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Somerset Maugham - Cakes and Ale - 9780099282778 - 9780099282778

Cakes and Ale

Somerset Maugham

paperback. Traces the fortunes of Edward Driffield and his extraordinary wife Rosie, one of the most delightful heroines of twentieth-century literature. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 16. Weight in Grams: 164.

Format: Paperback
Publication date: 2000
Publisher: Vintage Classics
Condition: New
SKU: 9780099282778
ISBN: 9780099282778

Paperback

Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.45

Fannie Flagg - Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe - 9780099143710 - 9780099143710

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

Fannie Flagg

paperback. The day Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison opened the Whistle Stop Cafe, the town took a turn for the better. It was the Depression and that cafe was a home from home for many of us. Ruth was just the sweetest girl you ever met. And Idgie? She was a character, all right. But how anybody could have thought she murdered that man is beyond me. Num Pages: 528 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 131 x 26. Weight in Grams: 372.

Format: Paperback
Publication date: 1992
Publisher: Vintage
Condition: New
SKU: 9780099143710
ISBN: 9780099143710

Paperback

Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.45

Italo Calvino - If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Everyman's Library Classics) - 9781857151381 - 9781857151381

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Everyman's Library Classics)

Italo Calvino

hardcover. A postmodern novel which combines a love and a detective story with a sardonic dissection of the publishing industry in an allegory of reading. Two readers attempt to finish the same book, but are comically and repeatedly frustrated. Translator(s): Weaver, William. Num Pages: 254 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 136 x 24. Weight in Grams: 436.

Format: Hardback
Publication date: 1993
Publisher: Everyman
Condition: New
SKU: 9781857151381
ISBN: 9781857151381

Hardback

Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 13.91

Joseph Conrad - Nostromo - 9781857150889 - 9781857150889

Nostromo

Joseph Conrad

Hardcover. A novel, in which Charles Gould returns to South America determined to make a success of the inheritance left to him by his father, the San Tome mine. But his dreams are thwarted as the country is plunged into revolution. Num Pages: 532 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 131 x 29. Weight in Grams: 606.

Format: Hardback
Publication date: 1992
Publisher: Everyman
Edition: First Thus
Condition: New
SKU: 9781857150889
ISBN: 9781857150889

Hardback

Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 13.91

Anita Desai - Fire on the Mountain - 9780099428480 - 9780099428480

Fire on the Mountain

Anita Desai

paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 199 x 10. Weight in Grams: 124.

Format: Paperback
Publication date: 2001
Publisher: Vintage
Condition: New
SKU: 9780099428480
ISBN: 9780099428480

Paperback

Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 10.45

Bernice L. McFadden - Nowhere Is a Place - 9781617751318 - V9781617751318

Nowhere Is a Place

Bernice L. McFadden

Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 168 x 213 x 22. Weight in Grams: 316. 320 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 168 x 213 x 22. Weight: 316.

Format: Paperback
Publication date: 2013
Publisher: Akashic Books
Number of pages: 320
Condition: New
SKU: V9781617751318
ISBN: 9781617751318

Paperback

Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 20.29

Stephen Clarke - A Year in the Merde - 9780552772969 - V9780552772969

A Year in the Merde

Stephen Clarke

Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 121 x 24. Weight in Grams: 266.

Format: Paperback
Publication date: 2005
Publisher: Black Swan
Edition: 1st Black Swan Edition
Condition: New
SKU: V9780552772969
ISBN: 9780552772969

Paperback

Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.87

Patrick Dearen - The Big Drift - 9780875655703 - V9780875655703

The Big Drift

Patrick Dearen

Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 340.

Format: Paperback
Publication date: 2014
Publisher: Texas Christian University Press
Condition: New
SKU: V9780875655703
ISBN: 9780875655703

Paperback

Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 22.03

Albert Memmi - The Desert: Or, the Life and Adventures of Jubair Wali al-Mammi (Middle East Literature In Translation) - 9780815610557 - V9780815610557

The Desert: Or, the Life and Adventures of Jubair Wali al-Mammi (Middl...

Albert Memmi

Paperback. "First published a Le Daesert, ou la Vie et les Aventures de Jubair Ouali El-Mammi, Paris, Editions Gallimard, 1977, 1989."--Title page verso. Translator(s): Roumani, Judith. Series: Middle East Literature in Translation. Num Pages: 200 pages, 10 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 277.

Format: Paperback
Publication date: 2015
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Condition: New
SKU: V9780815610557
ISBN: 9780815610557

Paperback

Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 19.42

Sadie Jones - Small Wars - 9780099540526 - V9780099540526

Small Wars

Sadie Jones

Paperback. Hal Treherne is a soldier on the brink of a brilliant career. Impatient to see action, his other commitment in life is to his beloved wife, Clara, and when Hal is transferred to Cyprus she and their twin daughters join him. But the island is in the heat of the emergency; the British are defending the colony against Cypriots. Num Pages: 480 pages, 1 map,. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 27. Weight in Grams: 330.

Format: Paperback
Publication date: 2010
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Edition: Reprint
Condition: New
SKU: V9780099540526
ISBN: 9780099540526

Paperback

Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.95

Samuel Beckett - First Love and Other Novellas - 9780141180151 - KMK0019016

First Love and Other Novellas

Samuel Beckett

paperback. Includes the novellas "First Love", "The Calamative", "The End" and "The Expelled". Editor(s): Dukes, Gerry. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 8. Weight in Grams: 92. Good clean copy showing some age and shelf wear

Format: Paperback
Publication date: 2000
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Condition: Used, Good
SKU: KMK0019016
ISBN: 9780141180151

Paperback

Condition: Used, Good

€ 9.75

B.S. Johnson - Christie Malry's Own Double Entry - 9780811209540 - V9780811209540

Christie Malry's Own Double Entry

B.S. Johnson

Paperback. Num Pages: 180 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK; FA. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 250 x 200 x 13. Weight in Grams: 205.

Format: Paperback
Publication date: 1986
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Ltd United States
Edition: New ed
Number of pages: 180
Condition: New
SKU: V9780811209540
ISBN: 9780811209540

Paperback

Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.17

Henry Miller - Smile at the Foot of the Ladder - 9780811205566 - V9780811205566

Smile at the Foot of the Ladder

Henry Miller

paperback. Num Pages: 56 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 132 x 5. Weight in Grams: 80.

Format: Paperback
Publication date: 1974
Publisher: New Directions United States
Number of pages: 56
Condition: New
Edition: Reprint
SKU: V9780811205566
ISBN: 9780811205566

Paperback

Condition: New

€ 10.57

Frank Lean - Red for Rachel - 9780099594826 - V9780099594826

Red for Rachel

Frank Lean

paperback. David Cunane is Manchester's most off-beat private eye. Fond of drink, fatally attracted to the wrong women and champion of the lost cause, he walks a thin line. Rachel Elsworth is missing. Nineteen years old, she has mysteriously vanished into the city's seamy underworld. Her father employs Cunane to find her. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 181 x 146 x 29. Weight in Grams: 244.

Format: Paperback
Publication date: 2014
Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages: 448
Condition: New
SKU: V9780099594826
ISBN: 9780099594826

Paperback

Condition: New

€ 20.00
€ 17.53

Neil Jordan - Mistaken - 9781848544192 - KTK0090849

Mistaken

Neil Jordan

Paperback. From the writer of The Crying Game, Mistaken is part thriller, part gothic tragedy, part comedy of manners, brilliantly evoking the divided Dublin of the 1960s and the trauma of adolescence Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 195 x 27. Weight in Grams: 264. Good copy, some light shelf wear.name on inside cover

Format: Paperback
Publication date: 2011
Publisher: John Murray Press
Condition: Used, Very Good
SKU: KTK0090849
ISBN: 9781848544192

Paperback

Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Yates Richard - A Special Providence - 9780413775191 - V9780413775191

A Special Providence

Yates Richard

Paperback. Robert Prentice is 18. His mother Alice Prentice is 53. Both are damaged souls: Robert by war, Alice by thwarted dreams of prosperity. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 197 x 23. Weight in Grams: 276.

Format: Paperback
Publication date: 2006
Publisher: Methuen Publishing Ltd
Condition: New
SKU: V9780413775191
ISBN: 9780413775191

Paperback

Condition: New

€ 11.30

Joseph Conrad - Lord Jim - 9780451531278 - V9780451531278

Lord Jim

Joseph Conrad

mass_market. A bold young English sailor has despised himself ever since an impulsive moment of cowardice. Jim moves East to Patusan, where natives worship him--and where he may be able to find redemption. Includes a new Afterword. Revised reissue. Series: Signet Classics. Num Pages: 329 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 109 x 244 x 30. Weight in Grams: 214.

Format: Paperback
Publication date: 2009
Publisher: Signet United States
Number of pages: 329
Condition: New
Edition: Reprint
SKU: V9780451531278
ISBN: 9780451531278

Paperback

Condition: New

€ 8.18

John Broderick - The Waking of Willie Ryan - 9781843510499 - 9781843510499

The Waking of Willie Ryan

John Broderick

Paperback.

Format: Paperback
Publication date: 2024
Publisher: Lilliput Pr Ltd Dublin
Condition: New
SKU: 9781843510499
ISBN: 9781843510499

Paperback

Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.89

Kitty Neale - Nobody´s Girl - 9781847563484 - V9781847563484

Nobody´s Girl

Kitty Neale

Paperback. Abandoned and alone, you'll do anything to survive.. A gritty saga from the bestselling author Kitty Neale. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 140 x 35. Weight in Grams: 378. 544 pages. Abandoned and alone, you'll do anything to survive! A gritty saga from the bestselling author Kitty Neale. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 203 x 140 x 35. Weight: 378.

Format: Paperback
Publication date: 2011
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Number of pages: 544
Condition: New
SKU: V9781847563484
ISBN: 9781847563484

Paperback

Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.81

Selma Dabbagh - Out Of It - 9781408822036 - V9781408822036

Out Of It

Selma Dabbagh

Moving from Palestine to London to the Gulf, this unique novel brilliantly depicts modern-day family life in Gaza Translator(s): Amr, Kholood. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 220. 320 pages. Moving from Palestine to London to the Gulf, this unique novel brilliantly depicts modern-day family life in Gaza. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 195 x 129 x 21. Weight: 222.

Number of pages: 320
Condition: New
SKU: V9781408822036
ISBN: 9781408822036

Paperback

Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.79

Nicholas Monsarrat - The White Rajah - 9781842321614 - KMK0024588

The White Rajah

Nicholas Monsarrat

Paperback. Num Pages: 414 pages, map. BIC Classification: FA; FH; FJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 137 x 29. Weight in Grams: 588. Clean copy with minor nicks to cover at spine. Pages age toned and with light spotting to edges. Remains a good copy

Format: Paperback
Publication date: 2008
Publisher: House of Stratus United Kingdom
Number of pages: 414
Condition: Used, Good
SKU: KMK0024588
ISBN: 9781842321614

Paperback

Condition: Used, Good

€ 16.99
€ 12.88

Walter Duma Edmonds - The Boyds of Black River (New York Classics) - 9780815624547 - V9780815624547

The Boyds of Black River (New York Classics)

Walter Duma Edmonds

Paperback. Series: New York Classics. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 295.

Format: Paperback
Publication date: 1988
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Condition: New
SKU: V9780815624547
ISBN: 9780815624547

Paperback

Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.37

Liza Wieland - Land of Enchantment - 9780815610465 - V9780815610465

Land of Enchantment

Liza Wieland

Hardcover. In Liza WielandAEs deeply moving novel, three interwoven stories show the myriad ways ordinary women become extraordinary as they betray and heal, love and let go, and bear witness to the everyday beauty and loss that surrounds them. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 617.

Format: Hardback
Publication date: 2015
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Condition: New
SKU: V9780815610465
ISBN: 9780815610465

Hardback

Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 25.14

William Loizeaux - The Tumble Inn (New York State Series) - 9780815610427 - V9780815610427

The Tumble Inn (New York State Series)

William Loizeaux

Paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 249.

Format: Paperback
Publication date: 2014
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Condition: New
SKU: V9780815610427
ISBN: 9780815610427

Paperback

Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 19.18

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