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"A magical novel on the theme of androgyny. Funny, subtle, poignant..." - Nadine Sautel, Magazine litteraire. "Jacqueline Harpman drags...

It was a clear spring day, Monday, March 20, 1995, when five members of the religious cult Aum Shinrikyo conducted chemical warfare on the...

'Utterly compelling' Guardian Life...is shapeless, it does not point to and gather round anything, it does not cohere. Artistically, it's...

'The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself'. 'Jarndyce and Jardyce' is an infamous lawsuit that has been...

Piers Brendon's magisterial overview of the 1930s is the story of the dark, dishonest decade - child of one world war and parent of the...

These interlocking essays uncover art as an active force in the world - neither elitist or remote, present to those who want it, affecting...

A }Vintage Classic{ edition of this controversial piece of fiction set during the Russian revolution.

'Magisterial' - Guardian'Outstanding' - Ian KershawVladimir Putin is a pariah to the West.Alone among world leaders, he has the power to...

"It's unbelievable. I just read 200 pages of it and I need the next volume like crack. It's completely blown my mind". (Zadie Smith via...

Zadie Smith's dazzling debut caught critics grasping for comparisons and deciding on everyone from Charles Dickens to Salman Rushdie to...

From the hairdessing salon where an old man measures out his life in haircuts, to the concert hall where a music lover carries out an obsessive...

Peter Ackroyd explores the life of Chaucer, possibly the greatest poet in the English language, with an eclectic choice of subjects from...

Emmeline Pankhurst grew up all too aware of the prevailing attitude of her day: that men were considered superior to women. When she was...

Listen, you son of a bitch, life isn't all a goddam football game! You won't always get the girl! Life is rejection and pain and loss...'...

From one of Latin America's finest writers comes a mesmerizing novel about the legendary Eva Peron. Bigger than fiction, Eva Peron was the...

Auto Da Fe is the story of Peter Kien, a distinguished, reclusive sinologist living in Germany between the wars. With masterly precision,...

From one of Germany's leading young historians, the first comprehensive biography of Eva Braun, Hitler's devoted mistress, finally wife,...

Richard Wright's memoir of his childhood as a young black boy in the American south of the 1920s and 30s is a stark depiction of African-American...

A Best Book of the Year"Seed Magazine "- "Granta Magazine "- "The Plain-Dealer"In this fascinating and utterly engaging book, Carl Zimmer...

National Bestseller "A beautifully written memoir about the life of a woman in science, a brilliant friendship, and the profundity of trees....

Already an international bestseller, "Embers"--first published in Budapest in 1942--finds an aristocrat and his friend fighting a duel of...

In 1953, José Saramago submitted a novel to his publishers. Thirty-six years later, he heard back.

The Light Beyond' is based on more than a thousand case studies of adults and children who clinically reached the point of death and survived,...

After a brutal day investigating a quadruple homicide, Detective Hoke Moseley settles into his room at the un-illustrious El Dorado Hotel...

From the brilliant film historian and critic David Thomson, a book that reinvents the star biography in a singularly illuminating portrait...

Doctor Thorne was considered aby Trollope to be the best of his works - a profound examination of the relationship between money and love,...

A thoughtful, careful and insightful book that is presented in a skilfully woven narrative, guiding the reader gently through the thicket...

As soon as men began to write, they made Helen of Troy their subject; for close on three thousand years she has been both the embodiment...

Like the previous five bestselling novels in the Dexter series, "Double Dexter" showcases the witty, macabre originality that has propelled...

Foul whisperings are abroad...All London is scandalised when Lord Mountbarry jilts his virtuous fiancee, Agnes, and marries instead a mysterious...

VINTAGE EARTH is a collection of novels to transform our relationship with the natural world. 'This is not our world with trees in it. It's...

An extraordinarily brave and moving memoir from one of the world's most famous whistle-blowers, activists and trans women.In 2010 Chelsea...

Can we truly know the one we love? In this book, the author looks straight into the green eye of every lover's jealous struggle, and also...

A riveting, powerful novel about a pilot living in a world filled with loss--and what he is willing to risk to rediscover love. Hig survived...

Hailed for its coiled eroticism and the moral claims it makes upon the reader, this mesmerizing novel is a story of love and secrets, horror...

On a warm summer night in 1974, six teenagers play at being cool. They smoke pot, drink vodka, share their dreams and vow always to be interesting....

Set in the bleak Fen Country of East Anglia, and spanning some 240 years in the lives of its haunted narrator and his ancestors, Waterland...

A collection of essays on a variety of literary subjects, from Kant to Raymond Chandler and Burke to Augustus Hare. First published in 1952.

A wide-ranging collection of writings on the subject of geology, moving from documentary accounts of actual events to fictional recreations,...

Inspector Harry Hole pursues an assassin bent on revenge in this installment of Jo Nesb 's New York Times bestselling series. Shots ring...

Albert Camus is among the most significant French writers of the twentieth century. His novels, The Plague and The Outsider, have a timeless...

The lost novel from the author of The Second SexWhen Andrée joins her school, Sylvie is immediately fascinated. Andrée is small for her...

In this remarkably gripping memoir, one of the most dynamic and controversial leaders of modern times gives us a firsthand account of his...

An assessment of how 20th century world history was created, and what it means today, from the author of }Postwar{. By looking at a range...

An updated edition of this history of cartography "from antiquity to the space age". B/w illus.

A powerfully argued work that combines reporting, sociology, economics, and urban studies to show how the migration of workers from villages...

Reissue of his debut novel, set in Paris in 1968. Christopher and Toni are eager to challenge the constraints of suburbia, but middle age...

A couple out walking in the woods discover the dead body of a half-naked boy. To Kristine's horror her husband begins to take photographs...

With sharp and soulful insight, T. R. Luhrmann examines the world of psychiatry, a profession which today is facing some of its greatest...

From the bestselling author of "Chasing Cezanne" comes a satisfying and delectable novel that portrays the sensual wonders of Provence while...

At the head of this disintegrating kingdom was Charles I, who would change the face of the monarchy for ever. In this portrait -- informed...

Superbly readable history of the plot, in 1478, to murder two heads of the all-powerful Medici family in the cathedral of Florence. 8pp...

A fascinating dialogue on the human inclination to make up stories between a Nobel Prize-winning writer and a psychotherapist.

In Shah of Shahs Kapuscinski brings a mythographer's perspective and a novelist's virtuosity to bear on the overthrow of the last Shah of...

A masterly historical re-creation, it depicts at once the negotiations between the British government under Neville Chamberlain and NaziGermany...

A middle aged American works out in a Paris gym - an ordinary day, except that he catches the eye of a stranger, Julien, a young French...

In "Talking it Over" Gillian and Stuart were married until Oliver - witty, feckless Oliver - stole Gillian away. In "Love, Etc" Julian Barnes...

Two brothers and a friend find $4 million in the cockpit of a downed plane. The pilot is dead. No one is looking for the money. To keep...

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book, a Seattle Times Best Title, a Christian Science Monitor Best Fiction Book, a Miami Herald Favorite...

Diane Arbus's startling photographic images of dwarfs, twins, transvestites, and freaks seemed from the first to redefine both the normal...

William Dalrymple's award-winning first book: his classic, fiercely intelligent and wonderfully entertaining account of his journey across...

In Blithe Spirit, Charles Condomine receives a visit from his first wife, Elvira; unfortunately, Charles is now married to Ruth, and Elvira...

With Trilobite, Richard Fortey, paleontologist and author of the acclaimed "Life, offers a marvelously written, smart and compelling, accessible...

A "New York Times Notable Book of the Year From the author of The Discoverers and The Creators, an incomparable history of man's essential...

Authoritative and immediate, this is a brilliant account of the most powerful of the American Indian tribes. T. R. Fehrenbach traces the...

Now reissued as a }Vintage Classic{, with an introduction by Miranda Seymour.

Guy Delisle's work for a French animation studio requires him to oversee production at various Asian studios on the grim frontiers of free...

High on Olympus, Zeus and the assembled deities look down on the world of men, to the city of Troy where a bitter and bloody war has dragged...

David Lodge's frank and illuminating memoir about the years where he found great success as a novelist and critic. Anyone who is interested...

This is a lively and astonishingly nuanced portrait of a refined society where every dalliance is an act of political consequence; a play...

Hap Collins and Leonard Pine, the kings of East Texas mischief and mayhem, return in this full-throttle thriller to face off with the Dixie...

In her latest forays into the American scene, the author of Miami, Democracy, and Salvador covers ground from Washington to Los Angeles...

Now in trade paperback, the ground-breaking and carefully documented book that shows how couples come apart.

A New York Times Bestseller. Great white sharks are enigmas. They ruled the oceans long before dinosaurs inhabited the earth, yet we know...

It isn't a game when somebody dies... Isa drops everything, takes her baby daughter and heads straight to Salten. At school Isa and her...

SELIN IS THE LUCKIEST PERSON IN HER FAMILY:The only one who was born in America and got to go to Harvard. Now it's her second year, 1996,...

We live our lives online - banking, shopping, working, dating - but have we become complacent? Who's got your money? We share our personal...

Hap and Leonard is now a Sundance TV series starring James Purefoy and Michael Kenneth Williams. If there's one thing Hap Collins and Leonard...

'There is no such thing as autobiography, there is only art and lies'. Set in a London of the near future, its three principal characters,...

For the past few years Roddy Doyle has been writing stories for Metro Eireann, a newspaper started by, and aimed at, immigrants to Ireland....

Returning to Belfast after a long absense, to attend her father's funeral. Catherine McKenna - a young composer - remembers exactly why...

New edition of this haunting and elegaic novel, a heart-rending evocation of destructive passion set on the eve of the First World War....

'Brilliant...a powerful, haunting book.'- Michael Wood: 'Almost every page of The Names gives evidence of its author's brilliance and originality.'-...

Infinity is surely the strangest idea that humans have ever had. Where did it come from and what is it telling us about our Universe? Can...

Leonard Pine is the prime suspect in the murder of a local cop. Black, gay, and outrageously unconventional, Leonard is in deep trouble,...

Now a major motion picture form Warner Brothers, starring Kevin Bacon, Diane Lane, Luke Wilson, Frankie Muniz, and "Eddie" from the TV show...

This title comes with an introduction by Tessa Hadley. Imposing, rich, unloved and with a genius for unreality; Eva Trout has a 'capacity...

Camus tells the story of Jacques Cormery, a boy who lived a life much like his own. Camus summons up the sights, sounds and textures of...

'Just had a romantic Waterloo sunset spoiled żeby the sight of a corpse being dredged from the Thames? Welcome to Drowntown. 'The name's...

LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2018'Compelling, suspenseful and beautifully done' Anna Funder, author of...

Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron was the first great masterpiece of European storytelling; this brilliant new translation żeby J. G. Nichols...

"People never like me and I never like people," Mary thought.' When Mary Lennox is sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody...

Winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award A Washington Post Notable Book One of the Best Books of the Year: NPR, Entertainment Weekly, Ann Patchett...

'Juice' Terry Lawson is a man who contains multitudes: he's a top shagger, a drug dealer, a gonzo pornstar, and a taxi driver. As we ride...

An essay on the rise and fall and survival of modernism, tracing the cultural history of the movement that has helped shape the modern world,...

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

Contains exotic, sensuous stories featuring lush imaginary forests, a murderous puppet show and an expressionistic vision of Japan: each...

Meet the Little Prince, a young fellow who hails from a tiny, distant planet. He loves to watch sunsets and look after his flower, to ask...

"It was probably because I was so often taken away from Cambridge when I was young that I loved it as much as I did..." London, Florence,...

'Well, little people, what's the news?' You can meet the big, happy Bell family who live in the vicarage at St Marks. Father is a reverend,...

The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother Liam. It wasn't the drink that killed...

New edition.

Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, brings his inimitable vision, exhaustive research, and mesmerizing...

Timoteo: high-flying career as a surgeon, beautiful wife, luxurious apartment, villa żeby the sea - he seems the epitome of success and...

This spectacular novel established Thomas M. Disch as a major new force in science fiction. First published in 1965, it was immediately...

At Whitehall Palace in 1632, the ladies at the court of Charles I are beginning to look suspiciously alike. Plump cheeks, dilated pupils,...

If you could be invisible, what would you do? The chances are that it would have something to do with power, wealth or sex. Perhaps all...

'So long,' called the harbourmaster. 'Don't run into Missee Lee!' The Swallows, Amazons and Captain Flint don't pay much heed to the harbourmaster's...

The brand new psychological crime novel in the award-winning Inspector Sejer series, books beloved for their deep insight into the human...

The author of the bestselling "An Unquiet Mind"--an internationally renowned authority on mood disorders--now gives readers something wonderfully...

'She wanted to die, and she wanted to live in Paris.'This is the story of Emma, trapped in a disappointing marriage with a dull country...

Like a latter-day Gregor Samsa, Professor David Kepesh wakes up one morning to find that he has been transformed. But where Kafka's protagonist...

This book is about history and morality in the twentieth century. It is about the psychology which made possible Hiroshima, the Nazi genocide,...

Often forgotten and overlooked, the U.S.-Mexican War featured false starts, atrocities, and daring back-channel negotiations as it divided...

Winner of the 2016 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction A profound and profoundly important book--a moving personal detective story, an...

The brilliant new short story sequence from the Man Booker-shortlisted author of All That Man Is Twelve people on the move around planet...

In a room with no windows on the eastern coast of Africa, an Englishman, James More, is held captive żeby jihadist fighters. Thousands of...

If you're one of those crying-to-your-shrink-cause-your-childhood-was-"SO-hard type of people, you should probably read #1 "New York Times...

From the author of the international best seller An Instance of the Fingerpost, Arcadia is an astonishing work of imagination. In Cold War...

After botching a suicide attempt, salaryman Hanio Yamada decides to put his life up for sale in the classifieds section of a Tokyo newspaper....