(s): Tennant, Martha. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 204 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 226. Three Novellas. 149 pages, illustrations. In these three haunting novellas by Catalan literature s great maverick and recluse, Miquel Bauca, there is a pungent reminder, like a Mediterranean Beckett or Thomas Bernhard, of the ways the world fails its prophets and pariahs. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: FYB. Dimension: 204 x 140 x 13. Weight: 226. Translator(s): Tennant, Martha.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Number of pages
149
Condition
New
SKU
V9781564787705
ISBN
9781564787705
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.50

Paperback. This collection brings together past and present, probing many and varied lives. The title story examines Jane Austen's love life, while others introduce a trio of Kensington widows, mean-spirited and middle-aged; a stranger, awaited with dread; and the mercurial changes in young love. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 133 x 12. Weight in Grams: 118.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349114088
ISBN
9780349114088
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.60

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

€ 31.00
€ 23.83

hardcover. Features stories that explore the relation between the human world and the realm of nature. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 144 x 16. Weight in Grams: 336.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Enitharmon Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
80
Condition
New
SKU
V9781904634164
ISBN
9781904634164
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 17.85

Hardback. A collection of thirteen tales and anecdotes, published for the first time as Hogg intended, and capturing the flavour of Border story-telling. Editor(s): Mack, Douglas S. Series: The Collected Works of James Hogg. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DSBF; DSK; FC; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 626.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748604746
ISBN
9780748604746
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 120.56
€ 116.52

Paperback. Some of James Hogg's best stories appeared in The Shepherd's Calendar, a work of the 1820s in which he sets out to re-create on paper the manner and the content of the traditional oral storytelling of Ettrick Forest. Editor(s): Mack, Douglas S. Series: The Collected Works of James Hogg. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DSBF; DSK; FC; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748663163
ISBN
9780748663163
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 24.74

Paperback. A collection of stories with the notion of separateness - of adults from each other, of children from adult knowledge, and of adult consciousness from the vividness of childhood. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 134 x 22. Weight in Grams: 238.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Vintage
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
SKU
KLN0018198
ISBN
9780099507581
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.49

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. This Norton Critical Edition includes four stories-two set on stormy seas, two on calm seas, all four based on the same incident-that speak to each other in interesting ways. Editor(s): Peters, John G. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 624 pages, 6. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 129 x 35. Weight in Grams: 580.
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393936339
ISBN
9780393936339
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.09

Paperback. A second collection of fairy tales by Angela Carter involving more alluring women, ailing warriors, enchantresses and seekers of revenge. They come from every corner of the globe to haunt, to entice, transform and even to help. Illustrator(s): Sargood, Corinna. Editor(s): Carter, Angela. Num Pages: 240 pages, line drawings. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 19. Weight in Grams: 271. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Virago
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0006200
ISBN
9781853816161
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. A collection of short stories of the author including "In the Place of the End" and "The Last Days of Muhammad Atta", and essays and reviews. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 162.
Publisher
Vintage Books
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099488699
ISBN
9780099488699
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.46

paperback. Editor(s): Joseph, Anne. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 16. Weight in Grams: 196.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Five Leaves Publications
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905512607
ISBN
9781905512607
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 12.95

Paperback. .
Publisher
Comma Press United Kingdom
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2019
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905583782
ISBN
9781905583782
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 13.97

paperback. Features five short stories that gives ordinary events a hallucinatory strangeness and renders dreams as if they were entirely ordinary, subject to the same ethical and political judgements appropriate to the daylight world. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 148 x 8. Weight in Grams: 148.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Enitharmon Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
SKU
V9781900564656
ISBN
9781900564656
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.01

Paperback. *A collection of personal essays - surprising, disarming, heartbreakingly funny - from the No. 1 bestselling writer Time named America's Favorite Humorist. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 120.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349119755
ISBN
9780349119755
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.48

Paperback. The Saint is back - the thirty-five original books starring the debonair classic crime hero are being republished in print and ebook with new introductions and extra content. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FH; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 19. Weight in Grams: 200.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444766103
ISBN
9781444766103
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.69

Paperback. .
Publisher
Tilted Axis Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781911284062
ISBN
9781911284062
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.45

Paperback. Translator(s): Hingley, Ronald. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 180.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199554874
ISBN
9780199554874
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.42

paperback. Editor(s): Daley, Ian. Series: Route Series of Contemporary Stories. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 134 x 16. Weight in Grams: 178.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Route United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9781901927429
ISBN
9781901927429
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 11.96

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