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Fiction: special features
Paperback. Whether it is taking a troublesome cow to be mated with a prime bull; dealing with a rat-infested hayrick; learning the ways and means of maggot farming; or describing the fine art of poaching pheasants using nothing but raisins and sleeping pills, the author brings his stories of everyday country folk and their strange passions to life. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 197 x 13. Weight in Grams: 136.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780241955734
- ISBN
- 9780241955734
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Paperback. Alienated from society and paralysed by a sense of the author's own insignificance, this book tells the story of his tortured life. It describes his refusal to become a worker in the 'anthill' of society and his gradual withdrawal to an existence 'underground'. Translator(s): Wilks, Ronald. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140455120
- ISBN
- 9780140455120
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Condition: New
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Paperback. Tells stories from the middle period of the author's career - influenced by his own experiences as a doctor. In this title, all the stories feature characters who face madness, alienation and frustration before they experience brief, ephemeral moments of insight, often earned at great cost, where they confront the reality of their existence. Translator(s): Wilks, Ronald. Num Pages: 368 pages, notes. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 23. Weight in Grams: 276.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140447866
- ISBN
- 9780140447866
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Condition: New
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Paperback. Tells the story of an orphan who beguiles the world with her astonishing visions, triumphing over the worst of adversity and bringing light to a dark place. Translator(s): Sayers Peden, Margaret. Series: Penguin Essentials. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 138 x 161 x 19. Weight in Grams: 168.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780241951651
- ISBN
- 9780241951651
Paperback
Condition: New
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Paperback. Taking you on a trip to the shopping malls and theme parks and enviromental hazards that lie just around the chronological corner, this book introduces you to a gang of misfits and losers struggling to survive in an increasingly haywire world. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 19. Weight in Grams: 150.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781784871291
- ISBN
- 9781784871291
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Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.75
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Paperback. Acclaimed as one of America's most successful playwrights, the author also published four volumes of short stories. In this title, these volumes are combined with a wealth of unpublished and uncollected work, ranging from his first his story published in "Weird Tales" when he was seventeen, to his later frank homosexual fantasies. Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 39. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780749395810
- ISBN
- 9780749395810
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 12.53
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Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780241978535
- ISBN
- 9780241978535
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Condition: New
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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
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Paperback. Series: Inspector Maigret. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FFC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780241303870
- ISBN
- 9780241303870
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Condition: New
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Paperback. Translator(s): Coverdale, Linda. Series: Inspector Maigret. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FFC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780241297575
- ISBN
- 9780241297575
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Condition: New
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Paperback. Translator(s): Curtis, Howard. Series: Inspector Maigret. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FFC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780241297254
- ISBN
- 9780241297254
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Condition: New
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Paperback. Maigret meets his match in the alluring form of Felicie. In his mind's eye he would see that slim figure in the striking clothes, those wide eyes the colour of forget-me-not, the pert nose and especially the hat, that giddy, crimson bonnet perched on the top of her head with a bronze-green feather shaped like a blade stuck in it.. Translator(s): Coward, David. Series: Inspector Maigret. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FFC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 130.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780241188668
- ISBN
- 9780241188668
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Condition: New
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Paperback. In Maigret's office, he is searched. His suit is new, his underwear is new, his shoes are new. All identifying labels have been removed. No identification papers. Five crisp thousand-franc bills have been slipped into one of his pockets. A distressed man is found wandering the streets of Paris, with no memory of who he is or how he got there. Translator(s): Coverdale, Linda. Series: Inspector Maigret. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FF; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 9. Weight in Grams: 152.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141394794
- ISBN
- 9780141394794
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Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.29
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Paperback. In the windswept seaside town of Concarneau, a local wine merchant is shot. In fact, someone is out to kill all the influential men and the entire town is soon sent into a state of panic. For Maigret, the answers lie with the pale, downtrodden waitress Emma, and a strange yellow dog lurking in the shadows.. Translator(s): Asher, Linda. Series: Inspector Maigret. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FFC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 9. Weight in Grams: 116.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141393476
- ISBN
- 9780141393476
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Condition: New
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Paperback. Botchan is a modern young man from the Tokyo metropolis, sent to the ultra-traditional Matsuyama district as a Maths teacher after his the death of his parents. Cynical, rebellious and immature, Botchan finds himself facing several tests. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 10. Weight in Grams: 126.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141391885
- ISBN
- 9780141391885
Paperback
Condition: New
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Paperback. Despite its apparent spontaneity, this is a work of art, which rearranges language and plays in the gaps between reality and fiction. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 7. Weight in Grams: 92.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141197364
- ISBN
- 9780141197364
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Condition: New
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Paperback. Includes sixty-five stories of magic and melancholy that display a range of inventiveness, with fairy tales, intellectual games and glimpses into lives of ambiguity and loss. Editor(s): Nabokov, Dmitri. Translator(s): Nabokov, Dmitri. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 816 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 45. Weight in Grams: 566.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141183459
- ISBN
- 9780141183459
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Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 15.73
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Paperback. Conjuring up a cascade of sexual encounters, this book evokes the essence of female sexuality in a world where only love has meaning. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FP; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 249 x 16. Weight in Grams: 180.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141182841
- ISBN
- 9780141182841
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.45
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Paperback. With the ink still wet on his diploma, the twenty-five-year-old Dr Mikhail Bulgakov was flung into the depths of rural Russia in 1916-17. This book show how his alter-ego copes (or fails to cope) with the new and often appalling responsibilities of a lone doctor in a vast country practice - on the eve of the Revolution. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 36. Weight in Grams: 122.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099529569
- ISBN
- 9780099529569
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 9.86
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Paperback. As well as the text itself and an informative introduction, this new edition includes a selection of background documents (also newly translated), which help set the work in the cultural and intellectual context out of which it emerged. Translator(s): Lodge, Kirsten. Series: Broadview Editions. Num Pages: 140 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 154 x 11. Weight in Grams: 242.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Broadview Press Ltd
- Edition
- Tra
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781554812219
- ISBN
- 9781554812219
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.61
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€ 16.61