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Paperback. Its France, 1761. Beyond the glittering court of Louis XV and Madame de Pompadour at Versailles, lies Paris, a capital in the grip of crime. A police officer disappears and Nicolas Le Floch, a recruit to the force, is instructed to find him. When unidentified human remains come to light, he seems to have a murder investigation on his hands. Translator(s): Glencross, Michael. Num Pages: 368 pages, map. BIC Classification: FFH; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 27. Weight in Grams: 392.
Publisher
Gallic Books
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906040062
ISBN
9781906040062
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.73

Hardback. Strange and fantastical, the fairy tales of Bela Balazs (1884-1949), Hungarian writer, film critic, and famous librettist of "Bluebeard's Castle", reflect his profound interest in friendship, alienation, and Taoist philosophy. This title features sixteen stories of Balazs. Illustrator(s): Lydes, Mariette. Series: Oddly Modern Fairy Tales. Num Pages: 208 pages, 15 line illus. BIC Classification: 1FPC; FQ; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 147 x 17. Weight in Grams: 324.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
192
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691147116
ISBN
9780691147116
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.48

Paperback. The stories in 'The Coast of Good Intentions' evoke the landscape of the Pacific Northwest with impressive ease - crab factories, cranberry bogs, the fog-shrouded shore, the Seattle skyline. Here are ordinary lives in all their messy, unresolved glory. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 13. Weight in Grams: 136. 163pp
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Granta Books
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
SKU
KNW0007114
ISBN
9781862076495
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.49

Paperback. With a biting wit and perceptive insight, Dorothy Parker examines the social mores of her day and exposes the darkness beneath the dazzle. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; DQ; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 27. Weight in Grams: 442.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
640
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141182582
ISBN
9780141182582
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.44

Paperback. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 292.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141984858
ISBN
9780141984858
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 106 x 177 x 33. Weight in Grams: 276.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Bantam
Publication date
2014
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804179720
ISBN
9780804179720
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.05

Paperback. Num Pages: 520 pages. BIC Classification: FJ; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 107 x 33. Weight in Grams: 168.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Bantam
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804179744
ISBN
9780804179744
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.99
€ 7.82

Paperback. Num Pages: 528 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FF; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 106 x 175 x 34. Weight in Grams: 262.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Bantam
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804179751
ISBN
9780804179751
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.97

Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FF; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 108 x 175 x 31. Weight in Grams: 202.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Bantam
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804179775
ISBN
9780804179775
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.37

Paperback. BIC Classification: FJW; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 107 x 175 x 34. Weight in Grams: 254.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Bantam
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804179799
ISBN
9780804179799
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 10.01

Hardcover. Translator(s): Maude, Louise; Maude, Aylmer. Series: Everyman' s Library. Num Pages: 1008 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 141 x 49. Weight in Grams: 904.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
1008
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857157581
ISBN
9781857157581
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 19.02

Hardcover. Features short stories and novellas that reflect every aspect of author's developing art and outlook. This book is dominated by the characteristic experiences of his early life as soldier, land-owner, husband and father, the life which shaped Anna Karenina and War and Peace. Translator(s): Maude, Louise; Maude, Aylmer. Num Pages: 848 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 138 x 39. Weight in Grams: 770.
Publisher
Everyman
Number of pages
848
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857157574
ISBN
9781857157574
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 18.89

Paperback. * Regarded as one of the finest short story writers in America - this volume presents her collected works 'A voice like no one else's: funny, sad, lean, modest, energetic, acute' - SUSAN SONTAG Series: VMC. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 28. Weight in Grams: 280.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781860495212
ISBN
9781860495212
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.47

Paperback. William Trevor is one of the most renowned figures in contemporary literature, described as 'the greatest living writer of short stories in the English language' by the New Yorker and acclaimed for his haunting and profound insights into the human heart. This title offers a collection of his short fiction. Num Pages: 1280 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 158 x 52. Weight in Grams: 1224.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
1280
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140232455
ISBN
9780140232455
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.34

Paperback. Shot through with the colours and flavours of the Parisian world and fertile French countryside, this title includes such short stories as "Bella-Vista", "The Tender Shoot" and "Le K-pi" that reverberate with the fine-spun desire, wit and psychological acuity. Editor(s): Phelps, Robert. Num Pages: 624 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 44. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099449089
ISBN
9780099449089
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 18.52

Paperback. Features seventy-nine stories such as: love stories, ghost stories, stories of childhood, of English middle-class life in the twenties and thirties, and of London during the Blitz. Num Pages: 896 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 49. Weight in Grams: 614.
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099287735
ISBN
9780099287735
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.96

Paperback. Katherine Mansfield's clear and perceptive short stories revolutionized the genre. This collection represents the whole range of her writing from short sharp studies to longer, richer tales, encompassing her three major volumes Bliss, The Garden Party and In a German Pension, along with fifteen unfinished stories published after her death. Num Pages: 816 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 197 x 36. Weight in Grams: 554.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780141441818
ISBN
9780141441818
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 13.91

Paperback. Since the publication of "Self-Help", her first collection of stories, Lorrie Moore has been hailed as one of the greatest and most influential voices in American fiction. This title gathers together her complete stories and also includes: "Paper Losses", "The Juniper Tree", and "Debarking". Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 46. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
SKU
9780571239368
ISBN
9780571239368
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.87

Paperback. Whether addressing the smothered desire of suburban housewives, the white-collar despair of Manhattan office workers or the heartbreak of a single mother with artistic pretensions, Richard Yates examines the hopes and disappointments of ordinary people with empathy and humour. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 31. Weight in Grams: 352.
Edition
01st Edition
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
496
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099518549
ISBN
9780099518549
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.47

paperback. Features twenty classic tales of Horace Rumpole in which he battles through the Old Bailey, whether defending various members of an incompetent South London crime family, taking on haute-cuisine chefs and showfolk or mocking the pomposity of his own profession, all the while being held in check by his wife, Hilda: the wonderful, fearsome. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 656 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 199 x 134 x 29. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780141198293
ISBN
9780141198293
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 13.91

Hardcover.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd London
Number of pages
1
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140957860
ISBN
9780140957860
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 70.98
€ 54.47

paperback. Collected here are superb new translations of the finest tales - from the founding master of Russian surreal allegory and irony Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 128 x 29. Weight in Grams: 318.
Publisher
Granta
Number of pages
464
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
2nd edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847084217
ISBN
9781847084217
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.07

Paperback. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's brilliant, swashbuckling classic Editor(s): Edwards, Owen Dudley. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FV; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 340. 400 pages. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's brilliant, swashbuckling classic. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FC; FV; FYB. Dimension: 196 x 129 x 27. Weight: 292.
Publisher
Canongate Books
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847679192
ISBN
9781847679192
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.07

Paperback. Includes stories about the evolution of the universe, with characters that are fashioned from mathematical formulae and cellular structures. Translator(s): McLaughlin, Martin; McLaughlin, Martin; Parks, Tim; Weaver, William. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FL; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 320.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141189680
ISBN
9780141189680
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

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