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Venedig - Mythos, Mysterium und pure Schönheit. Peter Ackroyd romantisches wie auch faktenreiches Buch lässt die unvergleichliche Atmosphäre...

Meet the unexpected, overlooked and forgotten models of art history. Who was Picasso's 'Weeping Woman'? Why was Grace Jones covered in graffiti?How...

While recovering from a stroke, seventy-seven-year-old Utsugi turns to his diary to wryly record his struggle with his ageing body and his...

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

Deepak Chopra, the author of the international bestseller }Ageless Body, Timeless Mind{, looks at the game of golf, which he believes can...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION by IRVINE WELSH. Dorian is a good-natured young man until he discovers the power of his own exceptional beauty. As...

With the Great Sioux War as background and context, drawing on many new materials as well as documents in libraries and archives, Powers...

A feast for the eyes and the senses, Feast is a must for every kitchen, in the tradition of Nigella's classic How to Eat. Whether you're...

Produced as part of the 2010 }Quick Reads{ initiative, this is a great introduction to the work of historian Alison Weir, and brings to...

William Stoner enters the University of Missouri at nineteen to study agriculture. A seminar on English literature changes his life, and...

"There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are...

William Blake is one of England's most fascinating writers; he was not only a groundbreaking poet, but also a painter, engraver, radical,...

The only Major League ballplayer whose baseball card is on display at the headquarters of the CIA, Moe Berg has the singular distinction...

A collection of writing from the Russian journalist, who was murdered in 2006. Translated by Arch Tait, it includes reportage, interviews...

A candid and indispensable primer on all aspects of advertising from the man Time has called ' the most sought after wizard in the business'....

A brilliant new collection of short stories from the unique mind of the internationallly bestselling author of Men Without Women and Killing...

Using cutting-edge research, Harvard psychologist Gilbert shakes, cajoles, persuades, and tricks readers into accepting the fact that happiness...

Reissued with a new jacket.

This book is from the award-winning translators of "Crime and Punishment", Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. The apology and confession...

Watching a rented video, Tertuliano Maxino Afonso is shocked to notice that one of the actors is identical to him in every physical detail....

"Japans ranghöchster Romancier heute ist Haruki Murakami - ein Mythenschöpfer für die Jahrtausendwende, ein hinterlistiger Weiser." (Publishers...

New Vintage edition.

'A marvel of storytelling and a masterclass in the history of the book' WALL STREET JOURNALThe Renaissance in Florence conjures images of...

FROM THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF CAPTAIN CORELLI'S MANDOLINAt the dawn of the 1920s, Rosie and Daniel move to Ceylon with...

Sebastian Barnack, a handsome English schoolboy, is on bad terms with his socialist father who disapproves of his hedonistic lifestyle....

When Harriet Westaway receives an unexpected letter telling her she’s inherited a substantial bequest from her Cornish grandmother, it seems...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Philip Roth turns his gaze on 30s and 40s America in this magnificent successor to American Pastoral....

This is the winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the year award. He was the first black heavyweight champion in history (1908-1915)...

Homer called it a divine substance. Plato described it as especially dear to the gods. As Mark Kurlansky so brilliantly relates here, salt...

When it comes to death, is there ever a best case scenario? In this book, the author confronts our unending obsession with the end. He also...

From the author of the national bestseller Chaos comes an outstanding biography of one of the most dazzling and flamboyant scientists of...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION żeby DAVID BRADSHAW For over a hundred years the Pacific island of Pala has been the scene of a unique experiment in...

The year is 1Q84. This is the real world, there is no doubt about that. But in this world, there are two moons in the sky. In this world,...

Takes you through depression, divinity, alcohol, and desire, visiting along the way famous blue figures, including Joni Mitchell, Billie...

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 FT / McKinsey BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDOne of the world's most influential economists sets out the basis for...

This volume contains all of Kafka

First published in 1929, Faulkner created his "heart's darling," the beautiful and tragic Caddy Compson, whose story Faulkner told through...

Flush was an English cocker spaniel who belonged to the nineteenth-century poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Virginia Woolf learned of him...

It is the summer of 1916 and, with German Zeppelins on the skyline, the men of Paris are off at war. For Vincent, the sixteen-year-old son...

It was a cloudless summer day in the year nineteen hundred. Everyone at Appleyard College for Young Ladies agreed it was just right for...

A charmingly idiosyncratic look at writing, creativity, and the author's own novels. Haruki Murakami's myriad fans will be delighted żeby...

Liverpool's manager Jürgen Klopp is one of the most exciting and charismatic coaches in football. Acclaimed journalist Raphael Honigstein...

This remarkable book--the fruit of almost two decades of study--traces in compelling fashion the changes in Western attitudes toward death...

Richard Feynman, the Nobel prize-winning physicist, delivered a ground-breaking lecture entitled "The Motion of the Planets Around the Sun"...

The past is another country, the old saying goes. The same might be said of the future. But which country$61 For Europeans and Americans...

Shortly before he died, America's laureate of the dispossessed made his own choice of his short stories, revised the texts and published...

Als der Pate des jungen Dichters Hildegunst von Mythenmetz stirbt, hinterläßt er seinem Schützling nur wenig mehr als ein Manuskript. Dieses...

The image of the "Welfare Queen" continues to dominate white America's perceptions of black women and to shape our government's policies...

In 1858, aged thirty-five, weak with malaria, isolated in the remote Spice Islands, Alfred Russel Wallace wrote to Charles Darwin: he had,...

Als Oras Sohn, ein israelischer Soldat, loszieht, um an einer größeren Militäroperation teilzunehmen, erträgt sie das quälende Warten nicht....

*A THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020*'Brilliant and gripping, here is the full true Renaissance in a history of compelling originality and...

In this gripping, tightly plotted tale of espionage, Malko Linge investigates the suspicious death of a Russian oligarch in London. Boris...

Subtitled }Essays On Language & Cognition{, this is "full of jokes, conundra and startling insights" }The Sunday Times{. The author is Professor...

What "is fascism? Many authors have proposed definitions, but most fail to move beyond the abstract. The esteemed historian Robert O. Paxton...

In this collection of profiles, essays and travel stories, Chatwin takes us to Benin, where he is arrested as a mercenary during a coup;...

Dostoevsky's most revolutionary novel, "Notes from Underground" marks the dividing line between nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction,...

A witty scientific investigation that reveals how excessive soap and washing harm our health Introducing the new science of skin and a more...

From the best-selling, award-winning author of 1491 and 1493--an incisive portrait of the two little-known twentieth-century scientists,...

Now a major motion picture from Columbia Pictures starring Matt Damon, produced by Mike Nichols, and directed by Billy Bob Thornton. The...

An epic survey of Orson Welles' life and work. It shows what it was like to be around Welles, and, what it was like to be him, in which...

Describes a New York that has completely disappeared and for which I longed - stuck in closed-on-Sunday's London' Rupert EverettYoung, divinely...

The most exhaustive, authoritative and revealing biography of Mao ever written, and ever likely to be. Jung Chang brings the story-telling...

Trade paperback subtitled, }The Demonization Of Christians In Medieval Christendom{.

This collection of Vonnegut's letters is the autobiography he never wrote - from the letter he posted home upon being freed from a German...

The first volume of the graphic adaptation of Yuval Noah Harari's global phenomenon and smash Sunday Times #1 bestseller, with gorgeous...

This is the first collection aby the universally acclaimed Chilean author to be published in English and it is an outstanding introduction...

First published in 1934, this is a classic fast-paced, black comedy set in America.

'He has known all forms of fear, he's an expert in it. He has come back from God knows how many brinks, all different. His experience in...

The Ottoman Empire has exerted a long, strong pull on Western minds and hearts. For over six hundred years the Empire swelled and declined;...

In the four long stories in this collection, Marlowe is hired to protect a rich old guy from a gold digger, runs afoul of crooked politicos,...

'A remarkable and deeply moving book' Henry Marsh, bestselling author of Do No Harm 'A breathtaking, extraordinary work of non-fiction'...

To these seven narratives of neurological disorder Dr. Sacks brings the same humanity, poetic observation, and infectious sense of wonder...

Forty years after Tom Wolfe, Hunter S. Thompson, and Gay Talese launched the New Journalism movement, Robert S. Boynton sits down with nineteen...

Toru Okada's cat has disappeared and this has unsettled his wife, who is herself growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly...

'Now we make you ugly,' my mother said. 'The best thing you can be in Mexico is an ugly girl.' The Narcos only had to hear there was a pretty...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Why is there so much inequality$31' Xenia asks her father, the world-famous economist Yanis Varoufakis. Drawing...

A million-plus-copy bestseller in Korea--this is the stunning, deeply moving story of a family's search for their mother in an authentic...

TOP TEN BESTSELLER Mount Kailas is the most sacred of the world's mountains - holy to one fifth of humanity. Isolated beyond the central...

National BestsellerMany people dream of escaping modern life. Most will never act on it-but in 1986, twenty-year-old Christopher Knight...

This is a poetic landscape, visual, experimental and thrilling, another Woolf masterpeice.

Escape to the ocean this summer with the entrancing, unforgettable winner of the Costa Book of the Year 2020. 'A unique talent' Bernardine...

How can we bring people together? Sociologist and best-selling author Eric Klinenberg introduces a transformative and powerfully uplifting...

Whether you want to make something special like rolled pork with nduja and prunes, or you simply want to nail the perfect delicious, silky...

In this book, Jane Jacobs, building on the work of her debut, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, investigates the delicate way...

A "New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "Extraordinary.... Anyone with the slightest interest in biology should read this book."--"The...

A landmark work from a celebrated author on how to resolve the Israel-Palestinianconflict.

On the track, his running made him a legend; off it, his charisma and humanity made him a hero. No runner has generated myth like Emil Zatopek,...

This book answers the most obvious, the most important, yet the most difficult question about human history: why history unfolded so differently...

'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.' Meet Scout, the narrator of this book....

VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS. Also in the Vintage Minis series: Love aby Jeanette Winterson Race żeby Toni Morrison...

A dazzling collection of fifteen stories from Margaret Atwood, the internationally acclaimed, award-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale...

Much of Peter Ackroyd's work has been concerned with the life and past of London but here, as a culmination, is his definitive account of...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize On a desert island in the heart of the Galapagos archipelago, where Darwin received his first inklings of the...

"I recommend that you lay your hands on a copy." --Ann Leckie"An instant classic." --Jeff VanderMeerA surreal debut novel set in a world...

Living a bachelor's life on an island in the Gulf Stream during the 30s, Hudson's existence is dictated aby the waves and tides. But when...

An irresistible love story, an unforgettable family. Bestselling author Maggie O'Farrell captures an extraordinary marriage with insight...

'Shoot all the Bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a Mockingbird.' Atticus Finch gives this advice to...

It is Christmas Eve, and John Rivers is thinking about the past; about his sheltered upbringing; about an extraordinary time spent as a...

That human beings stand separate from a nature that must be controlled, that the mind is somehow superior to the body, and that all sexuality...

Pauline first became ill when she was fifteen. What seemed to be a urinary infection became joint pain, then life-threatening appendicitis....

Read this specially designed new edition of Jared Diamond's Pulitzer-prize winning exploration of what makes us human. Why has human history...

The late Paul Brunton was one of the twentieth century's greatest explorers of and writers on the spiritual traditions of the East. A Search...

Reissue of an early work from the author of }Europe{ and }The Isles{.

Trade paperback. Subtitled, }A History & A Guide{. A unique, lavishly illustrated and vividly readable guide to Rome through the histories...

\"Wry, readable and often astonishing... A provocative and absorbing history of the United States\' New York Times The United States denies...

With the passing of each year, Ulysses receives wider recognition and greater acclaim as a modern literary classic. To comprehend Joyce's...

New Vintage edition of this classic psychological study of childhood and its social significance.

A groundbreaking analysis of America prior to the European arrival in 1492.Describes how the latest research of archaeologists and anthropologists...

In the small Bosnian town of Visegrad the stone bridge of the novel's title, built in the sixteenth century on the instruction of a grand...

In Chroma, Derek Jarman explains the use of colour in Medieval painting through the Renaissance to the modernists and draws on the great...

A mindbending new collection of short stories from the beloved, internationally acclaimed, Haruki Murakami. The eight masterly stories in...

Eighteen-year old orphan Andrea moves to battle-scarred Barcelona to take up a scholarship at the university. But staying with relatives...

Artist Jed Martin emerges from a ten-year hiatus with good news. It has nothing to do with his broken boiler, the approach of another lamentably...

Written in the 1950s, Giono considered this story to be his gift to the world. One man with a few acorns transforms desolate hills and a...

The story behind every single Beatles song.

Der Ire Roddy Doyle hat einen Roman geschrieben, der ungeheuer komisch und zugleich abgrundtief traurig ist. Er erzählt von einem Jungen,...

Alan Hollinghurst's first novel is a tour de force: a darkly erotic work that centres on the friendship of William Beckwith, a young gay...

The mysteries and emotional richness of the animal world revealed as never before, from the author of the Sunday Times bestseller The Hidden...

SELECTED AND INTRODUCED aby PATTI SMITH William Blake is one of Britain's most fascinating writers, who, as well as being a groundbreaking...

WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017One of the world's great writers venturing into exciting new territory - a heartbreaking,...