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Paperback. Tells the story of a haunted childhood, lived out in two dimensions. One is legendary: the Sun-fort of Grianan, home of the warrior Fianna; the Field of the Disappeared, over which no gulls fly; the house in Donegal where children are stolen away by demonic forces. The other is actual: the city of Derry in the Northern Ireland of the 40s and 50s. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 200. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KCW0000163
ISBN
9780099744412
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. The legend of the headless horseman and a proposed marriage doe convenance both have their impact on the mystery of a golden talisman ring and lord Lavenham's young heir, Ludovic. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 145 x 198 x 17. Weight in Grams: 196.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Cornerstone
Condition
New
SKU
9780099474395
ISBN
9780099474395
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.64

Paperback. In an 18th-Century England of wit, womanising and powdered wigs, provincial Philip Jettan runs the risk of irreproachability. Cleone Charteris stands in no such danger. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 132.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Cornerstone
Condition
New
SKU
9780099474432
ISBN
9780099474432
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.70

Paperback. The war of Troy is looming, and all the kings of the Great Green are gathering, friends and enemies. Into this maelstrom of treachery and deceit come three travellers; Piria, a runaway priestess nursing a terrible secret, Kalliades, a warrior with a legendary sword, and Banokles who will carve his own legend in the battles to come. Series: Troy. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 108 x 40. Weight in Grams: 328.
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Corgi
Condition
New
Format
Paperback
SKU
9780552151122
ISBN
9780552151122
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 10.90

Paperback. Richard Duke of York is dead, his ambitions in ruins, his head spiked on the walls of the city. King Henry VI is still held prisoner. His Lancastrian Queen rides south with an army of victorious northerners, accompanied by painted warriors from the Scottish Highlands. With the death of York, Margaret and her army seem unstoppable. Series: The Wars of the Roses. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 197 x 36. Weight in Grams: 356.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
SKU
9780718196424
ISBN
9780718196424
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.33

Paperback. In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, meet weekly to play mahjong and tell stories of what they left behind in China. United in loss and new hope for their daughters' futures, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 260.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
9780749399573
ISBN
9780749399573
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.38

Paperback. Series: The Wars of the Roses. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 344.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9781405921497
ISBN
9781405921497
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.70

Paperback. It is 1919 and the end of the war has not brought peace for Emeline Vane. Lost in grief, she is suddenly alone at the heart of a depleted family. She can no longer cope. And just as everything seems to be slipping beyond her control, in a moment of desperation, she boards a train and runs away. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FR; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 21. Weight in Grams: 241.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9781784160739
ISBN
9781784160739
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.38

Paperback. Christopher and Toni found in each other the perfect companion for that universal adolescent pastime: smirking at the world as you find it. Longing for real life to begin, Christopher makes for Paris in time for les evenements of 1968, only to miss it all in a haze of sex, French theatre and first love. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 216 x 20. Weight in Grams: 274.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
9781784705916
ISBN
9781784705916
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.45

Paperback. In early 18th-century Lisbon, Baltasar, a soldier who has lost his left hand in battle, falls in love with Blimunda, a young girl with visionary powers. From the day that he follows her home from the auto-da-fe where her mother is burned at the stake, the two are bound body and soul by love of an unassailable strength. Translator(s): Pontiero, Giovanni. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 22. Weight in Grams: 252.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9781860469015
ISBN
9781860469015
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.45

paperback. Vanessa Tait, great-granddaughter of the Alice who inspired Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, tells the fascinating story of the childhood classic's strange beginnings through the eyes of a naive and deceived governess. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 210 x 24. Weight in Grams: 344. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Atlantic Books United Kingdom
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of pages
304
SKU
KOG0001797
ISBN
9781782396826
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 12.99
€ 4.99

Paperback. Tells the story of a haunted childhood, lived out in two dimensions. One is legendary: the Sun-fort of Grianan, home of the warrior Fianna; the Field of the Disappeared, over which no gulls fly; the house in Donegal where children are stolen away by demonic forces. The other is actual: the city of Derry in the Northern Ireland of the 40s and 50s. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 200. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KMK0000988
ISBN
9780099744412
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. The three great-nephews of cantankerous mr Penicuik know better than to ignore his summons, especially when it concerns the bestowal of his fortune. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 240.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Cornerstone
Condition
New
SKU
9780099474371
ISBN
9780099474371
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.45

Paperback. Georgian England, 1789. Under a cloud of scandal, Henrietta Lightfoot flees her home at Melmouth Park. She has little money and no worthwhile talents, for what use is a neat stitch and a pretty voice outside the drawing room? Without family support, her only hope of survival lies with the dashing but elusive Lord Allenham.. Series: Henrietta Lightfoot. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 33. Weight in Grams: 352. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Corgi
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KCW0001759
ISBN
9780552162517
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. The unsolved riddle at the heart of style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Pudd'nhead Wilson> is less the identity of the murderer than the question of whether nature or nurture makes the man. In his introduction, Werner Sollors illuminates the complex web of uncertainty that is the switched-and-doubled-identity world of Mark Twain's novel. Series: The John Harvard Library. Num Pages: 190 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FC; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 278.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674059832
ISBN
9780674059832
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 31.06

Paperback. Following Madame Tussaud, Michelle Moran continues the story of France with a depiction of life in Napoleon's court. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 133 x 23. Weight in Grams: 256. Very good clean copy with minor shelf wear. Light sticker wear on back cover, remains very good
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KCW0004679
ISBN
9780857388629
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Walter Hartwright is married, prosperous and a little bored. When he is approached to write a life of the painter Turner he accepts, unaware that his subject lived a life more dark than light. Researching the painter's life, he is soon affected with its possibilities of violence and even murder that he no longer trusts his own sanity and character. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 196 x 32. Weight in Grams: 384. Very good copy with light shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KCW0005851
ISBN
9780571202768
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Collects the complete Cossack stories of Harold Lamb: every adventure of Khlit the Cossack and those of his friends, allies, and fellow Cossacks. This title features essays Lamb wrote about his stories, informative introductions by popular authors, and a wealth of rare, exciting, swashbuckling fiction. Editor(s): Jones, Howard Andrew. Num Pages: 548 pages, 1 map, 1 appendix. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 28. Weight in Grams: 744.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
548
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803280502
ISBN
9780803280502
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.56

Paperback. Continuing the tumultuous story of TheCousins War, Philippa tells the tale of a young mother's determined ambition for her son - soon to be Henry VII Num Pages: 432 pages, 1 Illustrations. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 36. Weight in Grams: 300.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Simon & Schuster UK
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847394651
ISBN
9781847394651
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Paperback. "A man is the sum of his misfortunes." -William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury Editor(s): Gorra, Michael. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 544 pages, maps. BIC Classification: DSK; FC; FV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 132 x 28. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Edition
Third Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393912692
ISBN
9780393912692
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 22.26

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