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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED3105,M3D3106,MED3107,MED3143 Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 3 - The Last Five Minutes of A Storm - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2022 The Last Five Minutes of a Storm is a short story collection packed full of defiance, grief, connection, power and, of course, a dash of strangeness. With strong magical realism influences, this collection features a host of new and emerging writers,... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94444H Yvette Reche / French for Le Snob (Large Paperback) Searching for Le Mot Juste? You'll find it here. 'French for Le Snob' will show you how to use the many French loanwords with impeccable pronunciation. It's unique definitions will help you spice up your conversations with interesting anecdotes... 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MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG165 Sarah Salway - Leading the Dance - HB - SIGNED Secrets and their consequences run deep through Sarah Salway’s short stories in this haunting and sharply written collection, now republished with the addition of new stories.A bored housewife welcomes the nomadic painter of family pets into her... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79630H Angela Knight / Burning Up Bring these four authors together and it's sure to ignite a spark... Angela Knight pairs a vampire warrior and his seductive captor in a battle against demonic predators. Nalini Singh returns to the world of her Psy-Changeling series as a woman... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Mairtín Ó Cadhain - An tSraith Dhá Togáil - HB - As Gaeilge ( An Chéad Chló 1970) Cover art from Anne Yeats , still in the publishers original plastic covers over cloth . Foilsithe ag Sáirséal & Dill, 1970. 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED3105,M3D3106,MED3107,MED3143 Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 3 - The Last Five Minutes of A Storm - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2022 The Last Five Minutes of a Storm is a short story collection packed full of defiance, grief, connection, power and, of course, a dash of strangeness. With strong magical realism influences, this collection features a host of new and emerging writers,... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94444H Yvette Reche / French for Le Snob (Large Paperback) Searching for Le Mot Juste? You'll find it here. 'French for Le Snob' will show you how to use the many French loanwords with impeccable pronunciation. It's unique definitions will help you spice up your conversations with interesting anecdotes... 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7236H The Rules: The Way of the Cycling Disciple Rule #6: Free your mind and your legs will follow.THE VELOMINATI embrace cycling not as a pastime, but as a way of life, as obsessed with style, heritage, authenticity and wisdom as with performance.Rule #9: If you cycle in bad weather, it means... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Parsimony Press - A Twist in the Tale ( Saki : Dust , Guy de Maupassant : The Necklace, Ambrose Bierce : An Occurrence at Owl Creek , O. Henry : The Gift of The Magi) HB - 2000 4 Tales with ' unexpected twists' - classic short stories Dusk - Saki - Dusk is a hallmark of Saki's writing genius. Norman Gortsby considered dusk somewhat differently from others. To him, dusk was a time when losers in life, ashamed to... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG165 Sarah Salway - Leading the Dance - HB - SIGNED Secrets and their consequences run deep through Sarah Salway’s short stories in this haunting and sharply written collection, now republished with the addition of new stories.A bored housewife welcomes the nomadic painter of family pets into her... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79630H Angela Knight / Burning Up Bring these four authors together and it's sure to ignite a spark... Angela Knight pairs a vampire warrior and his seductive captor in a battle against demonic predators. Nalini Singh returns to the world of her Psy-Changeling series as a woman... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Mairtín Ó Cadhain - An tSraith Dhá Togáil - HB - As Gaeilge ( An Chéad Chló 1970) Cover art from Anne Yeats , still in the publishers original plastic covers over cloth . Foilsithe ag Sáirséal & Dill, 1970. 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MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG165 Sarah Salway - Leading the Dance - HB - SIGNED Secrets and their consequences run deep through Sarah Salway’s short stories in this haunting and sharply written collection, now republished with the addition of new stories.A bored housewife welcomes the nomadic painter of family pets into her... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79630H Angela Knight / Burning Up Bring these four authors together and it's sure to ignite a spark... Angela Knight pairs a vampire warrior and his seductive captor in a battle against demonic predators. Nalini Singh returns to the world of her Psy-Changeling series as a woman... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Mairtín Ó Cadhain - An tSraith Dhá Togáil - HB - As Gaeilge ( An Chéad Chló 1970) Cover art from Anne Yeats , still in the publishers original plastic covers over cloth . Foilsithe ag Sáirséal & Dill, 1970. 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED3105,M3D3106,MED3107,MED3143 Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 3 - The Last Five Minutes of A Storm - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2022 The Last Five Minutes of a Storm is a short story collection packed full of defiance, grief, connection, power and, of course, a dash of strangeness. With strong magical realism influences, this collection features a host of new and emerging writers,... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94444H Yvette Reche / French for Le Snob (Large Paperback) Searching for Le Mot Juste? You'll find it here. 'French for Le Snob' will show you how to use the many French loanwords with impeccable pronunciation. It's unique definitions will help you spice up your conversations with interesting anecdotes... 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MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG165 Sarah Salway - Leading the Dance - HB - SIGNED Secrets and their consequences run deep through Sarah Salway’s short stories in this haunting and sharply written collection, now republished with the addition of new stories.A bored housewife welcomes the nomadic painter of family pets into her... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79630H Angela Knight / Burning Up Bring these four authors together and it's sure to ignite a spark... Angela Knight pairs a vampire warrior and his seductive captor in a battle against demonic predators. Nalini Singh returns to the world of her Psy-Changeling series as a woman... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Mairtín Ó Cadhain - An tSraith Dhá Togáil - HB - As Gaeilge ( An Chéad Chló 1970) Cover art from Anne Yeats , still in the publishers original plastic covers over cloth . Foilsithe ag Sáirséal & Dill, 1970. 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7236H The Rules: The Way of the Cycling Disciple Rule #6: Free your mind and your legs will follow.THE VELOMINATI embrace cycling not as a pastime, but as a way of life, as obsessed with style, heritage, authenticity and wisdom as with performance.Rule #9: If you cycle in bad weather, it means... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Parsimony Press - A Twist in the Tale ( Saki : Dust , Guy de Maupassant : The Necklace, Ambrose Bierce : An Occurrence at Owl Creek , O. Henry : The Gift of The Magi) HB - 2000 4 Tales with ' unexpected twists' - classic short stories Dusk - Saki - Dusk is a hallmark of Saki's writing genius. Norman Gortsby considered dusk somewhat differently from others. To him, dusk was a time when losers in life, ashamed to... 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MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG165 Sarah Salway - Leading the Dance - HB - SIGNED Secrets and their consequences run deep through Sarah Salway’s short stories in this haunting and sharply written collection, now republished with the addition of new stories.A bored housewife welcomes the nomadic painter of family pets into her... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79630H Angela Knight / Burning Up Bring these four authors together and it's sure to ignite a spark... Angela Knight pairs a vampire warrior and his seductive captor in a battle against demonic predators. Nalini Singh returns to the world of her Psy-Changeling series as a woman... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Mairtín Ó Cadhain - An tSraith Dhá Togáil - HB - As Gaeilge ( An Chéad Chló 1970) Cover art from Anne Yeats , still in the publishers original plastic covers over cloth . Foilsithe ag Sáirséal & Dill, 1970. 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MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG165 Sarah Salway - Leading the Dance - HB - SIGNED Secrets and their consequences run deep through Sarah Salway’s short stories in this haunting and sharply written collection, now republished with the addition of new stories.A bored housewife welcomes the nomadic painter of family pets into her... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79630H Angela Knight / Burning Up Bring these four authors together and it's sure to ignite a spark... Angela Knight pairs a vampire warrior and his seductive captor in a battle against demonic predators. Nalini Singh returns to the world of her Psy-Changeling series as a woman... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Mairtín Ó Cadhain - An tSraith Dhá Togáil - HB - As Gaeilge ( An Chéad Chló 1970) Cover art from Anne Yeats , still in the publishers original plastic covers over cloth . Foilsithe ag Sáirséal & Dill, 1970. 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED3105,M3D3106,MED3107,MED3143 Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 3 - The Last Five Minutes of A Storm - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2022 The Last Five Minutes of a Storm is a short story collection packed full of defiance, grief, connection, power and, of course, a dash of strangeness. With strong magical realism influences, this collection features a host of new and emerging writers,... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94444H Yvette Reche / French for Le Snob (Large Paperback) Searching for Le Mot Juste? You'll find it here. 'French for Le Snob' will show you how to use the many French loanwords with impeccable pronunciation. It's unique definitions will help you spice up your conversations with interesting anecdotes... 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7236H The Rules: The Way of the Cycling Disciple Rule #6: Free your mind and your legs will follow.THE VELOMINATI embrace cycling not as a pastime, but as a way of life, as obsessed with style, heritage, authenticity and wisdom as with performance.Rule #9: If you cycle in bad weather, it means... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Parsimony Press - A Twist in the Tale ( Saki : Dust , Guy de Maupassant : The Necklace, Ambrose Bierce : An Occurrence at Owl Creek , O. Henry : The Gift of The Magi) HB - 2000 4 Tales with ' unexpected twists' - classic short stories Dusk - Saki - Dusk is a hallmark of Saki's writing genius. Norman Gortsby considered dusk somewhat differently from others. To him, dusk was a time when losers in life, ashamed to... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG165 Sarah Salway - Leading the Dance - HB - SIGNED Secrets and their consequences run deep through Sarah Salway’s short stories in this haunting and sharply written collection, now republished with the addition of new stories.A bored housewife welcomes the nomadic painter of family pets into her... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79630H Angela Knight / Burning Up Bring these four authors together and it's sure to ignite a spark... Angela Knight pairs a vampire warrior and his seductive captor in a battle against demonic predators. Nalini Singh returns to the world of her Psy-Changeling series as a woman... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Mairtín Ó Cadhain - An tSraith Dhá Togáil - HB - As Gaeilge ( An Chéad Chló 1970) Cover art from Anne Yeats , still in the publishers original plastic covers over cloth . Foilsithe ag Sáirséal & Dill, 1970. Máirtín Ó Cadhain (1906 – 18 October 1970) was one of the most... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79611H Pinckney Benedict / The Wrecking Yard A collection of short stories by the author of "Town Smoke". They reflect the rough-edged contours and personalities of rural America, shaped as they are by poverty, cruelty, and an odd compassion. All of our books... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79659H Cora Sandel / The Silken Thread All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95688H Jhumpa Lahiri / Unaccustomed Earth (Large Paperback) These eight stories by beloved and bestselling author Jhumpa Lahiri take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand, as they explore the secrets at the heart of family life. 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED3105,M3D3106,MED3107,MED3143 Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 3 - The Last Five Minutes of A Storm - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2022 The Last Five Minutes of a Storm is a short story collection packed full of defiance, grief, connection, power and, of course, a dash of strangeness. With strong magical realism influences, this collection features a host of new and emerging writers,... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94444H Yvette Reche / French for Le Snob (Large Paperback) Searching for Le Mot Juste? You'll find it here. 'French for Le Snob' will show you how to use the many French loanwords with impeccable pronunciation. It's unique definitions will help you spice up your conversations with interesting anecdotes... 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MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86491H Jonathan Rice / Keeping Up Appearances (Hardback) Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced "bouquet", of course), star of BBC1's "Keeping Up Appearances", imparts her personal views on protecting one's social standing. There are sections on etiquette in the home, entertaining, social obligations, how to... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4455H John Scally / The Good, the Glad and the Funny (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3746 Wiliam Sansom - South - Vintage PB 1952 ( Originally 1948) A first Penguin paperback edition, 1952 , of William Sansom's collection of short stories inspirted by , and set in Corsica, Italy and Southern France. Previous owners name and date ( in roman numerals) to the front endpaper. Crack to spine. In... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97024H,wW4148H Maria Leach / I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation (Hardback) I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation is a celebration of the virtuoso of well-turned phrases and the master of the studied insult - Oscar Wilde. Indeed, so perfect were Wilde's verbal thrusts that his victims were often flattered to have... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79827H Dermot Bolger / Ladies' Night at Finbar's Hotel Each story stands alone but also makes up the vivid picture of life in Dublin's newly refurbished Finbar's Hotel . . . funny and poignant' Sunday Mirror'Finbar's Hotel is back, this time with a stellar cast of women writers and a lick of paint . . ... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79825H Mary K. Doyle / Hans Christian Andersen : Illuminated by the Message When Mary K. 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MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG165 Sarah Salway - Leading the Dance - HB - SIGNED Secrets and their consequences run deep through Sarah Salway’s short stories in this haunting and sharply written collection, now republished with the addition of new stories.A bored housewife welcomes the nomadic painter of family pets into her... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79630H Angela Knight / Burning Up Bring these four authors together and it's sure to ignite a spark... Angela Knight pairs a vampire warrior and his seductive captor in a battle against demonic predators. Nalini Singh returns to the world of her Psy-Changeling series as a woman... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Mairtín Ó Cadhain - An tSraith Dhá Togáil - HB - As Gaeilge ( An Chéad Chló 1970) Cover art from Anne Yeats , still in the publishers original plastic covers over cloth . Foilsithe ag Sáirséal & Dill, 1970. Máirtín Ó Cadhain (1906 – 18 October 1970) was one of the most... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79611H Pinckney Benedict / The Wrecking Yard A collection of short stories by the author of "Town Smoke". They reflect the rough-edged contours and personalities of rural America, shaped as they are by poverty, cruelty, and an odd compassion. All of our books... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79659H Cora Sandel / The Silken Thread All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95688H Jhumpa Lahiri / Unaccustomed Earth (Large Paperback) These eight stories by beloved and bestselling author Jhumpa Lahiri take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand, as they explore the secrets at the heart of family life. 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MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86491H Jonathan Rice / Keeping Up Appearances (Hardback) Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced "bouquet", of course), star of BBC1's "Keeping Up Appearances", imparts her personal views on protecting one's social standing. There are sections on etiquette in the home, entertaining, social obligations, how to... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4455H John Scally / The Good, the Glad and the Funny (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3746 Wiliam Sansom - South - Vintage PB 1952 ( Originally 1948) A first Penguin paperback edition, 1952 , of William Sansom's collection of short stories inspirted by , and set in Corsica, Italy and Southern France. 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MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: MED3121 Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 2 - Because That's Where Your Heart Is - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 Because That's Where Your Heart Is is a collection of short stories that are all about passion! The 16 selected writers share different perspectives on what really moves hearts and souls, with tales of love enduring, of desire, of longing, of losing... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 1 - The Secret Lives - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 The Secret Lives is a collection of short stories that are all about secrets. The 15 writers provide fascinating views of what may be happening behind closed curtains (or deep in the woods... or inside that mirror that never seems to stay covered..... 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7236H The Rules: The Way of the Cycling Disciple Rule #6: Free your mind and your legs will follow.THE VELOMINATI embrace cycling not as a pastime, but as a way of life, as obsessed with style, heritage, authenticity and wisdom as with performance.Rule #9: If you cycle in bad weather, it means... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Parsimony Press - A Twist in the Tale ( Saki : Dust , Guy de Maupassant : The Necklace, Ambrose Bierce : An Occurrence at Owl Creek , O. Henry : The Gift of The Magi) HB - 2000 4 Tales with ' unexpected twists' - classic short stories Dusk - Saki - Dusk is a hallmark of Saki's writing genius. Norman Gortsby considered dusk somewhat differently from others. To him, dusk was a time when losers in life, ashamed to... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG165 Sarah Salway - Leading the Dance - HB - SIGNED Secrets and their consequences run deep through Sarah Salway’s short stories in this haunting and sharply written collection, now republished with the addition of new stories.A bored housewife welcomes the nomadic painter of family pets into her... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79630H Angela Knight / Burning Up Bring these four authors together and it's sure to ignite a spark... Angela Knight pairs a vampire warrior and his seductive captor in a battle against demonic predators. Nalini Singh returns to the world of her Psy-Changeling series as a woman... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Mairtín Ó Cadhain - An tSraith Dhá Togáil - HB - As Gaeilge ( An Chéad Chló 1970) Cover art from Anne Yeats , still in the publishers original plastic covers over cloth . Foilsithe ag Sáirséal & Dill, 1970. Máirtín Ó Cadhain (1906 – 18 October 1970) was one of the most... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79611H Pinckney Benedict / The Wrecking Yard A collection of short stories by the author of "Town Smoke". They reflect the rough-edged contours and personalities of rural America, shaped as they are by poverty, cruelty, and an odd compassion. All of our books... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79659H Cora Sandel / The Silken Thread All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95688H Jhumpa Lahiri / Unaccustomed Earth (Large Paperback) These eight stories by beloved and bestselling author Jhumpa Lahiri take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand, as they explore the secrets at the heart of family life. Here they enter the worlds of sisters and brothers, fathers... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7967H Hilary Mantel / The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher (Hardback) A brilliant - and rather transgressive - collection of short stories from the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of 'Wolf Hall' and 'Bring Up the Bodies'.Hilary Mantel is one of Britain's most accomplished and acclaimed writers. In these ten... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80467H Natalie Reilly / What Your Mother Should've Told You From how to taste wine, to apologising like you mean it, this is a light-hearted collection of answers to 21st century dilemmas, with advice on modern manners, solutions for old fashioned conundrums and everything in between - it's Debretts for... 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MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG165 Sarah Salway - Leading the Dance - HB - SIGNED Secrets and their consequences run deep through Sarah Salway’s short stories in this haunting and sharply written collection, now republished with the addition of new stories.A bored housewife welcomes the nomadic painter of family pets into her... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79630H Angela Knight / Burning Up Bring these four authors together and it's sure to ignite a spark... Angela Knight pairs a vampire warrior and his seductive captor in a battle against demonic predators. Nalini Singh returns to the world of her Psy-Changeling series as a woman... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Mairtín Ó Cadhain - An tSraith Dhá Togáil - HB - As Gaeilge ( An Chéad Chló 1970) Cover art from Anne Yeats , still in the publishers original plastic covers over cloth . Foilsithe ag Sáirséal & Dill, 1970. Máirtín Ó Cadhain (1906 – 18 October 1970) was one of the most... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79611H Pinckney Benedict / The Wrecking Yard A collection of short stories by the author of "Town Smoke". They reflect the rough-edged contours and personalities of rural America, shaped as they are by poverty, cruelty, and an odd compassion. All of our books... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79659H Cora Sandel / The Silken Thread All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95688H Jhumpa Lahiri / Unaccustomed Earth (Large Paperback) These eight stories by beloved and bestselling author Jhumpa Lahiri take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand, as they explore the secrets at the heart of family life. 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MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 71596H Jonathan Swift / Directions to Servants This is Jonathan Swift's great neglected cod-tract addressed to the servant classes, from butler down to laundress, instructing them in the arts of cheating their masters, and confirms them in the time-honoured superstitions and prejudices of... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79906H Elizabeth LaBan / The Tragedy Paper Every year at an exclusive private boarding school in New York state, the graduating students uphold an old tradition - they must swear an oath of secrecy and leave behind a "treasure" for each incoming senior.When Duncan Meade inherits the room... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79905H Suzanne Schlosberg / 1001 Nights Without Sex: The Curse of the Single Girl Suzanne Schlosberg calls it 'the Streak': 1001 days without sex. 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MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: MED3121 Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 2 - Because That's Where Your Heart Is - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 Because That's Where Your Heart Is is a collection of short stories that are all about passion! The 16 selected writers share different perspectives on what really moves hearts and souls, with tales of love enduring, of desire, of longing, of losing... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 1 - The Secret Lives - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 The Secret Lives is a collection of short stories that are all about secrets. The 15 writers provide fascinating views of what may be happening behind closed curtains (or deep in the woods... or inside that mirror that never seems to stay covered..... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88356H Woody Allen / Mere Anarchy (Large Paperback) I am greatly relieved that the universe is finally explainable. I was beginning to think it was me. Thus begins Strung Out , Woody Allen s hilarious application of the laws of the universe to daily life. Mere Anarchy, Woody Allen s first new... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7156H Amitava Kumar / Immigrant, Montana (Large Paperback) One winter morning, a monkey stole into Mamaji's room. He climbed on the huge white bed and finding Mamaji's pistol brandished it - they say - at my cousin, born two months after me and still in her crib. No one moved. Then, turning the pistol... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 78201H Des MacHale / Wit on Target This was the third volume in Des MacHale's best-selling Wit series, the best collection of witty remarks ever published. 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED3105,M3D3106,MED3107,MED3143 Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 3 - The Last Five Minutes of A Storm - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2022 The Last Five Minutes of a Storm is a short story collection packed full of defiance, grief, connection, power and, of course, a dash of strangeness. With strong magical realism influences, this collection features a host of new and emerging writers,... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94444H Yvette Reche / French for Le Snob (Large Paperback) Searching for Le Mot Juste? You'll find it here. 'French for Le Snob' will show you how to use the many French loanwords with impeccable pronunciation. It's unique definitions will help you spice up your conversations with interesting anecdotes... 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7236H The Rules: The Way of the Cycling Disciple Rule #6: Free your mind and your legs will follow.THE VELOMINATI embrace cycling not as a pastime, but as a way of life, as obsessed with style, heritage, authenticity and wisdom as with performance.Rule #9: If you cycle in bad weather, it means... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Parsimony Press - A Twist in the Tale ( Saki : Dust , Guy de Maupassant : The Necklace, Ambrose Bierce : An Occurrence at Owl Creek , O. Henry : The Gift of The Magi) HB - 2000 4 Tales with ' unexpected twists' - classic short stories Dusk - Saki - Dusk is a hallmark of Saki's writing genius. Norman Gortsby considered dusk somewhat differently from others. To him, dusk was a time when losers in life, ashamed to... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG165 Sarah Salway - Leading the Dance - HB - SIGNED Secrets and their consequences run deep through Sarah Salway’s short stories in this haunting and sharply written collection, now republished with the addition of new stories.A bored housewife welcomes the nomadic painter of family pets into her... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79630H Angela Knight / Burning Up Bring these four authors together and it's sure to ignite a spark... Angela Knight pairs a vampire warrior and his seductive captor in a battle against demonic predators. Nalini Singh returns to the world of her Psy-Changeling series as a woman... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Mairtín Ó Cadhain - An tSraith Dhá Togáil - HB - As Gaeilge ( An Chéad Chló 1970) Cover art from Anne Yeats , still in the publishers original plastic covers over cloth . Foilsithe ag Sáirséal & Dill, 1970. Máirtín Ó Cadhain (1906 – 18 October 1970) was one of the most... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79611H Pinckney Benedict / The Wrecking Yard A collection of short stories by the author of "Town Smoke". They reflect the rough-edged contours and personalities of rural America, shaped as they are by poverty, cruelty, and an odd compassion. All of our books... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79659H Cora Sandel / The Silken Thread All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95688H Jhumpa Lahiri / Unaccustomed Earth (Large Paperback) These eight stories by beloved and bestselling author Jhumpa Lahiri take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand, as they explore the secrets at the heart of family life. Here they enter the worlds of sisters and brothers, fathers... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7967H Hilary Mantel / The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher (Hardback) A brilliant - and rather transgressive - collection of short stories from the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of 'Wolf Hall' and 'Bring Up the Bodies'.Hilary Mantel is one of Britain's most accomplished and acclaimed writers. In these ten... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80467H Natalie Reilly / What Your Mother Should've Told You From how to taste wine, to apologising like you mean it, this is a light-hearted collection of answers to 21st century dilemmas, with advice on modern manners, solutions for old fashioned conundrums and everything in between - it's Debretts for... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 25652H Caitlin Moran / How to be Famous The Sunday Times bestselling Richard & Judy Book Club favourite'Being Moran, the jokes and one-liners fizz and crackle off the page' Richard's Review'As usual, Moran writes fearlessly, openly, honestly and incredibly funnily about sex -... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11005H Raymond Carver / Beginners What We Talk About When We Talk About Love is Carver's most famous collection of short stories and remians one of the most influential pieces of modern literature to date. But the original, unedited manuscript, Beginners - published here for the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5757H Frankie Boyle / Scotland's Jesus (Large Paperback) Reading Scotland's Jesus should be like being called into the living room by your child shouting that they see a little red dot on the head of a TV newscaster, then riding the white hot bullet through the propaganda circuitry of his or her... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 13114E Christopher Buckley / Wry Martinis Christopher Buckley, author of 'Thank You for Smoking', is the man who persuaded America's ABC News that Russia was auctioning off Lenin's corpse. This book offers a selection of the best of Buckley's recent writing... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X82044H Des MacHale / Ultimate Wit (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86491H Jonathan Rice / Keeping Up Appearances (Hardback) Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced "bouquet", of course), star of BBC1's "Keeping Up Appearances", imparts her personal views on protecting one's social standing. There are sections on etiquette in the home, entertaining, social obligations, how to... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4455H John Scally / The Good, the Glad and the Funny (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3746 Wiliam Sansom - South - Vintage PB 1952 ( Originally 1948) A first Penguin paperback edition, 1952 , of William Sansom's collection of short stories inspirted by , and set in Corsica, Italy and Southern France. Previous owners name and date ( in roman numerals) to the front endpaper. Crack to spine. In... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97024H,wW4148H Maria Leach / I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation (Hardback) I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation is a celebration of the virtuoso of well-turned phrases and the master of the studied insult - Oscar Wilde. Indeed, so perfect were Wilde's verbal thrusts that his victims were often flattered to have... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79827H Dermot Bolger / Ladies' Night at Finbar's Hotel Each story stands alone but also makes up the vivid picture of life in Dublin's newly refurbished Finbar's Hotel . . . funny and poignant' Sunday Mirror'Finbar's Hotel is back, this time with a stellar cast of women writers and a lick of paint . . ... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79825H Mary K. Doyle / Hans Christian Andersen : Illuminated by the Message When Mary K. Doyle was a child, she was entranced with the stories her mother read from Andersen's Fairy Tales. "Make-believe came to life," she writes in her introduction, "with characters I could see and hear. Their problems were real to me... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79812H Mary Morrissy / A Lazy Eye All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 67465H Martha Batalha / The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao 'Zesty' Daily Mail'A real gem of a book' StylistA wickedly funny tale of two rebellious sisters in 1940s Rio de JaneiroEuridice is bright and ambitious. But this is Brazil in the 1940s, and society expects her to be a loving wife and mother. While... 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This volume was previously published as Yet More Wit but under that title it languished; it looked like an also ran, yet it was... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 44014H Mike Gatting / Classic After-Dinner Sports Tales Following on from the hugely successful Best After-Dinner Sports Tales, yet more rousing stories from the after-dinner speaking circuit, from some of the biggest names in sport as well as celebrities from the world of entertainment.The book will... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8474H Peter Hoeg / Tales of the Night (Hardback) Each of these nine stories shows a different fact of love - love of violence, love as redemption, love as suffering, even as wisdom - and each has as a background theme one of the nine classical disciplines: mathematics, dance, law, physics,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG165 Sarah Salway - Leading the Dance - HB - SIGNED Secrets and their consequences run deep through Sarah Salway’s short stories in this haunting and sharply written collection, now republished with the addition of new stories.A bored housewife welcomes the nomadic painter of family pets into her... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79630H Angela Knight / Burning Up Bring these four authors together and it's sure to ignite a spark... Angela Knight pairs a vampire warrior and his seductive captor in a battle against demonic predators. Nalini Singh returns to the world of her Psy-Changeling series as a woman... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Mairtín Ó Cadhain - An tSraith Dhá Togáil - HB - As Gaeilge ( An Chéad Chló 1970) Cover art from Anne Yeats , still in the publishers original plastic covers over cloth . Foilsithe ag Sáirséal & Dill, 1970. 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED3105,M3D3106,MED3107,MED3143 Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 3 - The Last Five Minutes of A Storm - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2022 The Last Five Minutes of a Storm is a short story collection packed full of defiance, grief, connection, power and, of course, a dash of strangeness. With strong magical realism influences, this collection features a host of new and emerging writers,... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94444H Yvette Reche / French for Le Snob (Large Paperback) Searching for Le Mot Juste? You'll find it here. 'French for Le Snob' will show you how to use the many French loanwords with impeccable pronunciation. It's unique definitions will help you spice up your conversations with interesting anecdotes... 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MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG165 Sarah Salway - Leading the Dance - HB - SIGNED Secrets and their consequences run deep through Sarah Salway’s short stories in this haunting and sharply written collection, now republished with the addition of new stories.A bored housewife welcomes the nomadic painter of family pets into her... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79630H Angela Knight / Burning Up Bring these four authors together and it's sure to ignite a spark... Angela Knight pairs a vampire warrior and his seductive captor in a battle against demonic predators. Nalini Singh returns to the world of her Psy-Changeling series as a woman... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Mairtín Ó Cadhain - An tSraith Dhá Togáil - HB - As Gaeilge ( An Chéad Chló 1970) Cover art from Anne Yeats , still in the publishers original plastic covers over cloth . Foilsithe ag Sáirséal & Dill, 1970. Máirtín Ó Cadhain (1906 – 18 October 1970) was one of the most... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79611H Pinckney Benedict / The Wrecking Yard A collection of short stories by the author of "Town Smoke". They reflect the rough-edged contours and personalities of rural America, shaped as they are by poverty, cruelty, and an odd compassion. All of our books... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79659H Cora Sandel / The Silken Thread All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95688H Jhumpa Lahiri / Unaccustomed Earth (Large Paperback) These eight stories by beloved and bestselling author Jhumpa Lahiri take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand, as they explore the secrets at the heart of family life. 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 25652H Caitlin Moran / How to be Famous The Sunday Times bestselling Richard & Judy Book Club favourite'Being Moran, the jokes and one-liners fizz and crackle off the page' Richard's Review'As usual, Moran writes fearlessly, openly, honestly and incredibly funnily about sex -... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11005H Raymond Carver / Beginners What We Talk About When We Talk About Love is Carver's most famous collection of short stories and remians one of the most influential pieces of modern literature to date. But the original, unedited manuscript, Beginners - published here for the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5757H Frankie Boyle / Scotland's Jesus (Large Paperback) Reading Scotland's Jesus should be like being called into the living room by your child shouting that they see a little red dot on the head of a TV newscaster, then riding the white hot bullet through the propaganda circuitry of his or her... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 13114E Christopher Buckley / Wry Martinis Christopher Buckley, author of 'Thank You for Smoking', is the man who persuaded America's ABC News that Russia was auctioning off Lenin's corpse. This book offers a selection of the best of Buckley's recent writing... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X82044H Des MacHale / Ultimate Wit (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86491H Jonathan Rice / Keeping Up Appearances (Hardback) Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced "bouquet", of course), star of BBC1's "Keeping Up Appearances", imparts her personal views on protecting one's social standing. There are sections on etiquette in the home, entertaining, social obligations, how to... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4455H John Scally / The Good, the Glad and the Funny (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3746 Wiliam Sansom - South - Vintage PB 1952 ( Originally 1948) A first Penguin paperback edition, 1952 , of William Sansom's collection of short stories inspirted by , and set in Corsica, Italy and Southern France. Previous owners name and date ( in roman numerals) to the front endpaper. Crack to spine. In... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97024H,wW4148H Maria Leach / I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation (Hardback) I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation is a celebration of the virtuoso of well-turned phrases and the master of the studied insult - Oscar Wilde. Indeed, so perfect were Wilde's verbal thrusts that his victims were often flattered to have... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79827H Dermot Bolger / Ladies' Night at Finbar's Hotel Each story stands alone but also makes up the vivid picture of life in Dublin's newly refurbished Finbar's Hotel . . . funny and poignant' Sunday Mirror'Finbar's Hotel is back, this time with a stellar cast of women writers and a lick of paint . . ... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79825H Mary K. Doyle / Hans Christian Andersen : Illuminated by the Message When Mary K. Doyle was a child, she was entranced with the stories her mother read from Andersen's Fairy Tales. "Make-believe came to life," she writes in her introduction, "with characters I could see and hear. Their problems were real to me... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79812H Mary Morrissy / A Lazy Eye All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 67465H Martha Batalha / The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao 'Zesty' Daily Mail'A real gem of a book' StylistA wickedly funny tale of two rebellious sisters in 1940s Rio de JaneiroEuridice is bright and ambitious. But this is Brazil in the 1940s, and society expects her to be a loving wife and mother. While... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 71596H Jonathan Swift / Directions to Servants This is Jonathan Swift's great neglected cod-tract addressed to the servant classes, from butler down to laundress, instructing them in the arts of cheating their masters, and confirms them in the time-honoured superstitions and prejudices of... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79906H Elizabeth LaBan / The Tragedy Paper Every year at an exclusive private boarding school in New York state, the graduating students uphold an old tradition - they must swear an oath of secrecy and leave behind a "treasure" for each incoming senior.When Duncan Meade inherits the room... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79905H Suzanne Schlosberg / 1001 Nights Without Sex: The Curse of the Single Girl Suzanne Schlosberg calls it 'the Streak': 1001 days without sex. 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MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: MED3121 Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 2 - Because That's Where Your Heart Is - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 Because That's Where Your Heart Is is a collection of short stories that are all about passion! The 16 selected writers share different perspectives on what really moves hearts and souls, with tales of love enduring, of desire, of longing, of losing... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 1 - The Secret Lives - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 The Secret Lives is a collection of short stories that are all about secrets. The 15 writers provide fascinating views of what may be happening behind closed curtains (or deep in the woods... or inside that mirror that never seems to stay covered..... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88356H Woody Allen / Mere Anarchy (Large Paperback) I am greatly relieved that the universe is finally explainable. I was beginning to think it was me. Thus begins Strung Out , Woody Allen s hilarious application of the laws of the universe to daily life. Mere Anarchy, Woody Allen s first new... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7156H Amitava Kumar / Immigrant, Montana (Large Paperback) One winter morning, a monkey stole into Mamaji's room. He climbed on the huge white bed and finding Mamaji's pistol brandished it - they say - at my cousin, born two months after me and still in her crib. No one moved. Then, turning the pistol... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 78201H Des MacHale / Wit on Target This was the third volume in Des MacHale's best-selling Wit series, the best collection of witty remarks ever published. 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: 82423H Patricia Scanlan / Voices : An Open Door Book of Stories The Open Door anthology brings together a collection of short stories by some of Ireland's greatest writers, all of which are written and crafted specifically for the emerging adult reader.Featuring writing from Graham Norton, Christine Dwyer... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7236H The Rules: The Way of the Cycling Disciple Rule #6: Free your mind and your legs will follow.THE VELOMINATI embrace cycling not as a pastime, but as a way of life, as obsessed with style, heritage, authenticity and wisdom as with performance.Rule #9: If you cycle in bad weather, it means... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Parsimony Press - A Twist in the Tale ( Saki : Dust , Guy de Maupassant : The Necklace, Ambrose Bierce : An Occurrence at Owl Creek , O. Henry : The Gift of The Magi) HB - 2000 4 Tales with ' unexpected twists' - classic short stories Dusk - Saki - Dusk is a hallmark of Saki's writing genius. Norman Gortsby considered dusk somewhat differently from others. To him, dusk was a time when losers in life, ashamed to... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG165 Sarah Salway - Leading the Dance - HB - SIGNED Secrets and their consequences run deep through Sarah Salway’s short stories in this haunting and sharply written collection, now republished with the addition of new stories.A bored housewife welcomes the nomadic painter of family pets into her... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79630H Angela Knight / Burning Up Bring these four authors together and it's sure to ignite a spark... Angela Knight pairs a vampire warrior and his seductive captor in a battle against demonic predators. Nalini Singh returns to the world of her Psy-Changeling series as a woman... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Mairtín Ó Cadhain - An tSraith Dhá Togáil - HB - As Gaeilge ( An Chéad Chló 1970) Cover art from Anne Yeats , still in the publishers original plastic covers over cloth . Foilsithe ag Sáirséal & Dill, 1970. Máirtín Ó Cadhain (1906 – 18 October 1970) was one of the most... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79611H Pinckney Benedict / The Wrecking Yard A collection of short stories by the author of "Town Smoke". They reflect the rough-edged contours and personalities of rural America, shaped as they are by poverty, cruelty, and an odd compassion. All of our books... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79659H Cora Sandel / The Silken Thread All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... 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But the original, unedited manuscript, Beginners - published here for the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5757H Frankie Boyle / Scotland's Jesus (Large Paperback) Reading Scotland's Jesus should be like being called into the living room by your child shouting that they see a little red dot on the head of a TV newscaster, then riding the white hot bullet through the propaganda circuitry of his or her... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 13114E Christopher Buckley / Wry Martinis Christopher Buckley, author of 'Thank You for Smoking', is the man who persuaded America's ABC News that Russia was auctioning off Lenin's corpse. This book offers a selection of the best of Buckley's recent writing... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X82044H Des MacHale / Ultimate Wit (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86491H Jonathan Rice / Keeping Up Appearances (Hardback) Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced "bouquet", of course), star of BBC1's "Keeping Up Appearances", imparts her personal views on protecting one's social standing. There are sections on etiquette in the home, entertaining, social obligations, how to... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4455H John Scally / The Good, the Glad and the Funny (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3746 Wiliam Sansom - South - Vintage PB 1952 ( Originally 1948) A first Penguin paperback edition, 1952 , of William Sansom's collection of short stories inspirted by , and set in Corsica, Italy and Southern France. Previous owners name and date ( in roman numerals) to the front endpaper. Crack to spine. In... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97024H,wW4148H Maria Leach / I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation (Hardback) I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation is a celebration of the virtuoso of well-turned phrases and the master of the studied insult - Oscar Wilde. Indeed, so perfect were Wilde's verbal thrusts that his victims were often flattered to have... 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Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 67465H Martha Batalha / The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao 'Zesty' Daily Mail'A real gem of a book' StylistA wickedly funny tale of two rebellious sisters in 1940s Rio de JaneiroEuridice is bright and ambitious. But this is Brazil in the 1940s, and society expects her to be a loving wife and mother. While... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 71596H Jonathan Swift / Directions to Servants This is Jonathan Swift's great neglected cod-tract addressed to the servant classes, from butler down to laundress, instructing them in the arts of cheating their masters, and confirms them in the time-honoured superstitions and prejudices of... 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 74781H Reginald Hill / Asking for the Moon 'Hill is an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift' Frances Fyfield, Mail on SundayIf you've already met Dalziel and Pascoe, you're in for a treat. If you haven't yet had the pleasure, you're in for a... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW6686H Dad Says Jokes / Dad Jokes : The very best of @DadSaysJokes (Hardback) From the most-followed dad jokes page on Instagram, @dadsaysjokes, comes a collection of hilariously cheesy jokes that will leave your friends and family laughing and groaning in equal measure.This is the perfect gift for dads who want to expand... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: MED3121 Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 2 - Because That's Where Your Heart Is - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 Because That's Where Your Heart Is is a collection of short stories that are all about passion! The 16 selected writers share different perspectives on what really moves hearts and souls, with tales of love enduring, of desire, of longing, of losing... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 1 - The Secret Lives - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 The Secret Lives is a collection of short stories that are all about secrets. The 15 writers provide fascinating views of what may be happening behind closed curtains (or deep in the woods... or inside that mirror that never seems to stay covered..... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88356H Woody Allen / Mere Anarchy (Large Paperback) I am greatly relieved that the universe is finally explainable. I was beginning to think it was me. Thus begins Strung Out , Woody Allen s hilarious application of the laws of the universe to daily life. Mere Anarchy, Woody Allen s first new... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7156H Amitava Kumar / Immigrant, Montana (Large Paperback) One winter morning, a monkey stole into Mamaji's room. He climbed on the huge white bed and finding Mamaji's pistol brandished it - they say - at my cousin, born two months after me and still in her crib. No one moved. Then, turning the pistol... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 78201H Des MacHale / Wit on Target This was the third volume in Des MacHale's best-selling Wit series, the best collection of witty remarks ever published. This volume was previously published as Yet More Wit but under that title it languished; it looked like an also ran, yet it was... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 44014H Mike Gatting / Classic After-Dinner Sports Tales Following on from the hugely successful Best After-Dinner Sports Tales, yet more rousing stories from the after-dinner speaking circuit, from some of the biggest names in sport as well as celebrities from the world of entertainment.The book will... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8474H Peter Hoeg / Tales of the Night (Hardback) Each of these nine stories shows a different fact of love - love of violence, love as redemption, love as suffering, even as wisdom - and each has as a background theme one of the nine classical disciplines: mathematics, dance, law, physics,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
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Hornung / Raffles MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: x62064H India Knight / The Dirty Bits - For Girls (Hardback) MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79686H Adam Ruck / Bluffer's Guide to Golf : Instant wit and wisdom Instantly acquire all the knowledge you need to pass as an expert in the arcane and labyrinthine world of golf. Never again confuse a mashie with a spoon, a brassie with a birdie, or stroke play with a scratch. Bask in the admiration of your... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED3105,M3D3106,MED3107,MED3143 Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 3 - The Last Five Minutes of A Storm - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2022 The Last Five Minutes of a Storm is a short story collection packed full of defiance, grief, connection, power and, of course, a dash of strangeness. With strong magical realism influences, this collection features a host of new and emerging writers,... 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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: 82423H Patricia Scanlan / Voices : An Open Door Book of Stories The Open Door anthology brings together a collection of short stories by some of Ireland's greatest writers, all of which are written and crafted specifically for the emerging adult reader.Featuring writing from Graham Norton, Christine Dwyer... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7236H The Rules: The Way of the Cycling Disciple Rule #6: Free your mind and your legs will follow.THE VELOMINATI embrace cycling not as a pastime, but as a way of life, as obsessed with style, heritage, authenticity and wisdom as with performance.Rule #9: If you cycle in bad weather, it means... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Parsimony Press - A Twist in the Tale ( Saki : Dust , Guy de Maupassant : The Necklace, Ambrose Bierce : An Occurrence at Owl Creek , O. Henry : The Gift of The Magi) HB - 2000 4 Tales with ' unexpected twists' - classic short stories Dusk - Saki - Dusk is a hallmark of Saki's writing genius. Norman Gortsby considered dusk somewhat differently from others. To him, dusk was a time when losers in life, ashamed to... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG165 Sarah Salway - Leading the Dance - HB - SIGNED Secrets and their consequences run deep through Sarah Salway’s short stories in this haunting and sharply written collection, now republished with the addition of new stories.A bored housewife welcomes the nomadic painter of family pets into her... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79630H Angela Knight / Burning Up Bring these four authors together and it's sure to ignite a spark... Angela Knight pairs a vampire warrior and his seductive captor in a battle against demonic predators. Nalini Singh returns to the world of her Psy-Changeling series as a woman... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Mairtín Ó Cadhain - An tSraith Dhá Togáil - HB - As Gaeilge ( An Chéad Chló 1970) Cover art from Anne Yeats , still in the publishers original plastic covers over cloth . Foilsithe ag Sáirséal & Dill, 1970. Máirtín Ó Cadhain (1906 – 18 October 1970) was one of the most... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79611H Pinckney Benedict / The Wrecking Yard A collection of short stories by the author of "Town Smoke". They reflect the rough-edged contours and personalities of rural America, shaped as they are by poverty, cruelty, and an odd compassion. All of our books... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79659H Cora Sandel / The Silken Thread All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95688H Jhumpa Lahiri / Unaccustomed Earth (Large Paperback) These eight stories by beloved and bestselling author Jhumpa Lahiri take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand, as they explore the secrets at the heart of family life. Here they enter the worlds of sisters and brothers, fathers... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7967H Hilary Mantel / The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher (Hardback) A brilliant - and rather transgressive - collection of short stories from the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of 'Wolf Hall' and 'Bring Up the Bodies'.Hilary Mantel is one of Britain's most accomplished and acclaimed writers. In these ten... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80467H Natalie Reilly / What Your Mother Should've Told You From how to taste wine, to apologising like you mean it, this is a light-hearted collection of answers to 21st century dilemmas, with advice on modern manners, solutions for old fashioned conundrums and everything in between - it's Debretts for... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 25652H Caitlin Moran / How to be Famous The Sunday Times bestselling Richard & Judy Book Club favourite'Being Moran, the jokes and one-liners fizz and crackle off the page' Richard's Review'As usual, Moran writes fearlessly, openly, honestly and incredibly funnily about sex -... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11005H Raymond Carver / Beginners What We Talk About When We Talk About Love is Carver's most famous collection of short stories and remians one of the most influential pieces of modern literature to date. But the original, unedited manuscript, Beginners - published here for the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5757H Frankie Boyle / Scotland's Jesus (Large Paperback) Reading Scotland's Jesus should be like being called into the living room by your child shouting that they see a little red dot on the head of a TV newscaster, then riding the white hot bullet through the propaganda circuitry of his or her... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 13114E Christopher Buckley / Wry Martinis Christopher Buckley, author of 'Thank You for Smoking', is the man who persuaded America's ABC News that Russia was auctioning off Lenin's corpse. This book offers a selection of the best of Buckley's recent writing... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X82044H Des MacHale / Ultimate Wit (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86491H Jonathan Rice / Keeping Up Appearances (Hardback) Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced "bouquet", of course), star of BBC1's "Keeping Up Appearances", imparts her personal views on protecting one's social standing. There are sections on etiquette in the home, entertaining, social obligations, how to... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4455H John Scally / The Good, the Glad and the Funny (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3746 Wiliam Sansom - South - Vintage PB 1952 ( Originally 1948) A first Penguin paperback edition, 1952 , of William Sansom's collection of short stories inspirted by , and set in Corsica, Italy and Southern France. Previous owners name and date ( in roman numerals) to the front endpaper. Crack to spine. In... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97024H,wW4148H Maria Leach / I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation (Hardback) I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation is a celebration of the virtuoso of well-turned phrases and the master of the studied insult - Oscar Wilde. Indeed, so perfect were Wilde's verbal thrusts that his victims were often flattered to have... 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Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 67465H Martha Batalha / The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao 'Zesty' Daily Mail'A real gem of a book' StylistA wickedly funny tale of two rebellious sisters in 1940s Rio de JaneiroEuridice is bright and ambitious. But this is Brazil in the 1940s, and society expects her to be a loving wife and mother. While... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 71596H Jonathan Swift / Directions to Servants This is Jonathan Swift's great neglected cod-tract addressed to the servant classes, from butler down to laundress, instructing them in the arts of cheating their masters, and confirms them in the time-honoured superstitions and prejudices of... 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MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: MED3121 Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 2 - Because That's Where Your Heart Is - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 Because That's Where Your Heart Is is a collection of short stories that are all about passion! The 16 selected writers share different perspectives on what really moves hearts and souls, with tales of love enduring, of desire, of longing, of losing... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 1 - The Secret Lives - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 The Secret Lives is a collection of short stories that are all about secrets. The 15 writers provide fascinating views of what may be happening behind closed curtains (or deep in the woods... or inside that mirror that never seems to stay covered..... 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MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG165 Sarah Salway - Leading the Dance - HB - SIGNED Secrets and their consequences run deep through Sarah Salway’s short stories in this haunting and sharply written collection, now republished with the addition of new stories.A bored housewife welcomes the nomadic painter of family pets into her... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79630H Angela Knight / Burning Up Bring these four authors together and it's sure to ignite a spark... Angela Knight pairs a vampire warrior and his seductive captor in a battle against demonic predators. Nalini Singh returns to the world of her Psy-Changeling series as a woman... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Mairtín Ó Cadhain - An tSraith Dhá Togáil - HB - As Gaeilge ( An Chéad Chló 1970) Cover art from Anne Yeats , still in the publishers original plastic covers over cloth . Foilsithe ag Sáirséal & Dill, 1970. 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MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86491H Jonathan Rice / Keeping Up Appearances (Hardback) Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced "bouquet", of course), star of BBC1's "Keeping Up Appearances", imparts her personal views on protecting one's social standing. There are sections on etiquette in the home, entertaining, social obligations, how to... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4455H John Scally / The Good, the Glad and the Funny (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3746 Wiliam Sansom - South - Vintage PB 1952 ( Originally 1948) A first Penguin paperback edition, 1952 , of William Sansom's collection of short stories inspirted by , and set in Corsica, Italy and Southern France. Previous owners name and date ( in roman numerals) to the front endpaper. Crack to spine. In... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97024H,wW4148H Maria Leach / I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation (Hardback) I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation is a celebration of the virtuoso of well-turned phrases and the master of the studied insult - Oscar Wilde. Indeed, so perfect were Wilde's verbal thrusts that his victims were often flattered to have... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79827H Dermot Bolger / Ladies' Night at Finbar's Hotel Each story stands alone but also makes up the vivid picture of life in Dublin's newly refurbished Finbar's Hotel . . . funny and poignant' Sunday Mirror'Finbar's Hotel is back, this time with a stellar cast of women writers and a lick of paint . . ... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79825H Mary K. Doyle / Hans Christian Andersen : Illuminated by the Message When Mary K. Doyle was a child, she was entranced with the stories her mother read from Andersen's Fairy Tales. "Make-believe came to life," she writes in her introduction, "with characters I could see and hear. Their problems were real to me... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79812H Mary Morrissy / A Lazy Eye All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 67465H Martha Batalha / The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao 'Zesty' Daily Mail'A real gem of a book' StylistA wickedly funny tale of two rebellious sisters in 1940s Rio de JaneiroEuridice is bright and ambitious. But this is Brazil in the 1940s, and society expects her to be a loving wife and mother. While... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 71596H Jonathan Swift / Directions to Servants This is Jonathan Swift's great neglected cod-tract addressed to the servant classes, from butler down to laundress, instructing them in the arts of cheating their masters, and confirms them in the time-honoured superstitions and prejudices of... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79906H Elizabeth LaBan / The Tragedy Paper Every year at an exclusive private boarding school in New York state, the graduating students uphold an old tradition - they must swear an oath of secrecy and leave behind a "treasure" for each incoming senior.When Duncan Meade inherits the room... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79905H Suzanne Schlosberg / 1001 Nights Without Sex: The Curse of the Single Girl Suzanne Schlosberg calls it 'the Streak': 1001 days without sex. She's going through the mother of all dry spells...a Sahara devoid of intimacy, committed relationships and even one-night stands. The question is why? Is she too picky, too bitchy,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 74781H Reginald Hill / Asking for the Moon 'Hill is an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift' Frances Fyfield, Mail on SundayIf you've already met Dalziel and Pascoe, you're in for a treat. If you haven't yet had the pleasure, you're in for a... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW6686H Dad Says Jokes / Dad Jokes : The very best of @DadSaysJokes (Hardback) From the most-followed dad jokes page on Instagram, @dadsaysjokes, comes a collection of hilariously cheesy jokes that will leave your friends and family laughing and groaning in equal measure.This is the perfect gift for dads who want to expand... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: MED3121 Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 2 - Because That's Where Your Heart Is - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 Because That's Where Your Heart Is is a collection of short stories that are all about passion! The 16 selected writers share different perspectives on what really moves hearts and souls, with tales of love enduring, of desire, of longing, of losing... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 1 - The Secret Lives - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 The Secret Lives is a collection of short stories that are all about secrets. The 15 writers provide fascinating views of what may be happening behind closed curtains (or deep in the woods... or inside that mirror that never seems to stay covered..... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88356H Woody Allen / Mere Anarchy (Large Paperback) I am greatly relieved that the universe is finally explainable. I was beginning to think it was me. Thus begins Strung Out , Woody Allen s hilarious application of the laws of the universe to daily life. Mere Anarchy, Woody Allen s first new... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7156H Amitava Kumar / Immigrant, Montana (Large Paperback) One winter morning, a monkey stole into Mamaji's room. He climbed on the huge white bed and finding Mamaji's pistol brandished it - they say - at my cousin, born two months after me and still in her crib. No one moved. Then, turning the pistol... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 78201H Des MacHale / Wit on Target This was the third volume in Des MacHale's best-selling Wit series, the best collection of witty remarks ever published. This volume was previously published as Yet More Wit but under that title it languished; it looked like an also ran, yet it was... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 44014H Mike Gatting / Classic After-Dinner Sports Tales Following on from the hugely successful Best After-Dinner Sports Tales, yet more rousing stories from the after-dinner speaking circuit, from some of the biggest names in sport as well as celebrities from the world of entertainment.The book will... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8474H Peter Hoeg / Tales of the Night (Hardback) Each of these nine stories shows a different fact of love - love of violence, love as redemption, love as suffering, even as wisdom - and each has as a background theme one of the nine classical disciplines: mathematics, dance, law, physics,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED3105,M3D3106,MED3107,MED3143 Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 3 - The Last Five Minutes of A Storm - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2022 The Last Five Minutes of a Storm is a short story collection packed full of defiance, grief, connection, power and, of course, a dash of strangeness. With strong magical realism influences, this collection features a host of new and emerging writers,... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94444H Yvette Reche / French for Le Snob (Large Paperback) Searching for Le Mot Juste? You'll find it here. 'French for Le Snob' will show you how to use the many French loanwords with impeccable pronunciation. It's unique definitions will help you spice up your conversations with interesting anecdotes... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80713H Khurrum Rahman / The Motive A Jay Qasim short story and prequel to EAST OF HOUNSLOW written for Quick Reads 2021Business has been slow for Hounslow's small time dope-dealer, Jay Qasim. A student house party means quick easy cash but it also means breaking his own rules. But... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: 82423H Patricia Scanlan / Voices : An Open Door Book of Stories The Open Door anthology brings together a collection of short stories by some of Ireland's greatest writers, all of which are written and crafted specifically for the emerging adult reader.Featuring writing from Graham Norton, Christine Dwyer... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7236H The Rules: The Way of the Cycling Disciple Rule #6: Free your mind and your legs will follow.THE VELOMINATI embrace cycling not as a pastime, but as a way of life, as obsessed with style, heritage, authenticity and wisdom as with performance.Rule #9: If you cycle in bad weather, it means... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Parsimony Press - A Twist in the Tale ( Saki : Dust , Guy de Maupassant : The Necklace, Ambrose Bierce : An Occurrence at Owl Creek , O. Henry : The Gift of The Magi) HB - 2000 4 Tales with ' unexpected twists' - classic short stories Dusk - Saki - Dusk is a hallmark of Saki's writing genius. Norman Gortsby considered dusk somewhat differently from others. To him, dusk was a time when losers in life, ashamed to... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG165 Sarah Salway - Leading the Dance - HB - SIGNED Secrets and their consequences run deep through Sarah Salway’s short stories in this haunting and sharply written collection, now republished with the addition of new stories.A bored housewife welcomes the nomadic painter of family pets into her... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79630H Angela Knight / Burning Up Bring these four authors together and it's sure to ignite a spark... Angela Knight pairs a vampire warrior and his seductive captor in a battle against demonic predators. Nalini Singh returns to the world of her Psy-Changeling series as a woman... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Mairtín Ó Cadhain - An tSraith Dhá Togáil - HB - As Gaeilge ( An Chéad Chló 1970) Cover art from Anne Yeats , still in the publishers original plastic covers over cloth . Foilsithe ag Sáirséal & Dill, 1970. Máirtín Ó Cadhain (1906 – 18 October 1970) was one of the most... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79611H Pinckney Benedict / The Wrecking Yard A collection of short stories by the author of "Town Smoke". They reflect the rough-edged contours and personalities of rural America, shaped as they are by poverty, cruelty, and an odd compassion. All of our books... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79659H Cora Sandel / The Silken Thread All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95688H Jhumpa Lahiri / Unaccustomed Earth (Large Paperback) These eight stories by beloved and bestselling author Jhumpa Lahiri take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand, as they explore the secrets at the heart of family life. Here they enter the worlds of sisters and brothers, fathers... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7967H Hilary Mantel / The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher (Hardback) A brilliant - and rather transgressive - collection of short stories from the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of 'Wolf Hall' and 'Bring Up the Bodies'.Hilary Mantel is one of Britain's most accomplished and acclaimed writers. In these ten... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80467H Natalie Reilly / What Your Mother Should've Told You From how to taste wine, to apologising like you mean it, this is a light-hearted collection of answers to 21st century dilemmas, with advice on modern manners, solutions for old fashioned conundrums and everything in between - it's Debretts for... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 25652H Caitlin Moran / How to be Famous The Sunday Times bestselling Richard & Judy Book Club favourite'Being Moran, the jokes and one-liners fizz and crackle off the page' Richard's Review'As usual, Moran writes fearlessly, openly, honestly and incredibly funnily about sex -... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11005H Raymond Carver / Beginners What We Talk About When We Talk About Love is Carver's most famous collection of short stories and remians one of the most influential pieces of modern literature to date. But the original, unedited manuscript, Beginners - published here for the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5757H Frankie Boyle / Scotland's Jesus (Large Paperback) Reading Scotland's Jesus should be like being called into the living room by your child shouting that they see a little red dot on the head of a TV newscaster, then riding the white hot bullet through the propaganda circuitry of his or her... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 13114E Christopher Buckley / Wry Martinis Christopher Buckley, author of 'Thank You for Smoking', is the man who persuaded America's ABC News that Russia was auctioning off Lenin's corpse. This book offers a selection of the best of Buckley's recent writing... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X82044H Des MacHale / Ultimate Wit (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86491H Jonathan Rice / Keeping Up Appearances (Hardback) Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced "bouquet", of course), star of BBC1's "Keeping Up Appearances", imparts her personal views on protecting one's social standing. There are sections on etiquette in the home, entertaining, social obligations, how to... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4455H John Scally / The Good, the Glad and the Funny (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3746 Wiliam Sansom - South - Vintage PB 1952 ( Originally 1948) A first Penguin paperback edition, 1952 , of William Sansom's collection of short stories inspirted by , and set in Corsica, Italy and Southern France. 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MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 71596H Jonathan Swift / Directions to Servants This is Jonathan Swift's great neglected cod-tract addressed to the servant classes, from butler down to laundress, instructing them in the arts of cheating their masters, and confirms them in the time-honoured superstitions and prejudices of... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79906H Elizabeth LaBan / The Tragedy Paper Every year at an exclusive private boarding school in New York state, the graduating students uphold an old tradition - they must swear an oath of secrecy and leave behind a "treasure" for each incoming senior.When Duncan Meade inherits the room... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79905H Suzanne Schlosberg / 1001 Nights Without Sex: The Curse of the Single Girl Suzanne Schlosberg calls it 'the Streak': 1001 days without sex. 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MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: MED3121 Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 2 - Because That's Where Your Heart Is - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 Because That's Where Your Heart Is is a collection of short stories that are all about passion! The 16 selected writers share different perspectives on what really moves hearts and souls, with tales of love enduring, of desire, of longing, of losing... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 1 - The Secret Lives - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 The Secret Lives is a collection of short stories that are all about secrets. The 15 writers provide fascinating views of what may be happening behind closed curtains (or deep in the woods... or inside that mirror that never seems to stay covered..... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88356H Woody Allen / Mere Anarchy (Large Paperback) I am greatly relieved that the universe is finally explainable. I was beginning to think it was me. Thus begins Strung Out , Woody Allen s hilarious application of the laws of the universe to daily life. Mere Anarchy, Woody Allen s first new... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7156H Amitava Kumar / Immigrant, Montana (Large Paperback) One winter morning, a monkey stole into Mamaji's room. He climbed on the huge white bed and finding Mamaji's pistol brandished it - they say - at my cousin, born two months after me and still in her crib. No one moved. Then, turning the pistol... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 78201H Des MacHale / Wit on Target This was the third volume in Des MacHale's best-selling Wit series, the best collection of witty remarks ever published. This volume was previously published as Yet More Wit but under that title it languished; it looked like an also ran, yet it was... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 44014H Mike Gatting / Classic After-Dinner Sports Tales Following on from the hugely successful Best After-Dinner Sports Tales, yet more rousing stories from the after-dinner speaking circuit, from some of the biggest names in sport as well as celebrities from the world of entertainment.The book will... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8474H Peter Hoeg / Tales of the Night (Hardback) Each of these nine stories shows a different fact of love - love of violence, love as redemption, love as suffering, even as wisdom - and each has as a background theme one of the nine classical disciplines: mathematics, dance, law, physics,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Details sku: X94445H,wW3860H Paul Dickson / The Complete Book of Toasts (Large Paperback) MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: x67095H Oscar Wilde / The Little Book of Oscar Wilde (Hardback) MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: 78894H E. W. Hornung / Raffles MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: x62064H India Knight / The Dirty Bits - For Girls (Hardback) MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79686H Adam Ruck / Bluffer's Guide to Golf : Instant wit and wisdom Instantly acquire all the knowledge you need to pass as an expert in the arcane and labyrinthine world of golf. Never again confuse a mashie with a spoon, a brassie with a birdie, or stroke play with a scratch. Bask in the admiration of your... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED3105,M3D3106,MED3107,MED3143 Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 3 - The Last Five Minutes of A Storm - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2022 The Last Five Minutes of a Storm is a short story collection packed full of defiance, grief, connection, power and, of course, a dash of strangeness. With strong magical realism influences, this collection features a host of new and emerging writers,... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94444H Yvette Reche / French for Le Snob (Large Paperback) Searching for Le Mot Juste? You'll find it here. 'French for Le Snob' will show you how to use the many French loanwords with impeccable pronunciation. It's unique definitions will help you spice up your conversations with interesting anecdotes... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80713H Khurrum Rahman / The Motive A Jay Qasim short story and prequel to EAST OF HOUNSLOW written for Quick Reads 2021Business has been slow for Hounslow's small time dope-dealer, Jay Qasim. A student house party means quick easy cash but it also means breaking his own rules. But... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: 82423H Patricia Scanlan / Voices : An Open Door Book of Stories The Open Door anthology brings together a collection of short stories by some of Ireland's greatest writers, all of which are written and crafted specifically for the emerging adult reader.Featuring writing from Graham Norton, Christine Dwyer... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7236H The Rules: The Way of the Cycling Disciple Rule #6: Free your mind and your legs will follow.THE VELOMINATI embrace cycling not as a pastime, but as a way of life, as obsessed with style, heritage, authenticity and wisdom as with performance.Rule #9: If you cycle in bad weather, it means... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Parsimony Press - A Twist in the Tale ( Saki : Dust , Guy de Maupassant : The Necklace, Ambrose Bierce : An Occurrence at Owl Creek , O. Henry : The Gift of The Magi) HB - 2000 4 Tales with ' unexpected twists' - classic short stories Dusk - Saki - Dusk is a hallmark of Saki's writing genius. Norman Gortsby considered dusk somewhat differently from others. To him, dusk was a time when losers in life, ashamed to... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG165 Sarah Salway - Leading the Dance - HB - SIGNED Secrets and their consequences run deep through Sarah Salway’s short stories in this haunting and sharply written collection, now republished with the addition of new stories.A bored housewife welcomes the nomadic painter of family pets into her... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79630H Angela Knight / Burning Up Bring these four authors together and it's sure to ignite a spark... Angela Knight pairs a vampire warrior and his seductive captor in a battle against demonic predators. Nalini Singh returns to the world of her Psy-Changeling series as a woman... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Mairtín Ó Cadhain - An tSraith Dhá Togáil - HB - As Gaeilge ( An Chéad Chló 1970) Cover art from Anne Yeats , still in the publishers original plastic covers over cloth . Foilsithe ag Sáirséal & Dill, 1970. Máirtín Ó Cadhain (1906 – 18 October 1970) was one of the most... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79611H Pinckney Benedict / The Wrecking Yard A collection of short stories by the author of "Town Smoke". They reflect the rough-edged contours and personalities of rural America, shaped as they are by poverty, cruelty, and an odd compassion. All of our books... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79659H Cora Sandel / The Silken Thread All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95688H Jhumpa Lahiri / Unaccustomed Earth (Large Paperback) These eight stories by beloved and bestselling author Jhumpa Lahiri take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand, as they explore the secrets at the heart of family life. Here they enter the worlds of sisters and brothers, fathers... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7967H Hilary Mantel / The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher (Hardback) A brilliant - and rather transgressive - collection of short stories from the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of 'Wolf Hall' and 'Bring Up the Bodies'.Hilary Mantel is one of Britain's most accomplished and acclaimed writers. In these ten... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80467H Natalie Reilly / What Your Mother Should've Told You From how to taste wine, to apologising like you mean it, this is a light-hearted collection of answers to 21st century dilemmas, with advice on modern manners, solutions for old fashioned conundrums and everything in between - it's Debretts for... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 25652H Caitlin Moran / How to be Famous The Sunday Times bestselling Richard & Judy Book Club favourite'Being Moran, the jokes and one-liners fizz and crackle off the page' Richard's Review'As usual, Moran writes fearlessly, openly, honestly and incredibly funnily about sex -... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11005H Raymond Carver / Beginners What We Talk About When We Talk About Love is Carver's most famous collection of short stories and remians one of the most influential pieces of modern literature to date. But the original, unedited manuscript, Beginners - published here for the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5757H Frankie Boyle / Scotland's Jesus (Large Paperback) Reading Scotland's Jesus should be like being called into the living room by your child shouting that they see a little red dot on the head of a TV newscaster, then riding the white hot bullet through the propaganda circuitry of his or her... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 13114E Christopher Buckley / Wry Martinis Christopher Buckley, author of 'Thank You for Smoking', is the man who persuaded America's ABC News that Russia was auctioning off Lenin's corpse. This book offers a selection of the best of Buckley's recent writing... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X82044H Des MacHale / Ultimate Wit (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86491H Jonathan Rice / Keeping Up Appearances (Hardback) Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced "bouquet", of course), star of BBC1's "Keeping Up Appearances", imparts her personal views on protecting one's social standing. There are sections on etiquette in the home, entertaining, social obligations, how to... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4455H John Scally / The Good, the Glad and the Funny (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3746 Wiliam Sansom - South - Vintage PB 1952 ( Originally 1948) A first Penguin paperback edition, 1952 , of William Sansom's collection of short stories inspirted by , and set in Corsica, Italy and Southern France. Previous owners name and date ( in roman numerals) to the front endpaper. Crack to spine. In... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97024H,wW4148H Maria Leach / I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation (Hardback) I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation is a celebration of the virtuoso of well-turned phrases and the master of the studied insult - Oscar Wilde. Indeed, so perfect were Wilde's verbal thrusts that his victims were often flattered to have... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79827H Dermot Bolger / Ladies' Night at Finbar's Hotel Each story stands alone but also makes up the vivid picture of life in Dublin's newly refurbished Finbar's Hotel . . . funny and poignant' Sunday Mirror'Finbar's Hotel is back, this time with a stellar cast of women writers and a lick of paint . . ... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79825H Mary K. Doyle / Hans Christian Andersen : Illuminated by the Message When Mary K. Doyle was a child, she was entranced with the stories her mother read from Andersen's Fairy Tales. "Make-believe came to life," she writes in her introduction, "with characters I could see and hear. Their problems were real to me... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79812H Mary Morrissy / A Lazy Eye All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 67465H Martha Batalha / The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao 'Zesty' Daily Mail'A real gem of a book' StylistA wickedly funny tale of two rebellious sisters in 1940s Rio de JaneiroEuridice is bright and ambitious. But this is Brazil in the 1940s, and society expects her to be a loving wife and mother. While... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 71596H Jonathan Swift / Directions to Servants This is Jonathan Swift's great neglected cod-tract addressed to the servant classes, from butler down to laundress, instructing them in the arts of cheating their masters, and confirms them in the time-honoured superstitions and prejudices of... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79906H Elizabeth LaBan / The Tragedy Paper Every year at an exclusive private boarding school in New York state, the graduating students uphold an old tradition - they must swear an oath of secrecy and leave behind a "treasure" for each incoming senior.When Duncan Meade inherits the room... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79905H Suzanne Schlosberg / 1001 Nights Without Sex: The Curse of the Single Girl Suzanne Schlosberg calls it 'the Streak': 1001 days without sex. She's going through the mother of all dry spells...a Sahara devoid of intimacy, committed relationships and even one-night stands. The question is why? Is she too picky, too bitchy,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 74781H Reginald Hill / Asking for the Moon 'Hill is an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift' Frances Fyfield, Mail on SundayIf you've already met Dalziel and Pascoe, you're in for a treat. If you haven't yet had the pleasure, you're in for a... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW6686H Dad Says Jokes / Dad Jokes : The very best of @DadSaysJokes (Hardback) From the most-followed dad jokes page on Instagram, @dadsaysjokes, comes a collection of hilariously cheesy jokes that will leave your friends and family laughing and groaning in equal measure.This is the perfect gift for dads who want to expand... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: MED3121 Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 2 - Because That's Where Your Heart Is - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 Because That's Where Your Heart Is is a collection of short stories that are all about passion! The 16 selected writers share different perspectives on what really moves hearts and souls, with tales of love enduring, of desire, of longing, of losing... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 1 - The Secret Lives - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 The Secret Lives is a collection of short stories that are all about secrets. The 15 writers provide fascinating views of what may be happening behind closed curtains (or deep in the woods... or inside that mirror that never seems to stay covered..... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88356H Woody Allen / Mere Anarchy (Large Paperback) I am greatly relieved that the universe is finally explainable. I was beginning to think it was me. Thus begins Strung Out , Woody Allen s hilarious application of the laws of the universe to daily life. Mere Anarchy, Woody Allen s first new... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7156H Amitava Kumar / Immigrant, Montana (Large Paperback) One winter morning, a monkey stole into Mamaji's room. He climbed on the huge white bed and finding Mamaji's pistol brandished it - they say - at my cousin, born two months after me and still in her crib. No one moved. Then, turning the pistol... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 78201H Des MacHale / Wit on Target This was the third volume in Des MacHale's best-selling Wit series, the best collection of witty remarks ever published. This volume was previously published as Yet More Wit but under that title it languished; it looked like an also ran, yet it was... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 44014H Mike Gatting / Classic After-Dinner Sports Tales Following on from the hugely successful Best After-Dinner Sports Tales, yet more rousing stories from the after-dinner speaking circuit, from some of the biggest names in sport as well as celebrities from the world of entertainment.The book will... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8474H Peter Hoeg / Tales of the Night (Hardback) Each of these nine stories shows a different fact of love - love of violence, love as redemption, love as suffering, even as wisdom - and each has as a background theme one of the nine classical disciplines: mathematics, dance, law, physics,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Details sku: x67095H Oscar Wilde / The Little Book of Oscar Wilde (Hardback) MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: 78894H E. W. Hornung / Raffles MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: x62064H India Knight / The Dirty Bits - For Girls (Hardback) MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79686H Adam Ruck / Bluffer's Guide to Golf : Instant wit and wisdom Instantly acquire all the knowledge you need to pass as an expert in the arcane and labyrinthine world of golf. Never again confuse a mashie with a spoon, a brassie with a birdie, or stroke play with a scratch. Bask in the admiration of your... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED3105,M3D3106,MED3107,MED3143 Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 3 - The Last Five Minutes of A Storm - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2022 The Last Five Minutes of a Storm is a short story collection packed full of defiance, grief, connection, power and, of course, a dash of strangeness. With strong magical realism influences, this collection features a host of new and emerging writers,... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94444H Yvette Reche / French for Le Snob (Large Paperback) Searching for Le Mot Juste? You'll find it here. 'French for Le Snob' will show you how to use the many French loanwords with impeccable pronunciation. It's unique definitions will help you spice up your conversations with interesting anecdotes... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80713H Khurrum Rahman / The Motive A Jay Qasim short story and prequel to EAST OF HOUNSLOW written for Quick Reads 2021Business has been slow for Hounslow's small time dope-dealer, Jay Qasim. A student house party means quick easy cash but it also means breaking his own rules. But... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: 82423H Patricia Scanlan / Voices : An Open Door Book of Stories The Open Door anthology brings together a collection of short stories by some of Ireland's greatest writers, all of which are written and crafted specifically for the emerging adult reader.Featuring writing from Graham Norton, Christine Dwyer... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7236H The Rules: The Way of the Cycling Disciple Rule #6: Free your mind and your legs will follow.THE VELOMINATI embrace cycling not as a pastime, but as a way of life, as obsessed with style, heritage, authenticity and wisdom as with performance.Rule #9: If you cycle in bad weather, it means... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Parsimony Press - A Twist in the Tale ( Saki : Dust , Guy de Maupassant : The Necklace, Ambrose Bierce : An Occurrence at Owl Creek , O. Henry : The Gift of The Magi) HB - 2000 4 Tales with ' unexpected twists' - classic short stories Dusk - Saki - Dusk is a hallmark of Saki's writing genius. Norman Gortsby considered dusk somewhat differently from others. To him, dusk was a time when losers in life, ashamed to... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG165 Sarah Salway - Leading the Dance - HB - SIGNED Secrets and their consequences run deep through Sarah Salway’s short stories in this haunting and sharply written collection, now republished with the addition of new stories.A bored housewife welcomes the nomadic painter of family pets into her... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79630H Angela Knight / Burning Up Bring these four authors together and it's sure to ignite a spark... Angela Knight pairs a vampire warrior and his seductive captor in a battle against demonic predators. Nalini Singh returns to the world of her Psy-Changeling series as a woman... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Mairtín Ó Cadhain - An tSraith Dhá Togáil - HB - As Gaeilge ( An Chéad Chló 1970) Cover art from Anne Yeats , still in the publishers original plastic covers over cloth . Foilsithe ag Sáirséal & Dill, 1970. Máirtín Ó Cadhain (1906 – 18 October 1970) was one of the most... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79611H Pinckney Benedict / The Wrecking Yard A collection of short stories by the author of "Town Smoke". They reflect the rough-edged contours and personalities of rural America, shaped as they are by poverty, cruelty, and an odd compassion. All of our books... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79659H Cora Sandel / The Silken Thread All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95688H Jhumpa Lahiri / Unaccustomed Earth (Large Paperback) These eight stories by beloved and bestselling author Jhumpa Lahiri take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand, as they explore the secrets at the heart of family life. Here they enter the worlds of sisters and brothers, fathers... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7967H Hilary Mantel / The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher (Hardback) A brilliant - and rather transgressive - collection of short stories from the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of 'Wolf Hall' and 'Bring Up the Bodies'.Hilary Mantel is one of Britain's most accomplished and acclaimed writers. In these ten... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80467H Natalie Reilly / What Your Mother Should've Told You From how to taste wine, to apologising like you mean it, this is a light-hearted collection of answers to 21st century dilemmas, with advice on modern manners, solutions for old fashioned conundrums and everything in between - it's Debretts for... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 25652H Caitlin Moran / How to be Famous The Sunday Times bestselling Richard & Judy Book Club favourite'Being Moran, the jokes and one-liners fizz and crackle off the page' Richard's Review'As usual, Moran writes fearlessly, openly, honestly and incredibly funnily about sex -... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11005H Raymond Carver / Beginners What We Talk About When We Talk About Love is Carver's most famous collection of short stories and remians one of the most influential pieces of modern literature to date. But the original, unedited manuscript, Beginners - published here for the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5757H Frankie Boyle / Scotland's Jesus (Large Paperback) Reading Scotland's Jesus should be like being called into the living room by your child shouting that they see a little red dot on the head of a TV newscaster, then riding the white hot bullet through the propaganda circuitry of his or her... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 13114E Christopher Buckley / Wry Martinis Christopher Buckley, author of 'Thank You for Smoking', is the man who persuaded America's ABC News that Russia was auctioning off Lenin's corpse. This book offers a selection of the best of Buckley's recent writing... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X82044H Des MacHale / Ultimate Wit (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86491H Jonathan Rice / Keeping Up Appearances (Hardback) Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced "bouquet", of course), star of BBC1's "Keeping Up Appearances", imparts her personal views on protecting one's social standing. There are sections on etiquette in the home, entertaining, social obligations, how to... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4455H John Scally / The Good, the Glad and the Funny (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3746 Wiliam Sansom - South - Vintage PB 1952 ( Originally 1948) A first Penguin paperback edition, 1952 , of William Sansom's collection of short stories inspirted by , and set in Corsica, Italy and Southern France. Previous owners name and date ( in roman numerals) to the front endpaper. Crack to spine. In... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97024H,wW4148H Maria Leach / I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation (Hardback) I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation is a celebration of the virtuoso of well-turned phrases and the master of the studied insult - Oscar Wilde. Indeed, so perfect were Wilde's verbal thrusts that his victims were often flattered to have... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79827H Dermot Bolger / Ladies' Night at Finbar's Hotel Each story stands alone but also makes up the vivid picture of life in Dublin's newly refurbished Finbar's Hotel . . . funny and poignant' Sunday Mirror'Finbar's Hotel is back, this time with a stellar cast of women writers and a lick of paint . . ... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79825H Mary K. Doyle / Hans Christian Andersen : Illuminated by the Message When Mary K. Doyle was a child, she was entranced with the stories her mother read from Andersen's Fairy Tales. "Make-believe came to life," she writes in her introduction, "with characters I could see and hear. Their problems were real to me... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79812H Mary Morrissy / A Lazy Eye All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 67465H Martha Batalha / The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao 'Zesty' Daily Mail'A real gem of a book' StylistA wickedly funny tale of two rebellious sisters in 1940s Rio de JaneiroEuridice is bright and ambitious. But this is Brazil in the 1940s, and society expects her to be a loving wife and mother. While... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 71596H Jonathan Swift / Directions to Servants This is Jonathan Swift's great neglected cod-tract addressed to the servant classes, from butler down to laundress, instructing them in the arts of cheating their masters, and confirms them in the time-honoured superstitions and prejudices of... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79906H Elizabeth LaBan / The Tragedy Paper Every year at an exclusive private boarding school in New York state, the graduating students uphold an old tradition - they must swear an oath of secrecy and leave behind a "treasure" for each incoming senior.When Duncan Meade inherits the room... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79905H Suzanne Schlosberg / 1001 Nights Without Sex: The Curse of the Single Girl Suzanne Schlosberg calls it 'the Streak': 1001 days without sex. She's going through the mother of all dry spells...a Sahara devoid of intimacy, committed relationships and even one-night stands. The question is why? Is she too picky, too bitchy,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 74781H Reginald Hill / Asking for the Moon 'Hill is an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift' Frances Fyfield, Mail on SundayIf you've already met Dalziel and Pascoe, you're in for a treat. If you haven't yet had the pleasure, you're in for a... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW6686H Dad Says Jokes / Dad Jokes : The very best of @DadSaysJokes (Hardback) From the most-followed dad jokes page on Instagram, @dadsaysjokes, comes a collection of hilariously cheesy jokes that will leave your friends and family laughing and groaning in equal measure.This is the perfect gift for dads who want to expand... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: MED3121 Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 2 - Because That's Where Your Heart Is - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 Because That's Where Your Heart Is is a collection of short stories that are all about passion! The 16 selected writers share different perspectives on what really moves hearts and souls, with tales of love enduring, of desire, of longing, of losing... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 1 - The Secret Lives - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 The Secret Lives is a collection of short stories that are all about secrets. The 15 writers provide fascinating views of what may be happening behind closed curtains (or deep in the woods... or inside that mirror that never seems to stay covered..... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88356H Woody Allen / Mere Anarchy (Large Paperback) I am greatly relieved that the universe is finally explainable. I was beginning to think it was me. Thus begins Strung Out , Woody Allen s hilarious application of the laws of the universe to daily life. Mere Anarchy, Woody Allen s first new... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7156H Amitava Kumar / Immigrant, Montana (Large Paperback) One winter morning, a monkey stole into Mamaji's room. He climbed on the huge white bed and finding Mamaji's pistol brandished it - they say - at my cousin, born two months after me and still in her crib. No one moved. Then, turning the pistol... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 78201H Des MacHale / Wit on Target This was the third volume in Des MacHale's best-selling Wit series, the best collection of witty remarks ever published. This volume was previously published as Yet More Wit but under that title it languished; it looked like an also ran, yet it was... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 44014H Mike Gatting / Classic After-Dinner Sports Tales Following on from the hugely successful Best After-Dinner Sports Tales, yet more rousing stories from the after-dinner speaking circuit, from some of the biggest names in sport as well as celebrities from the world of entertainment.The book will... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8474H Peter Hoeg / Tales of the Night (Hardback) Each of these nine stories shows a different fact of love - love of violence, love as redemption, love as suffering, even as wisdom - and each has as a background theme one of the nine classical disciplines: mathematics, dance, law, physics,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Details sku: 78894H E. W. Hornung / Raffles MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: x62064H India Knight / The Dirty Bits - For Girls (Hardback) MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79686H Adam Ruck / Bluffer's Guide to Golf : Instant wit and wisdom Instantly acquire all the knowledge you need to pass as an expert in the arcane and labyrinthine world of golf. Never again confuse a mashie with a spoon, a brassie with a birdie, or stroke play with a scratch. Bask in the admiration of your... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED3105,M3D3106,MED3107,MED3143 Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 3 - The Last Five Minutes of A Storm - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2022 The Last Five Minutes of a Storm is a short story collection packed full of defiance, grief, connection, power and, of course, a dash of strangeness. With strong magical realism influences, this collection features a host of new and emerging writers,... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94444H Yvette Reche / French for Le Snob (Large Paperback) Searching for Le Mot Juste? You'll find it here. 'French for Le Snob' will show you how to use the many French loanwords with impeccable pronunciation. It's unique definitions will help you spice up your conversations with interesting anecdotes... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80713H Khurrum Rahman / The Motive A Jay Qasim short story and prequel to EAST OF HOUNSLOW written for Quick Reads 2021Business has been slow for Hounslow's small time dope-dealer, Jay Qasim. A student house party means quick easy cash but it also means breaking his own rules. But... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: 82423H Patricia Scanlan / Voices : An Open Door Book of Stories The Open Door anthology brings together a collection of short stories by some of Ireland's greatest writers, all of which are written and crafted specifically for the emerging adult reader.Featuring writing from Graham Norton, Christine Dwyer... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7236H The Rules: The Way of the Cycling Disciple Rule #6: Free your mind and your legs will follow.THE VELOMINATI embrace cycling not as a pastime, but as a way of life, as obsessed with style, heritage, authenticity and wisdom as with performance.Rule #9: If you cycle in bad weather, it means... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Parsimony Press - A Twist in the Tale ( Saki : Dust , Guy de Maupassant : The Necklace, Ambrose Bierce : An Occurrence at Owl Creek , O. Henry : The Gift of The Magi) HB - 2000 4 Tales with ' unexpected twists' - classic short stories Dusk - Saki - Dusk is a hallmark of Saki's writing genius. Norman Gortsby considered dusk somewhat differently from others. To him, dusk was a time when losers in life, ashamed to... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG165 Sarah Salway - Leading the Dance - HB - SIGNED Secrets and their consequences run deep through Sarah Salway’s short stories in this haunting and sharply written collection, now republished with the addition of new stories.A bored housewife welcomes the nomadic painter of family pets into her... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79630H Angela Knight / Burning Up Bring these four authors together and it's sure to ignite a spark... Angela Knight pairs a vampire warrior and his seductive captor in a battle against demonic predators. Nalini Singh returns to the world of her Psy-Changeling series as a woman... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Mairtín Ó Cadhain - An tSraith Dhá Togáil - HB - As Gaeilge ( An Chéad Chló 1970) Cover art from Anne Yeats , still in the publishers original plastic covers over cloth . Foilsithe ag Sáirséal & Dill, 1970. Máirtín Ó Cadhain (1906 – 18 October 1970) was one of the most... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79611H Pinckney Benedict / The Wrecking Yard A collection of short stories by the author of "Town Smoke". They reflect the rough-edged contours and personalities of rural America, shaped as they are by poverty, cruelty, and an odd compassion. All of our books... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79659H Cora Sandel / The Silken Thread All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95688H Jhumpa Lahiri / Unaccustomed Earth (Large Paperback) These eight stories by beloved and bestselling author Jhumpa Lahiri take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand, as they explore the secrets at the heart of family life. Here they enter the worlds of sisters and brothers, fathers... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7967H Hilary Mantel / The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher (Hardback) A brilliant - and rather transgressive - collection of short stories from the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of 'Wolf Hall' and 'Bring Up the Bodies'.Hilary Mantel is one of Britain's most accomplished and acclaimed writers. In these ten... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80467H Natalie Reilly / What Your Mother Should've Told You From how to taste wine, to apologising like you mean it, this is a light-hearted collection of answers to 21st century dilemmas, with advice on modern manners, solutions for old fashioned conundrums and everything in between - it's Debretts for... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 25652H Caitlin Moran / How to be Famous The Sunday Times bestselling Richard & Judy Book Club favourite'Being Moran, the jokes and one-liners fizz and crackle off the page' Richard's Review'As usual, Moran writes fearlessly, openly, honestly and incredibly funnily about sex -... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11005H Raymond Carver / Beginners What We Talk About When We Talk About Love is Carver's most famous collection of short stories and remians one of the most influential pieces of modern literature to date. But the original, unedited manuscript, Beginners - published here for the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5757H Frankie Boyle / Scotland's Jesus (Large Paperback) Reading Scotland's Jesus should be like being called into the living room by your child shouting that they see a little red dot on the head of a TV newscaster, then riding the white hot bullet through the propaganda circuitry of his or her... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 13114E Christopher Buckley / Wry Martinis Christopher Buckley, author of 'Thank You for Smoking', is the man who persuaded America's ABC News that Russia was auctioning off Lenin's corpse. This book offers a selection of the best of Buckley's recent writing... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X82044H Des MacHale / Ultimate Wit (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86491H Jonathan Rice / Keeping Up Appearances (Hardback) Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced "bouquet", of course), star of BBC1's "Keeping Up Appearances", imparts her personal views on protecting one's social standing. There are sections on etiquette in the home, entertaining, social obligations, how to... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4455H John Scally / The Good, the Glad and the Funny (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3746 Wiliam Sansom - South - Vintage PB 1952 ( Originally 1948) A first Penguin paperback edition, 1952 , of William Sansom's collection of short stories inspirted by , and set in Corsica, Italy and Southern France. Previous owners name and date ( in roman numerals) to the front endpaper. Crack to spine. In... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97024H,wW4148H Maria Leach / I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation (Hardback) I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation is a celebration of the virtuoso of well-turned phrases and the master of the studied insult - Oscar Wilde. Indeed, so perfect were Wilde's verbal thrusts that his victims were often flattered to have... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79827H Dermot Bolger / Ladies' Night at Finbar's Hotel Each story stands alone but also makes up the vivid picture of life in Dublin's newly refurbished Finbar's Hotel . . . funny and poignant' Sunday Mirror'Finbar's Hotel is back, this time with a stellar cast of women writers and a lick of paint . . ... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79825H Mary K. Doyle / Hans Christian Andersen : Illuminated by the Message When Mary K. Doyle was a child, she was entranced with the stories her mother read from Andersen's Fairy Tales. "Make-believe came to life," she writes in her introduction, "with characters I could see and hear. Their problems were real to me... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79812H Mary Morrissy / A Lazy Eye All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 67465H Martha Batalha / The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao 'Zesty' Daily Mail'A real gem of a book' StylistA wickedly funny tale of two rebellious sisters in 1940s Rio de JaneiroEuridice is bright and ambitious. But this is Brazil in the 1940s, and society expects her to be a loving wife and mother. While... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 71596H Jonathan Swift / Directions to Servants This is Jonathan Swift's great neglected cod-tract addressed to the servant classes, from butler down to laundress, instructing them in the arts of cheating their masters, and confirms them in the time-honoured superstitions and prejudices of... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79906H Elizabeth LaBan / The Tragedy Paper Every year at an exclusive private boarding school in New York state, the graduating students uphold an old tradition - they must swear an oath of secrecy and leave behind a "treasure" for each incoming senior.When Duncan Meade inherits the room... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79905H Suzanne Schlosberg / 1001 Nights Without Sex: The Curse of the Single Girl Suzanne Schlosberg calls it 'the Streak': 1001 days without sex. She's going through the mother of all dry spells...a Sahara devoid of intimacy, committed relationships and even one-night stands. The question is why? Is she too picky, too bitchy,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 74781H Reginald Hill / Asking for the Moon 'Hill is an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift' Frances Fyfield, Mail on SundayIf you've already met Dalziel and Pascoe, you're in for a treat. If you haven't yet had the pleasure, you're in for a... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW6686H Dad Says Jokes / Dad Jokes : The very best of @DadSaysJokes (Hardback) From the most-followed dad jokes page on Instagram, @dadsaysjokes, comes a collection of hilariously cheesy jokes that will leave your friends and family laughing and groaning in equal measure.This is the perfect gift for dads who want to expand... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: MED3121 Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 2 - Because That's Where Your Heart Is - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 Because That's Where Your Heart Is is a collection of short stories that are all about passion! The 16 selected writers share different perspectives on what really moves hearts and souls, with tales of love enduring, of desire, of longing, of losing... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 1 - The Secret Lives - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 The Secret Lives is a collection of short stories that are all about secrets. The 15 writers provide fascinating views of what may be happening behind closed curtains (or deep in the woods... or inside that mirror that never seems to stay covered..... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88356H Woody Allen / Mere Anarchy (Large Paperback) I am greatly relieved that the universe is finally explainable. I was beginning to think it was me. Thus begins Strung Out , Woody Allen s hilarious application of the laws of the universe to daily life. Mere Anarchy, Woody Allen s first new... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7156H Amitava Kumar / Immigrant, Montana (Large Paperback) One winter morning, a monkey stole into Mamaji's room. He climbed on the huge white bed and finding Mamaji's pistol brandished it - they say - at my cousin, born two months after me and still in her crib. No one moved. Then, turning the pistol... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 78201H Des MacHale / Wit on Target This was the third volume in Des MacHale's best-selling Wit series, the best collection of witty remarks ever published. This volume was previously published as Yet More Wit but under that title it languished; it looked like an also ran, yet it was... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 44014H Mike Gatting / Classic After-Dinner Sports Tales Following on from the hugely successful Best After-Dinner Sports Tales, yet more rousing stories from the after-dinner speaking circuit, from some of the biggest names in sport as well as celebrities from the world of entertainment.The book will... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8474H Peter Hoeg / Tales of the Night (Hardback) Each of these nine stories shows a different fact of love - love of violence, love as redemption, love as suffering, even as wisdom - and each has as a background theme one of the nine classical disciplines: mathematics, dance, law, physics,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Details sku: x62064H India Knight / The Dirty Bits - For Girls (Hardback) MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79686H Adam Ruck / Bluffer's Guide to Golf : Instant wit and wisdom Instantly acquire all the knowledge you need to pass as an expert in the arcane and labyrinthine world of golf. Never again confuse a mashie with a spoon, a brassie with a birdie, or stroke play with a scratch. Bask in the admiration of your... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED3105,M3D3106,MED3107,MED3143 Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 3 - The Last Five Minutes of A Storm - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2022 The Last Five Minutes of a Storm is a short story collection packed full of defiance, grief, connection, power and, of course, a dash of strangeness. With strong magical realism influences, this collection features a host of new and emerging writers,... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94444H Yvette Reche / French for Le Snob (Large Paperback) Searching for Le Mot Juste? You'll find it here. 'French for Le Snob' will show you how to use the many French loanwords with impeccable pronunciation. It's unique definitions will help you spice up your conversations with interesting anecdotes... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80713H Khurrum Rahman / The Motive A Jay Qasim short story and prequel to EAST OF HOUNSLOW written for Quick Reads 2021Business has been slow for Hounslow's small time dope-dealer, Jay Qasim. A student house party means quick easy cash but it also means breaking his own rules. But... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: 82423H Patricia Scanlan / Voices : An Open Door Book of Stories The Open Door anthology brings together a collection of short stories by some of Ireland's greatest writers, all of which are written and crafted specifically for the emerging adult reader.Featuring writing from Graham Norton, Christine Dwyer... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7236H The Rules: The Way of the Cycling Disciple Rule #6: Free your mind and your legs will follow.THE VELOMINATI embrace cycling not as a pastime, but as a way of life, as obsessed with style, heritage, authenticity and wisdom as with performance.Rule #9: If you cycle in bad weather, it means... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Parsimony Press - A Twist in the Tale ( Saki : Dust , Guy de Maupassant : The Necklace, Ambrose Bierce : An Occurrence at Owl Creek , O. Henry : The Gift of The Magi) HB - 2000 4 Tales with ' unexpected twists' - classic short stories Dusk - Saki - Dusk is a hallmark of Saki's writing genius. Norman Gortsby considered dusk somewhat differently from others. To him, dusk was a time when losers in life, ashamed to... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG165 Sarah Salway - Leading the Dance - HB - SIGNED Secrets and their consequences run deep through Sarah Salway’s short stories in this haunting and sharply written collection, now republished with the addition of new stories.A bored housewife welcomes the nomadic painter of family pets into her... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79630H Angela Knight / Burning Up Bring these four authors together and it's sure to ignite a spark... Angela Knight pairs a vampire warrior and his seductive captor in a battle against demonic predators. Nalini Singh returns to the world of her Psy-Changeling series as a woman... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Mairtín Ó Cadhain - An tSraith Dhá Togáil - HB - As Gaeilge ( An Chéad Chló 1970) Cover art from Anne Yeats , still in the publishers original plastic covers over cloth . Foilsithe ag Sáirséal & Dill, 1970. Máirtín Ó Cadhain (1906 – 18 October 1970) was one of the most... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79611H Pinckney Benedict / The Wrecking Yard A collection of short stories by the author of "Town Smoke". They reflect the rough-edged contours and personalities of rural America, shaped as they are by poverty, cruelty, and an odd compassion. All of our books... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79659H Cora Sandel / The Silken Thread All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95688H Jhumpa Lahiri / Unaccustomed Earth (Large Paperback) These eight stories by beloved and bestselling author Jhumpa Lahiri take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand, as they explore the secrets at the heart of family life. Here they enter the worlds of sisters and brothers, fathers... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7967H Hilary Mantel / The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher (Hardback) A brilliant - and rather transgressive - collection of short stories from the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of 'Wolf Hall' and 'Bring Up the Bodies'.Hilary Mantel is one of Britain's most accomplished and acclaimed writers. In these ten... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80467H Natalie Reilly / What Your Mother Should've Told You From how to taste wine, to apologising like you mean it, this is a light-hearted collection of answers to 21st century dilemmas, with advice on modern manners, solutions for old fashioned conundrums and everything in between - it's Debretts for... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 25652H Caitlin Moran / How to be Famous The Sunday Times bestselling Richard & Judy Book Club favourite'Being Moran, the jokes and one-liners fizz and crackle off the page' Richard's Review'As usual, Moran writes fearlessly, openly, honestly and incredibly funnily about sex -... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11005H Raymond Carver / Beginners What We Talk About When We Talk About Love is Carver's most famous collection of short stories and remians one of the most influential pieces of modern literature to date. But the original, unedited manuscript, Beginners - published here for the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5757H Frankie Boyle / Scotland's Jesus (Large Paperback) Reading Scotland's Jesus should be like being called into the living room by your child shouting that they see a little red dot on the head of a TV newscaster, then riding the white hot bullet through the propaganda circuitry of his or her... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 13114E Christopher Buckley / Wry Martinis Christopher Buckley, author of 'Thank You for Smoking', is the man who persuaded America's ABC News that Russia was auctioning off Lenin's corpse. This book offers a selection of the best of Buckley's recent writing... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X82044H Des MacHale / Ultimate Wit (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86491H Jonathan Rice / Keeping Up Appearances (Hardback) Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced "bouquet", of course), star of BBC1's "Keeping Up Appearances", imparts her personal views on protecting one's social standing. There are sections on etiquette in the home, entertaining, social obligations, how to... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4455H John Scally / The Good, the Glad and the Funny (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3746 Wiliam Sansom - South - Vintage PB 1952 ( Originally 1948) A first Penguin paperback edition, 1952 , of William Sansom's collection of short stories inspirted by , and set in Corsica, Italy and Southern France. Previous owners name and date ( in roman numerals) to the front endpaper. Crack to spine. In... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97024H,wW4148H Maria Leach / I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation (Hardback) I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation is a celebration of the virtuoso of well-turned phrases and the master of the studied insult - Oscar Wilde. Indeed, so perfect were Wilde's verbal thrusts that his victims were often flattered to have... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79827H Dermot Bolger / Ladies' Night at Finbar's Hotel Each story stands alone but also makes up the vivid picture of life in Dublin's newly refurbished Finbar's Hotel . . . funny and poignant' Sunday Mirror'Finbar's Hotel is back, this time with a stellar cast of women writers and a lick of paint . . ... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79825H Mary K. Doyle / Hans Christian Andersen : Illuminated by the Message When Mary K. Doyle was a child, she was entranced with the stories her mother read from Andersen's Fairy Tales. "Make-believe came to life," she writes in her introduction, "with characters I could see and hear. Their problems were real to me... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79812H Mary Morrissy / A Lazy Eye All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 67465H Martha Batalha / The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao 'Zesty' Daily Mail'A real gem of a book' StylistA wickedly funny tale of two rebellious sisters in 1940s Rio de JaneiroEuridice is bright and ambitious. But this is Brazil in the 1940s, and society expects her to be a loving wife and mother. While... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 71596H Jonathan Swift / Directions to Servants This is Jonathan Swift's great neglected cod-tract addressed to the servant classes, from butler down to laundress, instructing them in the arts of cheating their masters, and confirms them in the time-honoured superstitions and prejudices of... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79906H Elizabeth LaBan / The Tragedy Paper Every year at an exclusive private boarding school in New York state, the graduating students uphold an old tradition - they must swear an oath of secrecy and leave behind a "treasure" for each incoming senior.When Duncan Meade inherits the room... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79905H Suzanne Schlosberg / 1001 Nights Without Sex: The Curse of the Single Girl Suzanne Schlosberg calls it 'the Streak': 1001 days without sex. She's going through the mother of all dry spells...a Sahara devoid of intimacy, committed relationships and even one-night stands. The question is why? Is she too picky, too bitchy,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 74781H Reginald Hill / Asking for the Moon 'Hill is an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift' Frances Fyfield, Mail on SundayIf you've already met Dalziel and Pascoe, you're in for a treat. If you haven't yet had the pleasure, you're in for a... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW6686H Dad Says Jokes / Dad Jokes : The very best of @DadSaysJokes (Hardback) From the most-followed dad jokes page on Instagram, @dadsaysjokes, comes a collection of hilariously cheesy jokes that will leave your friends and family laughing and groaning in equal measure.This is the perfect gift for dads who want to expand... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: MED3121 Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 2 - Because That's Where Your Heart Is - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 Because That's Where Your Heart Is is a collection of short stories that are all about passion! The 16 selected writers share different perspectives on what really moves hearts and souls, with tales of love enduring, of desire, of longing, of losing... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 1 - The Secret Lives - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 The Secret Lives is a collection of short stories that are all about secrets. The 15 writers provide fascinating views of what may be happening behind closed curtains (or deep in the woods... or inside that mirror that never seems to stay covered..... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88356H Woody Allen / Mere Anarchy (Large Paperback) I am greatly relieved that the universe is finally explainable. I was beginning to think it was me. Thus begins Strung Out , Woody Allen s hilarious application of the laws of the universe to daily life. Mere Anarchy, Woody Allen s first new... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7156H Amitava Kumar / Immigrant, Montana (Large Paperback) One winter morning, a monkey stole into Mamaji's room. He climbed on the huge white bed and finding Mamaji's pistol brandished it - they say - at my cousin, born two months after me and still in her crib. No one moved. Then, turning the pistol... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 78201H Des MacHale / Wit on Target This was the third volume in Des MacHale's best-selling Wit series, the best collection of witty remarks ever published. This volume was previously published as Yet More Wit but under that title it languished; it looked like an also ran, yet it was... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 44014H Mike Gatting / Classic After-Dinner Sports Tales Following on from the hugely successful Best After-Dinner Sports Tales, yet more rousing stories from the after-dinner speaking circuit, from some of the biggest names in sport as well as celebrities from the world of entertainment.The book will... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8474H Peter Hoeg / Tales of the Night (Hardback) Each of these nine stories shows a different fact of love - love of violence, love as redemption, love as suffering, even as wisdom - and each has as a background theme one of the nine classical disciplines: mathematics, dance, law, physics,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 79686H Adam Ruck / Bluffer's Guide to Golf : Instant wit and wisdom Instantly acquire all the knowledge you need to pass as an expert in the arcane and labyrinthine world of golf. Never again confuse a mashie with a spoon, a brassie with a birdie, or stroke play with a scratch. Bask in the admiration of your... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED3105,M3D3106,MED3107,MED3143 Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 3 - The Last Five Minutes of A Storm - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2022 The Last Five Minutes of a Storm is a short story collection packed full of defiance, grief, connection, power and, of course, a dash of strangeness. With strong magical realism influences, this collection features a host of new and emerging writers,... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94444H Yvette Reche / French for Le Snob (Large Paperback) Searching for Le Mot Juste? You'll find it here. 'French for Le Snob' will show you how to use the many French loanwords with impeccable pronunciation. It's unique definitions will help you spice up your conversations with interesting anecdotes... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80713H Khurrum Rahman / The Motive A Jay Qasim short story and prequel to EAST OF HOUNSLOW written for Quick Reads 2021Business has been slow for Hounslow's small time dope-dealer, Jay Qasim. A student house party means quick easy cash but it also means breaking his own rules. But... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: 82423H Patricia Scanlan / Voices : An Open Door Book of Stories The Open Door anthology brings together a collection of short stories by some of Ireland's greatest writers, all of which are written and crafted specifically for the emerging adult reader.Featuring writing from Graham Norton, Christine Dwyer... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7236H The Rules: The Way of the Cycling Disciple Rule #6: Free your mind and your legs will follow.THE VELOMINATI embrace cycling not as a pastime, but as a way of life, as obsessed with style, heritage, authenticity and wisdom as with performance.Rule #9: If you cycle in bad weather, it means... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Parsimony Press - A Twist in the Tale ( Saki : Dust , Guy de Maupassant : The Necklace, Ambrose Bierce : An Occurrence at Owl Creek , O. Henry : The Gift of The Magi) HB - 2000 4 Tales with ' unexpected twists' - classic short stories Dusk - Saki - Dusk is a hallmark of Saki's writing genius. Norman Gortsby considered dusk somewhat differently from others. To him, dusk was a time when losers in life, ashamed to... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG165 Sarah Salway - Leading the Dance - HB - SIGNED Secrets and their consequences run deep through Sarah Salway’s short stories in this haunting and sharply written collection, now republished with the addition of new stories.A bored housewife welcomes the nomadic painter of family pets into her... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79630H Angela Knight / Burning Up Bring these four authors together and it's sure to ignite a spark... Angela Knight pairs a vampire warrior and his seductive captor in a battle against demonic predators. Nalini Singh returns to the world of her Psy-Changeling series as a woman... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Mairtín Ó Cadhain - An tSraith Dhá Togáil - HB - As Gaeilge ( An Chéad Chló 1970) Cover art from Anne Yeats , still in the publishers original plastic covers over cloth . Foilsithe ag Sáirséal & Dill, 1970. Máirtín Ó Cadhain (1906 – 18 October 1970) was one of the most... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79611H Pinckney Benedict / The Wrecking Yard A collection of short stories by the author of "Town Smoke". They reflect the rough-edged contours and personalities of rural America, shaped as they are by poverty, cruelty, and an odd compassion. All of our books... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79659H Cora Sandel / The Silken Thread All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95688H Jhumpa Lahiri / Unaccustomed Earth (Large Paperback) These eight stories by beloved and bestselling author Jhumpa Lahiri take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand, as they explore the secrets at the heart of family life. Here they enter the worlds of sisters and brothers, fathers... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7967H Hilary Mantel / The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher (Hardback) A brilliant - and rather transgressive - collection of short stories from the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of 'Wolf Hall' and 'Bring Up the Bodies'.Hilary Mantel is one of Britain's most accomplished and acclaimed writers. In these ten... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80467H Natalie Reilly / What Your Mother Should've Told You From how to taste wine, to apologising like you mean it, this is a light-hearted collection of answers to 21st century dilemmas, with advice on modern manners, solutions for old fashioned conundrums and everything in between - it's Debretts for... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 25652H Caitlin Moran / How to be Famous The Sunday Times bestselling Richard & Judy Book Club favourite'Being Moran, the jokes and one-liners fizz and crackle off the page' Richard's Review'As usual, Moran writes fearlessly, openly, honestly and incredibly funnily about sex -... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11005H Raymond Carver / Beginners What We Talk About When We Talk About Love is Carver's most famous collection of short stories and remians one of the most influential pieces of modern literature to date. But the original, unedited manuscript, Beginners - published here for the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5757H Frankie Boyle / Scotland's Jesus (Large Paperback) Reading Scotland's Jesus should be like being called into the living room by your child shouting that they see a little red dot on the head of a TV newscaster, then riding the white hot bullet through the propaganda circuitry of his or her... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 13114E Christopher Buckley / Wry Martinis Christopher Buckley, author of 'Thank You for Smoking', is the man who persuaded America's ABC News that Russia was auctioning off Lenin's corpse. This book offers a selection of the best of Buckley's recent writing... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X82044H Des MacHale / Ultimate Wit (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86491H Jonathan Rice / Keeping Up Appearances (Hardback) Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced "bouquet", of course), star of BBC1's "Keeping Up Appearances", imparts her personal views on protecting one's social standing. There are sections on etiquette in the home, entertaining, social obligations, how to... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4455H John Scally / The Good, the Glad and the Funny (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3746 Wiliam Sansom - South - Vintage PB 1952 ( Originally 1948) A first Penguin paperback edition, 1952 , of William Sansom's collection of short stories inspirted by , and set in Corsica, Italy and Southern France. Previous owners name and date ( in roman numerals) to the front endpaper. Crack to spine. In... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97024H,wW4148H Maria Leach / I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation (Hardback) I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation is a celebration of the virtuoso of well-turned phrases and the master of the studied insult - Oscar Wilde. Indeed, so perfect were Wilde's verbal thrusts that his victims were often flattered to have... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79827H Dermot Bolger / Ladies' Night at Finbar's Hotel Each story stands alone but also makes up the vivid picture of life in Dublin's newly refurbished Finbar's Hotel . . . funny and poignant' Sunday Mirror'Finbar's Hotel is back, this time with a stellar cast of women writers and a lick of paint . . ... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79825H Mary K. Doyle / Hans Christian Andersen : Illuminated by the Message When Mary K. Doyle was a child, she was entranced with the stories her mother read from Andersen's Fairy Tales. "Make-believe came to life," she writes in her introduction, "with characters I could see and hear. Their problems were real to me... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79812H Mary Morrissy / A Lazy Eye All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 67465H Martha Batalha / The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao 'Zesty' Daily Mail'A real gem of a book' StylistA wickedly funny tale of two rebellious sisters in 1940s Rio de JaneiroEuridice is bright and ambitious. But this is Brazil in the 1940s, and society expects her to be a loving wife and mother. While... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 71596H Jonathan Swift / Directions to Servants This is Jonathan Swift's great neglected cod-tract addressed to the servant classes, from butler down to laundress, instructing them in the arts of cheating their masters, and confirms them in the time-honoured superstitions and prejudices of... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79906H Elizabeth LaBan / The Tragedy Paper Every year at an exclusive private boarding school in New York state, the graduating students uphold an old tradition - they must swear an oath of secrecy and leave behind a "treasure" for each incoming senior.When Duncan Meade inherits the room... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79905H Suzanne Schlosberg / 1001 Nights Without Sex: The Curse of the Single Girl Suzanne Schlosberg calls it 'the Streak': 1001 days without sex. She's going through the mother of all dry spells...a Sahara devoid of intimacy, committed relationships and even one-night stands. The question is why? Is she too picky, too bitchy,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 74781H Reginald Hill / Asking for the Moon 'Hill is an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift' Frances Fyfield, Mail on SundayIf you've already met Dalziel and Pascoe, you're in for a treat. If you haven't yet had the pleasure, you're in for a... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW6686H Dad Says Jokes / Dad Jokes : The very best of @DadSaysJokes (Hardback) From the most-followed dad jokes page on Instagram, @dadsaysjokes, comes a collection of hilariously cheesy jokes that will leave your friends and family laughing and groaning in equal measure.This is the perfect gift for dads who want to expand... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: MED3121 Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 2 - Because That's Where Your Heart Is - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 Because That's Where Your Heart Is is a collection of short stories that are all about passion! The 16 selected writers share different perspectives on what really moves hearts and souls, with tales of love enduring, of desire, of longing, of losing... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 1 - The Secret Lives - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 The Secret Lives is a collection of short stories that are all about secrets. The 15 writers provide fascinating views of what may be happening behind closed curtains (or deep in the woods... or inside that mirror that never seems to stay covered..... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88356H Woody Allen / Mere Anarchy (Large Paperback) I am greatly relieved that the universe is finally explainable. I was beginning to think it was me. Thus begins Strung Out , Woody Allen s hilarious application of the laws of the universe to daily life. Mere Anarchy, Woody Allen s first new... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7156H Amitava Kumar / Immigrant, Montana (Large Paperback) One winter morning, a monkey stole into Mamaji's room. He climbed on the huge white bed and finding Mamaji's pistol brandished it - they say - at my cousin, born two months after me and still in her crib. No one moved. Then, turning the pistol... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 78201H Des MacHale / Wit on Target This was the third volume in Des MacHale's best-selling Wit series, the best collection of witty remarks ever published. This volume was previously published as Yet More Wit but under that title it languished; it looked like an also ran, yet it was... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 44014H Mike Gatting / Classic After-Dinner Sports Tales Following on from the hugely successful Best After-Dinner Sports Tales, yet more rousing stories from the after-dinner speaking circuit, from some of the biggest names in sport as well as celebrities from the world of entertainment.The book will... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8474H Peter Hoeg / Tales of the Night (Hardback) Each of these nine stories shows a different fact of love - love of violence, love as redemption, love as suffering, even as wisdom - and each has as a background theme one of the nine classical disciplines: mathematics, dance, law, physics,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: MED3105,M3D3106,MED3107,MED3143 Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 3 - The Last Five Minutes of A Storm - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2022 The Last Five Minutes of a Storm is a short story collection packed full of defiance, grief, connection, power and, of course, a dash of strangeness. With strong magical realism influences, this collection features a host of new and emerging writers,... MSRP: Now: £7.15 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94444H Yvette Reche / French for Le Snob (Large Paperback) Searching for Le Mot Juste? You'll find it here. 'French for Le Snob' will show you how to use the many French loanwords with impeccable pronunciation. It's unique definitions will help you spice up your conversations with interesting anecdotes... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80713H Khurrum Rahman / The Motive A Jay Qasim short story and prequel to EAST OF HOUNSLOW written for Quick Reads 2021Business has been slow for Hounslow's small time dope-dealer, Jay Qasim. A student house party means quick easy cash but it also means breaking his own rules. But... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: 82423H Patricia Scanlan / Voices : An Open Door Book of Stories The Open Door anthology brings together a collection of short stories by some of Ireland's greatest writers, all of which are written and crafted specifically for the emerging adult reader.Featuring writing from Graham Norton, Christine Dwyer... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7236H The Rules: The Way of the Cycling Disciple Rule #6: Free your mind and your legs will follow.THE VELOMINATI embrace cycling not as a pastime, but as a way of life, as obsessed with style, heritage, authenticity and wisdom as with performance.Rule #9: If you cycle in bad weather, it means... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Parsimony Press - A Twist in the Tale ( Saki : Dust , Guy de Maupassant : The Necklace, Ambrose Bierce : An Occurrence at Owl Creek , O. Henry : The Gift of The Magi) HB - 2000 4 Tales with ' unexpected twists' - classic short stories Dusk - Saki - Dusk is a hallmark of Saki's writing genius. Norman Gortsby considered dusk somewhat differently from others. To him, dusk was a time when losers in life, ashamed to... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG165 Sarah Salway - Leading the Dance - HB - SIGNED Secrets and their consequences run deep through Sarah Salway’s short stories in this haunting and sharply written collection, now republished with the addition of new stories.A bored housewife welcomes the nomadic painter of family pets into her... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79630H Angela Knight / Burning Up Bring these four authors together and it's sure to ignite a spark... Angela Knight pairs a vampire warrior and his seductive captor in a battle against demonic predators. Nalini Singh returns to the world of her Psy-Changeling series as a woman... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Mairtín Ó Cadhain - An tSraith Dhá Togáil - HB - As Gaeilge ( An Chéad Chló 1970) Cover art from Anne Yeats , still in the publishers original plastic covers over cloth . Foilsithe ag Sáirséal & Dill, 1970. Máirtín Ó Cadhain (1906 – 18 October 1970) was one of the most... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79611H Pinckney Benedict / The Wrecking Yard A collection of short stories by the author of "Town Smoke". They reflect the rough-edged contours and personalities of rural America, shaped as they are by poverty, cruelty, and an odd compassion. All of our books... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79659H Cora Sandel / The Silken Thread All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95688H Jhumpa Lahiri / Unaccustomed Earth (Large Paperback) These eight stories by beloved and bestselling author Jhumpa Lahiri take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand, as they explore the secrets at the heart of family life. Here they enter the worlds of sisters and brothers, fathers... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7967H Hilary Mantel / The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher (Hardback) A brilliant - and rather transgressive - collection of short stories from the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of 'Wolf Hall' and 'Bring Up the Bodies'.Hilary Mantel is one of Britain's most accomplished and acclaimed writers. In these ten... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80467H Natalie Reilly / What Your Mother Should've Told You From how to taste wine, to apologising like you mean it, this is a light-hearted collection of answers to 21st century dilemmas, with advice on modern manners, solutions for old fashioned conundrums and everything in between - it's Debretts for... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 25652H Caitlin Moran / How to be Famous The Sunday Times bestselling Richard & Judy Book Club favourite'Being Moran, the jokes and one-liners fizz and crackle off the page' Richard's Review'As usual, Moran writes fearlessly, openly, honestly and incredibly funnily about sex -... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11005H Raymond Carver / Beginners What We Talk About When We Talk About Love is Carver's most famous collection of short stories and remians one of the most influential pieces of modern literature to date. But the original, unedited manuscript, Beginners - published here for the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5757H Frankie Boyle / Scotland's Jesus (Large Paperback) Reading Scotland's Jesus should be like being called into the living room by your child shouting that they see a little red dot on the head of a TV newscaster, then riding the white hot bullet through the propaganda circuitry of his or her... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 13114E Christopher Buckley / Wry Martinis Christopher Buckley, author of 'Thank You for Smoking', is the man who persuaded America's ABC News that Russia was auctioning off Lenin's corpse. This book offers a selection of the best of Buckley's recent writing... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X82044H Des MacHale / Ultimate Wit (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86491H Jonathan Rice / Keeping Up Appearances (Hardback) Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced "bouquet", of course), star of BBC1's "Keeping Up Appearances", imparts her personal views on protecting one's social standing. There are sections on etiquette in the home, entertaining, social obligations, how to... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4455H John Scally / The Good, the Glad and the Funny (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3746 Wiliam Sansom - South - Vintage PB 1952 ( Originally 1948) A first Penguin paperback edition, 1952 , of William Sansom's collection of short stories inspirted by , and set in Corsica, Italy and Southern France. Previous owners name and date ( in roman numerals) to the front endpaper. Crack to spine. In... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97024H,wW4148H Maria Leach / I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation (Hardback) I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation is a celebration of the virtuoso of well-turned phrases and the master of the studied insult - Oscar Wilde. Indeed, so perfect were Wilde's verbal thrusts that his victims were often flattered to have... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79827H Dermot Bolger / Ladies' Night at Finbar's Hotel Each story stands alone but also makes up the vivid picture of life in Dublin's newly refurbished Finbar's Hotel . . . funny and poignant' Sunday Mirror'Finbar's Hotel is back, this time with a stellar cast of women writers and a lick of paint . . ... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79825H Mary K. Doyle / Hans Christian Andersen : Illuminated by the Message When Mary K. Doyle was a child, she was entranced with the stories her mother read from Andersen's Fairy Tales. "Make-believe came to life," she writes in her introduction, "with characters I could see and hear. Their problems were real to me... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79812H Mary Morrissy / A Lazy Eye All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 67465H Martha Batalha / The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao 'Zesty' Daily Mail'A real gem of a book' StylistA wickedly funny tale of two rebellious sisters in 1940s Rio de JaneiroEuridice is bright and ambitious. But this is Brazil in the 1940s, and society expects her to be a loving wife and mother. While... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 71596H Jonathan Swift / Directions to Servants This is Jonathan Swift's great neglected cod-tract addressed to the servant classes, from butler down to laundress, instructing them in the arts of cheating their masters, and confirms them in the time-honoured superstitions and prejudices of... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79906H Elizabeth LaBan / The Tragedy Paper Every year at an exclusive private boarding school in New York state, the graduating students uphold an old tradition - they must swear an oath of secrecy and leave behind a "treasure" for each incoming senior.When Duncan Meade inherits the room... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79905H Suzanne Schlosberg / 1001 Nights Without Sex: The Curse of the Single Girl Suzanne Schlosberg calls it 'the Streak': 1001 days without sex. She's going through the mother of all dry spells...a Sahara devoid of intimacy, committed relationships and even one-night stands. The question is why? Is she too picky, too bitchy,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 74781H Reginald Hill / Asking for the Moon 'Hill is an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift' Frances Fyfield, Mail on SundayIf you've already met Dalziel and Pascoe, you're in for a treat. If you haven't yet had the pleasure, you're in for a... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW6686H Dad Says Jokes / Dad Jokes : The very best of @DadSaysJokes (Hardback) From the most-followed dad jokes page on Instagram, @dadsaysjokes, comes a collection of hilariously cheesy jokes that will leave your friends and family laughing and groaning in equal measure.This is the perfect gift for dads who want to expand... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: MED3121 Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 2 - Because That's Where Your Heart Is - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 Because That's Where Your Heart Is is a collection of short stories that are all about passion! The 16 selected writers share different perspectives on what really moves hearts and souls, with tales of love enduring, of desire, of longing, of losing... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 1 - The Secret Lives - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 The Secret Lives is a collection of short stories that are all about secrets. The 15 writers provide fascinating views of what may be happening behind closed curtains (or deep in the woods... or inside that mirror that never seems to stay covered..... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88356H Woody Allen / Mere Anarchy (Large Paperback) I am greatly relieved that the universe is finally explainable. I was beginning to think it was me. Thus begins Strung Out , Woody Allen s hilarious application of the laws of the universe to daily life. Mere Anarchy, Woody Allen s first new... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7156H Amitava Kumar / Immigrant, Montana (Large Paperback) One winter morning, a monkey stole into Mamaji's room. He climbed on the huge white bed and finding Mamaji's pistol brandished it - they say - at my cousin, born two months after me and still in her crib. No one moved. Then, turning the pistol... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 78201H Des MacHale / Wit on Target This was the third volume in Des MacHale's best-selling Wit series, the best collection of witty remarks ever published. This volume was previously published as Yet More Wit but under that title it languished; it looked like an also ran, yet it was... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 44014H Mike Gatting / Classic After-Dinner Sports Tales Following on from the hugely successful Best After-Dinner Sports Tales, yet more rousing stories from the after-dinner speaking circuit, from some of the biggest names in sport as well as celebrities from the world of entertainment.The book will... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8474H Peter Hoeg / Tales of the Night (Hardback) Each of these nine stories shows a different fact of love - love of violence, love as redemption, love as suffering, even as wisdom - and each has as a background theme one of the nine classical disciplines: mathematics, dance, law, physics,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X94444H Yvette Reche / French for Le Snob (Large Paperback) Searching for Le Mot Juste? You'll find it here. 'French for Le Snob' will show you how to use the many French loanwords with impeccable pronunciation. It's unique definitions will help you spice up your conversations with interesting anecdotes... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80713H Khurrum Rahman / The Motive A Jay Qasim short story and prequel to EAST OF HOUNSLOW written for Quick Reads 2021Business has been slow for Hounslow's small time dope-dealer, Jay Qasim. A student house party means quick easy cash but it also means breaking his own rules. But... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: 82423H Patricia Scanlan / Voices : An Open Door Book of Stories The Open Door anthology brings together a collection of short stories by some of Ireland's greatest writers, all of which are written and crafted specifically for the emerging adult reader.Featuring writing from Graham Norton, Christine Dwyer... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7236H The Rules: The Way of the Cycling Disciple Rule #6: Free your mind and your legs will follow.THE VELOMINATI embrace cycling not as a pastime, but as a way of life, as obsessed with style, heritage, authenticity and wisdom as with performance.Rule #9: If you cycle in bad weather, it means... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Parsimony Press - A Twist in the Tale ( Saki : Dust , Guy de Maupassant : The Necklace, Ambrose Bierce : An Occurrence at Owl Creek , O. Henry : The Gift of The Magi) HB - 2000 4 Tales with ' unexpected twists' - classic short stories Dusk - Saki - Dusk is a hallmark of Saki's writing genius. Norman Gortsby considered dusk somewhat differently from others. To him, dusk was a time when losers in life, ashamed to... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG165 Sarah Salway - Leading the Dance - HB - SIGNED Secrets and their consequences run deep through Sarah Salway’s short stories in this haunting and sharply written collection, now republished with the addition of new stories.A bored housewife welcomes the nomadic painter of family pets into her... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79630H Angela Knight / Burning Up Bring these four authors together and it's sure to ignite a spark... Angela Knight pairs a vampire warrior and his seductive captor in a battle against demonic predators. Nalini Singh returns to the world of her Psy-Changeling series as a woman... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Mairtín Ó Cadhain - An tSraith Dhá Togáil - HB - As Gaeilge ( An Chéad Chló 1970) Cover art from Anne Yeats , still in the publishers original plastic covers over cloth . Foilsithe ag Sáirséal & Dill, 1970. Máirtín Ó Cadhain (1906 – 18 October 1970) was one of the most... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79611H Pinckney Benedict / The Wrecking Yard A collection of short stories by the author of "Town Smoke". They reflect the rough-edged contours and personalities of rural America, shaped as they are by poverty, cruelty, and an odd compassion. All of our books... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79659H Cora Sandel / The Silken Thread All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95688H Jhumpa Lahiri / Unaccustomed Earth (Large Paperback) These eight stories by beloved and bestselling author Jhumpa Lahiri take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand, as they explore the secrets at the heart of family life. Here they enter the worlds of sisters and brothers, fathers... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7967H Hilary Mantel / The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher (Hardback) A brilliant - and rather transgressive - collection of short stories from the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of 'Wolf Hall' and 'Bring Up the Bodies'.Hilary Mantel is one of Britain's most accomplished and acclaimed writers. In these ten... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80467H Natalie Reilly / What Your Mother Should've Told You From how to taste wine, to apologising like you mean it, this is a light-hearted collection of answers to 21st century dilemmas, with advice on modern manners, solutions for old fashioned conundrums and everything in between - it's Debretts for... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 25652H Caitlin Moran / How to be Famous The Sunday Times bestselling Richard & Judy Book Club favourite'Being Moran, the jokes and one-liners fizz and crackle off the page' Richard's Review'As usual, Moran writes fearlessly, openly, honestly and incredibly funnily about sex -... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11005H Raymond Carver / Beginners What We Talk About When We Talk About Love is Carver's most famous collection of short stories and remians one of the most influential pieces of modern literature to date. But the original, unedited manuscript, Beginners - published here for the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5757H Frankie Boyle / Scotland's Jesus (Large Paperback) Reading Scotland's Jesus should be like being called into the living room by your child shouting that they see a little red dot on the head of a TV newscaster, then riding the white hot bullet through the propaganda circuitry of his or her... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 13114E Christopher Buckley / Wry Martinis Christopher Buckley, author of 'Thank You for Smoking', is the man who persuaded America's ABC News that Russia was auctioning off Lenin's corpse. This book offers a selection of the best of Buckley's recent writing... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X82044H Des MacHale / Ultimate Wit (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86491H Jonathan Rice / Keeping Up Appearances (Hardback) Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced "bouquet", of course), star of BBC1's "Keeping Up Appearances", imparts her personal views on protecting one's social standing. There are sections on etiquette in the home, entertaining, social obligations, how to... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4455H John Scally / The Good, the Glad and the Funny (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3746 Wiliam Sansom - South - Vintage PB 1952 ( Originally 1948) A first Penguin paperback edition, 1952 , of William Sansom's collection of short stories inspirted by , and set in Corsica, Italy and Southern France. Previous owners name and date ( in roman numerals) to the front endpaper. Crack to spine. In... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97024H,wW4148H Maria Leach / I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation (Hardback) I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation is a celebration of the virtuoso of well-turned phrases and the master of the studied insult - Oscar Wilde. Indeed, so perfect were Wilde's verbal thrusts that his victims were often flattered to have... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79827H Dermot Bolger / Ladies' Night at Finbar's Hotel Each story stands alone but also makes up the vivid picture of life in Dublin's newly refurbished Finbar's Hotel . . . funny and poignant' Sunday Mirror'Finbar's Hotel is back, this time with a stellar cast of women writers and a lick of paint . . ... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79825H Mary K. Doyle / Hans Christian Andersen : Illuminated by the Message When Mary K. Doyle was a child, she was entranced with the stories her mother read from Andersen's Fairy Tales. "Make-believe came to life," she writes in her introduction, "with characters I could see and hear. Their problems were real to me... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79812H Mary Morrissy / A Lazy Eye All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 67465H Martha Batalha / The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao 'Zesty' Daily Mail'A real gem of a book' StylistA wickedly funny tale of two rebellious sisters in 1940s Rio de JaneiroEuridice is bright and ambitious. But this is Brazil in the 1940s, and society expects her to be a loving wife and mother. While... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 71596H Jonathan Swift / Directions to Servants This is Jonathan Swift's great neglected cod-tract addressed to the servant classes, from butler down to laundress, instructing them in the arts of cheating their masters, and confirms them in the time-honoured superstitions and prejudices of... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79906H Elizabeth LaBan / The Tragedy Paper Every year at an exclusive private boarding school in New York state, the graduating students uphold an old tradition - they must swear an oath of secrecy and leave behind a "treasure" for each incoming senior.When Duncan Meade inherits the room... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79905H Suzanne Schlosberg / 1001 Nights Without Sex: The Curse of the Single Girl Suzanne Schlosberg calls it 'the Streak': 1001 days without sex. She's going through the mother of all dry spells...a Sahara devoid of intimacy, committed relationships and even one-night stands. The question is why? Is she too picky, too bitchy,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 74781H Reginald Hill / Asking for the Moon 'Hill is an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift' Frances Fyfield, Mail on SundayIf you've already met Dalziel and Pascoe, you're in for a treat. If you haven't yet had the pleasure, you're in for a... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW6686H Dad Says Jokes / Dad Jokes : The very best of @DadSaysJokes (Hardback) From the most-followed dad jokes page on Instagram, @dadsaysjokes, comes a collection of hilariously cheesy jokes that will leave your friends and family laughing and groaning in equal measure.This is the perfect gift for dads who want to expand... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: MED3121 Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 2 - Because That's Where Your Heart Is - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 Because That's Where Your Heart Is is a collection of short stories that are all about passion! The 16 selected writers share different perspectives on what really moves hearts and souls, with tales of love enduring, of desire, of longing, of losing... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 1 - The Secret Lives - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 The Secret Lives is a collection of short stories that are all about secrets. The 15 writers provide fascinating views of what may be happening behind closed curtains (or deep in the woods... or inside that mirror that never seems to stay covered..... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88356H Woody Allen / Mere Anarchy (Large Paperback) I am greatly relieved that the universe is finally explainable. I was beginning to think it was me. Thus begins Strung Out , Woody Allen s hilarious application of the laws of the universe to daily life. Mere Anarchy, Woody Allen s first new... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7156H Amitava Kumar / Immigrant, Montana (Large Paperback) One winter morning, a monkey stole into Mamaji's room. He climbed on the huge white bed and finding Mamaji's pistol brandished it - they say - at my cousin, born two months after me and still in her crib. No one moved. Then, turning the pistol... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 78201H Des MacHale / Wit on Target This was the third volume in Des MacHale's best-selling Wit series, the best collection of witty remarks ever published. This volume was previously published as Yet More Wit but under that title it languished; it looked like an also ran, yet it was... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 44014H Mike Gatting / Classic After-Dinner Sports Tales Following on from the hugely successful Best After-Dinner Sports Tales, yet more rousing stories from the after-dinner speaking circuit, from some of the biggest names in sport as well as celebrities from the world of entertainment.The book will... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8474H Peter Hoeg / Tales of the Night (Hardback) Each of these nine stories shows a different fact of love - love of violence, love as redemption, love as suffering, even as wisdom - and each has as a background theme one of the nine classical disciplines: mathematics, dance, law, physics,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 80713H Khurrum Rahman / The Motive A Jay Qasim short story and prequel to EAST OF HOUNSLOW written for Quick Reads 2021Business has been slow for Hounslow's small time dope-dealer, Jay Qasim. A student house party means quick easy cash but it also means breaking his own rules. But... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: 82423H Patricia Scanlan / Voices : An Open Door Book of Stories The Open Door anthology brings together a collection of short stories by some of Ireland's greatest writers, all of which are written and crafted specifically for the emerging adult reader.Featuring writing from Graham Norton, Christine Dwyer... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7236H The Rules: The Way of the Cycling Disciple Rule #6: Free your mind and your legs will follow.THE VELOMINATI embrace cycling not as a pastime, but as a way of life, as obsessed with style, heritage, authenticity and wisdom as with performance.Rule #9: If you cycle in bad weather, it means... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Parsimony Press - A Twist in the Tale ( Saki : Dust , Guy de Maupassant : The Necklace, Ambrose Bierce : An Occurrence at Owl Creek , O. Henry : The Gift of The Magi) HB - 2000 4 Tales with ' unexpected twists' - classic short stories Dusk - Saki - Dusk is a hallmark of Saki's writing genius. Norman Gortsby considered dusk somewhat differently from others. To him, dusk was a time when losers in life, ashamed to... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG165 Sarah Salway - Leading the Dance - HB - SIGNED Secrets and their consequences run deep through Sarah Salway’s short stories in this haunting and sharply written collection, now republished with the addition of new stories.A bored housewife welcomes the nomadic painter of family pets into her... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79630H Angela Knight / Burning Up Bring these four authors together and it's sure to ignite a spark... Angela Knight pairs a vampire warrior and his seductive captor in a battle against demonic predators. Nalini Singh returns to the world of her Psy-Changeling series as a woman... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Mairtín Ó Cadhain - An tSraith Dhá Togáil - HB - As Gaeilge ( An Chéad Chló 1970) Cover art from Anne Yeats , still in the publishers original plastic covers over cloth . Foilsithe ag Sáirséal & Dill, 1970. Máirtín Ó Cadhain (1906 – 18 October 1970) was one of the most... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79611H Pinckney Benedict / The Wrecking Yard A collection of short stories by the author of "Town Smoke". They reflect the rough-edged contours and personalities of rural America, shaped as they are by poverty, cruelty, and an odd compassion. All of our books... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79659H Cora Sandel / The Silken Thread All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95688H Jhumpa Lahiri / Unaccustomed Earth (Large Paperback) These eight stories by beloved and bestselling author Jhumpa Lahiri take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand, as they explore the secrets at the heart of family life. Here they enter the worlds of sisters and brothers, fathers... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7967H Hilary Mantel / The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher (Hardback) A brilliant - and rather transgressive - collection of short stories from the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of 'Wolf Hall' and 'Bring Up the Bodies'.Hilary Mantel is one of Britain's most accomplished and acclaimed writers. In these ten... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80467H Natalie Reilly / What Your Mother Should've Told You From how to taste wine, to apologising like you mean it, this is a light-hearted collection of answers to 21st century dilemmas, with advice on modern manners, solutions for old fashioned conundrums and everything in between - it's Debretts for... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 25652H Caitlin Moran / How to be Famous The Sunday Times bestselling Richard & Judy Book Club favourite'Being Moran, the jokes and one-liners fizz and crackle off the page' Richard's Review'As usual, Moran writes fearlessly, openly, honestly and incredibly funnily about sex -... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11005H Raymond Carver / Beginners What We Talk About When We Talk About Love is Carver's most famous collection of short stories and remians one of the most influential pieces of modern literature to date. But the original, unedited manuscript, Beginners - published here for the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5757H Frankie Boyle / Scotland's Jesus (Large Paperback) Reading Scotland's Jesus should be like being called into the living room by your child shouting that they see a little red dot on the head of a TV newscaster, then riding the white hot bullet through the propaganda circuitry of his or her... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 13114E Christopher Buckley / Wry Martinis Christopher Buckley, author of 'Thank You for Smoking', is the man who persuaded America's ABC News that Russia was auctioning off Lenin's corpse. This book offers a selection of the best of Buckley's recent writing... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X82044H Des MacHale / Ultimate Wit (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86491H Jonathan Rice / Keeping Up Appearances (Hardback) Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced "bouquet", of course), star of BBC1's "Keeping Up Appearances", imparts her personal views on protecting one's social standing. There are sections on etiquette in the home, entertaining, social obligations, how to... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4455H John Scally / The Good, the Glad and the Funny (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3746 Wiliam Sansom - South - Vintage PB 1952 ( Originally 1948) A first Penguin paperback edition, 1952 , of William Sansom's collection of short stories inspirted by , and set in Corsica, Italy and Southern France. Previous owners name and date ( in roman numerals) to the front endpaper. Crack to spine. In... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97024H,wW4148H Maria Leach / I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation (Hardback) I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation is a celebration of the virtuoso of well-turned phrases and the master of the studied insult - Oscar Wilde. Indeed, so perfect were Wilde's verbal thrusts that his victims were often flattered to have... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79827H Dermot Bolger / Ladies' Night at Finbar's Hotel Each story stands alone but also makes up the vivid picture of life in Dublin's newly refurbished Finbar's Hotel . . . funny and poignant' Sunday Mirror'Finbar's Hotel is back, this time with a stellar cast of women writers and a lick of paint . . ... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79825H Mary K. Doyle / Hans Christian Andersen : Illuminated by the Message When Mary K. Doyle was a child, she was entranced with the stories her mother read from Andersen's Fairy Tales. "Make-believe came to life," she writes in her introduction, "with characters I could see and hear. Their problems were real to me... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79812H Mary Morrissy / A Lazy Eye All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 67465H Martha Batalha / The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao 'Zesty' Daily Mail'A real gem of a book' StylistA wickedly funny tale of two rebellious sisters in 1940s Rio de JaneiroEuridice is bright and ambitious. But this is Brazil in the 1940s, and society expects her to be a loving wife and mother. While... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 71596H Jonathan Swift / Directions to Servants This is Jonathan Swift's great neglected cod-tract addressed to the servant classes, from butler down to laundress, instructing them in the arts of cheating their masters, and confirms them in the time-honoured superstitions and prejudices of... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79906H Elizabeth LaBan / The Tragedy Paper Every year at an exclusive private boarding school in New York state, the graduating students uphold an old tradition - they must swear an oath of secrecy and leave behind a "treasure" for each incoming senior.When Duncan Meade inherits the room... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79905H Suzanne Schlosberg / 1001 Nights Without Sex: The Curse of the Single Girl Suzanne Schlosberg calls it 'the Streak': 1001 days without sex. She's going through the mother of all dry spells...a Sahara devoid of intimacy, committed relationships and even one-night stands. The question is why? Is she too picky, too bitchy,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 74781H Reginald Hill / Asking for the Moon 'Hill is an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift' Frances Fyfield, Mail on SundayIf you've already met Dalziel and Pascoe, you're in for a treat. If you haven't yet had the pleasure, you're in for a... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW6686H Dad Says Jokes / Dad Jokes : The very best of @DadSaysJokes (Hardback) From the most-followed dad jokes page on Instagram, @dadsaysjokes, comes a collection of hilariously cheesy jokes that will leave your friends and family laughing and groaning in equal measure.This is the perfect gift for dads who want to expand... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: MED3121 Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 2 - Because That's Where Your Heart Is - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 Because That's Where Your Heart Is is a collection of short stories that are all about passion! The 16 selected writers share different perspectives on what really moves hearts and souls, with tales of love enduring, of desire, of longing, of losing... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 1 - The Secret Lives - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 The Secret Lives is a collection of short stories that are all about secrets. The 15 writers provide fascinating views of what may be happening behind closed curtains (or deep in the woods... or inside that mirror that never seems to stay covered..... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88356H Woody Allen / Mere Anarchy (Large Paperback) I am greatly relieved that the universe is finally explainable. I was beginning to think it was me. Thus begins Strung Out , Woody Allen s hilarious application of the laws of the universe to daily life. Mere Anarchy, Woody Allen s first new... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7156H Amitava Kumar / Immigrant, Montana (Large Paperback) One winter morning, a monkey stole into Mamaji's room. He climbed on the huge white bed and finding Mamaji's pistol brandished it - they say - at my cousin, born two months after me and still in her crib. No one moved. Then, turning the pistol... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 78201H Des MacHale / Wit on Target This was the third volume in Des MacHale's best-selling Wit series, the best collection of witty remarks ever published. This volume was previously published as Yet More Wit but under that title it languished; it looked like an also ran, yet it was... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 44014H Mike Gatting / Classic After-Dinner Sports Tales Following on from the hugely successful Best After-Dinner Sports Tales, yet more rousing stories from the after-dinner speaking circuit, from some of the biggest names in sport as well as celebrities from the world of entertainment.The book will... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8474H Peter Hoeg / Tales of the Night (Hardback) Each of these nine stories shows a different fact of love - love of violence, love as redemption, love as suffering, even as wisdom - and each has as a background theme one of the nine classical disciplines: mathematics, dance, law, physics,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view New Island Publishing | sku: 82423H Patricia Scanlan / Voices : An Open Door Book of Stories The Open Door anthology brings together a collection of short stories by some of Ireland's greatest writers, all of which are written and crafted specifically for the emerging adult reader.Featuring writing from Graham Norton, Christine Dwyer... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7236H The Rules: The Way of the Cycling Disciple Rule #6: Free your mind and your legs will follow.THE VELOMINATI embrace cycling not as a pastime, but as a way of life, as obsessed with style, heritage, authenticity and wisdom as with performance.Rule #9: If you cycle in bad weather, it means... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Parsimony Press - A Twist in the Tale ( Saki : Dust , Guy de Maupassant : The Necklace, Ambrose Bierce : An Occurrence at Owl Creek , O. Henry : The Gift of The Magi) HB - 2000 4 Tales with ' unexpected twists' - classic short stories Dusk - Saki - Dusk is a hallmark of Saki's writing genius. Norman Gortsby considered dusk somewhat differently from others. To him, dusk was a time when losers in life, ashamed to... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG165 Sarah Salway - Leading the Dance - HB - SIGNED Secrets and their consequences run deep through Sarah Salway’s short stories in this haunting and sharply written collection, now republished with the addition of new stories.A bored housewife welcomes the nomadic painter of family pets into her... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79630H Angela Knight / Burning Up Bring these four authors together and it's sure to ignite a spark... Angela Knight pairs a vampire warrior and his seductive captor in a battle against demonic predators. Nalini Singh returns to the world of her Psy-Changeling series as a woman... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Mairtín Ó Cadhain - An tSraith Dhá Togáil - HB - As Gaeilge ( An Chéad Chló 1970) Cover art from Anne Yeats , still in the publishers original plastic covers over cloth . Foilsithe ag Sáirséal & Dill, 1970. Máirtín Ó Cadhain (1906 – 18 October 1970) was one of the most... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79611H Pinckney Benedict / The Wrecking Yard A collection of short stories by the author of "Town Smoke". They reflect the rough-edged contours and personalities of rural America, shaped as they are by poverty, cruelty, and an odd compassion. All of our books... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79659H Cora Sandel / The Silken Thread All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95688H Jhumpa Lahiri / Unaccustomed Earth (Large Paperback) These eight stories by beloved and bestselling author Jhumpa Lahiri take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand, as they explore the secrets at the heart of family life. Here they enter the worlds of sisters and brothers, fathers... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7967H Hilary Mantel / The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher (Hardback) A brilliant - and rather transgressive - collection of short stories from the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of 'Wolf Hall' and 'Bring Up the Bodies'.Hilary Mantel is one of Britain's most accomplished and acclaimed writers. In these ten... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80467H Natalie Reilly / What Your Mother Should've Told You From how to taste wine, to apologising like you mean it, this is a light-hearted collection of answers to 21st century dilemmas, with advice on modern manners, solutions for old fashioned conundrums and everything in between - it's Debretts for... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 25652H Caitlin Moran / How to be Famous The Sunday Times bestselling Richard & Judy Book Club favourite'Being Moran, the jokes and one-liners fizz and crackle off the page' Richard's Review'As usual, Moran writes fearlessly, openly, honestly and incredibly funnily about sex -... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11005H Raymond Carver / Beginners What We Talk About When We Talk About Love is Carver's most famous collection of short stories and remians one of the most influential pieces of modern literature to date. But the original, unedited manuscript, Beginners - published here for the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5757H Frankie Boyle / Scotland's Jesus (Large Paperback) Reading Scotland's Jesus should be like being called into the living room by your child shouting that they see a little red dot on the head of a TV newscaster, then riding the white hot bullet through the propaganda circuitry of his or her... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 13114E Christopher Buckley / Wry Martinis Christopher Buckley, author of 'Thank You for Smoking', is the man who persuaded America's ABC News that Russia was auctioning off Lenin's corpse. This book offers a selection of the best of Buckley's recent writing... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X82044H Des MacHale / Ultimate Wit (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86491H Jonathan Rice / Keeping Up Appearances (Hardback) Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced "bouquet", of course), star of BBC1's "Keeping Up Appearances", imparts her personal views on protecting one's social standing. There are sections on etiquette in the home, entertaining, social obligations, how to... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4455H John Scally / The Good, the Glad and the Funny (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3746 Wiliam Sansom - South - Vintage PB 1952 ( Originally 1948) A first Penguin paperback edition, 1952 , of William Sansom's collection of short stories inspirted by , and set in Corsica, Italy and Southern France. Previous owners name and date ( in roman numerals) to the front endpaper. Crack to spine. In... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97024H,wW4148H Maria Leach / I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation (Hardback) I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation is a celebration of the virtuoso of well-turned phrases and the master of the studied insult - Oscar Wilde. Indeed, so perfect were Wilde's verbal thrusts that his victims were often flattered to have... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79827H Dermot Bolger / Ladies' Night at Finbar's Hotel Each story stands alone but also makes up the vivid picture of life in Dublin's newly refurbished Finbar's Hotel . . . funny and poignant' Sunday Mirror'Finbar's Hotel is back, this time with a stellar cast of women writers and a lick of paint . . ... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79825H Mary K. Doyle / Hans Christian Andersen : Illuminated by the Message When Mary K. Doyle was a child, she was entranced with the stories her mother read from Andersen's Fairy Tales. "Make-believe came to life," she writes in her introduction, "with characters I could see and hear. Their problems were real to me... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79812H Mary Morrissy / A Lazy Eye All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 67465H Martha Batalha / The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao 'Zesty' Daily Mail'A real gem of a book' StylistA wickedly funny tale of two rebellious sisters in 1940s Rio de JaneiroEuridice is bright and ambitious. But this is Brazil in the 1940s, and society expects her to be a loving wife and mother. While... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 71596H Jonathan Swift / Directions to Servants This is Jonathan Swift's great neglected cod-tract addressed to the servant classes, from butler down to laundress, instructing them in the arts of cheating their masters, and confirms them in the time-honoured superstitions and prejudices of... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79906H Elizabeth LaBan / The Tragedy Paper Every year at an exclusive private boarding school in New York state, the graduating students uphold an old tradition - they must swear an oath of secrecy and leave behind a "treasure" for each incoming senior.When Duncan Meade inherits the room... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79905H Suzanne Schlosberg / 1001 Nights Without Sex: The Curse of the Single Girl Suzanne Schlosberg calls it 'the Streak': 1001 days without sex. She's going through the mother of all dry spells...a Sahara devoid of intimacy, committed relationships and even one-night stands. The question is why? Is she too picky, too bitchy,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 74781H Reginald Hill / Asking for the Moon 'Hill is an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift' Frances Fyfield, Mail on SundayIf you've already met Dalziel and Pascoe, you're in for a treat. If you haven't yet had the pleasure, you're in for a... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW6686H Dad Says Jokes / Dad Jokes : The very best of @DadSaysJokes (Hardback) From the most-followed dad jokes page on Instagram, @dadsaysjokes, comes a collection of hilariously cheesy jokes that will leave your friends and family laughing and groaning in equal measure.This is the perfect gift for dads who want to expand... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: MED3121 Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 2 - Because That's Where Your Heart Is - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 Because That's Where Your Heart Is is a collection of short stories that are all about passion! The 16 selected writers share different perspectives on what really moves hearts and souls, with tales of love enduring, of desire, of longing, of losing... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 1 - The Secret Lives - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 The Secret Lives is a collection of short stories that are all about secrets. The 15 writers provide fascinating views of what may be happening behind closed curtains (or deep in the woods... or inside that mirror that never seems to stay covered..... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88356H Woody Allen / Mere Anarchy (Large Paperback) I am greatly relieved that the universe is finally explainable. I was beginning to think it was me. Thus begins Strung Out , Woody Allen s hilarious application of the laws of the universe to daily life. Mere Anarchy, Woody Allen s first new... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7156H Amitava Kumar / Immigrant, Montana (Large Paperback) One winter morning, a monkey stole into Mamaji's room. He climbed on the huge white bed and finding Mamaji's pistol brandished it - they say - at my cousin, born two months after me and still in her crib. No one moved. Then, turning the pistol... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 78201H Des MacHale / Wit on Target This was the third volume in Des MacHale's best-selling Wit series, the best collection of witty remarks ever published. This volume was previously published as Yet More Wit but under that title it languished; it looked like an also ran, yet it was... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 44014H Mike Gatting / Classic After-Dinner Sports Tales Following on from the hugely successful Best After-Dinner Sports Tales, yet more rousing stories from the after-dinner speaking circuit, from some of the biggest names in sport as well as celebrities from the world of entertainment.The book will... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8474H Peter Hoeg / Tales of the Night (Hardback) Each of these nine stories shows a different fact of love - love of violence, love as redemption, love as suffering, even as wisdom - and each has as a background theme one of the nine classical disciplines: mathematics, dance, law, physics,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR7236H The Rules: The Way of the Cycling Disciple Rule #6: Free your mind and your legs will follow.THE VELOMINATI embrace cycling not as a pastime, but as a way of life, as obsessed with style, heritage, authenticity and wisdom as with performance.Rule #9: If you cycle in bad weather, it means... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view Parsimony Press - A Twist in the Tale ( Saki : Dust , Guy de Maupassant : The Necklace, Ambrose Bierce : An Occurrence at Owl Creek , O. Henry : The Gift of The Magi) HB - 2000 4 Tales with ' unexpected twists' - classic short stories Dusk - Saki - Dusk is a hallmark of Saki's writing genius. Norman Gortsby considered dusk somewhat differently from others. To him, dusk was a time when losers in life, ashamed to... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG165 Sarah Salway - Leading the Dance - HB - SIGNED Secrets and their consequences run deep through Sarah Salway’s short stories in this haunting and sharply written collection, now republished with the addition of new stories.A bored housewife welcomes the nomadic painter of family pets into her... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79630H Angela Knight / Burning Up Bring these four authors together and it's sure to ignite a spark... Angela Knight pairs a vampire warrior and his seductive captor in a battle against demonic predators. Nalini Singh returns to the world of her Psy-Changeling series as a woman... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Mairtín Ó Cadhain - An tSraith Dhá Togáil - HB - As Gaeilge ( An Chéad Chló 1970) Cover art from Anne Yeats , still in the publishers original plastic covers over cloth . Foilsithe ag Sáirséal & Dill, 1970. Máirtín Ó Cadhain (1906 – 18 October 1970) was one of the most... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79611H Pinckney Benedict / The Wrecking Yard A collection of short stories by the author of "Town Smoke". They reflect the rough-edged contours and personalities of rural America, shaped as they are by poverty, cruelty, and an odd compassion. All of our books... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79659H Cora Sandel / The Silken Thread All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95688H Jhumpa Lahiri / Unaccustomed Earth (Large Paperback) These eight stories by beloved and bestselling author Jhumpa Lahiri take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand, as they explore the secrets at the heart of family life. Here they enter the worlds of sisters and brothers, fathers... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7967H Hilary Mantel / The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher (Hardback) A brilliant - and rather transgressive - collection of short stories from the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of 'Wolf Hall' and 'Bring Up the Bodies'.Hilary Mantel is one of Britain's most accomplished and acclaimed writers. In these ten... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80467H Natalie Reilly / What Your Mother Should've Told You From how to taste wine, to apologising like you mean it, this is a light-hearted collection of answers to 21st century dilemmas, with advice on modern manners, solutions for old fashioned conundrums and everything in between - it's Debretts for... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 25652H Caitlin Moran / How to be Famous The Sunday Times bestselling Richard & Judy Book Club favourite'Being Moran, the jokes and one-liners fizz and crackle off the page' Richard's Review'As usual, Moran writes fearlessly, openly, honestly and incredibly funnily about sex -... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11005H Raymond Carver / Beginners What We Talk About When We Talk About Love is Carver's most famous collection of short stories and remians one of the most influential pieces of modern literature to date. But the original, unedited manuscript, Beginners - published here for the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5757H Frankie Boyle / Scotland's Jesus (Large Paperback) Reading Scotland's Jesus should be like being called into the living room by your child shouting that they see a little red dot on the head of a TV newscaster, then riding the white hot bullet through the propaganda circuitry of his or her... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 13114E Christopher Buckley / Wry Martinis Christopher Buckley, author of 'Thank You for Smoking', is the man who persuaded America's ABC News that Russia was auctioning off Lenin's corpse. This book offers a selection of the best of Buckley's recent writing... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X82044H Des MacHale / Ultimate Wit (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86491H Jonathan Rice / Keeping Up Appearances (Hardback) Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced "bouquet", of course), star of BBC1's "Keeping Up Appearances", imparts her personal views on protecting one's social standing. There are sections on etiquette in the home, entertaining, social obligations, how to... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4455H John Scally / The Good, the Glad and the Funny (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3746 Wiliam Sansom - South - Vintage PB 1952 ( Originally 1948) A first Penguin paperback edition, 1952 , of William Sansom's collection of short stories inspirted by , and set in Corsica, Italy and Southern France. Previous owners name and date ( in roman numerals) to the front endpaper. Crack to spine. In... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97024H,wW4148H Maria Leach / I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation (Hardback) I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation is a celebration of the virtuoso of well-turned phrases and the master of the studied insult - Oscar Wilde. Indeed, so perfect were Wilde's verbal thrusts that his victims were often flattered to have... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79827H Dermot Bolger / Ladies' Night at Finbar's Hotel Each story stands alone but also makes up the vivid picture of life in Dublin's newly refurbished Finbar's Hotel . . . funny and poignant' Sunday Mirror'Finbar's Hotel is back, this time with a stellar cast of women writers and a lick of paint . . ... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79825H Mary K. Doyle / Hans Christian Andersen : Illuminated by the Message When Mary K. Doyle was a child, she was entranced with the stories her mother read from Andersen's Fairy Tales. "Make-believe came to life," she writes in her introduction, "with characters I could see and hear. Their problems were real to me... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79812H Mary Morrissy / A Lazy Eye All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 67465H Martha Batalha / The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao 'Zesty' Daily Mail'A real gem of a book' StylistA wickedly funny tale of two rebellious sisters in 1940s Rio de JaneiroEuridice is bright and ambitious. But this is Brazil in the 1940s, and society expects her to be a loving wife and mother. While... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 71596H Jonathan Swift / Directions to Servants This is Jonathan Swift's great neglected cod-tract addressed to the servant classes, from butler down to laundress, instructing them in the arts of cheating their masters, and confirms them in the time-honoured superstitions and prejudices of... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79906H Elizabeth LaBan / The Tragedy Paper Every year at an exclusive private boarding school in New York state, the graduating students uphold an old tradition - they must swear an oath of secrecy and leave behind a "treasure" for each incoming senior.When Duncan Meade inherits the room... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79905H Suzanne Schlosberg / 1001 Nights Without Sex: The Curse of the Single Girl Suzanne Schlosberg calls it 'the Streak': 1001 days without sex. She's going through the mother of all dry spells...a Sahara devoid of intimacy, committed relationships and even one-night stands. The question is why? Is she too picky, too bitchy,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 74781H Reginald Hill / Asking for the Moon 'Hill is an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift' Frances Fyfield, Mail on SundayIf you've already met Dalziel and Pascoe, you're in for a treat. If you haven't yet had the pleasure, you're in for a... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW6686H Dad Says Jokes / Dad Jokes : The very best of @DadSaysJokes (Hardback) From the most-followed dad jokes page on Instagram, @dadsaysjokes, comes a collection of hilariously cheesy jokes that will leave your friends and family laughing and groaning in equal measure.This is the perfect gift for dads who want to expand... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: MED3121 Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 2 - Because That's Where Your Heart Is - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 Because That's Where Your Heart Is is a collection of short stories that are all about passion! The 16 selected writers share different perspectives on what really moves hearts and souls, with tales of love enduring, of desire, of longing, of losing... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 1 - The Secret Lives - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 The Secret Lives is a collection of short stories that are all about secrets. The 15 writers provide fascinating views of what may be happening behind closed curtains (or deep in the woods... or inside that mirror that never seems to stay covered..... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88356H Woody Allen / Mere Anarchy (Large Paperback) I am greatly relieved that the universe is finally explainable. I was beginning to think it was me. Thus begins Strung Out , Woody Allen s hilarious application of the laws of the universe to daily life. Mere Anarchy, Woody Allen s first new... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7156H Amitava Kumar / Immigrant, Montana (Large Paperback) One winter morning, a monkey stole into Mamaji's room. He climbed on the huge white bed and finding Mamaji's pistol brandished it - they say - at my cousin, born two months after me and still in her crib. No one moved. Then, turning the pistol... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 78201H Des MacHale / Wit on Target This was the third volume in Des MacHale's best-selling Wit series, the best collection of witty remarks ever published. This volume was previously published as Yet More Wit but under that title it languished; it looked like an also ran, yet it was... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 44014H Mike Gatting / Classic After-Dinner Sports Tales Following on from the hugely successful Best After-Dinner Sports Tales, yet more rousing stories from the after-dinner speaking circuit, from some of the biggest names in sport as well as celebrities from the world of entertainment.The book will... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8474H Peter Hoeg / Tales of the Night (Hardback) Each of these nine stories shows a different fact of love - love of violence, love as redemption, love as suffering, even as wisdom - and each has as a background theme one of the nine classical disciplines: mathematics, dance, law, physics,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Parsimony Press - A Twist in the Tale ( Saki : Dust , Guy de Maupassant : The Necklace, Ambrose Bierce : An Occurrence at Owl Creek , O. Henry : The Gift of The Magi) HB - 2000 4 Tales with ' unexpected twists' - classic short stories Dusk - Saki - Dusk is a hallmark of Saki's writing genius. Norman Gortsby considered dusk somewhat differently from others. To him, dusk was a time when losers in life, ashamed to... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG165 Sarah Salway - Leading the Dance - HB - SIGNED Secrets and their consequences run deep through Sarah Salway’s short stories in this haunting and sharply written collection, now republished with the addition of new stories.A bored housewife welcomes the nomadic painter of family pets into her... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79630H Angela Knight / Burning Up Bring these four authors together and it's sure to ignite a spark... Angela Knight pairs a vampire warrior and his seductive captor in a battle against demonic predators. Nalini Singh returns to the world of her Psy-Changeling series as a woman... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Mairtín Ó Cadhain - An tSraith Dhá Togáil - HB - As Gaeilge ( An Chéad Chló 1970) Cover art from Anne Yeats , still in the publishers original plastic covers over cloth . Foilsithe ag Sáirséal & Dill, 1970. Máirtín Ó Cadhain (1906 – 18 October 1970) was one of the most... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79611H Pinckney Benedict / The Wrecking Yard A collection of short stories by the author of "Town Smoke". They reflect the rough-edged contours and personalities of rural America, shaped as they are by poverty, cruelty, and an odd compassion. All of our books... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79659H Cora Sandel / The Silken Thread All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95688H Jhumpa Lahiri / Unaccustomed Earth (Large Paperback) These eight stories by beloved and bestselling author Jhumpa Lahiri take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand, as they explore the secrets at the heart of family life. Here they enter the worlds of sisters and brothers, fathers... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7967H Hilary Mantel / The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher (Hardback) A brilliant - and rather transgressive - collection of short stories from the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of 'Wolf Hall' and 'Bring Up the Bodies'.Hilary Mantel is one of Britain's most accomplished and acclaimed writers. In these ten... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80467H Natalie Reilly / What Your Mother Should've Told You From how to taste wine, to apologising like you mean it, this is a light-hearted collection of answers to 21st century dilemmas, with advice on modern manners, solutions for old fashioned conundrums and everything in between - it's Debretts for... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 25652H Caitlin Moran / How to be Famous The Sunday Times bestselling Richard & Judy Book Club favourite'Being Moran, the jokes and one-liners fizz and crackle off the page' Richard's Review'As usual, Moran writes fearlessly, openly, honestly and incredibly funnily about sex -... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11005H Raymond Carver / Beginners What We Talk About When We Talk About Love is Carver's most famous collection of short stories and remians one of the most influential pieces of modern literature to date. But the original, unedited manuscript, Beginners - published here for the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5757H Frankie Boyle / Scotland's Jesus (Large Paperback) Reading Scotland's Jesus should be like being called into the living room by your child shouting that they see a little red dot on the head of a TV newscaster, then riding the white hot bullet through the propaganda circuitry of his or her... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 13114E Christopher Buckley / Wry Martinis Christopher Buckley, author of 'Thank You for Smoking', is the man who persuaded America's ABC News that Russia was auctioning off Lenin's corpse. This book offers a selection of the best of Buckley's recent writing... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X82044H Des MacHale / Ultimate Wit (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86491H Jonathan Rice / Keeping Up Appearances (Hardback) Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced "bouquet", of course), star of BBC1's "Keeping Up Appearances", imparts her personal views on protecting one's social standing. There are sections on etiquette in the home, entertaining, social obligations, how to... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4455H John Scally / The Good, the Glad and the Funny (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3746 Wiliam Sansom - South - Vintage PB 1952 ( Originally 1948) A first Penguin paperback edition, 1952 , of William Sansom's collection of short stories inspirted by , and set in Corsica, Italy and Southern France. Previous owners name and date ( in roman numerals) to the front endpaper. Crack to spine. In... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97024H,wW4148H Maria Leach / I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation (Hardback) I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation is a celebration of the virtuoso of well-turned phrases and the master of the studied insult - Oscar Wilde. Indeed, so perfect were Wilde's verbal thrusts that his victims were often flattered to have... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79827H Dermot Bolger / Ladies' Night at Finbar's Hotel Each story stands alone but also makes up the vivid picture of life in Dublin's newly refurbished Finbar's Hotel . . . funny and poignant' Sunday Mirror'Finbar's Hotel is back, this time with a stellar cast of women writers and a lick of paint . . ... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79825H Mary K. Doyle / Hans Christian Andersen : Illuminated by the Message When Mary K. Doyle was a child, she was entranced with the stories her mother read from Andersen's Fairy Tales. "Make-believe came to life," she writes in her introduction, "with characters I could see and hear. Their problems were real to me... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79812H Mary Morrissy / A Lazy Eye All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 67465H Martha Batalha / The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao 'Zesty' Daily Mail'A real gem of a book' StylistA wickedly funny tale of two rebellious sisters in 1940s Rio de JaneiroEuridice is bright and ambitious. But this is Brazil in the 1940s, and society expects her to be a loving wife and mother. While... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 71596H Jonathan Swift / Directions to Servants This is Jonathan Swift's great neglected cod-tract addressed to the servant classes, from butler down to laundress, instructing them in the arts of cheating their masters, and confirms them in the time-honoured superstitions and prejudices of... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79906H Elizabeth LaBan / The Tragedy Paper Every year at an exclusive private boarding school in New York state, the graduating students uphold an old tradition - they must swear an oath of secrecy and leave behind a "treasure" for each incoming senior.When Duncan Meade inherits the room... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79905H Suzanne Schlosberg / 1001 Nights Without Sex: The Curse of the Single Girl Suzanne Schlosberg calls it 'the Streak': 1001 days without sex. She's going through the mother of all dry spells...a Sahara devoid of intimacy, committed relationships and even one-night stands. The question is why? Is she too picky, too bitchy,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 74781H Reginald Hill / Asking for the Moon 'Hill is an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift' Frances Fyfield, Mail on SundayIf you've already met Dalziel and Pascoe, you're in for a treat. If you haven't yet had the pleasure, you're in for a... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW6686H Dad Says Jokes / Dad Jokes : The very best of @DadSaysJokes (Hardback) From the most-followed dad jokes page on Instagram, @dadsaysjokes, comes a collection of hilariously cheesy jokes that will leave your friends and family laughing and groaning in equal measure.This is the perfect gift for dads who want to expand... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: MED3121 Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 2 - Because That's Where Your Heart Is - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 Because That's Where Your Heart Is is a collection of short stories that are all about passion! The 16 selected writers share different perspectives on what really moves hearts and souls, with tales of love enduring, of desire, of longing, of losing... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 1 - The Secret Lives - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 The Secret Lives is a collection of short stories that are all about secrets. The 15 writers provide fascinating views of what may be happening behind closed curtains (or deep in the woods... or inside that mirror that never seems to stay covered..... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88356H Woody Allen / Mere Anarchy (Large Paperback) I am greatly relieved that the universe is finally explainable. I was beginning to think it was me. Thus begins Strung Out , Woody Allen s hilarious application of the laws of the universe to daily life. Mere Anarchy, Woody Allen s first new... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7156H Amitava Kumar / Immigrant, Montana (Large Paperback) One winter morning, a monkey stole into Mamaji's room. He climbed on the huge white bed and finding Mamaji's pistol brandished it - they say - at my cousin, born two months after me and still in her crib. No one moved. Then, turning the pistol... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 78201H Des MacHale / Wit on Target This was the third volume in Des MacHale's best-selling Wit series, the best collection of witty remarks ever published. This volume was previously published as Yet More Wit but under that title it languished; it looked like an also ran, yet it was... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 44014H Mike Gatting / Classic After-Dinner Sports Tales Following on from the hugely successful Best After-Dinner Sports Tales, yet more rousing stories from the after-dinner speaking circuit, from some of the biggest names in sport as well as celebrities from the world of entertainment.The book will... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8474H Peter Hoeg / Tales of the Night (Hardback) Each of these nine stories shows a different fact of love - love of violence, love as redemption, love as suffering, even as wisdom - and each has as a background theme one of the nine classical disciplines: mathematics, dance, law, physics,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: BIG165 Sarah Salway - Leading the Dance - HB - SIGNED Secrets and their consequences run deep through Sarah Salway’s short stories in this haunting and sharply written collection, now republished with the addition of new stories.A bored housewife welcomes the nomadic painter of family pets into her... MSRP: Now: £10.72 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79630H Angela Knight / Burning Up Bring these four authors together and it's sure to ignite a spark... Angela Knight pairs a vampire warrior and his seductive captor in a battle against demonic predators. Nalini Singh returns to the world of her Psy-Changeling series as a woman... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Mairtín Ó Cadhain - An tSraith Dhá Togáil - HB - As Gaeilge ( An Chéad Chló 1970) Cover art from Anne Yeats , still in the publishers original plastic covers over cloth . Foilsithe ag Sáirséal & Dill, 1970. Máirtín Ó Cadhain (1906 – 18 October 1970) was one of the most... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79611H Pinckney Benedict / The Wrecking Yard A collection of short stories by the author of "Town Smoke". They reflect the rough-edged contours and personalities of rural America, shaped as they are by poverty, cruelty, and an odd compassion. All of our books... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79659H Cora Sandel / The Silken Thread All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95688H Jhumpa Lahiri / Unaccustomed Earth (Large Paperback) These eight stories by beloved and bestselling author Jhumpa Lahiri take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand, as they explore the secrets at the heart of family life. Here they enter the worlds of sisters and brothers, fathers... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7967H Hilary Mantel / The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher (Hardback) A brilliant - and rather transgressive - collection of short stories from the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of 'Wolf Hall' and 'Bring Up the Bodies'.Hilary Mantel is one of Britain's most accomplished and acclaimed writers. In these ten... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80467H Natalie Reilly / What Your Mother Should've Told You From how to taste wine, to apologising like you mean it, this is a light-hearted collection of answers to 21st century dilemmas, with advice on modern manners, solutions for old fashioned conundrums and everything in between - it's Debretts for... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 25652H Caitlin Moran / How to be Famous The Sunday Times bestselling Richard & Judy Book Club favourite'Being Moran, the jokes and one-liners fizz and crackle off the page' Richard's Review'As usual, Moran writes fearlessly, openly, honestly and incredibly funnily about sex -... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11005H Raymond Carver / Beginners What We Talk About When We Talk About Love is Carver's most famous collection of short stories and remians one of the most influential pieces of modern literature to date. But the original, unedited manuscript, Beginners - published here for the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5757H Frankie Boyle / Scotland's Jesus (Large Paperback) Reading Scotland's Jesus should be like being called into the living room by your child shouting that they see a little red dot on the head of a TV newscaster, then riding the white hot bullet through the propaganda circuitry of his or her... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 13114E Christopher Buckley / Wry Martinis Christopher Buckley, author of 'Thank You for Smoking', is the man who persuaded America's ABC News that Russia was auctioning off Lenin's corpse. This book offers a selection of the best of Buckley's recent writing... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X82044H Des MacHale / Ultimate Wit (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86491H Jonathan Rice / Keeping Up Appearances (Hardback) Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced "bouquet", of course), star of BBC1's "Keeping Up Appearances", imparts her personal views on protecting one's social standing. There are sections on etiquette in the home, entertaining, social obligations, how to... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4455H John Scally / The Good, the Glad and the Funny (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3746 Wiliam Sansom - South - Vintage PB 1952 ( Originally 1948) A first Penguin paperback edition, 1952 , of William Sansom's collection of short stories inspirted by , and set in Corsica, Italy and Southern France. Previous owners name and date ( in roman numerals) to the front endpaper. Crack to spine. In... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97024H,wW4148H Maria Leach / I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation (Hardback) I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation is a celebration of the virtuoso of well-turned phrases and the master of the studied insult - Oscar Wilde. Indeed, so perfect were Wilde's verbal thrusts that his victims were often flattered to have... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79827H Dermot Bolger / Ladies' Night at Finbar's Hotel Each story stands alone but also makes up the vivid picture of life in Dublin's newly refurbished Finbar's Hotel . . . funny and poignant' Sunday Mirror'Finbar's Hotel is back, this time with a stellar cast of women writers and a lick of paint . . ... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79825H Mary K. Doyle / Hans Christian Andersen : Illuminated by the Message When Mary K. Doyle was a child, she was entranced with the stories her mother read from Andersen's Fairy Tales. "Make-believe came to life," she writes in her introduction, "with characters I could see and hear. Their problems were real to me... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79812H Mary Morrissy / A Lazy Eye All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 67465H Martha Batalha / The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao 'Zesty' Daily Mail'A real gem of a book' StylistA wickedly funny tale of two rebellious sisters in 1940s Rio de JaneiroEuridice is bright and ambitious. But this is Brazil in the 1940s, and society expects her to be a loving wife and mother. While... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 71596H Jonathan Swift / Directions to Servants This is Jonathan Swift's great neglected cod-tract addressed to the servant classes, from butler down to laundress, instructing them in the arts of cheating their masters, and confirms them in the time-honoured superstitions and prejudices of... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79906H Elizabeth LaBan / The Tragedy Paper Every year at an exclusive private boarding school in New York state, the graduating students uphold an old tradition - they must swear an oath of secrecy and leave behind a "treasure" for each incoming senior.When Duncan Meade inherits the room... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79905H Suzanne Schlosberg / 1001 Nights Without Sex: The Curse of the Single Girl Suzanne Schlosberg calls it 'the Streak': 1001 days without sex. She's going through the mother of all dry spells...a Sahara devoid of intimacy, committed relationships and even one-night stands. The question is why? Is she too picky, too bitchy,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 74781H Reginald Hill / Asking for the Moon 'Hill is an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift' Frances Fyfield, Mail on SundayIf you've already met Dalziel and Pascoe, you're in for a treat. If you haven't yet had the pleasure, you're in for a... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW6686H Dad Says Jokes / Dad Jokes : The very best of @DadSaysJokes (Hardback) From the most-followed dad jokes page on Instagram, @dadsaysjokes, comes a collection of hilariously cheesy jokes that will leave your friends and family laughing and groaning in equal measure.This is the perfect gift for dads who want to expand... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: MED3121 Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 2 - Because That's Where Your Heart Is - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 Because That's Where Your Heart Is is a collection of short stories that are all about passion! The 16 selected writers share different perspectives on what really moves hearts and souls, with tales of love enduring, of desire, of longing, of losing... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 1 - The Secret Lives - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 The Secret Lives is a collection of short stories that are all about secrets. The 15 writers provide fascinating views of what may be happening behind closed curtains (or deep in the woods... or inside that mirror that never seems to stay covered..... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88356H Woody Allen / Mere Anarchy (Large Paperback) I am greatly relieved that the universe is finally explainable. I was beginning to think it was me. Thus begins Strung Out , Woody Allen s hilarious application of the laws of the universe to daily life. Mere Anarchy, Woody Allen s first new... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7156H Amitava Kumar / Immigrant, Montana (Large Paperback) One winter morning, a monkey stole into Mamaji's room. He climbed on the huge white bed and finding Mamaji's pistol brandished it - they say - at my cousin, born two months after me and still in her crib. No one moved. Then, turning the pistol... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 78201H Des MacHale / Wit on Target This was the third volume in Des MacHale's best-selling Wit series, the best collection of witty remarks ever published. This volume was previously published as Yet More Wit but under that title it languished; it looked like an also ran, yet it was... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 44014H Mike Gatting / Classic After-Dinner Sports Tales Following on from the hugely successful Best After-Dinner Sports Tales, yet more rousing stories from the after-dinner speaking circuit, from some of the biggest names in sport as well as celebrities from the world of entertainment.The book will... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8474H Peter Hoeg / Tales of the Night (Hardback) Each of these nine stories shows a different fact of love - love of violence, love as redemption, love as suffering, even as wisdom - and each has as a background theme one of the nine classical disciplines: mathematics, dance, law, physics,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 79630H Angela Knight / Burning Up Bring these four authors together and it's sure to ignite a spark... Angela Knight pairs a vampire warrior and his seductive captor in a battle against demonic predators. Nalini Singh returns to the world of her Psy-Changeling series as a woman... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Mairtín Ó Cadhain - An tSraith Dhá Togáil - HB - As Gaeilge ( An Chéad Chló 1970) Cover art from Anne Yeats , still in the publishers original plastic covers over cloth . Foilsithe ag Sáirséal & Dill, 1970. Máirtín Ó Cadhain (1906 – 18 October 1970) was one of the most... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79611H Pinckney Benedict / The Wrecking Yard A collection of short stories by the author of "Town Smoke". They reflect the rough-edged contours and personalities of rural America, shaped as they are by poverty, cruelty, and an odd compassion. All of our books... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79659H Cora Sandel / The Silken Thread All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95688H Jhumpa Lahiri / Unaccustomed Earth (Large Paperback) These eight stories by beloved and bestselling author Jhumpa Lahiri take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand, as they explore the secrets at the heart of family life. Here they enter the worlds of sisters and brothers, fathers... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7967H Hilary Mantel / The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher (Hardback) A brilliant - and rather transgressive - collection of short stories from the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of 'Wolf Hall' and 'Bring Up the Bodies'.Hilary Mantel is one of Britain's most accomplished and acclaimed writers. In these ten... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80467H Natalie Reilly / What Your Mother Should've Told You From how to taste wine, to apologising like you mean it, this is a light-hearted collection of answers to 21st century dilemmas, with advice on modern manners, solutions for old fashioned conundrums and everything in between - it's Debretts for... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 25652H Caitlin Moran / How to be Famous The Sunday Times bestselling Richard & Judy Book Club favourite'Being Moran, the jokes and one-liners fizz and crackle off the page' Richard's Review'As usual, Moran writes fearlessly, openly, honestly and incredibly funnily about sex -... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11005H Raymond Carver / Beginners What We Talk About When We Talk About Love is Carver's most famous collection of short stories and remians one of the most influential pieces of modern literature to date. But the original, unedited manuscript, Beginners - published here for the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5757H Frankie Boyle / Scotland's Jesus (Large Paperback) Reading Scotland's Jesus should be like being called into the living room by your child shouting that they see a little red dot on the head of a TV newscaster, then riding the white hot bullet through the propaganda circuitry of his or her... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 13114E Christopher Buckley / Wry Martinis Christopher Buckley, author of 'Thank You for Smoking', is the man who persuaded America's ABC News that Russia was auctioning off Lenin's corpse. This book offers a selection of the best of Buckley's recent writing... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X82044H Des MacHale / Ultimate Wit (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86491H Jonathan Rice / Keeping Up Appearances (Hardback) Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced "bouquet", of course), star of BBC1's "Keeping Up Appearances", imparts her personal views on protecting one's social standing. There are sections on etiquette in the home, entertaining, social obligations, how to... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4455H John Scally / The Good, the Glad and the Funny (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3746 Wiliam Sansom - South - Vintage PB 1952 ( Originally 1948) A first Penguin paperback edition, 1952 , of William Sansom's collection of short stories inspirted by , and set in Corsica, Italy and Southern France. Previous owners name and date ( in roman numerals) to the front endpaper. Crack to spine. In... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97024H,wW4148H Maria Leach / I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation (Hardback) I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation is a celebration of the virtuoso of well-turned phrases and the master of the studied insult - Oscar Wilde. Indeed, so perfect were Wilde's verbal thrusts that his victims were often flattered to have... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79827H Dermot Bolger / Ladies' Night at Finbar's Hotel Each story stands alone but also makes up the vivid picture of life in Dublin's newly refurbished Finbar's Hotel . . . funny and poignant' Sunday Mirror'Finbar's Hotel is back, this time with a stellar cast of women writers and a lick of paint . . ... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79825H Mary K. Doyle / Hans Christian Andersen : Illuminated by the Message When Mary K. Doyle was a child, she was entranced with the stories her mother read from Andersen's Fairy Tales. "Make-believe came to life," she writes in her introduction, "with characters I could see and hear. Their problems were real to me... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79812H Mary Morrissy / A Lazy Eye All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 67465H Martha Batalha / The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao 'Zesty' Daily Mail'A real gem of a book' StylistA wickedly funny tale of two rebellious sisters in 1940s Rio de JaneiroEuridice is bright and ambitious. But this is Brazil in the 1940s, and society expects her to be a loving wife and mother. While... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 71596H Jonathan Swift / Directions to Servants This is Jonathan Swift's great neglected cod-tract addressed to the servant classes, from butler down to laundress, instructing them in the arts of cheating their masters, and confirms them in the time-honoured superstitions and prejudices of... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79906H Elizabeth LaBan / The Tragedy Paper Every year at an exclusive private boarding school in New York state, the graduating students uphold an old tradition - they must swear an oath of secrecy and leave behind a "treasure" for each incoming senior.When Duncan Meade inherits the room... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79905H Suzanne Schlosberg / 1001 Nights Without Sex: The Curse of the Single Girl Suzanne Schlosberg calls it 'the Streak': 1001 days without sex. She's going through the mother of all dry spells...a Sahara devoid of intimacy, committed relationships and even one-night stands. The question is why? Is she too picky, too bitchy,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 74781H Reginald Hill / Asking for the Moon 'Hill is an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift' Frances Fyfield, Mail on SundayIf you've already met Dalziel and Pascoe, you're in for a treat. If you haven't yet had the pleasure, you're in for a... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW6686H Dad Says Jokes / Dad Jokes : The very best of @DadSaysJokes (Hardback) From the most-followed dad jokes page on Instagram, @dadsaysjokes, comes a collection of hilariously cheesy jokes that will leave your friends and family laughing and groaning in equal measure.This is the perfect gift for dads who want to expand... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: MED3121 Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 2 - Because That's Where Your Heart Is - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 Because That's Where Your Heart Is is a collection of short stories that are all about passion! The 16 selected writers share different perspectives on what really moves hearts and souls, with tales of love enduring, of desire, of longing, of losing... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 1 - The Secret Lives - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 The Secret Lives is a collection of short stories that are all about secrets. The 15 writers provide fascinating views of what may be happening behind closed curtains (or deep in the woods... or inside that mirror that never seems to stay covered..... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88356H Woody Allen / Mere Anarchy (Large Paperback) I am greatly relieved that the universe is finally explainable. I was beginning to think it was me. Thus begins Strung Out , Woody Allen s hilarious application of the laws of the universe to daily life. Mere Anarchy, Woody Allen s first new... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7156H Amitava Kumar / Immigrant, Montana (Large Paperback) One winter morning, a monkey stole into Mamaji's room. He climbed on the huge white bed and finding Mamaji's pistol brandished it - they say - at my cousin, born two months after me and still in her crib. No one moved. Then, turning the pistol... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 78201H Des MacHale / Wit on Target This was the third volume in Des MacHale's best-selling Wit series, the best collection of witty remarks ever published. This volume was previously published as Yet More Wit but under that title it languished; it looked like an also ran, yet it was... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 44014H Mike Gatting / Classic After-Dinner Sports Tales Following on from the hugely successful Best After-Dinner Sports Tales, yet more rousing stories from the after-dinner speaking circuit, from some of the biggest names in sport as well as celebrities from the world of entertainment.The book will... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8474H Peter Hoeg / Tales of the Night (Hardback) Each of these nine stories shows a different fact of love - love of violence, love as redemption, love as suffering, even as wisdom - and each has as a background theme one of the nine classical disciplines: mathematics, dance, law, physics,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view IRISH LITERATURE Mairtín Ó Cadhain - An tSraith Dhá Togáil - HB - As Gaeilge ( An Chéad Chló 1970) Cover art from Anne Yeats , still in the publishers original plastic covers over cloth . Foilsithe ag Sáirséal & Dill, 1970. Máirtín Ó Cadhain (1906 – 18 October 1970) was one of the most... MSRP: Now: £17.87 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79611H Pinckney Benedict / The Wrecking Yard A collection of short stories by the author of "Town Smoke". They reflect the rough-edged contours and personalities of rural America, shaped as they are by poverty, cruelty, and an odd compassion. All of our books... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79659H Cora Sandel / The Silken Thread All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95688H Jhumpa Lahiri / Unaccustomed Earth (Large Paperback) These eight stories by beloved and bestselling author Jhumpa Lahiri take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand, as they explore the secrets at the heart of family life. Here they enter the worlds of sisters and brothers, fathers... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7967H Hilary Mantel / The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher (Hardback) A brilliant - and rather transgressive - collection of short stories from the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of 'Wolf Hall' and 'Bring Up the Bodies'.Hilary Mantel is one of Britain's most accomplished and acclaimed writers. In these ten... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80467H Natalie Reilly / What Your Mother Should've Told You From how to taste wine, to apologising like you mean it, this is a light-hearted collection of answers to 21st century dilemmas, with advice on modern manners, solutions for old fashioned conundrums and everything in between - it's Debretts for... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 25652H Caitlin Moran / How to be Famous The Sunday Times bestselling Richard & Judy Book Club favourite'Being Moran, the jokes and one-liners fizz and crackle off the page' Richard's Review'As usual, Moran writes fearlessly, openly, honestly and incredibly funnily about sex -... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11005H Raymond Carver / Beginners What We Talk About When We Talk About Love is Carver's most famous collection of short stories and remians one of the most influential pieces of modern literature to date. But the original, unedited manuscript, Beginners - published here for the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5757H Frankie Boyle / Scotland's Jesus (Large Paperback) Reading Scotland's Jesus should be like being called into the living room by your child shouting that they see a little red dot on the head of a TV newscaster, then riding the white hot bullet through the propaganda circuitry of his or her... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 13114E Christopher Buckley / Wry Martinis Christopher Buckley, author of 'Thank You for Smoking', is the man who persuaded America's ABC News that Russia was auctioning off Lenin's corpse. This book offers a selection of the best of Buckley's recent writing... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X82044H Des MacHale / Ultimate Wit (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86491H Jonathan Rice / Keeping Up Appearances (Hardback) Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced "bouquet", of course), star of BBC1's "Keeping Up Appearances", imparts her personal views on protecting one's social standing. There are sections on etiquette in the home, entertaining, social obligations, how to... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4455H John Scally / The Good, the Glad and the Funny (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3746 Wiliam Sansom - South - Vintage PB 1952 ( Originally 1948) A first Penguin paperback edition, 1952 , of William Sansom's collection of short stories inspirted by , and set in Corsica, Italy and Southern France. Previous owners name and date ( in roman numerals) to the front endpaper. Crack to spine. In... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97024H,wW4148H Maria Leach / I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation (Hardback) I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation is a celebration of the virtuoso of well-turned phrases and the master of the studied insult - Oscar Wilde. Indeed, so perfect were Wilde's verbal thrusts that his victims were often flattered to have... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79827H Dermot Bolger / Ladies' Night at Finbar's Hotel Each story stands alone but also makes up the vivid picture of life in Dublin's newly refurbished Finbar's Hotel . . . funny and poignant' Sunday Mirror'Finbar's Hotel is back, this time with a stellar cast of women writers and a lick of paint . . ... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79825H Mary K. Doyle / Hans Christian Andersen : Illuminated by the Message When Mary K. Doyle was a child, she was entranced with the stories her mother read from Andersen's Fairy Tales. "Make-believe came to life," she writes in her introduction, "with characters I could see and hear. Their problems were real to me... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79812H Mary Morrissy / A Lazy Eye All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 67465H Martha Batalha / The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao 'Zesty' Daily Mail'A real gem of a book' StylistA wickedly funny tale of two rebellious sisters in 1940s Rio de JaneiroEuridice is bright and ambitious. But this is Brazil in the 1940s, and society expects her to be a loving wife and mother. While... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 71596H Jonathan Swift / Directions to Servants This is Jonathan Swift's great neglected cod-tract addressed to the servant classes, from butler down to laundress, instructing them in the arts of cheating their masters, and confirms them in the time-honoured superstitions and prejudices of... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79906H Elizabeth LaBan / The Tragedy Paper Every year at an exclusive private boarding school in New York state, the graduating students uphold an old tradition - they must swear an oath of secrecy and leave behind a "treasure" for each incoming senior.When Duncan Meade inherits the room... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79905H Suzanne Schlosberg / 1001 Nights Without Sex: The Curse of the Single Girl Suzanne Schlosberg calls it 'the Streak': 1001 days without sex. She's going through the mother of all dry spells...a Sahara devoid of intimacy, committed relationships and even one-night stands. The question is why? Is she too picky, too bitchy,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 74781H Reginald Hill / Asking for the Moon 'Hill is an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift' Frances Fyfield, Mail on SundayIf you've already met Dalziel and Pascoe, you're in for a treat. If you haven't yet had the pleasure, you're in for a... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW6686H Dad Says Jokes / Dad Jokes : The very best of @DadSaysJokes (Hardback) From the most-followed dad jokes page on Instagram, @dadsaysjokes, comes a collection of hilariously cheesy jokes that will leave your friends and family laughing and groaning in equal measure.This is the perfect gift for dads who want to expand... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: MED3121 Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 2 - Because That's Where Your Heart Is - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 Because That's Where Your Heart Is is a collection of short stories that are all about passion! The 16 selected writers share different perspectives on what really moves hearts and souls, with tales of love enduring, of desire, of longing, of losing... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 1 - The Secret Lives - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 The Secret Lives is a collection of short stories that are all about secrets. The 15 writers provide fascinating views of what may be happening behind closed curtains (or deep in the woods... or inside that mirror that never seems to stay covered..... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88356H Woody Allen / Mere Anarchy (Large Paperback) I am greatly relieved that the universe is finally explainable. I was beginning to think it was me. Thus begins Strung Out , Woody Allen s hilarious application of the laws of the universe to daily life. Mere Anarchy, Woody Allen s first new... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7156H Amitava Kumar / Immigrant, Montana (Large Paperback) One winter morning, a monkey stole into Mamaji's room. He climbed on the huge white bed and finding Mamaji's pistol brandished it - they say - at my cousin, born two months after me and still in her crib. No one moved. Then, turning the pistol... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 78201H Des MacHale / Wit on Target This was the third volume in Des MacHale's best-selling Wit series, the best collection of witty remarks ever published. This volume was previously published as Yet More Wit but under that title it languished; it looked like an also ran, yet it was... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 44014H Mike Gatting / Classic After-Dinner Sports Tales Following on from the hugely successful Best After-Dinner Sports Tales, yet more rousing stories from the after-dinner speaking circuit, from some of the biggest names in sport as well as celebrities from the world of entertainment.The book will... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8474H Peter Hoeg / Tales of the Night (Hardback) Each of these nine stories shows a different fact of love - love of violence, love as redemption, love as suffering, even as wisdom - and each has as a background theme one of the nine classical disciplines: mathematics, dance, law, physics,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 79611H Pinckney Benedict / The Wrecking Yard A collection of short stories by the author of "Town Smoke". They reflect the rough-edged contours and personalities of rural America, shaped as they are by poverty, cruelty, and an odd compassion. All of our books... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79659H Cora Sandel / The Silken Thread All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95688H Jhumpa Lahiri / Unaccustomed Earth (Large Paperback) These eight stories by beloved and bestselling author Jhumpa Lahiri take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand, as they explore the secrets at the heart of family life. Here they enter the worlds of sisters and brothers, fathers... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7967H Hilary Mantel / The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher (Hardback) A brilliant - and rather transgressive - collection of short stories from the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of 'Wolf Hall' and 'Bring Up the Bodies'.Hilary Mantel is one of Britain's most accomplished and acclaimed writers. In these ten... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80467H Natalie Reilly / What Your Mother Should've Told You From how to taste wine, to apologising like you mean it, this is a light-hearted collection of answers to 21st century dilemmas, with advice on modern manners, solutions for old fashioned conundrums and everything in between - it's Debretts for... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 25652H Caitlin Moran / How to be Famous The Sunday Times bestselling Richard & Judy Book Club favourite'Being Moran, the jokes and one-liners fizz and crackle off the page' Richard's Review'As usual, Moran writes fearlessly, openly, honestly and incredibly funnily about sex -... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11005H Raymond Carver / Beginners What We Talk About When We Talk About Love is Carver's most famous collection of short stories and remians one of the most influential pieces of modern literature to date. But the original, unedited manuscript, Beginners - published here for the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5757H Frankie Boyle / Scotland's Jesus (Large Paperback) Reading Scotland's Jesus should be like being called into the living room by your child shouting that they see a little red dot on the head of a TV newscaster, then riding the white hot bullet through the propaganda circuitry of his or her... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 13114E Christopher Buckley / Wry Martinis Christopher Buckley, author of 'Thank You for Smoking', is the man who persuaded America's ABC News that Russia was auctioning off Lenin's corpse. This book offers a selection of the best of Buckley's recent writing... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X82044H Des MacHale / Ultimate Wit (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86491H Jonathan Rice / Keeping Up Appearances (Hardback) Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced "bouquet", of course), star of BBC1's "Keeping Up Appearances", imparts her personal views on protecting one's social standing. There are sections on etiquette in the home, entertaining, social obligations, how to... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4455H John Scally / The Good, the Glad and the Funny (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3746 Wiliam Sansom - South - Vintage PB 1952 ( Originally 1948) A first Penguin paperback edition, 1952 , of William Sansom's collection of short stories inspirted by , and set in Corsica, Italy and Southern France. Previous owners name and date ( in roman numerals) to the front endpaper. Crack to spine. In... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97024H,wW4148H Maria Leach / I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation (Hardback) I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation is a celebration of the virtuoso of well-turned phrases and the master of the studied insult - Oscar Wilde. Indeed, so perfect were Wilde's verbal thrusts that his victims were often flattered to have... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79827H Dermot Bolger / Ladies' Night at Finbar's Hotel Each story stands alone but also makes up the vivid picture of life in Dublin's newly refurbished Finbar's Hotel . . . funny and poignant' Sunday Mirror'Finbar's Hotel is back, this time with a stellar cast of women writers and a lick of paint . . ... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79825H Mary K. Doyle / Hans Christian Andersen : Illuminated by the Message When Mary K. Doyle was a child, she was entranced with the stories her mother read from Andersen's Fairy Tales. "Make-believe came to life," she writes in her introduction, "with characters I could see and hear. Their problems were real to me... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79812H Mary Morrissy / A Lazy Eye All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 67465H Martha Batalha / The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao 'Zesty' Daily Mail'A real gem of a book' StylistA wickedly funny tale of two rebellious sisters in 1940s Rio de JaneiroEuridice is bright and ambitious. But this is Brazil in the 1940s, and society expects her to be a loving wife and mother. While... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 71596H Jonathan Swift / Directions to Servants This is Jonathan Swift's great neglected cod-tract addressed to the servant classes, from butler down to laundress, instructing them in the arts of cheating their masters, and confirms them in the time-honoured superstitions and prejudices of... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79906H Elizabeth LaBan / The Tragedy Paper Every year at an exclusive private boarding school in New York state, the graduating students uphold an old tradition - they must swear an oath of secrecy and leave behind a "treasure" for each incoming senior.When Duncan Meade inherits the room... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79905H Suzanne Schlosberg / 1001 Nights Without Sex: The Curse of the Single Girl Suzanne Schlosberg calls it 'the Streak': 1001 days without sex. She's going through the mother of all dry spells...a Sahara devoid of intimacy, committed relationships and even one-night stands. The question is why? Is she too picky, too bitchy,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 74781H Reginald Hill / Asking for the Moon 'Hill is an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift' Frances Fyfield, Mail on SundayIf you've already met Dalziel and Pascoe, you're in for a treat. If you haven't yet had the pleasure, you're in for a... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW6686H Dad Says Jokes / Dad Jokes : The very best of @DadSaysJokes (Hardback) From the most-followed dad jokes page on Instagram, @dadsaysjokes, comes a collection of hilariously cheesy jokes that will leave your friends and family laughing and groaning in equal measure.This is the perfect gift for dads who want to expand... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: MED3121 Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 2 - Because That's Where Your Heart Is - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 Because That's Where Your Heart Is is a collection of short stories that are all about passion! The 16 selected writers share different perspectives on what really moves hearts and souls, with tales of love enduring, of desire, of longing, of losing... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 1 - The Secret Lives - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 The Secret Lives is a collection of short stories that are all about secrets. The 15 writers provide fascinating views of what may be happening behind closed curtains (or deep in the woods... or inside that mirror that never seems to stay covered..... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88356H Woody Allen / Mere Anarchy (Large Paperback) I am greatly relieved that the universe is finally explainable. I was beginning to think it was me. Thus begins Strung Out , Woody Allen s hilarious application of the laws of the universe to daily life. Mere Anarchy, Woody Allen s first new... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7156H Amitava Kumar / Immigrant, Montana (Large Paperback) One winter morning, a monkey stole into Mamaji's room. He climbed on the huge white bed and finding Mamaji's pistol brandished it - they say - at my cousin, born two months after me and still in her crib. No one moved. Then, turning the pistol... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 78201H Des MacHale / Wit on Target This was the third volume in Des MacHale's best-selling Wit series, the best collection of witty remarks ever published. This volume was previously published as Yet More Wit but under that title it languished; it looked like an also ran, yet it was... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 44014H Mike Gatting / Classic After-Dinner Sports Tales Following on from the hugely successful Best After-Dinner Sports Tales, yet more rousing stories from the after-dinner speaking circuit, from some of the biggest names in sport as well as celebrities from the world of entertainment.The book will... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8474H Peter Hoeg / Tales of the Night (Hardback) Each of these nine stories shows a different fact of love - love of violence, love as redemption, love as suffering, even as wisdom - and each has as a background theme one of the nine classical disciplines: mathematics, dance, law, physics,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 79659H Cora Sandel / The Silken Thread All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X95688H Jhumpa Lahiri / Unaccustomed Earth (Large Paperback) These eight stories by beloved and bestselling author Jhumpa Lahiri take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand, as they explore the secrets at the heart of family life. Here they enter the worlds of sisters and brothers, fathers... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7967H Hilary Mantel / The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher (Hardback) A brilliant - and rather transgressive - collection of short stories from the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of 'Wolf Hall' and 'Bring Up the Bodies'.Hilary Mantel is one of Britain's most accomplished and acclaimed writers. In these ten... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80467H Natalie Reilly / What Your Mother Should've Told You From how to taste wine, to apologising like you mean it, this is a light-hearted collection of answers to 21st century dilemmas, with advice on modern manners, solutions for old fashioned conundrums and everything in between - it's Debretts for... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 25652H Caitlin Moran / How to be Famous The Sunday Times bestselling Richard & Judy Book Club favourite'Being Moran, the jokes and one-liners fizz and crackle off the page' Richard's Review'As usual, Moran writes fearlessly, openly, honestly and incredibly funnily about sex -... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11005H Raymond Carver / Beginners What We Talk About When We Talk About Love is Carver's most famous collection of short stories and remians one of the most influential pieces of modern literature to date. But the original, unedited manuscript, Beginners - published here for the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5757H Frankie Boyle / Scotland's Jesus (Large Paperback) Reading Scotland's Jesus should be like being called into the living room by your child shouting that they see a little red dot on the head of a TV newscaster, then riding the white hot bullet through the propaganda circuitry of his or her... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 13114E Christopher Buckley / Wry Martinis Christopher Buckley, author of 'Thank You for Smoking', is the man who persuaded America's ABC News that Russia was auctioning off Lenin's corpse. This book offers a selection of the best of Buckley's recent writing... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X82044H Des MacHale / Ultimate Wit (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86491H Jonathan Rice / Keeping Up Appearances (Hardback) Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced "bouquet", of course), star of BBC1's "Keeping Up Appearances", imparts her personal views on protecting one's social standing. There are sections on etiquette in the home, entertaining, social obligations, how to... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4455H John Scally / The Good, the Glad and the Funny (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3746 Wiliam Sansom - South - Vintage PB 1952 ( Originally 1948) A first Penguin paperback edition, 1952 , of William Sansom's collection of short stories inspirted by , and set in Corsica, Italy and Southern France. Previous owners name and date ( in roman numerals) to the front endpaper. Crack to spine. In... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97024H,wW4148H Maria Leach / I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation (Hardback) I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation is a celebration of the virtuoso of well-turned phrases and the master of the studied insult - Oscar Wilde. Indeed, so perfect were Wilde's verbal thrusts that his victims were often flattered to have... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79827H Dermot Bolger / Ladies' Night at Finbar's Hotel Each story stands alone but also makes up the vivid picture of life in Dublin's newly refurbished Finbar's Hotel . . . funny and poignant' Sunday Mirror'Finbar's Hotel is back, this time with a stellar cast of women writers and a lick of paint . . ... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79825H Mary K. Doyle / Hans Christian Andersen : Illuminated by the Message When Mary K. Doyle was a child, she was entranced with the stories her mother read from Andersen's Fairy Tales. "Make-believe came to life," she writes in her introduction, "with characters I could see and hear. Their problems were real to me... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79812H Mary Morrissy / A Lazy Eye All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 67465H Martha Batalha / The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao 'Zesty' Daily Mail'A real gem of a book' StylistA wickedly funny tale of two rebellious sisters in 1940s Rio de JaneiroEuridice is bright and ambitious. But this is Brazil in the 1940s, and society expects her to be a loving wife and mother. While... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 71596H Jonathan Swift / Directions to Servants This is Jonathan Swift's great neglected cod-tract addressed to the servant classes, from butler down to laundress, instructing them in the arts of cheating their masters, and confirms them in the time-honoured superstitions and prejudices of... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79906H Elizabeth LaBan / The Tragedy Paper Every year at an exclusive private boarding school in New York state, the graduating students uphold an old tradition - they must swear an oath of secrecy and leave behind a "treasure" for each incoming senior.When Duncan Meade inherits the room... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79905H Suzanne Schlosberg / 1001 Nights Without Sex: The Curse of the Single Girl Suzanne Schlosberg calls it 'the Streak': 1001 days without sex. She's going through the mother of all dry spells...a Sahara devoid of intimacy, committed relationships and even one-night stands. The question is why? Is she too picky, too bitchy,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 74781H Reginald Hill / Asking for the Moon 'Hill is an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift' Frances Fyfield, Mail on SundayIf you've already met Dalziel and Pascoe, you're in for a treat. If you haven't yet had the pleasure, you're in for a... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW6686H Dad Says Jokes / Dad Jokes : The very best of @DadSaysJokes (Hardback) From the most-followed dad jokes page on Instagram, @dadsaysjokes, comes a collection of hilariously cheesy jokes that will leave your friends and family laughing and groaning in equal measure.This is the perfect gift for dads who want to expand... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: MED3121 Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 2 - Because That's Where Your Heart Is - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 Because That's Where Your Heart Is is a collection of short stories that are all about passion! The 16 selected writers share different perspectives on what really moves hearts and souls, with tales of love enduring, of desire, of longing, of losing... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 1 - The Secret Lives - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 The Secret Lives is a collection of short stories that are all about secrets. The 15 writers provide fascinating views of what may be happening behind closed curtains (or deep in the woods... or inside that mirror that never seems to stay covered..... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88356H Woody Allen / Mere Anarchy (Large Paperback) I am greatly relieved that the universe is finally explainable. I was beginning to think it was me. Thus begins Strung Out , Woody Allen s hilarious application of the laws of the universe to daily life. Mere Anarchy, Woody Allen s first new... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7156H Amitava Kumar / Immigrant, Montana (Large Paperback) One winter morning, a monkey stole into Mamaji's room. He climbed on the huge white bed and finding Mamaji's pistol brandished it - they say - at my cousin, born two months after me and still in her crib. No one moved. Then, turning the pistol... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 78201H Des MacHale / Wit on Target This was the third volume in Des MacHale's best-selling Wit series, the best collection of witty remarks ever published. This volume was previously published as Yet More Wit but under that title it languished; it looked like an also ran, yet it was... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 44014H Mike Gatting / Classic After-Dinner Sports Tales Following on from the hugely successful Best After-Dinner Sports Tales, yet more rousing stories from the after-dinner speaking circuit, from some of the biggest names in sport as well as celebrities from the world of entertainment.The book will... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8474H Peter Hoeg / Tales of the Night (Hardback) Each of these nine stories shows a different fact of love - love of violence, love as redemption, love as suffering, even as wisdom - and each has as a background theme one of the nine classical disciplines: mathematics, dance, law, physics,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X95688H Jhumpa Lahiri / Unaccustomed Earth (Large Paperback) These eight stories by beloved and bestselling author Jhumpa Lahiri take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand, as they explore the secrets at the heart of family life. Here they enter the worlds of sisters and brothers, fathers... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7967H Hilary Mantel / The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher (Hardback) A brilliant - and rather transgressive - collection of short stories from the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of 'Wolf Hall' and 'Bring Up the Bodies'.Hilary Mantel is one of Britain's most accomplished and acclaimed writers. In these ten... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80467H Natalie Reilly / What Your Mother Should've Told You From how to taste wine, to apologising like you mean it, this is a light-hearted collection of answers to 21st century dilemmas, with advice on modern manners, solutions for old fashioned conundrums and everything in between - it's Debretts for... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 25652H Caitlin Moran / How to be Famous The Sunday Times bestselling Richard & Judy Book Club favourite'Being Moran, the jokes and one-liners fizz and crackle off the page' Richard's Review'As usual, Moran writes fearlessly, openly, honestly and incredibly funnily about sex -... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11005H Raymond Carver / Beginners What We Talk About When We Talk About Love is Carver's most famous collection of short stories and remians one of the most influential pieces of modern literature to date. But the original, unedited manuscript, Beginners - published here for the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5757H Frankie Boyle / Scotland's Jesus (Large Paperback) Reading Scotland's Jesus should be like being called into the living room by your child shouting that they see a little red dot on the head of a TV newscaster, then riding the white hot bullet through the propaganda circuitry of his or her... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 13114E Christopher Buckley / Wry Martinis Christopher Buckley, author of 'Thank You for Smoking', is the man who persuaded America's ABC News that Russia was auctioning off Lenin's corpse. This book offers a selection of the best of Buckley's recent writing... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X82044H Des MacHale / Ultimate Wit (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86491H Jonathan Rice / Keeping Up Appearances (Hardback) Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced "bouquet", of course), star of BBC1's "Keeping Up Appearances", imparts her personal views on protecting one's social standing. There are sections on etiquette in the home, entertaining, social obligations, how to... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4455H John Scally / The Good, the Glad and the Funny (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3746 Wiliam Sansom - South - Vintage PB 1952 ( Originally 1948) A first Penguin paperback edition, 1952 , of William Sansom's collection of short stories inspirted by , and set in Corsica, Italy and Southern France. Previous owners name and date ( in roman numerals) to the front endpaper. Crack to spine. In... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97024H,wW4148H Maria Leach / I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation (Hardback) I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation is a celebration of the virtuoso of well-turned phrases and the master of the studied insult - Oscar Wilde. Indeed, so perfect were Wilde's verbal thrusts that his victims were often flattered to have... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79827H Dermot Bolger / Ladies' Night at Finbar's Hotel Each story stands alone but also makes up the vivid picture of life in Dublin's newly refurbished Finbar's Hotel . . . funny and poignant' Sunday Mirror'Finbar's Hotel is back, this time with a stellar cast of women writers and a lick of paint . . ... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79825H Mary K. Doyle / Hans Christian Andersen : Illuminated by the Message When Mary K. Doyle was a child, she was entranced with the stories her mother read from Andersen's Fairy Tales. "Make-believe came to life," she writes in her introduction, "with characters I could see and hear. Their problems were real to me... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79812H Mary Morrissy / A Lazy Eye All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 67465H Martha Batalha / The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao 'Zesty' Daily Mail'A real gem of a book' StylistA wickedly funny tale of two rebellious sisters in 1940s Rio de JaneiroEuridice is bright and ambitious. But this is Brazil in the 1940s, and society expects her to be a loving wife and mother. While... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 71596H Jonathan Swift / Directions to Servants This is Jonathan Swift's great neglected cod-tract addressed to the servant classes, from butler down to laundress, instructing them in the arts of cheating their masters, and confirms them in the time-honoured superstitions and prejudices of... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79906H Elizabeth LaBan / The Tragedy Paper Every year at an exclusive private boarding school in New York state, the graduating students uphold an old tradition - they must swear an oath of secrecy and leave behind a "treasure" for each incoming senior.When Duncan Meade inherits the room... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79905H Suzanne Schlosberg / 1001 Nights Without Sex: The Curse of the Single Girl Suzanne Schlosberg calls it 'the Streak': 1001 days without sex. She's going through the mother of all dry spells...a Sahara devoid of intimacy, committed relationships and even one-night stands. The question is why? Is she too picky, too bitchy,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 74781H Reginald Hill / Asking for the Moon 'Hill is an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift' Frances Fyfield, Mail on SundayIf you've already met Dalziel and Pascoe, you're in for a treat. If you haven't yet had the pleasure, you're in for a... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW6686H Dad Says Jokes / Dad Jokes : The very best of @DadSaysJokes (Hardback) From the most-followed dad jokes page on Instagram, @dadsaysjokes, comes a collection of hilariously cheesy jokes that will leave your friends and family laughing and groaning in equal measure.This is the perfect gift for dads who want to expand... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: MED3121 Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 2 - Because That's Where Your Heart Is - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 Because That's Where Your Heart Is is a collection of short stories that are all about passion! The 16 selected writers share different perspectives on what really moves hearts and souls, with tales of love enduring, of desire, of longing, of losing... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 1 - The Secret Lives - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 The Secret Lives is a collection of short stories that are all about secrets. The 15 writers provide fascinating views of what may be happening behind closed curtains (or deep in the woods... or inside that mirror that never seems to stay covered..... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88356H Woody Allen / Mere Anarchy (Large Paperback) I am greatly relieved that the universe is finally explainable. I was beginning to think it was me. Thus begins Strung Out , Woody Allen s hilarious application of the laws of the universe to daily life. Mere Anarchy, Woody Allen s first new... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7156H Amitava Kumar / Immigrant, Montana (Large Paperback) One winter morning, a monkey stole into Mamaji's room. He climbed on the huge white bed and finding Mamaji's pistol brandished it - they say - at my cousin, born two months after me and still in her crib. No one moved. Then, turning the pistol... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 78201H Des MacHale / Wit on Target This was the third volume in Des MacHale's best-selling Wit series, the best collection of witty remarks ever published. This volume was previously published as Yet More Wit but under that title it languished; it looked like an also ran, yet it was... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 44014H Mike Gatting / Classic After-Dinner Sports Tales Following on from the hugely successful Best After-Dinner Sports Tales, yet more rousing stories from the after-dinner speaking circuit, from some of the biggest names in sport as well as celebrities from the world of entertainment.The book will... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8474H Peter Hoeg / Tales of the Night (Hardback) Each of these nine stories shows a different fact of love - love of violence, love as redemption, love as suffering, even as wisdom - and each has as a background theme one of the nine classical disciplines: mathematics, dance, law, physics,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: wW7967H Hilary Mantel / The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher (Hardback) A brilliant - and rather transgressive - collection of short stories from the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of 'Wolf Hall' and 'Bring Up the Bodies'.Hilary Mantel is one of Britain's most accomplished and acclaimed writers. In these ten... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80467H Natalie Reilly / What Your Mother Should've Told You From how to taste wine, to apologising like you mean it, this is a light-hearted collection of answers to 21st century dilemmas, with advice on modern manners, solutions for old fashioned conundrums and everything in between - it's Debretts for... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 25652H Caitlin Moran / How to be Famous The Sunday Times bestselling Richard & Judy Book Club favourite'Being Moran, the jokes and one-liners fizz and crackle off the page' Richard's Review'As usual, Moran writes fearlessly, openly, honestly and incredibly funnily about sex -... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11005H Raymond Carver / Beginners What We Talk About When We Talk About Love is Carver's most famous collection of short stories and remians one of the most influential pieces of modern literature to date. But the original, unedited manuscript, Beginners - published here for the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5757H Frankie Boyle / Scotland's Jesus (Large Paperback) Reading Scotland's Jesus should be like being called into the living room by your child shouting that they see a little red dot on the head of a TV newscaster, then riding the white hot bullet through the propaganda circuitry of his or her... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 13114E Christopher Buckley / Wry Martinis Christopher Buckley, author of 'Thank You for Smoking', is the man who persuaded America's ABC News that Russia was auctioning off Lenin's corpse. This book offers a selection of the best of Buckley's recent writing... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X82044H Des MacHale / Ultimate Wit (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86491H Jonathan Rice / Keeping Up Appearances (Hardback) Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced "bouquet", of course), star of BBC1's "Keeping Up Appearances", imparts her personal views on protecting one's social standing. There are sections on etiquette in the home, entertaining, social obligations, how to... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4455H John Scally / The Good, the Glad and the Funny (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3746 Wiliam Sansom - South - Vintage PB 1952 ( Originally 1948) A first Penguin paperback edition, 1952 , of William Sansom's collection of short stories inspirted by , and set in Corsica, Italy and Southern France. Previous owners name and date ( in roman numerals) to the front endpaper. Crack to spine. In... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97024H,wW4148H Maria Leach / I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation (Hardback) I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation is a celebration of the virtuoso of well-turned phrases and the master of the studied insult - Oscar Wilde. Indeed, so perfect were Wilde's verbal thrusts that his victims were often flattered to have... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79827H Dermot Bolger / Ladies' Night at Finbar's Hotel Each story stands alone but also makes up the vivid picture of life in Dublin's newly refurbished Finbar's Hotel . . . funny and poignant' Sunday Mirror'Finbar's Hotel is back, this time with a stellar cast of women writers and a lick of paint . . ... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79825H Mary K. Doyle / Hans Christian Andersen : Illuminated by the Message When Mary K. Doyle was a child, she was entranced with the stories her mother read from Andersen's Fairy Tales. "Make-believe came to life," she writes in her introduction, "with characters I could see and hear. Their problems were real to me... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79812H Mary Morrissy / A Lazy Eye All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 67465H Martha Batalha / The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao 'Zesty' Daily Mail'A real gem of a book' StylistA wickedly funny tale of two rebellious sisters in 1940s Rio de JaneiroEuridice is bright and ambitious. But this is Brazil in the 1940s, and society expects her to be a loving wife and mother. While... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 71596H Jonathan Swift / Directions to Servants This is Jonathan Swift's great neglected cod-tract addressed to the servant classes, from butler down to laundress, instructing them in the arts of cheating their masters, and confirms them in the time-honoured superstitions and prejudices of... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79906H Elizabeth LaBan / The Tragedy Paper Every year at an exclusive private boarding school in New York state, the graduating students uphold an old tradition - they must swear an oath of secrecy and leave behind a "treasure" for each incoming senior.When Duncan Meade inherits the room... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79905H Suzanne Schlosberg / 1001 Nights Without Sex: The Curse of the Single Girl Suzanne Schlosberg calls it 'the Streak': 1001 days without sex. She's going through the mother of all dry spells...a Sahara devoid of intimacy, committed relationships and even one-night stands. The question is why? Is she too picky, too bitchy,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 74781H Reginald Hill / Asking for the Moon 'Hill is an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift' Frances Fyfield, Mail on SundayIf you've already met Dalziel and Pascoe, you're in for a treat. If you haven't yet had the pleasure, you're in for a... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW6686H Dad Says Jokes / Dad Jokes : The very best of @DadSaysJokes (Hardback) From the most-followed dad jokes page on Instagram, @dadsaysjokes, comes a collection of hilariously cheesy jokes that will leave your friends and family laughing and groaning in equal measure.This is the perfect gift for dads who want to expand... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: MED3121 Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 2 - Because That's Where Your Heart Is - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 Because That's Where Your Heart Is is a collection of short stories that are all about passion! The 16 selected writers share different perspectives on what really moves hearts and souls, with tales of love enduring, of desire, of longing, of losing... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 1 - The Secret Lives - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 The Secret Lives is a collection of short stories that are all about secrets. The 15 writers provide fascinating views of what may be happening behind closed curtains (or deep in the woods... or inside that mirror that never seems to stay covered..... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88356H Woody Allen / Mere Anarchy (Large Paperback) I am greatly relieved that the universe is finally explainable. I was beginning to think it was me. Thus begins Strung Out , Woody Allen s hilarious application of the laws of the universe to daily life. Mere Anarchy, Woody Allen s first new... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7156H Amitava Kumar / Immigrant, Montana (Large Paperback) One winter morning, a monkey stole into Mamaji's room. He climbed on the huge white bed and finding Mamaji's pistol brandished it - they say - at my cousin, born two months after me and still in her crib. No one moved. Then, turning the pistol... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 78201H Des MacHale / Wit on Target This was the third volume in Des MacHale's best-selling Wit series, the best collection of witty remarks ever published. This volume was previously published as Yet More Wit but under that title it languished; it looked like an also ran, yet it was... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 44014H Mike Gatting / Classic After-Dinner Sports Tales Following on from the hugely successful Best After-Dinner Sports Tales, yet more rousing stories from the after-dinner speaking circuit, from some of the biggest names in sport as well as celebrities from the world of entertainment.The book will... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8474H Peter Hoeg / Tales of the Night (Hardback) Each of these nine stories shows a different fact of love - love of violence, love as redemption, love as suffering, even as wisdom - and each has as a background theme one of the nine classical disciplines: mathematics, dance, law, physics,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 80467H Natalie Reilly / What Your Mother Should've Told You From how to taste wine, to apologising like you mean it, this is a light-hearted collection of answers to 21st century dilemmas, with advice on modern manners, solutions for old fashioned conundrums and everything in between - it's Debretts for... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 25652H Caitlin Moran / How to be Famous The Sunday Times bestselling Richard & Judy Book Club favourite'Being Moran, the jokes and one-liners fizz and crackle off the page' Richard's Review'As usual, Moran writes fearlessly, openly, honestly and incredibly funnily about sex -... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11005H Raymond Carver / Beginners What We Talk About When We Talk About Love is Carver's most famous collection of short stories and remians one of the most influential pieces of modern literature to date. But the original, unedited manuscript, Beginners - published here for the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5757H Frankie Boyle / Scotland's Jesus (Large Paperback) Reading Scotland's Jesus should be like being called into the living room by your child shouting that they see a little red dot on the head of a TV newscaster, then riding the white hot bullet through the propaganda circuitry of his or her... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 13114E Christopher Buckley / Wry Martinis Christopher Buckley, author of 'Thank You for Smoking', is the man who persuaded America's ABC News that Russia was auctioning off Lenin's corpse. This book offers a selection of the best of Buckley's recent writing... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X82044H Des MacHale / Ultimate Wit (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86491H Jonathan Rice / Keeping Up Appearances (Hardback) Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced "bouquet", of course), star of BBC1's "Keeping Up Appearances", imparts her personal views on protecting one's social standing. There are sections on etiquette in the home, entertaining, social obligations, how to... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4455H John Scally / The Good, the Glad and the Funny (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3746 Wiliam Sansom - South - Vintage PB 1952 ( Originally 1948) A first Penguin paperback edition, 1952 , of William Sansom's collection of short stories inspirted by , and set in Corsica, Italy and Southern France. Previous owners name and date ( in roman numerals) to the front endpaper. Crack to spine. In... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97024H,wW4148H Maria Leach / I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation (Hardback) I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation is a celebration of the virtuoso of well-turned phrases and the master of the studied insult - Oscar Wilde. Indeed, so perfect were Wilde's verbal thrusts that his victims were often flattered to have... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79827H Dermot Bolger / Ladies' Night at Finbar's Hotel Each story stands alone but also makes up the vivid picture of life in Dublin's newly refurbished Finbar's Hotel . . . funny and poignant' Sunday Mirror'Finbar's Hotel is back, this time with a stellar cast of women writers and a lick of paint . . ... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79825H Mary K. Doyle / Hans Christian Andersen : Illuminated by the Message When Mary K. Doyle was a child, she was entranced with the stories her mother read from Andersen's Fairy Tales. "Make-believe came to life," she writes in her introduction, "with characters I could see and hear. Their problems were real to me... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79812H Mary Morrissy / A Lazy Eye All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 67465H Martha Batalha / The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao 'Zesty' Daily Mail'A real gem of a book' StylistA wickedly funny tale of two rebellious sisters in 1940s Rio de JaneiroEuridice is bright and ambitious. But this is Brazil in the 1940s, and society expects her to be a loving wife and mother. While... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 71596H Jonathan Swift / Directions to Servants This is Jonathan Swift's great neglected cod-tract addressed to the servant classes, from butler down to laundress, instructing them in the arts of cheating their masters, and confirms them in the time-honoured superstitions and prejudices of... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79906H Elizabeth LaBan / The Tragedy Paper Every year at an exclusive private boarding school in New York state, the graduating students uphold an old tradition - they must swear an oath of secrecy and leave behind a "treasure" for each incoming senior.When Duncan Meade inherits the room... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79905H Suzanne Schlosberg / 1001 Nights Without Sex: The Curse of the Single Girl Suzanne Schlosberg calls it 'the Streak': 1001 days without sex. She's going through the mother of all dry spells...a Sahara devoid of intimacy, committed relationships and even one-night stands. The question is why? Is she too picky, too bitchy,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 74781H Reginald Hill / Asking for the Moon 'Hill is an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift' Frances Fyfield, Mail on SundayIf you've already met Dalziel and Pascoe, you're in for a treat. If you haven't yet had the pleasure, you're in for a... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW6686H Dad Says Jokes / Dad Jokes : The very best of @DadSaysJokes (Hardback) From the most-followed dad jokes page on Instagram, @dadsaysjokes, comes a collection of hilariously cheesy jokes that will leave your friends and family laughing and groaning in equal measure.This is the perfect gift for dads who want to expand... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: MED3121 Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 2 - Because That's Where Your Heart Is - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 Because That's Where Your Heart Is is a collection of short stories that are all about passion! The 16 selected writers share different perspectives on what really moves hearts and souls, with tales of love enduring, of desire, of longing, of losing... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 1 - The Secret Lives - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 The Secret Lives is a collection of short stories that are all about secrets. The 15 writers provide fascinating views of what may be happening behind closed curtains (or deep in the woods... or inside that mirror that never seems to stay covered..... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88356H Woody Allen / Mere Anarchy (Large Paperback) I am greatly relieved that the universe is finally explainable. I was beginning to think it was me. Thus begins Strung Out , Woody Allen s hilarious application of the laws of the universe to daily life. Mere Anarchy, Woody Allen s first new... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7156H Amitava Kumar / Immigrant, Montana (Large Paperback) One winter morning, a monkey stole into Mamaji's room. He climbed on the huge white bed and finding Mamaji's pistol brandished it - they say - at my cousin, born two months after me and still in her crib. No one moved. Then, turning the pistol... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 78201H Des MacHale / Wit on Target This was the third volume in Des MacHale's best-selling Wit series, the best collection of witty remarks ever published. This volume was previously published as Yet More Wit but under that title it languished; it looked like an also ran, yet it was... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 44014H Mike Gatting / Classic After-Dinner Sports Tales Following on from the hugely successful Best After-Dinner Sports Tales, yet more rousing stories from the after-dinner speaking circuit, from some of the biggest names in sport as well as celebrities from the world of entertainment.The book will... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8474H Peter Hoeg / Tales of the Night (Hardback) Each of these nine stories shows a different fact of love - love of violence, love as redemption, love as suffering, even as wisdom - and each has as a background theme one of the nine classical disciplines: mathematics, dance, law, physics,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
SALE Quick view sku: 25652H Caitlin Moran / How to be Famous The Sunday Times bestselling Richard & Judy Book Club favourite'Being Moran, the jokes and one-liners fizz and crackle off the page' Richard's Review'As usual, Moran writes fearlessly, openly, honestly and incredibly funnily about sex -... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart
Quick view sku: rR11005H Raymond Carver / Beginners What We Talk About When We Talk About Love is Carver's most famous collection of short stories and remians one of the most influential pieces of modern literature to date. But the original, unedited manuscript, Beginners - published here for the... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW5757H Frankie Boyle / Scotland's Jesus (Large Paperback) Reading Scotland's Jesus should be like being called into the living room by your child shouting that they see a little red dot on the head of a TV newscaster, then riding the white hot bullet through the propaganda circuitry of his or her... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 13114E Christopher Buckley / Wry Martinis Christopher Buckley, author of 'Thank You for Smoking', is the man who persuaded America's ABC News that Russia was auctioning off Lenin's corpse. This book offers a selection of the best of Buckley's recent writing... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X82044H Des MacHale / Ultimate Wit (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86491H Jonathan Rice / Keeping Up Appearances (Hardback) Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced "bouquet", of course), star of BBC1's "Keeping Up Appearances", imparts her personal views on protecting one's social standing. There are sections on etiquette in the home, entertaining, social obligations, how to... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4455H John Scally / The Good, the Glad and the Funny (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3746 Wiliam Sansom - South - Vintage PB 1952 ( Originally 1948) A first Penguin paperback edition, 1952 , of William Sansom's collection of short stories inspirted by , and set in Corsica, Italy and Southern France. Previous owners name and date ( in roman numerals) to the front endpaper. Crack to spine. In... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97024H,wW4148H Maria Leach / I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation (Hardback) I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation is a celebration of the virtuoso of well-turned phrases and the master of the studied insult - Oscar Wilde. Indeed, so perfect were Wilde's verbal thrusts that his victims were often flattered to have... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79827H Dermot Bolger / Ladies' Night at Finbar's Hotel Each story stands alone but also makes up the vivid picture of life in Dublin's newly refurbished Finbar's Hotel . . . funny and poignant' Sunday Mirror'Finbar's Hotel is back, this time with a stellar cast of women writers and a lick of paint . . ... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79825H Mary K. Doyle / Hans Christian Andersen : Illuminated by the Message When Mary K. Doyle was a child, she was entranced with the stories her mother read from Andersen's Fairy Tales. "Make-believe came to life," she writes in her introduction, "with characters I could see and hear. Their problems were real to me... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79812H Mary Morrissy / A Lazy Eye All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 67465H Martha Batalha / The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao 'Zesty' Daily Mail'A real gem of a book' StylistA wickedly funny tale of two rebellious sisters in 1940s Rio de JaneiroEuridice is bright and ambitious. But this is Brazil in the 1940s, and society expects her to be a loving wife and mother. While... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 71596H Jonathan Swift / Directions to Servants This is Jonathan Swift's great neglected cod-tract addressed to the servant classes, from butler down to laundress, instructing them in the arts of cheating their masters, and confirms them in the time-honoured superstitions and prejudices of... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79906H Elizabeth LaBan / The Tragedy Paper Every year at an exclusive private boarding school in New York state, the graduating students uphold an old tradition - they must swear an oath of secrecy and leave behind a "treasure" for each incoming senior.When Duncan Meade inherits the room... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79905H Suzanne Schlosberg / 1001 Nights Without Sex: The Curse of the Single Girl Suzanne Schlosberg calls it 'the Streak': 1001 days without sex. She's going through the mother of all dry spells...a Sahara devoid of intimacy, committed relationships and even one-night stands. The question is why? Is she too picky, too bitchy,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 74781H Reginald Hill / Asking for the Moon 'Hill is an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift' Frances Fyfield, Mail on SundayIf you've already met Dalziel and Pascoe, you're in for a treat. If you haven't yet had the pleasure, you're in for a... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW6686H Dad Says Jokes / Dad Jokes : The very best of @DadSaysJokes (Hardback) From the most-followed dad jokes page on Instagram, @dadsaysjokes, comes a collection of hilariously cheesy jokes that will leave your friends and family laughing and groaning in equal measure.This is the perfect gift for dads who want to expand... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: MED3121 Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 2 - Because That's Where Your Heart Is - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 Because That's Where Your Heart Is is a collection of short stories that are all about passion! The 16 selected writers share different perspectives on what really moves hearts and souls, with tales of love enduring, of desire, of longing, of losing... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 1 - The Secret Lives - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 The Secret Lives is a collection of short stories that are all about secrets. The 15 writers provide fascinating views of what may be happening behind closed curtains (or deep in the woods... or inside that mirror that never seems to stay covered..... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88356H Woody Allen / Mere Anarchy (Large Paperback) I am greatly relieved that the universe is finally explainable. I was beginning to think it was me. Thus begins Strung Out , Woody Allen s hilarious application of the laws of the universe to daily life. Mere Anarchy, Woody Allen s first new... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7156H Amitava Kumar / Immigrant, Montana (Large Paperback) One winter morning, a monkey stole into Mamaji's room. He climbed on the huge white bed and finding Mamaji's pistol brandished it - they say - at my cousin, born two months after me and still in her crib. No one moved. Then, turning the pistol... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 78201H Des MacHale / Wit on Target This was the third volume in Des MacHale's best-selling Wit series, the best collection of witty remarks ever published. This volume was previously published as Yet More Wit but under that title it languished; it looked like an also ran, yet it was... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 44014H Mike Gatting / Classic After-Dinner Sports Tales Following on from the hugely successful Best After-Dinner Sports Tales, yet more rousing stories from the after-dinner speaking circuit, from some of the biggest names in sport as well as celebrities from the world of entertainment.The book will... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8474H Peter Hoeg / Tales of the Night (Hardback) Each of these nine stories shows a different fact of love - love of violence, love as redemption, love as suffering, even as wisdom - and each has as a background theme one of the nine classical disciplines: mathematics, dance, law, physics,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: wW5757H Frankie Boyle / Scotland's Jesus (Large Paperback) Reading Scotland's Jesus should be like being called into the living room by your child shouting that they see a little red dot on the head of a TV newscaster, then riding the white hot bullet through the propaganda circuitry of his or her... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 13114E Christopher Buckley / Wry Martinis Christopher Buckley, author of 'Thank You for Smoking', is the man who persuaded America's ABC News that Russia was auctioning off Lenin's corpse. This book offers a selection of the best of Buckley's recent writing... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X82044H Des MacHale / Ultimate Wit (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86491H Jonathan Rice / Keeping Up Appearances (Hardback) Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced "bouquet", of course), star of BBC1's "Keeping Up Appearances", imparts her personal views on protecting one's social standing. There are sections on etiquette in the home, entertaining, social obligations, how to... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4455H John Scally / The Good, the Glad and the Funny (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3746 Wiliam Sansom - South - Vintage PB 1952 ( Originally 1948) A first Penguin paperback edition, 1952 , of William Sansom's collection of short stories inspirted by , and set in Corsica, Italy and Southern France. Previous owners name and date ( in roman numerals) to the front endpaper. Crack to spine. In... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97024H,wW4148H Maria Leach / I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation (Hardback) I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation is a celebration of the virtuoso of well-turned phrases and the master of the studied insult - Oscar Wilde. Indeed, so perfect were Wilde's verbal thrusts that his victims were often flattered to have... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79827H Dermot Bolger / Ladies' Night at Finbar's Hotel Each story stands alone but also makes up the vivid picture of life in Dublin's newly refurbished Finbar's Hotel . . . funny and poignant' Sunday Mirror'Finbar's Hotel is back, this time with a stellar cast of women writers and a lick of paint . . ... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79825H Mary K. Doyle / Hans Christian Andersen : Illuminated by the Message When Mary K. Doyle was a child, she was entranced with the stories her mother read from Andersen's Fairy Tales. "Make-believe came to life," she writes in her introduction, "with characters I could see and hear. Their problems were real to me... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79812H Mary Morrissy / A Lazy Eye All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 67465H Martha Batalha / The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao 'Zesty' Daily Mail'A real gem of a book' StylistA wickedly funny tale of two rebellious sisters in 1940s Rio de JaneiroEuridice is bright and ambitious. But this is Brazil in the 1940s, and society expects her to be a loving wife and mother. While... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 71596H Jonathan Swift / Directions to Servants This is Jonathan Swift's great neglected cod-tract addressed to the servant classes, from butler down to laundress, instructing them in the arts of cheating their masters, and confirms them in the time-honoured superstitions and prejudices of... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79906H Elizabeth LaBan / The Tragedy Paper Every year at an exclusive private boarding school in New York state, the graduating students uphold an old tradition - they must swear an oath of secrecy and leave behind a "treasure" for each incoming senior.When Duncan Meade inherits the room... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79905H Suzanne Schlosberg / 1001 Nights Without Sex: The Curse of the Single Girl Suzanne Schlosberg calls it 'the Streak': 1001 days without sex. She's going through the mother of all dry spells...a Sahara devoid of intimacy, committed relationships and even one-night stands. The question is why? Is she too picky, too bitchy,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 74781H Reginald Hill / Asking for the Moon 'Hill is an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift' Frances Fyfield, Mail on SundayIf you've already met Dalziel and Pascoe, you're in for a treat. If you haven't yet had the pleasure, you're in for a... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW6686H Dad Says Jokes / Dad Jokes : The very best of @DadSaysJokes (Hardback) From the most-followed dad jokes page on Instagram, @dadsaysjokes, comes a collection of hilariously cheesy jokes that will leave your friends and family laughing and groaning in equal measure.This is the perfect gift for dads who want to expand... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: MED3121 Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 2 - Because That's Where Your Heart Is - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 Because That's Where Your Heart Is is a collection of short stories that are all about passion! The 16 selected writers share different perspectives on what really moves hearts and souls, with tales of love enduring, of desire, of longing, of losing... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 1 - The Secret Lives - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 The Secret Lives is a collection of short stories that are all about secrets. The 15 writers provide fascinating views of what may be happening behind closed curtains (or deep in the woods... or inside that mirror that never seems to stay covered..... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88356H Woody Allen / Mere Anarchy (Large Paperback) I am greatly relieved that the universe is finally explainable. I was beginning to think it was me. Thus begins Strung Out , Woody Allen s hilarious application of the laws of the universe to daily life. Mere Anarchy, Woody Allen s first new... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7156H Amitava Kumar / Immigrant, Montana (Large Paperback) One winter morning, a monkey stole into Mamaji's room. He climbed on the huge white bed and finding Mamaji's pistol brandished it - they say - at my cousin, born two months after me and still in her crib. No one moved. Then, turning the pistol... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 78201H Des MacHale / Wit on Target This was the third volume in Des MacHale's best-selling Wit series, the best collection of witty remarks ever published. This volume was previously published as Yet More Wit but under that title it languished; it looked like an also ran, yet it was... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 44014H Mike Gatting / Classic After-Dinner Sports Tales Following on from the hugely successful Best After-Dinner Sports Tales, yet more rousing stories from the after-dinner speaking circuit, from some of the biggest names in sport as well as celebrities from the world of entertainment.The book will... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8474H Peter Hoeg / Tales of the Night (Hardback) Each of these nine stories shows a different fact of love - love of violence, love as redemption, love as suffering, even as wisdom - and each has as a background theme one of the nine classical disciplines: mathematics, dance, law, physics,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
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Quick view sku: X82044H Des MacHale / Ultimate Wit (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86491H Jonathan Rice / Keeping Up Appearances (Hardback) Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced "bouquet", of course), star of BBC1's "Keeping Up Appearances", imparts her personal views on protecting one's social standing. There are sections on etiquette in the home, entertaining, social obligations, how to... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4455H John Scally / The Good, the Glad and the Funny (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3746 Wiliam Sansom - South - Vintage PB 1952 ( Originally 1948) A first Penguin paperback edition, 1952 , of William Sansom's collection of short stories inspirted by , and set in Corsica, Italy and Southern France. Previous owners name and date ( in roman numerals) to the front endpaper. Crack to spine. In... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97024H,wW4148H Maria Leach / I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation (Hardback) I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation is a celebration of the virtuoso of well-turned phrases and the master of the studied insult - Oscar Wilde. Indeed, so perfect were Wilde's verbal thrusts that his victims were often flattered to have... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79827H Dermot Bolger / Ladies' Night at Finbar's Hotel Each story stands alone but also makes up the vivid picture of life in Dublin's newly refurbished Finbar's Hotel . . . funny and poignant' Sunday Mirror'Finbar's Hotel is back, this time with a stellar cast of women writers and a lick of paint . . ... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79825H Mary K. Doyle / Hans Christian Andersen : Illuminated by the Message When Mary K. Doyle was a child, she was entranced with the stories her mother read from Andersen's Fairy Tales. "Make-believe came to life," she writes in her introduction, "with characters I could see and hear. Their problems were real to me... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79812H Mary Morrissy / A Lazy Eye All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 67465H Martha Batalha / The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao 'Zesty' Daily Mail'A real gem of a book' StylistA wickedly funny tale of two rebellious sisters in 1940s Rio de JaneiroEuridice is bright and ambitious. But this is Brazil in the 1940s, and society expects her to be a loving wife and mother. While... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 71596H Jonathan Swift / Directions to Servants This is Jonathan Swift's great neglected cod-tract addressed to the servant classes, from butler down to laundress, instructing them in the arts of cheating their masters, and confirms them in the time-honoured superstitions and prejudices of... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79906H Elizabeth LaBan / The Tragedy Paper Every year at an exclusive private boarding school in New York state, the graduating students uphold an old tradition - they must swear an oath of secrecy and leave behind a "treasure" for each incoming senior.When Duncan Meade inherits the room... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79905H Suzanne Schlosberg / 1001 Nights Without Sex: The Curse of the Single Girl Suzanne Schlosberg calls it 'the Streak': 1001 days without sex. She's going through the mother of all dry spells...a Sahara devoid of intimacy, committed relationships and even one-night stands. The question is why? Is she too picky, too bitchy,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 74781H Reginald Hill / Asking for the Moon 'Hill is an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift' Frances Fyfield, Mail on SundayIf you've already met Dalziel and Pascoe, you're in for a treat. If you haven't yet had the pleasure, you're in for a... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW6686H Dad Says Jokes / Dad Jokes : The very best of @DadSaysJokes (Hardback) From the most-followed dad jokes page on Instagram, @dadsaysjokes, comes a collection of hilariously cheesy jokes that will leave your friends and family laughing and groaning in equal measure.This is the perfect gift for dads who want to expand... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: MED3121 Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 2 - Because That's Where Your Heart Is - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 Because That's Where Your Heart Is is a collection of short stories that are all about passion! The 16 selected writers share different perspectives on what really moves hearts and souls, with tales of love enduring, of desire, of longing, of losing... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 1 - The Secret Lives - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 The Secret Lives is a collection of short stories that are all about secrets. The 15 writers provide fascinating views of what may be happening behind closed curtains (or deep in the woods... or inside that mirror that never seems to stay covered..... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88356H Woody Allen / Mere Anarchy (Large Paperback) I am greatly relieved that the universe is finally explainable. I was beginning to think it was me. Thus begins Strung Out , Woody Allen s hilarious application of the laws of the universe to daily life. Mere Anarchy, Woody Allen s first new... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7156H Amitava Kumar / Immigrant, Montana (Large Paperback) One winter morning, a monkey stole into Mamaji's room. He climbed on the huge white bed and finding Mamaji's pistol brandished it - they say - at my cousin, born two months after me and still in her crib. No one moved. Then, turning the pistol... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 78201H Des MacHale / Wit on Target This was the third volume in Des MacHale's best-selling Wit series, the best collection of witty remarks ever published. This volume was previously published as Yet More Wit but under that title it languished; it looked like an also ran, yet it was... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 44014H Mike Gatting / Classic After-Dinner Sports Tales Following on from the hugely successful Best After-Dinner Sports Tales, yet more rousing stories from the after-dinner speaking circuit, from some of the biggest names in sport as well as celebrities from the world of entertainment.The book will... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8474H Peter Hoeg / Tales of the Night (Hardback) Each of these nine stories shows a different fact of love - love of violence, love as redemption, love as suffering, even as wisdom - and each has as a background theme one of the nine classical disciplines: mathematics, dance, law, physics,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X86491H Jonathan Rice / Keeping Up Appearances (Hardback) Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced "bouquet", of course), star of BBC1's "Keeping Up Appearances", imparts her personal views on protecting one's social standing. There are sections on etiquette in the home, entertaining, social obligations, how to... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW4455H John Scally / The Good, the Glad and the Funny (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3746 Wiliam Sansom - South - Vintage PB 1952 ( Originally 1948) A first Penguin paperback edition, 1952 , of William Sansom's collection of short stories inspirted by , and set in Corsica, Italy and Southern France. Previous owners name and date ( in roman numerals) to the front endpaper. Crack to spine. In... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97024H,wW4148H Maria Leach / I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation (Hardback) I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation is a celebration of the virtuoso of well-turned phrases and the master of the studied insult - Oscar Wilde. Indeed, so perfect were Wilde's verbal thrusts that his victims were often flattered to have... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79827H Dermot Bolger / Ladies' Night at Finbar's Hotel Each story stands alone but also makes up the vivid picture of life in Dublin's newly refurbished Finbar's Hotel . . . funny and poignant' Sunday Mirror'Finbar's Hotel is back, this time with a stellar cast of women writers and a lick of paint . . ... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79825H Mary K. Doyle / Hans Christian Andersen : Illuminated by the Message When Mary K. Doyle was a child, she was entranced with the stories her mother read from Andersen's Fairy Tales. "Make-believe came to life," she writes in her introduction, "with characters I could see and hear. Their problems were real to me... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79812H Mary Morrissy / A Lazy Eye All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 67465H Martha Batalha / The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao 'Zesty' Daily Mail'A real gem of a book' StylistA wickedly funny tale of two rebellious sisters in 1940s Rio de JaneiroEuridice is bright and ambitious. But this is Brazil in the 1940s, and society expects her to be a loving wife and mother. While... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 71596H Jonathan Swift / Directions to Servants This is Jonathan Swift's great neglected cod-tract addressed to the servant classes, from butler down to laundress, instructing them in the arts of cheating their masters, and confirms them in the time-honoured superstitions and prejudices of... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79906H Elizabeth LaBan / The Tragedy Paper Every year at an exclusive private boarding school in New York state, the graduating students uphold an old tradition - they must swear an oath of secrecy and leave behind a "treasure" for each incoming senior.When Duncan Meade inherits the room... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79905H Suzanne Schlosberg / 1001 Nights Without Sex: The Curse of the Single Girl Suzanne Schlosberg calls it 'the Streak': 1001 days without sex. She's going through the mother of all dry spells...a Sahara devoid of intimacy, committed relationships and even one-night stands. The question is why? Is she too picky, too bitchy,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 74781H Reginald Hill / Asking for the Moon 'Hill is an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift' Frances Fyfield, Mail on SundayIf you've already met Dalziel and Pascoe, you're in for a treat. If you haven't yet had the pleasure, you're in for a... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW6686H Dad Says Jokes / Dad Jokes : The very best of @DadSaysJokes (Hardback) From the most-followed dad jokes page on Instagram, @dadsaysjokes, comes a collection of hilariously cheesy jokes that will leave your friends and family laughing and groaning in equal measure.This is the perfect gift for dads who want to expand... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: MED3121 Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 2 - Because That's Where Your Heart Is - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 Because That's Where Your Heart Is is a collection of short stories that are all about passion! The 16 selected writers share different perspectives on what really moves hearts and souls, with tales of love enduring, of desire, of longing, of losing... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 1 - The Secret Lives - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 The Secret Lives is a collection of short stories that are all about secrets. The 15 writers provide fascinating views of what may be happening behind closed curtains (or deep in the woods... or inside that mirror that never seems to stay covered..... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88356H Woody Allen / Mere Anarchy (Large Paperback) I am greatly relieved that the universe is finally explainable. I was beginning to think it was me. Thus begins Strung Out , Woody Allen s hilarious application of the laws of the universe to daily life. Mere Anarchy, Woody Allen s first new... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7156H Amitava Kumar / Immigrant, Montana (Large Paperback) One winter morning, a monkey stole into Mamaji's room. He climbed on the huge white bed and finding Mamaji's pistol brandished it - they say - at my cousin, born two months after me and still in her crib. No one moved. Then, turning the pistol... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 78201H Des MacHale / Wit on Target This was the third volume in Des MacHale's best-selling Wit series, the best collection of witty remarks ever published. This volume was previously published as Yet More Wit but under that title it languished; it looked like an also ran, yet it was... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 44014H Mike Gatting / Classic After-Dinner Sports Tales Following on from the hugely successful Best After-Dinner Sports Tales, yet more rousing stories from the after-dinner speaking circuit, from some of the biggest names in sport as well as celebrities from the world of entertainment.The book will... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8474H Peter Hoeg / Tales of the Night (Hardback) Each of these nine stories shows a different fact of love - love of violence, love as redemption, love as suffering, even as wisdom - and each has as a background theme one of the nine classical disciplines: mathematics, dance, law, physics,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: wW4455H John Scally / The Good, the Glad and the Funny (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3746 Wiliam Sansom - South - Vintage PB 1952 ( Originally 1948) A first Penguin paperback edition, 1952 , of William Sansom's collection of short stories inspirted by , and set in Corsica, Italy and Southern France. Previous owners name and date ( in roman numerals) to the front endpaper. Crack to spine. In... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97024H,wW4148H Maria Leach / I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation (Hardback) I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation is a celebration of the virtuoso of well-turned phrases and the master of the studied insult - Oscar Wilde. Indeed, so perfect were Wilde's verbal thrusts that his victims were often flattered to have... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79827H Dermot Bolger / Ladies' Night at Finbar's Hotel Each story stands alone but also makes up the vivid picture of life in Dublin's newly refurbished Finbar's Hotel . . . funny and poignant' Sunday Mirror'Finbar's Hotel is back, this time with a stellar cast of women writers and a lick of paint . . ... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79825H Mary K. Doyle / Hans Christian Andersen : Illuminated by the Message When Mary K. Doyle was a child, she was entranced with the stories her mother read from Andersen's Fairy Tales. "Make-believe came to life," she writes in her introduction, "with characters I could see and hear. Their problems were real to me... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79812H Mary Morrissy / A Lazy Eye All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 67465H Martha Batalha / The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao 'Zesty' Daily Mail'A real gem of a book' StylistA wickedly funny tale of two rebellious sisters in 1940s Rio de JaneiroEuridice is bright and ambitious. But this is Brazil in the 1940s, and society expects her to be a loving wife and mother. While... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 71596H Jonathan Swift / Directions to Servants This is Jonathan Swift's great neglected cod-tract addressed to the servant classes, from butler down to laundress, instructing them in the arts of cheating their masters, and confirms them in the time-honoured superstitions and prejudices of... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79906H Elizabeth LaBan / The Tragedy Paper Every year at an exclusive private boarding school in New York state, the graduating students uphold an old tradition - they must swear an oath of secrecy and leave behind a "treasure" for each incoming senior.When Duncan Meade inherits the room... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79905H Suzanne Schlosberg / 1001 Nights Without Sex: The Curse of the Single Girl Suzanne Schlosberg calls it 'the Streak': 1001 days without sex. She's going through the mother of all dry spells...a Sahara devoid of intimacy, committed relationships and even one-night stands. The question is why? Is she too picky, too bitchy,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 74781H Reginald Hill / Asking for the Moon 'Hill is an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift' Frances Fyfield, Mail on SundayIf you've already met Dalziel and Pascoe, you're in for a treat. If you haven't yet had the pleasure, you're in for a... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW6686H Dad Says Jokes / Dad Jokes : The very best of @DadSaysJokes (Hardback) From the most-followed dad jokes page on Instagram, @dadsaysjokes, comes a collection of hilariously cheesy jokes that will leave your friends and family laughing and groaning in equal measure.This is the perfect gift for dads who want to expand... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: MED3121 Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 2 - Because That's Where Your Heart Is - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 Because That's Where Your Heart Is is a collection of short stories that are all about passion! The 16 selected writers share different perspectives on what really moves hearts and souls, with tales of love enduring, of desire, of longing, of losing... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 1 - The Secret Lives - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 The Secret Lives is a collection of short stories that are all about secrets. The 15 writers provide fascinating views of what may be happening behind closed curtains (or deep in the woods... or inside that mirror that never seems to stay covered..... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88356H Woody Allen / Mere Anarchy (Large Paperback) I am greatly relieved that the universe is finally explainable. I was beginning to think it was me. Thus begins Strung Out , Woody Allen s hilarious application of the laws of the universe to daily life. Mere Anarchy, Woody Allen s first new... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7156H Amitava Kumar / Immigrant, Montana (Large Paperback) One winter morning, a monkey stole into Mamaji's room. He climbed on the huge white bed and finding Mamaji's pistol brandished it - they say - at my cousin, born two months after me and still in her crib. No one moved. Then, turning the pistol... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 78201H Des MacHale / Wit on Target This was the third volume in Des MacHale's best-selling Wit series, the best collection of witty remarks ever published. This volume was previously published as Yet More Wit but under that title it languished; it looked like an also ran, yet it was... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 44014H Mike Gatting / Classic After-Dinner Sports Tales Following on from the hugely successful Best After-Dinner Sports Tales, yet more rousing stories from the after-dinner speaking circuit, from some of the biggest names in sport as well as celebrities from the world of entertainment.The book will... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8474H Peter Hoeg / Tales of the Night (Hardback) Each of these nine stories shows a different fact of love - love of violence, love as redemption, love as suffering, even as wisdom - and each has as a background theme one of the nine classical disciplines: mathematics, dance, law, physics,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: MED3746 Wiliam Sansom - South - Vintage PB 1952 ( Originally 1948) A first Penguin paperback edition, 1952 , of William Sansom's collection of short stories inspirted by , and set in Corsica, Italy and Southern France. Previous owners name and date ( in roman numerals) to the front endpaper. Crack to spine. In... MSRP: Now: £4.47 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97024H,wW4148H Maria Leach / I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation (Hardback) I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation is a celebration of the virtuoso of well-turned phrases and the master of the studied insult - Oscar Wilde. Indeed, so perfect were Wilde's verbal thrusts that his victims were often flattered to have... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79827H Dermot Bolger / Ladies' Night at Finbar's Hotel Each story stands alone but also makes up the vivid picture of life in Dublin's newly refurbished Finbar's Hotel . . . funny and poignant' Sunday Mirror'Finbar's Hotel is back, this time with a stellar cast of women writers and a lick of paint . . ... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79825H Mary K. Doyle / Hans Christian Andersen : Illuminated by the Message When Mary K. Doyle was a child, she was entranced with the stories her mother read from Andersen's Fairy Tales. "Make-believe came to life," she writes in her introduction, "with characters I could see and hear. Their problems were real to me... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79812H Mary Morrissy / A Lazy Eye All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 67465H Martha Batalha / The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao 'Zesty' Daily Mail'A real gem of a book' StylistA wickedly funny tale of two rebellious sisters in 1940s Rio de JaneiroEuridice is bright and ambitious. But this is Brazil in the 1940s, and society expects her to be a loving wife and mother. While... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 71596H Jonathan Swift / Directions to Servants This is Jonathan Swift's great neglected cod-tract addressed to the servant classes, from butler down to laundress, instructing them in the arts of cheating their masters, and confirms them in the time-honoured superstitions and prejudices of... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79906H Elizabeth LaBan / The Tragedy Paper Every year at an exclusive private boarding school in New York state, the graduating students uphold an old tradition - they must swear an oath of secrecy and leave behind a "treasure" for each incoming senior.When Duncan Meade inherits the room... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79905H Suzanne Schlosberg / 1001 Nights Without Sex: The Curse of the Single Girl Suzanne Schlosberg calls it 'the Streak': 1001 days without sex. She's going through the mother of all dry spells...a Sahara devoid of intimacy, committed relationships and even one-night stands. The question is why? Is she too picky, too bitchy,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 74781H Reginald Hill / Asking for the Moon 'Hill is an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift' Frances Fyfield, Mail on SundayIf you've already met Dalziel and Pascoe, you're in for a treat. If you haven't yet had the pleasure, you're in for a... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW6686H Dad Says Jokes / Dad Jokes : The very best of @DadSaysJokes (Hardback) From the most-followed dad jokes page on Instagram, @dadsaysjokes, comes a collection of hilariously cheesy jokes that will leave your friends and family laughing and groaning in equal measure.This is the perfect gift for dads who want to expand... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: MED3121 Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 2 - Because That's Where Your Heart Is - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 Because That's Where Your Heart Is is a collection of short stories that are all about passion! The 16 selected writers share different perspectives on what really moves hearts and souls, with tales of love enduring, of desire, of longing, of losing... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 1 - The Secret Lives - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 The Secret Lives is a collection of short stories that are all about secrets. The 15 writers provide fascinating views of what may be happening behind closed curtains (or deep in the woods... or inside that mirror that never seems to stay covered..... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88356H Woody Allen / Mere Anarchy (Large Paperback) I am greatly relieved that the universe is finally explainable. I was beginning to think it was me. Thus begins Strung Out , Woody Allen s hilarious application of the laws of the universe to daily life. Mere Anarchy, Woody Allen s first new... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7156H Amitava Kumar / Immigrant, Montana (Large Paperback) One winter morning, a monkey stole into Mamaji's room. He climbed on the huge white bed and finding Mamaji's pistol brandished it - they say - at my cousin, born two months after me and still in her crib. No one moved. Then, turning the pistol... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 78201H Des MacHale / Wit on Target This was the third volume in Des MacHale's best-selling Wit series, the best collection of witty remarks ever published. This volume was previously published as Yet More Wit but under that title it languished; it looked like an also ran, yet it was... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 44014H Mike Gatting / Classic After-Dinner Sports Tales Following on from the hugely successful Best After-Dinner Sports Tales, yet more rousing stories from the after-dinner speaking circuit, from some of the biggest names in sport as well as celebrities from the world of entertainment.The book will... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8474H Peter Hoeg / Tales of the Night (Hardback) Each of these nine stories shows a different fact of love - love of violence, love as redemption, love as suffering, even as wisdom - and each has as a background theme one of the nine classical disciplines: mathematics, dance, law, physics,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X97024H,wW4148H Maria Leach / I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation (Hardback) I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation is a celebration of the virtuoso of well-turned phrases and the master of the studied insult - Oscar Wilde. Indeed, so perfect were Wilde's verbal thrusts that his victims were often flattered to have... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79827H Dermot Bolger / Ladies' Night at Finbar's Hotel Each story stands alone but also makes up the vivid picture of life in Dublin's newly refurbished Finbar's Hotel . . . funny and poignant' Sunday Mirror'Finbar's Hotel is back, this time with a stellar cast of women writers and a lick of paint . . ... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79825H Mary K. Doyle / Hans Christian Andersen : Illuminated by the Message When Mary K. Doyle was a child, she was entranced with the stories her mother read from Andersen's Fairy Tales. "Make-believe came to life," she writes in her introduction, "with characters I could see and hear. Their problems were real to me... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79812H Mary Morrissy / A Lazy Eye All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 67465H Martha Batalha / The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao 'Zesty' Daily Mail'A real gem of a book' StylistA wickedly funny tale of two rebellious sisters in 1940s Rio de JaneiroEuridice is bright and ambitious. But this is Brazil in the 1940s, and society expects her to be a loving wife and mother. While... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 71596H Jonathan Swift / Directions to Servants This is Jonathan Swift's great neglected cod-tract addressed to the servant classes, from butler down to laundress, instructing them in the arts of cheating their masters, and confirms them in the time-honoured superstitions and prejudices of... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79906H Elizabeth LaBan / The Tragedy Paper Every year at an exclusive private boarding school in New York state, the graduating students uphold an old tradition - they must swear an oath of secrecy and leave behind a "treasure" for each incoming senior.When Duncan Meade inherits the room... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79905H Suzanne Schlosberg / 1001 Nights Without Sex: The Curse of the Single Girl Suzanne Schlosberg calls it 'the Streak': 1001 days without sex. She's going through the mother of all dry spells...a Sahara devoid of intimacy, committed relationships and even one-night stands. The question is why? Is she too picky, too bitchy,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 74781H Reginald Hill / Asking for the Moon 'Hill is an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift' Frances Fyfield, Mail on SundayIf you've already met Dalziel and Pascoe, you're in for a treat. If you haven't yet had the pleasure, you're in for a... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW6686H Dad Says Jokes / Dad Jokes : The very best of @DadSaysJokes (Hardback) From the most-followed dad jokes page on Instagram, @dadsaysjokes, comes a collection of hilariously cheesy jokes that will leave your friends and family laughing and groaning in equal measure.This is the perfect gift for dads who want to expand... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: MED3121 Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 2 - Because That's Where Your Heart Is - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 Because That's Where Your Heart Is is a collection of short stories that are all about passion! The 16 selected writers share different perspectives on what really moves hearts and souls, with tales of love enduring, of desire, of longing, of losing... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 1 - The Secret Lives - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 The Secret Lives is a collection of short stories that are all about secrets. The 15 writers provide fascinating views of what may be happening behind closed curtains (or deep in the woods... or inside that mirror that never seems to stay covered..... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88356H Woody Allen / Mere Anarchy (Large Paperback) I am greatly relieved that the universe is finally explainable. I was beginning to think it was me. Thus begins Strung Out , Woody Allen s hilarious application of the laws of the universe to daily life. Mere Anarchy, Woody Allen s first new... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7156H Amitava Kumar / Immigrant, Montana (Large Paperback) One winter morning, a monkey stole into Mamaji's room. He climbed on the huge white bed and finding Mamaji's pistol brandished it - they say - at my cousin, born two months after me and still in her crib. No one moved. Then, turning the pistol... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 78201H Des MacHale / Wit on Target This was the third volume in Des MacHale's best-selling Wit series, the best collection of witty remarks ever published. This volume was previously published as Yet More Wit but under that title it languished; it looked like an also ran, yet it was... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 44014H Mike Gatting / Classic After-Dinner Sports Tales Following on from the hugely successful Best After-Dinner Sports Tales, yet more rousing stories from the after-dinner speaking circuit, from some of the biggest names in sport as well as celebrities from the world of entertainment.The book will... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8474H Peter Hoeg / Tales of the Night (Hardback) Each of these nine stories shows a different fact of love - love of violence, love as redemption, love as suffering, even as wisdom - and each has as a background theme one of the nine classical disciplines: mathematics, dance, law, physics,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 79827H Dermot Bolger / Ladies' Night at Finbar's Hotel Each story stands alone but also makes up the vivid picture of life in Dublin's newly refurbished Finbar's Hotel . . . funny and poignant' Sunday Mirror'Finbar's Hotel is back, this time with a stellar cast of women writers and a lick of paint . . ... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79825H Mary K. Doyle / Hans Christian Andersen : Illuminated by the Message When Mary K. Doyle was a child, she was entranced with the stories her mother read from Andersen's Fairy Tales. "Make-believe came to life," she writes in her introduction, "with characters I could see and hear. Their problems were real to me... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79812H Mary Morrissy / A Lazy Eye All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 67465H Martha Batalha / The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao 'Zesty' Daily Mail'A real gem of a book' StylistA wickedly funny tale of two rebellious sisters in 1940s Rio de JaneiroEuridice is bright and ambitious. But this is Brazil in the 1940s, and society expects her to be a loving wife and mother. While... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 71596H Jonathan Swift / Directions to Servants This is Jonathan Swift's great neglected cod-tract addressed to the servant classes, from butler down to laundress, instructing them in the arts of cheating their masters, and confirms them in the time-honoured superstitions and prejudices of... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79906H Elizabeth LaBan / The Tragedy Paper Every year at an exclusive private boarding school in New York state, the graduating students uphold an old tradition - they must swear an oath of secrecy and leave behind a "treasure" for each incoming senior.When Duncan Meade inherits the room... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79905H Suzanne Schlosberg / 1001 Nights Without Sex: The Curse of the Single Girl Suzanne Schlosberg calls it 'the Streak': 1001 days without sex. She's going through the mother of all dry spells...a Sahara devoid of intimacy, committed relationships and even one-night stands. The question is why? Is she too picky, too bitchy,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 74781H Reginald Hill / Asking for the Moon 'Hill is an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift' Frances Fyfield, Mail on SundayIf you've already met Dalziel and Pascoe, you're in for a treat. If you haven't yet had the pleasure, you're in for a... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW6686H Dad Says Jokes / Dad Jokes : The very best of @DadSaysJokes (Hardback) From the most-followed dad jokes page on Instagram, @dadsaysjokes, comes a collection of hilariously cheesy jokes that will leave your friends and family laughing and groaning in equal measure.This is the perfect gift for dads who want to expand... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: MED3121 Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 2 - Because That's Where Your Heart Is - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 Because That's Where Your Heart Is is a collection of short stories that are all about passion! The 16 selected writers share different perspectives on what really moves hearts and souls, with tales of love enduring, of desire, of longing, of losing... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 1 - The Secret Lives - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 The Secret Lives is a collection of short stories that are all about secrets. The 15 writers provide fascinating views of what may be happening behind closed curtains (or deep in the woods... or inside that mirror that never seems to stay covered..... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88356H Woody Allen / Mere Anarchy (Large Paperback) I am greatly relieved that the universe is finally explainable. I was beginning to think it was me. Thus begins Strung Out , Woody Allen s hilarious application of the laws of the universe to daily life. Mere Anarchy, Woody Allen s first new... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7156H Amitava Kumar / Immigrant, Montana (Large Paperback) One winter morning, a monkey stole into Mamaji's room. He climbed on the huge white bed and finding Mamaji's pistol brandished it - they say - at my cousin, born two months after me and still in her crib. No one moved. Then, turning the pistol... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 78201H Des MacHale / Wit on Target This was the third volume in Des MacHale's best-selling Wit series, the best collection of witty remarks ever published. This volume was previously published as Yet More Wit but under that title it languished; it looked like an also ran, yet it was... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 44014H Mike Gatting / Classic After-Dinner Sports Tales Following on from the hugely successful Best After-Dinner Sports Tales, yet more rousing stories from the after-dinner speaking circuit, from some of the biggest names in sport as well as celebrities from the world of entertainment.The book will... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8474H Peter Hoeg / Tales of the Night (Hardback) Each of these nine stories shows a different fact of love - love of violence, love as redemption, love as suffering, even as wisdom - and each has as a background theme one of the nine classical disciplines: mathematics, dance, law, physics,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 79825H Mary K. Doyle / Hans Christian Andersen : Illuminated by the Message When Mary K. Doyle was a child, she was entranced with the stories her mother read from Andersen's Fairy Tales. "Make-believe came to life," she writes in her introduction, "with characters I could see and hear. Their problems were real to me... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79812H Mary Morrissy / A Lazy Eye All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 67465H Martha Batalha / The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao 'Zesty' Daily Mail'A real gem of a book' StylistA wickedly funny tale of two rebellious sisters in 1940s Rio de JaneiroEuridice is bright and ambitious. But this is Brazil in the 1940s, and society expects her to be a loving wife and mother. While... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 71596H Jonathan Swift / Directions to Servants This is Jonathan Swift's great neglected cod-tract addressed to the servant classes, from butler down to laundress, instructing them in the arts of cheating their masters, and confirms them in the time-honoured superstitions and prejudices of... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79906H Elizabeth LaBan / The Tragedy Paper Every year at an exclusive private boarding school in New York state, the graduating students uphold an old tradition - they must swear an oath of secrecy and leave behind a "treasure" for each incoming senior.When Duncan Meade inherits the room... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79905H Suzanne Schlosberg / 1001 Nights Without Sex: The Curse of the Single Girl Suzanne Schlosberg calls it 'the Streak': 1001 days without sex. She's going through the mother of all dry spells...a Sahara devoid of intimacy, committed relationships and even one-night stands. The question is why? Is she too picky, too bitchy,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 74781H Reginald Hill / Asking for the Moon 'Hill is an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift' Frances Fyfield, Mail on SundayIf you've already met Dalziel and Pascoe, you're in for a treat. If you haven't yet had the pleasure, you're in for a... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW6686H Dad Says Jokes / Dad Jokes : The very best of @DadSaysJokes (Hardback) From the most-followed dad jokes page on Instagram, @dadsaysjokes, comes a collection of hilariously cheesy jokes that will leave your friends and family laughing and groaning in equal measure.This is the perfect gift for dads who want to expand... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: MED3121 Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 2 - Because That's Where Your Heart Is - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 Because That's Where Your Heart Is is a collection of short stories that are all about passion! The 16 selected writers share different perspectives on what really moves hearts and souls, with tales of love enduring, of desire, of longing, of losing... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 1 - The Secret Lives - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 The Secret Lives is a collection of short stories that are all about secrets. The 15 writers provide fascinating views of what may be happening behind closed curtains (or deep in the woods... or inside that mirror that never seems to stay covered..... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88356H Woody Allen / Mere Anarchy (Large Paperback) I am greatly relieved that the universe is finally explainable. I was beginning to think it was me. Thus begins Strung Out , Woody Allen s hilarious application of the laws of the universe to daily life. Mere Anarchy, Woody Allen s first new... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7156H Amitava Kumar / Immigrant, Montana (Large Paperback) One winter morning, a monkey stole into Mamaji's room. He climbed on the huge white bed and finding Mamaji's pistol brandished it - they say - at my cousin, born two months after me and still in her crib. No one moved. Then, turning the pistol... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 78201H Des MacHale / Wit on Target This was the third volume in Des MacHale's best-selling Wit series, the best collection of witty remarks ever published. This volume was previously published as Yet More Wit but under that title it languished; it looked like an also ran, yet it was... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 44014H Mike Gatting / Classic After-Dinner Sports Tales Following on from the hugely successful Best After-Dinner Sports Tales, yet more rousing stories from the after-dinner speaking circuit, from some of the biggest names in sport as well as celebrities from the world of entertainment.The book will... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8474H Peter Hoeg / Tales of the Night (Hardback) Each of these nine stories shows a different fact of love - love of violence, love as redemption, love as suffering, even as wisdom - and each has as a background theme one of the nine classical disciplines: mathematics, dance, law, physics,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 79812H Mary Morrissy / A Lazy Eye All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 67465H Martha Batalha / The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao 'Zesty' Daily Mail'A real gem of a book' StylistA wickedly funny tale of two rebellious sisters in 1940s Rio de JaneiroEuridice is bright and ambitious. But this is Brazil in the 1940s, and society expects her to be a loving wife and mother. While... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 71596H Jonathan Swift / Directions to Servants This is Jonathan Swift's great neglected cod-tract addressed to the servant classes, from butler down to laundress, instructing them in the arts of cheating their masters, and confirms them in the time-honoured superstitions and prejudices of... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79906H Elizabeth LaBan / The Tragedy Paper Every year at an exclusive private boarding school in New York state, the graduating students uphold an old tradition - they must swear an oath of secrecy and leave behind a "treasure" for each incoming senior.When Duncan Meade inherits the room... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 79905H Suzanne Schlosberg / 1001 Nights Without Sex: The Curse of the Single Girl Suzanne Schlosberg calls it 'the Streak': 1001 days without sex. She's going through the mother of all dry spells...a Sahara devoid of intimacy, committed relationships and even one-night stands. The question is why? Is she too picky, too bitchy,... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 74781H Reginald Hill / Asking for the Moon 'Hill is an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift' Frances Fyfield, Mail on SundayIf you've already met Dalziel and Pascoe, you're in for a treat. If you haven't yet had the pleasure, you're in for a... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW6686H Dad Says Jokes / Dad Jokes : The very best of @DadSaysJokes (Hardback) From the most-followed dad jokes page on Instagram, @dadsaysjokes, comes a collection of hilariously cheesy jokes that will leave your friends and family laughing and groaning in equal measure.This is the perfect gift for dads who want to expand... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: MED3121 Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 2 - Because That's Where Your Heart Is - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 Because That's Where Your Heart Is is a collection of short stories that are all about passion! The 16 selected writers share different perspectives on what really moves hearts and souls, with tales of love enduring, of desire, of longing, of losing... MSRP: Now: £6.26 Add to Cart Quick view Paula Dias Garcia & Sam Agar ( Editors) SANS Press Anthology 1 - The Secret Lives - Short Story Anthology - PB - BRAND NEW - 2021 The Secret Lives is a collection of short stories that are all about secrets. The 15 writers provide fascinating views of what may be happening behind closed curtains (or deep in the woods... or inside that mirror that never seems to stay covered..... MSRP: Now: £8.04 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88356H Woody Allen / Mere Anarchy (Large Paperback) I am greatly relieved that the universe is finally explainable. I was beginning to think it was me. Thus begins Strung Out , Woody Allen s hilarious application of the laws of the universe to daily life. Mere Anarchy, Woody Allen s first new... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW7156H Amitava Kumar / Immigrant, Montana (Large Paperback) One winter morning, a monkey stole into Mamaji's room. He climbed on the huge white bed and finding Mamaji's pistol brandished it - they say - at my cousin, born two months after me and still in her crib. No one moved. Then, turning the pistol... MSRP: Now: £3.13 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 78201H Des MacHale / Wit on Target This was the third volume in Des MacHale's best-selling Wit series, the best collection of witty remarks ever published. This volume was previously published as Yet More Wit but under that title it languished; it looked like an also ran, yet it was... MSRP: Now: £2.23 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 44014H Mike Gatting / Classic After-Dinner Sports Tales Following on from the hugely successful Best After-Dinner Sports Tales, yet more rousing stories from the after-dinner speaking circuit, from some of the biggest names in sport as well as celebrities from the world of entertainment.The book will... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8474H Peter Hoeg / Tales of the Night (Hardback) Each of these nine stories shows a different fact of love - love of violence, love as redemption, love as suffering, even as wisdom - and each has as a background theme one of the nine classical disciplines: mathematics, dance, law, physics,... MSRP: Now: £4.02 Add to Cart Quick view
SALE Quick view sku: 67465H Martha Batalha / The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao 'Zesty' Daily Mail'A real gem of a book' StylistA wickedly funny tale of two rebellious sisters in 1940s Rio de JaneiroEuridice is bright and ambitious. But this is Brazil in the 1940s, and society expects her to be a loving wife and mother. While... MSRP: £2.23 Was: £2.23 Now: £0.89 Add to Cart
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