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Paperback. Using the framework of four long poems, 'Ports', 'Settlements', 'Fields' and 'Roads', this title balances presence with absence; we are shown the homing instinct - felt in the blood and marrow - as a pull to refuge, simplicity, and a safe haven, while at the same time hearing the siren call from the world beyond. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 9. Weight in Grams: 129.
Publisher
Jonathan Cape
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780224090056
ISBN
9780224090056
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.43

Paperback. Offers a collection of essays that tells the story of the period in our cultural and political life. This book is filled both with personal story and the power of documentary witness. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 304.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571238866
ISBN
9780571238866
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 16.07

Paperback. For sixty years Elizabeth II has met each of her twelve prime ministers in a weekly audience at Buckingham Palace, a meeting like no other in British public life. It is private. Both parties have an unspoken agreement never to repeat what is said. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (J) Children / Juvenile; (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 199 x 127 x 16. Weight in Grams: 110.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571326624
ISBN
9780571326624
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.50

Paperback. A stark and violent exploration of an American myth, this is a novel about the doomed gunslinger Billy the Kid. Editor(s): Schmidt, Michael. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 20. Weight in Grams: 262.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784975135
ISBN
9781784975135
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.94

paperback. Beautifully illustrated, The Authentic Shakespeare is about how the modern constructs the past, how the texts that were performed on the Elizabethan stage became the books and editions that are, for our time, Renaissance drama. Num Pages: 296 pages, 23 line drawings, 75 b&w photographs, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; AN; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415912136
ISBN
9780415912136
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.28

Hardcover. * This is a major new work from one of the world s leading historians of print culture and the book. * Chartier shows that, in the early history of the book, the roles played by the printer and the typesetter were just as important as the role played by the author: they were often invisible but they were crucial. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JB; DSBD; HBTB; KNTP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 502.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Polity Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745656014
ISBN
9780745656014
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 72.77

Paperback. * This is a major new work from one of the world s leading historians of print culture and the book. * Chartier shows that, in the early history of the book, the roles played by the printer and the typesetter were just as important as the role played by the author: they were often invisible but they were crucial. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JB; DSBD; HBTB; KNTP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 392.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Polity Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745656021
ISBN
9780745656021
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.93

Paperback. Poems of a lost self and a lost brother. Growing up with undiagnosed Asperger's, Limburg identified with Alice from Alice in Wonderland. Another of the book's main sequences was written in response to her brother's suicide. Num Pages: 72 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 216 x 23. Weight in Grams: 124.
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780373430
ISBN
9781780373430
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.08

Paperback. For Gertrude Stein and her wife Alice B Toklas, life in Paris was based upon the rue de Fleurus and the Saturday evenings and 'it was like a kaleidoscope slowly turning'. Audacious, sardonic and characteristically self-confident, this title offers a definitive account by an American in Paris. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 137 x 17. Weight in Grams: 206.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141185361
ISBN
9780141185361
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

Paperback. The Norton Critical Edition of this influential Harlem Renaissance novel includes related materials available in no other edition. Editor(s): Goldsby, Jacqueline. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 512 pages, 12. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DNF; DSBH; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 132 x 212 x 28. Weight in Grams: 490.
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393972863
ISBN
9780393972863
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.47

Hardcover. Very good in slipcase. Some age wear to both book and slipcase, as well as some very minor age staining, but overall remains very good
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
New York: The Heritage Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1955
Edition
First Thus
SKU
KTJ0041901
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 6.75

Paperback. From the bestselling author of The Yacoubian Building comes a novel bursting at the seams with Egyptian life 'Among the best writers in the Middle East today .. Al Aswany has his own magic' Guardian Translator(s): Harris, Russell. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153 x 33. Weight in Grams: 620.
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
9780857862204
ISBN
9780857862204
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 14.77

Paperback. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 253 x 9. Weight in Grams: 136.
Publisher
Caitlin Press Inc.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781927575680
ISBN
9781927575680
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.64

Paperback. Num Pages: 211 pages. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 173 x 107 x 14. Weight in Grams: 118.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Bantam Books Inc
Condition
New
SKU
V9780553213300
ISBN
9780553213300
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 7.00

Hardback. Used Copy. Good Clean Copy
Condition
Used, Very Good
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Capricorn Books/ Published By G.P. Putnam's Sons
Publication date
1964
Edition
Capricorn Books Edition, 1964
SKU
KDK0015359
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

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

Paperback. The plays of Euripides have stimulated audiences since the fifth century BC. Part of the series "Euripides in Penguin Classics", this title contains plays such as "Phoenician Women", "Bacchae", "Iphigenia at Aulis", "Orestes", and "Rhesus". Translator(s): Vellacott, Philip. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DD; DSBB; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 194.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1973
Publisher
Penguin Books
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140440447
ISBN
9780140440447
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.25

Paperback. Brother and sister, Constance and Kenneth Fielding live in calm respectability, just out of reach of London and the Blitz. But when a series of uninvited guests converge upon them - from a Balkan exile to Ken's old flame and the siblings' own raffish father - the household struggles to preserve its precious peace. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 31. Weight in Grams: 312.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099529323
ISBN
9780099529323
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.50

Paperback. 'I am dazzled by The Bachelors. It is the cleverest and most elegant of all Spark's clever and elegant books' Evelyn Waugh Now available in print and eBook as a gorgeous canon Series: Canons. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 182.
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Main - Canons ed.
Condition
New
SKU
9781782117551
ISBN
9781782117551
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 10.74

Hardcover. Good copy in red cloth
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Metheun & Co
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1914
SKU
KOC0002572
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Hardcover. Good copy in original red cloth, title in guilt on the spine, some minor staining
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Metheun & Co
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1914
SKU
KAK0003371
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. The first English translation of two captivity plays by Cervantes, set in Algiers and Constantinople. Featuring a lively cast of corsairs, captives, and renegades, they offer important insights into early modern Spain's conception of the world of Islam. Num Pages: 208 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 226 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 326.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812222159
ISBN
9780812222159
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.20

Paperback. Here, 16 scholars from Europe and the USA offer essays on topics such as the "Child ballads" in their British and American forms; aspects of the oral literatures of France, Ireland, Scandinavia, ancient Greece, modern Egypt and medieval England as well as recent literary ballads and popular songs. Series: English Studies. Num Pages: 368 pages, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KBB; AVGH; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674060463
ISBN
9780674060463
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 29.82

Paperback. Oscar Wilde's most famous poem, with illustrations and an afterward with background information. Illustrator(s): Hay, Peter. Num Pages: 72 pages, 54 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 6. Weight in Grams: 144.
Publisher
Two Rivers Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
72
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
3rd edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781901677751
ISBN
9781901677751
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.68

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