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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...

Far from the Madding Crowd | 'Vital, passionate, spirited - from the moment Bathsheba appears she is beguiling' Independent When Bathsheba Everdean arrives in the small village of Weatherbury she capt...

The Waves | The Waves is an astonishingly beautiful and poetic novel. It begins with six children playing in a garden by the sea and follows their lives as they grow up and experience friendship, love...

Doctor Zhivago | Doctor Zhivago is the epic novel of Russia in the throes of revolution and one of the greatest love stories ever told. Yuri Zhivago, physician and poet, wrestles with the new order an...

The Woman in White | 'The most popular novel of the nineteenth century, and still one of the best plots in English literature' Sarah Waters Marian and her sister Laura live a quiet life under their un...

The Moonstone | 'The first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels' T S Eliot When Rachel Verinder receives a gift of an astonishing yellow diamond from her bitter old uncle for ...

Satin Island | U. is a 'corporate anthropologist' who, while working on a giant, epoch-defining project no one really understands, is also tasked with writing the Great Report on our society. But inst...

Atomised | The gloriously moving and extravagantly filthy cult classic from the internationally bestselling author of Submission Half-brothers Michel and Bruno have a mother in common but little else....

Youth | Youth's narrator, a student in 1950s South Africa, has long been plotting an escape from his native country. Studying mathematics, reading poetry, saving money, he tries to ensure that when he...

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...

Hitler's Furies. German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields | A shocking and timely reminder of the role Nazi women played in the Holocaust, not only as plunderers and direct witnesses, but on the Easter...

Small is Beautiful. A Study of Economics as if People Mattered | A remarkable classic study of world economies, reissued to celebrate the centenary of E. F. Schumacher's birth. How does our economic s...

Mind Game. The Secrets of Golf's Winners | Eye-opening contributions from the stars of game make this a powerful, groundbreaking investigation into the mind of the professional golfer. The perfect gif...

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 Gathering | The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother Liam. It wasn't the drink that killed him - although that certainly helped - it w...

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 Satanic Verses | No book in modern times has matched the uproar sparked by Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, which earned its author a death sentence. Furor aside, it is a marvelously erudite s...

The Time Traveler's Wife | Impossible but true. Now adapted into the major Sky TV series, The Time Traveler's Wife is the international bestselling novel of a time-altering love. Henry is a librarian ...

Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage | 2021 sees all of Alice Munro's backlist reissued in a new, modern look. These editions will appeal to a broad range of literary readers WINNER OF ...

The Lemon Table | From the hairdessing salon where an old man measures out his life in haircuts, to the concert hall where a music lover carries out an obsessive campaign against those who cough in co...

The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays | A selection of Oscar Wilde's best and most important plays - sharp, relevant and brilliant to this day. Who would have thought a comedy of manners wri...

A Writer's Notebook | From 1892, when he was eighteen, until 1949, when this book was first published, Somerset Maugham kept a notebook. It is without doubt one of his most important works. Part autob...

The Flounder | Gunter Grass, says The Times, 'is on his own as an artist', and indeed this extraordinary, provoking and joyously Rabelaisian celebration of life, food and sex is unique. Lifted from th...

Flaubert's Parrot | Geoffrey Braithwaite is a retired doctor haunted by an obsession with the great French literary genius, Gustave Flaubert. As Geoffrey investigates the mystery of the stuffed parrot...

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...

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...

Shalimar the Clown | Shalimar the Clown was once a figure full of love and laughter. His skill as a tightrope walker was legendary in his native home of Kashmir. But fate has played him cruelly, torn ...

I Still Dream About You | Meet Maggie Fortenberry. Her life seems pretty much perfect - she's beautiful, charming and successful, just as you'd expect of a former Miss Alabama. But in fact, Maggie is ...

We | As relevant today as when it was first published, We is the first modern dystopian novel which inspired both Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave New World. The citizens of the One State live in a cond...

Feynman's Lost Lecture | On 14 March 1964 Richard Feynman, one of the greatest scientific thinkers of the 20th Century, delivered a lecture entitled 'The Motion of the Planets Around the Sun'. For thi...

The Snow Leopard | Enjoy this special edition hardback of one of the greatest pieces of travel and nature writing ever written. Go with Peter Matthiessen all the way to Dolpo, a Tibetan plateau in the...

Filth | Suitable only for persons of strong constitution. Contains: Drug use Perversion Murder Corruption Sexism Racism Law Enforcement And a tapeworm None. Категория: Книги/Книги на иностранных языка...

The Heart Of The Matter | Scobie, a police officer serving in a war-time West African state, is distrusted, being scrupulously honest and immune to bribery. But then he falls in love, and in doing so ...

Points of View | Another wide-ranging volume of essays from the prose master Eclectic and illuminating, these essays are the last that Maugham published. Ranging from an appreciation of Goethe's novel...

The Doors Of Perception | Discover this profound account of Huxley's famous experimentation with mescalin that has influenced writers and artists for decades. 'Concise, evocative, wise and, above all,...

Childhood And Society | With this deeply influential book, which is now internationally recognised as a classic study of childhood and its social significance, Professor Erikson has made an outstandin...

Collected Short Stories. Volume 3 | The third collection of Maugham's famous short stories. The third volume of Somerset Maugham's Collected Short Stories, introduced by the author, contains the celeb...

The Gulag Archipelago | 'It helped to bring down an empire. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated' Doris Lessing, Sunday Telegraph '[The Gulag Archipelago] helped to bring down an empire. Its impor...

A Climate of Fear | A woman is found dead in her bath. The murder has been disguised as a suicide and a strange symbol is discovered at the scene. Then the symbol is observed near a second victim, who...

The Devil All the Time | Carl and Sandy Henderson, a husband-and-wife team of serial killers, trawl America's highways searching for suitable models to photograph and exterminate. Preacher Roy and his...

The Devils of Loudun | A gripping biography by the author of Brave New World In 1634 Urbain Grandier, a handsome and dissolute priest of the parish of Loudun was tried, tortured and burnt at the stake...

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...

Chaos | A fascinating, yet clear-sighted overview of one of the most bewildering frontiers of modern physics: Chaos. Uncover one of the most exciting frontiers of modern physics in this fascinating, i...

Clerkenwell Tales | The scene is London, in 1399. It is the last year of the fourteenth century, and there is talk of an apocalypse. Richard II is on the throne, yet strange signs and portents are tro...

The Sea, The Sea | The Booker Prize-winning masterpiece from one of the twentieth century's most important and entertaining writers. Iris Murdoch’s extraordinary exploration of human nature shines wit...

The Unvanquished | In a series of episodes set during and after the American Civil War Faulkner profiles the people of the South - who might surrender but could never be vanquished. The characters are...

The End | In this final novel in the My Struggle cycle, Karl Ove Knausgaard examines life, death, love and literature with unsparing rigour and begins to count the cost of his project. The End reflect...

Barchester Towers | Be irresistibly drawn into Barchester's clerical skirmishes as Archdeacon Grantly declares war on Bishop Proudie and his retinue in Trollope's most popular novel. This 1857 sequel ...

Gormenghast | Enter the world of Gormenghast...the vast crumbling castle to which the seventy-seventh Earl, Titus Groan, is Lord and heir. Gothic labyrinth of roofs and turrets, cloisters and corridor...

Fireworks | 'I started to write short pieces when I was living in a room too small to write a novel in.' So says Angela Carter of this collection, written during a period living in Toyko. These exotic...

The Ways of White Folks | A black maid forms a close bond with the daughter of the cruel white couple for whom she works. Two rich, white artists hire a black model to pose as a slave. A white-passing...

The Talented Mr Ripley | 'He is using you for what you are worth' Tom Ripley wants money, success, and the good life - and he's willing to kill for it. Struggling to stay one step ahead of his credito...

All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion | The hilarious and heartwarming new novel from the author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe Wisconsin, 1941 - With all the men off to war, Fritz...

The Makioka Sisters | An exquisite novel about four sisters living though a turbulent decade...I'd put it in the 10 greatest books of the 20th century' David Mitchell 'A near-perfect novel' Hanya Yana...

The Famished Road | Journey between the land of the Living and the spirit world in this magical Booker Prize-winning novel 'So long as we are alive, so long as we feel, so long as we love, everything ...

A German Christmas. Festive Tales From Berlin to Bavaria | Eine frohliche Weihnachten - A Merry Christmas - made all the more joyful with these literary treats redolent of candle-lit trees, St. Nikola...

The Convert | In the small village in Provence where Stefan Hertmans has made his home, people have long spoken of an ancient pogrom and hidden treasure. Then, at the end of the nineteenth century, an...

The Darkness of Wallis Simpson | Now reissued with a stunning new jacket look, The Darkness of Wallis Simpson is a masterful collection of short stories from the prize-winning Rose Tremain A masterful...

A Portable Shelter | In their tiny, sea-beaten cottage on the north coast of Scotland, Liska and Ruth await the birth of their first child. Each passes the time by telling the baby stories, trying to ...

The Shadows of Men | Calcutta, 1923. When a Hindu theologian is found murdered in his home, the city is on the brink of all-out religious war. Can officers of the Imperial Police Force, Captain Sam Wy...

Selected Short Stories | John O’Hara is widely credited with inventing the New Yorker short story, and remains the most-published short story writer in the history of the magazine. Selected from his v...

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...

Hopscotch | Julio Cortazar's crazed masterpiece, the forbearer of the Latin Boom in the 1960s - published in Vintage Classics for the first time 'Cortazar's masterpiece. This is the first great novel ...

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...