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Paperback. Cheval 9 contains a selection of the best work submitted this year to the Terry Hetherington Award, which has become known as one of the most significant awards for young writers in Wales. Editor(s): Widlake, Rose; Edwards, Jonathan. Series: The Terry Hetherington Award Anthology. Num Pages: 126 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 203 x 14. Weight in Grams: 144.
Publisher
Parthian Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910901670
ISBN
9781910901670
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.38

Paperback. A collection of short stories with such themes as dreams, labyrinths, mirrors, infinite libraries, the manipulations of chance, gaucho knife-fighters, transparent tigers and the elusive nature of identity itself. Translator(s): Hurley, Andrew. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 13. Weight in Grams: 170.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141183831
ISBN
9780141183831
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.01

paperback. Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) is one of Japan's foremost stylists - a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly original imagery, cynicism, beauty and wild humour. This work features stories such as "Rashomon", "In a Bamboo Grove", "The Nose", "O-Gin", "Loyalty", "Death Register", "The Life of a Stupid Man" and "Spinning Gears". Translator(s): Rubin, Jay. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 147 x 22. Weight in Grams: 358.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
Penguin Classics Deluxe ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780143039846
ISBN
9780143039846
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.43

Paperback. The Number One New York Times bestseller from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Interpreter of Maladies and The NamesakeWinner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 134 x 23. Weight in Grams: 240.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780747596592
ISBN
9780747596592
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.86

Hardcover. In these three sea stories, based on his own experience, the author invests his portraits of mundane steamers and their crews with epic qualities of fortitude and courage in the face of overwhelming natural odds. Num Pages: 305 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 211 x 27. Weight in Grams: 514.
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
305
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857150049
ISBN
9781857150049
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 15.82

Hardcover. Series: Macmillan Collector's Library. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FFC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 93. .
Publisher
Macmillan Collector's Library
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
New Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781909621794
ISBN
9781909621794
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.80

Paperback. Originally published: Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, c1983. Num Pages: 224 pages, 1port. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 244.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
226
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1983
Edition
First edition.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780876855966
ISBN
9780876855966
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.70

Paperback. Explains how the author became a writer. This title also contains six stories, including "The Pension Grillparzer". Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 15. Weight in Grams: 190.
Publisher
Black Swan
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780552995733
ISBN
9780552995733
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.39

Paperback. .
Publisher
Pearson Education Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780435905668
ISBN
9780435905668
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.21

Paperback. A selection of short stories that opens up a world of wonder, love, cruelty and curious twists of fate, where nothing is as it seems. It includes stories such as: "The Fugitive", "Magic Paint", "Gladiators", "The Knall", and, "The Tranquil Star". Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 138.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141188911
ISBN
9780141188911
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.88

Paperback. Features characters from folklore, archetypal figures from Yoruba society, supernatural or magical happenings, acute human observation and often a moral point. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 146 x 8. Weight in Grams: 106.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571316885
ISBN
9780571316885
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.73

Paperback. This collection of stories covers perverse meetings, casual dates, and romantic encounters. The stories include the quirky complications inherent in entanglements which human beings engineer for themselves - entanglements that can be shocking, compulsive, and even completely disastrous. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 12. Weight in Grams: 154. 208 pages. This collection of stories covers perverse meetings, casual dates, and romantic encounters. The stories include the quirky complications inherent in entanglements which human beings engineer for themselves - entanglements that can be shocking, compulsive, and even completely disastrous. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FYB. Dimension: 196 x 127 x 12. Weight: 174.
Publisher
Canongate Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841954271
ISBN
9781841954271
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.78

Paperback. Top NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat and her partner, journalist Jameson Rook, pursue the elusive former CIA station chief who ordered the execution of her mother over a decade ago. But their quest for the old spy unearths an alarming terror plot that has already entered its countdown phase. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FF; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 138 x 26. Weight in Grams: 288.
Publisher
Titan Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
FIRST EDITION
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781167724
ISBN
9781781167724
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.89

Hardback. From the acclaimed author of Seven Years, a coolly arresting collection of stories that charts with extraordinary precision the impulses that determine the course of ordinary lives Translator(s): Hofmann, Michael. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 131 x 30. Weight in Grams: 402. Very good copiy in clean dustwrapper. Frst edition.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Granta Books London
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
SKU
KEX0303085
ISBN
9781847087669
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 45.00

Paperback. A collection of short stories by Russia's new writers. Editor(s): Pelevin, Viktor. Translator(s): Bromfield, Andrew. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 197 x 27. Weight in Grams: 164.
Publisher
FABER & FABER
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571200184
ISBN
9780571200184
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.70

Paperback. A man shoots a stranger in the chest on Christmas Eve. An expedition to Mars goes terribly wrong. A seaside pier collapses. A thirty-stone man is confined to his living room. One woman is abandoned on a tiny island in the middle of the ocean. Another woman is saved from drowning. Two boys discover a gun in a shoebox. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 26. Weight in Grams: 296.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784701963
ISBN
9781784701963
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. A collection of some of Tove Jansson's best loved and most famous stories. Drawn from youth and older age, and spanning most of the 20th century, this translated selection provides a showcase of the great Finnish writer's prose, scattered with insights and home truths. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 16. Weight in Grams: 238.
Publisher
Sort Of Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780954899523
ISBN
9780954899523
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.54

Paperback. .
Publisher
Peepal Tree Press Ltd.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845232887
ISBN
9781845232887
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.68

Paperback. Presents Hemingway stories, in which men and women of passion live, fight, love and die in scenes of dramatic intensity. They range from the haunting tragedy on the snow-capped peak of Kilimanjaro, to brutal America with its deceptive calm, and war-ravaged Europe. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 113 x 11. Weight in Grams: 86.
Publisher
Arrow
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099908807
ISBN
9780099908807
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.29

Paperback. * From the highly acclaimed poet and novelist, winner of fiction prizes and wonderful reviews, comes Michele Roberts's latest short stories, available in paperback Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 168.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Digital original
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844083893
ISBN
9781844083893
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.23

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