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Paperback. The tale of lives won from a cruel sea and crueller landlords. The dawning of the herring fisheries brought with it the hope of escape from the Highland Clearances, and this story paints a vivid picture of a community fighting against nature and history, and refusing to be crushed. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 34. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1978
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571090419
- ISBN
- 9780571090419
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 10.59
€ 12.99
€ 10.59
Paperback. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Unnamed Press United States
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781939419743
- ISBN
- 9781939419743
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.93
€ 18.99
€ 17.93
Paperback. Translator(s): Lee, Jennifer M. Num Pages: 366 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 138 x 24. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Dalkey Archive Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781564789150
- ISBN
- 9781564789150
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 6.23
€ 15.99
€ 6.23
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780679735465
- ISBN
- 9780679735465
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 15.78
€ 18.99
€ 15.78
Paperback. Is it possible to forgive and forget? Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153 x 29. Weight in Grams: 518. Fine copy showing minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Hachette Books Ireland
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSS0014025
- ISBN
- 9781444743203
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Translator(s): Aplin, Hugh. Num Pages: 124 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 125 x 11. Weight in Grams: 132.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Hesperus Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 124
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843914310
- ISBN
- 9781843914310
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 16.37
€ 18.99
€ 16.37
Paperback. Most of us can remember a defining moment in our lives. A split second when time stood still and our lives changed forever. For Lily Ormond, that moment came late one night when she answered a knock on the door and discovered that while she'd been smashing garlic and rosemary and watching the soaps, her sister Alison had drowned. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 33. Weight in Grams: 362. Good clean copy with some reader wear.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- 1st ed
- SKU
- KTM0006437
- ISBN
- 9781848270114
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Series: Arab American Writing. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 150 x 14. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815609827
- ISBN
- 9780815609827
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.55
€ 20.99
€ 19.55
Paperback. When Kino, a poor Indian pearl-diver, finds 'the Pearl of the world' he believes that his life will be magically transformed. He will marry Juana and their son Coyotito will be able to attend school. Obsessed by his dreams, Kino is blind to the greed and even violence the pearl arouses in him and his neighbours. Illustrator(s): Orozco, Jose Luis. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 128 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 8. Weight in Grams: 106.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141185125
- ISBN
- 9780141185125
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.70
€ 11.99
€ 9.70
Paperback. Num Pages: 266 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 203 x 15. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Amberjack Publishing
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780997237719
- ISBN
- 9780997237719
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 14.86
€ 15.99
€ 14.86
paperback. Ezeulu, the chief priest of Ulu, has rivals in the tribe, in the white government and even in his own family. Surrounded by trouble, he adopts an increasingly cosmic view of events - surely in the battle of the dieties, he is merely an arrow in the bow of his God? Series: Heinemann African Writers Series. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 202. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- HEINEMANN
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMK0022456
- ISBN
- 9780435905309
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
Paperback. A sweeping novel set in war-torn China, with a star-crossed love story at its centre. Series: Russian Concubine. Num Pages: 608 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 133 x 39. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780751540420
- ISBN
- 9780751540420
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.78
€ 15.99
€ 11.78
Paperback. Jemima Jones is overweight. About seven stone overweight. Treated like a slave by her thin and bitchy flatmates, lorded over at the Kilburn Herald by the beautiful Geraldine (less talented, but better paid), her only consolation is food. What with that and her passion for her charming, sexy colleague Ben, she knows her life needs changing. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 126 x 32. Weight in Grams: 324. Good copy with some shelf wear.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KTG0003226
- ISBN
- 9780140276909
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
paperback. Num Pages: 157 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 139. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Shoestring Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 157
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781899549337
- ISBN
- 9781899549337
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.29
€ 10.29
Paperback. * Linda Grant's 'best novel yet' (Financial Times) is a thoughtful and engaging story of a London family from the late sixties to the present Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 24. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Virago
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844086399
- ISBN
- 9781844086399
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.46
€ 10.99
€ 9.46
Paperback. First published in 1930 under the title Fever Pitch, The Lizard Woman is Frank Waters' first novel. It foreshadows a theme central to Waters' later work: that we must attune our spirits to the land to fully understand our places in the natural order. Num Pages: 146 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 143 x 280. Weight in Grams: 168.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press Ohio
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 146
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804009874
- ISBN
- 9780804009874
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.54
€ 17.99
€ 17.54
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 5SL; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 216 x 14. Weight in Grams: 206.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Bywater Books United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781932859171
- ISBN
- 9781932859171
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 14.33
€ 15.99
€ 14.33
Paperback. Richard Madeley's first novel plays beautifully into the heart of commercial fiction, a love story with intrigue and betrayal at its core Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781471112638
- ISBN
- 9781471112638
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.20
€ 10.99
€ 9.20
Paperback. Num Pages: 370 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Graywolf Press,U.S. United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781555976637
- ISBN
- 9781555976637
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.23
€ 16.99
€ 15.23
Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 138 x 10. Weight in Grams: 200.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Dalkey Archive Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781564789143
- ISBN
- 9781564789143
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 6.23
€ 12.99
€ 6.23
Paperback. For amiable City trader Jimmy Corby money was the new Rock n' Roll. His whole life was a party, adrenalin charged and cocaine fuelled. If he hadn't met Monica he would probably have ended up either dead or in rehab. But Jimmy was as lucky in love as he was at betting on dodgy derivatives, so instead of burning out, his star just burned brighter. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 133 x 31. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Number of pages
- 480
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780552775106
- ISBN
- 9780552775106
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.06
€ 13.99
€ 11.06
Paperback. Grade school teacher and aspiring author Peregrine Long sees a Chinese family on board a ship--in his morning tea. The image inspires him to write the story of this family, but then a woman turns up at his door, claiming that he's writing her family history exactly as it happened. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Adams Media Corporation United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781440591624
- ISBN
- 9781440591624
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 16.11
€ 18.99
€ 16.11
Paperback. She witnessed a murder - and now her life is in danger.. Fifteen year-old Belle, though raised in a London brothel, is an innocent. But when she witnesses one of the girls brutally strangled by a client, she is cast into a cruel, heartless world. Snatched from the streets and sold into prostitution, she is made a courtesan in New Orleans. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 40. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780241950364
- ISBN
- 9780241950364
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 10.38
€ 12.99
€ 10.38
Paperback. Julia Hunter and Kate Bain have, it seems, each found true happiness with men old enough to be their fathers. The tranquil lives of the men and the girls seem shattered as new relationships develop and old anxieties surface, and nothing will ever be quite the same again. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 21. Weight in Grams: 224. Good copy with some shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KRA0006590
- ISBN
- 9780552994927
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99