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Produced as part of the 2010 }Quick Reads{ initiative, this is a great introduction to the work of historian Alison Weir, and brings to life the stories of 7 people, beheaded in the Tower of...

Winner of the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Creative NonfictionFrom Chicago to Mexico, the places Sandra Cisneros has lived have provided inspiration for her now-classic works of fiction and...

This book comes with an introduction żeby Jenny Uglow. Milton is a sooty, noisy northern town centred around the cotton mills that employ most of its inhabitants. Arriving from a rural idyll in the...

JANUARY 2013: CELEBRATE THE 200TH ANNIVERSARY OF PRIDE AND PREJUDICE. When Elizabeth Bennet meets Mr Darcy she is repelled żeby his overbearing pride, and prejudice towards her family. But the...

A literary sensation and runaway bestseller in hardcover, this brilliant debut novel offers, with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism, the true confessions of one of Japan's most...

Backlist reissue, new to the Vintage imprint.

From the bestselling author of "Chasing Cezanne" comes a satisfying and delectable novel that portrays the sensual wonders of Provence while it tells a fascinating tale of the hugely...

From the Ice Age to the Cold War, from Reykjavik to the Volga, from Minos to Margaret Thatcher, Norman Davies here tells the entire story of Europe in a single volume. It is the most ambitious...

With the passing of each year, Ulysses receives wider recognition and greater acclaim as a modern literary classic. To comprehend Joyce's masterpiece fully, to gain insight into its...

A searching study of the main elements of fiction, such as narrative, detail, characterisation, dialogue, realism and style. From Homer to Beatrix Potter, this is both a study of the techniques of...

As heard on Book of the Week, Radio 4. The whole world wants to learn the secrets of Nordic exceptionalism: Why are the Danes the happiest people in the world, despite having the highest taxes? If...

In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps--a community devoted exclusively to sickness--as a microcosm for Europe, which in the years before 1914 was already...

Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of this spiritual odyssey involves him with some of Maugham's most brillant characters - his fiancee Isabel, whose...

A Room of One's Own, first published in 1929, is a witty, urbane and persuasive argument against the intellectual subjection of women, particularly women writers. The sequel, Three Guineas, is...

A new translation aby Robin Robertson, with an introduction and notes, suitable for the general reader as well as students and performers.

Anders Ericsson has spent three decades studying the geniuses and sports stars amongst us and reveals in "Peak" that, contrary to popular belief, we all have that same potential within us,...

The story of K and his arrival in a village where he is never accepted, and his relentless, unavailing struggle with authority in order to gain entrance to the castle that seems to rule it. K

A reversion from Picador, new in Vintage paperback.

Famously referred to as part of the 'Axis-of-Evil', North Korea remains one of the most secretive and mysterious nations in the world today. A series of manmade and natural catastrophes...

A groundbreaking analysis of America prior to the European arrival in 1492.Describes how the latest research of archaeologists and anthropologists has transformed long-held myths about the...

Tracing his ancestry through six generations - slaves and freedmen, farmers and blacksmiths, lawyers and architects - back to Africa, Alex Haley discovered a sixteen-year-old youth, Kunta Kinte. It...

Focusing' is a technique first developed 25 years ago aby American psychologist and philosopher Eugene Gendlin. Hugely influential, it offers six specific steps you can take to open up your...

In the remote Kingdom of Castalia, the scholars of the Twenty Third century play the Glass Bead Game. The elaborately coded game is a fusion of all human knowledge - of maths, music, philosophy,...

Töchter des Himmels, das ist die Geschichte von vier Frauen, die während des Zweiten Weltkriegs aus Rotchina in die Vereinigten Staaten geflohen sind, um sich in San Francisco eine neue Existenz...