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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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.75

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.14

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.70

Paperback. A collection of stories by a young American writer. They are centred around the Orthodox Jewish community and span the Jewish experience from the Holocaust and Stalin's Russia to modern-day New York and Jerusalem. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 19. Weight in Grams: 252. Used paperback in very good condition. May have some light shelfwear.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KRF2232015
ISBN
9780571201310
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 10.99
€ 4.99

Paperback. Set in 1797, Billy Budd is a tale of satanic treachery, tragedy and great pathos that explores human relationships and the inherently ambiguous nature of man-made justice. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 17. Weight in Grams: 208. Used paperback in very good condition. May have some light shelfwear.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KRF2232033
ISBN
9781853267499
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 10.99
€ 4.99

Paperback. Includes tales such as 'The Steadfast Tin Soldier' and 'Big Klaus and Little Klaus'. Series: Penguin Little Black Classics. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 113 x 7. Weight in Grams: 54. Clean copy with damage to cover but pages remain ini very good condition
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
Used, Good
Format
Paperback
SKU
KEA0000181
ISBN
9780141398044
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Hardback. A collection of dark, funny short stories: Miranda July channelling Beyonce.. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 145 x 282 x 23. Weight in Grams: 338. Fine clean copy in good dust wrapper
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KCW0003736
ISBN
9781471153792
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Hardback. Suitable for those who is, has ever been, or might one day be married. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 181 x 136 x 16. Weight in Grams: 212. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Canongate Books
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KMK0007103
ISBN
9780857868497
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Here are his notorious First Nation narratives of indigenous Canadians, and a literary homage to J. D. Salinger. Alongside the "real" story of the 1951 Giants and the afterlife of Roberto Clemente, are the legends of a pirated radio station and a hockey game rigged by tribal magic. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FM; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 156 x 47. Weight in Grams: 471.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Tachyon Publications
Condition
New
SKU
9781616961879
ISBN
9781616961879
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 6.23

Paperback. New York is a city of writers. And when the city was attacked on 9/11, its writers began to do what writers do, they began to look and feel and think and write. This book gathers a multi-hued range of voices that convey, with immediacy and imagination, the shock and loss suffered in September. Editor(s): Baer, Ulrich. Num Pages: 344 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JM; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 121 x 18. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Edition
New edition
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814799352
ISBN
9780814799352
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.51

Paperback. Editor(s): McLaughlin, Robert L. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Condition
New
SKU
9781564781857
ISBN
9781564781857
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 6.23

Paperback. Editor(s): Sui, Gwee Li. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 39. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Condition
New
SKU
9781564789051
ISBN
9781564789051
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 6.23

Paperback.
Publication date
1954
Publisher
Del Rey Books
Edition
Reissue
Number of pages
528
Condition
New
Format
Paperback
SKU
V9780440378648
ISBN
9780440378648
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 11.60

Paperback. The million-copy bestseller, which is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FJMV; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 200 x 17. Weight in Grams: 172.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Flamingo
Condition
New
SKU
9780006543947
ISBN
9780006543947
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 10.45

Paperback. Short Stories and Poems. Series: Dover Thrift Editions. 224 pages. Editor(s): Blaisdell, Bob. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCQ; DQ; FC; FYB; HBWJ. Dimension: 131 x 209 x 15. Weight: 178.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc.
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780486482262
ISBN
9780486482262
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 5.72

Paperback. Editor(s): Johnson, Jeri. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 352 pages, map. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; 3JJ; C; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 246.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Condition
New
SKU
9780199536436
ISBN
9780199536436
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.95

Paperback. Ireland has always been a nation of story-tellers. This magnificent anthology chronicles the development of a rich literary tradition, from the earliest folk-tales to James Joyce, Liam O'Flaherty, and the rising stars of the new generation. Editor(s): Trevor, William. Series: Oxford Books of Prose & Verse. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 35. Weight in Grams: 426 567pp
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Oxford University Press Oxford
Edition
Reissue
Number of pages
592
Condition
New
SKU
9780199583140
ISBN
9780199583140
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 13.08

Paperback. This edition includes a critical introduction and an extensive collection of historical documents relating to the composition and reception of the novel, the social implications of England's shift from a rural agrarian to an urban industrial economy, the role of women in provincial society. Emma is on HSC syllabus. Editor(s): Samuelian, Kristin Flieger. Series: Broadview Editions. Num Pages: 453 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781551113210
ISBN
9781551113210
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.11

Paperback. Set in a disturbing dreamlike version of Regency London, this story features a young italian clockmaker who contrives a magical means, not only of repairing time, but also of unlocking the mechanism of sexual happiness. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 156.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
9780749396985
ISBN
9780749396985
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.45

Paperback. A parrot who speaks of love, a police dog who's a Buddhist, a microbe with an inferiority complex, a chameleon hoping to find himself, a scorpion with the fastest sting in the West? Viskovitz is each of these animals and many more; yet it is the human condition with all its highs and lows which is portrayed in these hilarious metamorphoses. Translator(s): Casey, John. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 185 x 128 x 12. Weight in Grams: 116. 160 pages. Viskovitz is each of these animals and many more; yet it is the human condition with all its highs and lows which is portrayed in these hilarious metamorphoses. You're an Animal Viskovitz is a whirlwind of ironic fables, a tour de force of comic inventiveness and intelligence unlike anything that you have read before. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FYB. Dimension: 185 x 128 x 12. Weight: 116.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Canongate Books
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841954936
ISBN
9781841954936
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.74

Paperback. Contains stories that include "The Melancholy Hussar", "A Tragedy of Two Ambitions", "The First Countess of Wessex", "Barbara of the House of Grebe", "For Conscience' Sake", "The Son's Veto", "On the Western Circuit", "An Imaginative Woman", "A Changed Man", and "Enter a Dragoon". Editor(s): Wilson, Keith. Num Pages: 400 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 294.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140439007
ISBN
9780140439007
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.20

Hardcover. A collection of stories set in southwest Ontario. Num Pages: 600 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 134 x 209 x 33. Weight in Grams: 640.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Everyman
Condition
New
SKU
9781841593029
ISBN
9781841593029
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 13.91

Paperback. A collection of eight chilling stories by the author of 'The Birds' and 'Don't Look Now', introduced by Sally Beauman Series: Virago Modern Classics. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 126 x 21. Weight in Grams: 242.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Virago
Condition
New
SKU
9781844085750
ISBN
9781844085750
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 10.45

Paperback. From the author of the award-winning The Great Fire, an extraordinary collection of stories about life in the Organisation - a polyglot crucible in which talent rots and mediocrity thrives and the 'rights of man' are unthinkingly sacrificed on the altar of inter-departmental strife. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 125 x 13. Weight in Grams: 152.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844082186
ISBN
9781844082186
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.81

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