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Paperback. Tells the story of a haunted childhood, lived out in two dimensions. One is legendary: the Sun-fort of Grianan, home of the warrior Fianna; the Field of the Disappeared, over which no gulls fly; the house in Donegal where children are stolen away by demonic forces. The other is actual: the city of Derry in the Northern Ireland of the 40s and 50s. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 200. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KCW0000163
- ISBN
- 9780099744412
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Hardcover. Clean copy. Fine in dust jacket. DJ has minor wear and tear to edges but remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Viking
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- First American Edition
- SKU
- KCW0000166
- ISBN
- 9780670853458
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 9.39
€ 9.39
Paperback. The worlds of business, politics and crime collide in contemporary Dublin when two men with same name, from the same family, die on the same night - one death is a gangland murder, the other, a road accident. Was it a coincidence? That's the official version of events. But when a family member starts asking questions this notion quickly unravels. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 153 x 39. Weight in Grams: 602. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber United Kingdom
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- Main
- Number of pages
- 480
- SKU
- KCW0000238
- ISBN
- 9780571250035
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 12.99€ 4.99
€ 12.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Clean copy minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KCW0000242
- ISBN
- 9781447249771
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
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
€ 5.44
Hardback. Clean copy with some shelf wear. Some wear and tear and foxing on the pagesbut remains good
- Publication date
- 1977
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Format
- Hardback
- SKU
- KCW0000260
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Clean copy with some shelf wear. Some wear and tear on the cover. Some foxing on pages but remains good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1980
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Irish Times
- SKU
- KCW0000301
- ISBN
- 9780907011026
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardcover. Clean copy with some shelf wear. Small incription on inside page with a small tear. Fine in dust jacket. DJ has some wear and tear but remains good.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- O'Brien Press Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Edition
- First edition
- SKU
- KCW0000315
- ISBN
- 9780862782764
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 9.39
€ 9.39
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
€ 5.44
Paperback. A beautiful woman Model and it-girl Tara Parker Trench is famous across Ireland - with her beauty, glittering lifestyle and perfect three-year-old son Presley, she seems to have it all. Until, one cold wet Dublin night, Tara pulls into a service station for petrol, leaving Presley strapped into the back of her car. Five minutes later he's gone.. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 126 x 16. Weight in Grams: 286. Clean copy with some shelf wear. Some wear and tear on the cover but remains good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KCW0000481
- ISBN
- 9781848270831
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Clean copy with some shelf wear. Light scoring on inside of cover but remains good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KCW0000511
- ISBN
- 9780140131598
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Dickens had everything - fame, success and riches - but he died harbouring a deep sadness he had experienced all his life. He was a man of mercurial character, but he also had a sense of loss and longing that would constantly appear in his work. This title takes the reader into the life of one of the world's greatest writers. Num Pages: 624 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; BGH; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 214 x 130 x 41. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Number of pages
- 624
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099437093
- ISBN
- 9780099437093
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 15.29
€ 21.99
€ 15.29
Paperback. Gladys and Annie Barnes are impoverished sisters who have seen better times. They live in a modest cottage in the backstreets of Highate with Mr Fisher, a mild but eccentric old man living secretively in the attic above them. Their quiet lives are thrown into confusion when a new landlord takes over, a dreaded and unscrupulous 'rackman'. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 22. Weight in Grams: 238.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099528692
- ISBN
- 9780099528692
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 9.70
€ 13.99
€ 9.70
Paperback. Features settings that are simple - a kitchen, a bedroom, a party - and the relationships between the husbands and wives that are more complicated. This title presents fraught relationships with humour, bathos and an understanding of human nature. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 16. Weight in Grams: 172.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099541639
- ISBN
- 9780099541639
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 11.04
€ 12.99
€ 11.04
Paperback. From his early days Wodehouse adored cricket and references to the game run like a golden thread though his writings. He not only wrote about this glorious British pastime, but also played it well, appearing six times at Lords, where his first captain was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This book presents Wodehouse's writings on cricket. Num Pages: 224 pages, facsims., ports. BIC Classification: DNF; WSJC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 141 x 21. Weight in Grams: 164.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099551362
- ISBN
- 9780099551362
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.70
€ 11.99
€ 9.70
Paperback. A biography of Virginia Woolf which moves freely between a detailed life-story and attempts to understand significant questions. She is presented as occupying a distinct and even uneasy position within the Bloomsbury Set, and also as a radically sceptical, subversive, courageous feminist. Num Pages: 912 pages, illustrations facsimiles, geneal. table, portraits. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2ACG; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 43. Weight in Grams: 624.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099732518
- ISBN
- 9780099732518
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 15.29
€ 21.99
€ 15.29
Paperback. As young girls, Nel and Sula shared each other's secrets and dreams in the poor black mid-West of their childhood. Then Sula ran away to live her dreams and Nel got married. Ten years later Sula returns and no one, least of all Nel, trusts her. This is a story of fear - the fear that traps us, justifying itself through perpetual myth and legend. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 156.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099760016
- ISBN
- 9780099760016
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.33
€ 13.99
€ 10.33
Paperback. Explores the cosmological, moral and spiritual origins of man's existence. In this title, the author produced poem of epic scale, conjuring up a cosmos and ranging across huge tracts of space and time, populated by a memorable gallery of grotesques. Editor(s): Leonard, John. Num Pages: 512 pages, notes. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 24. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140424393
- ISBN
- 9780140424393
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.10
€ 11.99
€ 10.10
Paperback. Containing various essays, this work discusses subjects as diverse as war-horses and cannibals, poetry and politics, sex and religion, love and friendship, ecstasy and experience. Translator(s): Screech, M. A. Num Pages: 1360 pages, index. BIC Classification: 2ACD; DNF; HPCB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 151 x 58. Weight in Grams: 932. Some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Edition
- New
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140446043
- ISBN
- 9780140446043
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 18.76
€ 26.99
€ 18.76
Paperback. Editor(s): Rowe, Christopher. Translator(s): Rowe, Christopher. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; HPCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 8. Weight in Grams: 102.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140449747
- ISBN
- 9780140449747
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.27
€ 11.99
€ 10.27
Paperback. 150 years after Homer's Iliad, Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos, west off the coast of Turkey. Little remains of her writings, which are said to have filled nine papyrus rolls in the great library at Alexandria some 500 years after her death. This title covers this surviving texts that consists of fragmented body of lyric poetry. Translator(s): Poochigian, Aaron. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 126.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140455571
- ISBN
- 9780140455571
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.32
€ 11.99
€ 10.32
Paperback. Through the testimony of numerous characters, both fictional and historical figures, the author builds up a composite picture of American society in the first quarter of the 20th century. Num Pages: 1184 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 134 x 50. Weight in Grams: 798.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141185811
- ISBN
- 9780141185811
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 18.37
€ 25.99
€ 18.37
Paperback. Reveals that the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of the patients and often inhibit them from seeking proper treatment. By demystifying the fantasies surrounding cancer, this study shows cancer for what it is. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; DSB; JFFH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 13. Weight in Grams: 150.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141187129
- ISBN
- 9780141187129
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.58
€ 15.99
€ 12.58
Paperback. Traces Russian poetry from its Golden Age to the modern era, including work by several great poets - Georgy Ivanov and Varlam Shalamov among them - in captivating modern translations by Robert Chandler and others. This volume also includes a general introduction, chronology and individual introductions to each poet. Editor(s): Chandler, Robert; Mashinski, Irina; Dralyuk, Boris. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 29. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141198309
- ISBN
- 9780141198309
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.45
€ 15.99
€ 12.45