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

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

The third volume in the series of Ian Mortimer's bestselling Time Traveller's Guides answers these crucial questions and encourages us to...

This is the diary of a middle-aged man who is deeply in love with his younger wife, Ikuko. In spite of that love, the pair have grown physically...

He is a wise and bleakly funny writer with rare gifts of empathy' Ian McEwanIt was 7 minutes after midnight. The dog was lying on the grass...

The past is a foreign country - this is your guide. We think of Queen Elizabeth I's reign (1558-1603) as a golden age. But what was it actually...

Drawing on firsthand experience as a prison psychiatrist, his own family history, and literature, Gilligan unveils the motives of men who...

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

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

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

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

Japan's most widely-read and controversial writer, author of A Wild Sheep Chase, hurtles into the consciousness of the West with this narrative...

A history of Renaissance Italy, charting the lives and works of Leonardo da Vinci, Niccolo Machiavelli and Cesare Borgia. From the author...

Covering the second half of Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro's career, these are some of the best, most touching and powerful short stories...

The authorised translation. New edition.

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...

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

A version of }Romeo & Juliet{ with zombies, this is a starry-eyed, sweetly comic story about the humanising power of love, even in the darkest...

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...

In 1845, the author went to live in the woods near his hometown of Concord, Massachusetts. In this book, he documents his passion for the...

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

'Family, that slippery word, a star to every wandering bark and everyone sailing under a different sky' Where do you go if you can't feel...

The instant Sunday Times bestseller as heard on Dr Chatterjee`s #1 podcast Feel Better, Live More Battling an overfilled inbox? Your ever-lengthening...

The acclaimed author of A Tour of the Calculus and The Infinite Ascent offers an enlightening and enthralling tour of the basics of mathematics,...

This title comes with an introduction by Amanda Vickery. The Vintage Classics Austen series is designed by the writer and illustrator Leanne...

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This title comes with an introduction aby Alexander Mccall Smith. The Vintage Classics Austen series is designed aby the writer and illustrator...

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

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...

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...

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

Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short form WITH AN INTRODUCTION aby JEANETTE WINTERSON 'What conditions are necessary for the...

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

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

'Warsan Shire is an extraordinarily gifted poet whose profoundly moving poems so powerfully give voice to the unspoken' Bernardine EvaristoPoems...

Christopher is 15 and lives in Swindon with his father. He has Asperger's Syndrome, a form of autism. He is obsessed with maths, science...

On seventeen occasions, Maggie O'Farrell has stared death in the face--and lived to tell the tale. In this astonishing memoir, she shares...

The day IdgieThreadgoode and Ruth Jamison opened the Whistle Stop Cafe, the town took a turn for the better. It was the Depression and that...

Blending history, mythology and a timeless love story, this is a satirical, magical masterpiece from one of greatest living writers

An exploration of the invisible connections sustaining the entire natural world from the bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees...

This title is presented with an introduction żeby Darwin's great-great-granddaughter, Ruth Padel. When the eminent naturalist Charles Darwin...

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

Die junge Chinesin Zhuang reist zum ersten Mal in den Westen und taucht in eine fremde Welt ein. Sprache und Umgangsformen, Essen und Trinken,...

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A narrative particle accelerator that zooms between Wild Turkey Whiskey and Bob Dylan, unicorn skulls and voracious librarians, John Coltrane...

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

Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short formWITH AN INTRODUCTION żeby JESS PHILLIPSSoldier, criminal, militant, hooligan, revolutionary:...

'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...

Lots of things are mysteries. But that doesn't mean there isn't an answer to them'. This is Christopher's murder mystery story. There are...

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

"Things: A Story of the Sixties" is the story of a young couple who want to enjoy life, but the only way they know how to do so is through...

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

The inside story of the detection of gravatational waves at LIGO, one of the most ambitious scientific experiments of all time. Now in paperback....

Vintage paperback edition of this latest collection of short stories from Alice Munro, again demonstrating her masterful use of the form.

Over ten million copies sold 'Outstanding...a stunningly good read' Observer 'Mark Haddon's portrayal of an emotionally dissociated mind...

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

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

Following the publication of Anna Gavalda

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

Beloved detective Hercule Poirot made his second appearance in this tale of murder, blackmail, and forbidden love. Hercule Poirot rushes...

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

Collected writings of the Viennese psychoanalyst, from the period 1946 to 1960.

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

In this vivid portrait of one day in a woman's life, Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of a party she is to...

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

By the time he was killed in the jungles of Bolivia, where his body was displayed like a deposed Christ, Ernesto "Che" Guevara had become...

To mark its centenary, the British Security Service, MI5, has for the first time opened its archives to an independent historian. The book...

A diabolical government asserts control by eliminating orgasm from sex in the title story of Welcome to the Monkey House - setting the tone...

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

This title comes with an introduction aby Lynne Truss. The Vintage Classics Austen series is designed aby the writer and illustrator Leanne...

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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a murder mystery novel like no other. The detective, and narrator, is Christopher Boone....

In the second book in the New York Times bestselling mystery series, Veronica Mars is back with a case that will expose the hidden workings...

Hopes for a new peaceful international order after the end of the Cold War have been dashed by sobering realities: Great powers are once...

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

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...

Alice Munro's territory is the secrets that crackle beneath the facade of ordinary lives. Rooted in small towns or urban desolations, her...

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

From the best-selling author of Gratitude and On the Move, a final volume of essays that showcase Sacks's broad range of interests--from...

Murakami

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

By turns funny and sobering, playful and philosophical, this memoir is both for fans of this masterful yet guardedly private writer and...

A new, exhilarating collection of critical and personal writings--spanning more than twenty years of work--from the internationally renowned...

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

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

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

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

In 'Rattlesnakes', three young Americans find themselves lost in the desert, held captive aby armed Mexicans; in 'The DOGS of Lincoln Park',...

'A must-read... Fascinating' JO BRANDWe need to rethink the conversation around mental health - psychologist Lucy Foulkes explores how and...

A mesmerising mystery story about friendship from the internationally bestselling author of Norwegian Wood and 1Q84Tsukuru Tazaki had four...

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...

Trade paperback. A new series of new editions of classic Russian novels, with new stylish jacket designs.

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

This title comes with an introduction by Francesca Segal. The Vintage Classics Austen series is designed by the writer and illustrator Leanne...

Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as the best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms...

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

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

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

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

This title comes with an introduction żeby P.D. James. The Vintage Classics Austen series is designed aby the writer and illustrator Leanne...

Contrary to the usual image of the press as cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitous in its search for truth, Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky...

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

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...

Victor Sebestyen's riveting biography of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin--the first major biography in English in nearly two decades--is not only...

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

Reissue with new jacket.

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

The Vintage Classics Russians series - sumptuous editions of the greatest books to come out of Russia during the most tumultuous period...