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The Pyramid | When Kurt Wallander first appeared in Faceless Killers, he was a senior police officer, just turned forty, with his life in a mess. His wife had left him, his father barely acknowledged ...

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...

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...

Our Man In Havana | Bright, photographic, evocative new covers for Greene's backlist, to celebrate one of the keystone writers of the Vintage Classics list Discover Graham Greene's blackly comic and t...

1Q84. Books 1 and 2 | Read this imaginative masterpiece from the internationally bestselling author of Norwegian Wood The year is 1984. Aomame sits in a taxi on the expressway in Tokyo. Her work is no...

Gravity's Rainbow | Discover Thomas Pynchon’s brilliant writing in this postmodern literature classic. ‘The greatest, wildest author of his generation’ Guardian We could tell you the year is 1944, tha...

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 ...

A Time In Rome | 'A great writer... she is what happened after Bloomsbury... the link that connects Virginia Woolf with Iris Murdoch and Muriel Spark' Victoria Glendinning Elizabeth Bowen's account of...

Crime | Some things are easier to forget than others... Detective Inspector Ray Lennox has fled to Miami to escape the aftermath of a mental breakdown induced by occupational stress and cocaine abuse,...

Power | 'Why, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust? And, live we how we can, yet die we must' What is the true meaning of power? Are some simply born to it or can it be acquired like a skill?...

The Doll | Young Ismail's world centres around his mother. Naive and fragile as a paper doll, she is an unlikely presence in her husband's imposing house, with its hidden rooms and infamous dungeon. Y...

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...

The Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain | This is the age of Jane Austen and the Romantic poets; the paintings of John Constable and the gardens of Humphry Repton; Britain's military triumphs at...

The Dumas Club | A well-know bibliophile is found hanged days after selling a rare manuscript of Alexander Dumas's classic, The Three Musketeers. Across Madrid, Spain's wealthiest book dealer has fina...

Labels and Other Stories | Transporting us to all corners of the globe, the tales in Louis de Bernieres’ worldly and entertaining collection Labels and Other Stories feature a cast of unlikely and unf...

The Sandcastle | 'It's all dry sand running through the fingers.' When Bill Mor falls in love with Rain Carter he discovers a new way of being and a new joy in the world and his surroundings. To be wi...

Marcovaldo | 'The most magically ingenious of the contemporary Italian novelists' The Times Marcovaldo is an enchanting collection of twenty stories that are both melancholy and funny, farce and fanta...

Metropolis. A History of the City, Humankind’s Greatest Invention | The story of the city is the story of civilisation. From Uruk and Babylon to Baghdad and Venice, and on to London, New York, Shangha...

For Your Eyes Only | There's no better time to rediscover James Bond. Who killed an elderly couple in their Caribbean home? M knows exactly who did it, but the murderers will most likely escape throug...

The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Tales | An introduction to the weird and unsettling world of H.P. Lovecraft, master of horror and pioneer of 'weird fiction' An introduction to the weird and unsett...

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...

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...

Slaughterhouse 5 | Read Kurt Vonnegut's powerful masterpiece, which is as timely now as when it was first published. Billy Pilgrim – hapless barber's assistant, successful optometrist, alien abductee,...

God Bless You, Mr Rosewater | Eliot Rosewater is tortured by a fabulous inheritance he feels he does not deserve, so he devotes himself to drink, and to a life serving the dull, the ugly, the irreleva...

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...

After Dark | The midnight hour approaches in an almost empty all-night diner. Mari sips her coffee and glances up from a book as a young man, a musician, intrudes on her solitude. Both have missed the...

Stalingrad | In April 1942, Hitler and Mussolini plan the huge offensive on the Eastern Front that will culminate in the greatest battle in human history. Hundreds of miles away, Pyotr Vavilov receive...

Nature Cure | Rediscover the extraodinary power of nature and the British wilderness, from award-winning naturalist and author Richard Mabey In the last year of the old millennium, Richard Mabey, Brit...

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...

A Void | Anton Vowl is missing. Ransacking his Paris flat, a group of his faithful companions trawl through his diary for any hint as to his location and, insidiously, a ghost, from Vowl's past starts...

Point Counter Point | The dilettantes who frequent Lady Tantamount's society parties are determined to push forward the moral frontiers of the age. Marjorie has left her family to live with Walter; Wa...

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...

A Scandinavian Christmas. Festive Tales for a Nordic Noel | Ranging from Hans Christian Anderson to Karl Ove Knausgaard, have yourself a nordic noel with the very best Scandinavian Christmas tales Hav...

Midnight's Children | Born at the stroke of midnight at the exact moment of India's independence, Saleem Sinai is a special child. However, this coincidence of birth has consequences he is not prepare...

Slow Learner | Slow Learner is a compilation of early stories written between 1959 and 1964, before Pynchon achieved recognition as a prominent writer for his 1963 novel, V. This edition also contains...

The Talented Mr Ripley | Tom Ripley is struggling to stay one step ahead of his creditors and the law, when an unexpected acquaintance offers him a free trip to Europe and a chance to start over. Ripl...

The Truths We Hold. An American Journey | Read the inspiring Sunday Times bestselling memoir from the first woman, and woman of colour, to serve as Vice President of the United States. 'A life story t...

Atonement | 'The best thing he has ever written' Observer Discover the modern classic that has sold over two million copies. ‘A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily ...

Adjustment Day | The author of Fight Club takes America beyond our darkest dreams in this timely satire. People pass the word only to those they trust most: Adjustment Day is coming. They've been read...

The Knowledge. How To Rebuild Our World After An Apocalypse | If the world as we know it ended tomorrow, how would you survive? A nuclear war, viral pandemic or asteroid strike. The world as we know i...

Birthday Stories | Selected and introduced by Haruki Murakami. A collection of twelve birthday stories from some of the most distinguished writers of western literature. What will you get for your bir...

С | The author of 'one of the great English novels of the past ten years' moves to the next level, with a novel of thrilling action, imagination and ambition, perfect for fans of Bola?o and Pynchon. N...

Norwegian Wood | Read the haunting love story that turned Murakami into a literary superstar. When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of hi...

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...

Deadly Communion | A sexual predator is at large on the streets of Imperial Vienna. The killer is no ordinary 'lust murderer', but rather an entirely new phenomenon, his deviance revealing the darker ...

If on a Winter's Night a Traveller | 'Breathtakingly inventive' David Mitchell You go into a bookshop and buy If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino. You like it. But alas there is a prin...

Forever and a Day | A spy is dead. A legend is born. This is how it all began. The explosive James Bond thriller from bestselling author Anthony Horowitz. A British agent floats in the waters of the F...

Headhunters | Lie. Clever, wealthy, married to a beautiful woman: Roger Brown has it all. And his sideline as an art thief keeps him busy when his job as a corporate headhunter gets dull. Steal. Then ...

Darkness at Noon | 'One of the few books written in this epoch which will survive it' New Statesman Darkness at Noon is set in an unnamed country ruled by a totalitarian government. Rubashov, once a p...

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 ...

London Fields | Writer, Samson Young, is staring death in the face, and not only his own. Void of ideas and on the verge of terminal decline, Samson's dash to a decaying, degenerate London has brought...

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...

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 Kingdom | Jo Nesbo, author of the number one bestselling Harry Hole series, is back with a tense and atmospheric thriller about two brothers bound together by dark secrets. When Roy and Carl's par...

Burning Your Boats | As well as her eight novels, Angela Carter published four wonderful collections of short stories during her lifetime, and contributed stories to several anthologies. The stories w...

The Waves | Virginia Woolf wanted to write about the vast unknown uncertain continent that is the world and us in it' Jeanette Winterson, from her introduction to The Waves The Waves is an astonishing...

Pinball | This story is about me, but it's also about Rat. It's about a quest, a brief love affair, arid the three-flipper Spaceship pinball machine. None. Категория: Книги/Книги на иностранных языках...

Mrs de Winter | Rejacketed alongside Air and Angels, The Mist in the Mirror and The Woman in Black to create a set of Susan Hill's most absorbing, enchanting and unsettling backlist titles. Rebecca wa...

Invisible Monsters | 'Maybe our generation has found its Don DeLillo' Bret Easton Ellis By the author of Fight Club She's a catwalk model who has everything: a boyfriend, a career, a loyal best friend...

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman | An eclectic, eccentiric and altogether brain-bending collection of short stories An eclectic, eccentric and altogether brain-bending collection of short stories. Here ar...

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...

The Lying Game | The text message arrives in the small hours of the morning: I need you. Isa drops everything, takes her baby daughter and heads straight to Salten. She spent the most significant days...

Catalina | Crippled sixteen-year-old Catalina is the one person unable to join in the festivities of the Feast of the Assumption. But then she has a vision of the Virgin, and is miraculously cured. In...

A Necessary Evil | India, 1920. Captain Sam Wyndham and Sergeant Banerjee of Calcutta Police must investigate the dramatic assassination of a Maharaja's son... Sam Wyndham is visiting the kingdom of S...