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Paperback. A biography of Bruce Chatwin, based on private notebooks, diaries, letters and hundreds of interviews. It illuminates the many sides of Chatwin, from Sotheby's director, archaeologist, "Sunday Times" journalist and traveller to devoted husband and active gay, socialite and loner. Num Pages: 656 pages, illustrations facsimiles, geneal. table, portraits. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 40. Weight in Grams: 480. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0002223
ISBN
9780099289975
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. While the Reverend Maybold creates a furore among the village's musicians with his decision to abolish the church's traditional 'string choir' and replace it with a modern mechanical organ, the new schoolteacher, Fancy Day, causes an upheaval of a more romantic nature, winning the hearts of 3 men - a local farmer, a church musician and Maybold. Editor(s): Dolin, Tim. Num Pages: 288 pages, map. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2ACG; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 218. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
Revised ed.
SKU
KKD0002193
ISBN
9780140435535
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. This play is about the nightmare all parents must have dreamed of at some time, that of living with a child born so hopelessly crippled as to be, as the father says, "a human parsnip". Num Pages: 96 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 8. Weight in Grams: 112. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1967
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0002187
ISBN
9780571083695
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. The memoirs of Ireland's acclaimed author and playwright, Hugh Leonard. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; BGA; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 202. Good clean copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Methuen
Condition
Used, Like New
Edition
New
SKU
KKD0002182
ISBN
9780413771681
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 17.95

Paperback. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0002171
ISBN
9780140620313
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Town House
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0002142
ISBN
9781860591723
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. In this text, celebrated drug smuggler Howard Marks has collected together all of the unpublished material sent to him over the years from drug users, traffickers, smugglers, and prisoners - people from all walks of life. Also included are selections from Marks' own collection of drug writing. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: BTC; DQ; JKVG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 35. Weight in Grams: 394. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0002061
ISBN
9780099428558
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. The third volume in Soyinka's series of memoirs, the sequel to "Ake and Isara". In a mixture of fact and fiction - to protect the innocent and nail the guilty and shape an often intolerable reality - it tells of the coming of age of a writer and political activist; and of a nation's betrayal. Num Pages: 397 pages, 1 b&w line. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGA; DNF; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 374. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Methuen Publishing Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0002011
ISBN
9780413744203
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
First UK Edition
SKU
KKD0001886
ISBN
9780007142415
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSP1; JFSP2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 133 x 15. Weight in Grams: 280. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Thimble Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0001865
ISBN
9780903355476
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. Asserts that poetry, like music, is based on sound and so close attention should be paid to its rhythms and metrical patterns. This book illustrates the author's points with examples ranging from nursery rhymes and limericks to experimental forms as well as familiar pieces from over the centuries. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 236. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0001792
ISBN
9780140285376
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. Stanley Webber is visited in his boarding-house by two strangers, Goldberg and McCann. An innocent-seeming birthday party for Stanley turns into a nightmare. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 199 x 127 x 8. Weight in Grams: 96. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
Main
SKU
KKD0001766
ISBN
9780571160785
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. At the centre of the novel is the crumbling seastack of the Old Man of Hoy and the consuming relationship between a young artist, Kim, coldly passionate, talented, secretive, and Jimmy, a North Sea roughneck, engineer and climber. It deals with the possibility of friendship between men and women. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 21. Weight in Grams: 258. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
Main
SKU
KKD0001728
ISBN
9780571212859
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. A play which is as much about the theatre as it is about poetry or music. It looks at the unsettling desires of two difficult men, and at the ethics of biography. It reflects on growing old, on creativity and inspiration, and on persisting when all passion's spent: ultimately, on the habit of art. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 127 x 8. Weight in Grams: 124. Good clean copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KKD0001718
ISBN
9780571255610
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 17.95

Paperback. Explores the plight of a family of refugees who end up in a boarding house in Hastings where they try to come to terms with British culture and the painful memories of the past. Editor(s): Robson, Cheryl. Num Pages: 64 pages, B/W PHOTOS. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 5. Weight in Grams: 113. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Aurora Metro Publications
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0001705
ISBN
9780954691202
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. Includes titles such as "Buoyant Billions: A comedy of no manners", "Farfetched Fables" in which Shaw's thoughts simplified; "Shakes vs. Shav" in which puppets portray Shaw and Shakespeare - the play comprises a comic argument between the two playwrights, an intellectual Punch and Judy; and, "Why She Would Not", his final play. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 162. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0001704
ISBN
9780140450422
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. Willy Loman is on his last legs. Failing at his job, dismayed at his the failure of his sons, Biff and Happy, to live up to his expectations, and tortured by his jealousy at the success and happiness of his neighbour Charley and his son Bernard, Willy spirals into a well of regret, reminiscence, and a scathing indictment of the ultimate failure.. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 10. Weight in Grams: 104. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
01st Edition
SKU
KKD0001700
ISBN
9780141182742
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. In South Kilkenny, where Duiske stream joins the river Barrow at Graiguenamanagh, lies one of Ireland's many Norman-Cistercian abbeys. This novella is set amongst this monastic community in the year 1304, a century after the abbey's foundation. It aims to evoke the textures and rhythms of this medieval religious settlement. Num Pages: 64 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 136 x 6. Weight in Grams: 91. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
The Lilliput Press Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0001685
ISBN
9780946640379
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. In 1992, a climber was left to die by other climbers on Mount Everest, which horrified Joe Simpson who was himself left for dead in Peru in 1985. In this book Simpson explores anecdotally and in heated debates with his climbing companions on Pumori, the moral climate of mountaineering in the 1990s. Num Pages: 208 pages, 8pp colour and 8pp b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: BTP; DNF; WSZG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 15. Weight in Grams: 180. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
UK ed.
SKU
KKD0001671
ISBN
9780099756118
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Hardcover. Hairdresser Rita feels that life is passing her by. She wants an education. But does Frank have anything to teach her? Willy Russell's play gives a hilarious - and often moving - account of a young woman's determination to change her life. Series: New Longman Literature. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 5AM; DD; YQE. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 206 x 135 x 15. Weight in Grams: 206. Good clean copy
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Longman
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KKD0001661
ISBN
9780582434455
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 17.95

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