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Paperback. Recalls the author's schooldays and Oxford, adolescent encounters with psychoanalysis and Russian roulette, his marriage and conversion to Catholicism, and how he rashly resigned from "The Times" when his first novel, "The Man Within" was published in 1929. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2CSJ; BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 144.
- Publisher
- VINTAGE (RAND) London
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099282570
- ISBN
- 9780099282570
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.94
€ 13.99
€ 10.94
Hardback. In 1492, the Spanish humanist Antonio de Nebrija proclaimed that "language has always been the companion of empire." Taking as his touchstone a suggestive sonnet that Garcilaso de la Vega wrote in 1535, this work examines how the companionship of language and empire played itself out more generally in the "new poetry" of 16th-century Europe. Num Pages: 144 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBD; DSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812240047
- ISBN
- 9780812240047
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.92
€ 52.92
Hardcover. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Sceptre
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KOG0000953
- ISBN
- 9780340734155
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
Hardcover. Good copy in original blue cloth. Decorative gold, pink, yellow and green illustrations on cover. Sunning to spine and some shelf wear to cover. Binding remains tight and text is clear
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Hutchinson & Co
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KOC0002433
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. BIC Classification: DCF. Dimension: 215 x 135. Weight in Grams: 430. First paperback edition. Signed and inscribed by author. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Harvill Press
- Edition
- First edition
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KOC0003349
- ISBN
- 9780002713245
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 50.00
€ 50.00
hardcover. Durrell's best-known work fused Western notions of time and space with Eastern metaphysics. Very little has been written about Durrell's work before the Second World War. With A Smile in His Mind's Eye, Ray Morrison seeks to redress this neglect. Num Pages: 530 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 40. Weight in Grams: 860.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 530
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802089397
- ISBN
- 9780802089397
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.87
€ 116.87
Paperback. Includes poems that connect and radiate like the spokes of a wheel: haiku, sestinas, poems beginning with a line by somebody else or sparked off by foreign travel, a version of Dante, a sea sequence set on the Suffolk coast, and - long overdue - the author's own version of the old Irish poem where his namesake is turned into a bird. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 132 x 14. Weight in Grams: 122.
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape London
- Number of pages
- 80
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780224060677
- ISBN
- 9780224060677
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.34
€ 10.99
€ 9.34
Hardcover. "Commissioning organisation: Michael Swan. 287 p. 23 cm. Original cloth. Good clean copy, spine sunned, ex-libris with plate and stamps." Keywords: Subjects
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Cape
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1957
- Edition
- 1st
- SKU
- KEX0059379
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 5.99€ 4.99
€ 5.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 123 x 14. Weight in Grams: 196.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571315703
- ISBN
- 9780571315703
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.36
€ 14.99
€ 11.36
Hardcover. Editor(s): Collister, Peter. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 30. Weight in Grams: 703.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Edition
- annotated edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813930817
- ISBN
- 9780813930817
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 79.93
€ 79.93
Paperback. 63pp. Christmas 1975 recommendation of the Poetry Book Society
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1975
- Publisher
- The Dolmen Press/Oxford/Wake Forest
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- SKU
- KHS1003929
- ISBN
- 9780851052830
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 35.00
€ 35.00
Paperback. 63pp. Christmas 1975 recommendation of the Poetry Book Society
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1975
- Publisher
- The Dolmen Press/Oxford/Wake Forest
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- SKU
- KHS1003928
- ISBN
- 9780851052830
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 35.00
€ 35.00
Paperback. First paperback edition. Signed by author. Cover has some staining and page edges are foxed but binding remains tight and text is clear
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- The Dolmen Press/Oxford/Wake Forest
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1975
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- KOC0003406
- ISBN
- 9780851052830
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 50.00
€ 50.00
Paperback. 63pp. Christmas 1975 recommendation of the Poetry Book Society
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publisher
- The Dolmen Press/Oxford/Wake Forest
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1975
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- KHS1003927
- ISBN
- 9780851052830
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 35.00
€ 35.00
Paperback. Morna works as a cleaner in Edinburgh. She spends her time drinking, attempting affairs and trying to work out the mind of the twenty-year-old son with whom she shares her flat. Her elder brother, Athol, lives near Glasgow airport with his wife. When Morna's son Joshua travels to see his uncle, he sets off a remarkable and life-changing events. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 181 x 6. Weight in Grams: 77.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 64
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571282111
- ISBN
- 9780571282111
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.57
€ 13.99
€ 10.57
Paperback. With a foreword by Neil Gaiman, this collection offers an insight behind the scenes of Discworld into a much loved and much missed figure. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 25. Weight in Grams: 269.
- Publisher
- Corgi
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780552167727
- ISBN
- 9780552167727
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.73
€ 14.99
€ 11.73
paperback. Presents a poem for several voices, set at night on the Severn Estuary. This book features various characters - some living, some dead - who talk towards the moment of moonrise and are changed by it. Num Pages: 48 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 5. Weight in Grams: 64.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Number of pages
- 48
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571247561
- ISBN
- 9780571247561
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.61
€ 13.99
€ 10.61
Hardcover. In this work the aphorisms collected from nine collections, are paired with spectacular photographs and focus on the natural environment, grouped by theme: nature, seasons, desert, water, sea, wind, rock, trees, and fire. Editor(s): Allen, Roger. Series: Middle East Literature in Translation. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 136 x 17. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815610342
- ISBN
- 9780815610342
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 12.42
€ 12.42
Hardback. Translator(s): Reidel, James. Series: SB-The German List. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 127. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Seagull Books London Ltd
- Edition
- Tra
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857424297
- ISBN
- 9780857424297
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 20.84
€ 25.99
€ 20.84
hardcover. First edition, some light foxing, dustjacket worn
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- The Bodley Head
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1964
- SKU
- KTK0094153
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 65.00
€ 65.00
Paperback. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1981
- Publisher
- Poolbeg Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KTJ0050478
- ISBN
- 9780905169446
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Poolbeg Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1981
- SKU
- KAK0010429
- ISBN
- 9780905169446
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Used paperback, in good condition.
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Poolbeg Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1981
- SKU
- KRF0017733
- ISBN
- 9780905169446
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Third collection by acclaimed Scottish poet. Herd's debut No Hiding Place was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and her second, Dead Redhead, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 134.
- Publisher
- BLOODAXE BOOKS
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781852248949
- ISBN
- 9781852248949
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.22
€ 13.99
€ 11.22