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Christine is a beautiful young singer at the Paris Opera. She is watched żeby the Opera's 'phantom' - a mysterious masked figure who terrorises...

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 2003 In The Master of Petersburg J. M. Coetzee dares to imagine the life of Dostoevsky. Set in...

This fictional re-creation of the battle of Shiloh in April 1862 fulfills the standard set aby his monumental history, conveying both the...

Superlative fable with Orwellian undertones from this Nobel Prize-winning author. "There are certain writers who will deliver something...

The psychologists would call it folie a deux...'Bruno slammed his palms together.' "Hey! Cheeses, what an idea! I kill your wife and you...

From one of the world's leading physicists comes a grand tour of the universe that makes readers look at space, time, and the texture of...

A reversion from Picador, new in Vintage paperback.

One of Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year In Landscape and Memory Schama ranges over continents and centuries to reveal the psychic...

Postman suggests that the current crisis in our educational system derives from its failure to supply students with a translucent, unifying...

'A poignant, piercing meditation on middle age and the passing of time... Will linger with you long after the book is closed' Guardian *SHORTLISTED...

THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. WINNER OF THE 2010 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD. 264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them bigger than...

"Like man, woman is a human being." When The Second Sex was first published in Paris in 1949--groundbreaking, risqu, brilliantly written...

Swallows and Amazons for ever!' The Walker children - also known as Captain John, Mate Susan, Able-Seaman Titty, and Ship's Boy Roger -...

This is an enchanting essay on aesthetics aby one of the greatest Japanese novelists. Tanizaki's eye ranges over architecture, jade, food,...

'As cryptic and compelling as a fever dream... Bae Suah is one of the most unique and adroit literary voices working today' Sharlene TeoFinishing...

Vintage Voyages: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets...

Discover Dostoevsky's masterpiece. 'The old woman was merely a sickness...it wasn't a human being I killed, it was a principle!'A troubled...

Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine was one of the leading personalities of the Middle Ages and also one of the most controversial. She was beautiful,...

THE AUTHORATITIVE TEXT "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."The year is 1984. War and revolution have...

In these Hemingway stories, which are partly autobiographical, men and women of passion live, fight, love and die in scenes of dramatic...

William Blake is one of England's most fascinating writers; he was not only a groundbreaking poet, but also a painter, engraver, radical,...

The annotated text of this modern classic. It assiduously illuminates the extravagant wordplay and the frequent literary allusions, parodies,...

"There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are...

Set in nineteenth-century Australia, Voss is the story of the secret passion between an explorer and a naive young woman. Although they...

Comprehensive and accessible book which uses the chaos theory as a way of looking at the complexities of nature. New edition.

Alan Hollinghurst's first novel is a tour de force: a darkly erotic work that centres on the friendship of William Beckwith, a young gay...

All the characters in HHhH are real. All the events depicted are true. But alongside the nerve-shredding preparations for the attack on...

Set in the deep south that provided the backdrop for all of Faulkner's finest fiction, Intruder in the Dust is the novel that marks the...

"I write this sitting in the kitchen sink. That is, my feet are in it; the rest of me is on the draining-board, which I have padded with...

'It's a million times nicer to be Anne of Green Gables than Anne of nowhere in particular, isn't it?' My dislikes: Being an orphan, having...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Philip Roth turns his gaze on 30s and 40s America in this magnificent successor to American Pastoral....

The Ds can't wait to go and stay with Nancy and Peggy in the Lake District during the summer holidays. But when the Amazons' dreadful Great...

This title comes with a new introduction aby Philip Hensher. Berlin, the Greek Islands, London and California. 1928, 1932, 1938 and 1940....

Following A Boy's Own Story (now a classic of American fiction) and his richly acclaimed The Beautiful Room Is Empty, here is the eagerly...

Engineers of the Soul draws the reader into the wild euphoria of the Russian Revolution, as art and reality are bent to radically new purposes....

A witty scientific investigation that reveals how excessive soap and washing harm our health Introducing the new science of skin and a more...

Original and quirky novel, shot through with wry humour and razor-sharp observation, about a collection of misfits thrown together in Paris....

A thrilling, witty, genre-busting book on microbes, one of science's hottest topics, aby a debut writer with a huge following.

Anne Carson has been acclaimed by her peers as the most imaginative poet writing today. In a recent profile, "The New York Times Magazine"...

Homer called it a divine substance. Plato described it as especially dear to the gods. As Mark Kurlansky so brilliantly relates here, salt...

A startling new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Historical fiction set after the 1940 presidential election in America, during...

In 1858, aged thirty-five, weak with malaria, isolated in the remote Spice Islands, Alfred Russel Wallace wrote to Charles Darwin: he had,...

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE, THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE, THE AMERICAN HISTORY...

VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS. Also in the Vintage Minis series: Love by Jeanette Winterson Race by Toni Morrison...

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. The year is 1984, and life in Oceania is ruled żeby the Party....

Whether you want to make something special like rolled pork with nduja and prunes, or you simply want to nail the perfect delicious, silky...

Fraser brings to the 14 essays in this indispensable volume the sensitivity, freshness of observation, and offhand elegance that makes her...

*A THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020*'Brilliant and gripping, here is the full true Renaissance in a history of compelling originality and...

This is the extraordinary love story of Clare and Henry who met when Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare...

Now a major motion picture from Columbia Pictures starring Matt Damon, produced by Mike Nichols, and directed aby Billy Bob Thornton. The...

'BRILLIANT' Chris Evans, Virgin Radio Breakfast ShowWhen was the last time you listened to someone, or someone really listened to you? This...

Who Killed My Father is the story of a tough guy - the story of the little boy I never was. The story of my father. 'What a beautiful book'...

In this ingenious book Perec creates an entire microcosm in a Paris apartment block. Serge Valene wants to make an elaborate painting of...

In his prologue, John Fowles tells us that "A Maggot" began as a vision he had of five travellers riding with mysterious purpose through...

Artist Jed Martin emerges from a ten-year hiatus with good news. It has nothing to do with his broken boiler, the approach of another lamentably...

In this extraordinary epic poem, Anne Carson bridges the gap between classicism and the modern, poetry and prose, with a volcanic journey...

4 new books to the }Vintage Classics{ series, from Thomas Hardy. Hardy was one of the most acclaimed novelists of the late 19th century,...

A fully illustrated, beautifully produced edition of Junichiro Tanizaki\'s wise and evocative essay on Japanese culture. 'We find beauty...

As a girl, Clara del Valle can read fortunes, make objects move as if they had lives of their own, and predict the future. Following the...

When it comes to death, is there ever a best case scenario? In this book, the author confronts our unending obsession with the end. He also...

Harry Morgan is a tough guy making his living during the Depression from his motor boat in Key West, Florida. Although he normally takes...

This is suitable only for persons of strong constitution. Contains: Drug use; Perversion; Murder; Corruption; Sexism; Racism; Law; Enforcement;...

Meet Frantz Schmidt: executioner, torturer and, most unusually for his times, diarist. Following in his father's footsteps, Frantz entered...

}Trainspotting{ ten years on. Reintroduces characters from the bestselling novels, }Trainspotting{ and }Glue{. "A worthy sequel...A touching...

Written in the 1950s, Giono considered this story to be his gift to the world. One man with a few acorns transforms desolate hills and a...

Joe Trace, door-to-door salesman, erstwhile devoted husband, shoots to death his lover of three months, 18 year old Dorcas. At the funeral,...

Reissue.

Reissue of an early work from the author of }Europe{ and }The Isles{.

VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS. Also in the Vintage Minis series: Language aby Xiaolu Guo Death żeby Julian Barnes...

'I write this sitting in the kitchen sink...'This is the story of Cassandra, precocious and charming, who begins a journal detailing her...

A million-plus-copy bestseller in Korea--this is the stunning, deeply moving story of a family's search for their mother in an authentic...

In these seven stories, the author of The Makioka Sisters explores the territory where love becomes self-annihilation, where the contemplation...

'Informative and persuasive enough to rouse the most ardent couch pototo' New Scientist Walking upright on two feet is a uniquely human...

The past is another country, the old saying goes. The same might be said of the future. But which country$61 For Europeans and Americans...

With the same suppleness, energy, and range of voices that won their translation of The Brothers Karamazov the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club...

Features hilarious stories about life's mishaps from the creator of the immensely popular blog 'Hyperbole and a Half'. This book is fully...

With the passing of each year, Ulysses receives wider recognition and greater acclaim as a modern literary classic. To comprehend Joyce's...

The first volume of the graphic adaptation of Yuval Noah Harari's global phenomenon and smash Sunday Times #1 bestseller, with gorgeous...

Before motherhood, before marriage, Bridget, with biological clock ticking very, very loudly, finds herself unexpectedly pregnant at the...

Is Sophie Fevvers, toast of Europe's capitals, part swan...or all fake? Courted aby the Prince of Wales and painted żeby Toulouse-Lautrec,...

With the festive season almost upon him, Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson is winding down at work and gearing up socially - kicking off...

At home, Paul shares a private world with his sister Elisabeth, a world from which parents are tacitly excluded. Their room is where the...

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...

A couple of missing wives—one a rich man's and one a poor man's—become the objects of Marlowe's investigation. One of them may have gotten...

1680 Amerika. Die verstörende Geschichte der Sklaverei und einer Mutter und ihrer Tochter, gefangen in einer brutalen Welt, in der ein Akt...

The acclaimed author of The Face of Battle examines centures of conflict in a variety of diverse societies and cultures. "Keegan is at once...

A fascinating study of the humble cod, and of the social and financial impact it has had on societies worldwide throughout history. Blending...

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...

When Elspeth Huxley's pioneer father buys a remote plot of land in Kenya, the family sets off to discover their new home: five hundred acres...

This title features a foreword by Tim Butcher and an introduction aby Paul Theroux. In 1935 Graham Greene set off to discover Liberia, a...

In this collection that offers a mixture of dark humor, witty quips, and unsettling observations about the human psyche, Eagleman offers...

In her highly praised "The Six Wives of Henry VIII" and its sequel, "Children of England", Alison Weir examined the private lives of the...

For the past forty years, Noam Chomsky's writings on politics and language have established him as a preeminent public intellectual and...

Vintage Minis bring you the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us human - from birth to death and everything in between

In Chroma, Derek Jarman explains the use of colour in Medieval painting through the Renaissance to the modernists and draws on the great...

'Shoot all the Bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a Mockingbird.' Atticus Finch gives this advice to...

National Book Award winner. The long-awaited third volume in Pulitzer Prize-winner Robert A. Caro's award-winning epic biography of Lyndon...

Conservationist, scholar, soldier, white hunter and fabled lover - Denys Finch Hatton was an aristocrat of leonine nonchalance. After a...

Read this specially designed new edition of Jared Diamond's Pulitzer-prize winning exploration of what makes us human. Why has human history...

Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in over fifty years at what he supposes...

In the small Bosnian town of Visegrad the stone bridge of the novel's title, built in the sixteenth century on the instruction of a grand...

National BestsellerMany people dream of escaping modern life. Most will never act on it-but in 1986, twenty-year-old Christopher Knight...

Empress Dowager Cixi is the most important woman in Chinese history. She ruled China for 47 years, transforming it from a medieval state...

Reissue of the classic romance, by the author of }101 Dalmations{. Made into a successful film in 2003, it was first published in 1948,...

After killing his brother Abel, Cain must wander for ever.Written in the last years of Saramago's life, Cain wittily tackles many of the...

A selection of the best of Dickens' Christmas stories and writings, in one beautiful edition. It is said that Charles Dickens invented Christmas,...

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEARNational book Critics Circle Award Finalist "Anne Carson is, for me, the most exciting poet writing...

'A remarkable and deeply moving book' Henry Marsh, bestselling author of Do No Harm 'A breathtaking, extraordinary work of non-fiction'...

A self-loathing veteran of the Korean War, Frank Money finds himself back in racist America with more than just physical scars. Suffering...

As girls, Nel and Sula shared each other's discoveries and dreams in the poor black mid-West of their childhood. Then Sula ran away to live...

The story of K and his arrival in a village where he is never accepted, and his relentless, unavailing struggle with authority in order...

This faithful but unpretending record of a remarkable adventure is hereby respectfully dedicated by the narrator to all the big boys and...

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...

Detective Inspector Ray Lennox is recovering from a mental breakdown induced aby occupational stress and cocaine abuse, and a horrifying...

What is it really like to be a racer? What is it like to be swept along at 60kmh in the middle of the pack? What happens to the body during...

Vintage Voyages: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind Led aby the reliably under-insightful Binder,...

A Best Book of the Year: Time, NPR, The Village Voice, The Miami Herald, Financial Times, Minneapolis Star Tribune, BookRiot "Powerful and...

An outrageously funny spoof about the ascent of a 40,000-and-a-half foot peak, now in Vintage Classics. Introduction by Bill Bryson.

Breaking a long silence Oliver, a young Englishman, writes to his elder brother, Patrick. Oliver, the idealistic younger brother is living...

This book answers the most obvious, the most important, yet the most difficult question about human history: why history unfolded so differently...