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Paperback. Features characters from folklore, archetypal figures from Yoruba society, supernatural or magical happenings, acute human observation and often a moral point. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 146 x 8. Weight in Grams: 106.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571316885
- ISBN
- 9780571316885
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.73
€ 13.99
€ 10.73
Paperback. A collection of stories, in which the lives of ordinary Israelis are set against the backdrop of community life in Kibbutz. The fate of these individuals, their drives, ambitions and idiosyncrasies are grounded by the physical and social structure of their community as the stories portray their world as a microcosm of the wider world. Translator(s): Lange, Nicholas de; Simpson, P. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 14. Weight in Grams: 160.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099982005
- ISBN
- 9780099982005
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. Shmuel, a young, idealistic student, is drawn to a mysterious handwritten note on a campus noticeboard. This takes him to a strange house, where an elderly invalid man requires a paid companion, to argue with and read to him. But there is someone else in the house, too.. Translator(s): De Lange, Nicholas. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784701956
- ISBN
- 9781784701956
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. "[Elsir is] widely regarded as a giant among Arabic fiction writers." --"Daily News," Egypt Translator(s): Hutchins, William; Hutchins, William. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 16. Weight in Grams: 152.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789927101892
- ISBN
- 9789927101892
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.26
€ 11.99
€ 10.26
Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 136.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing Qatar
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789927101885
- ISBN
- 9789927101885
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 8.68
€ 9.99
€ 8.68
Paperback. 'These 39 Arab writers are all under the age of 40. They have flung open the doors on Arabic culture inviting the reader to transcend cultural boundaries and land in a region known as the "Arab World".' Hanan al-Shaykh Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; DQ; FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 133 x 21. Weight in Grams: 222. New Writing from the Arab World. 320 pages. 'These 39 Arab writers are all under the age of 40. They have flung open the doors on Arabic culture inviting the reader to transcend cultural boundaries and land in a region known as the "Arab World".' Hanan al-Shaykh. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1FB; DQ; FA; FYT. Dimension: 198 x 133 x 21. Weight: 222.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408809631
- ISBN
- 9781408809631
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.78
€ 19.99
€ 14.78
Paperback. Series: Dover Thrift Editions. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DNF; FYB; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 131 x 7. Weight in Grams: 100. Good copy with some shelf wear, yellowing of pages but otherwise a good copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Dover Publications Inc.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0008782
- ISBN
- 9780486280387
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Across the ocean, in early sixteenth-century Mexico, the Aztec Empire is under the fatal grip of Hernan Cortes and his Mayan lover. While they scheme and conquer, fight and fuck, their domestic comedy will change the course of history, throwing the world - and Rome's tennis match - into a mind-bending reverie of assassinations, and executions. Translator(s): Wimmer, Natasha. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099598053
- ISBN
- 9780099598053
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.45
€ 13.99
€ 10.45
paperback. Presents short stories, written by Welsh men and women, for the most part about Welsh people, providing depictions of valley and mountain, country and town, as well as insights into the nature of the people. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 137 x 22. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780241955468
- ISBN
- 9780241955468
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.45
€ 11.99
€ 10.45
Paperback. Num Pages: 305 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Dalkey Archive Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781564789228
- ISBN
- 9781564789228
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 6.23
€ 19.99
€ 6.23
Paperback. Travel to the revolutionary closing years of 18th century England. Meet Jack Cockshutt, arsonist by trade, returning to rescue his victims and profit from their relief, finding the woman who just might save him. Meet the beauty who castigates her customers with passages from Paine's Rights of Man. Num Pages: 170 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 12. Weight in Grams: 146.
- Publisher
- Parthian Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 170
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908946317
- ISBN
- 9781908946317
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.86
€ 11.99
€ 10.86
Paperback. These short stories are set against the unforgiving landscape of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. They are all concerned with the complexities and mysteries of the human heart, the unbreakable bonds between man and woman, parent and child. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099422327
- ISBN
- 9780099422327
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.85
€ 15.99
€ 11.85
Paperback. Num Pages: 156 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 10. Weight in Grams: 176.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Indigo Dreams Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781909357105
- ISBN
- 9781909357105
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.36
€ 12.36
Paperback. Composed of many layered scenes, unforgettable characters, snapshots, and vignettes, this collection of quick-witted poems and short fiction mixes deceit and conceit with moments of tenderness and the elusive nature of humanity, asking if identity is more than a festival of masks and self-invention. Translator(s): Galasso, Regina. Num Pages: 150 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 299.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Swan Isle Press United States
- Number of pages
- 150
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780983322078
- ISBN
- 9780983322078
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 17.45
€ 19.99
€ 17.45
Paperback. Num Pages: 214 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 141 x 14. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Publisher
- NeWest Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 214
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781897126387
- ISBN
- 9781897126387
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 15.75
€ 20.99
€ 15.75
Paperback. A collection of short stories from Alice Walker. Opening with an account of her early marriage to a Jewish lawyer and their life in racist Mississippi, the collection goes on to cover themes of idealism, lost love and hope. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. Weight in Grams: 190. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- The Women's Press Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSS0000620
- ISBN
- 9780704346888
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
paperback. The author has a genius for entering the lives of ordinary people and capturing the passions and contradictions that lie just below the surface. This title takes mainly the lives of women - unruly, ungovernable, unpredictable, unexpected, funny, sexy and completely recognisable - and brings their hidden desires bubbling to the surface. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 22. Weight in Grams: 258. The author has a genius for entering the lives of ordinary people and capturing the passions and contradictions that lie just below the surface. This title takes mainly the lives of women - unruly, ungovernable, unpredictable, unexpected, funny, sexy and completely recognisable - and brings their hidden desires bubbling to the surface. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 22. Weight in Grams: 258. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Random House
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMK0022753
- ISBN
- 9780099287865
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
paperback. Num Pages: 354 pages. BIC Classification: FYB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 139 x 30. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- At Bay Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 354
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780991761036
- ISBN
- 9780991761036
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 22.20
€ 32.99
€ 22.20
Paperback. Why are books so very powerful? What do the books we've read over our lives - our own personal libraries - make of us? What does the unravelling of our tradition of public libraries, so hard-won but now in jeopardy, say about us? This is about what we do with books and what they do with us: how they travel with us; how they shock us, and more. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 19. Weight in Grams: 176.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780241974599
- ISBN
- 9780241974599
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.45
€ 13.99
€ 10.45
Paperback. Always intellectually playful, but also very moving and funny, the author explores the ways and whys of storytelling. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 154.
- Edition
- 1st Edition Thus.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd London
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141038018
- ISBN
- 9780141038018
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.04
€ 13.99
€ 11.04
Hardcover. Illustrator(s): Wood, Sarah. Num Pages: 96 pages, full colour artwork. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Publisher
- Full Circle Editions Ltd
- Number of pages
- 96
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780957152823
- ISBN
- 9780957152823
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 18.50
€ 24.99
€ 18.50
Paperback. How do you ever know the whole story? How do you ever know even part of the story? How do you find meaning when chance and coincidence could, just be chance and coincidence? Presenting connections and missed connections, this collection of stories is an inquiry into things ranging from flies and trees and books to sex, art, drunkenness, and love. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 210.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140296808
- ISBN
- 9780140296808
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02
Paperback. A collection of short stories by the author of novels Girl Meets Boy, Like, The Accidental, Hotel World and There But For The. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 180.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- 1st Ed(AsSuch)
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141018010
- ISBN
- 9780141018010
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02
Paperback. The timeless and unique collection of short stories is Ali Smith's first. 'I love her prose' - Kate Atkinson Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 11. Weight in Grams: 136.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781860495847
- ISBN
- 9781860495847
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
€ 13.99
€ 11.09