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Paperback. Isak Dinesen was the pen-name of Karen Blixen, who was born in Rungsted, Denmark in 1885. After studying art, she married her cousin, Baron Bror Blixen-Finecke. Together they went to Kenya to manage a coffee plantation. After their divorce, she continued to run the plantation until a collapse in the coffee market forced her back to Denmark. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 135 x 14. Weight in Grams: 174.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141185880
- ISBN
- 9780141185880
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02
Paperback. From the bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prizewinning A Visit From the Goon Squad. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 133 x 13. Weight in Grams: 190.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780331218
- ISBN
- 9781780331218
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02
Paperback. Boccaccio's Decameron recasts the storytelling heritage of the ancient and medieval worlds into perennial forms that inspired writers from Chaucer and Shakespeare down to our own day. Translator(s): Payne, John. Series Editor(s): Griffith, Tom. Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature. Num Pages: 848 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 51. Weight in Grams: 548.
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 848
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781840221336
- ISBN
- 9781840221336
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 7.09
€ 7.09
Paperback. Set in Italy, France, Ireland or the USA, this title features stories that unpick the casual brutalities of a patriarchal society or the delusions of sexual desire. It includes depictions of Irish or Italian hypocrisies, and also the male bastions of Church and politics. It can shock the reader with their sudden, serenely-accepted violence. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135. .
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571294909
- ISBN
- 9780571294909
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 4.99
€ 16.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 419 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FK; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 125 x 19. Weight in Grams: 214.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Bantam USA
- Publication date
- 1983
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780553212280
- ISBN
- 9780553212280
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 7.01
€ 7.01
Paperback. This collection brings together 20 short stories of the "fin-de-siecle" and includes such writers as George Egerton, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Vernon Lee, Ada Leverson and Olive Schreiner. The stories range from the lyrical to the Gothic and frequently deal with the conflicts of women writers. Editor(s): Showalter, Elaine. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 244.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781853815904
- ISBN
- 9781853815904
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.85
€ 15.99
€ 11.85
Paperback. Full grown with a long, smoke-coloured beard, requiring the services of a cane and fonder of cigars than warm milk, Benjamin Button is a very curious baby indeed. And, as Benjamin becomes increasingly youthful with the passing years, his family wonders why he persists in the embarrassing folly of living in reverse. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 160.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141190198
- ISBN
- 9780141190198
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.47
€ 10.99
€ 9.47
Paperback. A collection of short stories of the supernatural that takes the reader on a journey from Cornwall to Wales and from the hill country of Shropshire to the west coast of Ireland. It is suitable for those who are passionate about the backdrop of our industrial landscape and those who love a good, old-fashioned ghost story. Num Pages: 144 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FK; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 142 x 13. Weight in Grams: 158.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752455778
- ISBN
- 9780752455778
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 12.41
€ 17.99
€ 12.41
Paperback. Illustrator(s): Fisher, Jeff. Editor(s): Quintana, Angel Gurria. Translator(s): Quintana, Angel Gurria. Num Pages: 128 pages, black and white drawings. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 141 x 12. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Publisher
- Full Circle Editions Ltd
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780957152847
- ISBN
- 9780957152847
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.41
€ 16.99
€ 13.41
Hardback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 218 x 29. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781620406953
- ISBN
- 9781620406953
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 17.90
€ 25.99
€ 17.90
Paperback. 25 tales of anarchic mayhem exploring the history of the future Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 198 x 35. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472118752
- ISBN
- 9781472118752
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
€ 13.99
€ 11.09
Paperback. Consisting of short stories, poems, essays and cartoons and comics, Cawl is an anthology of one multi-prize winning, funny, angry young Welshman's creative endeavours and social and political frustrations. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DNF; FYB; WHC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 230 x 15. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Publisher
- Parthian Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910901526
- ISBN
- 9781910901526
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.41
€ 12.41
Paperback. Pulitzer-winning, scintillating studies in yearning and exile from a Bengali Bostonian woman of immense promise. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 17. Weight in Grams: 154.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Flamingo
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780006551799
- ISBN
- 9780006551799
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.94
€ 11.99
€ 9.94
Paperback. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: FK; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 111 x 180 x 11. Weight in Grams: 128.
- Publisher
- Bradwell Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781909914063
- ISBN
- 9781909914063
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 6.31
€ 6.31
Hardback. Contains nine gothic tales that are Japan's celebrated examples of the literature of the occult. They subtly merge the world of reason with the realm of the uncanny and exemplify the period's fascination with the strange and the grotesque. They were also the inspiration for Mizoguchi Kenji's brilliant 1953 film "Ugetsu". Editor(s): Chambers, Anthony H. Num Pages: 248 pages, 12 illustrations. BIC Classification: FC; FYB; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 127 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231139120
- ISBN
- 9780231139120
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.13€ 51.02
€ 65.13
€ 51.02
Paperback. Includes four stories that illuminate the author's love both for the African people, their dignity and traditions, and for the beauty and wildness of the landscape. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 9. Weight in Grams: 112.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140180435
- ISBN
- 9780140180435
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.23
€ 11.99
€ 10.23
Paperback. A collection of stories with the notion of separateness - of adults from each other, of children from adult knowledge, and of adult consciousness from the vividness of childhood. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 134 x 22. Weight in Grams: 238.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- SKU
- KLN0018198
- ISBN
- 9780099507581
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.49
€ 5.49
Paperback. A collection of short stories composed between 1910-62. It includes "Mr Loveday's Little Outing"; "Cruise"; "A House of Gentlefolks"; and, "The Sympathetic Passenger". Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 512
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141193687
- ISBN
- 9780141193687
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.00
€ 19.99
€ 15.00
Hardcover. Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) is celebrated as a novelist and man of action. He is perhaps most famous for Whom The Bell Tolls and A Farewell To Arms. He was equally prolific as a writer of short stories. This collection includes all Hemingway's shorter fiction arranged chronologically from 'Up in Michigan' (1923) to 'Old Man at the Bridge (1938). Num Pages: 788 pages, facsimiles. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 133 x 45. Weight in Grams: 854.
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Edition
- First Thus
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857151879
- ISBN
- 9781857151879
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 19.02
€ 26.99
€ 19.02
Paperback. From the young Pakistani immigrant who seeks some kind of permanence in a strange town to the Irish woman reluctantly returning to Dublin and discovering a city that refuses to acknowledge her long absence. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 128 x 15. Weight in Grams: 162.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd London
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141041773
- ISBN
- 9780141041773
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 143 x 16. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Publisher
- Persephone Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 168
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781903155547
- ISBN
- 9781903155547
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 19.29
€ 23.99
€ 19.29
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 139. .
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Anv
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226472065
- ISBN
- 9780226472065
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 17.45
€ 19.99
€ 17.45
Paperback. From tales of the supernatural to pungent social realism, and from the humorous to the disturbing, whether rural or urban, this anthology shows the vitality of the Scottish short story. Editor(s): Dunn, Douglas. Series: Oxford Books of Prose & Verse. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 30. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 512
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199556540
- ISBN
- 9780199556540
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.96
€ 19.99
€ 15.96
Paperback. A breathtaking collection of reflections from one of the world's best loved storytellers, Paulo Coelho. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 199 x 20. Weight in Grams: 190.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007235803
- ISBN
- 9780007235803
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.70
€ 13.99
€ 10.70