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Fiction: special features
Paperback. Features three novels that come together in the humorous parable of greed, religion and slum youth that is The Boy Who Wanted Peace; in the fate of old and disturbed Miss Partridge who is obsessed with the innocence of young Grace; and in the mental collapse of Mr Alfred, a middle-aged schoolteacher who is in love with one of this pupils. Series: Canongate Classics. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 36. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Publisher
- Canongate UK
- Number of pages
- 616
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780862418854
- ISBN
- 9780862418854
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 18.34
€ 26.99
€ 18.34
Paperback. Features stories that contain the author's earliest studies of what became enduring themes in her novels: the impact of religious controversy and social change in provincial life, and the power of love to transform the lives of individual men and women. Editor(s): Gribble, Jennifer. Num Pages: 416 pages, map. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140436389
- ISBN
- 9780140436389
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 15.12
€ 15.99
€ 15.12
Hardcover. Why wont Benny care? Penny finds a dead salamander, but her brother Benny doesnt want anything to do with it. Is it silly to have a ceremony for Little Red, or could the loss of this tiny animal mean much more to the lovable siblings? With his unique knack for portraying childrens emotional turmoil, Geisel Award-winner Geoffrey Hayes shares this gentle tale of an early encounter with death. Num Pages: 32 pages. BIC Classification: FY. Dimension: 160 x 236 x 8. Weight in Grams: 204.
- Publisher
- Astra Publishing House
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2023
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781935179993
- ISBN
- 9781935179993
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.77
€ 14.99
€ 12.77
Paperback. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Dedalus Ltd
- Publication date
- 2018
- Edition
- new edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910213278
- ISBN
- 9781910213278
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.44
€ 13.99
€ 13.44
Paperback. Previously unpublished plays and writings by one of today's foremost satirical authors. Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents. Num Pages: 312 pages, 30 b&w illus. BIC Classification: DCF; DD; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 228 x 25. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Autonomedia United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781584350903
- ISBN
- 9781584350903
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.96
€ 18.99
€ 17.96
Paperback. Num Pages: 183 pages, 80 b/w illus. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Museum of New Mexico Press (Red Crane Books) United States
- Number of pages
- 183
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781878610676
- ISBN
- 9781878610676
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 18.74
€ 24.99
€ 18.74
Paperback. The very best of the year's science fiction short stories and novellas Series: Mammoth Books. Num Pages: 720 pages, no internal images. BIC Classification: FL; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 234 x 53. Weight in Grams: 942.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472137685
- ISBN
- 9781472137685
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.00
€ 19.99
€ 15.00
Paperback. Pride and Prejudice meets Macbeth by way of Moby Dick and a dollop of the speculative, in this hugely entertaining anthology where authors such as John Scalzi get inspiration for short stories from the first lines of famous works of literature. Editor(s): Dozois, Gardner. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FL; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 204 x 33. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Publisher
- Titan Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785651038
- ISBN
- 9781785651038
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.82
€ 11.99
€ 10.82
Paperback. "This deliriously affectionate tribute to the master of horror features riveting stories paired with incomparable illustrations of his wicked progeny. Celebrating Lovecraft's most famous beasts in all their grotesque glory, each story is a gripping new take on a classic mythos creature"--provided by publisher. Editor(s): Datlow, Ellen. Num Pages: 432 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FH; FKC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 169 x 30. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Tachyon Publications United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781616961213
- ISBN
- 9781616961213
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.38
€ 18.38
paperback. An elegiac and poetic sequence of stories following the progress of a young girl through childhood and adolescence on the fringes of the Badlands in Alberta, Canada. Series: Parthian Shots S. Num Pages: 92 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 10. Weight in Grams: 141.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Parthian Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 92
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781902638102
- ISBN
- 9781902638102
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 8.27
€ 8.27
Paperback. Like Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray, Andrea Sperelli lives his life as a work of art, seeking beauty and flouting the rules of morality and social interaction along the way. In his aristocratic circles in Rome, he is a serial seducer. But there are two women who command his special regard: the young widow Elena, and the pure, virgin-like Maria. Translator(s): Raffaelli, Lara Gochin. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 18. Weight in Grams: 264.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780143106746
- ISBN
- 9780143106746
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.95
€ 19.99
€ 14.95
paperback. Introducing you to a host of extraordinary characters and communities, this book includes a collection of short stories written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780241968758
- ISBN
- 9780241968758
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.45
€ 13.99
€ 10.45
paperback. Drenched by rain, the town has been decaying ever since the banana company left. Its people are sullen and bitter, so when the doctor - a foreigner who ended up the most hated man in town - dies, there is no one to mourn him. But also living in the town is the Colonel, who is bound to honour a promise made many years ago. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 9. Weight in Grams: 98.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780241968765
- ISBN
- 9780241968765
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.00€ 9.99
€ 19.00
€ 9.99
Paperback. Combining terror and nostalgia, surreal comedy and the poetry of the commonplace, this book is a triumph of storytelling by our writer. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 126 x 201 x 13. Weight in Grams: 150.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Re-issue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241968659
- ISBN
- 9780241968659
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.06
€ 13.99
€ 11.06
Paperback. Father Brown first made his appearance in "The Innocence of Father Brown" in 1911. This collection contains all of the Father Brown stories, showing thr quiet wit and compassion that has endeared him to many, whilst solving his mysteries by a mixture of imagination and a sympathetic worldliness in a totally believable manner. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 800 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 37. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions Hertfordshire
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- Revised & enlarged
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781853260032
- ISBN
- 9781853260032
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 6.31
€ 6.31
Paperback. Mad, lascivious, sadistic and ridiculous, the provincial school teacher Peredonov torments his students and has hallucinatory fantasies about acts of savagery and degradation, yet to everyone else he is an upstanding member of society. As he pursues the idea of marrying to gain promotion, he descends into paranoia, arson, torture and murder. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 127 x 21. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141392936
- ISBN
- 9780141392936
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.95
€ 13.99
€ 10.95
Paperback. Alienated from society and paralysed by a sense of the author's own insignificance, this book tells the story of his tortured life. It describes his refusal to become a worker in the 'anthill' of society and his gradual withdrawal to an existence 'underground'. Translator(s): Wilks, Ronald. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140455120
- ISBN
- 9780140455120
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.45
€ 13.99
€ 10.45
Paperback. Inspired by Gogol's surreal tales, Dostoevsky's hilarious story has been interpreted by some as a vitriolic piece of social criticism and a veiled attack on the revolutionary philosopher Nikolai Chernyshevsky. Series: Quirky Classics. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 112 x 149 x 17. Weight in Grams: 86.
- Publisher
- Alma Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847496812
- ISBN
- 9781847496812
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.95
€ 10.99
€ 9.95
Hardcover. An introduction that places the underground man in the historical context of nineteenth-century modernity's movement toward secularism, examines his psychological dynamics, and identifies the developments in Russian intellectual life that the work parodies and criticises. Editor(s): Guignon, Charles; Aho, Kevin. Translator(s): Garnett, Constance. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 232.
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 99
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872209060
- ISBN
- 9780872209060
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 25.74
€ 34.99
€ 25.74
Paperback. Populated by an unforgettable cast of characters, from the beautiful, self-destructive Nastasya Filippovna to the dangerously obsessed Rogozhin and the radical student Ippolit, The Idiot is one of Dostoevsky's most personal and intense works of fiction presented here in a new translation. Translator(s): Avsey, Ignat. Series: Alma Classics Evergreens. Num Pages: 704 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 44. Weight in Grams: 568.
- Publisher
- Alma Classics
- Number of pages
- 704
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- New
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847493439
- ISBN
- 9781847493439
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.98
€ 10.99
€ 9.98