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Shortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize Shortlisted for the 2014 Goldsmiths Prize Set in the future - a world where the past is a dangerous...

This magnificent biography of Henry VIII is set against the cultural, social and political background of his court - the most spectacular...

The PowerBook is twenty-first century fiction that uses past, present and future as shifting dimensions of a multiple reality. The story...

At first The Emigrants appears simply to document the lives of four Jewish émigrés in the twentieth century. But gradually, as Sebald's...

In this sparkling and provocative book, the renowned neuroscientist Eagleman navigates the depths of the subconscious brain to illuminate...

When Vic Wilcox (MD of Pringle's engineering works) meets English lecturer Dr Robyn Penrose, sparks fly as their lifestyles and ideologies...

12 short stories.

From the author of Into The Silence, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. In 1941, Richard Evans Schultes took a leave of...

Ein Politiker und ein Komponist haben eines gemein. Sie hatten dieselbe Frau zur Geliebten. Bei deren Begräbnis sehen sie sich wieder und...

Is it possible to write a sidesplitting novel about the breakup of the perfect marriage? If the writer is Nora Ephron, the answer is a resounding...

Famously referred to as part of the 'Axis-of-Evil', North Korea remains one of the most secretive and mysterious nations in the world today....

With 100 recipes that use wholesome grains from oats to amaranth, this cookbook spans classic breakfast porridges, through lunchtime salad...

Der Sommer ist endlos langweilig für die Teenager Toshi, Terauchi, Yuzan und Kirarin. Als ein Junge aus der Nachbarschaft verschwindet,...

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

Harry Hole is back in the blistering Sunday Times number one bestseller! 'The king of all crime writers' Sunday Express There's a new killer...

"Marcovaldo" is an enchanting collection of twenty stories that are both melancholy and funny, farce and fantasy. Calvino charts the struggles...

As an orphan, Jane's childhood is not an easy one but her independence and strength of character keep her going through the miseries inflicted...

The first social history of Germany during the Second World War for over forty years

There are many books intended to help people deal with the trauma of bereavement, but few which explore the reality of death itself. How...

Think back to when you first flew. When you looked down on a new world, captured simply and perfectly through a window fringed with ice....

Twelve stories deal with loneliness, loss, the tragic banality of everyday life, and redemption.

Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a triumphant love story. It is the tale of...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION by JOE SIMPSON. In 1950, no mountain higher than 8,000 meters had ever been climbed. Maurice Herzog and other members...

'Toni Morrison was the lodestar who inspired us' Bernadine EvaristoTwyla and Roberta have known each other since they were eight years old,...

Two women a week are killed żeby a spouse or partner. Every seven minutes a woman is raped. Now is the time for change. 'Fascinating and...

'Other things in the world are white but for me porcelain comes first.' A handful of clay from a Chinese hillside carries a promise: that...

A social history and alternative travel guide written aby a prominent Dutch journalist. 40 b/w photos.

Outer Dark is a novel at once fabular and starkly evocative, set is an unspecified place in Appalachia, sometime around the turn of the...

In a time of pandemic and tyranny Our Malady is an urgent diagnosis of the vital link between health and freedom A virus is not human, but...

In these nine stories Salman Rushdie looks at what happens when East meets West, at the forces that pull his characters first in one direction,...

Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a triumphant love story. It is the tale of...

'We are celebrating a hundred years since independence this year: how would you like to travel on a government icebreaker?' A message from...

New to Vintage.

From the Sunday Times bestselling author, a dazzling, globe-spanning history of humankind's greatest invention: the city. 'Brilliant...enchanting'...

Niemand erzählt eindringlicher davon, wie es wäre, ein neues Leben zu beginnen, als die große kanadische Autorin Alice Munro.§"Dir diesen...

A reversion from Picador.

This study concerns the city dweller. Morris finds remarkable similarities with captive zoo animals and looks closely at the aggressive,...

WITH A NEW AFTERWORD by GARY YOUNGE'[Native Son] possesses an artistry, penetration of thought, and sheer emotional power that places it...

On a perfect August morning in 1967, above a river just outside a small town in the north of Canada, a young man meets his death. And so...

This title is presented with a new introduction from the author. ""My Michael" is a beautiful work of great depth and lingers in the mind...

In Persian myth, it is said that Akbar the Great once built a palace which he filled with newborn children, attended only aby mutes, in...

In a crumbling, seaside hotel on the coast of Japan, quiet, seventeen-year-old Mari works the front desk as her mother fusses over the off-season...

Snow is falling in the exclusive alpine ski resort of Saint Antoine, as the shareholders and directors of Snoop, the hottest new music app,...

'Cooking is not just about joining the dots, following one recipe slavishly and then moving on to the next. In cooking, as in writing, you...

Baudolino

This title includes an introduction by John Boyne. John Howard is determined to brighten up his old age by taking a fishing trip to France....

Sonoko Kakiuchi is a cultured Osaka lady, unfortunately widowed young. But her story is unsettlingly at odds with her image. It is a tale...

A haunting book, following the journey of Xinran through Tibet, as shocking, moving and unique as the Sky Burial itself, the ritual of sacrifice...

First volume in a trilogy which is now a classic account of human attachment and separation.

The midnight hour approaches in an almost empty all-night diner. Mari sips her coffee and glances up from a book as a young man, a musician,...

Inez Victor knows that the major casualty of the political life is memory. But the people around Inez have made careers out of losing track....

"Everyone who cares about freedom and justice for women should read The Second Sex". (Guardian). Simone de Beauvoir famously wrote, 'One...

The concluding part of the }Danzig Trilogy{, rejacketed as part of the Gunter Grass reissue programme.

From the author of the international bestseller On Tyranny, the definitive history of Hitler's and Stalin's politics of mass killing, explaining...

Realising that his New Year is probably going to be a disaster, as usual, our narrator, on impulse, walks into a travel agency to book a...

Submission is the highly-anticipated new novel from the internationally bestselling French writer Michel Houellebecq.

In what is supposedly his final book, Kurt Vonnegut addresses a wide range of subjects with a combination of wicked wit and boundless imagination,...

'As they sat together in the twilight, talking over their small plans, the future always grew so beautiful and bright' Meg, Jo, Beth and...

A reissue of Willa Cather's best-loved novel and a beautiful portrayal of frontier life in Nebraska with a new introduction aby travel writer...

Celebrated as a masterpiece from its first publication, A Single Man is the story of George Falconer, an English professor in suburban California...

Stunningly-designed new editions of Toni Morrison's best-known novels, published żeby Vintage Classics in celebration of her life and work....

With introductions żeby Frances Spalding and Erica Wagner. The Voyage Out opens with a party of English people aboard the Euphrosyne bound...

'Why do they call him Black Jake? Is it because of his hair?' Titty asked. 'Because of his heart' said Peter Duck. The Swallows and Amazons,...

On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed żeby the first atom bomb ever dropped on a city. This book, John Hersey's journalistic masterpiece,...

A one-volume narrative history of the Mediterranean from Ancient Egypt to 1919, written in the racy, readable prose for which Norwich is...

Brilliant journalism meets true crime in the heart of America, in this bizarre, gripping and thought-provoking story.

In this brilliantly perceptive novel, a middle aged professor living in California, is alienated from his students żeby differences in age...

*AS SEEN ON ITV'S THIS MORNING* - THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER * The groundbreaking bestseller from Tim Spector, author of The Diet Myth...

From the author of "Less Than Zero" comes a work that confounds one expectation after another, passing through comedy and mounting psychological...

Subtitled, }& Other Lessons In Our Lives As Animals{. Funny, serious, important essays about how the human animal functions.

I look at all of Carver's work as just one story, for his stories are all occurences, all about things that just happen to people and cause...

In order to present a portrait of Central Europe, in all its historical and cultural complexity, these two authors have made a case study...

Mr Palomar is a delightful eccentric whose chief activity is looking at things. He is seeking knowledge; 'it is only after you have come...

A hunt for the world's most elusive bees leads Dave Goulson from Poland to Patagonia as well as closer to home, amongst the secret places...

Sebastian is the heir of Chevron, a vast and beautiful English country estate. As such he is a fixed part of an eternal round of lavish...

The first biography of this great and tragic poet that takes advantage of a wealth of new material, this is an unusually balanced, comprehensive...

A provocative novel about the desire and duty to procreate, from the author of the critically acclaimed How Should A Person Be?Motherhood...

Late in 2004, Maggie Nelson was looking forward to the publication of her book Jane: A Murder, a narrative in verse about the life and death...

An exhilarating novel of wit and romance, an intellectual mystery, and a triumphant love story. This tale of a pair of young scholars researching...

A passionate history of a world unfolding across many continents and five centuries żeby one of our greatest and internationally bestselling...

THE NUMBER 1 BESTSELLER AND WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 'The Testaments is Atwood at her best... To read this book is to feel the world turning'...

Two prostitutes are murdered in Tokyo. Twenty years previously both women were educated at the same elite school for young ladies, and had...

Frederica Potter, 'doomed to be intelligent', plunges into Cambridge University life greedy for knowledge, sex and love. In Yorkshire her...

In Pale Fire Nabokov offers a cornucopia of deceptive pleasures: a 999-line poem aby the reclusive genius John Shade; an adoring foreword...

Welcome to motherhood - a land of aching fatigue, constant self-sacrifice and thankless servitude, a land of bottomless devotion, small...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018 A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the author of internationally acclaimed The Flamethrowers - a...

A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee. He plans to focus on a period in the seventies when,...

Your parents are British. Your partner, your children and most of your friends are British. It is about the everyday racism that plagues...

Ten years after Little Men, the boys that Jo raised are all grown-up. But that doesn't mean that they no longer need her help and advice....

'Let fly jib sheet! Slack away main! Fenders out!' Dick and Dorothea - also known as The Ds - arrive in Norfolk all ready to learn how to...

Relax and relish Nigella Lawson's delicious prose in her first, revelatory cookery book, published as a reading edition in Vintage Classics...

"What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" is Raymond Carver's most famous collection of short stories and remains one of the most influential...

By one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of our century, The Rebel is a classic essay on revolution. For Albert Camus, the urge...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 In a tour-de-force that is both an homage to an immortal work of literature and a modern masterpiece...

Irgendwo, in einer namenlosen Stadt, ist eine Epidemie ausgebrochen. Mehr und mehr Menschen verlieren aus unerklärlichen Gründen ihr Augenlicht....

Compiled from the literary estate of the singer who brought a wildly lyrical poetry of the damned to the world of rock 'n' roll. Includes...

Looking for a summer read with bite?'OUTRAGEOUS, SMART, FUN' BONNIE GARMUS, Sunday Times bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry'BRILLIANT'...

Far more than a history of the Silk Roads, this book is truly a revelatory new history of the world, promising to destabilize notions of...

Guy Delisle expertly lays the groundwork for a cultural road map of contemporary Jerusalem, utilizing the classic stranger-in-a-strange-land...

Graphic novel that explores the American culture of the 1970s, when it wasn't cool to be a hippie anymore, but Bowie was still weird. Powyższy...

Duff Cooper's classic biography charts the remarkable progress of Talleyrand; a silver-tongued master diplomat, infamous turncoat, peacekeeper...

When her father dies, Pollyanna is sent to live with her stern Aunt Polly. She is poor, orphaned and alone but Pollyanna just feels lucky...

"After Dark" is a short, sleek novel that features various encounters set in the witching hours of Tokyo between midnight and dawn, and...

Why do they call him Black Jake? Is it because of his hair?' Titty asked.'Because of his heart' said Peter Duck. The Swallows and Amazons,...

Awakenings -- which inspired the major motion picture -- is the remarkable story of a group of patients who contracted sleeping-sickness...

The mind-bending history of superheroes by comics legend Grant Morrison.

A new exhilarating and challenging collection of poetry from Anne Carson, the first woman to win the T.S. Eliot Prize.

A terrifying thriller, which is already a bestseller in Germany and Poland. It starts with just one body - tortured, mummified and then...

**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less, and suffer the less?First love has...

On the hottest day of the summer of 1934, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into...

How does a writer compose a suicide note? This account gives us a description of the author's descent into mental anguish, and his eventual...

Trapped in the Mexican jungle, a group of friends stumble upon a creeping horror unlike anything they've ever known, in this national bestseller...

Pale Rider is not just an excavation but a reimagining of the past' GuardianWith a death toll of between 50 and 100 million people and a...

Here is the Naked Ape at his most primal - in love, at work, at war. Meet man as he really is: relative to the apes, stripped of his veneer...

Separation, the second volume of Attachment and Loss, continues John Bowlby's influential work on the importance of the parental relationship...

Surging out of the sea, the Bass Rock has for centuries watched over the lives that pass under its shadow on the Scottish mainland. And...

An updated edition of one of the classics of cycling and sports literature with a new introduction and new chapters - published to coincide...

First, a horse in Brisbane falls ill: fever, swelling, bloody froth. Then thirteen others drop dead. The foreman at the stables becomes...

On a winter night on a remote road in Nebraska, Mark Schluter's truck turns over in a near fatal accident. His sister, Karin, returns reluctantly...