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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 ...

1Q84. The Complete Trilogy | A mesmerising, epic, utterly involving masterpiece from Haruki Murakami The year is 1Q84. This is the real world, there is no doubt about that. But in this world, there ar...

The Complete Stories | The complete short stories of the 20th century's greatest visionary 'Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man' W. H. Auden This volume c...

Dr Fischer of Geneva | A satirical black comedy from the legendary Graham Greene. 'Manages to say more about love, hate, happiness, grief, immortality, greed and the disgustingly rich than most contem...

The Paper Chase. The Printer, the Spymaster, and the Hunt for the Rebel Pamphleteers | In the summer of 1705, a masked woman knocked on the door of a London printer's workshop. She did not leave her n...

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Discover James Joyce's impressionistic portrait of a young man finding his artistic voice in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, reissued to coincide wit...

To Kill A Mockingbird | 'Shoot all the Bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a Mockingbird.' Atticus Finch gives this advice to his children as he defends the real moc...

Time Regained and A Guide to Proust | Time Regained begins in the bleak and uncertain years of World War I. Years later, after the war's end, Proust's narrator returns to Paris and reflects on time, r...

Skylight | Called ‘the book lost and found in time’ by its author, Skylight is one of Saramago’s earliest novels. The manuscript was lost in the publishers’ offices in Lisbon for decades, and is only ...

Player Piano | Player Piano is the debut novel from one of history's most innovative authors, published on Vonnegut's 100th birthday. In Player Piano, the first of Vonnegut's wildly funny and deadly s...

The Zone of Interest | Amidst the horrors of Auschwitz, German officer, Angelus Thomsen, has found love. But unfortunately for Thomsen, the object of his affection is already married to his camp comma...

The Razor's Edge | An ambitious novel by the formidable talent, Somerset Maugham Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of this spiritual odyssey involves him with s...

Dance Dance Dance | An assault on the senses, part murder mystery, part metaphysical speculation; a fable for our times as catchy as a rock song blasting from the window of a sports car. High-class ca...

The Brothers Karamazov | "The Brothers Karamazov" is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving Karamazov and his three ...

Out | In the Tokyo suburbs four women work the graveyard shift at a factory. Burdened with heavy debts, alienated from husbands and children, they all secretly dream of a way out of their dead-end liv...

The English Ghost. Spectres Through Time | The English see more ghosts than any other nation. From medieval times to the present day, stories have been told about ghosts who avenge injustice, souls wh...

The Time Traveler's Wife | This is the extraordinary love story of Clare and Henry who met when Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-two and Henry thirty. Imp...

Mary Boleyn. The Great and Infamous Whore | Sister to Anne Boleyn and seduced by two kings, Mary Boleyn has long been the subject of scandal and myth. Her affair with Henry VIII fuelled the shocking a...

Welcome to the Monkey House | A diabolical government asserts control by eliminating orgasms. A scientist discovers the secret to unlocking instant happiness, with unexpected consequences. In an Ameri...

Daddy | A man travels to his son's school to deal with the fallout of a violent attack and to make sure his son will not lose his college place. But what exactly has his son done? And who is to blame?...

The Seville Communion | Murderous goings-on in a tiny church draw the Vatican into the dark heart of Seville. A hacker gets into the Pope's personal computer to leave a warning about mysterious deaths...

The Jungle Book | No man's cub can run with the people of the Jungle,' howled Shere Khan. 'Give him to me! When Father Wolf and Mother Wolf find a man-cub in the jungle, they anger the greedy tiger Sh...

Phantom | Harry Hole is in trouble. The police don't want him back... After the horrors of a case that nearly cost him his life, Harry Hole left Oslo and the police force far behind him. Now he's back...

Disgrace | Winner of the 1999 Booker Prize 'A great novel by one of the finest authors writing in the English language today' The Times After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University...

Because Internet. Understanding how language is changing | Have you ever puzzled over how to punctuate a text message? Wondered where memes came from? Fret no more: Because Internet is the perfect boo...

Vineland | Vineland, a zone of blessed anarchy in northern California, is the last refuge of hippiedom, a culture devastated by the sobriety epidemic, Reaganomics, and the Tube. Here, in an Orwellian ...

In Praise Of Shadows | An intimate reflection on Japanese art and architecture from one of the country's greatest novelists. This is an enchanting essay on aesthetics by one of the greatest Japanese n...

The Human Stain | The American psyche is channelled into the gripping story of one man. This is the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Philip Roth at his very best. It is 1998, the year America is plunged ...

The Elegant Universe | An astonishing book which combines great scientific insight and elegant writing to unravel the greatest mysteries of one of our most complex scientific concepts: string theory '...

Collected Short Stories. Volume 4 | The final collection of Maugham's marvellous stories This final classic collection of stories reveals Somerset Maugham's unique talent for exposing and exploring th...

The Return of the Native | 'Tremendous...utterly absorbing' Independent Proud, passionate Eustacia Vye marries Clym Yeobright in the hope that he will help her escape her cramped rural existence. But ...

A History of God | The idea of a single devine being - God, Yahweh, Allah - has existed for over 4,000 years. But the history of God is also the history of human struggle. While Judaism, Islam and Chr...

Amsterdam | Re-jacketed in stylish new series style, Amsterdam won the 1998 Man Booker Prize. Winner of the Booker prize Two old friends - Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday - meet at the funeral of gor...

Everything Flows | Ivan Grigoryevich has been in the Gulag for thirty years. Released after Stalin's death, he finds that the years of terror have imposed a collective moral slavery. He must struggle ...

After Many a Summer | Jo Stoyte is afraid of death. But Stoyte is also a millionaire, and so he pours his riches into scientific research, desperate to find the secret of immortality. This ruthless qu...

Nemesis | Harry can't trust his own memory A man is caught on CCTV, shooting dead a cashier at a bank. Detective Harry Hole begins his investigation, but after dinner with an old flame wakes up with n...

The Death Of The Heart | When sixteen-year-old Portia is orphaned she is plunged into the sophisticated and politely treacherous world of her wealthy half-brother's home. There she encounters the attr...

Dickens at Christmas | Discover this selection of the best of Dickens' Christmas stories and writings in one beautiful gift edition. The ultimate Christmas present. It is said that Charles Dickens inv...

Island Of The Day Before | The year is 1643. Roberto, a young nobleman, survives war, the Bastille, exile and shipwreck as he voyages to a Pacific island straddling the date meridian. There he waits n...

Buddenbrooks | Discover Mann's Nobel Prizewinning semi-autobiographical and sweeping family epic. The Buddenbrook clan is everything you'd expect of a nineteenth-century German merchant family - wealt...

The Temple of the Golden Pavilion | 'One of the outstanding writers of the world' New York Times Because of the boyhood trauma of seeing his mother make love to another man in the presence of his dyin...

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 New York Stories | 'Superb... These thirty-two stories inhabit the Technicolor vernaculars of taxi drivers, barbers, paper pushers and society matrons... O'Hara was American fiction's greatest eav...

The Years | Discover the most popular of Woolf's books during her lifetime - a powerful portrait of a family coping with changes wrought by the new twentieth century. The Years follows the lives of th...

The Little Prince | A new translation by Michael Morpurgo, author of War Horse Meet the Little Prince, a young fellow who hails from a tiny, distant planet. He loves to watch sunsets and look after hi...

The Call of the Wild and White Fang | 'Mush on!' Buck does not read the newspapers. If he had, he'd have known that for good strong dogs like himself trouble is brewing. Man has found gold and because...

On Her Majesty's Secret Service | There's no better time to rediscover James Bond. Ernst Stavro Blofeld, head of the terrorist organization SPECTRE, is holed up in his Alpine base, conducting research...

Heart of a Dog | A rich, successful Moscow professor befriends a stray dog and attempts a scientific first by transplanting into it the testicles and pituitary gland of a recently deceased man. A dist...

White King. Charles I, Traitor, Murderer, Martyr | The first accessible biography in 50 years of one of the most dramatic and bloody reigns in history The subject of a BBC TV series on Charles I The p...

Slaughterhouse-Five or The Children's Crusade | As a young man and a prisoner of war, Kurt Vonnegut witnessed the 1945 US fire-bombing of Dresden in Germany, which reduced the once proudly beautiful c...

Rave | Irvine Welsh, 'poet laureate of the chemical generation', exposes the seamy underbelly of rave's utopian dream. Lloyd, our permanently pilled-up protagonist, pushes his weekends to breaking poi...

Mason & Dixon | Charles Mason (1728 -1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the British Surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that we know today a...

Good Pop, Bad Pop | What if the things we keep hidden say more about us than those we put on display? We all have a random collection of the things that made us - photos, tickets, clothes, souvenirs, ...

A Country Doctor's Notebook | With the ink still wet on his diploma, the twenty-five-year-old Dr Mikhail Bulgakov was flung into the depths of rural Russia which, in 1916-17, was still largely unaffec...

Possession | Winner of the Booker Prize The perfect gift for Valentine’s Day Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a triumphant love story. It ...

You Only Live Twice | There is only one Bond. Enjoy these intoxicating spy novels in stylish Vintage Classics editions. There's no better time to rediscover James Bond. The Castle of Death shelters a ...

The Art of Fiction | In this entertaining and enlightening collection David Lodge considers the art of fiction under a wide range of headings, drawing on writers as diverse as Henry James, Martin Amis...

Breakfast of Champions | Kurt Vonnegut was a master of contemporary American literature. His black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America's attention in The Sirens o...

The Master and Margarita | The devil makes a personal appearance in Moscow accompanied by various demons, including a naked girl and a huge black cat. When he leaves, the asylums are full and the forc...

Collected Short Stories. Volume 2 | The second collection of Maugham's celebrated stories The stories in this collection move from Malaya to America and England, and include some of Maugham's most fam...

Within a Budding Grove | Within a Budding Grove describes the first shoots of an astonishing love affair. When Proust's adolescent narrator travels from Paris to the sunny seaside town of Balbec he me...

Murder Most Festive | It's Christmas at Westbury Manor and amateur detective Hugh Gaveston must unravel a fiendish mystery... Christmas Eve, 1938. The Westbury family and assorted friends have gathere...

The Makioka Sisters | Tanizaki's masterpiece is the story of four sisters, and the declining fortunes of a traditional Japanese family. It is a loving and nostalgic recreation of the sumptuous, intric...

Diamonds are Forever | There's no better time to rediscover James Bond. The Spangled Mob are no ordinary American gangsters. They prey on the addictions of the wealthy and treat the poor as collateral...