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Paperback. Critically acclaimed, award-winning biography of CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien and the brilliant group of writers to come out of Oxford during the Second World War. Num Pages: 304 pages, With index. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 232.
Publisher
HarperCollins
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007748693
ISBN
9780007748693
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.45

Hardback. The direct challenge it poses to the idea of an exclusionary Judeo-Christian Enlightenment serves as an important revision to post-9/11 narratives about a historical clash between Western democratic values and Islam. Num Pages: 368 pages, 5, 5 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; HRH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 163 x 28. Weight in Grams: 630.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421403533
ISBN
9781421403533
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 84.97

Hardcover. As state control of private life in China has loosened since 1980, citizens have experienced an unprecedented family revolution. Reading popular "divorce narratives" in fiction, film, and TV drama, this book shows that the representation of marital discord has become a cultural battleground for competing ideologies within post-revolutionary China. Series: Modern Language Initiative Books. Num Pages: 224 pages, 7 illus. BIC Classification: 1FPC; DSBH; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295993492
ISBN
9780295993492
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 132.85

Paperback. As state control of private life in China has loosened since 1980, citizens have experienced an unprecedented family revolution. Reading popular "divorce narratives" in fiction, film, and TV drama, this book shows that the representation of marital discord has become a cultural battleground for competing ideologies within post-revolutionary China. Series: Modern Language Initiative Books. Num Pages: 224 pages, 7 illus. BIC Classification: 1FPC; DSBH; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 162 x 18. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295993508
ISBN
9780295993508
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 33.91

Paperback. Summons the poet's past selves in order of appearance, as in an autobiography. This title includes childhood and school time that offer up the amateur theatricals of themselves, in poems of vertiginous retrospect; and other poems itemize the professional selves of the poet's actor-father Hugh Williams. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 135 x 6. Weight in Grams: 92.
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
64
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571245932
ISBN
9780571245932
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.73

Paperback. In these poems, deadpan comedy and a relish for the outrageous and the bizarre often carry an emotional charge. Subjects include the stings inflicted by school, family and love-life. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 128 x 7. Weight in Grams: 100.
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
80
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571171750
ISBN
9780571171750
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.20

Paperback. A volume that bears - and lays bare - those qualities that have become so characteristic of the author's work: his unflinching survey of his childhood and adult life alike, alighting on moments of vivacity from his upbringing in a theatrical family in the 1940s and 50 through to the romantic peaks and pains of his adult years. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 11. Weight in Grams: 108.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571308897
ISBN
9780571308897
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.52

Paperback. In gathering four decades of work, Hugo Williams' "Collected Poems" brings back into print a vast body of material long since unavailable - from his 1965 debut "Symptoms of Loss", to "Self-portrait with a Slide" (1990). This edition also includes "Dock Leaves". Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 22. Weight in Grams: 332.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
9780571216918
ISBN
9780571216918
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.29

Hardback. Poetry Broadsheet, 17 x 14 cm (Framed, 43x35.5cm). Signed by the author. Part of a portfolio that covers virtually every important English 20th century poet alive at the time. Poem of the Month 1970 - 1975. Keywords: Poetry - Broadsheets - Poem of the Month Club
Publisher
Poem of the Month Club London
Condition
Used, Like New
Format
Hardback
SKU
KHS0056633
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 75.00

Hardback. Hugo von Hofmannsthal is one of the modern era's important writers, but his fame as Richard Strauss' collaborator on such operas as "Der Rosenkavalier" and "Die Frau ohne Schatten" has obscured his other remarkable writings. This title is an introduction to the enormous range of this artist. It is a collection of his writings in English. Editor(s): McClatchy, J. D. Num Pages: 520 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF; DD; DN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 242 x 166 x 20. Weight in Grams: 858.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
520
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691129099
ISBN
9780691129099
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.42
€ 46.48

Paperback. Translator(s): Rotenberg, Joel. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 130 x 9. Weight in Grams: 168.
Publisher
The New York Review of Books, Inc United States
Number of pages
152
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9781590171202
ISBN
9781590171202
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 15.98

Paperback. The Vita Secundi is a Greek text of the second century AD. The substantial introduction to the edition deals with the motives for the work's translation into Spanish, tracks the extent of its diffusion in Spain, and analyses in detail the textual history of the Spanish version. Editor(s): Bizzarri, Hugo O. Series: Exeter Hispanic Texts. Num Pages: 46 pages. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 2ADS; DSBB; HBJD; HBLH; HPQ; HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 203 x 8. Weight in Grams: 190.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
46
Condition
New
SKU
V9780859896757
ISBN
9780859896757
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.42

Hardback. By far the largest bibliography of Portuguese literature published in the U.S. Num Pages: 521 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADP; DSB; GBCR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 154 x 32. Weight in Grams: 721.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
521
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810828445
ISBN
9780810828445
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 160.29

Paperback. 139pp
Publisher
The Atlantis Collective
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
9780954749378
ISBN
9780954749378
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 13.50

hardcover. Good clean copy, showing light age and shelfwear. Light wear to dust jacket
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Fourth Estate London
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KMO0000837
ISBN
9780007148059
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.70

Paperback. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0001501
ISBN
9780007314706
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Good clean copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0026981
ISBN
9780007365562
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 12.00

Paperback. 'Not only haunted by death, but also by beauty and the strangeness of being alive. A deeply memorable novel' Colm Toibin Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 22. Weight in Grams: 208.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007324866
ISBN
9780007324866
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.65

Paperback. 'This is the most gripping book I've read in ages .. It is beautifully written, fascinating, disturbing and often very funny.' Roddy Doyle Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 19. Weight in Grams: 226.
Edition
UK ed.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007148110
ISBN
9780007148110
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.70

Paperback. Hugo Hamilton, the internationally acclaimed author of 'The Speckled People' and 'Sailor in the Wardrobe', turns his hand back to fiction with a compelling drama tracing Berlin's central historical importance throughout the twentieth century. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 133 x 22. Weight in Grams: 212. Used paperback, in good condition. Some shelf wear.
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
SKU
KRF0031544
ISBN
9780007314706
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

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