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"All Quiet on the Western Front" is probably the most famous anti-war novel ever written. The story is told by a young 'unknown soldier'...

This is an acclaimed, fully revised edition of the Scott Moncrieff and Kilmartin translation. In "The Guermantes Way", Proust's narrator...

**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....

Montague Small, an obsessive writer of detective thrillers, mourns his lately dead wife, who may or may not have been unfaithful to him....

The book is like the spoon: once invented, it cannot be bettered' - Umberto Eco. These days it is impossible to get away from discussions...

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

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...

This book is written to satisfy the needs of the increasing numbers of dog lovers who are interested in alternative methods to treat their...

This mysterious and haunting tale of romance and murder begins with the marriage of a man and a woman in love. But when he inexplicably...

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

Because of the boyhood trauma of seeing his mother make love to another man in the presence of his dying father, Mizoguchi becomes a hopeless...

In the spring of 1957, when he was eighty-one years old, C. G. Jung undertook the telling of his life story. At regular intervals he had...

Presents a fictionalized account of the 1831 slave revolt led żeby Nat Turner in Southampton County, Virginia.

'While Britain was losing an empire, it was finding itself...' The compelling opening words to "The Fate of the Empire", set the tone and...

General Simon Bolivar, "the Liberator" of five South American countries, takes a last melancholy journey down the Magdalena River, revisiting...

In The Visit (original title Der Besuch der alten Dame), Claire Zachanassian, now a multimillion heiress and an older woman, returns to...

In "America" Karl Rossmann is

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

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

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...

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

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...

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 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...

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

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

'I believed that if I moored myself to Charlie, I would know tranquility interspersed with organized adventure. He would stay in Zambia...

An enchanting Japanese novel about a brilliant mathematician who only has 80 minutes of short term memory, and the young housekeeper entrusted...

Calvino's masterpiece opens with a scene that's reassuringly commonplace: apparently. Indeed, it's taking place now. A reader goes into...

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

The daughter of a Buddhist priest, Tsuneno was born in 1804 in a village in Japan's snow country and was expected to lead a life much like...

This is the Sunday Times bestseller shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize. Edward VII, who gave his name to the Edwardian era but was always...

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

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,...

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...

Here, for the first time, the stories of one of the century's greatest prose stylists are collected in a single, comprehensive volume. Written...

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

'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 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...

A young man accompanies his cousin to the hospital to check an unusual hearing complaint and recalls a story of a woman put to sleep aby...

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

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;...

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

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

66 million years ago, a ten-mile-wide object from outer space hurtled into the Earth at incredible speed and destroyed the dinosaurs, along...

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

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,...

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...

Widely acclaimed since publication, John Fowles' most beloved novel is the ultimate epic historical romance. Charles Smithson, a respectable...

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

*A GUARDIAN AND OBSERVER 'BOOKS OF 2021' PICK*From the bestselling, award-winning author of Fun HomeAll her life, Alison Bechdel has searched...

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

Bernard Hinault is one of the greatest cyclists of all time. He is a five-time winner of the Tour de France and the only man to have won...

A new book in Bryan Talbot's award-winning science fiction graphic novels series, starring the legendary character Luther ArkwrightThe Adventures...

'This is for those days or evenings when you want to usher a little something out of the kitchen that makes you thrill at the sheer pleasure...

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

When Alice Walker finished writing The Color Purple she realised that she needed to tell the story of Tashi, a minor character, who had...

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...

Trade paperback. A new collection of funny, illustrated autobiographical essays from the author of "Hyperbole & A Half", which sold 30,000...

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

Paperback edition of the story of the quest to discover the gene, which spans the globe and several centuries. A "New York Times" bestseller...

This World War I novel is a German author

Wilbur Swain and his twin sister, Eliza, are so immensely hideous, helpless and vile in their infancy that their wealthy parents are forced...

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

A guide to the technique of psycho-analysing children, from the author of }Love, Guilt And Reparation{.

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

Bestselling author de Botton considers how individuals' private homes and public edifices influence how they feel, and how dwellings could...

From the internationally heralded author of How Proust Can Change Your Life comes this remarkable new book that presents the wisdom of some...

In this invigorating mix of natural history and adventure, artist-naturalist Ellen Meloy uses turquoise -- the color and the gem -- to probe...

'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...

Two explorers set out on a journey from which only one will return. Their unknown land is that often fearsome continent we call the 20th...

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

Subtitled, }An Indian History Of The American West{. The heart-breaking and bestselling classic history, first published in 1970.

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

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

'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...

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

Darling, this is Younes. Yesterday he was my nephew, today he is our son'. Younes' life is changed forever when his poverty-stricken parents...

Henry V is regarded as the great English hero. Lionised in his own day for his victory at Agincourt, his piety and his rigorous application...

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...

Originally published: New York: Pantheon Books, c2008.

An erudite and affectionate history of the Basque people, a nation without a country, the origins of which go back to pre-Roman times, and...

Named a Book of the Year by the Daily Telegraph, Times Literary Supplement, The Times, Spectator, and The Economist The English first materialized...

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...

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...

Now you can have it all, all year round...'Who can resist a book that recommends love and chocolate as part of a balanced diet?' asked Allison...

Five killers. One train journey. But who will survive? The original and propulsive thriller from a massive Japanese bestseller.* SOON TO...

Fantastic journey that intertwines the political and personal, as hotel waiter Ditie becomes a millionaire but loses it all in the victory...

It's Messi vs Ronaldo, it's Catalonia vs Castilla. It's the nation against the state, freedom fighters vs Franco's fascists. It's majestic...

As heard on Book of the Week, Radio 4. The whole world wants to learn the secrets of Nordic exceptionalism: Why are the Danes the happiest...

This magisterial collection of short works żeby Nobel Prize-winning author William Faulkner reminds readers of his ability to compress his...

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

New translation of the classic work about the corrupting effects of power, żeby Peter Constantine.

Wie ein tumber Tor irrt Michael K. Durch ein von bürgerkriegsähnlichen Wirren zerklüftetes Südafrika, durch dessen Städte, Landschaften,...

Historian Theodore Zeldin writes about the history of feelings, habits, emotions and perceptions. He views the past from a new and fresh...

Trade paperback. The most lucid and concise presentation of Western thought, reissued with a brand new cover look and new afterword żeby...

Here are animated crows, a criminal monkey, an ice man, as well as the dreams that shape us and the things we might wish for. Whether in...

Minerva reissue with new jacket.

This is an acclaimed, fully revised edition of the Scott Moncrieff and Kilmartin translation. In the opening volume of Proust's great novel,...

Long Day's Journey into Night was written in 1940 but not staged until 1956, after O'Neill's death. Unashamedly autobiographical, it is,...

Read the first biography of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, whose music and career illuminate the journey and legacy of 1960s counterculture....

Etgar Keret is an ingenious and original master of the short story. Radical, witty and always unusual, declared a 'genius' aby the "New...

'A magnum opus... Puts the reader at the heart of the horror that came to be called the Atlanta child murders' Toni MorrisonZala Spencer...

This is the acclaimed fully revised edition of the Scott Moncrieff and Kilmartin translation. "Time Regained" begins in the bleak and uncertain...

Tom Wolfe's genre-defining magical mystery tour through the 1960s published in Vintage Classics for the first time to mark its fiftieth...

Looks at the years 3000BC-AD1603.

'I don't believe in God, but I miss Him.' Julian Barnes' new book is, among many things, a family memoir, an exchange with his philosopher...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION by MATTHEW PEARL Edgar Allan Poe invented the genre of detective fiction with these three mesmerising stories of a...

What makes a man the greatest of all time? Eddy Merckx is to cycling what Muhammad Ali is to boxing or Pele to football: quite simply, the...

This is an acclaimed, fully revised edition of the Scott Moncrieff and Kilmartin translation. In "Sodom and Gomorrah", Proust's narrator...

Stifled żeby the torpor of colonial South Africa and trapped in a web of reciprocal oppression, a lonely sheep farmer seeks comfort in the...

Within a Budding Grove describes the first shoots of an astonishing love affair. When Proust's adolescent narrator travels from Paris to...

Translation of: El amor en los tiempos del colera.

This is an acclaimed, fully revised edition of the Scott Moncrieff and Kilmartin translation. In the two novels - "The Captive" and "The...

God Bless You Mr Rosewater is a novel about people - their pleasures, pains and perversions - and money. It is a penetrating satire on insanity...

A savagely beautiful novel about the many forms of love and death, of war and truth, as one man comes of age, prospers, only to discover...

Life is the strangest thing. One minute, Mrs Elner Shimfissle is up a tree, picking figs to make jam, and the next thing she knows, she...

Richard Yates was acclaimed as one of the most powerful, compassionate and accomplished writers of America's post-war generation. Whether...