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Biography: literary
Paperback. At eighteen, Forsyth was the youngest pilot to qualify with the RAF. At twenty-five, he was stationed in East Berlin as a journalist during the Cold War. He wrote his game-changing first novel, The Day of the Jackal and never looked back. He's been shot at, he's been arrested, he's even been seduced by an undercover agent. This is his story. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 23. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Publisher
- Corgi Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780552171700
- ISBN
- 9780552171700
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.90
€ 14.99
€ 11.90
Paperback. This unique collection of twenty-two papers was written by Northrop Frye during his student years. Made public only after Frye's death in 1991, all but one of the essays are published here for the first time. Editor(s): Denham, Robert D. Series: Collected Works of Northrop Frye. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; BGL; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 157 x 236 x 37. Weight in Grams: 992.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 576
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442626867
- ISBN
- 9781442626867
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 57.36€ 57.14
€ 57.36
€ 57.14
Paperback. Num Pages: 644 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVU; BGL; DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 140 x 39. Weight in Grams: 771.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810115170
- ISBN
- 9780810115170
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 56.54
€ 56.54
Paperback. Features Gabriel Garcia Marquez who was twenty-three, a young man experimenting with his writing when this mother asked him to come back with her to the village of his grandparents. In this memoir, he recounts his personal experience of returning to the house in which he grew up and the memories that this visit conjured. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: BGL; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 31. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Publisher
- PENGUIN BOOKS
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Re-issue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241968772
- ISBN
- 9780241968772
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
€ 13.99
€ 11.09
Paperback. An innovative and unique study exploring why many readers of Sylvia Plath become so attached to her as a cultural figure. By looking at first encounters with Plath's work through to pilgrimages that they make to places where Plath lived, this study explores why readers become so haunted by Plath. Num Pages: 176 pages, 13 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 233 x 14. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Publisher
- Fonthill Media
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781555477
- ISBN
- 9781781555477
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 17.21
€ 21.99
€ 17.21
Hardback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: BGL; HPCF3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474235334
- ISBN
- 9781474235334
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.99
€ 53.99
Hardback. Julian Hawthorne (1846-1934), Nathaniel Hawthorne's only son, lived a long and influential life marked by bad circumstances and worse choices. Raised among luminaries such as Thoreau, Emerson, and the Beecher family, Julian became a promising novelist in his twenties, but his writing soon devolved into mediocrity. Num Pages: 272 pages, 20 black & white photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGL; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 163 x 23. Weight in Grams: 584.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252038341
- ISBN
- 9780252038341
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Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 40.04
€ 42.99
€ 40.04
Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: BGL; BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 383.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Counterpoint United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781619025462
- ISBN
- 9781619025462
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.31
€ 17.99
€ 17.31
Paperback. Num Pages: 296 pages, 12 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGL; DSBF; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Massachusetts Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781558498020
- ISBN
- 9781558498020
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.86
€ 35.86
Paperback. Num Pages: 246 pages, 90 b/w photos & 39 b/w illus. BIC Classification: BGL; FL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 114 x 16. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Publisher
- Apogee Books Science Fiction Canada
- Number of pages
- 246
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781897350270
- ISBN
- 9781897350270
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.90
€ 14.99
€ 11.90
paperback. Featuring correspondents such as T S Eliot, Stephen Spender and Anthony Powell, this book includes letters that were written and received by George Orwell. Editor(s): Davison, Peter. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 560 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: BGLA; BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 25. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 560
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141192635
- ISBN
- 9780141192635
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 16.71
€ 21.99
€ 16.71
Paperback. Written when George Orwell was a struggling writer in his twenties, this is a memoir of his time living among the desperately poor and destitute. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; BGL; DNF; HBTB; JFFB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 16. Weight in Grams: 194.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141184388
- ISBN
- 9780141184388
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.04
€ 13.99
€ 11.04
Paperback. George Orwell was an inveterate keeper of diaries. This title presents eleven of them, covering the period 1931-1949, and follows Orwell from his early years as a writer to his last literary notebook. Editor(s): Davison, Peter. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 544 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJG; 3JJH; BGLA; BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 544
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141191546
- ISBN
- 9780141191546
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.06
€ 19.99
€ 15.06
hardcover. A major literary event: the long-awaited publication of George Orwell's diaries, chronicling the events that inspired his greatest works. Num Pages: 624 pages, 30 illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL; DN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 167 x 40. Weight in Grams: 1000.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Liveright United States
- Number of pages
- 624
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780871404107
- ISBN
- 9780871404107
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 38.20
€ 41.99
€ 38.20
Paperback. Presents hypotheses about the life of the farmer's daughter who married Shakespeare. This book asks questions, opens fields of investigation and research, and rights the wrongs done to Ann Shakespeare. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 132 x 28. Weight in Grams: 288. 416 pages. Presents hypotheses about the life of the farmer's daughter who married Shakespeare. This book asks questions, opens fields of investigation and research, and rights the wrongs done to Ann Shakespeare. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSGS. Dimension: 195 x 132 x 28. Weight: 286.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 2008th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780747593003
- ISBN
- 9780747593003
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 16.41
€ 21.99
€ 16.41
Drawing on a rich array of sources, including her father's striking account of his childhood in China, Tiger Writing not only illuminates Gish Jen's work but explores the aesthetic and psychic roots of the independent and interdependent self--each mode of selfhood yielding a distinct way of observing, remembering, and narrating the world. Series: The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in the History of American Civilization. Num Pages: 208 pages, 22 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGL; DSB; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 186 x 111 x 27. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674072831
- ISBN
- 9780674072831
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Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 39.84
€ 47.99
€ 39.84
Paperback. Long-awaited and comprehensive biography of the great Irish author James Joyce, who died 70 years ago Num Pages: 624 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 137 x 47. Weight in Grams: 608.
- Publisher
- Phoenix
- Number of pages
- 624
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780753828601
- ISBN
- 9780753828601
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 16.49
€ 21.99
€ 16.49
Paperback. The final volume of the trilogy that began with "The Smoking Diaries", this diary reflects Simon Gray's determination to give up smoking. Num Pages: 312 pages, ill. BIC Classification: BGL; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Publisher
- Granta Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 312
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847080721
- ISBN
- 9781847080721
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.27
€ 10.99
€ 9.27
Paperback. When he turned sixty-five, the playwright Simon Gray began to keep a diary: not a careful honing of the day's events with a view to posterity but an account of his thoughts as he had them, honestly, turbulently, digressively expressed. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGLA; BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 144.
- Publisher
- Granta Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 282
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847080554
- ISBN
- 9781847080554
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.27
€ 10.99
€ 9.27
Paperback. When he turned sixty-five, the playwright Simon Gray began to keep a diary: not a careful honing of the day's events with a view to posterity but an account of his thoughts as he had them, honestly, turbulently, digressively expressed. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGLA; BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 17. Weight in Grams: 192.
- Publisher
- Granta Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847080547
- ISBN
- 9781847080547
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.28
€ 10.99
€ 9.28
Paperback. "John Betjeman". Series: Shire Library. Num Pages: 56 pages, Illustrations (some col.). BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 190 x 5. Weight in Grams: 132. New.
- Publisher
- Shire Publications
- Number of pages
- 56
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780747810513
- ISBN
- 9780747810513
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 8.89
€ 8.89
Paperback. Translator(s): Neugroschel, Joachim. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; BGLA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Publisher
- The New York Review of Books, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781590172469
- ISBN
- 9781590172469
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.27
€ 17.99
€ 13.27
paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Seven Stories Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 356
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781609804305
- ISBN
- 9781609804305
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 19.57
€ 19.99
€ 19.57
Hardback. Part biography, part history, part critical examination of Babel's legacy in Russian, European, and Jewish cultural context, The Enigma of Isaac Babel offers the first comprehensive view of the great Russian Jewish author since the opening of Soviet archives. Editor(s): Freidin, Gregory. Num Pages: 288 pages, 2 tables, 11 figures. BIC Classification: 3JJ; BGL; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804759038
- ISBN
- 9780804759038
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.97
€ 81.97