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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. Isabella is flamboyant and passionate, a medieval Helen of Troy - wife to King John and mother to Henry III. Blanche of Castile is the serene and virtuous Queen of France, wife of Louis VIII and mother of Louis IX. The two women hated each other on sight. Isabella would stop at nothing, not even murder, in her passion to destroy the French Queen. Series: Plantagenet Saga. Num Pages: 480 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 30. Weight in Grams: 344. DIASPORA
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Arrow
Condition
New
SKU
9780099510260
ISBN
9780099510260
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 11.08

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

€ 35.99
€ 30.66

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
€ 26.35

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
€ 10.74

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

€ 19.99
€ 18.49

Paperback. Translator(s): Geddes, Tom. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 168.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780714530789
ISBN
9780714530789
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.34

Paperback. A reconstruction of the dramatic weeks leading up to the Emperor Constantine's triumph in Rome. It summons up the Roman world of two thousand years ago, the everyday life of soldiers on campaign and the intrigues at court. It tells the many-faceted story of Constantine's loss of faith in God and in human love. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FJM; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 146.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Vintage
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099287292
ISBN
9780099287292
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.23

Hardcover. How lethal is love, how dangerous is woman? And how sensual is the yearning for immortality? This book presents the drama of Jummo's life, the tragic arc of her affair with her childhood sweetheart and her lifelong love for the mysterious Sidi Wadhana, a more-than-human emissary from the Netherworld. Series: Middle East Literature in Translation. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 165 x 22. Weight in Grams: 568.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815608660
ISBN
9780815608660
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 25.14

Paperback. For two years Osric has lived a simple life, though he is feared and shunned for his mysterious past and blood-red eye. When raiders from across the sea ransack his village, Osric finds himself taken prisoner by their chief, Sigurd the Lucky. Osric proves a natural warrior and forges a deep bond with Sigurd, who renames him Raven. Series: Raven. Num Pages: 464 pages, B & W map. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 29. Weight in Grams: 314.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Corgi
Condition
New
SKU
9780552157896
ISBN
9780552157896
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 10.27

Paperback. The first book in Bernard Cornwell's bestselling GRAIL QUEST series, in a bright and bold repackage. Series: The Grail Quest. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 34. Weight in Grams: 360.
Publication date
2009
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Condition
New
Format
Paperback
SKU
9780007310302
ISBN
9780007310302
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.11

Paperback. A vivid and gripping historical thriller set in Elizabethan England introducing Giordano Bruno, philosopher, scientist and spy for all fans of C.J.Sansom and The Name of the Rose. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 33. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Condition
New
SKU
9780007317707
ISBN
9780007317707
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.57

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