Vintage Classics
I Capture the Castle
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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, Topaz,... Buy or find out more→
The End of the Affair
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Henry Miles suspects that his wife Sarah is having an affair, and asks his friend Maurice to contact a private investigator on his behalf. However, Maurice was once Sarah's lover and wants to know if she was unfaithful to him too.... Buy or find out more→
The French Lieutenant's Woman
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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 the... Buy or find out more→
The Sea, The Sea
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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
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John Self, consumer extraordinaire, rolls around New York and London, making deals, spending wildly and doing reckless movie-world business, all the while grabbing everything he can to sate his massive appetites: alcohol,... Buy or find out more→
Enduring Love
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Begins on a windy summer's day in the Chilterns when the calm, organised life of Joe Rose is shattered by a ballooning accident. What happens is shocking and tragic, but strangely inco-sequential. The consequences come after, for... Buy or find out more→
A Spot of Bother
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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 has... Buy or find out more→
The Complete Enderby
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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 a... Buy or find out more→
The Art of Love
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Is your life filled with passionate escapades and fashionable parties? And do you look and feel fantastic all the time? This book contains all men need to know about the best places to pick up girls, how to handle illicit affairs,... Buy or find out more→
Byrne
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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 composer... Buy or find out more→
Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda
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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 lyrics of... 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... Buy or find out more→
Can You Forgive Her?
$12.95 – Paperback / Vintage
This title is the first volume in the Palliser sequence of six political novels concerning the character Plantagenet Palliser. The focus of attention in this book is actually two women - Lady Glencora and Alice Vavasor - and their... Buy or find out more→
The Sound of One Hand Clapping
$12.95 – Paperback / Random House Australia
In the winter of 1954, in a construction camp in Tasmania, when Sonja was three years old and her father was drinking too much, Sonja's mother walked into a blizzard never to return. Some 35 years later, when Sonja visits her... Buy or find out more→
Everything Flows
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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... Buy or find out more→
The Call of the Wild and White Fang
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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... Buy or find out more→
Sanctuary
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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... Buy or find out more→
The House of the Spirits
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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,... Buy or find out more→
A Rage to Live
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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... Buy or find out more→
Westwood
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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 romantic... Buy or find out more→
Starlight
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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 them.... Buy or find out more→
While Mortals Sleep
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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 too... Buy or find out more→
Voltaire in Love
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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
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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... Buy or find out more→
Madame De Pompadour
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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 Mitford... Buy or find out more→
Ghost Stories
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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→
The Captain and the Enemy
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Part of the TWENTIETH CENTURY CLASSICS series, this is a novel whose theme is the destructiveness of an inability to love. Victor was 12 years old when the Captain took him away from school claiming, that the boy, now reborn as... Buy or find out more→
Three Elegies for Kosovo
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Shows how legends of betrayal and defeat simmered in European civilisation for six hundred years, culminating in the agony of one tiny population at the end of the twentieth century. Buy or find out more→
Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog!
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Three men and a dog decide to head for a restful vacation on the Thames. Anticipating peace and leisure, they encounter, in fact, the joys of roughing it, of getting their boat stuck in locks, of being towed by amateurs, of having... 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 paper... 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... Buy or find out more→
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
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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 sea... Buy or find out more→
Planet of the Apes
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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... Buy or find out more→
To the Lighthouse
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For years now, the Ramsays have spent every summer in their holiday home in Scotland, and they expect these summers will go on forever. This novel captures the intensity of childhood longing and delight, and the shifting... Buy or find out more→
So Long, See You Tomorrow
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A love triangle in 1930s Illinois is the focus of this American classic, a short novel that yet encompasses humanity, wit, insight and psychological suspense. Buy or find out more→
Eugenie Grandet
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CHOSEN BY ROSE TREMAIN 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... Buy or find out more→
Revolutionary Road
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Soon to be a major motion picture from DreamWorks, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, and Kathy Bates, Revolutionary Road has been hailed as a masterpiece of realistic fiction and as the most evocative portrayal of the... 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... Buy or find out more→
Mary Barton
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Mary Barton rejects her childhood friend Jem's affections in the hope of marrying Henry, mill-owner's charming son, and escaping from the hard and bitter life that is the fate of the mill workers. But when Henry is shot dead in... Buy or find out more→
The Sea, the Sea
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The sea: turbulent and leaden, transparent and opaque, magician and mother... When Charles Arrowby, over sixty, a demi god of the theatre- director, playwright and actor - retires from his glittering London world in order to... Buy or find out more→
The Old Devils
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Winner of the Booker Prize. Malcolm, Peter and Charlie and their Soave-sodden wives have one main ambition left in life: to drink Wales dry. But their routine is both shaken and stirred when they are joined by... Buy or find out more→
The Secret Garden
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‘The Secret Garden should be on every child's bookshelf’ Amanda Craig, The Times ‘Mary is a tough feisty character, who manages to turn a whole household, and the lives of those in it, completely upside down… The book is... Buy or find out more→
No Name
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After the tragic deaths of their parents, Magdalen and Norah discover the devastating news that they are both illegitimate and not entitled to any inheritance. Norah is forced to become a governess to earn her keep but Magdalen... Buy or find out more→
The Origin of Species: and, The Voyage of the Beagle
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DARWIN'S GREAT-GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER, RUTH PADEL When the eminent naturalist Charles Darwin returned from South America on board the H.M.S Beagle in 1836, he brought with him the notes and evidence... Buy or find out more→
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 of his... Buy or find out more→
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?’ Our Mutual Friend centres on an inheritance – Old Harmon’s profitable dust heaps – and its... Buy or find out more→
Middlemarch
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People are almost always better than their neighbours think they are. George Eliot’s most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community. Peopling... 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 Cranford Chronicles
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TV tie-in edition 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... Buy or find out more→
Wives and Daughters
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Molly Gibson is brought up from childhood by her father. When he remarries a new stepsister, Cynthia, enters Molly's quiet life. Loveable but worldly and troubling, Cynthia's arrival alters Molly's daily life. Buy or find out more→
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 friends... 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. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY D.J. TAYLOR Three... 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 this picaresque fable. Buy or find out more→
The Giants
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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, to condemn us - a huge enveloping supermarket. Each of us will see... 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, writer are... Buy or find out more→
Collected Short Stories
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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 prostitute,... Buy or find out more→
Collected Short Stories
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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... Buy or find out more→
Collected Short Stories
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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... 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... 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 jungle or... Buy or find out more→
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... 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... Buy or find out more→
The Death of Ivan Ilyich 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→
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... 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 conceived... Buy or find out more→
Remembering Babylon
$12.95 – Paperback / Random House Australia
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 picture of... 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→
Sartre: Romantic Rationalist
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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 of... 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 golden... 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 loveless... 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 log... Buy or find out more→
The 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 Bray... 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 sign up.... 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→
1915: A Novel of Gallipoli
$12.95 – Paperback / Random House Australia
The tragedy and violence of Gallipoli provide the climax to this very personal, moving and surprisingly romantic story. This astonishing first novel, published to great critical acclaim in 1979, tells the story of two boys from... Buy or find out more→
The Far Country
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A young English woman leaves her aging parents to visit friends living in the Australian outback. She falls in love, both with the country and with Carl, a doctor and Czech refugee. Brought together through dramatic encounters and... 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→
Selected Letters
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Contains some of the finest and most enjoyable of the author's letters. Buy or find out more→
Room Of One's Own And Three Guineas
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Contains the books A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas . Buy or find out more→
The Years
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As the Pargiters, a middle-class London family, move from the oppressive confines of the Victorian home of the 1880s to the 'present day' of the 1930s, they are weighed down by the pressures of war, the social strictures of... 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→
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→
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... 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... 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... 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 1,000... Buy or find out more→
The L-Shaped Room
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Jane is unmarried and pregnant when she is turned out by her father. She lights on a room at the top of a squalid house. She cares nothing for it, or her neighbours. But it is these neighbours that draw her back into life - Toby,... Buy or find out more→
Complete Prose Tales
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A definitive modern translation of these immensely enjoyable stories. Description of book Beyond his perfect expression of Russian mood, Pushkin’s universality of vision has made him a permanent place in... 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... 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 died... 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 his... 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 Lucerne -... 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... 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... Buy or find out more→
Emma
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Emma is young, rich and independent. She has decided not to get married and instead spends her time organising her acquaintances' love affairs. Her plans for the matrimonial success of her new friend Harriet, however, lead her... 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... Buy or find out more→
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... Buy or find out more→