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A humane, umcompromising and moral novel which offers a profound and delicate vision of literary celebrity, artistry and the private life...

New Vintage edition of the Booker of Booker winners.

Mehrere parallele Handlungsstränge verbindet Coetzee zu einem politisch kritischem aber auch poetischen Roman.

Eine Sammlung von 16 bisher unveröffentlichten Kurzgeschichten mit einer Einleitung von Dave Eggers.

'Gripping! With a college campus setting, charming psychopaths, and a bitingly clever voice, Never Saw Me Coming is a dazzling debut from...

'Important, brave and necessary' Naomi Wolf As political change sweeps the streets and squares, parliaments and presidential palaces of...

Vintage Classic edition.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERMark Renton is finally a success. An international jet-setter, he now makes significant money managing DJs, but...

A literary sensation and runaway bestseller in hardcover, this brilliant debut novel offers, with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism,...

In "Die jungen Jahre" setzt der große südafrikanische Romancier J. M. Coetzee seine mit "Der Junge" begonnene Autobiographie fort. "Im richtigen...

Roger Penrose, one of the most accomplished scientists of our time, presents the only comprehensive and comprehensible account of the physics...

A provocative study of the gnostic gospels and the world of early Christianity as revealed through the Nag Hammadi texts.

The dilettantes who frequent Lady Tantamount's society parties are determined to push forward the moral frontiers of the age. Marjorie has...

The Japanese novelist Abe has often been compared to Kafka and this 1966 novel suggests an elegantly chilling postscript to "The Metamorphosis."...

When Alexander the Great died at the age of thirty-two, his empire stretched from the Adriatic Sea in the west all the way to modern-day...

iDEATH is a place where the sun shines a different colour every day and where people travel to the length of their dreams. Rejecting the...

In the Tokyo suburbs four women work the graveyard shift at a factory. Burdened with heavy debts, alienated from husbands and children,...

Whether you're 20, 40, 60 or older, many of us are still looking for an answer to that perennial question, `What do I want to be when I...

On the night of 10 February 1567, an explosion devastated the Edinburgh residence of Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary,...

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: NPR TIME BOOK RIOT LITHUB KIRKUS REVIEWS In the town of Danvers, Massachusetts, home of the original...

In the "brilliant novel" ("The New York Times) V.S. Naipaul takes us deeply into the life of one man--an Indian who, uprooted by the bloody...

A husband. A wife. A secret. Joe and Joan Castleman are on route to Helsinki, Joe is thinking about the prestigious literary prize he will...

Acknowledged as a masterpiece of materialist criticism in the English language, this collection cover topics from British literary history...

In this magnificent new novel, the National Book Award-winning author of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing fashions a darkly beautiful...

The terrifying tale of Joseph K, a respectable functionary in a bank, who is suddenly arrested and must defend his innocence against a charge...

COMEDY, TRAGEDY, THERAPY. HELP is the hilarious and heartbreaking account of Simon's ongoing compulsion to reveal his entire self on stage....

This is a seductive and evocative epic on an intimate scale, which tells the extraordinary story of a geisha girl. Summoning up more than...

Celebrate the 50th anniversary of Roxy Music's iconic first album with this collection of Bryan Ferry's evocative lyrics of aspiration and...

For thousands of years the human heart remained the deepest of mysteries; And yet the heart still feels sacred: just before the operation...

Scobie, a police officer serving in a war-time West African state, is distrusted, being scrupulously honest and immune to bribery. But then...

When Jeanne-Antoinette was nine, she was told żeby a fortune teller that she would one day become the mistress of the handsome young Louix...

Herbert von Karajan was one of the twentieth century's most prodigiously gifted performing artists. This biography explores Karajan's life...

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Liza Dalby, author of The Tale of Murasaki, is the only non-Japanese woman ever to have become a geisha. This is her unique insight into...

"Ho! ho! I am the Toad, the motor-car snatcher, the prison-breaker, the Toad who always escapes!" Tired of spring cleaning, Mole ventures...

JANUARY 2013: CELEBRATE THE 200TH ANNIVERSARY OF PRIDE AND PREJUDICE. When Elizabeth Bennet meets Mr Darcy she is repelled żeby his overbearing...

The people, their history and the beauty of an island on the brink of tragedy. This is the account of a unique journey - a six-hundred-mile...

Noam Chomsky is universally accepted as one of the pre-eminent public intellectuals of the modern era. Over the past thirty years, broadly...

A powerful case for re-examining our entire relationship with the animal world >The Times

'Could Cognetti be the new Elena Ferrante$199' - Bookseller The international sensation that spent a year on the Italian bestseller list...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION aby A. S. BYATT. Dora Greenfield, erring wife, returns to live with her husband in a a lay community encamped outside...

A searing and magnificent picture of Australia at the moment of its foundation, with early settlers staking out their small patch of land...

18 years old and fresh out of high school, Karl Ove Knausgaard moves to a tiny fisherman's village far north of the polar circle to work...

An intriguing and wonderful novel from the Booker and Nobel-prize-winning author of Disgrace.

It is M's funeral. One man is missing from the graveside: the traitor who pulled the trigger and who is now in custody, accused of M's murder...

Inventive, and thrillingly savage, a tale of a life lived without restraint, of money and the terrible things it can do and the disasters...

Bob Slocum was a promising executive. He had an attractive wife, three children, a nice house, and as many mistresses as he desired. His...

Sensationeller psychologischer Thriller von Japans bekanntester Krimiautorin. Weil er sie betrog und ihr Geld verspielte, ermordet eine...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA NON-FICTION CROWN'[A] splendidly entertaining book, fizzing with character and incident' Spectator'Invigorating......

Born at the stroke of midnight at the exact moment of India's independence, Saleem Sinai is a special child. However, this coincidence of...

Baldwin's personal reflections on movies gathered here in a book-length essay are also a probing appraisal of American racial politics....

Jo Stoyle is afraid of death. But Stoyle is also a millionaire, and so he pours his riches into scientific research, desperate to find the...

A captivating story set against the backdrop of the collapsing Ottoman Empire, the Gallipoli campaign and the subsequent bitter struggle...

Original and brilliant (}Sunday Times{), novel set in early eighteenth century Lisbon, by the 1998 Nobel prize winner. "Bawdy, angry, and...

A searing and magnificent picture of Australia at the moment of its foundation, with early settlers staking out their small patch of land...

In Close to the Knives, David Wojnarowicz gives us an important and timely document: a collection of creative essays -- a scathing, sexy,...

Richard Pipes, Harvard scholar and historian of the Russian Revolution, brings his remarkable erudition to an exploration of a wide range...

The heartbreaking story of Korea during the Second World War is brought to life in this gripping, redemptive debut about two sisters. 'Look...

Michael Foucault was one of the most influential thinkers in the contemporary world, someone whose work has affected the teaching of half...

New edition published as part of the Vintage Classics series.

Insight into the lives of women in China, from the one-time presenter of a Chinese radio phone-in show. Received a great deal of coverage...

A landmark account of our journey from the dawn of human existence to the present - with vital lessons for our future.What are the keys...

Vintage Classic edition.

The sequel to the award-winning }Touching The Void{, this is a memoir of the signposts that have directed him since childhood to measure...

In the state of Texas American football is a religion. And nowhere is more fanatical about its football than the small town of Odessa. There,...

The First World War created the modern world. A conflict of unprecedented ferocity, it abruptly ended the relative peace and prosperity...

The fifth volume of Knausgaard's internationally bestselling My Struggle series

When Henry VIII died in 1547, he left three highly intelligent children to succeed him in turn, to be followed, if their lines failed, by...

'This book is dynamite' - ROBERT GILDEA, author of Empires of the MindA searing, landmark study of the British Empire that lays bare its...

Royal Tudor blood ran in her veins. Her mother was a queen, her father an earl, and she herself was the granddaughter, niece, cousin and...

'This is a story about what might happen when a woman takes charge... A glorious visceral mystery' The TimesWhile on her daily walk with...

"The master of a journalistic style long vanished - urbane, lucid, courteous...A masterpiece of observation and storytelling". (Ian McEwan)....

Subtitled }Joy, Sorrow & the Feeling Brain{, this is an exploration of the science of human emotion from the perspective of the great 17th...

The seductive and extraordinary tale of a geisha girl, told from the Waldorf Astoria in New York as she remembers her experiences in the...

Since its first publication more than eighty years ago, "The Decline of the West" has ranked as one of the most widely read and talked about...

This title is presented with an Introduction aby Kate Williams. Frederick II of Prussia attempted to escape his authoritarian father as...

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The Facts is the unconventional autobiography of a writer who has reshaped our idea of fiction - a work of compelling candour and inventiveness,...

The year is 1Q84. This is the real world, there is no doubt about that. But in this world, there are two moons in the sky. In this world,...

Wise, often funny, sometimes heartbreaking, 'Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood' tells the story of Marjane Satrapi's life in Tehran from...

What is money, and how does it work? In this tour de force of political, cultural, and economic history, Felix Martin challenges nothing...

The quest for V. Sweeps us through sixty years and a panorama of Alexandria, Paris, Malta, Florence, Africa and New York. But who, where...

In 1959 13-year-old Eva Hoffman left her home in Cracow, Poland for a new life in America. This memoir evokes with deep feeling the sense...

The famous confession of Alexander Portnoy who is thrust through life by his unappeasable sexuality, yet held back at the same time by the...

Irvine Welsh, 'poet laureate of the chemical generation', exposes the seamy underbelly of rave's utopian dream. Lloyd, our permanently pilled-up...

Features such characters as: High-class call girls billed to Mastercard; a psychic 13-year-old dropout with a passion for Talking Heads;...

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION żeby YANIS VAROUFAKIS The Communist Manifesto was first published in London in 1848, żeby two young men in their...

In 1948, when he is fifteen, Trond spends a summer in the country with his father. The events - the accidental death of a child, his best...

*Winner of the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry 2018*Jay Bernard's powerful debut is a queer exploration of the black British archive,...

Reissued to mark the centenary of Patricia Highsmith and the upcoming BBC adaption, Ripley, these beautiful new editions mark Highsmith's...

Shadows of the Mind is a profound exploration of what modern physics has to tell us about the mind, and a visionary description of what...

Even in an age of soaring skyscrapers and cavernous sports stadiums, the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence still retains a...

Glue is the story of four boys growing up in the Edinburgh schemes, and about the loyalties, the experiences and the secrets that hold them...

A captivating and unexpected journey through the history of humankind's relationship with food, with an urgent message for our times. We...

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK AWARDS 2020*'An absolute tonic for grey winter days' Evening StandardThe Booker Prize-winning author of...

'Suppose you got stuck in here, and Clare there in your time. Just suppose you did?' Charlotte Makepeace's first day at boarding school...

An orgasm will help you sleep and keep you looking younger, it doesn't cost money and isn't a scarce resource. So why is it that, like the...

A new edition of the classic gothic fantasy series, with a new Halloween jacket design.

“She was our conscience. Our seer. Our truth-teller. She was a magician with language, who understood the power of words.” - Oprah WinfreyA...

It is the French Riviera in the 1920s. Nicole and Dick Diver are a wealthy, elegant, magnetic couple. A coterie of admirers are drawn to...

Being immortal isn't all it's cracked up to be. Life's hard for a Greek god in the 21st century: nobody believes in you any more, even your...

History of Violence is international bestselling French author Edouard Louis's autobiographical novel about surviving a shocking sexual...

The Fen is a liminal land. Real people live their lives here. They wrestle with sex and desire, with everyday routine. This is a place where...

With an introduction żeby David Aaronovitch, "The Communist Manifesto" was first published in London, aby two young men in their late twenties,...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION by JACK ZIPES Wolves and grandmothers, ugly sisters, a house made of bread, a goose made of gold...the folk tales collected...

An intimate conversation about music and creativity, between the internationally bestselling writer Haruki Murakami and world-class conductor,...

The first free elections in South Africa's history were held in 1994. Within a year legislation was drafted to create a Truth and Reconcilliation...

Dividing the century into the Age of Catastrophe, 1914-1950, the Golden Age, 1950-1973, and the Landslide, 1973-1991, Hobsbawm marshals...

Young, newly married and intensely ambitious, Michael Davenport is trying to make a living as a writer. His adoring wife, Lucy, has a private...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD'Crushing...intensely vital' Observer'It's impossible to tear yourself away'...

Re-imagines the riotous life and suspicious death of Christopher Marlowe. Poet, lover and spy, Marlowe must negotiate through the gumph...

Passionate, courageous, and at times controversial, The Anatomy of Violence is a ground-breaking work that will challenge your core human...

This book, from the author of }The Tale of Murasaki{, provides an illustrated history of the kimono in Japanese culture. It is a companion...

New edition.

"To create today means to create dangerously. Every publication is a deliberate act, and that act makes us vulnerable to the passions of...

Monk's energetic enterprise is remarkable for the interweaving of the philosophical and the emotional aspects of Wittgenstein's life' Sunday...

In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps--a community devoted exclusively to sickness--as a microcosm...

A new edition of the chilling novel set in a future where women have no rights. Published to celebrate its 25th anniversary, it was shortlisted...

Told with Baldwin's characteristically unflinching honesty, this collection of illuminating, deeply felt essays examines topics ranging...

Written on the Body is a secret code only visible in certain lights: the accumulation of a lifetime gather there. In places the palimpsest...