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Paperback. A green knight on a green horse rudely interrupts the Round Table festivities one Yuletide, casting a pall of unease over the company and challenging one of their number to a wager. The virtuous Gawain accepts, and decapitates the intruder with his own axe. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 11. Weight in Grams: 158.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571223282
ISBN
9780571223282
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.33

Hardback. Simon Armitage - poet, playwright, broadcaster and Professor of Poetry at Oxford University - has been commissioned by 14-18 Now to write a sequence of poems in response to photographs (aerial, oblique and panoramic) of areas associated with the Battle of the Somme, which took place on the Western Front between July to November 1916. Num Pages: 80 pages, 12 images and 13 photographs. BIC Classification: DCF; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 310 x 251 x 15. Weight in Grams: 814.
Publisher
Enitharmon Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781911253136
ISBN
9781911253136
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 28.96

Paperback. Offers a collection that is by turns a voice and a chorus: a hyper-vivid array of dramatic monologues, allegories, parables and tall tales. The author creates world after world, peculiar yet always particular, where the only certainty is the unexpected. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 8. Weight in Grams: 130.
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
88
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571249947
ISBN
9780571249947
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.33

Hardcover. This flesh-and-blood account of numerous personal journeys reads like a private encyclopaedia of emotion and health. The poems range from the rainforests of South America to the deserts of Western Australia, but are set against that ultimate and most intimate of all landscapes, the human body. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 207 x 138 x 12. Weight in Grams: 199. Keywords: "Special Features - Used Books - Poetry, Drama & Criticism - Poetry - By Period,Special Features - Used Books - Poetry, Drama & Criticism - Poetry - General,Special Features - Used Books - Poetry, Dram"
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Faber and Faber London
Number of pages
80
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Edition
Main
SKU
KHS0038544
ISBN
9780571215331
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 31.99
€ 27.51

Paperback. Originally commissioned for BBC Radio, this work recasts Homer's epic as a series of dramatic dialogues. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 336.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571229369
ISBN
9780571229369
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.09

Paperback. Shows how the short poem, defined here as no longer than thirteen lines - and sometimes a lot shorter than that - can tell a story, present a complex argument, and be packed with as much passion. Editor(s): Armitage, Simon. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 9. Weight in Grams: 108.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571278725
ISBN
9780571278725
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Paperback. Losing none of the exuberance which has become a hallmark of Simon Armitage's poetry, these poems are more personal. The book is divided into three sections - the "Book of Matches" which are sonnets, "Becoming of Age" and "Reading the Bans", a series of poems about Armitage's marriage. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 6. Weight in Grams: 116.
Publisher
Faber and Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
80
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571169825
ISBN
9780571169825
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.09

Paperback. This flesh-and-blood account of numerous personal journeys reads like a private encyclopaedia of emotion and health. The poems range from the rainforests of South America to the deserts of Western Australia, but are set against that ultimate and most intimate of all landscapes, the human body. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 201 x 6. Weight in Grams: 70.
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
80
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571218608
ISBN
9780571218608
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 8.51

Paperback. Cloudcuckooland Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 9. Weight in Grams: 158.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571224104
ISBN
9780571224104
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.09

Paperback. A title that deals in the cut-and-thrust of warfare and politics: the ever-topical matter of Britain's relationship with continental Europe, and of its military interests overseas. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2022
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571298419
ISBN
9780571298419
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.09

Paperback. Very good copy with light shelf wear
Publication date
2005
Condition
Used, Very Good
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
SKU
KCW0006221
ISBN
9780141022550
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. "Compulsively readable. .. Simon Armitage has given us an energetic, free-flowing, high-spirited version."-Edward Hirsch, New York Times Book Review Num Pages: 208 pages, 2 illustrations. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 139 x 15. Weight in Grams: 170.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Edition
A New Verse Translation ed.
SKU
V9780393334159
ISBN
9780393334159
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.30

paperback. A collection of poems in which questions of belief and trust, of identity and knowledge, mingle with more mundane considerations, such as the problems of owning a dog, and the vicissitudes of the job market. Simon Armitage was the 1993 "Sunday Times" Young Writer of the Year. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 198 x 131 x 7. Weight in Grams: 90.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
SKU
9780571176007
ISBN
9780571176007
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.54

hardcover. Documents a world on the brink, a world of unreliable seasons and unstable coordinates, where Odysseus stalks the aisles of cut-price supermarkets in search of direction, where the star of Bethlehem rises over industrial Yorkshire, and where alarm bells for ailing communities go unheeded or unheard. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 146 x 224 x 14. Weight in Grams: 264. Fine in fine dust wrapper
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KSG0030397
ISBN
9780571333844
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 22.00

Paperback. This anthology offers a full introduction to Renaissance theatre in its historical and political contexts, along with newly edited and annotated texts from certain plays. Editor(s): Barker, Simon; Hinds, Hilary. Num Pages: 472 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DD; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 250 x 189 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1014.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
480
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415187343
ISBN
9780415187343
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.12

Paperback. Collects satires of the prose and poetry of writers including William Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, Ian Fleming, and Woody Allen. Editor(s): Brett, Simon. Num Pages: 384 pages, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DQ; WHX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 240. Well-read paperback in good condition. Some shelf wear.
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Faber and Faber
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1984
Edition
First Edition
SKU
KRF0022033
ISBN
9780571132546
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. .
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
2011th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137446893
ISBN
9781137446893
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 119.21
€ 114.64

Paperback. The "Actors on Shakespeare" series draws on the contemporary relevance of, and enjoyment to be found in, Shakespeare. Each book provides an introduction to a particular play from an individual actor's perspective; here Simon Callow offers his view of Falstaff in "Henry IV, Part I" Editor(s): Nicholson, Colin. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; ANC; APB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 177 x 112 x 9. Weight in Grams: 72. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
Main
SKU
KKD0006111
ISBN
9780571214068
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. Simon Critchley discovers a brilliant text on the ancient art of memory and a cache of astrological charts predicting the deaths of various philosophers in the archives of a deceased philosopher friend of his. Among them is a chart for Critchley himself, laying out in great detail the course of his life and eventual demise. Num Pages: 72 pages, 8 black & white photographs. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 197 x 9. Weight in Grams: 132. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Fitzcarraldo Editions
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0006122
ISBN
9780992974718
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 19.99
€ 10.17

Paperback. Simon Critchley discovers a brilliant text on the ancient art of memory and a cache of astrological charts predicting the deaths of various philosophers in the archives of a deceased philosopher friend of his. Among them is a chart for Critchley himself, laying out in great detail the course of his life and eventual demise. Num Pages: 72 pages, 8 black & white photographs. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 197 x 9. Weight in Grams: 132.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Fitzcarraldo Editions
Condition
New
SKU
9780992974718
ISBN
9780992974718
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 10.17

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Smith/Doorstop Books United Kingdom
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906613853
ISBN
9781906613853
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.72

Paperback. Dealing with the forgotten comic literature of eighteenth-century Britain, this book uncovers a rich vein of cruel humor beneath the surface of Enlightenment civility that forces us to recognize just how slowly ordinary human sufferings became worthy of sympathy. Num Pages: 382 pages, 15 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; DSBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 592.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226142548
ISBN
9780226142548
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 36.61

Paperback. From the early Sumerian clay tablet through to the emergence of the electronic text, this Companion provides a continuous and coherent account of the history of the book. A team of expert contributors draws on the latest research in order to offer a cogent, transcontinental narrative. Editor(s): Eliot, Simon; Rose, Jonathan. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 616 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: DS; GL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 170 x 33. Weight in Grams: 922.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
616
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405192781
ISBN
9781405192781
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 43.57

Paperback. From Oscar Wilde's unconventional method of using the mail to cycling enthusiast Reginald Bray's quest to post himself, this title uncovers a host of stories that capture the enchantment of this irreplaceable art (with a supporting cast including Pliny the Younger, Ted Hughes, Virginia Woolf, Napoleon Bonaparte, Lewis Carroll, Jane Austen). Num Pages: 464 pages, illustrations (black and white). BIC Classification: DN; DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 137 x 30. Weight in Grams: 314.
Publisher
Canongate Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857868619
ISBN
9780857868619
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.81

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