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The Woman in Cabin 10 | A passenger is missing...but was she ever on board at all? This was meant to be the perfect trip. The Northern Lights. A luxury press launch on a boutique cruise ship. A chance...

The Water Kingdom. A Secret History of China | Selected as a Book of the Year by The Times and The Economist China's history is an epic tapestry of courtly philosophies, warring factions and imperial ...

West of Eden | West of Eden is the definitive story of Hollywood, told, in their own words, by the people on the inside: Lauren Bacall, Arthur Miller, Dennis Hopper, Frank Gehry, Ring Lardner, Joan Di...

Freya | Freya Wyley meets Nancy Holdaway amid the wild celebrations of VE Day, the prelude to a devoted and competitive friendship… Freya, ambitious and outspoken, pursues a career on Fleet Street whi...

Once Were Warriors | The Hekes are a family in turmoil. A tyrannical, alcoholic, violent patriarch, an alcoholic, ever-trying-to-reform mother, and three degenerate children. Can the draw Maori ritual...

The Noodle Maker | Every week, a writer of political propaganda and a professional blood donor meet for dinner. They are unlikely friends - one of them tortured by his 'art', the other fat and wealthy...

Hard Like Water | A breakneck adventure story following the erotic love affair of party cadres Aijun and Hongmei during China's Cultural Revolution This is the story of the freewheeling love affair be...

Friends And Relations | Two sisters, two weddings, just months apart. These marriages produce a tangle of friends, relations and lovers that starts to unravel ten years later, during one intense week....

Arctic Chill | A dark-skinned young boy is found dead, frozen to the ground in a pool of his own blood. The boy's Thai half-brother is missing; is he implicated, or simply afraid for his own life? Whi...

To Have & Have Not | If you loved BBC4's Hemingway, read Ernest Hemingway's adventure novel set on the verge of the tropics. Harry Morgan is a tough guy making his living during the Depression from hi...

Scenes from Village Life | A teenage son shoots himself under his parents' bed. They sleep that night unaware he is lying dead beneath them. A stranger turns up at a man's door to persude him that the...

Rainbow Dust. Three Centuries of Delight in British Butterflies | Much more than just another field guide or a natural history of butterflies Rainbow Dust explores the ways in which butterflies deligh...

The Innocent | Re-jacketed in stunning new series style, The Innocent is a startlingly prescient novel from Booker prize-winning, Sunday Times-bestselling Ian McEwan. The Innocent is a startlingly pre...

Sunstroke and Other Stories | Everyday life crackles with the electricity sparking between men and women, between parents and children, between friends. A son confesses to his mother that he is cheati...

Orwell. The Life | Shortlisted for the Whitbread biography award 2003 'Definitive' Daily Telegraph Orwell has become one of the most potent and symbolic figures in western political thought. Even the ...

Remembering Babylon | A searing and magnificent picture of Australia at the moment of its foundation, with early settlers staking out their small patch of land and terrified by the harsh and alien con...

Fish Can Sing | Abandoned as a baby, Alfgrimur is content to spend his days as a fisherman living in the turf cottage outside Reykjavik with the elderly couple he calls grandmother and grandfather. Th...

Names of the Women | Under a predawn sky, humming with starlight and the songs of birds, a group of determined women return to the cave where they have laid the body of their saviour. When they arrive...

How to Love Animals. And Protect Our Planet | A far-reaching, urgent, and thoroughly engaging exploration of our relationship with animals - from the acclaimed Financial Times journalist. This might b...

Ground Work. Writings on People and Places | We are living in the anthropocene – an epoch where everything is being determined by the activities of just one soft-skinned, warm-blooded, short-lived, pe...

Hide My Eyes | Agatha Christie called her 'a shining light'. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder mystery? In Hide My Eyes, private detective Albert Campion fi...

Our Ladies | The choir from Our Lady of Perpetual Succour School for Girls is being bussed to the national finals in the big, big city. It's an important day for The Sopranos, with pub-crawling, shopl...

Hard Times | 'Facts alone are wanted in life' The children at Mr Gradgrind's school are sternly ordered to stifle their imaginations and pay attention only to cold, hard reality. They live in a smoky,...

The Essential Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau | 'Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains' is the dramatic opening line of The Social Contract, published in 1762. Quoted by politicians and p...

Orlando | As his tale begins, Orlando is a passionate young nobleman whose days are spent in rowdy revelry, filled with the colourful delights of Queen Elizabeth's court. By the close, he will have tr...

How to Eat | Revisit and discover the sensational first cookbook from Nigella Lawson. When Nigella Lawson's first book, How to Eat, was published in 1998, two things were immediately clear: that this ...

Between The Acts | A village pageant is to take place at Pointz Hall, the country home of the Oliver family for time beyond memory. Written and directed by the energetic Miss La Trobe, the pageant wil...

The Leopard | The Vintage Classics Europeans series - with covers provided by textile design firm Wallace Sewell, these are must-have editions of European masterpieces, celebrating the warp and weft o...

A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas | This volume combines two books which were among the greatest contributions to feminist literature this century. Together they form a brilliant attack on sexual ...

The Idiot | Selin, a tall, highly strung Turkish-American from New Jersey turns up at Harvard with no idea what to expect. What she doesn't expect is: - How much time she will spend thinking about lan...

Saint Maybe | When eighteen-year-old Ian Bedloe pricks the bubble of his family's optimistic self-deception, his brother Danny drives into a wall, his sister-in-law falls apart, and his parents age be...

The Counterlife | Reissued in electric new backlist style for October 2016, The Counterlife was lauded by the likes of John Updike, Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, John Banville and James Wood, as well as...

Missee Lee | 'So long,' called the harbourmaster. 'Don't run into Missee Lee!' The Swallows, Amazons and Captain Flint don't pay much heed to the harbourmaster's friendly warning as they set off for C...

Devices and Desires. Bess of Hardwick and the Building of Elizabethan England | The remarkable story of Bess of Hardwick, her ascent through Elizabethan society and the houses she built that shaped Br...

Wise Children | A richly comic tale of the tangled fortunes of two theatrical families, the Hazards and the Chances, Angela Carter's witty and bawdy novel is populated with as many sets of twins, and ...

Lionel Asbo | A horribly violent, but horribly unsuccessful criminal, Lionel’s attentions up to now have all been on his nephew, Desmond Pepperdine. He showers him with fatherly advice (‘carry a knife...

Under the Frog | Tibor Fischer's hilarious first novel follows the adventures of two young Hungarian basketball players through the turbulent years between the end of World War II and the revolution o...

Alan Turing. The Enigma. The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game | The official book behind the Academy Award-winning film The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knight...

Staying On | Tusker and Lily Smalley stayed on in India. Given the chance to return 'home' when Tusker, once a Colonel in the British Army, retired, they chose instead to remain in the small hill town...

The Secret Garden | Rediscover the favourite childhood classic. What little girl can turn a whole household upside down and breathe new life back into a strange, old manor? The wonderfully contrary, s...

Passengers. True Stories of the Underground Railroad | Discover a powerful collection of the hardships, hairbreadth escapes, and mortal struggles of enslaved people seeking freedom: These are the true...

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde | Dr Jekyll has been experimenting with his identity. He has developed a drug which separates the two sides of his nature and allows him occasionally to abandon himself to his mo...

The Prague Cemetery | Nineteenth-century Europe abounds with conspiracy both ghastly and mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian priests are strangled with their own intestines. French cr...

Trustee From the Toolroom | Discover a classic adventure from the author of A Town Like Alice and On the Beach. Keith Stewart is an ordinary man. However, one day he is called upon to undertake an ext...

Or the Bull Kills You | Either you kill the bull, or the bull kills you - traditional proverb. Chief Inspector Max Camara hates bullfighting but one hot afternoon in Valencia he has to replace his bos...

The New Machiavelli. How to Wield Power in the Modern World | The New Machiavelli is a gripping account of life inside 'the bunker' of Number 10. In his twenty-first century reworking of Niccolo Machi...

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test | Tom Wolfe's genre-defining magical mystery tour through the 1960s published in Vintage Classics for the first time to mark its fiftieth anniversary. In the summer of ...

The Mars Room | Shortlisted For The Man Booker Prize 2018 A New York Times Bestseller From the author of internationally acclaimed The Flamethrowers - a fearless and heartbreaking novel about love, fr...

Thursbitch | A gripping time-slip novel by the author of the 2022 Booker Prize-longlisted Treacle Walker Here John Turner was cast away in a heavy snow storm in the night in or about the year 1755. Th...

Lionheart and Lackland. King Richard, King John and the Wars of Conquest | The truth behind Richard the Lionheart and Bad King John - brilliantly readable, scrupulously researched and full of powerful...

The Handmaid's Tale | Offred is a Handmaid in The Republic of Gilead, a religious totalitarian state in what was formerly known as the United States. She is placed in the household of The Commander, F...

Little Infamies | 'A very fine collection of connected short stories - funny, disturbing, ironic and bloody' - Annie Proulx, Daily Telegraph Panos Karnezis' remarkable stories are all set in the same ...

Beneath the Lion's Gaze | The powerful debut from 2020 Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Shadow King Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1974 - the eve of a revolution. Yonas kneels in his mother's prayer roo...

Spring Snow | The first novel in Mishima's masterful Sea of Fertility tetraology Tokyo, 1912. The closed world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders - rich provi...

Anna Karenina | Anna is a beautiful, intelligent woman whose passionate affair with the dashing Count Vronsky leads her to ruin. But her story is also about a search for meaning, and by twinning it wi...

The Enchanted Wanderer and Other Stories | Leskov’s stories of Russian life are explosions of imagination. Peopled by outsized characters including serfs, princes, Gypsy girls, horse dealers, nomadic ...

The Benefit of Hindsight | One rainy night, a couple welcomes two strangers needing help into their home. It's an act they will regret for the rest of their lives. On the other side of town a woman is...

Sudden Death | As Caravaggio, the libertine of Italy's art world, and the loutish Spanish poet Quevedo aim to settle scores over the course of one brutal tennis match, the old European order edges clo...

Weekend Wodehouse | 'P.G. Wodehouse remains the greatest chronicler of a certain kind of Englishness, that no one else has ever captured quite so sharply, or with quite as much wit and affection' Juli...

Pigeon Post | 'Barbecued billygoats!' Can you imagine finding gold? That's just what the Swallows and Amazons and Dick and Dorothea decide to hunt for in the hills high above the lake. But it's a hot ...

Classic Ghost Stories | Do you believe in ghosts? Ghosts, spirits, spectres or spooks, we have always felt the presence of someone - or something - hovering in the darkest corners of our imaginations....

Madame Bovary | 'She wanted to die, and she wanted to live in Paris.' This is the story of Emma, trapped in a disappointing marriage with a dull country doctor, she dreams for a life more like the sen...

The Man Who Lived Underground | Fred Daniels, a black man, is randomly picked up by the police after a brutal murder in a Chicago suburb. Taken to the local precinct, he is tortured -- until he confes...

Black Skies | Detective Sigurdur Oli is in trouble. After a school reunion exposes the chasm between his life and those of his much more successful contemporaries, leaving him bitter and resentful, on...