Vintage Classics
I Capture The Castle
$12.95 – Paperback book / Random House
Cassandra Mortmain lives with her bohemian and impoverished family in a crumbling castle in the middle of nowhere. Her journal records her life with her beautiful, bored sister, Rose, her fadingly glamorous stepmother, T... Buy or find out more →
The End Of The Affair
$12.95 – Paperback book / Random House
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MONICA ALI
The love affair between Maurice Bendix and Sarah, flourishing in the turbulent times of the London Blitz, ends when she suddenly and without explanation breaks it off. After a chance me... Buy or find out more →
French Lieutenant's Woman
$12.95 – Paperback book / Random House
An epic love story of two people of insight and imagination seeking escape from the cant and tyranny of their age. To the last detail of dress, idiom and manners, John Fowles immaculately recreates Victorian England in t... Buy or find out more →
The Sea, The Sea
$12.95 – Paperback book / Random House
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JOHN BURNSIDE
When Charles Arrowby retires from his glittering career in the London theatre, he buys a remote house on the rocks by the sea. He hopes to escape from his tumultuous love affairs but... Buy or find out more →
Money
$12.95 – Paperback book / Random House
'Super-charged, anarchic and full of narrative acrobatics, Money burst on to the Eighties literary scene leaving a trail of imitators and devotees in its wake' Observer
This is the story of John Self, consumer extraordin... Buy or find out more →
Enduring Love
$12.95 – Paperback book / Random House
'I cannot remember the last time I read a novel so beautifully written or utterly compelling from the very first page' Bill Bryson, Sunday Times
One windy spring day in the Chilterns Joe Rose's calm, organised life is sh... Buy or find out more →
A Spot Of Bother
$12.95 – Paperback book / Random House
At fifty-seven, George is settling down to a comfortable retirement. Then Katie, his tempestuous daughter, announces that she is getting remarried, to Ray. Her mother Jean is a bit put out by all the arguing the wedding ... Buy or find out more →
The Complete Enderby
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Enderby - poet, social critic, comrade and Catholic - is endlessly hounded by women. He may be found hiding in the lavatory where much of his best work is composed, or perhaps in Rome, brainwashed into respectability by ... Buy or find out more →
The Art Of Love
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
The Art of Love may have been written in the days of gladiators and emperors, but Ovid remains the smartest teacher on the subject of love in all of history, and his advice is enduringly useful and entertaining. Between ... Buy or find out more →
Byrne
$12.95 – Paperback book / Random House
Byrne is Anthony Burgess's final work: an epic verse novel. Michael Byrne is a minor modern composer with greater talent in bed than in the concert hall. A bigamist, a charmer and a thug, Byrne sells his talents as a com... Buy or find out more →
Selected Poems Of Pablo Neruda
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Selected Poems contains Neruda's resonant, exploratory, intensely individualistic verse, rooted in the physical landscape and people of Chile. Here we find sensuous songs of Love, tender odes to the sea, melancholy lyric... Buy or find out more →
The Last Expedition
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Centenary of Captain Scott's expedition to the South Pole. This
is 'the most gripping story of polar exploration ever
written.'
-Sir Ranulph Fiennes.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SIR RANULPH FIENNES
The Last Exp... Buy or find out more →
Can You Forgive Her
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
The Warden
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Hr Harding is a good man, The Warden to an alms house which provides a peaceful home to twelve old men. The young and zealous John Bold is also a good man, but he believes he sees in Harding's comfortable existence an in... Buy or find out more →
Way We Live Now
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Claudine Married
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Following the excitement of a shared life in Paris Claudine's marriage to the distinguished Renaud has settled into a stale pattern of bickering conversations and mutual inattention. Just as Claudine begins to fear herse... Buy or find out more →
Cheri
$12.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
Cheri, first published in 1920, is considered Colette's finest novel. Exquisitely handsome, spoilt and sardonic, Cheri is the only son of a wealthy courtesan, a contemporary of Lea, the magnificent and talented woman who... Buy or find out more →
Claudine In Paris
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
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The Last Of Cheri
$12.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
At the end of Cheri the young Cheri left his aging mistress Lea on the eve of his marriage. Having served in the army during the war Cheri returns to Paris haunted by memories of his carefree youth and the bounty of his ... Buy or find out more →
Gigi And The Cat
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
In these two superb stories of the politics of love, Colette is at her witty, instinctive best. Gigi is being educated in the skills of the Courtesan; to choose cigars, to eat lobster, to enter a world where a woman's ch... Buy or find out more →
The Tree Of Man
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Stan Parker, with only a horse and a dog for companions, journeys to a remote scrubby patch of land that he has inherited in the Australian hills. When the land is cleared enough for a rudimentary house to be built, Stan... Buy or find out more →
Gould's Book Of Fish
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Once upon a time that was called 1828, before all fishes in the sea and all living things on the land were destroyed, there was a man named William Buelow Gould, a white convict who fell in love with a black woman and di... Buy or find out more →
The Sound Of One Hand Clapping
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Since its first publication in 1997, Richard Flanagan's classic story of migration and love has become one of the most-loved and biggest-selling literary novels in Australian history. In the winter of 1954, in a construc... Buy or find out more →
A Sort Of Life
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
The first volume of Graham Greene's notoriously misleading, mischevious, but nonetheless fascinating autobiography.
Graham Greene's 'long journey through time' began in 1904, when he was born into a tribe of Greenes base... Buy or find out more →
Everything Flows
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Translated into English for the first time, this is a fearless epic from one of the great writers of the twentieth century.
'Everything Flows is as important a novel as anything written by Solzhenitsyn, and Robert Chandl... Buy or find out more →
The Wild Palms
$12.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
In a feverishly beautiful novel, Faulkner interweaves two narratives, each subtly illuminating the other
''Between grief and nothing I will take grief'
In New Orleans in 1937, a man and woman embark on a headlong flight ... Buy or find out more →
Vertigo
$12.95 – Paperback book / Harvill
'One of the most original voices to have come from Europe in recent years' Paul Auster
Part fiction, part travelogue, the narrator of this compelling masterpiece pursues his solitary, eccentric course from England to Ita... Buy or find out more →
The Three Musketeers
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
'Pure swashbuckling pleasure' Daily Telegraph
The young D'Artagnan travels to Paris determined to join King Louis XIII's elite guards. Hot-headed and raring to prove himself, D'Artagnan challenges three strangers to a du... Buy or find out more →
Call Of The Wild And White Fang
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
A thrilling tale of Buck's fight for survival and rise to become leader of the pack.
Buck is the pampered offspring of a St Bernard and a shepherd dog. When men find gold in the Yukon Buck's comfortable life in the sun-k... Buy or find out more →
Sanctuary
$12.95 – Paperback book / Random House
A terrifying story that scandalised Faulkner's editor into rejecting the original manuscript.
Spolit, feckless Temple Drake, the daughter of a judge, runs away from school with an unsuitable man. Abandoned by him with a ... Buy or find out more →
The Sea Hawk
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BEN KANE
Oliver Tressilian, a Cornish gentleman, is blessed with 'youth, wealth, and good digestion'. When he is betrayed by his half-brother he becomes a Barbary pirate and wins the title of Sakr... Buy or find out more →
The House Of The Spirits
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Allende's magical realist epic is an international classic - 'thick with plot and bristling with characters. A novel to be read for its brilliant craftsmanship and its narrative of inescapable power'El Pais
As a girl, Cl... Buy or find out more →
Selected Stories
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
These are refreshingly frank, sparely written stories that expose the world of bartenders and 'b-girls', car washers and criminals. John O'Hara dissects the subtleties that bind humans together and the pressures that sep... Buy or find out more →
My Michael
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM THE AUTHOR
'My Michael is a beautiful work of great depth and lingers in the mind as a lyric song to his country's people as much as a moving love story' Arthur Miller
1950s Jerusalem. Hannah... Buy or find out more →
Mr Pye
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Brimming with good cheer, Mr Pye decides to bring peace and love to Sark's 289 eccentric inhabitants. This is a charming fable about the battle bewteen good and evil.
Equipped with love, Mr Harold Pye lands on the island... Buy or find out more →
A Rage To Live
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
When the beautiful, imperious and moneyed Grace Caldwell Tate wants something she goes after it. Her affair scandalises Pennsylvania's elite and she must face the costs to her marriage and the man she really loves.
A bes... Buy or find out more →
The Campus Trilogy
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
'One of the very best English comic novelists of the post-war era' Time Out
Three brilliantly comic novels revolving around the University of Rummidge and the eventful lives of its role-swapping academics.
David Lodge’s ... Buy or find out more →
Westwood
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Set in wartime Highgate, Westwood tells the story of Margaret Steggles, a plain bookish girl whose mother has told her that she is 'not the type that attracts men'. What she lacks for in looks she makes up for with a rom... Buy or find out more →
Starlight
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Gladys and Annie Barnes are impoverished sisters who have seen better times. They live in a modest cottage in the backstreets of Highate with Mr Fisher, a mild but eccentric old man living secretively in the attic above ... Buy or find out more →
Ebony Tower
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
The Ebony Tower is a series of novellas, rich in imagery, exploring the nature of art. In the title story, a journalist visiting a celebrated but reclusive painter is intrigued by the elderly artist's relationship with t... Buy or find out more →
Doctor Zhivago
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
From the acclaimed translators of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, a stunning new translation of Boris Pasternak's Nobel Prize-winning masterpiece, the first since the 1958 original.
Banned in the Soviet Union until 1988... Buy or find out more →
A Maggott
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
In his prologue, John Fowles tells us that A Maggot began as a vision he had of five travellers riding with mysterious purpose through remote countryside. This image gives way to another - a hanging corpse with violets s... Buy or find out more →
While Mortals Sleep
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
In While Mortals Sleep men and machines, art and artifice, fortune and fame become curiously twisted. A travelling salesman falls in love a robot, Jenny, a refrigerator with personality. A man plays with his model trains... Buy or find out more →
Voltaire In Love
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
The meeting of Voltaire, successful financier, famous poet and troublemaker, and the enchanting amateur physicist and countess Émilie du Châtelet, was a meeting of both hearts and minds. In the Château de Cirey, the two ... Buy or find out more →
The Sun King
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY STELLA TILLYARD
Louis XIV was during his reign the most powerful king in Europe. He presided over a golden age of military and artistic achievement in France, and deployed his charm and talents fo... Buy or find out more →
Madame de Pompadour
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
When Jeanne-Antoinette was nine, she was told by a fortune teller that she would one day become the mistress of the handsome young Louix XV - from that day she was groomed to become 'a morsel fit for a King'. Nancy Mitfo... Buy or find out more →
Madame Bovary
$39.95 – Hardcover book / Vintage
Emma Bovary is an avid reader of sentimental novels; brought up on a Normandy farm and convent-educated, she longs for the passion of romance. At first, Emma pins her hopes on marriage, but life with her well-meaning hus... Buy or find out more →
Ghost Stories
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
SELECTED AND INTRODUCED BY RUTH RENDELL
M. R. James wrote his ghost stories to entertain friends on Christmas Eve, and they went on to both transform and modernise a genre. James harnesses the power of suggestion to move... Buy or find out more →
Frederick The Great
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY KATE WILLIAMS
Frederick II of Prussia attempted to escape his authoritarian father as a boy, but went on to become one of history's greatest rulers. He loved the flute, and devoted hours of study ... Buy or find out more →
The Man Within
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
The Man Within tells the story of Andrews, a young man who has betrayed his fellow smugglers and fears their vengeance. Fleeing from them, with no hope of pity or salvation, he takes refuge in the house of a young woman,... Buy or find out more →
The Lawless Roads
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
In 1938 Graham Greene was commissioned to visit Mexico to discover the state of the country and its people in the aftermath of the brutal anti-clerical purges of President Calles. His journey took him through the tropica... Buy or find out more →
Love
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY AUDREY NIFFENEGGER
Love is Angela Carter's fifth novel and was first published in 1971. With surgical precision it charts the destructive emotional war between a young woman, her husband and his d... Buy or find out more →
Jailbird
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Pay attention please to the life of Walter F. Starbuck. Nineteen-hundred and Thirteen gave him the gift of life. Nineteenth-hundred and Thirty-one sent him to Harvard. Nineteen-hundred and Thirty-eight got him a job in t... Buy or find out more →
God Bless You Mr Rosewater
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Eliot Rosewater is tortured by a fabulous inheritance he feels he does not deserve, so he devotes himself to drink, and to a life serving the dull, the ugly, the irrelevant and the useless. This is a novel about the plea... Buy or find out more →
Conference At Cold Comfort Farm
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Robert Poste’s child is back at Cold Comfort Farm. But all is not well. Flora finds the farm transformed into a twee haven filled with Toby jugs and peasant pottery, and rooms labeled‘Quiete Retreate’ and ‘Greate laundri... Buy or find out more →
Captain And The Enemy, The
$12.95 – Paperback book / Random House
A young boy, Victor, is collected from school by a stranger in a bowler hat - the stranger says he has won Victor in a game of backgammon with Victor's father. The stranger, known as the Captain, takes Victor to live wit... Buy or find out more →
AL A Novel
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
In the late 1960s Andy Warhol, one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, set out to turn an ordinary book into a piece of pop art. He said that he wanted to create a 'bad' novel 'because doing somethi... Buy or find out more →
Catch-22 (50th Anniversary Edition)
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
50th anniversary of Catch 22's publication. Yossarian lives!
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 ... Buy or find out more →
The Cave
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
This allegorical novel takes its title from Plato's cave, where shadows constitute reality for those imprisoned within. Saramago sets his story in an immense office building, shopping mall and condominium called the Cent... Buy or find out more →
Pride And Prejudice
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry - Pride and Prejudice
Elizabeth Bennett is young, clever and attractive, but her mother is a ni... Buy or find out more →
Three Elegies For Kosovo
$12.95 – Paperback book / Random House
In three short narratives, Kadare evokes a defining moment in European history
28 June 1389, the Field of the Blackbirds. A Christian army made up of Serbs, Bosnians, Albanians and Romanians confront an Ottoman army. In ... Buy or find out more →
Charlotte Bronte
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
'If men could see us as we really are, they would be amazed,'wrote Charlotte Bront-, the outwardly conventional parson's daughter who had rarely met any men beyond those of the church or classroom by the time Jane Eyre w... Buy or find out more →
Hermit In Paris
$12.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
Italo Calvino once said that he preferred to give false details about his biography since he felt that even the genuine data of a writer's life shed no light on the creative work. But this volume of posthumously collecte... Buy or find out more →
A Fairly Honourable Defeat
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
In this dark comedy of errors, Iris Murdoch portrays the mischief wrought by Julius, a cynical intellectual who decides to demonstrate through a Machiavellian experiment how easily loving couples, caring friends, and dev... Buy or find out more →
The Sandcastle
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'Iris Murdoch was one of the best and most influential writers of the twentieth century.' Peter Conradi, The Guardian
The quiet life of schoolmaster Bill Mor and his wife Nan is disturbed when a young woman, Rain Carter,... Buy or find out more →
An Accidental Man
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
'Of the novelists who have made their bow since the war she seems to me to be the most remarkable' Raymond Mortimer
This is the story of the comic and yet relentless struggle for survival of Austin Gibson Grey, the accid... Buy or find out more →
The Time And The Angels
$12.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
'Iris Murdoch was one of the best and most influential writers of the twentieth century. Above all, she kept the traditional novel alive, and in so doing changed what it is capable of' Guardian
Carel is rector of a non-e... Buy or find out more →
The Red And The Green
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Set in Ireland in 1916, it is the eve of the Easter Rebellion in Dublin...
Pat Dumay is a Catholic and an Irish patriot. His relentlessly pious mother pursues her own private war with his stepfather, a man sunk in religi... Buy or find out more →
A Word Child
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
'She is incapable of writing without fascinating and beautiful colour' 11Ie Times
Hilary Burde, saved by education from a delinquent childhood, cheated out of Oxford by a tragic love tangle, cherishes his obsessive guilt... Buy or find out more →
The Flight From The Enchanter
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A group of people have elected ambiguous and fascinating Mischa Fox to be their God. While Mischa is charming his devotees, his alter ego Calvin Blick, is inspiring fear, and Rosa Keepe, a high-minded bluestocking under ... Buy or find out more →
An Unofficial Rose
$12.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
The nine characters in this novel are all looking for love; and so closely is the web woven that the actions and apssions of each are constantly affecting the others. The irony and pathos of this tangled situation has ex... Buy or find out more →
Severed Head
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Martin believes he can possess both a beautiful wife and a delightful lover. But when his wife, Antonia, suddenly leaves him for her psychoanalyst, Martin is plunged into an intensive emotional re-education. He attempts ... Buy or find out more →
The Nice And The Good
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Iris Murdoch's richly peopled novel revolves round a happily married couple Kate and Octavian, and the friends of all ages attached to their household in Dorset. The novel deals with love in its two aspects, the self-gra... Buy or find out more →
The Unicorn
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Marian Taylor, who has come as a 'companion' to a lonely woman in a remote castle, becomes aware that her employer is a prisoner, not only of her own obsessions, but of an unforgiving husband. Hannah, the Unicorn, seemin... Buy or find out more →
Nuns And Soldiers
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Gertrude has lost her husband and Anne, an ex-nun, her God. They plan to live together and do good works.
Polish exile and imaginary soldier, the 'Count' watches over Gertrude with loving patience. An accomplished scroun... Buy or find out more →
The Italian Girl
$12.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
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. He also rediscovers the eternal family servant, ... Buy or find out more →
Philosophers Pupil
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
When George McCaffrey\u2019s car plunges into a canal with his wife still inside, nobody knows whether George is to blame. Nobody, that is, except an Anglican priest who happened to witness the whole thing. And when Geor... Buy or find out more →
The Book And The Brotherhood
$12.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
'A thoroughly gripping, stimulating, and challenging fiction' The Times
Many years ago Gerard Hernshaw and his friends 'commissioned' one of their number to write a political book. Time passes and opinions change. 'Why s... Buy or find out more →
Metaphysics As A Guide To Morals
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'Iris Murdoch has written a book which concerns all of us as human beings-There are pages here that one wants to embrace her for, pages that say things of fundamental human importance in a way that they have never quite ... Buy or find out more →
Cancer Ward
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
One of the great allegorical masterpieces of world literature, Cancer Ward is both a deeply compassionate study of people facing terminal illness and a brilliant dissection of the 'cancerous' Soviet police state. Withdra... Buy or find out more →
Spring Flowers, Spring Frost
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A masterpiece of economy, humour, and mythology - an indelible picture of the imagination freed from communistic glaciers.
As Spring arrives in the Albanian mountain town, some strange things are emerging in the thaw. Ba... Buy or find out more →
The Atom Station
$12.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
Laxness has been hailed as Iceland's John Steinbeck, Sinclair Lewis and Upton Sinclair combined. His is a significant voice in world literature' Magnus Magnusson
When the Americans make an offer to buy land in Iceland to... Buy or find out more →
The Tin Drum
$12.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
'Funny, macabre, disgusting, blasphemous, pathetic, horrifying, erotic, it is an endless delirium, an outrageous phantasmagoria in which dust from Goethe, Hans Andersen, Swift, Rabelais, Joyce, Aristophanes and Rochester... Buy or find out more →
Stamboul Train
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Centenary edition with an introduction by Christopher Hitchens: a gripping spy thriller, which unfolds aboard the majestic Orient Express as it crosses Europe from Ostend to Constantinople, weaving a web of subterfuge, m... Buy or find out more →
King Matt The First
$12.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
This moving fable follows the adventures of Matt who becomes king when just a child and decides to reform his country according to his own priorities. Ignoring his grown-up ministers, he decrees that children should be g... Buy or find out more →
Living, Loving, Party Going
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Henry Green, whom W. H. Auden called 'the finest living English novelist', is the most neglected writer of the last century and the one most deserving of rediscovery by a new generation. This volume brings together three... Buy or find out more →
Jacob's Room
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Jacob's Room is Virgina Woolf's first truly experimental novel. It is a portrait of a young man, who is both representative and victim of the social values which led Edwardian society into war. Jacob's life is traced fro... Buy or find out more →
A Gun For Sale
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Raven is an ugly man dedicated to ugly deeds. His cold-blooded killing of the Minister of War is an act of violence with chilling repercussions, not just for Raven himself but for the nation as a whole. The money he rece... Buy or find out more →
A Burnt Out Case
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Centenary edition with a new introduction by Giles Foden.
Querry, a world famous architect, is the victim of a terrible attack of indifference: he no longer finds meaning in art of pleasure in life. Arriving anonymously ... Buy or find out more →
The Double
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Watching a rented video, Tertuliano M-ximo Afonso is shocked to notice that one of the actors is identical to him in every physical detail. He embarks on a secret quest to find his double and sets in motion a train of ev... Buy or find out more →
Mr Weston's Good Wine
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A classic religious allegory published in Vintage for a whole new generation of readers
Mr Weston's Good Wine is the unusual tale of the struggle between the forces of good and evil in a small Dorset village. Its action ... Buy or find out more →
Vintage Lust: The Rachel Papers & History Of Tom Jones
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There are ten Vintage Classics Twins to collect. Each twin consists of two books: a specially designed limited edition of one modern classic title and one established classic work. The books in each pair have been carefu... Buy or find out more →
The Invisible Writing
$12.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
'Perhaps the most remarkable autobiography since the confessions of Rousseau' V. S. Pritchett, New Statesman
Taken together, Arthur Koestler's volumes of autobiography constitute an unrivalled study of twentieth-century ... Buy or find out more →
To Sir With Love
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When a woman refuses to sit next to him on the bus. Rick Braithewaite is saddened and angered by her prejudice. In post-war cosmopolitan London he had hoped for a more enlightened attitude. When he begins his first teach... Buy or find out more →
Three Men In A Boat
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‘I fell out of bed laughing at Three Men in a Boat’ Guardian
What could be more relaxing than a refreshing holiday on the river with your two best friends and faithful canine companion, Montmorency? However, as J. di... Buy or find out more →
Trainspotting
$12.95 – Paperback book / Random House
One of the most important novels of the late 20th century - repackaged for a new generation.
Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machines; choose cars; choose sitting oan a couch watching min... Buy or find out more →
Life And Fate
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
CHOSEN BY LINDA GRANT AS HER ORANGE INHERITANCE - Vintage Classics has partnered with The Orange Prize for Fiction to ask six recipients of the Prize which book they would pass onto the next generation
THIS ORANGE INHERI... Buy or find out more →
In Search Of Lost Time 1: Swann's Way
$12.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
'As close to being a definitive English version of the great novel as we are likely to get. This new edition will serve to introduce new generations of readers to what Somerset Maugham rightly described as the greatest n... Buy or find out more →
The Bridge On The River Kwai
$12.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
One of the finest war novels ever written, Bridge on the River Kwai tells the story of three POWs who endure the hell of the Japanese camps on the Burma-Siam railway - Colonel Nicholson, a man prepared to sacrifice his l... Buy or find out more →
Journey To The Centre Of The Earth
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From the grandpère of science fiction- a perilous and astonishing adventure into the earth’s core that details encounters with natural hazards, forty foot mushrooms and prehistoric beasts.
After decoding a scrap of pa... Buy or find out more →
The Call Of Cthulu And Other Weird Tales
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An introduction to the weird and unsettling world of H.P. Lovecraft, master of horror and pioneer of 'weird fiction'
Between these pages you will find things that lurk, things that scurry in the walls, things that move u... Buy or find out more →
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
From the grandpère of science fiction – an adventure classic of deep-sea volcanoes, giant squid and the renegade scientist Captain Nemo
Professor Aronnax embarks on an expedition to hunt down and destroy a menacing se... Buy or find out more →
Planet Of The Apes
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
A chilling dystopian vision of the ultimate role reversal, a cult hit since the 1960s
In a spaceship that can travel at the speed of light, Ulysse, a journalist, sets off from Earth for the nearest solar system. He finds... Buy or find out more →
The Lost World
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Arthur Conan Doyle leaves Baker Street far behind in this ripping yarn about a undiscovered land where dinosaurs and ape-men roam
The notorious Professor Challenger claims that dinosaurs still walk the earth. When the pr... Buy or find out more →
Whisky Galore
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
'Love makes the world go round? Not at all. Whisky makes it go round twice as fast.'
Wartime food rationing is bad enough, but when the whisky supplies run out on the Hebridean islands of Great and Little Todday, nothing... Buy or find out more →
Tess Of The D'Urbervilles
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To The Lighthouse
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So Long, See You Tomorrow
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Eugénie Grandet
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Revolutionary Road
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Hailed as a masterpiece from the moment of its first publication, Revolutionary Road is the story of Frank and April Wheeler,... Buy or find out more →
Absalom, Absalom
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Quentin Compson and Shreve, his Harvard room-mate, are obsessed by the rise and fall of Thomas Sutpen. As a poor white boy, Sutpen was turned away from a plantation owner's mansion by a Negro butler. From then on, Sutpen... Buy or find out more →
Mrs Dalloway's Party
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A beautifully jacketed collection of seven Virginia Woolf short stories, all written around the theme of parties and brought back into print for the first time in forty years
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Memoirs Of A Geisha
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This is a seductive and evocative epic on an intimate scale, which tells the extraordinary story of a geisha girl. Summoning up more than twenty years of Japan's most dramatic history, it uncovers a hidden world of eroti... Buy or find out more →
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland & Through The Looking Glass
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So many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible' Alice in Wonderland
One boring summer afternoon, Alice, a bright and inquisitive child,... Buy or find out more →
Things: A Story Of The Sixties With A Man Asleep
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Two brilliant, witty and subversive stories from the modern master - cult classics for the 60s generation
Things: A Story of the Sixties is the story of a young couple who want to enjoy life, but the only way they know h... Buy or find out more →
W or The Memory Of Childhood
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A disturbing, ground-breaking book about Perec's wartime childhood, and about where truth and fiction overlap
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Death In Venice And Other Stories
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Gustav von Aschenbach, a successful ageing writer, travels to Venice for a holiday. One day, at dinner in his hotel, Aschenbach notices an exceptionally beautiful young boy. Soon his days begin to revolve around seeing t... Buy or find out more →
Save Me The Waltz
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Zelda Fitzgerald was the 'first American Flapper' and this is her thinly veiled autobiography.
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Medea
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Medea has been abandoned by her husband. Jason, for whom she has sacrificed so much, has left her and their two children for a younger woman. His new bride is the daughter of the most powerful man in Corinth and Medea an... Buy or find out more →
Seven Pillars Of Wisdom
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Seven Pillars of Wisdom is an unusual and rich work. It encompasses an account of the Arab Revolt against the Turks during the First World War alongside general Middle Eastern and military history, politics, adventure an... Buy or find out more →
Doctor Zhivago
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On they went singing 'Eternal Memory', and whenever they stopped, the sound of their feet, the horses and the gusts of wind seemed to carry on their singing…
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When Love Speaks
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There are over 200,000 marriages and 7000 civil partnerships per year. This anthology offers over 100 poems and readings which celebrate love and union.
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Sons And Lovers
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Set in 1900s, this is a lushly descriptive and highly autobiographical portrayal of a young man growing up in class-divided Nottingham
Paul Morel is the focus of his disappointed and fiercely protective mother’s life. Th... Buy or find out more →
Moonfleet
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A thrilling adventure story of smuggling, cursed treasure, code-cracking, injustice, revenge and friendship
Orphaned John Trenchard grows up in the village of Moonfleet with his aunt, entranced by the local legend of the... Buy or find out more →
Barnaby Rudge
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Dickens’s first historical novel is a thrilling tale of murder, treachery and forbidden love with rioting mob scenes to make your hair stand on end.
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Flush
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First published in 1933, Flush is the lively and touching biography of the cocker spaniel given to Elizabeth Barrett Browning by Mary Russell Mittord. Quentin Bell described it as an attempt 'to describe Wimpole Street, ... Buy or find out more →
Night And Day
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WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY ANGELICA GARNETT AND JO SHAPCOTT
InNight and Day, Virginia Woolf portrays her elder sister Vanessa in the person of Katharine Hilbery - the gifted daughter of a distinguished literary family, trappe... Buy or find out more →
Between The Acts
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BETWEEN THE ACTS, one of Virginia Woolf's most lyrical works, was published shortly after her death in 1941. Its central focus is the performance of a village pageant, written and directed by the energetic Miss La Trobe,... Buy or find out more →
Roger Fry
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'Virginia Woolf is a great writer: Her voice is distinctive; her style is her own' Jeanette Winterson
Introduction by Frances Spalding. Virginia Woolf was a close friend of Roger Fry for many years - after his death she ... Buy or find out more →
A Haunted House And Other Stories
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'Destined to be standard for years to come' Times Literary Supplement
Acclaimed on its first publication, rich in fictional delights, this complete collection of Virginia Woolf's shorter fiction ranges from 1906 until th... Buy or find out more →
Mapp & Lucia
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Here she is again, the splendid creature, the great, the wonderful Lucia' Nancy Mitford, The Times
Miss Elizabeth Mapp reigns supreme over the village of Tilling...until the advent of Mrs Emmeline Lucas, or 'Lucia' to he... Buy or find out more →
The Rainbow
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A novel which chronicles the lines of three generations of the Brangwen family and the emergence of modern England
Set between the 1840s and the early years of the twentieth century The Rainbow tells the story of three g... Buy or find out more →
Nicholas Nickleby
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‘I love Dickens but I'm particularly fond of Nicholas Nickleby… It's one of those books I can just read and reread’ Nigel Havers
When Nicholas’s father dies he, his mother and sister, Kate, are left penniless. To e... Buy or find out more →
The Essential Hemingway
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'Hemingway's style is a superb vehicle for revealing tenderness of feeling beneath descriptions of brutality' Guardian
It has been said of Ernest Hemingway that half the writers of the twentieth century have tried to imi... Buy or find out more →
The Confidential Agent
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In a small continental country civil war is raging. Once a lecturer in medieval French, now a confidential agent, D is a scarred stranger in a seemingly casual England, sent on a mission to buy coal at any price. Initial... Buy or find out more →
The Comedians
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Three men meet on a ship bound for Haiti, a world in the grip of the corrupt 'Papa Doc' and the Tontons Macoute, his sinister secret police. Brown the hotelier, Smith the innocent American and Jones the confidence man - ... Buy or find out more →
The Green Man
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Like all good medieval coaching inns, the Green Man in Fareham, Hertfordshire, boasts a resident, if retired, ghost: Dr Thomas Underhill, a notorious seventeenth-century practitioner of black arts and sexual deviancy, ru... Buy or find out more →
You Can't Do Both
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Robin Davies is both a shrewd observer and an energetic actor in a drama that takes him from school to Oxford. With him we live through all the pangs of a pre-war adolescence in South London, and on through his rites of ... Buy or find out more →
The House Of Mirth
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The tragic fall of Lily Bart, a beautiful socialite who loses her footing in the savage social-climbing world of New York high society in the nineteenth century
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Annapurna: The First Conquest Of An 8000 Metre Peak
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One of the great works of mountaineering literature- long out of print and now reissued with a new introduction by Joe Simpson.
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The Confessions Of Nat Turner
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A first-person narrative that depicts a good man's transformation into an avenging angel
In 1831 Nat Turner awaits death in a Virginia jail cell. He is a slave, a preacher, and the leader of the only effective slave revo... Buy or find out more →
The Journals Volume One
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In 1963 John Fowles won international recognition with his first published novel THE COLLECTOR. But his roots as a serious writer can be traced back long before to the journal he began as a student at Oxford in the late ... Buy or find out more →
Daniel Martin
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Set internationally and spanning three decades, Daniel Martin is, in the author's own words, 'intended as a defence and illustration of an unfashionable philosophy, humanism, and also as an exploration of what it is to b... Buy or find out more →
Antic Hay
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When Theodore Gumbril hits upon the notion of designing a type of pneumatic trouser ('a comfort to all travellers, indispensable to first-nighters, the concert-goers' friends') to ease the discomfort of the sedentary lif... Buy or find out more →
Crome Yellow
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'Delightful. Crome Yellow is witty, wordly and poetic' The Times
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Denis Stone, a naive young poet, is invited to stay at Crome, a country house renowned for its gatherings of 'bright young things'. Cro... Buy or find out more →
Grey Eminence
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The life of Father Joseph, Cardinal Richelieu's aide, was a monstrous paradox. After spending his days directing operations on the battlefield Father Joseph would pass the night in prayer, or in composing spiritual guida... Buy or find out more →
The Devils Of Loudun
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In The Devils of Loudun, readers will find a fantastic and absorbing story and will also see Aldous Huxley's penetrating and comprehensive mind working at its highest power. It is the story of the most sensational case o... Buy or find out more →
Point Counter Point
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The dilettantes who frequent Lady Tantamount's society parties are determined to push forward the moral frontiers of the age. Marjorie has left her family to live with Walter; Walter is in love with the luscious but cold... Buy or find out more →
Clochemerle
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Gabriel Chevallier's delightful novel CLOCHEMERLE satirizes the titanic confrontation of secular and religious forces in a small wine-growing village in Beaujolais. The eruption begins when the socialist mayor decides th... Buy or find out more →
Birdsong
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Set before and during the great war, Birdsong captures the drama of that era on both a national and a personal scale. It is the story of Stephen, a young Englishman, who arrives in Amiens in 1910. His life goes through a... Buy or find out more →
Lady Chatterley's Lover
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Subject of an infamous obscenity trial, Lady Chatterley's Lover is now regarded as one of the pivotal novels of the twentieth century.
Clifford Chatterley returns from the First World War as an invalid. Constance nurses ... Buy or find out more →
Tender Is The Night
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Heartbreaking American masterpiece of the ‘Roaring Twenties’ based on Fitzgerald’s own experience
It is the French Riviera in the 1920s. Nicole and Dick Diver are a wealthy, elegant, magnetic couple. A coterie of a... Buy or find out more →
The Beautiful And Damned
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A captivating and glamorous tale of squandered talent that defined ‘The Lost Generation’ of 1920s New York
Anthony Patch and Gloria Gibson are the golden children of the Jazz Age. They marry and embark on a life of g... Buy or find out more →
The Great Gatsby
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Fitzgerald’s glittering Jazz Age masterpiece
Jay Gatsby is a self-made man, famed for his decadent champagne-drenched parties. Despite being surrounded by Long Island’s bright and beautiful, Gatsby longs only for Daisy... Buy or find out more →
The Castle
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The tale of K's arrival in the village below the castle that seems to rule it is Kafka's MAGNUM OPUS. K's isolation and perplexity, his begging for the approval of elusive and anonymous powers, epitomise Kafka's vision o... Buy or find out more →
America
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In AMERICA Kafka's key obsessions appear and reappear; his desire to avoid power by transforming himself into something small or disappearing altogether, and his belief in the infinite ambiguity of life and art. The gaps... Buy or find out more →
Requiem For A Wren
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The mysterious death of a young woman on an Australian farm reveals a heartrending story of doomed wartime romance.
Alan Duncan returns to his family home in Australia after the war and several years of study in England.... Buy or find out more →
The Power And The Glory
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The last priest is on the run. During an anti-clerical purge in one of the southern states of Mexico, he is hunted like a hare. Too human for heroism, too humble for martyrdom, the little world 'whisly priest' is neverth... Buy or find out more →
Bloody Chamber
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From familiar fairy tales and legends – Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the Beast, vampires and werewolves – Angela Carter has created an absorbing collection of dark, sensual, fantastic stories.... Buy or find out more →
Brighton Rock (Film Tie-In)
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In a class by himself-the ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man's consciousness and anxiety' William Golding, Independent
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY J.M. COETZEE
A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Br... Buy or find out more →
Wuthering Heights
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Wuthering Heights is the tale of two families both joined and riven by love and hate. Cathy is a beautiful and wilful young woman torn between her soft-hearted husband and Heathcliff, the passionate and resentful man who... Buy or find out more →
The Diary Of A Nobody
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Why should I not publish my diary? I have often seen reminiscences of people I have never even heard of, and I fail to see - because I do not happen to be a 'Somebody' - why my diary should not be interesting' Charles Po... Buy or find out more →
In Search Of Lost Time 4: Sodom & Gomorrah
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'As close to being a definitive English version of the great novel as we are likely to get. This new edition will serve to introduce new generations of readers to what Somerset Maugham rightly described as the greatest n... Buy or find out more →
Whos Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?
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Middle-aged history professor George, and his wife Martha, are joined by another college couple. The result is an all-night drinking session that erupts into a nightmare of revelations. Buy or find out more →
The Road To Oxiana
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What Ulysses is to the novel between the wars and what The Waste Land is to poetry, The Road to Oxiana is to the travel book.' Paul Fussell, Abroad
In 1933, the delightfully eccentric Robert Byron set out on a journey th... Buy or find out more →
Will You Please Be Quiet Please
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The American Chekhov' Sunday Times.
With this, his first collection, Carver breathed new life into the short story. In the pared-down style that has since become his hallmark, Carver showed how humour and tragedy dwell i... Buy or find out more →
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
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A new classics edition of this enduringly popular novel
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It is 1941 and Captain Antonio Corelli, a young Italian officer, is posted to the Greek island of Cephallonia as part of the occupying forces. A... Buy or find out more →
Power Without Glory
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In the history of Australian literature few books have been so controversial than Frank Hardy's Power Without Glory.This is a tale of corruption stretching from street corner SP bookmaking to the most influential men in ... Buy or find out more →
The Mystery Of Edwin Drood
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Featuring an introduction by Matthew Pearl The story of the fate of Edwin Drood is a mystery within a mystery. When young Edwin disappears after dinner on Christmas Eve and his watch and chain are later found in the near... Buy or find out more →
Eyeless In Gaza
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Anthony Beavis is a man inclined to recoil from life. His past is haunted by the death of his best friend Brian and by his entanglement with the cynical and manipulative Mary Amberley. Realising that his determined detac... Buy or find out more →
Some Prefer Nettles
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The marriage of Kaname and Misako is disintegrating: whilst seeking passion and fulfilment in the arms of others, they contemplate the humiliation of divorce. Misako's father believes their relationship has been damaged ... Buy or find out more →
A Special Providence
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Robert Prentice is eighteen, and his boyhood dreams have disintegrated on the battlefields of Europe. At home, his mother, Alice, wraps herself in fantasy against the relentless disappointments of life.
From his compelli... Buy or find out more →
Mason And Dixon
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Charles Mason (1728 -1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the British Surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that we know today as the Mason-Dixon Line. Here is their st... Buy or find out more →
Malayan Trilogy
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'Like all good comic writers Mr Burgess lives his creations as much as he writes them. First class’ Observer
Anthony Burgess was an officer in the Colonial Service.In The Malayan Trilogy - Time for a Tiger, The Enemy i... Buy or find out more →
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
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One of America's most original, truest voices' Salman Rushdie
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 fi... Buy or find out more →
The Berlin Novels
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MR NORRIS CHANGES TRAINS
The first of Christopher Isherwood's classic 'Berlin' novels, this portrays the encounter and growing friendship between young William Bradshaw and the urbane and mildly sinister Mr Norris. Piqua... Buy or find out more →
Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises
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Paris in the twenties: Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley, aristocratic and irresistibly beautiful, with an abandoned , sensous nature that... Buy or find out more →
Earthly Powers
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Anthony Burgess' epic masterpiece.
Earthly Powers traces eighty- one years in the life of a Somerset Maugham- type writer and lapsed Catholic called Kenneth Toomey. A popular, second- rate novelist/playwright, he spends ... Buy or find out more →
Makioka Sisters
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Tanizaki's masterpiece is the story of the extinction of a great family through pride and over-refinement. It is a loving and nostalgic recreation of the sumptuous, intricate upper-class life of Osaka immediately before ... Buy or find out more →
The Worm Forgives The Plough
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A beautiful lost classic of English countryside literature
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT MACFARLANE
During the Second World War, John Stewart Collis volunteered to leave his comfortable life as an academic to work on th... Buy or find out more →
Moby Dick
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‘I love Melville’ Donna Tartt
‘The ultimate fish story’ Bob Dylan
When Ishmael sets sail on the whaling ship Pequod one cold Christmas Day, he has no idea of the horrors awaiting him out on the vast and merciless... Buy or find out more →
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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INCLUDES A READING GUIDE
Toru Okada's cat has disappeared and this has unsettled his wife, who is herself growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has started receiving.... Buy or find out more →
The Poetry of Robert Frost
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This comprehensive and authoritative edition of Robert Frost's poetry brings together the full contents of all eleven of Frost's books of verse - from A Boy's Will to In the Clearing. This handsome volume, comprising mor... Buy or find out more →
The Master And Margarita
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A masterpiece - a classic of twentieth-century fiction - New York Times
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY WILL SELF
The devil makes a personal appearance in Moscow accompanied by various demons, including a naked girl and a huge b... Buy or find out more →
Breakfast Of Champions
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In a frolic of cartoons and comic outbursts against rule and reason, Kurt Vonnegut attacks the whole spectrum of American society, releasing some of his best-loved literary creations on the scene.
'Vonnegut performs cons... Buy or find out more →
A Time In Rome
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Elizabeth Bowen's account of a time spent in Rome between February and Easter is no ordinary guidebook but an evocation of a city - its hisotry, its architecture and, above all, its atmosphere. She describes the famous c... Buy or find out more →
Pickwick Papers
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The Pickwick Papers was Dickens' first novel and was a huge success when it was first published. It tells the tale of the irrepressible Mr Pickwick and his fellow Pickwick Club members who travel around the English count... Buy or find out more →
They Came Like Swallows
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In this tender evocation of family life - an early work by the great American novelist and editor who died in 2000 - the unvoiced currents of love and need that run through all our lives are eloquently measured.
To eight... Buy or find out more →
The Picture Of Dorian Gray
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Dorian is a good-natured young man until he falls in with the immoral Lord Henry and discovers the power of his own exceptional beauty. As he gradually sinks deep into a frivolous, glamorous world of selfish luxury, he a... Buy or find out more →
A Town Like Alice
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‘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’ John Ezard, Guardian
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ERIC LOMAX
Jean Paget is ju... Buy or find out more →
Collected Stories
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When The Stories of John Cheever was originally published, it became an immediate national bestseller and won the Pulitzer Prize. In the years since, it has become a classic. Vintage Books is proud to reintroduce this ma... Buy or find out more →
Mansfield Park
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‘The most perfect artist among women, the writer whose books are immortal’ Virginia Woolf
Fanny Price’s rich relatives offer her a place in their home so that she can be properly brought up. However, Fanny’s childhoo... Buy or find out more →
Mary Barton
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Mary Barton is the pretty daughter of a factory worker who finds herself dreaming of a better life when the mill-owner's charming son, Henry, starts to court her. She rejects her childhood friend Jem's affections in the ... Buy or find out more →
The 39 Steps
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The original and best adventure story ever told, with spies, thrilling chase scenes and explosions
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY STELLA RIMINGTON
May 1914. Britain is on the eve of war with Germany. Richard Hannay is living a ... Buy or find out more →
The Second Sex
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Of all the writing that emerged from the existentialist movement, Simone de Beauvoir's groundbreaking study of women will probably have the most extensive and enduring impact. It is at once a work of anthropology and soc... Buy or find out more →
The Old Man And The Sea
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Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the story of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. It was THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA that won for Hemingway the Nobel Prize of Literature.... Buy or find out more →
Mrs Dalloway
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Exploring the hidden springs of thought and action in one day of a woman's life, Virginia Woolf is direct and vivid in her account of the details of Clarissa Dalloway's preparation for a party. The novel was first publis... Buy or find out more →
Slaughterhouse Five
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Prisoner of war, optometrist, time-traveller – these are the life roles of Billy Pilgrim, hero of this miraculously moving, bitter and funny story of innocence faced with apocalypse. Slaughterhouse 5 is one of the world'... Buy or find out more →
Inferno
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Welcome to hell. On Good Friday evening in the year 1300, Dante finds himself lost in a dark and menacing wood. The ghost of Virgil offers to lead him to safety but the path lies through the terrifying kingdom of Satan. ... Buy or find out more →
The Book Of Flights
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Young Man Hogan's journey begins in the dazzling streets of a nameless necropolis, and leads across fleeting landscapes - deserts, seas, mountains, islands, cities and great plains - to countless entertainments and adven... Buy or find out more →
Travels With My Aunt
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Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in over fifty years at what he supposes to be his mother's funeral. Soon after, she persuades Henry to abandon Southwood, hi... Buy or find out more →
The Rings Of Saturn
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'A great, strange and moving work' James Wood, Guardian.
A Walking tour through the haunted landscapes of the past, in the company of the exiled and the departed.
THE Rings of Saturn begins as the record of a journey on ... Buy or find out more →
The Honorary Consul
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Graham Greene's gripping tragicomedy of a bungled kidnapping in a provincial Argentinian town is considered one of his finest. It tells of Charley Fortnum, the 'Honorary Consul', a whisky-sodden figure of dubious authori... Buy or find out more →
The Heart Of The Matter
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Scobie, a police officer serving in a war-time West African state, is distrusted, being scrupulously honest and immune to bribery. But then he falls in love, and in doing so he is forced to betray everything he believes ... Buy or find out more →
The Emigrants
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'Strange, beautiful and terribly moving' A.S. Byatt, Times Literary Supplement
At first The Emigrants appears simply to document the lives of four Jewish emigres in the twentieth century. But gradually, as Sebald's preci... Buy or find out more →
Doctor Zhivago
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On they went singing 'Eternal Memory', and whenever they stopped, the sound of their feet, the horses and the gusts of wind seemed to carry on their singing…
Doctor Zhivago is the epic novel of Russia in the throes of ... Buy or find out more →
Patrick White: A Life
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Patrick White, winner of the Nobel Prize and author of more than a dozen novels and plays - including Voss, The Vivisector and The Twyborn Affair - lived an extraordinary life. David Marr's brilliant biography draws not ... Buy or find out more →
A Single Man
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A Single Man is an exclusive Vintage Classic that has been made into a film starring Julianne Moore and Colin Firth and directed by Tom Ford.
'The best prose writer in English' Gore Vidal
Celebrated as a masterpiece from... Buy or find out more →
Revolutionary Road
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Hailed as a masterpiece from the moment of its first publication, Revolutionary Road is the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a bright, beautiful, and talented couple whose empty suburban life is held together by the dre... Buy or find out more →
True History Of The Kelly Gang
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The Leopard
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Lampedusa's masterpiece, one of the finest works of twentieth century fiction, is set amongst an aristocratic family facing social and political changes in the wake of Garibaldi's invasion of Sicily in 1860. At the head ... Buy or find out more →
The Complete Novels
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In America Karl Rossmann is 'packed off to American by his parents' to experience Oedipal and cultural isolation. Here, ordinary immigrants are also strange, and 'America' is never quite as real as it should be. Kafka, a... Buy or find out more →
Little Women And Good Wives
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The Handmaid's Tale
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On The Beach
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Pied Piper
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A classic adventure from the author of A Town Like Alice and On the Beach
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Selected Poems
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A new edition of the selected poems of Russia’s greatest twentieth-century poet, published to celebrate her 120th anniversary.
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The Old Devils
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Winner of the Booker Prize.
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Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award
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A Country Doctor's Notebook
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Brilliant stories which show the growth of a novelist's mind, and the raw material which fed the wild surrealism of Bulgakov's later fiction
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Three Plays (Absurd Person Singular, Absent Friends, Bedroom Farce)
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Painfully funny plays set in 1970s suburbia from one of the UK's leading playwrights.
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Flaubert's Parrot
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Peter Pan
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All children, except one, grow up.' Peter Pan
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Camera Lucida
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Mythologies
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Poems
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William Blake is one of Britain's most fascinating writers, who, as well as being a groundbreaking poet, is also well known as a painter, engraver, radical and mystic. Although Blake was dismissed as an eccentric by his ... Buy or find out more →
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Jane Eyre
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The Complete Fairy Tales
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Black Snow
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When Maxudov's bid to take his own life fails, he dramatises the novel whose failure provoked the suicide attempt. To the resentment of literary Moscow, his play is accepted by the legendary Independent Theatre and Maxud... Buy or find out more →
Diaboliad
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An explosive collection of short stories which display all of Bulgakov's surreal inventiveness and biting satirical humour
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The Heart Of A Dog
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The White Guard
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A Dead Man In Deptford
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Possession
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Winner of the Man Booker Prize.
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Villette
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‘I am only just returned to a sense of the real world about me, for I have been reading Villette … There is something preternatural about its power’ George Eliot
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Adam One Afternoon
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Difficult Loves
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'The greatest Italian writer of the twentieth century ' Guardian
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If On A Winter's Night A Traveller
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Invisible Cities is perhaps his most beautiful work-the artist seems to have made peace with the tension between man's ideas of the many and the one New York Review of Books
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Marcovaldo
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Mr Palomar
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Our Ancestors
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'The most magically ingenious of the contemporary Italian novelists' The Times.
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Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
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Alice is one of the most beloved characters of English writing. A bright and inquisitive child, one boring summer afternoon, she follows a white rabbit down a rabbit-hole. At the bottom, she finds herself in a bizarre wo... Buy or find out more →
The Bloody Chamber And Other Stories
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Cathedral
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Elephant
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Fires
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Don Quixote
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A new translation by Edith Grossman. Widely 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 kni... Buy or find out more →
In Patagonia
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IN PATAGONIA is a Quest or a Wonder Voyage. It is about wandering and exile. Bruce Chatwin travels to a remote country in search of a strange beast and, as he goes along, describes his encounters with other people whose ... Buy or find out more →
On The Black Hill
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Songlines
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'Songlines' or 'Dreaming Tracks' are what all Europeans call the labyrinth of invisible pathways that meander all over Australia. To Aboriginals, they are the 'Footprints of the Ancestors'; they are both intricate source... Buy or find out more →
Utz
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Bruce Chatwin's bestselling novel traces the fortunes of the enigmatic and unconventional hero, Kaspar Utz. Despite the restrictions of Cold War Czechoslovakia, Utz asserts his individuality through his devotion to his p... Buy or find out more →
The Viceroy Of Ouidah
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Francisco Manoel da Silva, a poor Brazilian sailed to the African kingdom of Dahomey in the early 1800s, determined to make his fortune in the slave trade. Armed with nothing but an iron will, he became a man of substanc... Buy or find out more →
What Am I Doing Here
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WHAT AM I DOING HERE (the question Rimbaud asked in Ethiopia), because it is more ragged than anything else he wrote, tells us more about him - his interests and friends, if not his passions. He writes of his father, of ... Buy or find out more →
The Letters Of John Cheever
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Bullet Park
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Eliot Nailles loves his wife and son to distraction; Paul Hammer is a bastard named afer a common household tool. Neighbours in Bullet Park, the two become fatefully liked by the mysterious binding power of their names. ... Buy or find out more →
The Journals
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‘Invariably thoughtful, honest, beautifully written’ Guardian
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Oh What A Paradise It Seems
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The Wapshot Chronicle
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The Wapshot Scandal
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The sequel to John Cheever's first, extraordinary novel - The Wapshot Chronicle
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The Worst Journey In The World
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‘When people ask me… “What is your favourite travel book?” I nearly always name this book. It is about courage, misery, starvation, heroism, exploration, discovery and friendship’ Paul Theroux
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The Moonstone
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‘The first… and the best of modern English detective novels’ T S Eliot
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No Name
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Woman In White
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Marian and her sister Laura live a quiet life under their uncle's guardianship until Laura's marriage to Sir Percival Glyde. Sir Percival is a man of many secrets - is one of them connected to the strange appearances of ... Buy or find out more →
Heart Of Darkness And Youth
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He cried in a whisper at some image, at some vision – he cried out twice, a cry that was no more than a breath, “The horror! The horror!"' - Heart of Darkness
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The Secret Agent
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY GILES FODEN. London is under threat. It has become a haven for political exiles and anarchists. Frequent bomb threats and disturbances interrupt the lives of the city's inhabitants, who live in fe... Buy or find out more →
Talleyrand
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The definitive biography of Talleyrand by the inimitable Duff Cooper
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The Origin Of Species And The Voyage Of The Beagle
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Moll Flanders
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The original salacious story of a bad girl who makes good.
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Robinson Crusoe
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Robinson Crusoe runs away from home to join the navy. After a series of adventures at sea, he is shipwrecked in a devastating storm, and finds himself alone on a remote desert island. He remains there many years, buildin... Buy or find out more →
Bleak House
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The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself' 'Jarndyce and Jardyce is an infamous lawsuit that has been in process for generations. Nobody can remember exactly how the case started but many... Buy or find out more →
A Christmas Carol
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‘Marley's face. It was not in impenetrable shadow as the other objects in the yard were, but had a dismal light about it, like a bad lobster in a dark cellar.’ Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
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David Copperfield
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When David Copperfield escapes from the cruelty of his childhood home, he embarks on a journey to adulthood which will lead him through comedy and tragedy, love and heartbreak and friendship and betrayal. Over the course... Buy or find out more →
Dombey And Son
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Great Expectations
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Pip's life as an ordinary country boy is destined to be unexceptional until a chain of mysterious events lead him away from his humble origins and up the social ladder. His efforts to become a London gentleman bring him ... Buy or find out more →
Hard Times
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Little Dorrit
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'You talk very easily of hours, sir! How long do you suppose, sir, that an hour is to a man who is choking for want of air?'
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Martin Chuzzlewit
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Martin Chuzzlewit is a comic masterpiece which courted controversy on publication with its scathing portrayal of nineteenth-century America
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The Old Curiosity Shop
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‘I bought it, read and loved it’ Derek Jacobi
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Oliver Twist
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This darkly satiric indictment of the social ills of Victorian London tells the story of a young orphan who becomes involved with a gang of criminals.
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Our Mutual Friend
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‘Has a dead man any use for money? … What world does money belong to? This world. How can money be a corpse’s?’
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A Tale Of Two Cities
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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...'
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Crime And Punishment
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New footnotes have been added, based on discoveries by the leading Soviet Dostoevsky scholar, Sergei Belov. "Backgrounds and Sources", highly praised in the Second Edition, remains unaltered. Included are a detailed map ... Buy or find out more →
The Brothers Karamazov
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Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.
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Demons
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Dostoevsky first conceived of this book as 'novel-pamphlet' in which he intended to 'say everything' about Russia's new liberal reformers, whom he loathed - particularly the group of anti-Czarist political terrorists kno... Buy or find out more →
Notes From The Underground
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'Notes from Underground establishing Dostoevsky's reputation as the most innovative and challenging writer of fiction in his generation in Russia' Rowan Williams, Guardian
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The Adventures And Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes
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‘Arthur Conan Doyle is unique…Personally, I would walk a mile in tight boots to read him to the milkman’ - Stephen Fry
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The Hound Of The Baskervilles
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The most famous and thrilling of Sherlock Holmes’s cases.
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A Study In Scarlet
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The first of Sherlock Holmes’s adventures
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Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
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The bittersweet story of a boy growing up in north Dublin, winner of the Booker Prize
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The Count Of Monte Christo
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‘Dumas is a master of ripping yarns full of fearless heroes, poisonous ladies and swashbuckling adventurers.’The Guardian
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Kings In Grass Castles
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The Name Of The Rose
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Set in Italy in the Middle Ages, this is not only a narrative of a murder investigation in a monastery in 1327, but also a chronicle of the 14th century religious wars, a history of monastic orders, and a compendium of h... Buy or find out more →
Middlemarch
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"People are almost always better than their neighbours think
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The Mill On The Floss
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A powerful and dramatic tragedy about the struggle between head and heart
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Silas Marner
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A heartwarming and poignant tale of a lonely man brought back to life and faith
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Medea
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A bold new translation of this shockingly modern classic work by Forward Prize-winning poet, Robin Robertson
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As I Lay Dying
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Successive episodes in the death and burial of Addie Bundren are recounted by various members of the family circle, principally as they are carting their mother's coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi, in order to bury her am... Buy or find out more →
Light In August
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A landmark in American fiction, this epic novel 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... Buy or find out more →
The Good Soldier
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‘One of the finest novels of our century’ Graham Greene
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The Collector
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Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick collects butterflies and takes photographs. A lottery win enables him to capture art student Miranda and keep her in the cellar of the Sussex house he has bought with the wind... Buy or find out more →
The French Lieutenant's Woman
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Of all John Fowles' novels THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN received the most universal acclaim and today holds a very special place in the canon of post-war English literature. From the god-like stance of the nineteenth-ce... Buy or find out more →
The Journals Volume Two
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The first volume of John Fowles's Journals ended with him achieving international literary renown after the publication of THE COLLECTOR and THE MAGUS, and leaving London behind to live in a remote house on the Dorset co... Buy or find out more →
The Magus
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On a remote Greek Island, Nicholas Urfe finds himself embroiled in the deceptions of a master trickster. As reality and illusion intertwine, Urfe is caught up in the darkest of psychological games-John Fowles expertly un... Buy or find out more →
Mantissa
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John Fowles' provocative and playful battle of the sexes available for the first time in Vintage Classics paperback
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The Essentials Of Psych-Analysis
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In this selection of her father's writings Anna Freud has defined and included, in a single volume, the essential, irreducible elements of psycho-analysis. She begins with the most appropriate of Freud's own introductory... Buy or find out more →
The Cranford Chronicles
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Based on three Elizabeth Gaskell novels The Cranford Chronicles follows the small absurdities and major tragedies in the lives of the people of Cranford, a small Cheshire market town, during one extraor... Buy or find out more →
North And South
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Milton is a sooty, noisy northern town centred around the cotton mills that employ most of its inhabitants. Arriving from a rural idyll in the south, Margaret Hale is initially shocked by the social unrest and poverty sh... Buy or find out more →
Wives And Daughters
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September 2010 is the bicentenary of Gaskell's birth. This tender story of parents, children and step-children, mistakes and secrets was Elizabeth Gaskell’s last novel and is considered her masterpiece.
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The Wind In The Willows
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The day that Mole abandons his spring-cleaning and sets out to enjoy the sunshine is the start of many adventures. Not only does he discover the river and the joys of messing around in boats, but he also makes lifelong f... Buy or find out more →
Nothing, Doting, Blindness
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A contemporary of Evelyn Waugh, admired by Elizabeth Bowen and W.H. Auden, Henry Green is a neglected master of 20th century literature who is ripe for rediscovery.
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Brighton Rock
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A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold, who is det... Buy or find out more →
Doctor Fischer Of Geneva
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Doctor Fischer despises the human race. When the notorious toothpaste millionaire decides to hold the last of his famous parties - his own deadly version of the Book of Revelations - Greene opens up a powerful vision of ... Buy or find out more →
The End Of The Affair
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The love affair between Maurice Bendix 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... Buy or find out more →
Monsignor Quixote
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With Sancho Panza, a deposed Communist mayor, his faithful Rocinate, an antiquated motorcar, Monsignor Quixote roams through modern-day Spain in a brilliant picaresque fable. Like Cervantes' classic, Monsignor Quixote of... Buy or find out more →
Our Man In Havana
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Wormold, a vacuum cleaner salesman, was short of money. His daughter had reached an expensive age - so he accepted Hawthorne's offer of $300-plus a month and became Agent 59200/5, MI6's man in Havana. To keep the job, Wo... Buy or find out more →
The Power And The Glory
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During a vicious persecution of the clergy in Mexico, a worldly priest, the 'whisky priest', is on the run. With the police closing in, his routes of escape are being shut off, his chances gettin... Buy or find out more →
Journey Without Maps
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In 1936 Graham Greene set off to discover Liberia, a remote and unfamiliar West African republic founded for released slaves. Crossing the red-clay terrain from Sierra Leone to the coast of Grand Bassa with a chain of po... Buy or find out more →
The Quiet American
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Into the intrigue and violence of Indo-China comes Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through a mysterious 'Third Force'. As his naive optimism starts to cause bloodshed, his friend Fowler, a cyn... Buy or find out more →
The Fallen Idol And The Third Man
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THE THIRD MAN is Graham Greene's brilliant recreation of post-war Vienna, a 'smashed dreary city' occupied by the four Allied powers. Rollo Martins, a second-rate novelist, arrives penniless to visit his friend and hero,... Buy or find out more →
See Under Love
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Innovative and daring retelling of the horrors of Jewish history, likened to The Tin Drum and One Hundred Years of Solitude
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Life And Fate
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This sweeping account of the siege of Stalingrad aims to give as panoramic a view of Soviet society during World War II as Tolstoy did of Russian life in the epoch of the Napoleonic Wars. Completed in 1960 and then confi... Buy or find out more →
We Of The Never Never
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In 1902, newly-married Jeannie Gunn (Mrs Aeneas Gunn) left the security and comfort of her Melbourne home to travel to the depths of the Northern Territory, where her husband had been appointed manager of 'The Elsey', a ... Buy or find out more →
Twenty Thousand Streets Under The Sky
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The Midnight Bell, a pub on the Euston Road, is the pulse of this brilliant and compassionate trilogy. It is here where the barman, Bob, falls in love with Jenny, a West End prostitute who comes in off the streets for a ... Buy or find out more →
Far From The Madding Crowd
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It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as a short cut that way, but it has been known to fail' Far From the Madding Crow... Buy or find out more →
Jude The Obscure
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A brooding tragedy which scandalised Hardy's contemporaries on first publication
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The Mayor Of Casterbridge
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‘A tale of true tragedy – a man of potential brought down by his own fatal flaw – wonderfully vivid and strong’ Joanna Trollope
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The Return Of The Native
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Eustacia Vye was the raw material of a divinity...She had the passions and instincts which make a model goddess, that is, those which make not quite a model woman' Return of the Native
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Tess Of The D'Urbervilles
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The Scarlet Letter
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Hester Prynne is a beautiful young woman. She is also an outcast. In the eyes of her neighbours she has committed an unforgivable sin. Everyone knows that her little daughter, Pearl, is the product of an illicit affair b... Buy or find out more →
Catch-22
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At the heart of Joseph Heller's bestselling novel, first published in 1961, is a satirical indictment of military madness and stupidity, and the desire of the ordinary man to survive it. It is the tale of the dangerously... Buy or find out more →
Death In The Afternoon
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Hemingway's classic portrait of the pageantry of bullfighting.
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A Farewell To Arms
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In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the 'war to end all wars'. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his experiences came A FAREWELL TO ARMS. Hemingway's description ... Buy or find out more →
For Whom The Bell Tolls
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High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer, has been sent to handle the dynamiting. There, in the mountains, he finds th... Buy or find out more →
The Glass Bead Game
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The title of this novel refers to an ultra-aesthetic game played by scholars in the kingdom of Castalia around the year 2400. The game involves all branches of knowledge and spiritual values, especially those of the East... Buy or find out more →
The Woman In Black
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Proud and solitary, Eel Marsh House surveys the windswept reaches of the salt marshes beyond Nine Lives Causeway. Arthur Kipps, a junior solicitor, is summoned to attend the funeral of Mrs Alice Drablow, the house's sole... Buy or find out more →
The Private Memoirs And Confessions Of Justified Sinne
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A Scottish classic, a world classic’ Ian Rankin, Observer
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Dancing Lessons For The Advanced In Age
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ADAM THIRLWELL This ebullient, gallivanting novel encapsulates the world vision of the Czech Republics best-loved author in one tumbling, breathtaking sentence. Saints and sinners, emperors and em... Buy or find out more →
Les Misérables
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‘Still grips the reader with its epic-narrative sweep and all-embracing humanitarianism’ Douglas Kennedy, Sunday Times
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Ape And Essence
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In February 2108, the New Zealand Rediscovery Expedition reaches California at last. It is over a century since the world was devastated by nuclear war, but the blight of radioactivity and disease still gnaws away at the... Buy or find out more →
Brave New World
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Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alon... Buy or find out more →
Brave New World Revisited
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In BRAVE NEW WORLD REVISITED Huxley checks the progress of his prophecies in his seminal novel BRAVE NEW WORLD thirty years after it was first published. Covering issues such as overpopulation, propaganda, the art of sel... Buy or find out more →
The Doors Of Perception
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In 1953, in the presence of an investigator, Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gramme of mescalin, sat down and waited to see what would happen. When he opened his eyes everything was transformed. Huxley described his ... Buy or find out more →
Island
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For over a hundred years the Pacific island of Pala has been the scene of a unique experiment in civilisation. Its inhabitants live in a society where western science has been brought together with eastern philosophy and... Buy or find out more →
Mr Norris Changes Trains
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First published in 1933, Mr Norris Changes Trains portrays a series of encounters in Berlin in the early thirties between the narrator, William Bradshaw, and the camp and mildly sinister Mr Norris. Piquantly evocative of... Buy or find out more →
Goodbye To Berlin
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'I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking,' are the famous lines on the first page. This a semiautobiographical account of Isherwood's time in 1930s Berlin.
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A Single Man (Film Tie-In)
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A Single Man is an exclusive Vintage Classic that has been made into a film starring Julianne Moore and Colin Firth and directed by Tom Ford.
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What Maisie Knew
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After her parents' bitter divorce, young Maisie Farange finds herself shuttled between her selfish mother and vain father, who value her only as a means for provoking each other. And when both take lovers and remarry, Ma... Buy or find out more →
The Portrait Of A Lady
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Isabel Archer's main aim in life is to protect her independence. She is not interested in settling down and compromising her freedom for the sake of marriage. However, on a trip around Europe with her aunt, she finds her... Buy or find out more →
The Turn Of The Screw And Other Stories
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A young governess is sent to a great country house to care for two orphaned children. To begin with Flora and Miles seem to be model pupils but gradually the governess starts to suspect that something is very wrong with ... Buy or find out more →
Ulysses
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Set entirely on one day, 16 June 1904, Ulysses follows Leopold Bloom and Stephen Daedalus as they go about their daily business in Dublin. From this starting point, James Joyce constructs a novel of extraordinary imagina... Buy or find out more →
Metamorphosis And Other Stories
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This volume contains some of Kafka's most famous stories, including Metamorphosis, Investigations of a Dog and In the Penal Settlement. Buy or find out more →
The Complete Short Stories
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This volume contains all of Kafka's shorter fiction, from fragments, parables and sketches, to longer, complete tales. Together they reveal the breadth of Kafka's literary vision and the extraordinary imaginative depth o... Buy or find out more →
The Trial
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'It is the fate and perhaps the greatness of that work that it offers everything and confirms nothing' Albert Camus
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Bright Star: The Complete Poems and Selected Letters of Keats
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John Keats died in penury and relative obscurity in 1821, aged only 26. He is now seen as one of the greatest English poets and a genius of the Romantic age. This collection, which contains all his most memorable works a... Buy or find out more →
Three Cheers For The Paraclete
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Winner of the 1968 Miles Franklin Award.
From the moment he allows his young cousin and bride to spend the night in his room, Father Maitland causes raised eyebrows and dark mutterings amongst the brothers at St Peter's.... Buy or find out more →
Just So Stories
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PHILIP PULLMAN Have you ever wondered how the leopard got his spots? Or how the camel got his hump? Rudyard Kipling's witty and beautifully written stories explain these secrets and many more and ... Buy or find out more →
The Giants
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A key novel from the 2008 Nobel Prize-winner for literature
Upon an immense stretch of flat ground at the mouth of a river bathed in sunlight rises Hyperpolis. It stands there, surrounded by its four asphalt car-parks, t... Buy or find out more →
Women In Love
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Women in Love begins one blossoming spring day in England and ends with a terrible catastrophe in the snow of the Alps. Ursula and Gudrun are very different sisters who become entangled with two friends, Rupert and Geral... Buy or find out more →
In His Own Write And A Spaniard In The Works
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A riotous collection of John Lennon’s poems, stories and drawings
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SIR PAUL MCCARTNEY
First published in 1964 and 1965, In His Own Write and A Spaniard in the Works are a brilliantly inventive an... Buy or find out more →
The Monk
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‘Graphic, almost pornographic tale of darkness and evil’ Guardian
Noble and devout, Ambrosio is the abbot of a Spanish monastery and spends his days in prayer and preaching. However his monastery is harboring a malev... Buy or find out more →
The Prince
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It is far safer to be feared than loved. Machiavelli made his name notorious for centuries with The Prince, his clever and cynical work about power relationships.The key themes of this influential, and ever timely, write... Buy or find out more →
The Tenth Man
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In a prison in Occupied France one in every ten men is to be shot. The prisoners draw lots among themselves - and for rich lawyer Louis Chavel it seems that his whole life has been leading up to an agonizing and crucial ... Buy or find out more →
Monarch Of The Glen
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American millionaire Chester Royde is in Scotland with his new bride Carrie and sister Myrtle to research Carrie’s Scottish ancestry. Their new “relatives” turn out to be rather more authentically Scottish than they barg... Buy or find out more →
The Communist Manifesto
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The second best-selling book ever published which heralded a seismic change in the world's political and social landscapes
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID AARONOVITCH
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The Snow Leopard
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When Peter Matthiessen set out with the field biologist George Schaller from Pokhara, in northwest Nepal, their hope was to reach the Crystal Mountain — a foot journey of 250 miles or more across the Himalaya — in the La... Buy or find out more →
Collected Short Stories Volume 1
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This classic collection of stories moves from England, France and Spain to the silver sands of the South Pacific. It includes the famous story 'Rain', the tragedy of a narrow-minded and overzealous missionary and a prost... Buy or find out more →
Collected Short Stories Volume 2
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The second collection of Maugham's celebrated stories
The stories in this collection move from Malaya to America and England, and include some of Maugham's most famous tales; 'Flotsam and Jetsam', the story of an old wom... Buy or find out more →
Collected Short Stories Volume 3
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The third collection of Maugham's famous short stories.
The third volume of Somerset Maugham's Collected Short Stories, introduced by the author, contains the celebrated series about Ashenden, a secret service agent in W... Buy or find out more →
Collected Short Stories Volume 4
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The final collection of Maugham's marvellous stories
This final classic collection of stories reveals Somerset Maugham's unique talent for exposing and exploring the bitter realities of human relationships.
Brilliant tal... Buy or find out more →
The Gentleman In The Parlour
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Best Known for his novels and plays, Somerset Maugham also produced the most delightfully engaging and absorbing non-fiction, of which The Gentleman in the Parlour is a prime example. First published in 1935 it is the ac... Buy or find out more →
The Magician
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The Magician is one of Somerset Maugham’s most complex and perceptive novels. Running through it is the theme of evil, deftly woven into a story as memorable fo... Buy or find out more →
More Far Eastern Tales
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Stunningly rejacketed as part of a major reinvention of this neglected 20th century master
From the love affair between a missionary and a drunkard to the mystery surrounding a death at sea, this collection gives a warm ... Buy or find out more →
The Narrow Corner
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A tense potboiler set on an exotic Pacific island by one of the 20th century's bestselling authors
All this happened a good many years ago.
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Dracula
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Collected inside this book are diary entries, letters and newspaper clippings that piece together the depraved story of the ultimate predator. A young lawyer on an assignment finds himself imprisoned in a Transylvanian c... Buy or find out more →
Midnight's Children
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Born at the stroke of midnight at the exact moment of India’s independence, Saleem Sinai is a special child. However, this coincidence of birth has consequences he is not prepared for: telepathi... Buy or find out more →
Young Hearts Crying
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In this moving novel, Richard Yates once again proves his skill as the chronicler of the 'American Dream' and all its casualties
By the time he was twenty-three, Michael Davenport had learned to trust his own scepticism.... Buy or find out more →
The Tin Drum
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A new translation of the landmark novel with a new foreword by the author
On his third birthday Oskar decides to stop growing. Haunted by the deaths of his parents and wielding his tin drum Oskar recounts the events of h... Buy or find out more →
Disturbing The Peace
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John Wilder is in his mid-thirties, a successful salesman with a place in the country, an adoring wife and a ten-year-old son.But something is wrong.His family no longer interests him, his infidelities are leading him no... Buy or find out more →
The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer
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The classic boy-hero of American literature
Impish, daring young Tom Sawyer is the bane of the old, the hero of the young. There were some in his dusty old Missippi town who believed he would be President, if he escaped ... Buy or find out more →
Liza Of Lambeth
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Down among the drab slums of Lambeth, eighteen-year-old Liza is the darling of Vere Street. Vibrant and bewitching, she has found an adoring if conventional beau in Tom. When she meets Jim Blakeston, a married man new to... Buy or find out more →
General Of The Dead Army
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Albania: once a battlefield, now a charnel-house. And yet, life goes on . . .This sweeping epic of post-war Albania was Kadare's first novel.
Twenty years after the end of the Second World War, an Italian general is desp... Buy or find out more →
Darkness At Noon
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Originally published in 1941, Arthur Koestler's modern masterpiece, Darkness At Noon, is a powerful and haunting portrait of a Communist revolutionary caught in the vicious fray of the Moscow show trials of the late 1930... Buy or find out more →
The Merry-Go-Round
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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or w... Buy or find out more →
The Vagrant Mood
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Another collection of sparkling essays, brilliantly rejacketed in the new series style
The Vagrant Mood is a brilliantly varied and colourful collection of essays. From Kant to Raymond Chandler; from the legend of Zurbar... Buy or find out more →
Short Stories
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The acknowledged master of the short story, the full range of Somerset Maugham's art is represented in this collection. It includes the famous story 'Rain', the tragedy of a narrow-minded and overzealous missionary and a... Buy or find out more →
Christmas Holiday
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Published before the outbreak of war in 1939, a warning to the
complacent, British middle-class of the upheavals taking place on
the Continent.
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Points Of View
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Another wide-ranging volume of essays from the prose master
Eclectic and illuminating, these essays are the last that Maugham published. Ranging from an appreciation of Goethe's novels, to an encounter with an Indian hol... Buy or find out more →
Far Eastern Tales
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FAR EASTERN TALES is a collection of stories all born of his experiences in Malaya, Singapore and other outposts of the former British Empire. Whether portraying a ship-borne flight from a lover's curse, murder in the ju... Buy or find out more →
Then And Now
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Three months in the career of the crafty politician, worldly seducer and high priest of schemers. Buy or find out more →
Collected Poems
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From the quiet beauty ofThe Lake Isle of Innisfreeto the apocalyptic resonance ofThe Second Coming, this collection shows the impact on a great poet whose startling relevance to our own times grows more and more evident.... Buy or find out more →
Cider With Rosie
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The final collection of Maugham's marvellous stories
This final classic collection of stories reveals Somerset Maugham's unique talent for exposing and exploring the bitter realities of human relationships.
Brilliant tal... Buy or find out more →
Weekend Wodehouse
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Introductory collection to the inimitable PG Wodehouse; 'The greatest comic writer ever' (Douglas Adams)
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HILAIRE BELLOC
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The Bonfire Of The Vanities
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As influential as Martin Amis’s MONEY and Oliver Stone’s film WALL STREET, this is an exhilarating satire of Eighties excess and a book that captures the roiling spirit of New York
Sherman McCoy is a WASP, bond trade... Buy or find out more →
Captain Blood
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The epic story of Peter Blood, doctor and gentleman turned pirate on the Caribbean seas
Wrongfully arrested following the Monmouth rebellion of 1685, Peter Blood, country physician and former soldier, escapes the hangman... Buy or find out more →
The Murders In The Rue Morgue
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Edgar Allan Poe invented the genre of detective fiction with these three mesmerising stories of a young French eccentric named C. Auguste Dupin: 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue', 'The Mystery of Marie Rog t' and 'The Purl... Buy or find out more →
The Fall Of The House Of Usher
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‘The most original genius that America has produced’ Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Edgar Allan Poe was a writer of uncommon talent; in The Murders in the Rue Morgue he created the genre of detective fiction while his genius ... Buy or find out more →
The Red House Mystery
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A classic crime story from the world famous author of Winnie-the-Pooh, beautifully re-issued for a whole new audience of Milne fans and crime lovers alike. The perfect stocking filler this Christmas.
Far from the gentle ... Buy or find out more →
The Foundation Pit
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New translation of this powerful political satire set in Stalinist Russia
Platonov's dystopian novel describes the lives of a group of Soviet workers who believe they are laying the foundations for a radiant future. As t... Buy or find out more →
Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance
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'Profoundly important-full of insights into our most perplexing contemporary dilemmas' New York Times
A book which speaks directly to the confusions and agonies of existence, detailing a personal, philosophical odyssey. Buy or find out more →
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Selected Stories
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First-ever selection of one of the world's greatest living short-story writers, winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2009.
This first-ever selection of Alice Munro’s stories sums up her genius. Her territory is t... Buy or find out more →
The Painted Veil
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She did not know what to say. She was undecided whether indignantly to assert her innocence or to break out into angry reproaches. He seemed to read her thoughts. 'I've got all the proof necessary.'
Kitty Fane is the bea... Buy or find out more →
Scaramouche
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A classic tale of high adventure, the story of a man ‘born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad’.
When Andre-Louis witnesses the murder of his best friend by an arrogant and privileged aristocra... Buy or find out more →
Sonnets
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The complete sonnets - available for the first time in Vintage Classics
INTRODUCTION BY GERMAINE GREER
Shakespeare’s sonnets are lyrical, haunting, beautiful and often breath-taking, representing one of the finest bodies... Buy or find out more →
The Death Of Ivan Ilych And Other Stories
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Magnificent new translation of Tolstoy’ fiction by the acclaimed duo behind War and Peace
The Death of Ivan Ilyich is one of the masterpieces of Tolstoy’s late fiction and the first major fictional work to be published... Buy or find out more →
Anna Karenina
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‘The greatest love story I've ever read’ Andrew Davies
‘All happy families are alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.’
Anna Karenina is a novel of unparalleled richness and complexity, set against... Buy or find out more →
Vanity Fair
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Becky Sharp is a poor orphan when she first makes friends with the lovely Amelia Sedley at Miss Pinkerton's Academy for Young Ladies. She may not have the natural advantages of her companion but she more than makes up fo... Buy or find out more →
Kidnapped
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‘As a writer of the English language there has been no one to touch Stevenson in a hundred years…as a story-teller he is unsurpassed’ George MacDonald Fraser
When young David Balfour is orphaned he discovers some s... Buy or find out more →
One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich
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The authorised translation of the restored text by H. T. Willetts
The Gulag, the Stalinist labour camps to which millions of Russians were condemned for political deviation, has become a household word in the West. This ... Buy or find out more →
Slow Learner
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Collected early stories by one of America's most important and influential writers, containing a revelatory essay on his early influences and writing. Buy or find out more →
Touching The Void
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The best-selling, nail-biting, heart-breaking non-fiction classic of adventure
Touching the Void is the heart-stopping account of Joe Simpson's terrifying adventure in the Peruvian Andes. He and his climbing partner, Sim... Buy or find out more →
Revolutionary Road
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Revolutionary Road is an American classic and has been made into a film starring Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio.
Hailed as a masterpiece from the moment of its first publication, Revolutionary Road is the story of Fr... Buy or find out more →
Suite Française
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A major event - the first paperback publication of a lost masterpiece written in Second Wolrd War France and telling the spellbinding story of a group of characters living under Nazi occupation.
In 1941, Irène Némirovsky... Buy or find out more →
Sophie's Choice
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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 intellectua... Buy or find out more →
V
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This is the first novel by the author of GRAVITY'S RAINBOW, and a profoundly impressive and original work in its own right. The search for the mysterious V ranges from New York to Cairo to Alexandria to Malta. Apart from... Buy or find out more →
Vineland
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An essential novel of our fin de siecle, a finger pointing the way out of the 1980s USA Today
Vineland, a zone of blessed anarchy in northern California, is the last refuge of hippiedom, a culture devastated by the sobri... Buy or find out more →
Treasure Island
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JAKE ARNOTT When young Jim Hawkins discovers a treasure map in a pirate's chest in his parents' inn, he is drawn into a world of danger and adventure. He joins the crew setting sail to the Caribbe... Buy or find out more →
Orlando
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As his tale begins, Orlando is a passionate young nobleman whose days are spent in rowdy revelry, filled with the colourful delights of Queen Elizabeth's court. By the close, he will have transformed into a modern, thirt... Buy or find out more →
The Waves
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Set on the English coast against the vivid backdrop of the sea, The Waves introduces six characters who are grappling with the death of a beloved friend, Percival. The characters are almost imperceptibly revealed through... Buy or find out more →
The File On H
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Society in rural Albania in the early 1930s had evolved little since the Middle Ages. What better place in which two Irish-American scholars might study the tradition of oral poetry, in the hope of understanding how the ... Buy or find out more →
Armageddon In Retrospect
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First published on the anniversary of Kurt Vonnegut's death, Armageddon in Retrospect is a collection of twelve new and unpublished writings on war and peace. Imbued with Vonnegut's trademark rueful humour, the pieces ra... Buy or find out more →
Under The Net
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Iris Murdoch's first novel is a gem - solid and sparkling. Set in a part of London, where struggling writers rub shoulders with successful bookies, and film starlets with frantic philosophers. Its hero, Jake Donaghue, is... Buy or find out more →
War And Peace
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Tolstoy's enthralling epic depicts Russia's war with Napoleon and its effects on the lives of those caught up in the conflict. He creates some of the most vital and involving characters in literature as he follows the ri... Buy or find out more →
Life: A User's Manual
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One of the most dazzling and ingeniously contrived works of twentieth-century fiction, an entire microcosm brought to life in a Paris apartment block. Serge Valne, one of the inhabitants of the apartment block, has conce... Buy or find out more →
In Search Of Lost Time 3: The Guermantes Way
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'As close to being a definitive English version of the great novel as we are likely to get. This new edition will serve to introduce new generations of readers to what Somerset Maugham rightly described as the greatest n... Buy or find out more →
In Search Of Lost Time 2: Within A Budding Grove
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'As close to being a definitive English version of the great novel as we are likely to get. This new edition will serve to introduce new generations of readers to what Somerset Maugham rightly described as the greatest n... Buy or find out more →
Restoration
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‘A most beautiful and original novel’ Independent
Robert Merivel is a dissolute young medical student when an accident of fate leads him to the attention of King Charles II. Finding favour with the King, Merivel emba... Buy or find out more →
The Magnificent Meaulnes
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‘One of the most romantic, elegiac novels of adolescence ever written’ Sunday Telegraph
When Augustin Meaulnes arrives in François’ home, he changes everything. Life in the little town where they both go to school su... Buy or find out more →
Kim
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New to Vintage Classics - 'Rudyard Kipling's masterpiece, and it's one of the dozen books I should most like to have written myself' Geoffrey Moorhouse
Kim is an orphan who earns his living begging on the streets of Laho... Buy or find out more →
The Jungle Books
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‘As a child I loved The Jungle Books… If you want to look at the India of Kipling's time, there is no writer who will give it to you better’ Salman Rushdie
The Jungle Books tell the story of the irrepressible Mowgl... Buy or find out more →
I Served The King Of England
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With an introduction by Adam Thirlwell
Sparkling with comic genius and narrative exuberance, I Served the King of England is a story of how the unbelievable came true. Its remarkable hero, Ditie, is a hotel waiter who ri... Buy or find out more →
Paradise Lost And Paradise Regained
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Satan is out for revenge. His rebellion has failed, he has been cast out from heaven and is doomed to spend eternity in hell. Somehow he must find a way to prove his power and wound his enemies. He fixes upon God's belov... Buy or find out more →
Remembering Babylon
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In the 1840s, a ship's boy cast ashore in northern Australia is taken in by Aborigines. Sixteen years later he steps out of the bush and inadvertently confronts the new white settlers with their unspoken terrors. A pictu... Buy or find out more →
Frankenstein
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‘It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open . ... Buy or find out more →
War
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A key novel from the 2008 Nobel Prize-winner for literature
War – in the mind of the fragile Bea B., in the infinite icy landscape she journeys through, in Vietnam, in 10,000 years of human history. The war of the title ... Buy or find out more →
The Voyage Out
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Published in 1915, THE VOYAGE OUT is Virginia Woolf's first novel, and came out after she had suffered a succession of severe mental crises. This definitive edition contains the original Hogarth Press text as overseen by... Buy or find out more →
Sartre
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Sartre's powerful political passions were united to a memorable literary gift, placing him foremost among the novelists, as well as the philosophers, of our time. This study analyses and evaluates the different strands o... Buy or find out more →
Of Human Bondage
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OF HUMAN BONDAGE is the first and most autobiographical of Maugham's masterpieces. It tells the story of Philip Carey, an orphan eager for life, love and adventure. After a few months studying in Heidelberg, and a brief ... Buy or find out more →
Theatre
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InTheatre, W. Somerset Maugham–the author of the classic novelsOf Human BondageandUp at the Villa–introduces us to Julia Lambert, a woman of breathtaking poise and talent whose looks have stood by her forty-six years. ... Buy or find out more →
Independent People
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Bjartus is a sheep farmer hewing a living from a blighted patch of land in Iceland. After 18 years of servitude to a master he despises, all he wants is to raise his flocks unbeholden to anyone. Nothing, not inclement we... Buy or find out more →
Persuasion
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Written in her final illness, Persuasion is Jane Austen’s finest novel.
Eight years ago Anne Elliot bowed to pressure from her family and made the decision not to marry the man she loved, Captain Wentworth. Now circums... Buy or find out more →
Death In Venice And Other Stories
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Mann's obsessive story explores the complex, haunted relationship between an ageing writer and a beautiful Polish boy Express
Death in Venice is a story of obsession. Gustave von Aschenbach is a successful but ageing wri... Buy or find out more →
The Collected Stories Of Richard Yates
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Richard Yates was acclaimed as one of the most powerful, compassionate and accomplished writers of America's post-war generation. Whether addressing the smothered desire of suburban housewives, the white-collar despair o... Buy or find out more →
Cold Spring Harbor
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All the sorrows of Evan Shepard's loutish adolescence were redeemed at seventeen, in 1935, when he fell in love with automobiles... In the small suburban town of Cold Spring Harbor, Evan Shephard and his young bride Rach... Buy or find out more →
Eleven Kinds Of Loneliness
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First published in 1962, a year after Revolutionary Road, this sublime collection of stories seems even more powerful today. Out of the lives of Manhattan office workers, a cab driver seeking immortality, frustrated woul... Buy or find out more →
The Easter Parade
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Even as little girls, Sarah and Emily are very different from each other. Emily looks up to her wiser and more stable older sister and is jealous of her relationship with their absent father, and later her seemingly gold... Buy or find out more →
The Aunt's Story
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With the death of her mother, middle-aged Theodora Goodman contemplates the desert of her life. Freed from the trammels of convention, she leaves Australia for a European tour and becomes involved with the residents of a... Buy or find out more →
Cry The Beloved Country
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Cry the Beloved Country is the deeply moving story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom, set against the background of a land and a people riven by racial injustice. Remarkable for its contemporaneity, u... Buy or find out more →
The Gormenghast Trilogy
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Enter the world of Gormenghast... Gormanghast is the vast crumbling castle to which the seventy-seventh Earl, Titus Groan, is Lord and heir. Gothic labyrinth of roofs and turrets, cloisters and corridors, stairwells and ... Buy or find out more →
The Razor's Edge
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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 ... Buy or find out more →
Tom Jones
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Tom Jones, born a foundling, grown into a gallant and irresistible hero, romps through the English countryside getting himself into all kinds of trouble through his good nature and eye for the ladies. Betrayed by jealous... Buy or find out more →
The Age Of Innocence
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Newland Archer and May Welland are the perfect couple. He is a wealthy young lawyer and she is a lovely and sweet-natured girl. All seems set for success until the arrival of May's unconventional cousin Ellen Olenska, wh... Buy or find out more →
The Crying Of Lot 49
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Oedipa Maas, recent heiress, enquires into the nature of her inheritance: trying to understand her own life and the motivation of her dead lover, she is led on am ambiguous trail of clues. The moment of revelation hovers... Buy or find out more →
Beloved
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Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for so many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is full of hope but eighteen years later she is still not free. ... Buy or find out more →
Liars In Love
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With his second collection of short stories, Richard Yates continues to extend his range as a writer of stunning power and eloquence.
Liars in Love is concerned with troubled relations and the elusive nature of truth: Ho... Buy or find out more →
A Good School
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At fifteen, Terry Flynn had the face of an angel and the body of a perfect athlete... Set in a small boarding school on the eve of America's entry into World War Two, A Good School tells the story of William Grove, the n... Buy or find out more →
The Sound And The Fury
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The story of the dissolution of the once aristocratic Compson family, told through the minds of three of its members, including the imbecilci Benjy - 'the tale told by an idiot'. In very different ways they prove inadequ... Buy or find out more →
The Temple Of The Golden Pavilion
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Bringing together Mishima's preoccupations with violence, desire, religious life and the history of Japan, this novel is based on an actual incident, the burning of a celebrated temple. The novel is a meditation on the s... Buy or find out more →
We
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The citizens of the One State live in a condition of 'mathematically infallible happiness'. D-503 decides to keep a diary of his days working for the collective good in this clean, blue city state where nature, privacy a... Buy or find out more →
A Writer's Notebook
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Maugham's working notebook which he kept for most of his writing life, and forms one of his most important pieces of work
From 1892, when he was eighteen, until 1949, when this book was first published, Somerset Maugham ... Buy or find out more →
Up At The Villa
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Set in a beautiful villa high in the hills above Florence, this seductive and moving novel reveals the full power of desperate love. Mary Panton ignores her desires in the calm of the villa as she contemplates her lovele... Buy or find out more →
The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
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Huck is a young, naive white boy fleeing from his drunken, dangerous Pa and Jim is a runaway slave longing to be reunited with his family. Flung together by circumstance, they journey down the Mississippi together on a l... Buy or find out more →
In Search Of Lost Time 6: Time Regained
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'As close to being a definitive English version of the great novel as we are likely to get. This new edition will serve to introduce new generations of readers to what Somerset Maugham rightly described as the greatest n... Buy or find out more →
In Search Of Lost Time 5: The Captive. The Fugitive
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'As close to being a definitive English version of the great novel as we are likely to get. This new edition will serve to introduce new generations of readers to what Somerset Maugham rightly described as the greatest n... Buy or find out more →
Sabbath's Theater
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Once a scandalously inventive puppeteer, Micky Sabbath at sixty-four is still defiantly antagonistic and exceedingly libidinous. But after the death of his long-time mistress - an erotic free spirit whose adulterous dari... Buy or find out more →
A Void
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Anton Vowl is missing. Ransacking his Paris flat, a group of his faithful companions trawl through his diary for any hint as to his location and, insidiously, a ghost, from Vowl's past starts to cast its malignant shadow... Buy or find out more →
To Kill A Mockingbird
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'No one ever forgets this book'
A lawyer's advice to his children a he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man charged with the rape of a white girl in the Deep South of the thirties.
'So... Buy or find out more →
Midnight's Children
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Born at the stroke of midnight at the exact moment of India's independence, Saleem Sinai is a special child. However, this coincidence of birth has consequences he is not prepared for: telepathic powers connect him with ... Buy or find out more →
An Old Captivity
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A classic adventure from the author of A Town Like Alice and On the Beach.
Young pilot Donald Ross has little in common with the Oxford don who has employed him on an expedition to the Arctic – and still less with his be... Buy or find out more →
Pastoral
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A classic adventure from the author of A Town Like Alice and On the Beach.
Nevil Shute Norway was born on 17 January 1899 in Ealing, London.After attending the Dragon School and Shrewsbury School, he studied Engineering ... Buy or find out more →
Most Secret
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A classic adventure from the author of A Town Like Alice and On the Beach.
In their trusty fishing boat Genevieve, armed with only a flame thrower and limited ammunition, a small group of officers and men take a stand ag... Buy or find out more →
Marazan
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A classic adventure from the author of A Town Like Alice and On the Beach.
After Philip Stenning is involved in a near-fatal plane crash, he feels he owes a debt of gratitude to the man who rescued him. However, his myst... Buy or find out more →
1915
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The tragedy and violence of Gallipoli provide the climax to this very personal, moving and surprisingly romantic story. With remarkable skill and in achingly beautiful prose, Roger McDonald takes the reader on an archety... Buy or find out more →
Lonely Road
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A classic adventure from the author of A Town Like Alice and On the Beach.
A rich middle-aged man finds his lonely life turned upside down when he falls in love with a pretty dance hostess and becomes involved in exposin... Buy or find out more →
In The Wet
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A classic adventure from the author of A Town Like Alice and On the Beach.
It is the rainy season. Drunk and delirious, an old man lies dying in the Queensland bush. In his opium-hazed last hours, a priest finds his dese... Buy or find out more →
The Rainbow And The Rose
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A classic adventure from the author of A Town Like Alice and On the Beach.
When Johnny Pascoe attempts to rescue a sick girl from the Tasmanian outback his plane crashes leaving him dangerously injured. Ronnie Clarke, wh... Buy or find out more →
Round The Bend
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A classic adventure from the author of A Town Like Alice and On the Beach.
When Tom Cutter hires Constantine Shaklin as an engineer in his air freight business, he little realises the extraordinary gifts of his new recru... Buy or find out more →
Ruined City
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A classic adventure from the author of A Town Like Alice and On the Beach.
Through a series of mishaps, Henry Warren, a recently divorced City financier, ends up in hospital in a Northern town ruined by the closure of it... Buy or find out more →
Landfall
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A classic adventure from the author of A Town Like Alice and On the Beach.
Jerry Chambers, a fresh-faced young pilot, mistakenly sinks a British submarine. He is reprimanded and sent to a remote posting to test an experi... Buy or find out more →
The L-Shaped Room
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Tender and compulsive, the bestselling novel which became a famous film
Jane Graham, alone and pregnant, retreats to a bug- infested attic bedsit in Fulham, where she finds unexpected companionship, happiness, and love. Buy or find out more →
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Complete Prose Tales
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A definitive modern translation of these immensely enjoyable stories.
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Beyond his perfect expression of Russian mood, Pushkin’s universality of vision has made him a permanent place in the history of w... Buy or find out more →
Mrs Craddock
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A young woman, carried away by passion, sees a chance to escape a dull life and to experience true love. But she discovers that little in her marriage to the dutiful and sensible Edward meets her expectations. And as pas... Buy or find out more →
Ten Novels And Their Authors
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Maughams' inimitable guide to some of the literary masters; Austen, Fielding, Balzac, Stendal, Dickens, Flaubert, Melville, Bronte, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy
Maugham's studies of the lives and masterpieces of ten great nov... Buy or find out more →
On A Chinese Screen
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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or w... Buy or find out more →
Don Fernando
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Enchanted by the landscape and people of Spain,Maugham had long resolved to wirte a picaresque novel about the country. Instead, he wrote a living commentary assessing a great people in their greatest hour. 'Don Fernando... Buy or find out more →
The Summing Up
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A rare glimpse into the life and mind of one of the most enigmatic of 20th century authors
Autobiographical without being an autobiography, confessional without disclosing his private self, The Summing Up, written when M... Buy or find out more →
Ashenden
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A celebrated writer by the time war broke out in 1914, Maugham has the perfect cover for living in Switzerlan d. Multilingual and knowledgeable about many european countries, he was despatched by the Secret Service to Lu... Buy or find out more →
The Moon And Sixpence
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Inspired by the life of Paul Gauguin, THE MOON AND SIXPENCE tells the story of Charles Strickland, a conventional stockbroker who abandons his wife and children for Prais and Tahiti, to live his life as a painter. Whilst... Buy or find out more →
Cakes And Ale
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When CAKES AND ALE was first published in 1930, it roused a storm of controversy, since many people imagined they saw in its pages recognisable portraits of literary figures now no more. The tumult and the shouting soon ... Buy or find out more →
Thirst For Love
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One of the outstanding writers of the world' New York Times
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. But soon she... Buy or find out more →
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea
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THE SAILOR WHO FELL FROM GRACE WITH THE SEA tells of a band of savage thirteen-year-old boys who reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness they call '... Buy or find out more →
The Bell
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'A distinguished novelist of a rare kind' Kingsley Amis
A lay community of thoroughly mixed-up people is encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an enclosed order of nuns. A new bell, legendary symbol of religion and magic... Buy or find out more →
Butterfield 8
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On this Sunday morning in May, this girl who was later to be the cause of a sensation in New York awoke much too early for her night before'... This particular morning Gloria finds herself alone in a stranger s apartment... Buy or find out more →
Appointment In Samarra
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Appointment in Samarra is a fast-paced, blackly comic depiction of the rapid decline and fall of Julian English. English is part of the social elite of his 1930s American hometown but from the moment he impetuously throw... Buy or find out more →
The Chequer Board
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A classic adventure from the author of A Town Like Alice and On the Beach.
John Turner, a young man with a chequered past, has been told he has just one year to live. He decides to use his time in search of three very di... Buy or find out more →
Slide Rule
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A classic adventure from the author of A Town Like Alice and On the Beach.
Nevil Shute was a power and a pioneer in the world of flying long before he began to write the stories that made him a bestselling novelist. This... Buy or find out more →
The Far Country
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A classic adventure from the author of A Town Like Alice and On the Beach.
A young English woman leaves her ageing parents to visit friends living in the Australian outback. She falls in love, both with the country and w... Buy or find out more →
Gulliver's Travels (Film Tie-In)
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From Twentieth Century Fox comes this modern-day re-imagining of Jonathan Swift's classic satire.
Lemuel Gulliver is just an ordinary guy working in the mail room of the New York Tribune.
No one ever takes him seriously,... Buy or find out more →
I Capture The Castle
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This wonderful novel tells the story of seventeen-year-old Cassandra and her family, who live in not-so-genteel poverty in a ramshackle old English castle. Here she strives, over six turbulent months, to hone her writing... Buy or find out more →
All Quiet On The Western Front
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One by one the boys begin to fall. 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 sig... Buy or find out more →
Caledonia Australis: Scottish Highlanders On The Frontier Of Australia
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Scottish Highlanders on the frontier of Australia. After their military defeat in 1745 the Scottish Highlanders suffered a worse humiliation. They were displaced from their ancestral lands and became curiosities: objects... Buy or find out more →
Palace Of Dreams
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A novel which arose from the author’s ambition to invent a hell of his own, Kadare’s macabre vision of tyranny and oppression was banned immediately when it first appeared in Albania in 1981.
Translated by Barbara Br... Buy or find out more →
Broken April
$12.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
By any standard this is a considerable novel' Sunday Telegraph
From the moment that Gjorg's brother is killed by a neighbour, his own life is forfeit: for the Kanun, the code of the blood feud that operates in the Albani... Buy or find out more →
Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde And Other Stories
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How thin is the line between good and evil? Dr Jekyll has been experimenting with his identity. He has developed a drug which separates the two sides of his nature and allows him to occasionally abandon himself to his mo... Buy or find out more →
The Gospel According To Jesus Christ
$12.95 – Paperback book / Harvill
Saramago's narrative is a secular re-telling of the Gospel, following the life of Christ from his conception to his crucifixion. A naive Jesus is the son, not of God, but of Joseph who is chosen to lay down his life for ... Buy or find out more →
The Odyssey
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The best poetic version of The Odyssey to have appeared this century - Hugh Lloyd-Jones
Penelope has been waiting for her husband Odysseus to return from Troy for many years. Little does she know that his path back to he... Buy or find out more →
Sense And Sensibility
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Sisters Elinor and Marianne Dashwood set their sights on men to perfectly match their disparate personalities, with unexpected results. Buy or find out more →
Gulliver's Travels
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The Rape Of The Lock
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‘[It is] a whimsical piece of work ... a sort of writing very like tickling’ Alexander Pope
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SOPHIE GEE
A hideous crime is committed at a fashionable London society gathering. The victim is the... Buy or find out more →
Emma
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Emma,first published in 1816, was written when Jane Austen was at the height of her powers. In a novel remarkable for its sparkling wit and modernity, Austen presents readers with two of literature’s greatest comic creat... Buy or find out more →
Beloved
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INCLUDES A READING GUIDE
Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for so many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is full of hope but eighteen years late... Buy or find out more →
So Disdained
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A classic adventure from the author of A Town Like Alice and On the Beach.
When Peter Moran picks up a man on the roadside while driving through a bitter rainy night on the South Downs, he embarks upon an adventure that ... Buy or find out more →
Stephen Morris
$12.95 – Paperback book / Random Century
A classic adventure from the author of A Town Like Alice and On the Beach.
INCLUDES THE NOVEL PILOTAGE
Stephen Morris has just called off his engagement to the girl of his dreams because he is a penniless graduate with n... Buy or find out more →
Trustee From The Toolroom
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A classic adventure from the author of A Town Like Alice and On the Beach.
Keith Stewart is an ordinary man. However, one day he is called upon to undertake an extraordinary task. When his sister’s boat is wrecked in the... Buy or find out more →
What Happened To The Corbetts
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A classic adventure from the author of A Town Like Alice and On the Beach.
Nevil Shute wrote this prophetic novel just before the start of the Second World War. In it he describes the devastation that results from an aer... Buy or find out more →
No Highway
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A classic adventure from the author of A Town Like Alice and On the Beach.
Theodore Honey is a shy, inconspicous aircraft engineer whose eccentric interests in quantum mechanics and spiritualism are frowned upon in aviat... Buy or find out more →
Olivia
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When Olivia turns sixteen she is sent to a Parisian finishing school to broaden her education. Soon after her arrival, she finds herself falling under the spell of her beautiful and charismatic teacher. But Madamoiselle ... Buy or find out more →
Timequake
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According to Vonneguts alter ego, science-fiction writer
Kilgore Trout a global timequake will occur in New York City on 13
february 2001. It is the moment when the universe suffers a crisis
of conscience. Should it expa... Buy or find out more →
The Aerodrome
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A model of efficiency and order, the aerodrome stands on the hill looking down on the village below. Roy, coming of age in the messy, violent and adulterous world of the villagers, is simultaneously attracted and repelle... Buy or find out more →
The Years
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A powerful indictment of "Victorianism" and its values,'The Years', written in 1937 was the most popular of Virginia Woolf's novels during her lifetime. 'The Years' ex plores a rich variety of themes such as sex, feminis... Buy or find out more →
A Room Of One's Own And Three Guineas
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This volume combines for the first time in paperback two books by Virginia Woolf which are among the greatest contributions to feminist literature this century. Together they form a brilliant attack on Patriarchy and sex... Buy or find out more →
Selected Letters
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The best of Virginia Woolf's letters in one volumes
The finest and most enjoyable of Virginia Woolf’s letters are brought together in a single volume. It is a marvellous collection – spontaneous, witty, often flirtatious... Buy or find out more →
Selected Diaries
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A moving, perceptive and beautifully written insight into the workings of the mind of one of the best loved and most admired writers of the twentieth century.
Virginia Woolf turned to her diary as to an intimate friend, ... Buy or find out more →
To The Lighthouse
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The serene and maternal Mrs Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr Ramsay, together with their children and assorted guests, are holidaying on the Isle of Skye. From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby li... Buy or find out more →
Black Boy: A Record Of Youth And Childhood
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Richard Wright's devastating autobiography of his childhood and youth in the Jim Crow South His training by his elders was strict and harsh to prepare him for the "white world" which would be cruel. Their resentment of t... Buy or find out more →
Beyond The Black Stump
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A classic adventure from the author of A Town Like Alice and On the Beach.
If somewhere is ‘beyond the black stump’ it means it is in the deepest darkest wilds of the Australian outback. This is the sun-baked setting for... Buy or find out more →