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The Meaning of Rice. A Culinary Tour of Japan | Food and travel writer Michael Booth and his family embark on an epic journey the length of Japan to explore its dazzling food culture. They find a coun...

England, England | Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction As every schoolboy knows, you can fit the whole of England on the Isle of Wight. Grotesque, visionary tycoon Sir Jack Pitman takes t...

In Extremis | Thomas needs to speak to his mother before she dies. But he's set to give a talk to a conference of physiotherapists in the Netherlands; if he leaves now will he get to her deathbed in t...

Mr Pye | Brimming with good cheer, Mr Pye decides to bring peace and love to Sark's 289 eccentric inhabitants. This is a charming fable about the battle bewteen good and evil. Equipped with love, Mr H...

A Possible Life | Terrified, a young prisoner in the Second World War closes his eyes and pictures himself going out to bat on a sunlit cricket ground in Hampshire. Across the courtyard in a Victorian...

The Weather Experiment. The Pioneers who Sought to see the Future | In an age when a storm was evidence of God's wrath, pioneering meteorologists had to fight against convention and religious dogma to...

Dear Daughter | Gone Girl meets Mean Girls in this sharp and clever thriller from the publishers of The Never List Hollywood It Girl Janie Jenkins has it all. The looks, the brains, the money, the fam...

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Read this 19th-century childhood adventure story that confronts the reality of racism in America. 'There comes a time in every boy's life when when he has a raging desir...

Treasure Island | 'Who can think of a pirate without conjuring up the image of Long John Silver?' Daily Mail When young Jim Hawkins discovers a treasure map in a pirate's chest in his parents' inn, he...

Silver Shoals. Five Fish That Made Britain | ‘A wonderful and important book, that from its first pages draws the reader along on a fascinating, gripping, often funny journey.’ Robert Macfarlane, best...

Civilisations | It's world history. But not as we know it. c.1000AD: Erik the Red's daughter heads south from Greenland 1492: Columbus does not discover America 1531: the Incas invade Europe Freydis i...

The Time Machine | Brilliantly imaginative fiction or the shape of things to come? H.G. Wells's masterpiece still retains its power to provoke and enthral. In the Time Traveller's miraculous new machi...

Out of My Head. On the Trail of Consciousness | Is my experience real? Or just a movie in my head? Am I no more than a super computer? You are your brain, neuroscientists tell us. Everything happens i...

The Dogs of Riga | Sweden, winter, 1991. Inspector Kurt Wallander and his team receive an anonymous tip-off. A few days later a life raft is washed up on a beach. In it are two men, dressed in expensi...

Jar City | An old man is found murdered in his Reykjavik flat. A cryptic note and a photograph of a young girl's grave are left behind. Did the dead man's past come back to haunt him? Inspector Erlend...

Selected Stories. Volume Two | Covering the second half of Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro's career, these are some of the best, most touching and powerful short stories ever written. 'Munro is still o...

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass | Alice is one of the most beloved characters of English writing. A bright and inquisitive child, one boring summer afternoon she follows...

The Rachel Papers | Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award and Martin Amis's celebrated first novel. Charles Highway, a precociously intelligent and highly sexed teenager, is determined to sleep with an...

The Camomile Lawn | Escape to the Cornish cliffs in the dizzying heat of August 1939, where five cousins are making the most of the last summer of their youth. Oliver is just back from the Spanish Civ...

Sapiens. A Brief History of Humankind | The Million Copy Bestseller What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens? This bestselling history challenges everything we know about b...

The Second Plane. September 11, 2001-2007 | Martin Amis first wrote about September 11 a week later in a piece for The Guardian beginning, 'It was the advent of the second plane, sharking in low over ...

Yesterday's Weather | First publication of a new collection of the Booker Prize-winner's stories including those from her most recent hardback 'Taking Pictures'. In Yesterday's Weather, Booker Prize-w...

Noble Savages. The Olivier Sisters | From the beginning of their lives, the Olivier sisters stood out: surprisingly emancipated, strikingly beautiful, markedly determined, and alarmingly 'wild'. Ruper...

The London Train | From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Free Love and Late in the Day, discover a story of two lives stretched between two cities, two stories bound by the London train. Paul se...

Babies | Babies: our biggest mystery and our most natural consequence, our hardest test and our enduring love. Anne Enright describes the intensity, bewilderment and extravagant happiness of her exper...

Octopussy & The Living Daylights | There's no better time to rediscover James Bond. The British Secret Service has many enemies. Whether it's a sniper in East Berlin, a Russian agent secretly bidding ...

Earthly Possessions | For thirty-five year old Charlotte Emory, leaving her husband seems to offer the only way out from the mundaneness of every day life's earthly possessions and emotional complicat...

A Burnt-out Case | Querry, a world famous architect, is the victim of a terrible attack of indifference: he no longer finds meaning in art or pleasure in life. Arriving anonymously at a Congo leper vi...

Operation Shylock | Philip Roth's entire oeuvre - 31 books - to be reissued in electric new Vintage jackets for October 2016 'Subtle, funny and furious' Observer What if a lookalike stranger stole you...

Human Traces | Discover the moving powerful prequel to Snow Country 'An extraordinary novel of magnificent scope' Evening Standard As young boys both Jacques Rebiere and Thomas Midwinter become fascin...

The Silver Sword | Discover this amazing adventure story set in the Second World War 'If you meet Ruth or Edek or Bronia, you must tell them I'm going to Switzerland to find their mother. Tell them to...

Ghost Light | Dublin, 1907. A young actress begins an affair with a damaged older man, the leading playwright at the theatre where she works. Outspoken and flirtatious, Molly Allgood is a Catholic gir...

The Bat | Discover the addictive first book in the bestselling Harry Hole series. 'A stunning opening to the series' Sunday Times Harry is out of his depth. Detective Harry Hole is meant to keep out o...

Oliver Twist | 'Look here! Here's a jolly life! What's the odds where it comes from?' Meet the Artful Dodger, as roistering and swaggering a young gentleman as ever stood four foot six. With him, you'...

Aristotle’s Way. Ten Ways Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life | What do you and an ancient philosopher have in common? It turns out much more than you might think… Aristotle was an extraordinary think...

Annapurna | In 1950, no mountain higher than 8,000 meters had ever been climbed. Maurice Herzog and other members of the French Alpine Club resolved to try. This is the enthralling story of the first ...

Little Men | 'We always allow one pillow-fight Saturday night' Did you ever wonder what happened to Jo March from Little Women? She grew up, of course, and followed her dream to become a writer. In ad...

Summer | How do you remember the summers of your childhood? For Laurie Lee they were flower-crested, heady, endless days. Here is an evocation of summer like no other - a remote valley filled with the...

Mrs Dalloway's Party | Written in the same period as Mrs Dalloway these seven short stories show the author's fascination with parties and with all the excitement, the fluctuations of mood and temper ...

Swing Hammer Swing! | From the infamous Glasgow slum, the Gorbals, Tam Clay chronicles a week in his life, in the last days before the demolishers move in. Intersecting friends, old-timers and eccentr...

Antic Hay | When inspiration leads Theodore Gumbril to design a type of pneumatic trouser cushion to ease the discomfort of sedentary life, he decides the time has come to give up teaching and seek hi...

The Eight Mountains | Pietro, a lonely city boy, spends his summers in a secluded valley in the Alps. There, surrounded by meadows and peaks, he begins to learn of his father's dreams and passions. Th...

Shark Drunk. The Art of Catching a Large Shark from a Tiny Rubber Dinghy in a Big Ocean | Shark Drunk is, in part, the tale of two men in a very small boat on the trail of a very big fish. It is also ...

To The Lighthouse | Woolf's textured prose invites us into each of the characters' minds as we follow them on a winding, decade-long journey to the lighthouse. Mr and Mrs Ramsay and their eight childr...

The Household Spirit | There's something wrong next door. At least, that's what neighbors Howie Jeffries and Emily Phane both think. Since his daughter and wife moved out, Howie has been alone, an acc...

Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss | Professor Chandra is about to embark on the trip of a lifetime. In the moments after the bicycle accident, Professor Chandra begins to reassess his life, his care...

The Genius and the Goddess | It is Christmas Eve, and John Rivers is thinking about the past; about his sheltered upbringing; about an extraordinary time spent as a lab assistant to the great physicis...

Love | Love is Angela Carter's fifth novel and was first published in 1971. With surgical precision it charts the destructive emotional war between a young woman, her husband and his disruptive brothe...

The Narrow Road to the Deep North | Forever after, there were for them only two sorts of men: the men who were on the Line, and the rest of humanity, who were not. In the despair of a Japanese POW cam...

Notwithstanding. Stories from an English Village | Welcome to the village of Notwithstanding, where a lady dresses in plus fours and shoots squirrels, a retired general gives up wearing clothes altoge...

Sexing The Cherry | On the banks of the Thames a baby is found floating. Rescued by the Dog-Woman, a giant strong enough to fling an elephant into the air, their lives together will take them on a diz...

Nervous States. How Feeling Took Over the World | How have feelings come to shape the world around us? Why has politics become so fractious and warlike? What might the future hold? In this bold and co...

The Portrait of a Lady | 'Henry James is as solitary in the history of the novel as Shakespeare is in the history of poetry' Graham Greene Isabel Archer's main aim in life is to protect her independen...

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel | Discover the Sunday Times bestselling novel that inspired the beloved hit film starring Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy, Celia Imrie, Dev Patel and Penelope Wilto...

Most Secret | In their trusty fishing boat Genevieve, armed with a flame thrower and limited ammunition, a small group of officers and men take a stand against the might of the German army after the f...

All Quiet on the Western Front | One by one the boys begin to fall... In 1914 a room full of German schoolboys, fresh-faced and idealistic, are goaded by their schoolmaster to troop off to the 'glorio...

England Made Me | A powerful and unusual love story set in a world that has lost the comfort of national identity and individualism, told by one of the 20th century's greatest writers. Set in a world ...

Frankissstein. A Love Story | Inspired by Mary Shelley's gothic classic Frankenstein, discover this audacious new novel about the bodies we live in and the bodies we desire. As Brexit grips Britain, R...

The Blade Artist | Jim Francis has finally found the perfect life – and is now unrecognisable, even to himself. A successful painter and sculptor, he lives quietly with his wife, Melanie, and their tw...

Stories from Other Places | Nicholas Shakespeare’s collected stories take us around the globe and into the intimate lives of his characters and the dilemmas and temptations they face. The opening nove...

Stamboul Train | A classic espionage thriller from master storyteller Graham Greene ‘One of the most important British writers of the twentieth century - he brought something undeniably new to fiction...

When She Was Good | When she was still a child, Lucy Nelson had her irresponsible, alcoholic father thrown in jail. Since then, Lucy has become a furious adolescent - raging against middle-class life ...

The Bell Family | If you love Noel Streatfeild's Ballet Shoes,you'll adore The Bell Family. 'Well, little people, what's the news?' Meet the big, happy Bell family who live in the vicarage at St Marks...

Trespass | In a silent valley in southern France stands an isolated stone farmhouse, the Mas Lunel. Its owner is Aramon Lunel, an alcoholic haunted by his violent past. His sister, Audrun, alone in he...