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Ngugi wa Thiong'o was born the fifth child of his father's third wife, in a family that includes twenty-four children born to four different...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE OXFORD WEIDENFELD TRANSLATION PRIZE 2008 WITH AN INTRODUCTION by WILL SELF The citizens of the One State live in a condition...

In the summer of 2000, Jane Steare received the phone call every mother dreads. Her daughter Lucie Blackman - tall, blonde, and twenty-one...

Vina Aspara, a famous and much-loved singer, is caught up in a devastating earthquake and never seen again. This is her story, and that...

Beneath the Lion's Gaze opens in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1974, on the eve of a revolution. Yonas kneels in his mother's prayer room, pleading...

Paperback edition of the new novel from the Nobel Prize-winning novelist, about desire, yearning and love. A story rich in characters and...

Kneller's Happy Campers is a strange, dark but funny tale set in a world very much like our own but it's an afterlife populated żeby people...

When The Mysterious And Beautiful Young Widow Helen Graham Becomes The New Tenant At Wildfell Hall Rumours Immediately Begin To Swirl Around...

Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the tale of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. This...

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**'Could hardly be more relevant... It feels like a light switch being flicked on' OWEN JONESNot being racist...

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

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...

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...

Reinvention of the horror novel taking the form of a coma diary. "His most scarily nihilistic and resonant book since }Fight Club{" }Independent...

Meet Dexter Morgan, a polite wolf in sheep's clothing. He's handsome and charming, but something in his past has made him abide żeby a different...

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

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

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

'A great deal of wit and playfulness... An entire universe of disorder is distilled', (Guardian) In a frolic of cartoon and comic outbursts...

Written in lovely prose, this book displays all the skills for which Thubron is renowned: scholarship, sensitivity, sensibility and a magical...

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

'Password Emil!' Emil is excited to be taking the train on his own for the first time. He doesn't like the look of his fellow passenger,...

In teeming Victorian London, where lavish wealth and appalling poverty live side żeby side, Edward Pierce charms the most prominent of the...

The battered hulk of a huge ship looms out of the stinging spray of a furious gale. Only one man, half-mad, remains aboard, working without...

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,...

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

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

From the Ice Age to the Cold War, from Reykjavik to the Volga, from Minos to Margaret Thatcher, Norman Davies here tells the entire story...

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

A new edition to celebrate Alan Turing's centenary, includes a new foreword żeby the author and a preface aby Douglas Hofstadter. Alan Turing...

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

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

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

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

In this modern-day Western--his first novel since "Cities of the Plain" completed his acclaimed, bestselling Border Trilogy--McCarthy pens...

This concluding volume of Janet Browne's biography covers the transformation in Darwin's life after the first unexpected announcement of...

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

The classic autobiography of Lawrence of Arabia, which details the Arab revolt against the Turks.

'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...

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

This book is the New York Times Number One Bestseller. The Sunday Times Number one Bestseller. Finishing this book and then forgetting about...

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

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

The story behind every single Beatles song.

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

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

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

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

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

'Warm, funny, biting and essential reading.' Adam Rutherford'Hilarious, ferocious, generous and convincing. It made me reconsider almost...

Set at the height of the McCarthy period, this is the story of a radio star, Iron Rinn, and how betrayal, cruelty and humiliation shattered...

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

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

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

'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...

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

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

This volume contains all of Kafka

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

E.F. Schumacher argues that philosophy should provide a "map" of life and knowledge which places the most important aspects of life in their...

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

An abridged edition of Peter Ackroyd's magisterial biography of the city of London. Prize-winning historian, novelist and broadcaster, Peter...

Reissue of classic pioneering study, first published in 1962, of childhood and family life from the Middle Ages to the end of the eighteenth...

'A cracking historical novel - with a twinge of the surreal - about passion and obsession' - The Times SHORLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE...

'The best biography of Gandhi... I was enthralled from the first page...it changed my life' Sir Richard Attenborough

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

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

What makes good drama? And why does drama matter in an age that is awash in information and entertainment? With bracing directness and aphoristic...

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)...

The world's finest living short story writer turns to her family for inspiration; and what follows is a fictionalised, brilliantly imagined...

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

WITH A NEW FOREWORD żeby JORDAN B. PETERSON 'Solzhenitsyn's masterpiece...The Gulag Archipelago helped create the world we live in today'...

Includes recipes ranging from basic roast chicken and pea risotto to white truffles and Turkish Delight figs. This book sets out a manifesto...

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

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

This book explores the previously overlooked year of 1913 - a seminal moment before the world descended into the chaos of the Great War....

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

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

'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....

"Epic history on the grandest scale.... Game of Thrones seems like the proverbial vicar's tea party in comparison."--Financial Times The...

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...

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...

"Fury" is a wickedly brilliant and pitch-black comedy about a middle-aged professor who finds himself in New York City in the summer of...

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

'Determination, grit and humour shine through' Lindsey Hilsum, ObserverNineteen Arab women journalists speak out about what it's like to...

A literary "cause celebre" when first published more than fifty years ago, Gore Vidal's now-classic The City and the Pillar stands as a...

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

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...

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

Dahl is a master at introducing readers to a new sense of what lurks beneath the ordinary.

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

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

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

WITH AN INTRODUCTION aby RICHARD FLANAGANIn this fascinating journey Claudio Magris, whose knowledge is encyclopaedic and whose curiosity...

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

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

One of the most powerful monarchs in British history, Henry VIII ruled England in unprecedented splendour. In this remarkable composite...

A strikingly powerful novel exploring the motivations of a suicide bomber in Israel, told through the eyes of her husband, from the acclaimed...

These six stories, written at the height of Camus' artistic powers, all depict people at decisive, revelatory moments in their lives. Translated...

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

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

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

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,...

Vintage Voyages: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind On buses, donkey carts, trains, jeeps and camels,...