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Published for the first time as Ernest Hemingway intended, one of the great writer's most enduring works: his classic memoir of Paris in...

The New Machiavelli is a gripping account of life inside 'the bunker' of Number 10. In his twenty-first century reworking of Niccolo Machiavelli's...

A multi-layered novel spanning three generations from this hugely talented author, her first in three years. A superb evocation of America...

Drawing from documents and eyewitness reports, this is an exploration of the Einsatzgruppen--"special task forces"--organized by Heinrich...

James Baldwin's groundbreaking novel about love and the fear of love is set among the bohemian bars and nightclubs of 1950s Paris. In the...

A landmark in American fiction, "Light in August" explores Faulkner's central theme: the nature of evil. Joe Christmas - a man doomed, deracinated...

Tanizaki's masterpiece is the story of four sisters, and the declining fortunes of a traditional Japanese family. It is a loving and nostalgic...

In 1941, Irene Nemirovsky sat down to write a book that would convey the magnitude of what she was living through aby evoking the domestic...

Famous author Olive Wellwood writes a special private book, bound in different colours, for each of her children. In their rambling house...

In 1909, Ingmar Bergman's mother and father first meet. From the intensity of their courtship, to the difficult early years of their marriage,...

Provocative, startling, prophetic, and more relevant than ever, The Handmaid's Tale has become a global phenomenon. Now, in this stunning...

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction. As every schoolboy knows, you can fit the whole of England on the Isle of White. Grotesque,...

Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational...

Extensive account of the physical universe and the essentials of its underlying mathematical theory. It assumes no specialist knowledge...

Three stories are told: a young Southerner wants to become a writer; a turbulent love-hate affair between a brilliant Jew and a beautiful...

Exposes the national stories which turn out to be pseudo events manufactured by the PR industry, and the global news stories which prove...

Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, Against the Day moves from the labour...

Thriller and war novel combined. This is the story of a woman who suspects the man she loves is a traitor.

David Abram's first book, "The Spell of the Sensuous," hailed as "revolutionary" by the "Los Angeles Times," as "daring" and "truly original"...

A remarkable first collection aby an important new poetIn this collection, Se n Hewitt gives us poems of a rare musicality and grace. Aby...

This compelling collection offers glimpses into everyday life on a kibbutz, where misfits are united aby political disagreement, and where...

Fiona Maye, a leading High Court judge, renowned for her fierce intelligence and sensitivity is called on to try an urgent case. For religious...

'I pretend I am a princess, so that I can try and behave like one' Without her beloved father and miles from home, it is very hard for Sara...

Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, Ltd., 2003.

Alice Munro`s new collection of 11 stories thoughtfully explores the themes of self-knowledge and love. Families, friends, eccentrics, loversthe...

Autos aus Autos? Schuhe als Düngemittel für unsere Balkonblumen? Zukünftig gibt es nur noch zwei Arten von Produkten: Verbrauchsgüter, die...

A new edition of the acclaimed history of the Russian Revolution, republished to tie in with the Revolution's 100th anniversary, and with...

Das Leben der Menschen in diesem Buch wird vom Meer bestimmt.§Männer folgen dem Ruf von Abenteuer und Freiheit und die Frauen bleiben stets...

Rowf, a shaggy black mongrel, and Snitter, a black-and-white fox terrier, are among dozens of animals being cruelly held in a testing facility...

In the remote Kingdom of Castalia, the scholars of the Twenty Third century play the Glass Bead Game. The elaborately coded game is a fusion...

Nineteenth-century Europe abounds with conspiracy both ghastly and mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian priests are strangled...

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...

This title comes with introductions aby Margaret Atwood and David Bradshaw. Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal...

Ein Kalb wird bei lebendigem Leib verbrannt, und sechs brennende Schwäne fliegen über den Marebo-See. Frauen verschwinden, eine Amerikanerin...

Thurbon recalls his epic journey through China. "An achievement of great and lasting brilliance", Patrick Leigh Fermor

Donald Maclean was a star diplomat, an establishment insider and a keeper of some of the West's greatest secrets. He was also a Russian...

'I have often wondered what I would be when I grow up, but never, never, never did I expect to be a Kangaroo!' When the wind on the moon...

'Superb... These thirty-two stories inhabit the Technicolor vernaculars of taxi drivers, barbers, paper pushers and society matrons... O\'Hara...

For nearly two years the two most infamous dictators in history actively collaborated with one another. This book tells the story of the...

From the author of "Self-Help" comes this much-lauded collection of 12 stories remarkable in their range, emotional force, and dark laughter--and...

As a founder of UCLA's Affective Disorder Clinic and a co-author of a kanon medical text, Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison may be the foremost authority...

This first-ever selection of Alice Munro's stories sums up her genius. Her territory is the secrets that cackle beneath the facade of everyday...

Christmas in Tudor times was a period of feasting, revelry and merrymaking `to drive the cold winter away'. Carol-singing, present-giving,...

Robert Graves begins anew the tumultuous life of the Roman who became emporer in spite of himself. Captures the vitality, splendor, and...

"It takes skill to depict, as Miss Renault has done, this half-man, half Courtesan who is so deeply in love with the warrior."-"The Atlantic...

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...

A notice in The Times addressed to 'Those who Appreciate Wistaria and Sunshine' advertsises a 'small medeival Italian Castle on the shore...

Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short form. Every day, women around the world are confronted with a dilemma - how to look. In...

The economy was booming. People had more money than they knew what to do with. And then the earthquake struck. Komura

Written in the early 1950s, When Eastern Europe was in the grip of Stalinism and many Western intellectuals placed their hopes in the new...

Robert A. Caro's life of Lyndon Johnson, which began with the greatly acclaimed The Path to Power, also winner of the National Book Critics...

A sumptuous gift edition to mark the 90th anniversary of first publication. With an Introduction by Yuval Noah Harari. 'A masterpiece of...

It is Midsummer's Eve. Three young friends meet in a wood to act out an elaborate masque. But, unknown to them, they are being watched....

In August 1914, the two greatest navies in the world confronted each other across the North Sea. At first there were skirmishes, then battles...

'No matter how much of a hurry I'm in, or how little time I have, I am never willing to sacrifice flavour: everything I eat has to be delicious.'...

It is July 1962. Edward and Florence, young innocents married that morning, arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in their rooms...

You might think I'd have grown out of getting myself into scrapes now that I'm half past sixteen. But between being vexed żeby my freckles,...

First published fifty years ago, The Andromeda Strain redefined the science fiction genre, and immediately established Michael Crichton...

A series of dialogue-scenarios, which can be read as poems or plays, describing the "knots" and impasses in various kinds of human relationships.

Vintage Voyages: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind What begins as the record of a journey on foot...

Anna Del Conte is the doyenne of Italian cookery, beloved aby food writers including Nigella Lawson and Delia Smith. Her writing about Italian...

Das Leben von Arthur Conan Doyle und ein berühmter Justizskandal des späten 19. Jahrhunderts bilden den Hintergrund für diesen großartigen...

This title is Translated by Roger Senhouse. Lea de Lonval is a magnificent and aging courtesan facing the end of her career. She has devoted...

Tony Anderson set out in the summer of 1998 to walk through Georgia. He wanted particularly to visit the Georgian mountain tribes - Tush,...

Amos Oz's first major novel in a decade - since A Tale of Love and Darkness, which sold over 2 million copies worldwide

Strikers in saris. Bomb-throwing suffragettes. The pioneer of the refuge movement who became a men's rights activist. Forget feel-good heroines:...

No matter what cases private eye Lew Archer takes on--a burglary, a runaway, or a disappeared person--the trail always leads to tangled...

With vast erudition, Foucault cuts across disciplines and reaches back into seventeenth century to show how classical systems of knowledge,...

Subtitled, }Three Battles At El Alamein{. A compelling new history of a crucial turning point in the Second World War.

Nine men. Each at a different stage of life, each of them away from home, and each of them striving - in the Prague suburbs, beside a Belgian...

Offred is a Handmaid. She has only one function: to breed. If she refuses to play her part she will, like all dissenters, be hanged at the...

With an introduction by David Braadshaw, Anthony Beavis is a man inclined to recoil from life. His past is haunted aby the death of his...

"Written with her usual vigor and imagination...Mary Renault has a great talent."-"The New York Times Book Review"Alexander's beauty, strength,...

This title features an introduction żeby Eric Lomax. Jean Paget is just twenty years old and working in Malaya when the Japanese invasion...

In a divided world, empathy is not the solution, it is the problem; Guiding us expertly through the experiments, case studies and arguments...

New editions of these Somerset Maugham novels, with attractive new covers.

When Philip Swallow and Professor Morris Zapp participate in their universities' Anglo-American exchange scheme, the Fates play a hand,...

With over thirty years of experience writing about Saudi Arabia, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and former publisher of The Wall Street...

`One of the masters of modern Chinese literature' Jung ChangThis gripping dystopia contrasts the reality of life in China today with the...

First Published In 1962, This Wonderfully Provocative Book Introduced The Notion Of "pseudo-events" -- Events Such As Press Conferences...

Quentin Compson and Shreve, his Harvard room-mate, are obsessed aby the tragic rise and fall of Thomas Sutpen. As a poor white boy, Sutpen...

The First World War created the modern world. It destroyed a century of relative peace and prosperity and saw a continent at the height...

The Victorian diary of a boy whose extraordinary supernatural talent unfurls within the pages.

Molly Bolt is a young lady with a big character. Beautiful, funny and bright, Molly figures out at a young age that she will have to be...

As an acoustic engineer, Trevor Cox has spent his career eradicating unwanted noises - echoes in concert halls, clamour in classrooms. Until...

In February 2108, the New Zealand Rediscovery Expedition reaches California at last. It is over a century since the world was devastated...

Die meisten dieser Kurzgeschichten erschienen ursprünglich in Magazinen und in lange vergriffenen Anthologien in den 90er Jahren. Hier sind...

Was ist Raum? Was ist Zeit? Warum ist unser Universum, wie es ist? Und weshalb ist die Vorstellung, daß alle Materie aus vibrierenden Superstrings...

** THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER ** Discover the dystopian novel behind the award-winning TV series before you read the 2019 Booker...

William Boyd's masterful new novel tells, in a series of intimate journals, the story of Logan Mountstuart--writer, lover, art dealer, spy--as...

In Ted Conover's first book, now back in print, he enters a segment of humanity outside society and reports back on a world few of us would...

Eine fröhliche Weihnachten -- A Merry Christmas -- made all the more joyful with these literary treats redolent of candle-lit trees, St....

In this vivid and compelling narrative, the Seven Years' War-long seen as a mere backdrop to the American Revolution-takes on a whole new...

Nigella Collection: a vibrant new look for Nigella's classic cookery books; previously published as Kitchen. 'A little pottering in the...

Nineteenth-century Europe abounds with conspiracy both ghastly and mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian priests are strangled...

A brilliant new translation of Koestler's long-lost original manuscript. A chilling and unforgettable 20th century classic. From a prison...

A wealthy Pasadena widow with a mean streak, a missing daughter-in-law with a past, and a gold coin worth a small fortune--the elements...

There was an old story about a king who asked his favourite wizard to create a magic mirror. This mirror didn't show you your reflection....

Paperback edition of this short novel of remarkable depth, power and poignancy from the author of }Atonement{, among many other acclaimed...

Song of Solomon is a work of outstanding beauty and power, whose story covers the years from the 1930's to the 1960's in America. At its...

In the new novel from France's bestselling crime writer, Inspector Adamsberg investigates a series of strange murders linked to a secretive...

Paperback edition of the compelling biography of the incredible Martha Gellhorn, who reported from the front-line of the key conflicts of...

This book comes with an introduction aby Jenny Uglow. Milton is a sooty, noisy northern town centred around the cotton mills that employ...

Paperback edition of the 1999 Whitbread fiction category winner. }Music & Silence{ tells the story of a young lutenist who joins the Danish...

This brilliant collection has been called "a masterpiece" by the Sunday Telegraph. Each of the three stories is touched in a different way...

Marcus Aurelius is the one great figure of antiquity who still speaks to us today, nearly 2,000 years after his death. A philosopher as...

In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his experience...

Flat on his front, binoculars to his eyes, alone at dusk, Dick makes a remarkable discovery: two rare birds, never before seen in the British...

This is a story of depression a condition that reduced William Styron from a person enjoying life and success as an acclaimed writer, to...

Some cases aren't as cold as you'd think Kurt Wallander's life looks like it has taken a turn for the better when his offer on a new house...

The answers are in this groundbreaking book aby two founders of the emerging science of Darwinian medicine, who deftly synthesize the latest...

Language is humanity's most spectacular open-source project, and the internet is making our language change faster and in more interesting...

‘All the history you need to understand why you're so furious, angry and still hopeful about being a woman now’ Caitlin Moran Well-behaved...

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 'I am shouting from the rooftops to anyone who...

This is the New York Times bestselling debut novel żeby the author of the Folio Prize shortlisted The Flamethrowers. It is a New York Times...

'A compelling novel about the tragedy of corrupting power, set in post-independence Kenya... Ngugi writes with passion about every form,...

An omnibus containing }Time For A Tiger, The Enemy In The Blanket{ and }Beds In The East{, making this a satiric trilogy about the last...

A philosophical journey constructed around a walking tour through Suffolk. New to Vintage.

Over the past 250 years, China has proved itself to be a Restless Empire.Tracing its course from the 18th-century Qing Dynasty to todays...

'Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two equals four. If that is granted, all else follows.'This selection of George Orwell’s writing,...