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Inventive, and thrillingly savage, a tale of a life lived without restraint, of money and the terrible things it can do and the disasters it can precipitate.

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; Walter is in love...

During the 1970s and 1980s, Peter Matthiessen took part in a number of expeditions to Africa, witnessing first-hand the continent's many and diverse peoples and wildlife. The fruits of these...

'Brilliant...a powerful, haunting book.'- Michael Wood: 'Almost every page of The Names gives evidence of its author's brilliance and originality.'- Gene Lyons:...

In his second collection, including the iconic and much-referenced title story featured in the Academy Award-winning film Birdman, Carver establishes his reputation as one of the most celebrated...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'These 128 pages are a brief primer in every important thing we might have learned from the history of the last century, and all that we appear to have...

In his second collection of stories, as in his first, Carver's characters are peripheral people - people without education, insight or prospects, people too unimaginative to even give up....

'It's a million times nicer to be Anne of Green Gables than Anne of nowhere in particular, isn't it?' My dislikes: Being an orphan, having red hair, being called 'carrots'...

A band of savage thirteen-year-old boys reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness they call 'objectivity'. When the...

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. Impossible but true,...

Postman suggests that the current crisis in our educational system derives from its failure to supply students with a translucent, unifying "narrative" like those that inspired earlier...

A portrait of a family coping with changes wrought aby the new twentieth century - the most popular of Woolf's books during her lifetime

This searing novel of a childhood in a working-class French town has sparked conversations across the globe about social inequality and sexuality

Subtitled, }The Fall Of A Dynasty & The Rise Of Modern Europe{. Reconstructs the life of Wilhelm von Habsburg and the collapse of the ancient regime in Europe.

'Stands comparison with Sapiens... Thrilling' Sunday Times Read the Sunday Times bestseller that reveals the Earth's awesome impact on the shape of human civilisations. Human evolution...

At home, Paul shares a private world with his sister Elisabeth, a world from which parents are tacitly excluded. Their room is where the Game is played, the Game being their own bizarre version of...

"A fascinating new analysis of human violence, filled with fresh ideas and gripping evidence from our primate cousins, historical forebears, and contemporary neighbors."--Steven Pinker,...

Reissued to mark the centenary of Patricia Highsmith and the upcoming BBC adaption, Ripley, these beautiful new editions mark Highsmith's entry into Vintage Classics 'Marvellously, insanely...

The seductive and extraordinary tale of a geisha girl, told from the Waldorf Astoria in New York as she remembers her experiences in the glamorous and decadent heart of Kyoto in the 1930s....

Beautiful, twisted and brilliant - discover Yoko Ogawa. A lonely teenage girl falls in love with her foster-brother as she watches him leap from a high diving board into a pool - sparking an...

A diabolical government asserts control aby eliminating orgasm from sex in the title story of Welcome to the Monkey House - setting the tone for a collection shot through with Vonnegut's acrid...