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Paperback. Contains diverse writing from the Spanish-speaking world. This book explores stylistic contrasts and gives an insight into the cultural and social milieu of the Spanish-speaking world. It includes notes on unusual Spanish words and phrases and is suitable for English students of the language as well as Spanish-speaking students of English. Editor(s): Lawaetz, Gudie. Num Pages: 208 pages, notes. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 158. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1972
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSS0001703
ISBN
9780140033786
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Includes stories that examine the moments where lives split like a stone, where people are healed or broken by a word or the touch of a hand. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 151 x 20. Weight in Grams: 178. Clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSS0000642
ISBN
9780099453116
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. For readers of Melissa Bank or Jhumpa Lahiri: witty, seductive stories of expatriate women, their loves and losses. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 150. Weight in Grams: 318. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0002932
ISBN
9780007135042
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. A collection of short stories about the downside of civilization where the reader will encounter long marriages, the polite English countryside, missed opportunities and a child's view of the adult world. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. Weight in Grams: 180. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Virago
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0002128
ISBN
9780860686125
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. A scholar pursues an elusive biographer, stumbling upon buried fragments of distant lives; a woman walks out of her previous existence and encounters an ice-blond stranger from a secretive world. This title deals with betrayal and loyalty, quests and longings, loneliness and passion - the mysterious absences at the heart of the fullest lives. Num Pages: 240 pages, facsimiles. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 135 x 15. Weight in Grams: 176. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0001472
ISBN
9780099273769
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. Editor(s): Klimaszewski, Melisa. Num Pages: 134 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 191 x 123 x 13. Weight in Grams: 186. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Hesperus Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0001439
ISBN
9781843911647
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. Contains six of her finest stories that have been selected to demonstrate the variety and accomplishment of her shorter fiction, and to trace the development of her art. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 31. Weight in Grams: 344.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions
Condition
New
SKU
V9781840224511
ISBN
9781840224511
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 6.28

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

Paperback. A collection of stories exploring a host of female parts - rites of passage, love, loss, danger, revelations, strange relationships, - the pleasures and pains of growing up female. Editor(s): Lefanu, Sarah. Num Pages: 242 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; FYB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 276. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Aurora Metro Publications
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0000994
ISBN
9780951587744
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. The stories in this debut collection present a harsh and unsentimental view of the mundane, underscored by moments of beauty, humour and pathos. The characters inhabit a world that can seem dangerously indifferent to human feeling, but alive to the thrills of living on the edge. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 12. Weight in Grams: 142.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
Edition
Main
SKU
9780571206544
ISBN
9780571206544
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 8.05

Paperback. Including "A Good Man is Hard to Find" and "Everything That Rises Must Converge", this collection contains a complete collection of stories from one of the most original American writers of the twentieth-century. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 126 x 39. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
Edition
Main
SKU
9780571245789
ISBN
9780571245789
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.58

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. A collection of short stories. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 27. Weight in Grams: 332.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Faber & Faber London
Condition
New
Edition
Main
SKU
9780571237852
ISBN
9780571237852
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.94

Paperback. To celebrate her forthcoming biography of Constance Fenimore Woolson, Anne Boyd Rioux has selected the best of this classic writer's stories. Editor(s): Rioux, Anne Boyd. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393352009
ISBN
9780393352009
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 16.34

Hardcover. Celebrate "an authentic American genius" (Gore Vidal) in James Purdy's first complete short story collection. Num Pages: 752 pages, frontispiece. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 167 x 45. Weight in Grams: 1206.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Liveright
Edition
First Edition ~1st Printing
Condition
New
SKU
V9780871406699
ISBN
9780871406699
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 31.93

Paperback. A dazzling collection about how the familiar can suddenly turn strange, for readers of Lydia Davis, George Saunders, and Karen Russell. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 142 x 15. Weight in Grams: 170.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393350531
ISBN
9780393350531
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.42

Paperback. "Carries the flavor of the old world, its underlying ferocity leavened by a lyrical mysticism.. Her prose is transcendent."-Washington Post Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393350234
ISBN
9780393350234
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 16.27

Hardback. Editor(s): Williams, Paul S. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 32. Weight in Grams: 812.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
North Atlantic Books,U.S. United States
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9781556433986
ISBN
9781556433986
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 30.53

Paperback. Num Pages: 152 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 149 x 11. Weight in Grams: 258.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Spokesman Books United Kingdom
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
152
Condition
New
SKU
V9780851246291
ISBN
9780851246291
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.40

Paperback. "A delight" says Nobel-prize winning poet Derek Walcott. Lawrence Scott explores a Caribbean world of yearnings and memory, of escape and return underpinned by the disturbing tensions wrought by religion, race, sexuality and crime. Sensuous and evocative, Scott's prose has a glorious lightness of touch and tone that exhilarates and illuminates. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 137 x 14. Weight in Grams: 244.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Papillote Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780957118782
ISBN
9780957118782
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.66

Paperback. A famous Hollywood actor loses his looks -- and is drawn into the dark and twisted world of Coldheart Canyon! Num Pages: 768 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; FL; FYB; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 114 x 41. Weight in Grams: 392.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Harper Voyager
Edition
paperback / softback
Number of pages
768
Condition
New
SKU
V9780006510406
ISBN
9780006510406
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.35

Paperback. The celebrated debut short story collection from the author of Solar Bones, winner of the 2016 Goldsmiths Prize and BGE Irish Book of the Year Series: Canons. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FM; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9781786891396
ISBN
9781786891396
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 10.74

Paperback. Series: Dover Thrift Editions. Num Pages: 128 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 132 x 9. Weight in Grams: 108. Series: Dover Thrift S. 128 pages, illustrations. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Dimension: 210 x 132 x 9. Weight: 108.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc.
Edition
New edition
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9780486270647
ISBN
9780486270647
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.23

Paperback. From one of the greatest living literary imaginations and the celebrated author of FAHRENHEIT 451 comes a collection of never-before-published effortlessly beautiful tales. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FLC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 172.
Publication date
2009
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Condition
New
Format
Paperback
SKU
9780007303649
ISBN
9780007303649
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.57

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