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Paperback. Features the work by the twenty writers that Granta's judges - including novelists Edmund White and AM Homes - have selected as the most interesting young voices in American fiction. Editor(s): Jack, Ian. Series: Granta: The Magazine of New Writing. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 448. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Granta Publications Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
SKU
KTG0002530
ISBN
9780903141925
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. This edition centres around celebrity, both good and bad. Contributions include: the search for Hitler's doctor; an Irish republican looks at the Queen Kyle Stone; how Hillary Clinton's home views Hillary; and the cannibal emperor of the Central African Republic. Editor(s): Jack, Ian. Series: Granta: The Magazine of New Writing. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 126. Weight in Grams: 349. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Granta Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
SKU
KRA0009526
ISBN
9780903141543
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Britain invented the factory - Manchester was the world's first factory city. Where are they now? The anser, mainly, is China. An issue devoted to how and where we made and make things, from strawberries in the fields of Herefordshire to the car plants of Korea. Editor(s): Jack, Ian. Series: Granta: The Magazine of New Writing. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations (some col.), ports. (some col.). BIC Classification: DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. .
Publisher
Granta Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
KTG0007755
ISBN
9780903141758
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Featuring distinguished writers and reporters: John Simpson, James Fenton, Martha Gellhorn, Germaine Greer, Ryszard Kapuscinski, as well as talents Elana Lappin, Suketu Mehta and Wendell Steavenson, this book covers some of the signal events: the fall of Saigon, the end of apartheid in South Africa, the massacre in Tiananmen Square, and more. Editor(s): Jack, Ian. Series: Classics of Reportage S. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: DNJ; HBG; HBLW3; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 199 x 30. Weight in Grams: 320.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Granta Books
Condition
New
SKU
9781862078154
ISBN
9781862078154
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 16.59

Paperback. Based on Ian Kelly's award-winning biography, Mr Foote's Other Leg is a riotously funny play exploring our obsession with celebrities, through the true story of the Oscar Wilde of the eighteenth century. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 164.
Publisher
Nick Hern Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848425071
ISBN
9781848425071
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.48

Hardcover. Part guidebook and part exploration into literary history, this book explores how natural surroundings inspired works of literature set along the Appalachian Trail. The author examines how our modern estrangement from the natural world has affected our mental well-being. Series: Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; JM; WN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 562.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813921679
ISBN
9780813921679
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.27

Paperback. In this intriguing literary experiment, Ian Marshall presents a collection of nearly three hundred haiku that he extracted from Henry David Thoreau s "Walden" and documents the underlying similarities between Thoreau's prose and the art of haiku." Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 360.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820340654
ISBN
9780820340654
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.81

Hardback. McAdam illustrates how two fundamental points of destabilisation in Marlowe's life and work - his subversive treatment of Christian belief and his ambivalence toward his homosexuality - clarify the plays' interest in the struggle for self-authorisation. Num Pages: 283 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 248 x 165. Weight in Grams: 580.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
283
Condition
New
SKU
V9780874136654
ISBN
9780874136654
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 130.91

Paperback. Num Pages: 72 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 136.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Peepal Tree Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
72
Condition
New
SKU
V9781900715379
ISBN
9781900715379
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 18.76

Paperback. On a chilly February day two old friends meet in the throng outside a crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane. Both Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday had been Molly's lovers in the days before they reached their eminence, Clive as Britain's composer, and Vernon as editor of the quality broadsheet, The Judge. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 188.
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099272779
ISBN
9780099272779
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

Paperback. YORK NOTES ADVANCED - THE ULTIMATE LITERATURE GUIDES. Series: York Notes Advanced. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 4KLR; DSBH; DSK. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 211 x 145 x 9. Weight in Grams: 212.
Publisher
Trans-Atlantic Publications, Inc.
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405835619
ISBN
9781405835619
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.88

Paperback. Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth marriage floundering. But this time it is different: his wife is having the affair, and he is still in love with her. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 288.
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
01st Edition
SKU
KEX0302721
ISBN
9780099549024
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 5.70

hardcover. Very good copy in good dustwrapper. First edition signed by the author
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
1st
Publisher
Jonathan Cape London
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
SKU
KEX0303053
ISBN
9780224081184
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 250.00

paperback. Good clean copy showing minor shelf and reading wear, remains a nice copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Jonathan Cape Ltd London
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0015571
ISBN
9780224076753
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.44

Paperback. Perowne makes his way to his weekly squash game through London streets filled with hundreds of thousands of anti-war protestors. A minor car accident brings him into a confrontation with Baxter, a fidgety, aggressive, young man, on the edge of violence. To Perowne's professional eye, there appears to be something profoundly wrong with him. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 248.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Vintage Publishing London
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099469681
ISBN
9780099469681
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

paperback. Clean copy with some shelf wear. Some light yellowing on pages and incription on inner page but remains good
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Jonathan Cape Ltd London
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KCW0000254
ISBN
9780224076753
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 5.44

paperback. In the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her too is Robbie Turner who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge. By the end of that day, the lives of all three will have changed for ever.. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 29. Weight in Grams: 360. Clean copy with some shelf wear but remains good
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Vintage London
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KCW0000479
ISBN
9780099429791
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 5.44

paperback. In the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her too is Robbie Turner who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge. By the end of that day, the lives of all three will have changed for ever.. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 29. Weight in Grams: 360. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Vintage London
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KMK0004714
ISBN
9780099429791
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.44

Paperback. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Jonathan Cape
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KIN0032407
ISBN
9780224090506
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth marriage floundering. But this time it is different: his wife is having the affair, and he is still in love with her. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 288. Fine copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0003387
ISBN
9780099549024
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.70

Paperback. It is July 1962. Edward and Florence, young innocents married that morning, arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in their rooms they struggle to suppress their private fears of the wedding night to come and, unbeknownst to them both, the events of the evening will haunt them for the rest of their lives. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 170.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Vintage
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099512790
ISBN
9780099512790
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.00

Paperback. Thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, like Cecilia, has come down from Cambridge. By the end of that day, the lives of all three will have been changed for ever. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 25. Weight in Grams: 306. Some shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Vintage Books
Edition
1st
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KTK0095830
ISBN
9780099507383
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

paperback. The year is 1972, the Cold War is far from over and Serena Frome, in her final year at Cambridge, is being groomed for MI5. Sent on Operation Sweet Tooth - a highly secret undercover mission - she meets Tom Haley, a young writer. First she loves his stories, then she begins to love the man. Can she maintain the fiction of her undercover life? Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 35. Weight in Grams: 358. Good clean copy showing light age and shelfwear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KMO0001585
ISBN
9780099578789
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.70

paperback. Joe Rose's calm, organised life is shattered by a ballooning accident. The afternoon could have ended in mere tragedy, but for his meeting with Jed Parry. Unknown to Joe, something passes between them that it will test to the limits Joe's scientific rationalism, threaten the love of his wife and drive him to the brink of murder and madness. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 244. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Vintage
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KTJ8039164
ISBN
9780099276586
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.12

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