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Paperback. Accompanied by a thorough introduction to Brazil's Machado, Machado's Brazil, these vibrant new translations of eight of Machado de Assis's best-known short stories bring nineteenth-century Brazilian society and culture to life for modern readers. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 145 x 10. Weight in Grams: 192.
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
151
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781603848527
ISBN
9781603848527
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.91

Paperback. Presents an imaginative reconstruction of a damaged life across the tumultuous decades of the twentieth century. This is a deeply moving portrayal of family, grief, love and war. Translator(s): McKay, David. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FJMF; FJMS; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099598046
ISBN
9780099598046
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.94

Paperback. .
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781471153808
ISBN
9781471153808
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.83

Paperback. An elevator that links the Earth to the Moon; A rare element that promises to solve all the world's energy problems; a secret society that has its own plans for both. This is the limit - how far would you go? Translator(s): Whiteside, Shaun; Searle, Jamie; Willcocks, Samuel. Num Pages: 720 pages. BIC Classification: FF; FH; FL; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 199 x 54. Weight in Grams: 498.
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849165174
ISBN
9781849165174
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.80

Paperback. A brilliantly original, deft and darkly funny debut short-story collection from the winner of the 2009 Caine Prize, sometimes referred to as the 'African Booker'. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 134 x 15. Weight in Grams: 164.
Publisher
Granta Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847082718
ISBN
9781847082718
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.08

Paperback. A startling collection of stories from a debut British writer. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 139.
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781473652040
ISBN
9781473652040
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.14

Paperback. A collection of strange stories from Wilkie Collins, author of The Woman in White and The Moonstone. It also includes the novella, The Haunted Hotel, a combination of detective and ghost story set in Venice, a city of waterways and death. Editor(s): Davies, David Stuart. Series Editor(s): Davies, David Stuart. Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FK; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 18. Weight in Grams: 224.
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
paperback / softback
Condition
New
SKU
V9781840225334
ISBN
9781840225334
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 7.05

Paperback. No protagonist. No detective. Nothing between killer, victim - and reader. The new historical crime thriller from the unmatched European sensation. Translator(s): Bell, Anthea. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FFH; FH; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 106.
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780877761
ISBN
9781780877761
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.00

Paperback. Peopled by a colourful cast of characters and featuring bizarre twists and turns, this is a collection of eight Mary Higgins Clark stories of psychological suspense. They include her first published work, and a story written especially for the collection. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FF; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 113 x 9. Weight in Grams: 126.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Cornerstone United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Publication date
1993
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099280415
ISBN
9780099280415
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.17

Paperback. Like Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray, Andrea Sperelli lives his life as a work of art, seeking beauty and flouting the rules of morality and social interaction along the way. In his aristocratic circles in Rome, he is a serial seducer. But there are two women who command his special regard: the young widow Elena, and the pure, virgin-like Maria. Translator(s): Raffaelli, Lara Gochin. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 18. Weight in Grams: 264.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780143106746
ISBN
9780143106746
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.72

Paperback. In the Cite, a seedy neighborhood where criminals gather, Rodolphe encounters a young prostitute of breathtaking purity who goes by the name Songbird. He saves her from an attack by a ruffian called the Slasher, setting off the dominoes of an epic narrative traversing the ranks of French society. Num Pages: 1392 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 56. Weight in Grams: 1108.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
1392
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780143107125
ISBN
9780143107125
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 24.78

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
€ 15.64

Paperback. Includes stories that take place in and around the mountain hollows of West Virginia: a world of cock-fighting, coal-mining, deer-stalking, sex, depression, drinking and death. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 146.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099583370
ISBN
9780099583370
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.95

Paperback. In the dreary suburbs of Paris, the merciless greed of a seemingly respectable woman is unearthed by her long suffering niece, and Maigret discovers the far-reaching consequences of their actions. Translator(s): Bell, Anthea. Series: Inspector Maigret. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 154.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141397054
ISBN
9780141397054
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.09

Paperback. Part of Alma Classics Evergreen series, this edition of Fathers and Children is presented in a new translation with a wealth of material. Translator(s): Pursglove, Michael. Series: Alma Classics Evergreens. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 23. Weight in Grams: 248.
Publisher
Alma Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847494894
ISBN
9781847494894
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.29

Paperback. The new collection of stories from the author of the award-winning Binocular Vision. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 19. Weight in Grams: 196.
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444797046
ISBN
9781444797046
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.89

Paperback. In everyone's eyes, even the old ladies hiding behind their quivering curtains, even the kids just now who had turned to stare after they had passed him, he was the intruder, the undesirable. No, worse, he was fundamentally untrustworthy, some stranger who had just turned up from who knew where to do who knew what. Translator(s): Hobson, William. Series: Inspector Maigret. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FFC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 197 x 12. Weight in Grams: 140.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241188477
ISBN
9780241188477
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.17

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
€ 10.11

Paperback. Young Jawad, born to a Shi'ite family of corpse washers and shrouders in Baghdad, decides to abandon the family tradition, choosing instead to become a sculptor, to celebrate life rather than tend to death. He enters Baghdad's Academy of Fine Arts in the 1980s, determined to forge his own path. But the circumstances of history dictate otherwise. Translator(s): Antoon, Sinan. Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 191 x 146 x 14. Weight in Grams: 208.
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300205640
ISBN
9780300205640
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 12.48

Paperback. Editor(s): Gleeson, Sinead. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 216 x 30. Weight in Grams: 396.
Publisher
New Island Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848405486
ISBN
9781848405486
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.89

Paperback. An insipid face. Glazed eyes. And Maigret was not surprised to see a grey beard eating into his cheeks. A distressed passenger leaps off a night train and vanishes into the woods. Maigret, on his way to a well-earned break in the Dordogne, is soon plunged into the pursuit of a madman, hiding amongst the seemingly respectable citizens of Bergerac. Series: Inspector Maigret. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FF; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 12. Weight in Grams: 128.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
15th
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141394565
ISBN
9780141394565
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.18

Paperback. Features a benign old monk who listens to a prospective novice's tale of depravity, violence, and carnivorous excess while a nice little family drama - in which nearly everyone dies - unfurls. In this title, the author also treats us to a cornucopia of cooked animal flesh - ostrich, camel, donkey, dog, as well as the more common varieties. Translator(s): Goldblatt, Howard. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 237 x 22. Weight in Grams: 542.
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857422217
ISBN
9780857422217
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 15.67

Paperback. Illuminates a place and people and describes the overlapping worlds of an extended Pakistani landowning family. This title includes stories that reveal the complexities of Pakistani class and culture, as they describe the loves, triumphs, misunderstandings and tragedies of everyday life. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 17. Weight in Grams: 214. 256 pages. Illuminates a place and people and describes the overlapping worlds of an extended Pakistani landowning family. This title includes stories that reveal the complexities of Pakistani class and culture, as they describe the loves, triumphs, misunderstandings and tragedies of everyday life. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Dimension: 198 x 128 x 17. Weight: 182.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408801048
ISBN
9781408801048
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.08

Paperback. Collects adult short stories, in which the author begins by using his experiences in the war to write fiction. In 27 stories, written between 1944 and 1953, this title includes tales such as 'Man from the South'; 'Lamb to the Slaughter'; and 'The Sound Machine'. Num Pages: 624 pages, portraits (black and white). BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 28. Weight in Grams: 430.
Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
9781405910101
ISBN
9781405910101
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.64

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