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When it comes to death, is there ever a best case scenario? In this disarmingly witty book, Julian Barnes confronts our unending obsession with the end. He reflects on what it means to miss God, whether death can be good for our careers and why we eventua
VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS. How do we choose between what is fair and just, and what our debtors demand of us? Yanis Varoufakis was put in such a dilemma in 2015 when he became the finance minister of Greece. In this rousing book,
We are here to remember what happened and to declare solemnly that ''they'' must never do it again. But who are ''they''? HOW TO SPOT A FASCIST is a selection of three thought-provoking essays on freedom and fascism, censorship and tolerance - including E
Selected from the books Sapiens and Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari How did money come to be invented? Why does it now have such significance in our lives? Does it make us happier or unhappier? And what does the future hold for it? With brilliant clari
THE COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED TEXT 'Most generally there is something about everything that you can be glad about, if you keep hunting long enough to find it' When her father dies, Pollyanna is sent to live with her stern Aunt Polly. She is poor, orph
Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short form WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JEANETTE WINTERSONWhat conditions are necessary for the creation of works of art? Security, confidence, independence, a degree of prosperity a room of ones own. All things den
Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short form WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NATALIE HAYNESWhen this book was first published in 1949 it was to outrage and scandal. Never before had the case for female liberty been so forcefully and successfully argued.
On 11 September 2001, in a café in London, Ahmed Errachidi watched as the twin towers collapsed. He was appalled by the loss of innocent life. But he couldnt possibly have predicted how much of his own life he too would lose because of that day.In a serie
**THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER** Set over three explosive days, this is compulsive, heart-pounding storytelling that will keep you on the edge of your seat. He thought she was safe. Then the past came knocking. Seventeen years ago, Inspector Ewert Grens w
OVER TEN MILLION COPIES SOLD The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a murder mystery novel like no other. The detective, and narrator, is Christopher Boone. Christopher is fifteen and has Asperger''s Syndrome. He knows a very great deal abo
A young man accompanies his cousin to the hospital to check an unusual hearing complaint and recalls a story of a woman put to sleep by tiny flies crawling inside her ear; a mirror appears out of nowhere and a nightwatchman is unnerved as his reflection t
''Lots of things are mysteries. But that doesn''t mean there isn''t an answer to them''This is Christopher''s murder mystery story. There are also no lies in this story because Christopher can''t tell lies. Christopher does not like strangers or the colou
Its a million times nicer to be Anne of Green Gables than Anne of nowhere in particular, isnt it? My dislikes: Being an orphan, having red hair, being called carrots by Gilbert Blythe.My likes: Living at the Green Gables with Marilla and Matthew, my boso
''Shoot all the Bluejays you want, if you can hit ''em, but remember it''s a sin to kill a Mockingbird.'' Atticus Finch gives this advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of this classic novel - a black man charged with attacking a whi
THE AUTHORATITIVE TEXT "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen." The year is 1984. War and revolution have left the world unrecognisable. Great Britain, now known as Airstrip One, is ruled by the Party, led by Big Brothe
In this brilliantly perceptive novel, a middle aged professor living in California is alienated from his students by differences in age and nationality, and from the rest of society by his homosexuality. Isherwood explores the depths of the human soul and
In an idyllic American village, elderly romantic Lemuel Sears still has it in him to fall wildly in love with strangers of both sexes. But Sears''s paradise is under threat; the pond he loves is being fouled by unscrupulous polluters involved in organised
Published for the first time in the UK, one of Japan''s greatest modern female writers Ibuki loves widow Yasuko who is young, charming and sparkling with intelligence as well as beauty. His friend, Mikamé, desires her too but that is not the difficulty.
Rediscover the ultimate comfort read in the classic story of friendship, loyalty and secrets set in the deep south of America in the 1930s. The day Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison opened the Whistle Stop Cafe, the town took a turn for the better. It wa
A FUTURISTIC COVER - COMES WITH 3D GLASSES!Welcome to Vermilion Sands, the fully automated desert-resort ready to fulfil your most exotic whims. Home to the idle rich it now languishes in uneasy decay, populated only by forgotten movie queens, solitary im
It is the mid-1800s. At Sweet Home in Kentuckhy, an era is ending as slavery comes under attack from the abolitionists. The worlds of Halle and Paul D. are to be destroyed in a cataclysm of torment and agony. The world of Sethe, however, is to turn from o
The book that won Ernest Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature ''It''s silly not to hope. It''s a sin he thought'' Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway''s magnificent fable is the tale of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. T
''One of the best novels about a young woman that Ive ever read'' Greta Gerwig When sixteen-year-old Portia is orphaned, she is plunged into the sophisticated and politely treacherous world of her wealthy half-brother''s home. There she encounters the att
For years Kazu has run her fashionable restaurant with a combination of charm and shrewdness - then she falls in love. The man is one of her clients, an aristocratic retired politician, and she renounces her business in order to become his wife. But it is
'The No.1 Greatest Crime Writer' The Times 'Ripley, amoral, hedonistic and charming, is a genuinely original creation' Daily Telegraph Tom Ripley is struggling to stay one step ahead of his creditors and the law, when an unexpected acquaintance offers h
Tokyo, 1912. The closed world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders - rich provincial families, a new and powerful elite. Kiyoaki has been raised among the elegant Ayakura family members of the waning aristocracy b
An intimate reflection on Japanese art and architecture from one of the country''s greatest novelists. This is an enchanting essay on aesthetics by one of the greatest Japanese novelists. Tanizaki''s eye ranges over architecture, jade, food, toilets, and
The Buckmaster Gallery is staging another Derwatt exhibition, but now an American collector claims that the expensive masterpiece he bought three years ago is a fake. It is, of course, and he wants to talk to Derwatt, but Derwatt, inconveniently, is dead.
Tom Ripley detested murder. Unless it was absolutely necessary. Wherever possible, he preferred someone else to do the dirty work. In this case someone with no criminal record, who would commit ''two simple murders'' for a very generous fee.
Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of this spiritual odyssey involves him with some of Maugham''s most brillant characters - his fiancee Isabel, whose choice between love and wealth have lifelong repercussions, and E
Edmund has escaped from his family into a lonely life. Returning for his mother''s funeral he finds himself involved in the old, awful problems, together with some new ones. One by one his relatives reveal their secrets to a reluctant Edmund: illicit affa
''A gorgeous novel'' Mail on Sunday From the bestselling author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel comes a thrilling story of power, lust and deception... Seventeenth-century Amsterdam - a city in the grip of tulip fever. Sophia''s husband Cornelis is o
In a remote fishing village in Japan, two very different young people fall in love. Shinji is a hard-working fisherman, Hatsue is the beautiful daughter of the wealthiest man in the village. She is also a diver for pearls and seaweed with the other women
Discover this magnificent magical novel from the Booker-prize winning author of Midnight''s Children. When a young European traveller arrives at Sikri, the court of Mughal Emperor Akbar, the tale he spins brings the whole imperial capital to the brink o
Victor Mancini has devised a complicated scam to pay for his mother''s hospital care: pretend to be choking on a piece of food in a restaurant and the person who ''saves you'' will feel responsible for you for the rest of their lives. Multiply that a coup
A masterwork by the incomparable, genre-defying, wondrous Italo Calvino. You go into a bookshop and buy If on a Winter''s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino. You like it. But there is a printer''s error in your copy. You take it back to the shop and ge
''A book of excruciating sobriety and warmth and a magical concreteness of observation... I know of no book which conveys more about that complex fate, being a European at the end of European civilization'' Susan Sontag At first The Emigrants appears s
In his 1932 classic dystopian novel, Brave New World , Aldous Huxley depicted a future society in thrall to science and regulated by sophisticated methods of social control. Nearly thirty years later in Brave New World Revisited , Huxley checked the pro
This is Hemingway''s East African safari journal. ''All I wanted to do was get back to Africa'' Green Hills of Africa is Ernest Hemingway''s lyrical journal of a month on safari in the great game country of East Africa, where he and his wife Pauline jour
A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYNestled along the Adriatic coastline, the kingdom of Averna has suddenly - and suspiciously - become the hottest property in Europe, and Albert Campion is given the task of recovering the long-missing proofs of ownership. His missi
This postbellum Greek tragedy is the perfect introduction to Faulkners elaborate descriptive syntax. Quentin Compson and Shreve, his Harvard roommate, are obsessed with the tragic rise and fall of Thomas Sutpen. As a poor white boy, Sutpen was turned awa
Aldous Huxleys 1932 dystopian classic Brave New World predicts with eerie clarity a terrifying vision of the future, which feels ever closer to our own reality. ''The best science fiction book ever, definitely the most prescient Yuval Noah Harari, a
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY GILES FODENQuerry, a world famous architect, is the victim of a terrible attack of indifference: he no longer finds meaning in art or pleasure in life. Arriving anonymously at a Congo leper village, he is diagnosed as the mental eq
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MONICA ALIThe love affair between Maurice Bendrix and Sarah, flourishing in the turbulent times of the London Blitz, ends when she suddenly and without explanation breaks it off. After a chance meeting rekindles his love and jealou
When she was still a child, Lucy Nelson had her irresponsible, alcoholic father thrown in jail. Since then, Lucy has become a furious adolescent - raging against middle-class life and provincial American piety - intent on reforming the men around her: esp
Sethe is now miles away from Sweet Home, the farm where she was kept as a slave. Unable to forget the unspeakable horrors that took place there, she is haunted by the violent spectre of her dead child, the daughter who died nameless and whose tombstone is
Three of Elizabeth Gaskells best-loved novels Cranford , Mr Harrison''s Confessions, and My Lady Ludlow are combined in this witty and poignant look at the market town of Cranford. The railway is pushing its way relentlessly towards the village fro
**FEATURING THE STORY THAT INSPIRED NEW FILM THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF LONGING** A S Byatt''s fairy tales and fables are among the best-loved features of her fiction. Innumerable readers have asked for the two marvellous fairy tales in POSSESSION - ''The G
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction As every schoolboy knows, you can fit the whole of England on the Isle of Wight. Grotesque, visionary tycoon Sir Jack Pitman takes the saying literally and does exactly that. He constructs on the island ''
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY ANDREY KURKOVA rich, successful Moscow professor befriends a stray dog and attempts a scientific first by transplanting into it the testicles and pituitary gland of a recently deceased man. A distinctly worryingly human animal i
''Probably more people have shed tears over the last page of A Town Like Alice than about any other novel in the English language... remarkable'' Guardian Jean Paget is just twenty years old and working in Malaya when the Japanese invasion begins.When
Etsuko is a trapped woman who lays traps for others... After the early death of her philandering husband, Etsuko moves into her father-in-law''s house, where she numbly submits to the old man''s advances. Meanwhile she develops feelings for the handsome
These seven stories were the last that Carver wrote. Among them is one of his longest, ''Errand'', in which he imagines the death of Chekhov, a writer Carver hugely admired and to whose work his own was often compared. This fine story suggests that the gr
In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit. A year later, he''d completed a solo course from Athens to Marathon, and now, after dozens of such races, not to mention triathlons and a slew of criticall
By far the shortest of Pynchon''s great, dazzling novels - and one of the best. Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humour, The Crying of Lot 49 opens as Oedipa Maas discovers that she has been made executrix of a f
Spolit, feckless Temple Drake, the daughter of a judge, runs away from school with an unsuitable man. Abandoned by him with a gang of moonshiners, Temple falls into the clutches of the psychotic Popeye, one of the most grotesque characters of Faulkner''s
Things: A Story of the Sixties is the story of a young couple who want to enjoy life, but the only way they know how to do so is through ownership of ''things''. Perec''s first novel won the Prix Renaudot and became the cult book for a generation.In A M
Read the cult classic behind the major new film s tarring Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon and Josh Brolin. Part noir, part psychedelic romp, all Thomas Pynchon - private eye Doc Sportello comes, occasionally, out of a marijuana haze to watch the end of
**HARRY HOLE IS SOON TO BE A MAJOR NETFLIX TV SERIES**''A cracking good thriller...that will keep you gripped to the last page'' Guardian In the depths of winter a killer stalks the city streets. Two women are found drowned in their own blood. A third wo
'Serrailler, Hill's brilliant detective, is the central character in the great writer's crime fiction novels' CAMILLA, DUCHESS OF CORNWALL How do you catch a killer who doesn't exist? One snowy night in the cathedral city of Lafferton, an old woman is dr
**NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX FILM STARRING TOM HOLLAND AND ROBERT PATTINSON** ''S ome people were born just so they could be buried'' In Knockemstiff, Ohio, war veteran Willard can''t save his beautiful wife, Charlotte, from a slow death by cancer no matter how
** The inspiration for the NETFLIX original series Young Wallander - out now ** When Kurt Wallander first appeared in Faceless Killers , he was a senior police officer, just turned forty, with his life in a mess. His wife had left him, his father barel
No food, no water, no government, no obligation, no order. Discover a chillingly powerful and prescient dystopian vision from one of Europe''s greatest writers. A driver waiting at the traffic lights goes blind. An ophthalmologist tries to diagnose his
''Serrailler, Hill''s brilliant detective, is the central character in the great writer''s crime fiction novels'' CAMILLA, DUCHESS OF CORNWALL Simon Serrailler faces his most dangerous challenge yet in the edge-of-your-seat thriller from Susan Hill, the b
The novel that set the stage for his modern classic, The Satanic Verses , Shame is Salman Rushdie''s unforgettable epic. Omar Khayyam Shakil had three mothers who shared everything. They shared the symptoms of pregnancy; they shared the son that they
*The Sunday Times Bestseller* It is 1969 and James Bond is about to go solo, recklessly motivated by revenge. A seasoned veteran of the service, 007 is sent to single-handedly stop a civil war in the small West African nation of Zanzarim. Aided by
WITH A FOREWORD BY PATRICK HEMINGWAY AND AN INTRODUCTION BY SEAN HEMINGWAYIn 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his experience came A Farewell to Arms . Hemingways unf
'Beautifully designed... Perfect collectable gift for Austen fans and design devotees' So Darling Elinor is as prudent as her sister Marianne is impetuous. Each must learn from the other after they are they are forced by their father's death to
*PRE-ORDER HARUKI MURAKAMIS NEW NOVEL, THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS , NOW* Hear the Wind Sing is Murakami''s first novel, available for the first time in English outside Japan. In Hear the Wind Sing the narrator is home from college on his summer
A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY Finding himself the victim of a botched kidnapping attempt, Val Gyrth suspects that he might be in a spot of trouble. Unexpected news to him but not to the mysterious Mr Campion, who reveals that the ancient Chalice entrusted to
A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYJohn Lafcadios ambition to be known as the greatest painter since Rembrandt was not to be thwarted by a matter as trifling as his own death. A set of twelve sealed paintings is the bequest he leaves to his widow together with the
SOON TO BE A MAJOR BBC SERIES STARRING JACOB ELORDI AND CIARAN HINDS ***WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014** * Forever after, there were for them only two sorts of men: the men who were on the Line, and the rest of humanity, who were not. In the despair
The gripping adventure that invented the mystery of Shangri-La . Flying out of India
''This book is a deep, sensual plunge, a worship of the body, inside and out'' The Times In a quiet English suburb, a love affair ignites. For our nameless narrator, Louise is the last in a long line of explosive passions, but the first to have broken th
A brilliant novel courageous, necessary and deeply touching Guardian Édouard Louis grew up in a village in northern France where many live below the poverty line. His bestselling debut novel about life there, The End of Eddy , has sparked debate on soci
Jazz blazes with an intensity more usually found in tragic poetry of the past.... Morrison''s voice transcends colour and creed and she has become one of America''s outstanding post-war writers Guardian Joe Trace in his fifties, door-to-door salesman
Discover the explosive first novel from the author of The Slap Ari is nineteen, Greek, gay, unemployed, looking for something - anything - to take him away from his aimless existence in suburban Melbourne. Torn between the traditional Greek world of his
Read the searing first novel from the celebrated author of Beloved , which immerses us in the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family in post-Depression 1940s Ohio. Unlovely and unloved, Pecola prays each night for blue eyes like those of her privile
''Hypnotic, pitiless and told brilliantly'' Bret Easton Ellis Every weekend, in basements and parking lots across America, young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other. Then they go back to
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE Philip Roths masterpiece provides a piercing look into the promises of prosperity, civic order and domesticity in twentieth century America Swede Levov is living the American dream. He glides through life cocooned by his devo
WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY ANGELICA GARNETT AND JO SHAPCOTTIn Night and Day , Virginia Woolf portrays her elder sister Vanessa in the person of Katharine Hilbery - the gifted daughter of a distinguished literary family, trapped in an environment which will no
------------------------------- On 8 July 1998 Festina team soigneur Willy Voet was stopped by the police. In his car were the drugs the team needed if they were to have any chance of playing a competitive part in the 1998 Tour de France. The car was s
''An unremitting powerhouse of a novel that marks the arrival of a major new talent. Trainspotting is a loosely knotted string of jagged, dislocated tales that lay bare the hearts of darkness of the junkies, wide-boys and psychos who ride in the down esc
FROM THE WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATUREKatharina Blum is pretty, bright, hard-working and at the centre of a big city scandal when she falls in love with a young radical on the run from the police. Portrayed by the city''s leading newspaper as a
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**AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4**An interpreter has come to The Hague to escape New York and work at the International Court. A woman of many languages and identities, she is looking for a place to finally call home. She''s drawn into simmering personal dramas.
''This is a story about what might happen when a woman takes charge... A glorious visceral mystery'' The Times While on her daily walk with her dog in the woods near her home, Vesta comes across a chilling handwritten note. Her name was Magda. Nobody wi
Freedom comes in many forms ''OUTRAGEOUS, SMART, FUN'' Bonnie Garmus FERAL, UNHOLY... NIGHTBITCH IS AN INCREDIBLE FEAT Carmen Maria Machado''BRILLIANT'' Stylist One day, the mother was
For the sake of women everywhere, Ms Shibata is going to pull off the mother of all deceptions... ''Incredibly thought-provoking... you''ll love Yagi''s writing'' STYLIST Ms Shibata refuses to clear away the coffee at work one day, because she''s pregnan
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**NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING HARRY STYLES** This love is all-consuming It is in 1950s'' Brighton that Marion first catches sight of the handsome and enigmatic Tom. He teaches her to swim in the shadow of the pier and Marion is smitten - determined her lov
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**WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024****THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** ''A slim, profound study of intimate human fears set against epic vistas'' GUARDIAN ''Stunning... An uplifting book'' SUNDAY TIMES Life on our planet as you''ve never seen it before A
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**LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2026****Winner of the National Book Award for Translated Literature**A sumptuous and surreal historical reimagining of one of South Americas best-known trans men, Antonio de Erauso'Playful and devastating, t
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This summer, discover Ocean Vuongs bighearted and vibrant story of unexpected friendship, chosen family and embracing second chances. HEARTBREAKING GuardianBEAUTIFUL Oprah WinfreyDRAMATIC AND VIVID Colm TóibínOne late summer evening in the town of East
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE ADVERSARYOne morning, a man shaves off his long-worn moustache, hoping to amuse his wife and friends. But when nobody notices, or pretends not to have noticed, what started out as a simple trick turns to terror. As doubt
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R is recovering from death. He''s learning how to read, how to speak, maybe even how to love. He can almost imagine a future with Julie, this girl who restarted his heart - building a new world from the ashes of the old one.And then helicopters appear on
**HARRY HOLE IS SOON TO BE A MAJOR NETFLIX TV SERIES**''Chilling, spectacular stuff'' Mark Billingham After the first snowfall of the year, a young boy wakes up and discovers that his mother has disappeared. Only one trace of her remains: a pink scarf now
''Razor-sharp Zadie Smith An electrifying, prizewinning short story collection from the Booker-shortlisted author of Eileen and My Year of Rest and Relaxation. Theres something eerily unsettling about Ottessa Moshfeghs stories, something almost danger
In 1929 young bride Mehar struggles with her familys expectations whilst seventy years later her great-grandson discovers what her story can teach him about his own path. ''A gorgeous, gripping read'' Kamila Shamsie ''A multi-generational masterpiece'' D
''A stunning novel'' Daily Mirror SuspensefuloriginalI couldnt put it down Stephen King Two brothers. Bound by blood and a lifetime of secrets. I heard him before I saw him. Carl was back. I suspected the reason for this sudden and unannounced homeco
A FAMILY DIVIDED. A SECRET THAT COULD KILL. Denise Mina is proving to be one of the finest crime writers of her generation Daily Express Maureen ODonnell is facing the darkest episode in her life. The psychologist who murdered her boyfriend is up for tr
''Toni Morrison was the lodestar who inspired us'' Bernadine Evaristo Twyla and Roberta have known each other since they were eight years old, when they were thrown together as roommates in a girls'' shelter. Inseparable then, they lose touch as they grow
Haruki Murakami's third novel, A Wild Sheep Chase is the mystery hybrid which completes the odyssey begun in Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973 . The man was leading an aimless life, time passing, one big blank. His girlfriend has perfectly formed
Rediscover one of Virginia Woolf''s greatest works in this beautiful new gift edition from Vintage Classics. ''My mind was warped into a new shape by her prose and it will never be the same again'' Greta Gerwig Mr and Mrs Ramsay and their eight children h
''Sheer magic'' Eileen Atkins, Daily Mail Discover one of the most famous and ground-breaking pieces of twentieth century literature about one day in the mind of woman as she prepares to give a party. In this vivid portrait of one day in a woman''s life
''Brilliant interweaving of personal experience, imaginative musing and political clarity'' Kate Mosse Virginia Woolf exposes the prejudices and constraints against which women writers struggled for centuries, and argues for a more equal literary
''I can think of no finer writer to have beside me while Italy explodes, Britain burns, while the world ends'' Salman Rushdie From the age of twelve, the Baron Cosimo Piovasco di Rondo makes his home among ash, elm, magnolia, plum and almond, living up in
Flush was an English cocker spaniel who belonged to the nineteenth-century poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Virginia Woolf learned of him from the love letters Elizabeth wrote to her future husband, fellow poet Robert Browning, and found ‘the figur
Follow a dark and powerful journey up the Congo River in Conrads sharp and incisive exploration of the damages of imperialism. Life on the river is brutal, and unknown threats lurk in the darkness; the silence of the jungle is broken only by the ominous
Stunningly-designed new editions of Toni Morrison's best-known novels, published by Vintage Classics in celebration of her life and work. WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY BOOKER PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR MARLON JAMES Soon after a local eccentric leaps from a rooftop
Player Piano is the debut novel from one of history''s most innovative authors, published on Vonnegut''s 100th birthday. In Player Piano , the first of Vonnegut''s wildly funny and deadly serious novels, automata have dramatically reduced the need for A
"You''re always good on ideas, Tom..." An American art collector is claiming that the expensive masterpiece he bought is a fake. He wants to meet with the artist - but Tom Ripley knows that artist no longer exits.Ripley needs to hide his role in the fraud
''Extraordinary... one of her finest novels'' Guardian "If everybody in the world didn''t keep watching to see what everybody else did, we''d all go berserk." Jenny believes that sighting an owl is a portent of death. When she spots a stranger looking in
When Andrée joins her school, Sylvie is immediately fascinated. Andrée is small for her age but walks with the confidence of an adult. The girls become close. They talk for hours about equality, justice, war and religion; they lose respect for their teach
Sugar is young, confident and hoping to start over. ''Poignant and bittersweet, this novel is a joy'' Richard & Judy When she arrives in the southern town of Bigelow, it isnt long before the neighbourhood is alight with gossip and suspicion. Sugar fears
* READ THE NOVEL THAT INSPIRED THE FILM PRECIOUS * This 25th Anniversary Edition includes a new preface from Tayari Jones, and a new afterword by the author. This is the story of Precious Jones, a sixteen year old illiterate black girl who has never be
''When I''d slept enough, I''d be okay. I''d be renewed, reborn.'' This is the story of a woman with no name. Young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, she lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like everything else,
Like most people I lived for a long time with my mother and father. My father liked to watch the wrestling, my mother liked to wrestle. This is the story of Jeanette, born to be one of God''s elect: adopted by a fanatical Pentecostal family and ablaze wit
''Look for your sister after each dive. Never forget. If you see her, you are safe.'' This is the story of Hana and her little sister Emi, who are part of an island community of haenyo, women who make their living from free diving off the southernmost tip
Life Before Man is a tragicomic tale of love seeking to find its way in the wake of death from the bestselling author of The Handmaids Tale and The Testaments Elizabeth has just lost her latest lover to suicide while Nate, her husband, is working up t
From the author of The Stolen Bicycle - longlisted for the International Man Booker Prize On the island of Wayo Wayo, every second son must leave on the day he turns fifteen as a sacrifice to the Sea God. Atile’i however is determined to defy de
Four Chinese women, four America daughters - can they learn to understand each other? In 1949 a group of Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, meet weekly to play mahjong and tell stories of what they left behind in China. United in loss and
This is a volcanic journey into the soul of a winged red monster named Geryon. It is queer coming-of-age love story, a Greek myth retold, and a modern classic. Tormented as a boy by his brother, Geryon escapes to a parallel world of photography. He falls
SISTERHOOD. SECRETS. SURVIVAL. Discover the haunting, heart-breaking post-apocalyptic TikTok sensation. Deep underground, thirty-nine women are kept in isolation in a cage. Above ground, a world awaits. Has it been abandoned? Devastated by a virus?Wat
Read the searing first novel from the celebrated author of Beloved , which immerses us in the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family in post-Depression 1940s Ohio. Unloved, unseen, Pecola prays each night for blue eyes. In this way she dreams of beco
''Extravagantly beautiful... Enormously, achingly alive... A howl of love and rage, playful and funny as well as hard and bitter'' New York Times As young girls, Nel and Sula shared each other''s secrets and dreams in the poor black mid-West of their chi
Lured South by tales of buried treasure, Milkman embarks on an odyssey back home. As a boy, Milkman was raised beneath the shadow of a status-obsessed father. As a man, he trails in the fiery wake of a friend bent on racial revenge. Now comes Milkmans cha
The most famous anti-war novel ever written. In 1914 a room full of German schoolboys, fresh-faced and idealistic, are goaded by their schoolmaster to troop off to the 'glorious war'. With the fire and patriotism of youth they sign up. What follows is the
Read Kurt Vonnegut''s powerful masterpiece, which is as timely now as when it was first published. Billy Pilgrim hapless barber''s assistant, successful optometrist, alien abductee, senile widower and soldier has become unstuck in time. Hiding in the ba
Here is twentieth-century woman in close-up, coping with the tragedies and upheavals of women''s lives from the First World War to Greenham Common and beyond. This is the edited diary of an individual woman, born in 1901, and a story of the twentieth cent
*Winner of the Heinrich Heine Prize for Literature*A hundred and fifty years of conflict. What does that do to a persons soul, to the spirit of a nation? To both the occupied and the occupier?International Booker Prize-winning Israeli novelist David Gross
A man is cast by an unfamiliar God into a vast, incomprehensible Hell - a labyrinth library of books containing the stories of every life ever lived. His only way out is to find the single book that tells his own story. But along the seemingly infinite
In early eighteenth-century Lisbon, Baltasar, a soldier who has lost his left hand in battle, falls in love with Blimunda, a young girl with visionary powers. From the day that he follows her home from the auto-da-fe where women are burned at the stake,
Twenty years after the end of the Second World War, an Italian general is despatched to Albania to recover his country''s dead. Once there he meets a German general who is engaged upon an identical mission, and their conversations brings out into the open
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2013** Ten-year-old Darling has a ch
Rivalry, unruly desire and ugly secrets poison a family holiday in this gripping novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Free Love and Late in the Day. ''Few writers give me such consistent pleasure'' Zadie Smith Four siblings meet up in th
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''What''s the world for you if you can''t make it up the way you want it?'' Joe Trace - in his fifties, door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, erstwhile devoted husband - shoots dead his lover of three months, the impetuous, eighteen-year-old
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HOWARD JACOBSONExplosive, subversive, wild and funny, 50 years on the novel''s strength is undiminished. Reading Joseph Heller''s classic satire is nothing less than a rite of passage.Set in the closing months of World War II in an
Recycling is good, isnt it? In this visionary book, chemist Michael Braungart and architect William McDonough challenge this status quo and put forward a manifesto for an intriguing and radically different philosophy of environmentalism. "Reduce, reuse,
''I loved this book for its depth and perception, for its beauty and eerie rhythms, but most of all for its wonderfully dream-like spell. It''s breathtaking'' Brandon Taylor A student moves to the city to research Gothic nudes, renting an apartment from a
**LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2024** ''Comrade Stalin wishes to speak with you.'' A fascinating exploration of the relationship between writers and tyranny, from the winner of the first Man Booker International Prize. In June 1934, Josep
A landmark in American fiction, Light in August explores Faulkner's central theme: the nature of evil. Joe Christmas - a man doomed, deracinated and alone - wanders the Deep South in search of an identity, and a place in society. After killing his perve
Half-brothers Michel and Bruno have a mother in common but little else. Michel is a molecular biologist, a thinker and idealist, a man with no erotic life to speak of and little in the way of human society. Bruno, by contrast, is a libertine, though more
Fifty-five fictional cities, each described in beautiful detail - each with a woman''s name... In Invisible Cities Marco Polo conjures up cities of magical times for his host, the Chinese ruler Kublai Khan, but gradually it becomes clear that he is act
Roy Strang is engaged in a strange quest in a surrealist South Africa. His mission is to eradicate an evil predator-scavenger bird, the marabou stork, before it drives away the peace-loving flamingo from the picturesque Lake Torto. But behind this world l
Discover this profound account of Huxley''s famous experimentation with mescalin that has influenced writers and artists for decades....
Rediscover the extraordinary love story that inspired the major new Sky TV series. Clare and Henry met when Clare was just six and Henry thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-two and Henry thirty. Impossible but true. The Time Traveler''s Wi
Read the seminal bestselling novel that changed the face of British fiction and inspired Danny Boyle's film. **PRE-ORDER IRVINE WELSH’S NEXT NOVEL CAN NOTHING SAVE US? NOW** 'The best book ever written by man or woman... Deserves to sell more
Kafka on the Shore follows the fortunes of two remarkable characters. Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father''s dark prophesy. The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affli
As a girl, Clara del Valle can read fortunes, make objects move as if they had lives of their own, and predict the future. Following the mysterious death of her sister, Rosa the Beautiful, Clara is mute for nine years. When she breaks her silence, it is t
Explosive, subversive, wild and funny, 50 years on the novel''s strength is undiminished. Reading Joseph Heller''s classic satire is nothing less than a rite of passage.Set in the closing months of World War II, this is the story of a bombardier named Yo
Artist Jed Martin emerges from a ten-year hiatus with good news. It has nothing to do with his broken boiler, the approach of another lamentably awkward Christmas dinner with his father or the memory of his doomed love affair with the beautiful Olga. It i
** THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER ** Discover the dystopian novel that started a phenomenon. Offred is a Handmaid in The Republic of Gilead. She is placed in the household of The Commander, Fred Waterford her assigned name, Offred, means of Fred. Sh
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Vineland, a zone of blessed anarchy in northern California, is the last refuge of hippiedom, a culture devastated by the sobriety epidemic, Reaganomics, and the Tube. Here, in an Orwellian 1984, Zoyd Wheeler and his daughter Prairie search for Prairie''s
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**THE NUMBER 1 BESTSELLER AND WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE** In this electrifying sequel to The Handmaid''s Tale , Margaret Atwood answers the question that has tantalised readers for decades: What happened to Offred? The Republic of Gilead is beginning to
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In 1629, young English lutenist Peter Claire arrives at the Danish court believing music will secure his future. Instead, he enters a world shaped by suspicion, rivalry and royal power. Set in Denmark and in the shadow of the Thirty Years’ War,
Charles Arrowby has determined to spend the rest of his days in hermit-like contemplation. He buys a mysteriously damp house on the coast, far from the heady world of the theatre where he made his name, and there he swims in the sea, eats revolting meals
Hemingway''s captivating memoir of living in Paris during the twenties. ''If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast'' Hemingway''s memori
A work of coruscating moral brilliance, The Nice and the Good revolves around a happily married couple, Kate and Octavian, and the friends of all ages attached to their house in Dorset. The novel deals with love in its many aspects, as embodied in a fas
Atonement is a masterpiece The Times On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia plunge naked into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her too is Robbie Turner who, like Cecil
*PRE-ORDER HARUKI MURAKAMIS NEW NOVEL, THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS , NOW*A moving, thoughtful story of long-lost love and second chances Growing up in the suburbs in post-war Japan, it seemed to Hajime that everyone but him had brothers and sisters.
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Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father''s dark prophesy. The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his pleasantly simplified life suddenly turned upside down
Haunted is a novel made up of stories: twenty-three of the most horrifying, hilarious, mind-blowing, stomach-churning tales you''ll ever encounter. They are told by the people who have all answered an ad headlined ''Artists Retreat: Abandon your life for
TRANSLATED BY EDITH GROSSMANWidely regarded as the world's first modern novel, and one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant Don Quixote de La Mancha and his
In this extraordinary novel, Stingo, an inexperienced twenty-two year old Southerner, takes us back to the summer of 1947 and a boarding house in a leafy Brooklyn suburb. There he meets Nathan, a fiery Jewish intellectual; and Sophie, a beautiful and frag
Discover Joseph Heller''s hilarious and tragic satire on military madness, and the tale of one man''s efforts to survive it. It''s the closing months of World War II and Yossarian has never been closer to death. Stationed in an American bomber squadron of
In the Tokyo suburbs four women work the draining graveyard shift at a boxed-lunch factory. Burdened with chores and heavy debts and isolated from husbands and children, they all secretly dream of a way out of their dead-end lives. A young mother among th
WITH AN AFTERWORD FROM THE AUTHOR ''A major work of mounting tensions in which the human mind is the guinea-pig... Mr Fowles has taken a big swing at a difficult subject and his hits are on the bull''s eye'' Sunday Times On a remote Greek Island, Nichol
Set against the backdrop of the collapsing Ottoman Empire, Birds Without Wings traces the fortunes of one small community in south-west Anatolia - a town in which Christian and Muslim lives and traditions have co-existed peacefully for centuries. When
The perfect gift for Valentines Day Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars investigating the lives of two Victorian poets. Followi
Touching the Void is the heart-stopping account of Joe Simpson''s terrifying adventure in the Peruvian Andes. He and his climbing partner, Simon, reached the summit of the remote Siula Grande in June 1995. A few days later, Simon staggered into Base Camp
The great Icelandic novel by the Nobel Prize-winning novelist Halldór Laxness 'There are good books and there are great books and there may be a book that is something still more: it is the book of your life' New York Review of Books First published in 1
This powerful collection of stories, set in the mid-West among the lonely men and women who drink, fish and play cards to ease the passing of time, was the first by Raymond Carver to be published in the UK. With its spare, colloquial narration and razor-s
*Number #1 Bestseller** BEFORE TRAINSPOTTING CAME SKAGBOYS Mark Renton has it all: he''s good-looking, young, with a pretty girlfriend and a bright future. But there''s no room for him in the 1980s and when his family starts to fracture, Mark''s life
''Darling, this is Younes. Yesterday he was my nephew, today he is our son''.Younes'' life is changed forever when his poverty-stricken parents surrender him to the care of his more affluent uncle. Re-named Jonas, he grows up in a colourful colonial Alger
Discover the blazing debut novel from the Booker Prize winning author. 'A crazy ambidextrous delight' Michael Ondaatje Where is Pradeep S. Mathew - spin bowler extraordinaire and 'the greatest cricketer to walk the earth'?Retired sportswriter W. G. Karuna
William Stoner enters the University of Missouri at nineteen to study agriculture. A seminar on English literature changes his life, and he never returns to work on his father's farm. Stoner becomes a teacher. He marries the wrong woman. His life is quiet
**NOW A MAJOR FILM** BY THE AUTHOR OF STONER Will Andrews is no academic. He longs for wildness, freedom, hope and vigour. He leaves Harvard and sets out for the West to discover a new way of living.In a small town called Butcher''s Crossing he meets a h
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''A response - finally - to the new norms of femininity'' Rachel Cusk Having reached an age when most of her peers are asking themselves when they will become mothers, Heti''s narrator considers, with the same urgency, whether she will do so at all. Over
In Eminent Hipsters , musician and songwriter Donald Fagen, best known as the co-founder of the rock band Steely Dan, presents an autobiographical portrait that touches on everything from the cultural figures that mattered the most to him as a teenager,