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Titus Groan | As the first novel opens, Titus, heir to Lord Sepulchrave, has just been born: he stands to inherit the miles of rambling stone and mortar that stand for Gormenghast Castle. Inside, all ...

To The Lighthouse | Rediscover one of Virginia Woolf's greatest works in this beautiful new gift edition from Vintage Classics. Mr and Mrs Ramsay and their eight children have always holidayed at thei...

London Under | London Under is an atmospheric, imaginative introduction to everything that goes on under London, from original springs and streams and Roman amphitheatres to Victorian sewers, gang hid...

The Noise of Time | In May 1937 a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away to the Big House. Any celebrity...

Birds Without Wings | Set against the backdrop of the collapsing Ottoman Empire, Birds Without Wings traces the fortunes of one small community in south-west Anatolia - a town in which Christian and M...

The Temple Of Dawn | The third novel in Mishima's masterful tetralogy Mishima's literary powers are on full display in his penultimate novel that is a meditation on reincarnation and Buddhist philosop...

The Wolves of Willoughby Chase | Can you go a little faster? Can you run? Long ago, at a time in history that never happened, England was overrun with wolves. But as Bonnie and her cousin Sylvia disco...

In Praise Of Shadows | A fully illustrated, beautifully produced edition of Junichiro Tanizaki's wise and evocative essay on Japanese culture. 'We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patter...

Katherine Swynford | The first full-length biography of an extraordinary love affair between one of the most important men of English History and a thoroughly modern woman. Katherine Swynford was firs...

Cain | After killing his brother Abel, Cain must wander for ever. He witnesses Noah's ark, the destruction of the Tower of Babel, Moses and the golden calf. He is there in time to save Abraham from sa...

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running | 'Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional' A compelling mediation on the power of running and a fascinating insight into the life of this internationally...

Swann's Way | The definitive translation of one of the greatest French novels of the twentieth century In the opening volume of Proust's great novel, the narrator travels backwards in time in order to...

The Razor's Edge | An ambitious novel by the formidable talent, Somerset Maugham Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of this spiritual odyssey involves him with s...

A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers | Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction Twenty-three-year-old Zhuang (or Z as she calls herself - Westerners cannot pronounce her name) arrives i...

Metroland | A special edition of Julian Barnes’s first novel with an introduction from the author and previously unseen archive material. Christopher and Toni found in each other the perfect companion...

The Shadow Of The Sun | It is the height of summer. After she is expelled from boarding school, Anna Severell returns to the strict, orderly house of her father, a celebrated novelist. The family is s...

More Far Eastern Tales | A collection of powerful short stories from a master of the form, W Somerset Maugham From the love affair between a missionary and a drunkard to the mystery surrounding a deat...

The Day the Sun Died | This gripping dystopia contrasts the reality of life in China today with the sunny optimism of the ‘Chinese dream’. One dusk in early June, in a town deep in the Balou mountains...

Damned | 'Are you there, Satan? It's me, Madison' Meet Madison, whip-tongued daughter of a narcissistic film star and a billionaire, abandoned at a Swiss boarding school over Christmas while her paren...

An Event in Autumn | Some cases aren’t as cold as you’d think Kurt Wallander’s life looks like it has taken a turn for the better when his offer on a new house is accepted, only for him to uncover som...

The Sea, The Sea | ''I saw a monster rising from the waves.' Charles Arrowby has determined to spend the rest of his days in hermit-like contemplation. He buys a mysteriously damp house on the coast, ...

The Snows Of Kilimanjaro | In these early Hemingway stories, which are partly autobiographical, men and women of passion live, fight, love and die in scenes of dramatic intensity. They range from haun...

A Country Doctor's Notebook | With the ink still wet on his diploma, the twenty-five-year-old Dr Mikhail Bulgakov was flung into the depths of rural Russia which, in 1916-17, was still largely unaffec...

The Rape of the Lock | A hideous crime is committed at a fashionable London society gathering. The victim is the beautiful, innocent Belinda, her attacker is the dastardly Baron, and his weapon of cho...

Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained | Satan is out for revenge. His rebellion has failed, he has been cast out from heaven and is doomed to spend eternity in hell. Somehow he must find a way to prove ...

Africa Is Not A Country. Breaking Stereotypes of Modern Africa | You already know these stereotypes. So often Africa is depicted simplistically as an arid red landscape of famines and safaris, uniquel...

Saturday | Saturday, February 15, 2003. Henry Perowne, a successful neurosurgeon, stands at his bedroom window before dawn and watches a plane - ablaze with fire like a meteor - arcing across the Lond...

Mason & Dixon | Charles Mason (1728 -1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the British Surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that we know today a...

Liza of Lambeth | A tale of passionate love affair within the vividly realistic portrayal of 19th century working-class London life by the neglected 20th century master. Down among the drab slums of L...

The Beckoning Silence | Joe Simpson has experienced a life filled with adventure but marred by death. He has endured the painful attrition of climbing friends in accidents, calling into question the p...

The Djinn In The Nightingale's Eye | 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 fairy tales in possessio...

To Sir With Love | In 1945, Rick Braithwaite, a smart, highly educated ex-RAF pilot, looks for a job in British engineering. He is deeply shocked to realise that, as a black man from British Guiana, n...

A Sort of Life | The first volume of Graham Greene's notoriously misleading, mischievous , but nonetheless fascinating autobiography. Graham Greene's 'long journey through time' began in 1904, when he...

Collected Short Stories. Volume 4 | The final collection of Maugham's marvellous stories This final classic collection of stories reveals Somerset Maugham's unique talent for exposing and exploring th...

East, West | Discover a brilliant collection of short stories from the Booker prize-winning author. This dazzling collection of short stories explores the allure and confusion of what happens when Eas...

Dracula | Within the pages of this book can be found one of the most terrifying creatures in all of literature. Rediscover a dread of Dracula in this beautifully designed new Vintage Classics edition ...

The Night Circus | The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. The black sign, painted in white letters that hangs upon the gates, r...

Portnoy's Complaint | Philip Roth's hilarious novel about sex, growing up, psychoanalysis, now reissued in electric new backlist style 'The most outrageously funny book about sex written' Guardian Por...

Peter Pan | 'Intensely moving as well as enchanting in its evocation of childhood' Daily Telegraph The Darling children are tucked up in bed when Peter Pan bursts in to their nursery. Peter and his mi...

Island | For over a hundred years the Pacific island of Pala has been the scene of a unique experiment in civilisation. Its inhabitants live in a society where western science has been brought togethe...

Adults In The Room. My Battle With Europe’s Deep Establishment | What happens when you take on the European establishment? Read as world-famous, provocative economist, and former Greece finance minist...

Death | When it comes to death, is there ever a best case scenario? In this disarmingly witty book, Julian Barnes confronts our unending obsession with the end. He reflects on what it means to miss Go...

Girl in a Green Gown. The History and Mystery of the Arnolfini Portrait | Carola Hicks sets out to solve the mystery of one of art history's greatest paintings, The Arnolfini Portrait The Arnolfini Po...

Salt | 'Salt is the fascinating, indispensable history of an indispensable ingredient. It's a must-have book for any serious cook or foodie' Anthony Bourdain Homer called it a divine substance. Plato ...

The Right Stuff | ‘What is it,’ asks Tom Wolfe, ‘that makes a man willing to sit on top of an enormous Roman Candle…and wait for someone to light the fuse?’ Arrogance? Stupidity? Courage? Or, simply, ...

The Death Of The Heart | When sixteen-year-old Portia is orphaned she is plunged into the sophisticated and politely treacherous world of her wealthy half-brother's home. There she encounters the attr...

Daddy | A man travels to his son's school to deal with the fallout of a violent attack and to make sure his son will not lose his college place. But what exactly has his son done? And who is to blame?...

Peak. How All of Us Can Achieve Extraordinatory Things | Do you want to stand out at work, improve your athletic or musical performance, or help your child achieve academic goals? Anders Ericsson has ...

Foucault's Pendulum | Three book editors, jaded by reading far too many crackpot manuscripts on the mystic and the occult, are inspired by an extraordinary conspiracy story told to them by a strange c...

Black Hole Survival Guide | What would happen if you fell into a Black Hole? Black holes are found throughout the universe. They can be microscopic. They can be billions of times larger than our Sun. ...

Moonraker | There's no better time to rediscover James Bond. Sir Hugo Drax is a multi-millionaire tycoon and war hero, revered by the British public for his Moonraker missile defence programme. So why...

Wild Palms | 'Between grief and nothing I will take grief' In New Orleans in 1937, a man and woman embark on a headlong flight into the wilderness of illicit passion, fleeing her husband and the tempt...

Love | A haunting and affecting meditation on love from the Nobel-prize winning author of Beloved. May, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida – even L – all are women obsessed with Bill Cosey. He shapes their...

Possession | Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars investigating the lives ...

Skylight | Called ‘the book lost and found in time’ by its author, Skylight is one of Saramago’s earliest novels. The manuscript was lost in the publishers’ offices in Lisbon for decades, and is only ...

Darkness at Noon | A brilliant new translation of Koestler's long-lost original manuscript. A chilling and unforgettable 20th century classic. From a prison cell in an unnamed country run by a totalit...

The Black Prince | 'Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.' Ex-tax collector and author of two unpopular novels, Bradley Pearson wishes to devote his retirement...

Murder at the Theatre Royale: A Christmas Mystery | It's Christmas at London's Theatre Royale and journalist Daphne King is determined to solve an extraordinary mystery... December 1935. Director Ches...

Diary | Diary takes the form of a 'coma diary' kept by one Misty Tracy Wilmot as her husband lies senseless in hospital after a suicide attempt. Once she was an art student dreaming of creativity and ...

The Powerbook | 'It's night. I'm sitting at my screen. There's an e-mail for me. I unwrap it. It says - Freedom, just for one night.' Ali, or Alix, is an e-writer. They will write anything you like, b...

Intimacies | An interpreter has come to The Hague to escape New York and work at the International Court. She's drawn into simmering personal dramas. Her lover, Adriaan, is separated from his wife but...

Butcher's Crossing | Will Andrews is no academic. He longs for wildness, freedom, hope and vigour. He leaves Harvard and sets out for the West to discover a new way of living. In a small town called B...

Culture and Imperialism | From the author of Orientalism, a searching examination of western culture and the roots of imperialism Following his profoundly influential study, Orientalism, Edward Said n...

Real World | In a suburb on the outskirts of Tokyo, four teenage girls drift through a hot smoggy August and tedious summer school classes. There's dependable Toshi; brainy Terauchi; Yuzan, grief-stri...