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Paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 431. Clean, well read copy in very good condition.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
Illustrated
Publisher
Turtle Point Press
Number of pages
232
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
SKU
KLJ0006318
ISBN
9781885586216
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

paperback. Editor(s): Hopkinson, Nalo; Mehan, Uppinder. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 446.
Publisher
Arsenal Pulp Press Canada
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781551521589
ISBN
9781551521589
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 23.74

Paperback. Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century: a man who was able to describe his own Auschwitz experience with an unaffected tenderness. Levi was a master storyteller but he did not write fairytales. This book features stories that are an elegy to those who stood out against the background of Auschwitz. Translator(s): Feldman, Ruth. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FJMS; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 136.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
9780141186979
ISBN
9780141186979
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.95

Paperback. Presents a collection of ten stories, which develops from early realism towards myth and fairy tale, murder, and ghost stories. Editor(s): Wilson, Sue. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 292.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141441658
ISBN
9780141441658
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.33

Paperback. Include thirty-three tales that focus on the relationships between men and women, between brothers and sisters, and between masters and servants. This title explores the dualistic nature of the human character and reveals nobility, civility and generosity, vanity, greed, and hypocrisy. Translator(s): Miles, Sian. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 258.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140448122
ISBN
9780140448122
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Paperback. Includes twenty-one short stories from some of the best American writers over the last two hundred years that provide a multi-faceted portrait of a country, a people and the literature produced by this most exuberant of nations. Editor(s): Cochrane, James. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 197 x 26. Weight in Grams: 322.
Publisher
Penguin
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Re-issue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241952849
ISBN
9780241952849
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.33

Paperback. Travel to the revolutionary closing years of 18th century England. Meet Jack Cockshutt, arsonist by trade, returning to rescue his victims and profit from their relief, finding the woman who just might save him. Meet the beauty who castigates her customers with passages from Paine's Rights of Man. Num Pages: 170 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 12. Weight in Grams: 146.
Publisher
Parthian Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
170
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908946317
ISBN
9781908946317
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.91

Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. .
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Main Market Ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781447288695
ISBN
9781447288695
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.27

Hardcover. Presents stories which are drawn from traditions in various parts of Scotland from Islay to Inveraray and Orkney to the Lowlands. Illustrator(s): Montgomerie, Norah. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FQ; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 147 x 15. Weight in Grams: 388.
Publisher
Birlinn Ltd
Number of pages
272
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841586946
ISBN
9781841586946
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.58

Paperback. 'Most cosmic civilizations long for things, in the depths of their souls, they would never openly admit to..' Trurl and Klapaucius are 'constructors' - they travel around the universe creating machines of astonishing inventiveness and power and visiting a bewildering variety of violent, peculiar and morose civilizations. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 304 pages, 14. BIC Classification: FLC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 224.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141394596
ISBN
9780141394596
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Paperback. Why does the same stranger keep appearing in the background of a family's holiday photographs? What makes a woman stand mesmerised by two children in a school playground, children she's never met but whose names she knows well? The stories in this title reveals these secrets. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 322.
Publisher
SORT OF BOOKS
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780954899547
ISBN
9780954899547
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.90

Paperback. Offering a collection of stories, this book includes tales of lust, deceit, resentment, regret, secrets and lies that can chip away at human relationships. It features a series of interwoven dramas. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571308927
ISBN
9780571308927
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.89

Paperback. The three short fictions in this unique collection, Sarrasine, The Unknown Masterpiece, and The Girl with the Golden Eyes, deal with the relationship between artistic ideals and sexual desires. They show Balzac's mastery of the seductions of storytelling, and are among the 19th century's richest explorations of life and art. Translator(s): Collier, Peter. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBF; FC; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 12. Weight in Grams: 146.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199571284
ISBN
9780199571284
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.89

hardcover. This selection of stories by Katherine Mansfield has been chosen by Claire Tomalin and emphasize the stronger, feminist side of her writing rather than the popular, more sentimental view. The 21 stories are presented in chronological order and include "Prelude", "The Garden Party" and "At the Bay". Num Pages: 268 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABU; FA; FYB; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 210 x 25. Weight in Grams: 458.
Edition
First Edition
Publisher
Everyman
Number of pages
268
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857150483
ISBN
9781857150483
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.86

Paperback. A collection of stories including "Rain" and "The Three Fat Women of Antibes". Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 34. Weight in Grams: 384.
Publisher
VINTAGE (RAND)
Number of pages
544
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099287391
ISBN
9780099287391
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.53

Paperback. From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, a collection of some of her finest short stories. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 288.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007143009
ISBN
9780007143009
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.02

Hardcover. Illustrator(s): Wood, Sarah. Num Pages: 96 pages, full colour artwork. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 318.
Publisher
Full Circle Editions Ltd
Number of pages
96
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780957152823
ISBN
9780957152823
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 18.60

Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FF; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 108 x 175 x 31. Weight in Grams: 202.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Bantam
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804179775
ISBN
9780804179775
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.38

Paperback. Wessex Tales was the first collection of Hardy's short stories, and they reflect the experience of a novelist at the height of his powers. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 224 pages, maps. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 154.
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781853262692
ISBN
9781853262692
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 6.33

Paperback. The heroes and heroines of this, A.L. Kennedy's first collection of stories, are small people - the kind who inhabit the silence in libraries, who never appear on screen and who never make the headlines. Often alone and sometimes lonely, her characters ponder the mysteries of sex and death.. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 9. Weight in Grams: 112.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099450061
ISBN
9780099450061
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.31

Paperback. Fantastic, fantastical stories from the favourite author of a host of other authors Num Pages: 416 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 134 x 28. Weight in Grams: 290. 416 pages, Illustrations. Fantastic, fantastical stories from the favourite author of a host of other authors. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FM; FYB. Dimension: 197 x 134 x 28. Weight: 292.
Publisher
Canongate Books
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847677846
ISBN
9781847677846
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Paperback. Bringing together contributions from major figures and work of Caribbean writers, this collection of short stories is pan-Caribbean, ranging beyond the Anglophone territories to include stories originally published in Spanish, French, and Dutch. Editor(s): Wickham, John; Brown, Stewart. Series: Oxford Books of Prose. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 139 x 24. Weight in Grams: 622.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
512
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780192802293
ISBN
9780192802293
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 19.49

Paperback. A gorgeous, wise and witty new collection of stories about the complexities of love, family and friendship, from the author of Away. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 222.
Publisher
Granta Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847081698
ISBN
9781847081698
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 10.03

Paperback. This new selection of Mansfield's stories adds 6 stories to Dan Davin's original selection of 27 and arranges them in the order in which they first appeared, in the definitive text established by Anthony Alpers. Editor(s): Smith, Angela. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 195 x 21. Weight in Grams: 312.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199537358
ISBN
9780199537358
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 10.03

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