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Paperback. 'Nobody has ever quite pulled it off the way Cain does, not Hemingway, and not even Raymond Chandler' Tom Wolfe Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 9. Weight in Grams: 128.
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780752864365
ISBN
9780752864365
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.26

Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 5SL; DS; FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 17. Weight in Grams: 366.
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1982
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253202727
ISBN
9780253202727
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.51

Paperback. A scalpel sharp political satire from the Orange Prize winning writer of We Need to Talk about Kevin. Num Pages: 400 pages, map. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 134 x 26. Weight in Grams: 284. Like new.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
9780007459919
ISBN
9780007459919
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. A scalpel sharp political satire from the Orange Prize winning writer of We Need to Talk about Kevin. Num Pages: 400 pages, map. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 134 x 26. Weight in Grams: 286. Good copy, some shelf wear
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
SKU
KTG0000187
ISBN
9780007459919
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Hardcover. Polybius' overall theme is how and why the Romans spread their power as they did. The main part of his history describes the rise of Rome, her destruction of Carthage, and her eventual domination of the Greek world. It is a vital achievement despite its incomplete state; all but the first five of its original forty books survive. Translator(s): Paton, W. R. Series: Loeb Classical Library. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 3D; DB; DSBB; HBLA1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 116 x 33. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
640
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674996595
ISBN
9780674996595
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.86

Paperback. "The Republic" deals with almost the whole range of Plato's thought, but is particularly concerned with what makes a well-balanced society and individual. It combines argument with myth to advocate a life organized by reason rather than dominated by leisures and appetites. Translator(s): Davies, John Llewelyn; Vaughan, David James. Series Editor(s): Griffith, Tom. Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; DNF; HPCA; JPHC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 200 x 125 x 24. Weight in Grams: 260.
Edition
New Ed
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
SKU
V9781853264832
ISBN
9781853264832
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 7.09

Paperback. A collection of poems that explores time and memory, past and present, death, loss, decay and legacy. Translator(s): Jones, Francis R. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 138 x 7. Weight in Grams: 158.
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9781852247805
ISBN
9781852247805
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.62

Paperback. Black Roads traces the impact of the Famine on Irish literature from William Carlton's The Black Prophet (from which the title is taken) to more contemporary work by authors Num Pages: 44 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 283 x 231 x 5. Weight in Grams: 250.
Publisher
Quinnipiac University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780990468646
ISBN
9780990468646
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 12.02

Paperback. Dr Victoria Stewart explores the life and work of Sean O'Casey, whose writing career spanned some of the most tumultuous times in Ireland's history, tracing the path which led him to an association with Dublin's Abbey Theatre in the early 1920s, and the turn his career took after he made the decision to leave Ireland for good. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: AN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 197 x 13. Weight in Grams: 132.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
KTG0007650
ISBN
9780571230068
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. The epic journey of one man's life, by one of America's most outstanding writers. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 298. Previously read copy, with some shelfwear
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
SKU
KST0030820
ISBN
9780340826638
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Hardcover. Demonstrating the centrality of animals to an eighteenth-century literary and philosophical tradition, Animals and Other People argues for the importance of this tradition to current discussions of what life is and how we might live together. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 164 x 240 x 28. Weight in Grams: 594.
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812248579
ISBN
9780812248579
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 85.18
€ 31.57

Paperback. "Victims of a Map" presents fifteen translated poems by each poet. It includes thirteen poems by Darwish never before published in book form, even in Arabic, and a long work by Adonis written during the 1982 siege of Beirut, also published here for the first time. Translator(s): al-Udhari, Abdullah. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: 2CSR; DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 137 x 9. Weight in Grams: 204.
Publisher
Saqi Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
168
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Bilingual
Condition
New
SKU
V9780863565243
ISBN
9780863565243
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 12.62

Hardcover. Fine in fine dust wrapper
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
William Heinemann
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
SKU
KSG0015516
ISBN
9780434011865
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. Series: Collins Classics. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DDS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 113 x 19. Weight in Grams: 158. Like new.
Edition
UK ed.
Publisher
William Collins
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
9780007902415
ISBN
9780007902415
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Hardcover. In this volume, the distinguished Dublin poet Harry Clifton - who has lived and worked all over the globe - focuses on locating himself and other Irish poets in relation to the literary traditions of Britain, Europe and the United States. Clifton opens by recounting his time living in London in the late eighties and early nineties. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
Publisher
University College Dublin Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906359904
ISBN
9781906359904
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 20.64

Paperback. Features poems in Gaelic and the poet's own English versions. This work is divided in two parts - 'the gift of anger' and 'the other turning'. Its scope ranges from the western isles of Scotland to the battlefields of Europe and the collapse of the Iron Curtain. It shows how human struggles and achievements are repeated across time and place. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 139 x 9. Weight in Grams: 134. 8vo . Some light shelfwear otherwise a good copy. Signed and inscribed by the author
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
1st
SKU
KEX0281173
ISBN
9781846970023
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 15.00

Paperback. However insistently the idea of catastrophe hangs over Benjamin's writings in the final years of his life, the "victories wrested" in this period constitute some of the most remarkable 20th century analyses of the emergence of modern society. This volume ranges from studies of Baudelaire and Brecht to appraisals of photography, film, and poetry. Editor(s): Eiland, Howard; Jennings, Michael W. Num Pages: 496 pages, 4 halftones. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DNF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 162 x 25. Weight in Grams: 648.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
496
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
1St Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674022294
ISBN
9780674022294
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 30.91

Paperback. The latest collection of plays by Howard Barker, one of the most significant and controversial dramatists of our time. Num Pages: 336 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 210 x 34. Weight in Grams: 426.
Publisher
Oberon Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781783193110
ISBN
9781783193110
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 22.71

Hardback. Editor(s): Strassle, Thomas; Unser, Margit. Translator(s): Hoban, Wieland. Series: SB - The Swiss List. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 127. .
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857424334
ISBN
9780857424334
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 19.28

Hardback. This book is an ethnographic journey into the literary-political field of Palestinian poetry in a secular age. Num Pages: 312 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBP; 2CSR; DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 590.
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804776462
ISBN
9780804776462
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.51

Paperback. Offer an account of author's part in World War Two that sees our hero doing very little soldiering. Because it's 1946. Rather, he is now part of the Bill Hall Trio - a 'Combined Services Entertainment' inflicted on unsuspecting soldiers across Italy and Austria - and is largely preoccupied with the unbearably beautiful ballerina, Ms Toni Fontana. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations, facsims., ports. BIC Classification: DN; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 206.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
6th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241958148
ISBN
9780241958148
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.84

Paperback. Irish writers who were considered Irish by the English, and English by the Irish are discussed here - including Maria Edgeworth, W.B. Yeats, J.M. Synge, Sheridan le Fanu, Elizabeth Bowen and James Joyce. Num Pages: 288 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 22. Weight in Grams: 530 Paperback, white spine. Keywords: 20th Century Ireland. 280pp
Publisher
University College Dublin Press
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KON0819945
ISBN
9781900621076
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 28.00
€ 22.00

Paperback. Pocketbook selection of essential poems from the three anthologies: a Staying Alive travel companion also available as an e-book. Editor(s): Astley, Neil. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 191 x 119 x 10. Weight in Grams: 216. 160 pages. Editor(s): Astley, Neil. Pocketbook selection of essential poems from the three anthologies: a Staying Alive travel companion also available as an e-book. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCF. Dimension: 191 x 119 x 10. Weight: 216.
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781852249427
ISBN
9781852249427
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.11

Hardback. The first comparative treatment of the Darwins' theories of history and their profound contribution to the study of both natural and human systems, this book will fascinate students and scholars of nineteenth-century British literature and the history of science. Num Pages: 352 pages, 10, 7 black & white halftones, 3 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; 3JH; DSB; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 237 x 31. Weight in Grams: 608.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421420769
ISBN
9781421420769
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 56.19
€ 52.02

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