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Roger Penrose, one of the most accomplished scientists of our time, presents the only comprehensive and comprehensible account of the physics...

Vintage Classic edition.

In the "brilliant novel" ("The New York Times) V.S. Naipaul takes us deeply into the life of one man--an Indian who, uprooted żeby the bloody...

A husband. A wife. A secret. Joe and Joan Castleman are on route to Helsinki, Joe is thinking about the prestigious literary prize he will...

'Gripping! With a college campus setting, charming psychopaths, and a bitingly clever voice, Never Saw Me Coming is a dazzling debut from...

Whether you're 20, 40, 60 or older, many of us are still looking for an answer to that perennial question, `What do I want to be when I...

In the Tokyo suburbs four women work the graveyard shift at a factory. Burdened with heavy debts, alienated from husbands and children,...

The terrifying tale of Joseph K, a respectable functionary in a bank, who is suddenly arrested and must defend his innocence against a charge...

A provocative study of the gnostic gospels and the world of early Christianity as revealed through the Nag Hammadi texts.

iDEATH is a place where the sun shines a different colour every day and where people travel to the length of their dreams. Rejecting the...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERMark Renton is finally a success. An international jet-setter, he now makes significant money managing DJs, but...

Mehrere parallele Handlungsstränge verbindet Coetzee zu einem politisch kritischem aber auch poetischen Roman.

In this magnificent new novel, the National Book Award-winning author of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing fashions a darkly beautiful...

This is a seductive and evocative epic on an intimate scale, which tells the extraordinary story of a geisha girl. Summoning up more than...

The dilettantes who frequent Lady Tantamount's society parties are determined to push forward the moral frontiers of the age. Marjorie has...

New Vintage edition of the Booker of Booker winners.

`Children! I, Matt the First, appeal for your help in carrying out my reforms' Little Matt becomes King Matt when he is just a young boy....

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR Bert Trautmann is a football legend. He is famed as the Manchester City goalkeeper...

A Vintage reissue. **New edition formally in May Buyers Notes**

In "Die jungen Jahre" setzt der große südafrikanische Romancier J. M. Coetzee seine mit "Der Junge" begonnene Autobiographie fort. "Im richtigen...

Eine Sammlung von 16 bisher unveröffentlichten Kurzgeschichten mit einer Einleitung von Dave Eggers.

On the night of 10 February 1567, an explosion devastated the Edinburgh residence of Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary,...

A literary sensation and runaway bestseller in hardcover, this brilliant debut novel offers, with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism,...

The Japanese novelist Abe has often been compared to Kafka and this 1966 novel suggests an elegantly chilling postscript to "The Metamorphosis."...

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: NPR TIME BOOK RIOT LITHUB KIRKUS REVIEWS In the town of Danvers, Massachusetts, home of the original...

Victor dislikes him on sight, dislikes too the memories that Fitzpatrick stirs up of five years being taught żeby the Christian Brothers.He...

'Once upon a time.' Once upon a time there was a book, and inside the book were princes who had been turned into frogs or ferocious beasts,...

The heartbreaking story of Korea during the Second World War is brought to life in this gripping, redemptive debut about two sisters

A landmark account of our journey from the dawn of human existence to the present - with vital lessons for our future.What are the keys...

"The master of a journalistic style long vanished - urbane, lucid, courteous...A masterpiece of observation and storytelling". (Ian McEwan)....

The First World War created the modern world. A conflict of unprecedented ferocity, it abruptly ended the relative peace and prosperity...

For thousands of years the human heart remained the deepest of mysteries; And yet the heart still feels sacred: just before the operation...

In 1948, when he is fifteen, Trond spends a summer in the country with his father. The events - the accidental death of a child, his best...

A searing and magnificent picture of Australia at the moment of its foundation, with early settlers staking out their small patch of land...

The fifth volume of Knausgaard's internationally bestselling My Struggle series

It is M's funeral. One man is missing from the graveside: the traitor who pulled the trigger and who is now in custody, accused of M's murder...

The first free elections in South Africa's history were held in 1994. Within a year legislation was drafted to create a Truth and Reconcilliation...

Original and brilliant (}Sunday Times{), novel set in early eighteenth century Lisbon, by the 1998 Nobel prize winner. "Bawdy, angry, and...

Dividing the century into the Age of Catastrophe, 1914-1950, the Golden Age, 1950-1973, and the Landslide, 1973-1991, Hobsbawm marshals...

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Michael Foucault was one of the most influential thinkers in the contemporary world, someone whose work has affected the teaching of half...

18 years old and fresh out of high school, Karl Ove Knausgaard moves to a tiny fisherman's village far north of the polar circle to work...

It is the French Riviera in the 1920s. Nicole and Dick Diver are a wealthy, elegant, magnetic couple. A coterie of admirers are drawn to...

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION by YANIS VAROUFAKIS The Communist Manifesto was first published in London in 1848, żeby two young men in their late...

In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps--a community devoted exclusively to sickness--as a microcosm...

Jo Stoyle is afraid of death. But Stoyle is also a millionaire, and so he pours his riches into scientific research, desperate to find the...

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,...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD'Crushing...intensely vital' Observer'It's impossible to tear yourself away'...

In 1959 13-year-old Eva Hoffman left her home in Cracow, Poland for a new life in America. This memoir evokes with deep feeling the sense...

Monk's energetic enterprise is remarkable for the interweaving of the philosophical and the emotional aspects of Wittgenstein's life' Sunday...

Passionate, courageous, and at times controversial, The Anatomy of Violence is a ground-breaking work that will challenge your core human...

Sensationeller psychologischer Thriller von Japans bekanntester Krimiautorin. Weil er sie betrog und ihr Geld verspielte, ermordet eine...

With an introduction aby David Aaronovitch, "The Communist Manifesto" was first published in London, aby two young men in their late twenties,...

Subtitled }Joy, Sorrow & the Feeling Brain{, this is an exploration of the science of human emotion from the perspective of the great 17th...

Reissue.

Shadows of the Mind is a profound exploration of what modern physics has to tell us about the mind, and a visionary description of what...

'"Bright Young People". Making the most of our youth. They talk in the Press of our social success. But quite the reverse is the truth'...

Scobie, a police officer serving in a war-time West African state, is distrusted, being scrupulously honest and immune to bribery. But then...

An intriguing and wonderful novel from the Booker and Nobel-prize-winning author of Disgrace.

New edition published as part of the Vintage Classics series.

A powerful case for re-examining our entire relationship with the animal world >The Times

'Could Cognetti be the new Elena Ferrante$199' - Bookseller The international sensation that spent a year on the Italian bestseller list...

Even in an age of soaring skyscrapers and cavernous sports stadiums, the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence still retains a...

The famous confession of Alexander Portnoy who is thrust through life by his unappeasable sexuality, yet held back at the same time by the...

Young, newly married and intensely ambitious, Michael Davenport is trying to make a living as a writer. His adoring wife, Lucy, has a private...

This title is presented with an Introduction by Kate Williams. Frederick II of Prussia attempted to escape his authoritarian father as a...

Liza Dalby, author of The Tale of Murasaki, is the only non-Japanese woman ever to have become a geisha. This is her unique insight into...

A new edition of the classic gothic fantasy series, with a new Halloween jacket design.

A new edition of the chilling novel set in a future where women have no rights. Published to celebrate its 25th anniversary, it was shortlisted...

Since its first publication more than eighty years ago, "The Decline of the West" has ranked as one of the most widely read and talked about...

An intimate conversation about music and creativity, between the internationally bestselling writer Haruki Murakami and world-class conductor,...

The quest for V. Sweeps us through sixty years and a panorama of Alexandria, Paris, Malta, Florence, Africa and New York. But who, where...

When Jeanne-Antoinette was nine, she was told aby a fortune teller that she would one day become the mistress of the handsome young Louix...

In Close to the Knives, David Wojnarowicz gives us an important and timely document: a collection of creative essays -- a scathing, sexy,...

Noam Chomsky is universally accepted as one of the pre-eminent public intellectuals of the modern era. Over the past thirty years, broadly...

'Suppose you got stuck in here, and Clare there in your time. Just suppose you did?' Charlotte Makepeace's first day at boarding school...

Written on the Body is a secret code only visible in certain lights: the accumulation of a lifetime gather there. In places the palimpsest...

Being immortal isn't all it's cracked up to be. Life's hard for a Greek god in the 21st century: nobody believes in you any more, even your...

History of Violence is international bestselling French author Edouard Louis's autobiographical novel about surviving a shocking sexual...

The seductive and extraordinary tale of a geisha girl, told from the Waldorf Astoria in New York as she remembers her experiences in the...

Born at the stroke of midnight at the exact moment of India's independence, Saleem Sinai is a special child. However, this coincidence of...

Nanban: Japanese Soul Food is an exploration of southern Japanese cookery focused on authentic yet easy-to-follow recipes. These recipes...

A captivating story set against the backdrop of the collapsing Ottoman Empire, the Gallipoli campaign and the subsequent bitter struggle...

In the state of Texas American football is a religion. And nowhere is more fanatical about its football than the small town of Odessa. There,...

The people, their history and the beauty of an island on the brink of tragedy. This is the account of a unique journey - a six-hundred-mile...

Reissue.

*Winner of the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry 2018*Jay Bernard's powerful debut is a queer exploration of the black British archive,...

A Best Book of the Year The Boston Globe, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and The Denver Post In the familiar setting of Holt, Colorado, home to...

The internationally acclaimed author of THE NAME OF THE ROSE presents a timely collection of essays written over the last ten years. Full...

For example:Miso aubergine with chilli, pak choi, tofu and peanuts Three bean chilli with avocado, chipotle and corianderBeetroot, chickpea...

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK AWARDS 2020*'An absolute tonic for grey winter days' Evening StandardThe Booker Prize-winning author of...

A marvelous hybrid of mythology and mystery, "A Wild Sheep Chase" is the extraordinary literary thriller that launched Haruki Murakami's...

An orgasm will help you sleep and keep you looking younger, it doesn't cost money and isn't a scarce resource. So why is it that, like the...

This book is from the author of the Samuel Johnson Prize - shortlisted Sunday Times bestseller, A Sting in the Tale. In 2003, Dave Goulson...

“She was our conscience. Our seer. Our truth-teller. She was a magician with language, who understood the power of words.” - Oprah WinfreyA...

It encouraged me to appreciate this most underappreciated of professions more than ever' Adam Kay, author of This is Going to HurtChristie...

JANUARY 2013: CELEBRATE THE 200TH ANNIVERSARY OF PRIDE AND PREJUDICE. When Elizabeth Bennet meets Mr Darcy she is repelled żeby his overbearing...

The sequel to the award-winning }Touching The Void{, this is a memoir of the signposts that have directed him since childhood to measure...

Glue is the story of four boys growing up in the Edinburgh schemes, and about the loyalties, the experiences and the secrets that hold them...

Inventive, and thrillingly savage, a tale of a life lived without restraint, of money and the terrible things it can do and the disasters...

Based on three Elizabeth Gaskell novels, The Cranford bronicles follows the small absurdities and major tragedies in the lives of the people...

New in Vintage paperback.

ONE OF FIVE NEW VINTAGE FUTURE CLASSIC READING GUIDE EDITIONS During a vicious persecution of the clergy in Mexico, a worldly priest, the...

Irvine Welsh, 'poet laureate of the chemical generation', exposes the seamy underbelly of rave's utopian dream. Lloyd, our permanently pilled-up...

A searing and magnificent picture of Australia at the moment of its foundation, with early settlers staking out their small patch of land...

Royal Tudor blood ran in her veins. Her mother was a queen, her father an earl, and she herself was the granddaughter, niece, cousin and...

"Ho! ho! I am the Toad, the motor-car snatcher, the prison-breaker, the Toad who always escapes!" Tired of spring cleaning, Mole ventures...

When Henry VIII died in 1547, he left three highly intelligent children to succeed him in turn, to be followed, if their lines failed, by...

Insight into the lives of women in China, from the one-time presenter of a Chinese radio phone-in show. Received a great deal of coverage...

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

Tracing his ancestry through six generations - slaves and freedmen, farmers and blacksmiths, lawyers and architects - back to Africa, Alex...

The Fen is a liminal land. Real people live their lives here. They wrestle with sex and desire, with everyday routine. This is a place where...

Fußball in Italien versetzt Parks immer wieder in Erstaunen. Also beschließt er, zu den Spielen von Hellas Verona zu reisen. Über den Fußball...

Wise, often funny, sometimes heartbreaking, 'Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood' tells the story of Marjane Satrapi's life in Tehran from...

Peter Robb's journey into the dark heart of Sicily uses history, painting, literature and food to shed light on southern Italy's legacy...

Features such characters as: High-class call girls billed to Mastercard; a psychic 13-year-old dropout with a passion for Talking Heads;...

'I can think of no finer writer to have beside me while Italy explodes, Britain burns, while the world ends' Salman Rushdie From the age...

New edition.

The bestselling debut that took 2016 by storm - a brilliant coming-of-age story with a dark heart. California, 1969. Evie Boyd is desperate...

John Wilder is in his mid-thirties, a successful salesman with a place in the country, an adoring wife and a ten-year-old son. But something...