×


 x 

Shopping cart

Fiction: special features

Results 201 - 220 of 2206

Fiction: special features

Paperback. A young man, in despair over gambling debts, buys a magical animal skin that grants his every wish but hastens its owner's death in the process. Balzac's compelling tale is here presented in an exuberant new translation, with an illuminating introduction and notes. Translator(s): Constantine, Helen. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBF; DSK; FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 131 x 14. Weight in Grams: 206.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199579501
ISBN
9780199579501
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.39

Paperback. Series: THE WICKED THE DIVINE VOLUME 1. BIC Classification: FY. .
Publisher
Image Comics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781632156310
ISBN
9781632156310
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 14.46

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

Paperback. Offers an exercise in the bizarre leaving you disoriented and on edge. From the first page, the author turns even fundamental truths upside-down, as his character Ambrose explains, "there have been those who have sounded the very depths of sin, who all their lives have never done an 'ill deed'" setting the stage for a tale entirely without logic. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 1 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 18. Weight in Grams: 308.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
1
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st Ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780143105596
ISBN
9780143105596
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.01

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

Paperback. Millenia ago, the Old Ones ruled our planet. Since that time, they have but slumbered. But when a massive sea tremor brings the ancient stone city of R'lyeh to the surface once more, the Old Ones awaken at last. This work brings together the original Cthulhu Mythos stories of the legendary horror writer H P Lovecraft. Series Editor(s): Davies, David Stuart. Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FK; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 22. Weight in Grams: 252.
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781840226089
ISBN
19781840226089
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 7.09

Paperback. Editor(s): Woidat, Caroline. Series: Broadview Editions. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd Canada
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9781554811205
ISBN
9781554811205
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 28.04

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

Hardcover. A new short story collection from Luis Alberto Urrea, author of the bestselling The Humingbird's Daughter and The Devil's Highway. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 149 x 29. Weight in Grams: 378.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Condition
New
SKU
V9780316334372
ISBN
9780316334372
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 26.93

paperback. Num Pages: 162 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Shoestring Press United Kingdom
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
162
Condition
New
SKU
V9781904886228
ISBN
9781904886228
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.38

Paperback. An autobiographical novel from Sweden's greatest living writer. Translator(s): Bragan-Turner, Deborah. Num Pages: 400 pages, Sweden. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 231 x 2. Weight in Grams: 278.
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780870199
ISBN
9781780870199
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

Hardback. An autobiographical novel from Sweden's greatest living writer. Translator(s): Bragan-Turner, Deborah. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 164 x 31. Weight in Grams: 660.
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857051707
ISBN
9780857051707
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 19.02

Paperback. Translator(s): Grunebaum, Jason. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140. Weight in Grams: 367.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Seven Stories Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9781609806514
ISBN
9781609806514
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.18

Paperback. Playwright, novelist, and poet Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989) gives us one of his most darkly comic works. A series of parable-like anecdotes--some drawn from newspaper reports, some from conversation, some even from hearsay--this satire portrays an ordinary world careening into absurdity and disaster. Translator(s): Northcott, Kenneth. Num Pages: 114 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 9. Weight in Grams: 174.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226044026
ISBN
9780226044026
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 14.55

Hardcover. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: FK; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 123 x 184 x 20. Weight in Grams: 176.
Publisher
Sort of Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908745521
ISBN
9781908745521
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.73

Hardback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 218 x 29. Weight in Grams: 486.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781620406953
ISBN
9781620406953
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 17.90

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

Paperback. At once nostalgic for a bygone more innocent age and foreshadowing the turbulences of the twentieth century, Bunin's narrative is a triumph of bitter realism, shot through with the author's classical style and precision of language. Translator(s): Aplin, Galya; Aplin, Hugh. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 120 x 13. Weight in Grams: 172. 200 pages. At once nostalgic for a bygone more innocent age and foreshadowing the turbulences of the twentieth century, Bunin's narrative is a triumph of bitter realism, shot through with the author's classical style and precision of language. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Dimension: 199 x 120 x 13. Weight: 168. Translator(s): Aplin, Galya; Aplin, Hugh.
Publisher
Alma Books
Number of pages
200
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847492838
ISBN
9781847492838
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.83

Paperback. From her ancestors' view from Edinburgh's Catle Rock in the eighteenth century to her parents' thwarted ambitions in Ontario, and her own awakening in 1950s Canada, the author weaves fact and myth to create an epic story of past and present, proving that fiction has much to tell us about life. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 266.
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099497998
ISBN
9780099497998
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. Translator(s): Smith, Deborah. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 14. Weight in Grams: 140.
Publisher
Portobello Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846276033
ISBN
9781846276033
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.78

Subscribe to our newsletter

News on special offers, signed editions & more!