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Paperback. Explorer, novelist, writer and film-maker, Sir Laurens van der Post was one of the most influential figures of our era. Here, in conversation with Jean-Marc Pottiez, he records his ideas and insights into a wide range of issues and personalities, forged by a lifetime of vast experiences and challenges. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: BG; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 133 x 22. Weight in Grams: 250. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSS0004977
- ISBN
- 9780099428725
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. On a street in a town in the North of England, ordinary people are going through the motions of their everyday existence. A young man is in love with a neighbour who does not even know his name. An old couple make their way up to the nearby bus stop. But then a terrible event shatters the quiet of the early summer evening. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 204. Clean copy.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- New
- SKU
- KEX0216115
- ISBN
- 9780747561576
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Picador
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0002139
- ISBN
- 9780330320993
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Summoning up more than 20 years of Japan's most dramatic history, the geisha's story uncovers a hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation. It moves from a small fishing village in 1929 to the glamorous and decadent Kyoto of the 30s and on to postwar New York. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 31. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- SKU
- 9780099771517
- ISBN
- 9780099771517
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. A philosophy that saw self-possession as the key to an existence lived "in accordance with nature", Stoicism called for restraint of animal instincts and severing of emotional ties. Seneca's contribution to a seemingly unsympathetic creed was to transform it into an inspiring declaration of the dignity of the individual mind. Editor(s): Campbell, Robin. Translator(s): Campbell, Robin. Num Pages: 256 pages, index. BIC Classification: HPCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 17. Weight in Grams: 192.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1969
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140442106
- ISBN
- 9780140442106
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 540.53
€ 540.53
Paperback. Ignatius J Reilly is fat, flatulent, eloquent and almost unemployable. By the standards of ordinary folk he is pretty much unhinged, too. But is he bothered by this? No. For this misanthropic crusader against an America fallen into vice and ignorance has a mission: to rescue a naked female philosopher in distress. Series: Penguin Essentials. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 112 x 26. Weight in Grams: 238.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- SKU
- 9780241951590
- ISBN
- 9780241951590
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 9.74
€ 13.99
€ 9.74
Paperback. A Russian woman named Lara arrives in Afghanistan at the house of Marcus Caldwell, an Englishman and widower living in the shadow of the Tora Bora mountains. Marcus' daughter, Zameen, may have known Lara's brother, a Soviet soldier who disappeared in the area many years previously. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 30. Weight in Grams: 352 436pp
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Main
- SKU
- 9780571238804
- ISBN
- 9780571238804
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.67
€ 11.99
€ 9.67
Paperback. Hans Castorp is 'a perfectly ordinary, if engaging young man' when he goes to visit his cousin in an exclusive sanatorium in the Swiss Alps. What should have been a three week trip turns into a seven year stay. Translator(s): Lowe-Porter, H. T. Num Pages: 752 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 39. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780749386429
- ISBN
- 9780749386429
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.09
€ 15.99
€ 11.09
Paperback. What if a demented London cabbie called Dave Rudman wrote a book to his estranged son to give him some fatherly advice? What if that book was buried in Hampstead and hundreds of years later, when rising sea levels have put London underwater, spawned a religion? This book offers a historical detective story set in the far future. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141014548
- ISBN
- 9780141014548
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.08
€ 10.99
€ 9.08
Paperback. Enthralled by Dorian Gray' own exquisite portrait, he exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life; indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in the eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears the traces of his decadence. Editor(s): Mighall, Robert. Num Pages: 320 pages, chronology, further reading, notes. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 21. Weight in Grams: 228 253pp
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Penguin London
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141439570
- ISBN
- 9780141439570
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 8.66
€ 10.99
€ 8.66
Paperback. Good copy with some shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1983
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KKD0007383
- ISBN
- 9780140064162
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Good copy with some shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Penguin Books 1997
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KKD0007386
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Good copy with some shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Edition
- New
- SKU
- KKD0007475
- ISBN
- 9780747546214
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Set in the rural French town in Burgundy that would also form the backdrop to the bestselling Suite Francaise, this title tells the story of Silvio, his cousin's wife Helene, her second husband Francoise, and of the truths, deaths, marriages, children, houses and mills that bind them with love and hatred, deception and betrayal. Translator(s): Smith, Sandra. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 132. Good copy with some shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KKD0007486
- ISBN
- 9780099516095
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Good copy with some shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1980
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- KKD0007501
- ISBN
- 9780140431391
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Good copy with some shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- KKD0007532
- ISBN
- 9780140620429
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. A portrayal of a picturesque rural society, tinged with gentle humour and irony, it is Hardy's most bright, confident and optimistic novel. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 11. Weight in Grams: 134. Good copy with some shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Edition
- New Ed
- SKU
- KKD0007544
- ISBN
- 9781853262272
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Hardcover. Good copy with some shelf wear
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1944
- Publisher
- Constable
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- KLJ0020890
- ISBN
- 9780094533509
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. For nine years, John Dowell and his wife spend the summer season at a German spa town in the company of the respectable Ashburnhams. Behind the placid exteriors lie the destructive passions of men and women. This text includes biographical and critical apparatus. Series: Ford Madox Ford programme. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSK; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 135 x 18. Weight in Grams: 313. 8vo. Illustrated. Near fine copy in slipcase
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- The Folio Society London
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Edition
- New
- SKU
- KSG0022657
- ISBN
- 9781857543001
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 35.00
€ 35.00
Hardcover. Clean copy with some shelf wear, minor nicks and bumps on cover but otherwise clean
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Viking
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Edition
- First
- SKU
- KSS0006081
- ISBN
- 9780670854899
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 11.99
€ 11.99