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Anders Ericsson has spent three decades studying the geniuses and sports stars amongst us and reveals in "Peak" that, contrary to popular...

With this, his first collection, Carver breathed new life into the short story. In the pared-down style that has since become his hallmark,...

The authorised translation. New edition.

Paperback edition of the thought-provoking meditation on the nature of work and craftmanship, and why it matters that we value the process...

Vintage Classic edition of these two novellas.

Between these pages you will find things that lurk, things that scurry in the walls, things that move unseen, things that have learnt to...

The art of Edvard Munch In So Much Longing in So Little Space, Karl Ove Knausgaard explores the life and work of Edvard Munch. Setting out...

One of the world's leading experts on reading and dyslexia delivers this comprehensive, up-to-date book to help readers understand, identify,...

Here are 45 of the best stories and the major writers who ever appeared in celebrated pulps like "Black Mask, Dime Detective," and "Detective...

Explosive, subversive, wild and funny, 50 years on the novel's strength is undiminished. Reading Joseph Heller's classic satire is nothing...

Ricardo Reis, a doctor, has returned to his native Portugal. He is a man in touch with every facet of life at a time in history when certainty...

Byron Katie's extremely simple programme called The Work was explored in her previous, hugely popular, book, 'Loving What Is'. In it she...

A band of savage thirteen-year-old boys reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal...

The stories in this collection move from Malaya to America and England, and include some of Maugham's most famous tales; 'Flotsam and Jetsam',...

The graphic novel adaptation of the classic dystopian masterpiece. From Fred Fordham, graphic novelist behind the sensational TO KILL A...

This classic collection of stories moves from England, France and Spain to the silver sands of the South Pacific. It includes the famous...

The most readable and comprehensive guide to enjoying over five hundred years of classical music -- from Gregorian chants, Johann Sebastian...

**THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER** In twenty-one bite-sized lessons, Yuval Noah Harari explores what it means to be human in an age of bewilderment....

In this book, children from all around the world remember their past lives, and eminent scientists explain how many of these children's...

This book has sold 250,000 hardback copies in Germany, where Captain Bluebear is a well-known cartoon hero. "Part science fiction, part...

A S Byatt's fairy tales and fables are among the best-loved features of her fiction. Innumerable readers have asked for the two marvellous...

A dazzling collection of poetry żeby the greatest Latin-American Poet of our time.

When Lucy Mangan was little, stories were everything. They opened up different worlds and cast new light on this one. She was whisked away...

A young governess is sent to a great country house to care for two orphaned children. To begin with Flora and Miles seem to be model pupils...

Alongside Earnest, discover a biblical tragedy retold, Lady Windemere and her infamous fan and Wilde's take on an ideal husband, in this...

In his second collection, including the iconic and much-referenced title story featured in the Academy Award-winning film Birdman, Carver...

This is the number one bestseller. Is it morally wrong to have a blow-dry when one of your children has head lice? Is technology now the...

Two classic collections of Nora Ephron's uproarious essays--tackling everything from feminism to the media, from politics to beauty products,...

You can live on a shilling a day in Paris if you know how. But it is a complicated business. When he was a struggling writer in his twenties,...

VINTAGE JAPANESE CLASSICS – five masterpieces of Japanese fiction in gorgeous new gift editions.A band of savage thirteen-year-old boys...

And Other Arguments for Economic Independence 'Funny, angry, urgent. Ghodsee is going to start a revolution' - Daisy Buchanan, author of...

Full of passion and betrayal, murder and war, the first volume of an epic new series from bestselling historian Alison Weir, bringing five...

This is the story of Jeanette, adopted and brought up by her mother as one of God's elect. Zealous and passionate, she seems destined for...

In 1939, Christopher Isherwood and W.H. Auden emigrated together to the United States. In spare, luminous prose these diaries describe Isherwood's...

VINTAGE CLASSIC MURDOCH: Funny, subversive, fearless and fiercely intelligent, Iris Murdoch was one of the great writers of the twentieth...

With classic simplicity and a painter's feeling for atmosphere and detail, Isak Dinesen tells of the years she spent from 1914 to 1931 managing...

'Funny, ironic, erudite, surprising, and not afraid to take a dive overboard into the depths of sorrow and loss. My novel of the year' Nadime...

In 1985 Jeanette Winterson's first novel, "Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit", was published. It was Jeanette's version of the story of a terraced...

REVISED AND UPDATED WITH NEW MATERIAL ON AFTER DARK AND MURAKAMI'S FORTHCOMING WORKS. As a young man, Haruki Murakami played records and...

Poland, 1909. Stanislaw is determined to escape the Russians and follow his brother to America, a land where anything seems possible. Wisconsin,...

Introduced aby the author, this is a collection of vignettes about the romantic as well as the brutal aspects of espionage.

Reissue of this 1992 winner of the }Science Book Prize{.

'I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night, and it...

This title provides with introductions aby Dr Dieter Fuchs and Joseph O'connor. Against the backdrop of nineteenth century Dublin, a boy...

This outstanding collection of short stories showcases all the writing skill that has made Jo Nesbo the undisputed 'king of all crime writers'...

A European classic of comic literature brought back after 5 years out of print, with a new introduction aby Adam Thirlwell.

In his widely anticipated memoir, Ai Weiwei - one of the world's most famous artists and activists - tells a century-long epic tale of China...

A young artist, Tod Hackett, arrives in LA full of dreams. But celebrity and artifice rule and he soon joins the ranks of the disenchanted...

Now a major motion picture starring Joaquin Phoenix, You Were Never Really Here is a gritty, harrowing story of corruption and one man's...

This title comes with an introduction aby Andrew Motion. The Vintage Classics Austen series is designed żeby the writer and illustrator...

In 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby was the editor-in-chief of French Elle, the father of two young childen, a 44-year-old man known and loved...

Meet the three women who helped shape the course of modern Chinese history; a gripping story of sisterhood and betrayal from the bestselling...

'An exceptionally beautiful book' Carmen Maria Machado, author of In the Dream HouseBefore there was Kate Beaton, New York Times bestselling...

A remarkable story of the resilience of the human spirit, set against the backdrop of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. A funny, moving and...

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...

Professor Aronnax embarks on an expedition to hunt down and destroy a menacing sea monster. However, he discovers that the beast is metal...

The Chilean Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) was probably the greatest and certainly the most prolific of twentieth-century Latin American poets....

A portrait of a family coping with changes wrought by the new twentieth century - the most popular of Woolf's books during her lifetime

Diane Ackerman's lusciously written grand tour of the realm of the senses includes conversations with an iceberg in Antarctica and a professional...

'Virginia Woolf wanted to write about the vast unknown uncertain continent that is the world and us in it' Jeanette Winterson, from her...

Meet Elizabeth and discover there is no greater happiness to be found than when lost in a wilderness of a garden, with bird cherries, lilacs,...

An indispensable and distinctive book that will help anyone who wants to write, write better, or have a clearer understanding of what it...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A memoir in essays about so many things growing up in an abusive cult, coming of age as a lesbian in the military,...

John Julius Norwich examines the oldest continuing institution in the world, tracing the papal line down the centuries from St Peter (traditionally...

The British Museum is Falling Down is a brilliant comic satire of academia, religion and human entanglements. First published in 1965, it...

New edition.

'At that time I could not imagine what would become of me, and I didn't care. It was not judgement day, but another morning'This is the...

Reissue with new jacket.

This World War I novel is a German author

In this book, Anna Del Conte has collected together the best of her delicious recipes along with tips, anecdotes and reminiscences about...

In his second novel, Dostoevsky sought to portray "a positively beautiful man, " a saintly paragon in contrast to the murderer Raskolnikov...

Vivid, intimate and evocative exploration of the hidden personal lives of the great Impressionist painters including Manet, Monet, Pissarro,...

'Yes, it was be there or be square as, clad in the slum chic of the hipster, he issued the slang anthems of the zip age in the desperate...

From a writer hailed as an American original -- and the author of the national bestsellers All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing -- comes...

This clear and concise textbook provides an accessible and up-to-date examination of international humanitarian law. With the aid of detailed...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION, PLUS EXTENSIVE NOTES AND REFERENCES aby HERMIONE LEE. This volume combines for the first time in paperback two books...

TRANSLATED AND INTRODUCED aby DAVID LUKE. Death in Venice is a story of obsession. Gustave von Aschenbach is a successful but ageing writer...

Satan is out for revenge. His rebellion has failed, he has been cast out from heaven and is doomed to spend eternity in hell. Somehow he...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION by THE AUTHOR AND A READER'S GUIDE Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance caused a sensation when it was first published...

Richard Cantrell is an American Colonel living in Venice just after the Second World War. The fighting has left him scarred and embittered,...

A breakthrough work in neuroscience--and an incisive corrective to a long history of damaging pseudoscience--that finally debunks the myth...

'The classic, groundbreaking account of women's lives in Greece and Rome... The first general treatment of women in the ancient world to...

In his second collection of stories, as in his first, Carver's characters are peripheral people - people without education, insight or prospects,...

The renowned literary and cultural critic Edward Said was one of our era's most provocative and important thinkers. This comprehensive collection...

From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the Beast, vampires and werewolves - Angela...

A disturbing allegory, centered around a planet called Shikasta, which bears remarkable similarities to Earth. Through time, a higher planet,...

The second volume of an epic, beautifully illustrated graphic history of humankind, based on Yuval Noah Harari's internationally bestselling...

}The Definitive Guide to the Evolutionary Biology of Sex{. Witty popular science in a question-and-answer format. Combines natural history...

A dark and provoking parable, offering a satirical and humane investigation into the origins of Christianity.

The world-renowned economist and former finance minister of Greece presents the case against austerity in order to save Europe from collapse....

Virginia Woolf began writing reviews for the Guardian 'to make a few pence' from her father's death in 1904, and continued until the last...

Both highly praised and intensely controversial, this brilliant book produces dramatic evidence that at one time the Catholic and Eastern...

A radical and powerful reappraisal of the impact of Constantine's adoption of Christianity on the later Roman world, and on the subsequent...

#1 International Best Seller In this electrifying thriller from the author of Police and The Snowman, Inspector Harry Hole hunts down a...

Here is a multidimensional playland of ideas from the world's most eccentric Nobel-Prize winning scientist. Kary Mullis is legendary for...

In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit. A year later, he'd completed a solo...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION by ADAM THIRLWELL One morning, Gregor Samsa wakes up to find himself transformed into a giant insect. His family is...

A New York Times Bestseller This essay collection from the "bitches gotta eat" blogger, writer on Hulu's Shrill, and "one of our country's...

There is a sequestered glen off the east coast of the Hudson, New York state, which has long continued under the sway of some witching power;...

Flaubert believed that great paintings required no words of explanation. But, as Barnes notes, it is a rare picture that stuns, or argues,...

I read somewhere that the decision to emigrate comes from a need to breathe. The hope of a better life is stronger than any other feeling....

Vintage Heroes & Villains: A lineup of literature's most dastardly, devilish and daring characters

This title includes an introduction żeby Sir Paul McCartney. First published in 1964 and 1965, "In His Own Write and A Spaniard in the Works"...

This includes a new foreword by the author. The story of the death, in sinister circumstances, of the boy-king Edward V and his younger...

One snowy day in Copenhagen, six-year-old Isaiah falls to his death from a city rooftop. The police pronounce it an accident. But Isaiah's...

Acclaimed as one of the most exciting books in the history of American letters, this modern epic became an instant bestseller upon publication...

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there...Imagine you could travel back to the fourteenth century. What would you...

Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short form. The term feminism did not yet exist when Mary Wollstonecraft wrote this book, but...

The buttoned-up world of the British upper classes is exploded żeby the brilliance, wit and audacity of Saki's bomb-like stories. In 'The...

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, Richard Feynman was one of the world's greatest theoretical physicists, but he was also a...

A riveting work of historical detection revealing that the origin of Wonder Woman, one of the world's most iconic superheroes, hides within...

"The first great piece of feminist writing". (Independent). Before the concept of equality between the sexes was even available, Wollstonecraft...

Semiology is the science of signs and symbols, and their role in culture and society. "Writing Degree Zero" is Barthes' introduction to...

Minerva reissue with new jacket.

The latest titles to join the }Vintage Classics{ series.

Kirino's searing novel tells a story of random violence in the staid Tokyo suburbs, as a young mother who works a night shift making boxed...

It surprises no one that the charming but wayward Vadinho dos Guimaraes-a gambler notorious for never winning--dies during Carnival. His...

This is one of the greatest collections of love poetry ever published. Inspired żeby Pablo Neruda's youthful relationships and injected...

FROM THE MAN BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF EILEEN THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Savage, funny, frequently on the verge of teetering into...

Dramatizes the Japanese experience from the eve of World War II through the degradation of the postwar era.