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Paperback. In 1930s Paris, where one cheap hotel room is very like another, a young woman is teaching herself indifference. She has escaped personal tragedy and has come to France to find courage and seek independence. She tells herself to expect nothing, especially not kindness, least of all from men. Tomorrow, she resolves, she will dye her hair blonde. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 11. Weight in Grams: 140.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141183930
- ISBN
- 9780141183930
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 9.93
€ 13.99
€ 9.93
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Dalkey Archive Press
- Number of pages
- 148
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781564787620
- ISBN
- 9781564787620
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.27
€ 17.99
€ 17.27
Paperback. Samia Omar grows up in war-torn Somalia, dreaming of being a world-class sprinter. She sleeps with a photo of Mo Farah by her bed and trains hard. After achieving a place on the national team to compete in the Beijing Olympics, she sets her sights on the 2012 games in London. This book is based on a true story. Translator(s): Appel, Anne Milano. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 29. Weight in Grams: 202.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571322695
- ISBN
- 9780571322695
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 8.63
€ 10.99
€ 8.63
Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 171 x 107 x 27. Weight in Grams: 184.
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- HARPERCOLLINS WORLD
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780380788132
- ISBN
- 9780380788132
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.65
€ 9.65
Paperback. 173 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 211 x 135 x 15. Weight: 226.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Luath Press Limited
- Edition
- (2nd)
- Number of pages
- 173
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905222827
- ISBN
- 9781905222827
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.93
€ 11.99
€ 9.93
Paperback. Six people - five women and a man - meet once a month in California's Central Valley to discuss Jane Austen's novels. They are ordinary people, neither happy nor unhappy, but each of them is wounded in different ways, they are all mixed up about their lives and relationships. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 218. Clean copy with some reader wear.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd., London
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- KTM0001023
- ISBN
- 9780141020266
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardcover. Series: Studies in Austrian Literature, Culture & Thought. Num Pages: 162 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 151 x 17. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Ariadne Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 162
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781572410398
- ISBN
- 9781572410398
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 18.89
€ 24.99
€ 18.89
Paperback. During one sleepless night, the night of All Saints Day before the dawn of the Day of the Dead, the protagonist of this powerful novella wrestles with a cast of inner demons. Num Pages: 81 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 217 x 5. Weight in Grams: 92.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Perfect Edge
- Number of pages
- 81
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782791935
- ISBN
- 9781782791935
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.06
€ 9.06
Paperback. The Logans were an enchanting and admirable couple. Archie had snatched Liza from her own engagement party to someone else, wooed her, swept her off to his father in Scotland, and finally married her. Now bedded firmly into country life, they awaited the arrival of Archie's father, the brilliant Sir Andrew Logan, a widower for over thirty years. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 20. Weight in Grams: 210. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- KCG0000067
- ISBN
- 9780552994422
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 152 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 142 x 9. Weight in Grams: 204.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Arsenal Pulp Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 152
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781551524467
- ISBN
- 9781551524467
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.94
€ 16.99
€ 15.94
Paperback. Cobb's The Fire Eaters"Cobb's short stories, printed in the New Yorker and other magazines, hinted at the power he displays in this beautifully controlled and convincing debut, winner of the 1992 Associated Writing Programs award for the novel."-Publisher's Weekly Series: Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 138 x 15. Weight in Grams: 264.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421411477
- ISBN
- 9781421411477
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 22.80
€ 26.99
€ 22.80
Paperback. In a London flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mother's sudden death. Their father, a Ted Hughes scholar and scruffy romantic, imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness. In this moment of despair they are visited by Crow - antagonist, trickster, healer, babysitter. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 12. Weight in Grams: 120.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571327232
- ISBN
- 9780571327232
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 8.60
€ 10.99
€ 8.60
Paperback. "Martin's death was singular and pre-9/11, before death became everybody's business." Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 210 x 15. Weight in Grams: 242.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Biblioasis Canada
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781926845920
- ISBN
- 9781926845920
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.87
€ 17.99
€ 16.87
Paperback. A novel first published in 1952 as THREE BEAR WITNESS which, set in Wales, tells a tale of love and death centred around an Oxford don who leaves for a Welsh farm and for the wife of a neighbouring farmer. From the author of the AUBREY/NATURIN novels. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 133 x 14. Weight in Grams: 172. Good copy with some shelf wear, yellowing of pages and damage to author's introductory page, otherwise good and remains intact
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Flamingo
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KKD0007539
- ISBN
- 9780006476528
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. In 1981 a mother abandoned her child and drove into the night, never to return. Her disappearance was reported in the press as a fatal road accident. Her body was never found. Thirty years later, Rowan has a child of her own. Leaving her young family and life in London, she returns to her childhood home to find a failed utopia shrouded in secrecy. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 125 x 17. Weight in Grams: 198. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KJE0000299
- ISBN
- 9780099565758
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 193 pages, billustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 142 x 11. Weight in Grams: 158.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1970
- Publisher
- Anchor
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780385094788
- ISBN
- 9780385094788
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 14.17
€ 16.99
€ 14.17
Hardcover. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 143 x 25. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Amistad
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780062348135
- ISBN
- 9780062348135
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 22.03
€ 26.99
€ 22.03
Paperback. Num Pages: 357 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810114715
- ISBN
- 9780810114715
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.16
€ 41.16
Paperback. "In the tradition of Mary Kay Andrews and Dorothea Benton Frank, a charming and heartfelt tale of love lost and regained in a gated community in Savannah, Georgia"-- Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 135 x 18. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780062659705
- ISBN
- 9780062659705
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 15.59
€ 17.99
€ 15.59
Paperback. Katie Brenner has the perfect life: a flat in London, a glamorous job, and a super-cool Instagram feed. OK, so the truth is that she rents a tiny room with no space for a wardrobe, has a hideous commute to a lowly admin job, and the life she shares on Instagram isn't really hers. But one day her dreams are bound to come true, aren't they? Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781784160425
- ISBN
- 9781784160425
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.15
€ 10.99
€ 9.15
Paperback. Num Pages: 214 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 135 x 17. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Paul Dry Books, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 214
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781589880184
- ISBN
- 9781589880184
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.64
€ 21.64
Paperback. Talk You Round Till Dusk is a collection of tiny stories and big ideas celebrating the wonder of the moment. Illustrator(s): Higgie, Anna. Num Pages: 60 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 138 x 8. Weight in Grams: 108.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Burning Eye Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781909136519
- ISBN
- 9781909136519
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.34
€ 13.99
€ 11.34
Paperback. 320 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 137 x 217 x 25. Weight: 360.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780714530932
- ISBN
- 9780714530932
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99
€ 15.99
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Parthian Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 273
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908069900
- ISBN
- 9781908069900
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 11.96
€ 11.99
€ 11.96