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Paperback. A captivating hybrid of Gothic, oriental, and satiric fiction, Vathek documents the fall of Vathek, whose obsessive quest for knowledge, pleasure and power leads to his eventual damnation. An extraordinary fantasy, the novel has influenced writers from Byron to Lovecraft. This new edition combines a definitive text with new introduction and notes. Editor(s): Keymer, Thomas. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FM; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 146.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199576951
ISBN
9780199576951
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.82

Paperback. In a godforsaken barn, Presidents Eisenhower, John Adams and Rutherford B Hayes are bemused to find themselves reincarnated as horses. Clyde and Magreb - he a traditional capes-and-coffins vampire, she the more progressive variety - settle in an Italian lemon grove in the hope that its ripe fruit will keep their thirst for blood at bay. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 190.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099578963
ISBN
9780099578963
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Hardcover. .
Publisher
And Other Stories
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908276865
ISBN
9781908276865
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.61

Paperback. This is a modern-day adventure story featuring Paulo's supernatural encounter with angels - who appear as warrior women and travel through the Mojave desert on their motorbikes. Translator(s): Clarke, Alan R. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 206.
Publisher
HarperCollins
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780722533949
ISBN
9780722533949
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.66

Paperback. Some of the short fiction in this anthology is set in the urban centres of Wales. Other stories take the threads of styles of writing, urban and contemporary, weave them into the strings of themes that tie together the diversity and intertwining cultures strewn across the landscape of a modern Wales. Editor(s): Davies, Lewis. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 362.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Parthian Books
Edition
1st Printing
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9781902638423
ISBN
9781902638423
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.35

Paperback. These collaborative stories unite two beloved characters from two different urban fantasy series in each of ten electrifying new stories. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FM; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 138 x 205 x 28. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Harper Voyager
Condition
New
SKU
V9780062391346
ISBN
9780062391346
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.47

Paperback. Editor(s): Glenn, Lorri Neilsen; Morgentaler, Goldie. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 384.
Publisher
Guernica Editions,Canada Canada
Number of pages
300
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781550717297
ISBN
9781550717297
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.35

Paperback. A short story collection by the author of "Goats". Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; FYB; HBTB; KJH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. . Clean copy.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC London
Number of pages
192
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KEX0216213
ISBN
9780747568087
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. A short story collection by the author of "Goats". Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; FYB; HBTB; KJH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. . Clean copy.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC London
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
SKU
KEX0216157
ISBN
9780747568087
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. In Understories, Horvath seats Italo Calvino and Tobias Wolff at a single table and insists that both order without menus. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 127 x 18. Weight in Grams: 257.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Bellevue Literary Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781934137444
ISBN
9781934137444
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.10

Paperback. A collection of stories that focus on female subjectivity. It features stories such as: "The Nocturnal Butterflies"; "Shadows in the Shadows"; and, "The Shunammite". Translator(s): Steele, Cynthia. Series: Latin American Women Writers. Num Pages: 130 pages, Illus. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSK; FA; FYB; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 227.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
130
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803259270
ISBN
9780803259270
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 16.45

Paperback. Set in Italy, France, Ireland or the USA, this title features stories that unpick the casual brutalities of a patriarchal society or the delusions of sexual desire. It includes depictions of Irish or Italian hypocrisies, and also the male bastions of Church and politics. It can shock the reader with their sudden, serenely-accepted violence. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135. .
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
9780571294909
ISBN
9780571294909
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 4.99

Paperback. Editor(s): Larson, Charles R. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 173 x 26. Weight in Grams: 278.
Publisher
Canongate Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841955957
ISBN
9781841955957
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.01

Paperback. Lost illusions, lost ideals, lost youth - the masterpiece of the Spanish Civil War. Translator(s): Bush, Peter. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FJM; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857051530
ISBN
9780857051530
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Aris & Phillips Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908343208
ISBN
9781908343208
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 67.47

Paperback. Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936) is the towering intellectual giant of early twentieth-century Spain. He wrote novels, plays, poetry and many essays, but is best remembered for his fictional works and for his major philosophical meditation on the nature of existence. Editor(s): Macklin, John. Series: Aris & Phillips Hispanic Classics. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBH; DSK; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 20. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856688683
ISBN
9780856688683
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.40

Paperback. The Number One New York Times bestseller from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Interpreter of Maladies and The NamesakeWinner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 134 x 23. Weight in Grams: 240.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780747596592
ISBN
9780747596592
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.86

Paperback. For fans of Ali Smith and A.M. Homes comes this captivating debut from Mexico's most exciting rising star Translator(s): Hughes, Sophie. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 20. .
Publisher
Oneworld Publications
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780748924
ISBN
9781780748924
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.46

Paperback. Translator(s): Silver, Katherine. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 135 x 203 x 19. Weight in Grams: 298.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780811219174
ISBN
9780811219174
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.26

Paperback. Contains four stories, written between 1900 and 1902. One of them reveals the differences between instinct and intelligence in a partnership vital to human survival; and the other contains 'land-stories' that explore the utter isolation of an East European emigrant in England and in the other, the plight of a woman. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 240.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141441955
ISBN
9780141441955
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Hardcover. In these three sea stories, based on his own experience, the author invests his portraits of mundane steamers and their crews with epic qualities of fortitude and courage in the face of overwhelming natural odds. Num Pages: 305 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 211 x 27. Weight in Grams: 514.
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
305
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857150049
ISBN
9781857150049
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.00
€ 15.82

Paperback. The latest DCI Ewert Grens thriller, exploring Sweden's burgeoning network of child gangs. Translator(s): Dickson, Kari. Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: FF; FH; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 197 x 41. Weight in Grams: 440.
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857386854
ISBN
9780857386854
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.26

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Open Letter United States
Number of pages
152
Condition
New
SKU
V9781934824702
ISBN
9781934824702
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.12

Paperback. A new collection of short stories by the acclaimed author of Alphabet, named to Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of 2014. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 127 x 13. Weight in Grams: 228.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Biblioasis Canada
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781771960991
ISBN
9781771960991
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.44

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