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Short stories
Paperback. Includes a collection spans many genres, offering ingenious alternative histories, mystery and horror, satirical reflections and a devilishly funny attacks. In this book, the stories reveal the scope of his imagination and the warmth beneath his acerbic humour, and they all share the unmistakable style and wit of one of Britain's writers. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 134 x 25. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 528
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141195292
- ISBN
- 9780141195292
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.39
€ 17.99
€ 13.39
Paperback. A collection of stories describing the beauty of the natural world, as experienced by children. Translator(s): Anderson, Alison. Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 162 x 15. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803230002
- ISBN
- 9780803230002
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.79
€ 20.99
€ 20.79
Paperback. Editor(s): Jack, Ian. Series: Granta: The Magazine of New Writing. Num Pages: 344 pages, portraits. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 147. Weight in Grams: 449.
- Publisher
- Granta Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 344
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- No Earlier Edition Stated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780903141017
- ISBN
- 9780903141017
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.07
€ 17.99
€ 13.07
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Random House USA Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- Modern Library Pbk. Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812971187
- ISBN
- 9780812971187
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.55
€ 26.99
€ 20.55
Paperback. With five of the contributors who are Nobel Prize Winners in Literature, this work presents stories that capture the range of emotions and situations of our human universe: tragedy, comedy, fantasy, satire, dramas of sexual love and of war, in different continents and cultures. The contributors also include Margaret Atwood, and John Updike. Editor(s): Gordimer, Nadine. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 264. Good copy with some shelf wear.
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- SKU
- KTG0012705
- ISBN
- 9780747574309
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 12.99€ 7.28
€ 12.99
€ 7.28
Paperback. A collection that takes us to Glanbeigh, a small town in rural Ireland - a town in which the youth have the run of the place. Boy racers speed down the back lanes; couples haunt the midnight woods; young skins huddle in the cold once The Peacock has closed its doors. Here the young live hard. It matters whose sister you were seen with. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 136 x 13. Weight in Grams: 146.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099597421
- ISBN
- 9780099597421
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.68
€ 13.99
€ 11.68
Paperback. Twenty-two translated stories associated with the regions of France, including both well-known and little-known writers. Offering a panoramic view of French society and culture, the book will appeal to people who love travelling or are armchair travellers, as much as to those who love France and things French. Editor(s): Constantine, Helen. Num Pages: 368 pages, Numerous black-and-white photographs. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Paperback Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199217489
- ISBN
- 9780199217489
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.39
€ 16.99
€ 13.39
hardcover. A collection of stories where action and drama are implied rather than described openly, and which intend to leave much to the reader's imagination. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 125 x 12. Weight in Grams: 140.
- Publisher
- Wordsworth
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781853262883
- ISBN
- 9781853262883
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 6.32
€ 6.32
Paperback. Stefan's Zweig's Letter from an Unknown Woman and other stories contains a new translation by the award-winning Anthea Bell of one of his most celebrated novellas, Letter from an Unknown Woman, the inspiration for a classic 1948 Hollywood film by Max Ophuls, as well as three new stories, appearing in English for the first time. Translator(s): Bell, Anthea. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 12. Weight in Grams: 158.
- Publisher
- Pushkin Press
- Number of pages
- 200
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906548933
- ISBN
- 9781906548933
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.73
€ 13.99
€ 10.73
Paperback. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: FK; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 112 x 180 x 9. Weight in Grams: 130.
- Publisher
- Bradwell Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781909914087
- ISBN
- 9781909914087
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 6.59
€ 6.59
Paperback. Gathering together almost all the short fiction that John Updike published between 1953 and 1975, this collection opens with Updike's autobiographical stories about a young boy growing up during the Depression in a small Pennsylvania town. Num Pages: 864 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 153 x 53. Weight in Grams: 772.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 864
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141016085
- ISBN
- 9780141016085
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 19.02
€ 26.99
€ 19.02
Hardcover. Num Pages: 242 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Publisher
- Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd
- Number of pages
- 242
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780714530352
- ISBN
- 9780714530352
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.56
€ 20.99
€ 19.56
Paperback. In Fearsome Journeys, master anthologist Jonathan Strahan sets out on a quest to find the far borders of epic fantasy, with stories from Scott Lynch, Saladin Ahmed, Trudi Canavan, K J Parker, Kate Elliott, Jeffrey Ford, Robert V S Redick, Ellen Klages, Glen Cook, Elizabeth Bear, Ellen Kushner, Ysabeau S. Wilce and Daniel Abraham. Editor(s): Strahan, Jonathan. BIC Classification: FM; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 192 x 125 x 23. Weight in Grams: 242.
- Publisher
- Rebellion
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781081198
- ISBN
- 9781781081198
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.20
€ 10.99
€ 9.20
Paperback. Translator(s): Goldblatt, Howard. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 188.
- Publisher
- Methuen Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780413771193
- ISBN
- 9780413771193
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 14.46
€ 15.99
€ 14.46
Paperback. Translator(s): Holmes, Richard. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DQ; FKC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 232.
- Publisher
- The New York Review of Books, Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781590172711
- ISBN
- 9781590172711
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.33
€ 23.99
€ 16.33
Paperback. The definitive collection of the twentieth century's most characteristic genre-from H.G. Wells's prophetic vision of technological warfare to contemporary cyberspace and up-to-the-minute myths of genetic engineering. Editor(s): Shippey, Tom. Num Pages: 624 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: DQ; FL; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 37. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780192803818
- ISBN
- 9780192803818
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.29
€ 17.99
€ 14.29
Paperback. This collection of short stories is set in Nigeria and reflects the mad, exotic and often dangerous chaos which reigns there. They include jumbled up voodoo stories, stories of shanty towns and of men from the villages seeking their fortunes in the streets and filthy gutters of the new towns. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 12. Weight in Grams: 154.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099283881
- ISBN
- 9780099283881
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.25
€ 17.99
€ 14.25
Hardback. A deluxe edition of original and classic short stories, packed with monsters, vampires and the weird. Tales of shadows and voices in the dark from the likes of H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, Nathaniel Hawthorne and William Hope Hodgson are cast with previously unpublished stories by some of the best writers of horror today. Series: Gothic Fantasy. Num Pages: 480 pages, 25 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: FKC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 164 x 42. Weight in Grams: 776.
- Publisher
- Flame Tree Publishing
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Deluxe
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781783613748
- ISBN
- 9781783613748
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 19.30
€ 26.99
€ 19.30
Hardback. M. R. James's classic ghost stories are some of the finest in English, creating menace and terror in lonely country houses and remote inns. This is the only one-volume edition to include all James's published stories, an appendix of James's writings on the ghost story, and a critical introduction and notes. Editor(s): Jones, Darryl. Series: Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FKC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 148 x 43. Weight in Grams: 632.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198797364
- ISBN
- 9780198797364
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.54
€ 23.99
€ 16.54
Hardcover. A collection of early stories and later fragments which throw an entirely new light on Jane Austen. Arranged in two parts, it includes everything she wrote apart from letters and the six famous novels. Num Pages: 502 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 136 x 32. Weight in Grams: 580.
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857152258
- ISBN
- 9781857152258
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 15.84
€ 20.99
€ 15.84
Paperback. Num Pages: 190 pages. BIC Classification: FF; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 197 x 16. Weight in Grams: 220.
- Publisher
- Oldcastle Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 190
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- FICTC
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781842432952
- ISBN
- 9781842432952
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.07
€ 23.99
€ 16.07
Paperback. This bestselling, critically acclaimed short story collection is being canonised Series: Canons. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 172.
- Publisher
- Canongate Canons
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782116295
- ISBN
- 9781782116295
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.78
€ 13.99
€ 10.78
Paperback. Shares the sights, the sounds, the excitement, and the knowledge which fuelled the authors passion for Spain and the bullfight. This book contains some of his finest writing, inspired by the intense life, as well as the inevitable death, of those hot, violent afternoons. Num Pages: 352 pages, 60 illustrations. BIC Classification: ASZX; FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 25. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Publisher
- Vintage/Ebury (a Division of Random House Gro
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099285021
- ISBN
- 9780099285021
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Hardcover. Presents comic wedding mishaps, engagements broken and mended, honeymoon adventures, and scenes both heartwarming and heartbreaking. This book covers glamorous weddings in Paris and New York, and more eccentric ones in the Wild West and on a remote island beach. It features nervous brides, forgetful grooms, second thoughts, and second chances. Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Classics. Num Pages: 408 pages. BIC Classification: FR; FYB; WJW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 188 x 124 x 28. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841596235
- ISBN
- 9781841596235
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.88
€ 15.99
€ 11.88