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Paperback. Asserts the author's belief in Joseph Conrad as a 'bloody racist' and his conviction that Conrad's novel "Heart of Darkness" only serves to perpetuate damaging stereotypes of black people. This title includes "The Trouble with Nigeria", the author's searing outpouring of his frustrations with his country. Series: Penguin Great Ideas. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 111 x 8. Weight in Grams: 74.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 112
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141192581
- ISBN
- 9780141192581
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.47
€ 10.99
€ 9.47
Paperback. Examines the political nature of culture and specifically literature. This title challenges the way the West has appropriated Africa with a particular emphasis on how 'imperialist' literature has been used to justify its dispossession and degradation. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; 2AB; BGA; DSBH; DSK; GTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 128. 128 pages. This work is an extended exploration of the European impact on African culture, viewed through the most vivid experience available to the author - his own life. It is an extended snapshot of a major writer's childhood, illuminating his roots as an artist. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1H; 2AB; BGA; DSBH; DSK; GTB. Dimension: 199 x 129 x 10. Weight: 126.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841953854
- ISBN
- 9781841953854
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.74
€ 13.99
€ 10.74
Paperback. This anthology of 20 stories are from all over Africa, grouped geographically into four different sections - West, East, North and Southern Africa. Editor(s): Achebe, Chinua; Innes, C. L. Series: Heinemann African Writers Series. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 11. Weight in Grams: 160.
- Publisher
- Pearson Education Limited United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780435905361
- ISBN
- 9780435905361
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.31
€ 17.31
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Pearson Education Limited United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780435905668
- ISBN
- 9780435905668
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.26
€ 17.26
Paperback. Chinua Achebe's poetic output is gathered together in this volume by arguably the most influential African writer of the 20th century. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 136 x 8. Weight in Grams: 138
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Carcanet
- Condition
- New
- Format
- Paperback
- SKU
- 9781857548433
- ISBN
- 9781857548433
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 11.08
€ 11.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. Includes seven plays that explore themes of memory and identity. Series: In Performance. Num Pages: 264 pages, 50 halftones. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 162 x 26. Weight in Grams: 536.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857420206
- ISBN
- 9780857420206
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 21.26
€ 25.99
€ 21.26
Hardback.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- The Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies United States
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Number of pages
- 847
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674027121
- ISBN
- 9780674027121
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 69.90€ 63.79
€ 69.90
€ 63.79
Paperback. A new and startling collection of plays about women and the Criminal Justice System, written by six of the UK's most exciting young female playwrights. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 14. Weight in Grams: 214.
- Publisher
- Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848421295
- ISBN
- 9781848421295
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.95
€ 19.99
€ 15.95
Paperback. Down the road in Oil Street, Liverpool, there are no walls, and a fierce sense of belonging that has nothing to do with place. There are two families, two ways of life: yards apart, yet worlds between. But when Bobby starts skipping school to hang out with Danny, their friendship forces both families to look beyond the walls that divide them. Num Pages: 96 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 6. Weight in Grams: 116.
- Publisher
- Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 96
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781854599605
- ISBN
- 9781854599605
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.40
€ 12.40
Paperback. Marie, twenty-something, and Lorraine, early fifties, have shared a cell. Now Marie is in her own bedsit, coping with life on the outside - just about. That is until poor, hopeless Lorraine shows up. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 6. Weight in Grams: 94.
- Publisher
- Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 96
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848420021
- ISBN
- 9781848420021
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.41
€ 16.99
€ 13.41
Paperback. A fresh and disturbing new play from the sure-fire, ever-fruitful Bush Theatre, London. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 7. Weight in Grams: 107.
- Publisher
- Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 96
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781854598493
- ISBN
- 9781854598493
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.54
€ 18.99
€ 17.54
paperback. Num Pages: 138 pages, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 135 x 10. Weight in Grams: 118.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Route United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 138
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781901927184
- ISBN
- 9781901927184
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.30
€ 10.30
Hardcover.
- Publisher
- MacLehose Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780857050960
- ISBN
- 9780857050960
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Poems on immigrants, their homeland and the plight of women by a poet who rec-ently returned to Kurdistan. The book's central sequence, Anfal, tells the stories of women survivors of genocide. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 216 x 17. Weight in Grams: 124.
- Publisher
- Bloodaxe Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780372785
- ISBN
- 9781780372785
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.41
€ 13.99
€ 11.41
Paperback. Charting the life of exile and displacement, terror and betrayal, repression and the subjugation of women, family love, flight, survival, and the mixed blessings of a mixed marriage in Britian, this book is a collection of poetry. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 138 x 215 x 4. Weight in Grams: 114.
- Publisher
- Bloodaxe Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 64
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781852246440
- ISBN
- 9781852246440
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.66
€ 13.99
€ 11.66
Paperback. Editor(s): Walker, University Nancy A (late of Vanderbilt University). Num Pages: 364 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 445.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Bedford United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 364
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312195755
- ISBN
- 9780312195755
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.71
€ 31.99
€ 28.71
Hardback. Dustjacket worn
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Thomas Nelson & Sons
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1946
- SKU
- KTK0094056
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 45.00
€ 45.00
paperback. The "Arthurian Romances" contains prose translations of all five of Chretien's "verse romans" - "Erec and Enide", "Cliges", "Lancelot", "Yvain", "Perceval". Translator(s): Carroll, Carleton W.; Kibler, William W. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140445213
- ISBN
- 9780140445213
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.99
€ 19.99
€ 14.99
Paperback. This translation of "Lancelot" brings to English-language readers, the fourth of Chretien's five surviving romantic Arthurian poems. This poem was the first to introduce Lancelot as an important figure in the King Arthur legend. Translator(s): Raffel, Professor Burton (Distinguished Arts and Humanities,Professor of English, University of Louisiana). Series: Chretien de Troyes Romances. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 212 x 139 x 19. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Edition
- n 9780300071214
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300071214
- ISBN
- 9780300071214
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.48
€ 26.99
€ 20.48
Hardback. Series: Arthurian Studies. Num Pages: 634 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 180 x 54. Weight in Grams: 1348.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843844006
- ISBN
- 9781843844006
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 175.43
€ 175.43
Paperback. A twelfth-century poem by the creator of the Arthurian romance describes the courageous exploits and triumphs of a brave lord who tries to win back his deserted wife's love. Translator(s): Raffel, Professor Burton. Series: Chretien de Troyes Romances. Num Pages: 228 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DCF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 60 x 19. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300038385
- ISBN
- 9780300038385
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 22.75
€ 30.99
€ 22.75
Paperback. Originally published: Tallahassee, Fla.: Journal of Beckett Studies Books, c2004. Num Pages: 264 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 15. Weight in Grams: 416. The Annotated 'Murphy'. 264 pages, Illustrations. Originally published: Tallahassee, Fla.: Journal of Beckett Studies Books, c2004. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 15. Weight: 416.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 264
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748641505
- ISBN
- 9780748641505
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.87
€ 33.99
€ 30.87
Paperback. Obscure Locks offers a detailed annotation of Samuel Beckett's most enigmatic novel, Watt. It provides a page by page account of the demented details (literary, philosophical, theological, biographical and other) that went into the making of this encyclopaedic novel. Num Pages: 296 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 16. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 296
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748641512
- ISBN
- 9780748641512
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.15
€ 37.99
€ 34.15
Hardcover. Num Pages: 96 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 272. 95pp
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Dedalus Press
- Number of pages
- 96
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- SKU
- KON0832880
- ISBN
- 9781904556039
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 11.99€ 4.99
€ 11.99
€ 4.99