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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...

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...

Tyrant. Shakespeare On Power | How does a truly disastrous leader – a sociopath, a demagogue, a tyrant – come to power? How, and why, does a tyrant hold on to power? And what goes on in the hidden rec...

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...

Night And Day | In Night and Day, Virginia Woolf portrays her elder sister Vanessa in the person of Katharine Hilbery - the gifted daughter of a distinguished literary family, trapped in an environmen...

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair | This is one of the greatest collections of love poetry ever published. Inspired by Pablo Neruda's youthful relationships and injected with an expressive eroti...

Lullaby | Carl Streator is a reporter investigating Sudden Infant Death Syndrome for a soft-news feature. After responding to several calls with paramedics, he notices that all the dead children were ...

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...

Midnight's Children | Born at the stroke of midnight, at the precise moment of India's independence, Saleem Sinai is destined from birth to be special. For he is one of 1,001 children born in the midn...

Jacob's Room | New to the Vintage Classics Woolf series, this is Woolf's groundbreaking experimental novel. Jacob's Room is Virginia Woolf's first truly experimental novel. It is a portrait of a young...

Then and Now | Stunningly written and cleverly done, Maugham masters the enthralling and shocking world of Machievelli. Maugham found a parallel to the turmoil of our own times in the duplicity, intri...

Cutting for Stone | My brother, Shiva, and I came into the world in the late afternoon of the twentieth of September in the year of grace 1954. We took our first breaths in the thick air of Addis Abab...

There There | Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and hoping to reconnect with her estranged family. That's why she is there. Dene is there because he has been collecting stories to honour his uncle's ...

Snuff | From the master of literary mayhem and provocation, a novel about a porn queen's attempt to break the world's record for consecutive acts of sexual intercourse on film. Or die trying... Cassie...

Runaway Horses | The second novel in Mishima's masterful Sea of Fertility tetraology. Read this classic exploration of political violence, traditional samurai values and right wing nihilism. Isao is a...

Family History | Evelyn, aged thirty-nine, is an attractive widow living an irreproachable life. Then she meets Miles, fifteen years her junior, and falls passionately in love. But both lovers have st...

Sanctuary | Spolit, feckless Temple Drake, the daughter of a judge, runs away from school with an unsuitable man. Abandoned by him with a gang of moonshiners, Temple falls into the clutches of the psy...

The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins | Meet Lucy Brennan – an aggressive personal trainer who has just become a media hero after taking down a would-be gunman in Miami. The one witness to the daring rescue ...

Edie. American Girl | A brilliant and unique biography of Andy Warhol's tragic muse, the 60s icon Edie Sedgwick Outrageous, vulnerable and strikingly beautiful - in the 1960s Edie Sedgwick became both...

Book of Numbers | Book of Numbers is a novel about two men of the same age and with the same name: Joshua Cohen. The first Joshua is a writer whose keenly anticipated debut had the bad luck to be publ...

The Mayor of Casterbridge | The Mayor of Casterbridge is a man haunted by his past. In his youth he betrayed his wife and baby daughter in a shocking incident that led him to swear never to touch alco...

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...

Actress | 'Written with all the ingenuity and twisty tautness of a thriller' The Times From the Booker-winning Irish author, a brilliant and moving novel about fame, sexual power, and a daughter's sea...

An Intimate History of Humanity | This extraordinarily wide-ranging study looks at the dilemmas of life today and shows how they need not have arisen. Portraits of living people and historical figures...

Our Gang | Philip Roth's entire oeuvre - 31 books - to be reissued in electric new Vintage jackets for October 2016 'Disturbing, logical and very funny... In short, a masterpiece' New York Times Book ...

The Comedians | Three men meet on a ship bound for Haiti, a world in the grip of the corrupt 'Papa Doc' and the Tontons Macoute, his sinister secret police. Brown the hotelier, Smith the innocent Amer...

Small World | Philip Swallow, Morris Zapp, Persse McGarrigle and the lovely Angelica are the jet-propelled academics who are on the move, in the air and on the make in David Lodge's satirical Small Wo...

Cry, the Beloved Country | Cry the Beloved Country is the deeply moving story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom, set against the background of a land and a people riven by racial i...

The Promised Land | The final, previously unpublished novel by the author of All Quiet on the Western Front - a dreamlike, powerfully moving account of an emigrant's experience of New York during Worl...

Moon and Sixpence | Издание полностью на английском языке. Charles Strickland, a conventional stockbroker, abandons his wife and children for Paris and Tahiti, to live his life as a painter. Whilst hi...

The Man with the Golden Gun | There's no better time to rediscover James Bond. The Man with the Golden Gun, Paco Scaramanga, is one of the deadliest hit men in the world and the British Secret Service...

Gravity's Rainbow | Tyrone Slothrop, a GI in London in 1944, has a big problem. Whenever he gets an erection, a Blitz bomb hits. Slothrop gets excited, and then, as Thomas Pynchon puts it in his sibil...

Before She Met Me | Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011 Graham Hendrick, an historian, has left his wife Barbara for the vivacious Ann, and is more than pleased with his new life. Until, t...

The Worst Journey in the World | This is a gripping account of an expedition gone disastrously wrong. Apsley Cherry-Garrard, one of the youngest members of Scott's team, recorded the experience of his...

The Dying Animal | Philip Roth's entire oeuvre - 31 books - to be reissued in electric new Vintage jackets for October 2016 'This is a vicious, furious book, unapologetically not of this age - it is a...

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...

The Trial | The classic translation of Kafka's great work of psychological horror 'It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary' Rediscover Kafka's classic wo...

Bombay Stories | A rebellious yet human portrait of India's bustling Bombay, as told by one of the greatest Urdu writers of the last century: Saadat Hasan Manto. 'The undisputed master of the modern I...

The lambs of London | Mary Lamb is confined by the restrictions of domesticity: her father is losing his mind, her mother watchful and hostile. The great solace of her life is her brother Charles, an ...

The Children Act | A brilliant, emotionally wrenching new novel from the author of Atonement and Amsterdam. Fiona Maye, a leading High Court judge, renowned for her fierce intelligence and sensitivity...

The Gene. An Intimate History | The Gene is the story of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in our history from the author of The Emperor of All Maladies. The story begins in an Augustinian ...

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...

Women in Love | ‘What beauties the book contains! There are many pages in it so saturated with warm and lovely intimacies that one reads absorbed’ Guardian Women in Love begins one blossoming spring d...

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, ...

Goebbels | Joseph Goebbels was one of Adolf Hitler’s most loyal acolytes. But how did this club-footed son of a factory worker rise from obscurity to become Hitler’s malevolent minister of propaganda,...

Dubliners | 'Truly exhilarating...a vivid, detailed and breathtaking portrait of a city and its citizens' Irish Times In this powerfully influential series of short stories, James Joyce captures uneas...

As I Lay Dying | The death and burial of Addie Bundren is told by members of her family, as they cart the coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi, to bury her among her people. And as the intense desires, fe...

Monsignor Quixote | 'A deliciously funny novel and an affectionate offering to all that is noblest and least changing in the people and life of Spain' The Times Driven away from his parish by a censor...

Crime and Punishment | A troubled young man commits the perfect crime - the murder of a vile pawnbroker whom no one will miss. Raskolnikov is desperate for money, but convinces himself that his motive...

Absalom, Absalom! | This postbellum Greek tragedy is the perfect introduction to Faulkner’s elaborate descriptive syntax. Quentin Compson and Shreve, his Harvard roommate, are obsessed with the tragic...

Behave. The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst | We are capable of savage acts of violence but also spectacular feats of kindness: is one side of our nature destined to win out over the other? Ev...

The Collector | Weird, withdrawn, and unloved, Fred is a young collector of butterflies. One day his eye alights on a beautiful stranger, the art student Miranda, and an obsession starts to form. So w...

Haunted | Haunted is a novel made up of stories: twenty-three of the most horrifying, hilarious, mind-blowing, stomach-churning tales you'll ever encounter. They are told by the people who have all an...

Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee. An Indian History of the American West | The American West, 1860-1890: years of broken promises, disillusionment, war and massacre. Beginning with the Long Walk of the N...

Art Objects. Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery | These interlocking essays uncover art as an active force in the world - neither elitist or remote, present to those who want it, affecting even those wh...

Nice Work | When Vic Wilcox (MD of Pringle's engineering works) meets English lecturer Dr Robyn Penrose, sparks fly as their lifestyles and ideologies collide head on. What, after all, are they suppos...

Charlotte Gray | Reissued in new series style to match Faulks's most recent novel Where My Heart Used to Beat, which was a major Sunday Times bestseller in 2016 A remarkable story of a Scottish woman ...

Staring At The Sun | Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011 Staring at the Sun charts the life of Jean Serjeant, from her beginning as a naive, carefree country girl before the war through to...

Wuthering Heights | Rediscover Emily Bronte's powerful tale of love, violence and obsession. 'May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt me, then' Wuthering Heights is the...

The Summing Up | A rare glimpse into the life and mind of one of the most enigmatic of 20th century authors Autobiographical without being an autobiography, confessional without disclosing his private...

Soldier's Pay | Faulkner's first novel is a humane, searching and powerful exploration of war and mortality A group of soldiers travel by train across the United States in the aftermath of the First W...

Trainspotting | Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machines; choose cars; choose sitting oan a couch watching mind-numbing and spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fuckin...

Beginners | What We Talk About When We Talk About Love is Carver's most famous collection of short stories and remians one of the most influential pieces of modern literature to date. But the original...

Understanding Power. The Indispensable Chomsky | An indispensable collection of Noam Chomsky’s talks on the past, present and future of the politics of power Noam Chomsky is universally accepted as on...