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Short stories

Paperback. Features stories which are partly autobiographical, men and women of passion live, fight, love and die in scenes of dramatic intensity. In this book, the stories range from haunting tragedy on the snow-capped peak of Kilimanjaro, to brutal America with its deceptive calm, and war-ravaged Europe. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 133 x 10. Weight in Grams: 124.
Edition
01st Edition
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099460923
ISBN
9780099460923
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. It's New York, 1950. A young PR man working at General Electric sold his first magazine piece. By the time he'd sold his third, he decided to quit his job and make a living as a full-time writer. That young man was Kurt Vonnegut. This title collects his stories from the postwar years. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 159 x 20. Weight in Grams: 238.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099282969
ISBN
9780099282969
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. Series: Dover Dual Language French. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 137 x 13. Weight in Grams: 322.
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc. United States
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
SKU
V9780486289182
ISBN
9780486289182
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.74

Paperback. Talks about the Civil War, and one Union soldier's struggle with his inner demons as he prepares for, and fights his first battle. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 202.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780143039358
ISBN
9780143039358
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. Winner of the 2010 Frank O'Connor Award, BURNING BRIGHT confirms Ron Rash 'could sit comfortably beside Cormac McCarthy on any bookshelf' (Guardian) Num Pages: 224 pages, ill. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 197 x 14. Weight in Grams: 158. 224 pages, ill. Winner of the 2010 Frank O'Connor Award, BURNING BRIGHT confirms Ron Rash 'could sit comfortably beside Cormac McCarthy on any bookshelf' (Guardian). Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FYB. Dimension: 139 x 197 x 14. Weight: 158.
Edition
Main
Publisher
Canongate Books
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857861177
ISBN
9780857861177
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.75

Paperback. Two exquisite collections of stories and a Whitbread Award-winning novel brought together with an introduction from Alan Hollinghurst Num Pages: 402 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 280.
Publisher
Picador USA
Number of pages
402
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Reprints
Condition
New
SKU
V9780330457200
ISBN
9780330457200
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.77

Paperback. Series: The Emma Press Pamphlets. Num Pages: 64 pages, 10 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: BJ; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 123. .
Publisher
The Emma Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910139684
ISBN
9781910139684
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.83

Paperback. 29 short stories by the best new African writers, selected by one of Africa's most eminent contemporary writers, Helon Habila. Editor(s): Habila, Helon. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 25. Weight in Grams: 280.
Publisher
Granta Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847083333
ISBN
9781847083333
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.03

Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 254.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Arlen House
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
SKU
9781851321087
ISBN
9781851321087
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 15.00

Paperback. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 264.
Publisher
The New York Review of Books, Inc United States
Number of pages
300
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781590172872
ISBN
9781590172872
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.54

Paperback. This second collection of short stories by the author of the prize-winning "Four Bare Legs in a Bed", recently nominated as one of Granta magazine's Best Young British Novelists, continues to explore ideas of independence, solitude, marriage, sex and babies. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 10. Weight in Grams: 146.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780749395452
ISBN
9780749395452
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198736790
ISBN
9780198736790
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.23

Paperback. In this collection of award-winning stories, Melbourne writer Maxine Beneba Clarke has given a voice to the disenfranchised, the lost, the downtrodden and the mistreated. It will challenge you, it will have you by the heartstrings. This is contemporary fiction at its finest. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 24. Weight in Grams: 238.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472151476
ISBN
9781472151476
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

Paperback. Ten fascinating fictions featuring Joyce, Swift, O'Casey, Lady Gregory, Behan, and others Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 136. Weight in Grams: 272. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear. Minor creasing on the cover but in good condition
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
The Lilliput Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
SKU
KAK0000098
ISBN
9781874675662
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. .
Publisher
Comma Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905583768
ISBN
9781905583768
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.43

Paperback. Captures the foibles and fancies of the English upper class. Set in the privileged world of the county house party and the London season, this is a comedy of English manners. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 354.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141181493
ISBN
9780141181493
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.88

Paperback. Introduces us to Rip van Winkle, the Dutch colonist who slept through the Revolutionary War; Ichabod Crane, the superstitious, social-climbing schoolmaster; and the pumpkin-topped Headless Horseman, ancestor to countless horror film antiheroes. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 18. Weight in Grams: 308.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780143107538
ISBN
9780143107538
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.85

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: 338.
Edition
Main
Publisher
Faber & Faber London
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571237852
ISBN
9780571237852
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.03

Paperback. Here we encounter a blind piano tuner whose wonderful memories of his first wife are cruelly distorted by his second; a woman in a difficult marriage who must choose between her indignant husband and her closest friend; and two children, survivors of divorce, who mimic their parents' melodramas. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 158.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140258349
ISBN
9780140258349
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

Paperback. Editor(s): Lethem, Jonathan; Abramovich, Alex. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FL; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 126 x 23. Weight in Grams: 430.
Publisher
The New York Review of Books, Inc United States
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781590174944
ISBN
9781590174944
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 16.27

Paperback. A timely reissue of the extraordinary stories by JT LeRoy/Laura Albert that won international acclaim, to be timed with the theatrical release of the documentary Author: The JT LeRoy Story. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 198 x 20. Weight in Grams: 232.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472152565
ISBN
9781472152565
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

Paperback. Here are the moments that our fairy tales forgot or deliberately concealed, reimagined by one of the most gifted storytellers of his generation, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Hours, and exquisitely illustrated by Yuko Shimizu. Rarely have our bedtime stories been this dark, this perverse, or this true. Illustrator(s): Shimizu, Yuko. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 264 x 13. Weight in Grams: 210.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
9780008140403
ISBN
9780008140403
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 4.95

Paperback.
Publisher
Granta Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140140828
ISBN
9780140140828
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.99

Hardcover. Features short stories and novellas that reflect every aspect of author's developing art and outlook. This book is dominated by the characteristic experiences of his early life as soldier, land-owner, husband and father, the life which shaped Anna Karenina and War and Peace. Translator(s): Maude, Louise; Maude, Aylmer. Num Pages: 848 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 138 x 39. Weight in Grams: 770.
Publisher
Everyman
Number of pages
848
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857157574
ISBN
9781857157574
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 18.89

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