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Paperback. Set in 1928 but written four years earlier, during Stalin's rise to power, The Fatal Eggs is both an early piece of science fiction reminiscent of H.G. Wells and a biting, brilliant satire of the consequences of the abuse of power and knowledge. Translator(s): Cockrell, Roger. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 200 x 12. Weight in Grams: 158.
- Publisher
- Alma Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847493712
- ISBN
- 9781847493712
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.01
€ 10.99
€ 10.01
Paperback. A satire by the author of "The Master and Margarita" on his ten-year love-hate relationship with Stanislavsky, Method-acting and the Moscow Arts Theatre. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 142.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- New, Translation
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099479321
- ISBN
- 9780099479321
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
Paperback. A semi-autobiographical story of a writer who fails to sell his novel and fails to commit suicide. When his play is taken up by the theatre, literary success beckons, but he has reckoned without the grotesquely inflated egos of the actors, directors and theatre managers. Editor(s): Bromfield, Andrew. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 160.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140455144
- ISBN
- 9780140455144
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.81
€ 13.00
€ 11.81
Paperback. Contains five satirical stories. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 132 x 14. Weight in Grams: 160.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099529552
- ISBN
- 9780099529552
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02
Paperback. Drawing on the author's personal experiences of the horrors of civil war as a young doctor, this title takes place in Kiev, 1918, a time of turmoil and suffocating uncertainty as the Bolsheviks, Socialists and Germans fight for control of the city. It tells the story of the Turbins, a once-wealthy Russian family. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099490661
- ISBN
- 9780099490661
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. A rich, successful Moscow professor befriends a stray dog and attempts a scientific first by transplanting into it the testicles and pituitary gland of a recently deceased man. A distinctly worryingly human animal is now on the loose, and the professor's hitherto respectable life becomes a nightmare beyond endurance. Translator(s): Glenny, Michael. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 112.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099529941
- ISBN
- 9780099529941
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.29
€ 11.99
€ 10.29
Paperback. A Dog's Heart was banned by the censors in 1925 and circulated only in samizdat form. Nowadays this hugely entertaining tale has become very popular in Russia, and has inspired many adaptations across the world. Translator(s): Bouis, Antonina W. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128. .
- Publisher
- Alma Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847495686
- ISBN
- 9781847495686
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.95
€ 10.99
€ 9.95
hardcover. Long suppressed in its native land, this account of strange doings in Moscow in the 1930s provides us with the essence of the sceptical, trenchant, unadulterated voice of dissent. Translator(s): Glenny, Michael. Num Pages: 446 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 134 x 31. Weight in Grams: 594.
- Publisher
- Everyman's Library, Alfred A. Knopf
- Number of pages
- 446
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857150667
- ISBN
- 9781857150667
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 15.84
€ 20.99
€ 15.84
paperback. In his second collection of short stories, Mike McCormack joins head and heart in a series of tales which weave a fluid vision of a world morphing between the real and the hyperreal. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 240. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- The Lilliput Press Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMK0021880
- ISBN
- 9781843512707
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. The celebrated debut short story collection from the author of Solar Bones, winner of the 2016 Goldsmiths Prize and BGE Irish Book of the Year Series: Canons. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FM; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Canongate Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781786891396
- ISBN
- 9781786891396
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 10.74
€ 12.99
€ 10.74
Paperback. A young Jewish student in Romania tries to make sense of a world that has decided he doesn't belong. Spending his days walking the streets and his nights drinking and gambling, meeting revolutionaries, zealots, lovers and libertines, he adjusts his eyes to the darkness that falls over Europe, and threatens to destroy him. Translator(s): O Ceallaigh, Philip. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT; HRJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241189610
- ISBN
- 9780241189610
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02
Paperback. Editor(s): Lipson, Lesley. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199555000
- ISBN
- 9780199555000
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.25
€ 17.99
€ 14.25
Hardcover. A mixture of reality and illusion, this is the story of the besotted Don Quixote and his down-to-earth companion, the faithful Sancho Panza, who set out to right the world's wrongs in knightly combat. The narrative moves from philosophical speculation to broad comedy. Translator(s): Motteux, P.A. Num Pages: 1048 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 135 x 49. Weight in Grams: 1008.
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857150032
- ISBN
- 9781857150032
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 19.02
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€ 19.02
Paperback. This title chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant Don Quixote de La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they travel through sixteenth-century Spain. Unless you read Spanish, you've never read this title. Translator(s): Grossmann, Edith. Num Pages: 992 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 135 x 50. Weight in Grams: 888.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Number of pages
- 992
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099469698
- ISBN
- 9780099469698
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.88
€ 13.00
€ 11.88
Paperback. Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading romances of chivalry that he determines to become a knight errant and pursue bold adventures, accompanied by his squire, the cunning Sancho Panza. As they roam the world together, the aging Quixote's fancy leads them wildly astray. Editor(s): Rutherford, John. Translator(s): Rutherford, John. Num Pages: 1056 pages, notes, chronology. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 44. Weight in Grams: 714.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 1056
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140449099
- ISBN
- 9780140449099
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.81
€ 13.00
€ 11.81
Hardback. Series: Macmillan Collector's Library. Num Pages: 1032 pages. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JD; FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 93. .
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reissue, Unabridged
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781509844760
- ISBN
- 9781509844760
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.84
€ 19.99
€ 14.84
Paperback. "Latiolais is as close to Alice Munro as a writer can get, but with a more modern edge."-Los Angeles Times Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140. .
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393354164
- ISBN
- 9780393354164
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.09
€ 17.99
€ 16.09
Hardback. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 538.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780816655939
- ISBN
- 9780816655939
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 28.46
€ 28.46
paperback. Num Pages: 190 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 120. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Five Leaves Publications United Kingdom
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 190
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780907123200
- ISBN
- 9780907123200
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.35
€ 10.35
Paperback. * From the highly acclaimed poet and novelist, winner of fiction prizes and wonderful reviews, comes Michele Roberts's latest short stories, available in paperback Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 168.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Digital original
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844083893
- ISBN
- 9781844083893
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.23
€ 11.99
€ 10.23
Hardback. Translator(s): Ball, Nicole; Ball, David. Num Pages: 104 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 127 x 15. Weight in Grams: 259.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 104
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857423733
- ISBN
- 9780857423733
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 18.34
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€ 18.34
paperback. A winner of six major literary prizes, this rich and haunting novel examines the shadowy Sardinian figure of the Accabadora, exploring the boundaries between mercy-killing and murder. Translator(s): Mazzarella, Silvester. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 146.
- Publisher
- Maclehose
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857050472
- ISBN
- 9780857050472
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.04
€ 13.99
€ 11.04
Hardback. In this sinuous meditation on heartbreak, youth, and guilt, a man looks back over twenty years to his relationship with his first love, Valeria, who died of an overdose at the age of 18. She was at Nirvana's only gig in Brazil, in 1993, and he was on military service and failed to join her. Translator(s): Hahn, Daniel. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 138. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910701478
- ISBN
- 9781910701478
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.63
€ 23.99
€ 16.63
paperback. Artist Jed Martin emerges from a ten-year hiatus with good news. It has nothing to do with his broken boiler, the approach of another lamentably awkward Christmas dinner with his father or the memory of his doomed love affair. It is that, for his new exhibition, he has secured the involvement of the celebrated novelist Michel Houellebecq. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 20. Weight in Grams: 216.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099554578
- ISBN
- 9780099554578
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.45
€ 11.99
€ 10.45