Vintage : STILL MEMORIES A collection of the photographs taken by Sir John Mills, which document his personal and professional life and experiences from childhood to the present day.. Author:MILLS, JOHN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MODERN NATURE In 1986 the controversial film-maker Derek Jarman discovered he was HIV positive, and decided to make a garden at his cottage on the bleak coast of Dungeness, where he also wrote these journals. They look back over his childhood, his "coming out" in the 1960s and his cinema career.. Author:JARMAN, DEREK. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ALAN TURING Alan Turing who has been described as the father of the modern computer. He was continually frustrated in his desire to build a machine which could think, as those with power over him feared both his homosexuality and indiscretion. This is an account of his life, which ended by his own hand.. Author:HODGES, ANDREW. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DETERRING DEMOCRACY An analysis of America's political actions (as opposed to its rhetoric) before, during and after the Cold War. Using secret National Security Council planning documents and taking post-war Europe and Central America as paradigms, the author examines America's aggressive colonialist policy.. Author:CHOMSKY, NOAM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : COLD WAR AND THE MAKING OF THE MODERN WORLD Using recently-opened Kremlin archives and his own experience as bureau chief for "The Guardian" in Moscow during perestroika and in Washington during the Bush years, Walker explains the Cold War as an economic and political dynamic that determined the structure of the modern global economy.. Author:WALKER, MARTIN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND A version of Dostoevsky's masterpiece, by the award-winning translators of "The Brothers Karamazov" and "Crime and Punishment". It is the apology and confession of a minor Russian official; a political critique and a powerful, at times absurdly comical, account of a man's breakaway from society.. Author:DOSTOEVSKY, FYODOR. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FRIED GREEN TOMATOES AT THE WHISTLE STOP CAFE A novel, both funny and macabre, which ties in with the film of the same name, starring Jessica Tandy and Kathy Bates.. Author:FLAGG, FANNIE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SECRET COUNTRY A study which takes the reader beyond the euphemistic and romantic popular misconceptions to reveal the often invisible past and the present subterfuge of Australia. It portrays a country of stark contrasts, of visionaries and criminals whose secrets are exposed.. Author:PILGER, JOHN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : INDIGO OR MAPPING THE WATERS Inspired by "The Tempest", the novelist rewrites the drama of Ariel, Caliban and Sycorax in a Caribbean setting, exploring the colonial conflicts of an imaginary island and one family. The author's previous novel "The Lost Father" was Regional Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize.. Author:WARNER, MARINA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DRAGON EMPRESS A biography of the Empress Dowager Tz'u-hsi, who held the supreme power in China from 1861 to 1908. It explores her complex personality and also portrays a country in rapid decline, as poverty, civil war and foreign exploitation and invasion brought about the fall of the Ch'ing dynasty.. Author:WARNER, MARINA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SURELY YOU'RE JOKING, MR.FEYNMAN! Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, Richard Feynman was also a man who fell, often jumped, into adventure - as artist, safe-cracker, practical joker and storyteller. This self-portrait has been compiled from taped conversations with his friend Ralph Leighton.. Author:FEYNMAN, RICHARD P. LEIGHTON, RALPH. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WRITTEN ON THE BODY A novel of loss and love, and a philosophical meditation on the body. The novel explores the body as a physical entity and as an image of our innermost selves in order to reveal more about the phenomenon of love.. Author:WINTERSON, JEANETTE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BREATHING LESSONS One hot summer day Maggie and Ira drive from Baltimore towards Pennsylvania, to the funeral of the husband of Maggie's best friend. During the course of that journey, the author shows all there is to know about a marriage. The author also wrote "Saint Maybe" and "Morgan's Passing".. Author:TYLER, ANNE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SONGS OF ENCHANTMENT Following on from "The Famished Road", winner of the 1991 Booker Prize, this is a continuation of the story of Azaro, spirit-child and reluctant traveller in the realities of this world. Azaro's narrative, in which nothing is quite what it seems, reveals a nation struggling to be born.. Author:OKRI, BEN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : AT YOUR OWN RISK A series of autobiographical fragments, interviews and newspapers extracts in which the painter, theatre designer and film-maker, Derek Jarman, articulates the pain, anxiety and rage which many homosexuals have felt under the physical, legal and cultural attacks of recent years.. Author:JARMAN, DEREK. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FOOL'S ALPHABET The story of Pietro Russell, English-born son of an Italian mother and a British soldier wounded at Anzio in 1944. He survives an eccentric education to become a photographer fascinated by the world about him. The author has also written "The Girl at the Lion d'Or".. Author:FAULKS, SEBASTIAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HAUNTS OF THE BLACK MASSEUR Charles Sprawson - himself an obsessional swimmer and diver - explores the meaning that different cultures have attached to water. He gives the reader glimpses of the great swimming heroes: Byron, Shelley, Hart Crane, Ulysses, Leander, Weismuller, Spitz and a host of others.. Author:SPRAWSON, CHARLES. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : VOLCANO LOVER Based on the lives of Sir William Hamilton, his celebrated wife, Emma, and Lord Nelson, this novel is about sex and revolution, the fate of nature, art and the collector's obsession, and love. The author also wrote "The Benefactor", "Death Kit", "AIDS and its Metaphors" and "The Way We Live Now".. Author:SONTAG, SUSAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : POSSESSING THE SECRET OF JOY A novel about a character from Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "The Color Purple". This is Tashi's story, a shattering account of a young African woman whose decision to go through the female initiation ceremony has terrible consequences.. Author:WALKER, ALICE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ANGELS AND INSECTS A collection of short stories including subjects as diverse as memories, marriage, insects and ghosts. A.S. Byatt's other books include "Possession", winner of the 1990 Booker Prize.. Author:BYATT, A.S.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : EVE WAS FRAMED A highly personal criticism of the British legal system, its courts, its judges and its procedures. It takes women as the key example, showing how they have been adversely affected by images of women held by both lawyers and jurors. The author created the award-winning TV series, "Blind Justice".. Author:KENNEDY, HELENA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LOVE ON THE DOLE In Hanky Park, near Salford, Harry and Sally Hardcastle grow up in a society preoccupied with grinding poverty, exploited by pawnbrokers, bullied by petty officials and living in constant fear of the dole queue and the means test.. Author:GREENWOOD, WALTER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SELECTED WRITINGS OF ROLAND BARTHES An introduction to the thinking of the French intellectual, Roland Barthes, as applied to such diverse topics as Gide, Garbo, striptease, photography and the Eiffel Tower. The pieces in this collection were written over a period of three decades.. Author:BARTHES, ROLAND. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CAMERA LUCIDA Roland Barthes's last book, combining a selection of photographs with reflections on photography. It begins as as an investigation into the nature of photographs, and then, as Barthes contemplates a photograph of his mother as a child, the book becomes an exposition of his own mind.. Author:BARTHES, ROLAND. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL A controversial study, first published in 1973, of the economic structure of the western world. Schumacher maintains that man's current pursuit of profit and progress has resulted in gross economic inefficiency, environmental pollution and inhumane working conditions.. Author:SCHUMACHER, E.F.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PERFECT PEACE In the winter of 1985 Yonaton Lifshitz decides to leave the kibbutz where he was born, and his sterile marriage, to start a new life. But the arrival of Azariah Gitlin brings about a painful reconciliation of their different destinies in a society struggling with changing realities.. Author:OZ, AMOS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HEROES By the journalist who won the International Reporter of the Year award and the United Nations Association Media Peace Prize, this book brings together the episodes for which his journalism is renowned, analyzing the nature of both these great upheavals and the domestic tragedies he has encountered.. Author:PILGER, JOHN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TIMEQUAKE According to science fiction writer, Kilgore Trout, a global timequake will occur in New York City on February 13th, 2001, where the Earth decides to back up a decade to 1991, making everyone in the world endure ten years of deja-vu and a total loss of free will.. Author:VONNEGUT, KURT. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GWEN JOHN A biography of Gwen John, sister of painter Augustus John. Based on her lively and passionate letters, this biography uncovers the life of an ardent and complicated personality of an early 20th-century artist.. Author:ROE, SUE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : YELLOW DOG . Author:AMIS, MARTIN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : AWAYDAYS It's 1979 and, in Birkenhead, smack and Maggie Thatcher are still less of an issue than Lois jeans and Adidas Forest Hills trainers. For Paul Carty, 19, life revolves around The Pack, a violent mob which follows Tranmere Rovers around the northern wasteland - but is he getting bored with it all?. Author:SAMPSON, KEVIN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CASTLE OF CROSSED DESTINIES Turns the 78 tarot cards to a new purpose, linking word and image to the purposes of narrative. A band of travellers, trapped in an gloomy castle in the heart of a wood, find themselves struck dumb and are only able to converse by using the tarot cards to tell one another how they came to be there.. Author:CALVINO, ITALO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MIDWIVES Set in a small rural community in Vermont, this is the story of Sibyl Danforth, a respected midwife who is accused of murder after she performs a caesarian section on a mother in her care, whom she believes to have died of a stroke during a long and difficult labour. Now she is on trial.. Author:BOHJALIAN, CHRIS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : EUROPA A comic, dark and dyspeptic novel about an obsessive love gone sour. Jealousy and revenge, passion and dread intertwine in one man's soul as he is trapped in the awful claustrophobia of a three-day coach journey across Europe with a group of people he loathes - and the woman who broke his heart.. Author:PARKS, TIM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SWIMMING-POOL LIBRARY A novel concerned with the gay relationship between William Beckwith (rich, unemployed, in his early twenties) and Lord Nantwich (comfortable, cultured and elderly) who become entwined when William saves Lord Nantwich from death.. Author:HOLLINGHURST, ALAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : COLLECTOR COLLECTOR To a small flat in South London comes a Sumerian bowl, but the bowl is the Collector Collector, clay with something to say, an object d'art who will offer Rosa, its owner, vast swathes of unrecorded history from the last 5000 years.. Author:FISCHER, TIBOR. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BOYHOOD A first volume of memoirs, revisiting the South Africa of half a century ago, of a boy growing up in a small country town with a father he could not respect and a mother he adored. Coetzee evokes the tensions, delights and terrors of childhood, in a world of unexplained rules he knew he must obey.. Author:COETZEE, J.M.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DUSKLANDS This work contains two novellas. In the first, a specialist in psychological warfare is driven to murderous action by the stresses of a macabre project to win the Vietnam War, and in the second, a megalomaniac Boer frontiersman wreaks hideous vengeance on a Hottentot tribe.. Author:COETZEE, J.M.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SALESMAN It is Dublin in June 1995, the hottest summer since records began. But Bill Sweeney, a middle-aged salesman with a failed marriage, has more than weather on his mind. His youngest daughter lies in a coma in hospital following a mysterious attack on the petrol station where she worked.. Author:O'CONNOR, JOSEPH. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : COMING HOME This text gathers together a selection of John Betjeman's writings spanning four decades, discussing buildings, townscape and landscape, together with appreciations of writers, artists and architects, ranging from Evelyn Waugh, Pugin and T.S. Eliot, to R.S. Thomas, Etchells and Jacob Epstein.. Author:BETJEMAN, JOHN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MUSIC AND SILENCE It is 1629, and a young English lute-player arrives at the court of Danish King Christian IV to play in the Royal Orchestra. From the moment he learns that the musicians must perform in a freezing cellar, he understands that he's come to a place where Good and Evil are waging a war to the death.. Author:TREMAIN, ROSE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : VINTAGE BOOK OF WAR STORIES Faulks has collected the best fiction about war in the 20th century. This anthology includes stories by Erich Maria Remarque, Pat Barker, Isaac Babel, Ernest Hemingway, Heinrich Boll, Norman Mailer, J.G. Ballard, Tim O'Brien, Julian Barnes and Louis de Bernieres.. Author:. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CANDY A novel about heroin addiction. From the heady narcissism of the narrator's first days with his new lover, Candy, and the relative innocence of their shared addiction, this novel charts their moral decline. Candy becomes a prostitute and the narrator becomes a scam artist.. Author:DAVIES, LUKE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : COD The Cod. Wars have been fought over it, revolutions triggered by it, economies and livelihoods have depended on it. This book spans 1,000 years, from the Vikings to Clarence Birdseye, and introduces the explorers, chefs and fishermen whose lives have been interwoven with this fish.. Author:KURLANSKY, MARK. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SOPRANOS The choir from "Our Lady of Perpetual Succour School for Girls" is being bussed to the National Finals in the big city. It's an important day for the Sopranos - pub-crawling, shoplifting and body-piercing being their top priorities.. Author:WARNER, ALAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HEAVY WATER AND OTHER STORIES A collection of short stories, of which "Heavy Water" portrays the exhaustion of working-class culture, and "Straight Fiction" is set in a world where the majority of people are gay.. Author:AMIS, MARTIN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PATCHWORK PLANET Barnaby Gaitlin is a loser - just short of 30, he's the black sheep of a philanthropic Baltimore family. He has an almost pathological curiosity about other people's lives, and a hopeless charm which attracts the kind of angelic woman who wants to save him from himself.. Author:TYLER, ANNE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PIECES OF LIGHT Drawing on the mystery thriller traditions of Buchan and Wilkie Collins, this novel is steeped in a past where rural England and colonial Africa collide. It centres on the character of Hugh Arkwright, who had a remote childhood in the Central African bush.. Author:THORPE, ADAM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WORMHOLES A collection of non-fiction writing from John Fowles which includes articles written for magazines; book reviews from "The New York Times Book Review" and the "Irish Press"; various forewords and introductions; a tribute to William Golding; and some autobiographical pieces.. Author:FOWLES, JOHN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BERTRAND RUSSELL 1921-70 THE GHOST OF MADNESS The second volume of Russell's biography has at its centre the tragic and moving story of the philosopher's relationship with his son John. It traces Russell's joy at John's birth to his frightened dismay at his collapse into schizoprenia.. Author:MONK, RAY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : AMSTERDAM A contemporary morality tale that is as profound as it is witty. Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday are former lovers of the recently-deceased Molly Lane. They make a pact following her funeral, which both tests their friendship to the limits and has consequences neither has foreseen.. Author:MCEWAN, IAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SINGING LINE This work charts the author's journey in the footsteps of her great-great grandfather, Charles Heavitree Todd, the man who strung the telegraph across Australia. It brings together a mix of family history and exploration with a young couple's trek, as they follow the same line 150 years later.. Author:THOMSON, ALICE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ALMS FOR OBLIVION "Alms for Oblivion" is a series of ten novels, all telling separate stories but at the same time linked together by the characters they have in common: soldiers and dons, men of business, politicians and writers. They are a scathing chronicle of the upper echelons of postwar English society.. Author:RAVEN, SIMON. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : NINETEEN TWENTY-ONE During the freakishly hot, drought summer of 1921, a young writer is holed up in a cottage in the Chilterns, striving to write the first great novel of the War, impelled by his own suffering. In what sense can art be made out of such horror?. Author:THORPE, ADAM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LOCUST ROOM During the summer of 1975, a rapist stalked the streets of Cambridge, attacking young, single women and subjecting them to horrifying, violent assaults. Over one summer a young photographer is forced to examine his relationship with women as he becomes involved in a series of sexual intrigues.. Author:BURNSIDE, JOHN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BODIES IN MOTION AND AT REST A collection of essays that examine the relations between the literary and the mortuary arts. They explore the distance between birth and death, the condition of the human being and the state of ceasing to be in a world that seeks to define human experience in retail, high-tech or pop-psyche terms.. Author:LYNCH, THOMAS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : RIVALS Rivalry is a key feature of scientific endeavour. This is an examination of eight instances in the history of science and technology that changed the world. They all illustrate various forms of rivalry - between individuals, institutions, even nations - and to what extent it played a pivotal role.. Author:WHITE, MICHAEL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FOOD OF ITALY This book was written after Claudia Roden spent a year in Italy researching the subject of food. It covers: regional recipes; country cooking; the bravura of grand dishes; pastas; seafood; rice dishes; and authentic Italian desserts.. Author:RODEN, CLAUDIA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WONDERFUL LIFE An account of a revolution in our understanding of life's history, this book tells how three obscure British scientists completely changed our view of evolution by discovering a unique group of 530 million year-old creatures in the Burgess Shale fossil deposit in the Rockies.. Author:GOULD, STEPHEN JAY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FOREIGN COUNTRY Daphne is a 74 year old woman whose wartime past comes back to haunt her in this exploration of how we edit life, how even the smallest actions can reverberate, and how decisions which seem right and understandable at one time and place can be interpreted quite differently in a different time and place.. Author:STOCK, FRANCINE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LAST EALING COMEDY After editing Britain's most obscure TV listings magazine Alistair Strange is offered a job teaching media studies at an Ealing secondary school. The famous studios next to the school act as a continuous motif for Alistair's story, a tale of comedy, blind dates and a run-in with the school's ghost!. Author:BAYLIS, MATTHEW. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HELIGOLAND Set in The Nautilus, a strange shell-shaped building put up in the 1930s in South London, this is the story of Rowena Snow. Rowena is of Indian and Scottish parentage, orphaned, without family or friends, and in search of her own Utopia.. Author:MACKAY, SHENA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HISTORY OF GOD The idea of a single divine being - God, Yahweh, Allah- has existed for over 4000 years. In this account of the evolution of belief Armstrong examines Western society's unerring fidelity to this idea of one God and the many conflicting convictions it engenders. Originally published in 1993 by William Heinemann.. Author:ARMSTRONG, KAREN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SEVERAL DECEPTIONS The four novellas that make up this book share a common theme: deception and self-deception, practised on or by the protagonists.. Author:STEVENSON, JANE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LONDON BRIDGES A young lawyer comes across a treasure lost in the Blitz, and is tempted into a series of crimes that end eventually in murder. Meanwhile, a contemporary cast of characters assembles to confound him.. Author:STEVENSON, JANE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ELEMENTALS These stories deal with betrayal and loyalty, quests and longings, and loneliness and passion. A scholar pursues an elusive biographer, stumbling upon buried fragments of distant lives. A woman walks out of her previous existence and encounters an ice-blond stranger from a secretive world.. Author:BYATT, A.S.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DANCE OF THE HAPPY SHADES Fifteen short stories set in typical Alice Munro territory, the farms and semi-rural towns of south-western Ontario.. Author:MUNRO, ALICE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FLY AWAY PETER It is the Gold Coast, Queensland, in 1914, and a man returns home from England to claim the land he has inherited. For Ashley Crowther, it is a landscape "that could accommodate a good deal". For Jim Saddler, the land is a sanctuary. For Imogen it is a place of study.. Author:MALOUF, DAVID. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : IMAGINARY LIFE The Roman poet Ovid, exiled to a remote village on the edge of the Black Sea, tells the story of his meeting with a feral boy, brought up among wild animals in the snow. It is a luminous encounter between civilization and nature.. Author:MALOUF, DAVID. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : VINTNER'S LUCK A novel set in early 19th century Burgundy, telling the tale of a man, his vineyard and an angel with whom he falls in love. It is a love triangle involving a man, a woman and an immortal. The story unfolds against the grand background and horrors of the Napoleonic Wars and on into the middle of the century.. Author:KNOX, ELIZABETH. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : OLD MAN AND THE SEA Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, this is the story of an old man, a young boy, and a giant fish. This text won for Ernest Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature.. Author:HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FAREWELL TO ARMS In 1918 Ernset Hemingway went to the "war to end all wars", in the ambulance service in Italy. He was wounded and twice decorated. Here he recreates the fear, comradeship, and the courage of his young American volunteer and the men an women he meets in Italy.. Author:HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FRUIT PALACE This narrative records a journalist's adventures on the trail of "The Great Cocaine Story" in Colombia. It follows him from the seedy backstreet bars of Bogota to fashionable beach resorts. The people he meets include the fixers, smugglers, cooks, mules, the corner boys and the streetgirls.. Author:NICHOLL, CHARLES. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MISCONCEPTIONS A critical look at the powerful vested interests in the pregnancy "business" and at the social message directed at women - an amalgam of sentimentality, psychologically dangerous half-truths and conflicting ideologies; this is a candid account of the physical and emotional effects of childbirth.. Author:WOLF, NAOMI. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WORLD AND OTHER PLACES In this, her first collection of short stories, Winterson reveals all the facets of her extraordinary imagination. In prose that is full of imagery and word-play, she creates physical and psychological worlds that are at once familiar and yet shockingly strange.. Author:WINTERSON, JEANETTE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SERVICE OF CLOUDS At the far end of the long white gallery is a painting of a woman, in pale flowing clothes and lying on a sofa beside an open window. It is a painting which leads Flora on, beckoning her away from her childhood, her complaining mother, pert younger sister, and the confines of a small community.. Author:HILL, SUSAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : NO MORE MR. NICE GUY Frank is a television critic. His partner, Melissa, an author of pornographic novels for women. Sick of his life and their fighting, Frank decides its time to go. But go where? And do what? And what happens when sex is all you know but no longer what you want?. Author:JACOBSON, HOWARD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : RULES OF THE WILD Set in contemporary Nairobi, this is at once a sharp-eyed dissection of white society in modern Kenya and the moving story of a young woman, Esme, struggling to make sense of her place in Africa, and her feelings for the two men she loves.. Author:MARCIANO, FRANCESCA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MIGHTY WALZER From the beginning, Oliver Walzel is a natural - at ping-pong; he can chop, flick and half-volley like a champion. At sex he is not a natural, but with tuition his game improves. This is the story of coming-of-age in 1950s Manchester.. Author:JACOBSON, HOWARD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : THIS SPORTING LIFE Rugby League football in an industrial northern city is a life of grime, mud, sweat and intrigue. The story follows the fortunes of the hero Arthur Machin, from the day of his inclusion in the local team to the match when he first feels age creeping up on him.. Author:STOREY, DAVID. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SHTETL Hoffman explores the culture and institutions of Polish Jews, and by probing the deep ambivalence that coloured relations between Poles and Jews on the eve of World War II she throws new light on motives which influenced Christian villagers' decisions to rescue or betray their Jewish neighbours. Originally published in 1998 by Secker and Warburg.. Author:HOFFMAN, EVA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BRAIN STORM There's been a murder, a "hate crime", and the fearsome Judge Stang has assigned the case to Joe Watson. Joe has been to court exactly once - to be sworn in as a lawyer - and Judge Stang's decisions are never revoked.. Author:DOOLING, RICHARD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ADULTERY AND OTHER DIVERSIONS Drawing on anecdote and autobiography, Tim Parks explores various subjects, such as ghosts, Indian gods, Verona Football Club, adultery and the EC. The aim is to make the reader appreciate the relationship between intimate experiences and the larger world of ideas.. Author:PARKS, TIM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HELL AND BACK A collection of essays from one of Britain's finest writers. Subjects covered include Svebo, Saba and Joyce in Trieste, Borges, Rushdie and psychopathology; also Saramago, Sebald, Seth, Henry Green, Christina Stead, Leopardi, Sironi in Fascist Italy, Buzzati, Bateson and Neugeboren.. Author:PARKS, TIM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : STILLEST DAY Bethesda Barnet is an artist and teacher. Her village life with her invalid mother is ordered and calm, until the sudden vision of a man's face sears itself onto her mind's eye. Set at the turn of the century, this book tells the story of a woman who decides to challenge the times.. Author:HART, JOSEPHINE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PRECIOUS LIVES A follow-up to Margaret Forster's "Hidden Lives" (a family memoir of three generations of women), this account takes up the story of her gritty northern father. She looks back at his life and character, evoking incidents from her Cumbrian childhood, his working life and his stubborn old age.. Author:FORSTER, MARGARET. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LAST RESORT Jenny devoted her life to her husband, the naturalist Wilkie Walker. But as winter comes on, Wilkie seems distant and depressed. In desperation Jenny persuades him to visit Key West, and as he grows ever stranger, Jenny becomes involved with an ex-beatnik poet and an attractive guesthouse manager.. Author:LURIE, ALISON. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ON GREEN DOLPHIN STREET Both a poignant love story and a period portrait of America, this is the story of a solitary woman in great turmoil. As the Eisenhower years end and 1960 ushers in John F. Kennedy. Mary van der Linden confronts the terror of the Cold War - a dark background to her carefree existence in Washington.. Author:FAULKS, SEBASTIAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CLEAR LIGHT OF DAY To the family living in a shabby, dusty house in Delhi, Tara's visit brings a sharp reminder of life outside tradition. For Bim coping endlessly with their problems, there is renewal of the old jealousies for, unlike her sister, she has failed to escape.. Author:DESAI, ANITA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DEATH OF THE HEART Set in London during the 1930s, this is a tale of innocence betrayed, of passion, misunderstanding and the emotional atrophy of grown-ups. When 16-year-old Portia comes to stay with her cool, elegant relations in Windsor Terrace, she meets Eddie, an attractive young philanderer, and falls in love.. Author:BOWEN, ELIZABETH. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HEAT OF THE DAY Set in war-time London, this book is probably the nearest thing to a novel of suspense that Elizabeth Bowen has written. All the elements of a thriller are here, but what Bowen makes of them is an internal drama of remarkable perception and understanding in a domestic setting.. Author:BOWEN, ELIZABETH. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LAST SEPTEMBER A picture of Anglo-Irish life at the troublesome time of 1920. The family at the "big house" are in an equivocal position. Interest and tradition should make them support the British but affection ties them to the now-resistant people of the surrounding country.. Author:BOWEN, ELIZABETH. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ENDURING LOVE Ian McEwan's latest novel, first published in 1997. A fatal ballooning accident in the Chilterns disrupts the organised life of Joe Rose, leading to an encounter which tests his rationalism to the limits. The author was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1981 and 1992 and is a previous winner of the Whitbread Novel of the Year award.. Author:MCEWAN, IAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SPELL A comedy of sexual manners that follows the interlocking affairs of four men: Robin Woodfield, an architect in his late forties living with his younger lover Justin (a would-be actor) in Dorset; Robin's 22-year-old son Danny, who lives for clubbing and casual sex; and shy Alex.. Author:HOLLINGHURST, ALAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : KANT AND THE PLATYPUS An attempt to answer the question, how much do our perceptions of things depend on our cognitive ability and how much on our linguistic resources? Eco undertakes a series of idiosyncratic explorations, starting from the perceived data of common sense, to expound a clear critique of Kant.. Author:ECO, UMBERTO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FIVE MORAL ESSAYS Embracing the web of muti-culturalism, Eco argues that we are more connected to people of other traditions and customs than ever before, making tolerance the ultimate value in today's world.. Author:ECO, UMBERTO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GOOD TIMES These 20 first-person narratives portray ordinary people in a language that makes glory of their lives. The narrators are men and boys who come face to face with uncomfortable truths, whether musing on mortality, encountering betrayals, or struggling to understand women and work.. Author:KELMAN, JAMES. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TOWN AND COUNTRY Members of the Town and Country Forum - formed in 1995 - explore the many-faceted problem of the relationship between urban and rural communities, with the aim of providing both a focus for debate and a reference point for argument.. Author:. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BLACK DOGS In 1946 a young English couple set off on their honeymoon. In a gorge in the mountains of southern France they encounter a vision of darkness so impenetrable that it alters their lives for ever.. Author:MCEWAN, IAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : INNOCENT It was 1955 and the corpse of post-war Berlin was crawling with spies. A British Post Office technician began his descent into ever deeper echelons of electronic surveillance beneath the surface of Berlin. By the award-winning author of "The Child in Time" and "Black Dogs".. Author:MCEWAN, IAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : NOONDAY DEMON This work digs deep and painfully into personal experience of depression and mental illness, while also considering the wider picture: the historical, social, biological, chemical, pharmaceutical and medical aspects and implications of the disease.. Author:SOLOMON, ANDREW. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ELIZABETH BOWEN This critical estimation of Bowen's work finds her witty, stylish treatment of manners and emotions to have an austere basis in her critique of the English middle classes. It also considers her achievement as a critic and a historian.. Author:LEE, HERMIONE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GRAINS OF SAND The story of a journey, a circumnavigation of the earth via the belt of deserts which make up a fifth of its landmass. Martin Buckley has travelled both across and into deserts, in order to discover how people live there, to explore the desert's grip on human imagination, and to probe its impact on the global environment.. Author:BUCKLEY, MARTIN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : REDBACK Karl Leon Forelock, product of the northern English town of Partington (the wettest spot in Europe), is sent to Sydney on a CIA bursary. But it is at the hands of the women of Australia that Leon receives his most painful, and his most pleasurable lessons.. Author:JACOBSON, HOWARD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : OVID METAMORPHOSED A collection of short stories all inspired by the poetry of Ovid's "Metamorphoses". Contributors include: Margaret Atwood; A.S. Byatt; Suniti Namjoshi; Joyce Carol Oates; Philip Terry; and Paul West.. Author:. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SALT Homer called salt "a divine substance", while Plato described it as "especially dear to the gods". Kurlansky blends political, commercial, scientific, religious and culinary records into this history of the substance, which he claims shaped civilization from the beginning.. Author:KURLANSKY, MARK. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HUMAN STAIN It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president. It is also the last year of professor Coleman Silk's life, whose own tragic exposure is played out against the background of the Clinton revelations.. Author:ROTH, PHILIP. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : IT'S A BATTLEFIELD In this portrait of the murkier areas of London, Drover, a communist bus-driver, has been sentenced to death for killing a policeman in a political riot because he thought the policeman was going to strike his wife. A bitter irony hovers over the ensuing battles to save Drover.. Author:GREENE, GRAHAM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : JOURNEY WITHOUT MAPS White men were not welcome in Liberia when Greene made it the object of his first journey outside Europe. Drawn by the seediness of a republic founded for released slaves, he travelled from Sierra Leone across the headwaters of several rivers and down to the coast at Grand Bassa.. Author:GREENE, GRAHAM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MR. SAMPATH Fresh from the Truth Printing Works, the weekly "Banner" enjoys a certain distinction, and its closure comes as a shock to both its editor Srinivas, and the printer and financier Mr Sampath. Their change of direction into the glamour of film production leads, however, to unmitigated chaos.. Author:NARAYAN, R.K.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ENGLISH TEACHER English teacher Krishna has recently married, but his wife and daughter live miles away. The story begins with his immediate family deciding to join him. Krishna is initially frightened by this, but soon finds that his love for both his wife and child grows deeper than he could have imagined.. Author:NARAYAN, R.K.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WATERLOG Inspired by John Cheever's short story "The Swimmer", Roger Deakin set out in 1996 to swim through the British Isles. From the sea, from rock pools, from rivers and streams, tarns, lakes, lochs, ponds, lidos, swimming pools, and spas, Deakin presents an alternative perspective on Britain.. Author:DEAKIN, ROGER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SORT OF LIFE Graham Greene's autobiographical account of schooldays and Oxford; encounters with adolescence, psychoanalysis and Russian roulette, his marriage and conversion to Catholicism and how he rashly resigned from the Times when his first novel was published.. Author:GREENE, GRAHAM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TRAVELS WITH MY AUNT Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his old aunt for the first time in over 50 years. She persuades him to travel with her. Through his aunt, a veteran of Europe's hotel bedrooms, Henry joins a shiftless, twilight society coming alive after a dull suburban lifetime.. Author:GREENE, GRAHAM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WAYS OF ESCAPE First published in 1980, Graham Greene retraces the experiences and encounters of his long and extraordinary life. His restlessness is legendary, he has travelled like an explorer seeking out people and political situations at the dangerous edge of things. He writes about people and places, faith, doubt, fear and the trials and crafts of writing.. Author:GREENE, GRAHAM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SURVIVOR Tender Branson is the last surviving member of the "Creedish Death Cult" and is dictating his life story into the flight recorder of Flight 2039, cruising on autopilot somewhere over the Pacific Ocean. Before it crashes he will unfold the tale of his journey from Creedish child to media messiah.. Author:PALAHNUIK, CHUCK. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : THIS IS THE BEAT GENERATION Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs had all seen the inside of mental hospitals and prisons by the age of 30. This book charts the transformation of these experiences into a literary movement that spread across the globe in the decade and a half that followed World War II.. Author:CAMPBELL, JAMES. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : RELIGION EXPLAINED This volume explores the nature of human religious belief, and what it can tell us about human psychology and evolution - an area that is almost as universal and central to our shared humanity as our common use of language.. Author:BOYER, PASCAL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CAKES AND ALE Somerset Maugham's satirical novel caused a storm of controversy when it was first published. It is a story of literary poseurs and a study of freedom, in which Maugham traces the fortunes of Edward Driffield and his extraordinary wife, Rosie.. Author:MAUGHAM, W.SOMERSET. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : AFTER THE BANQUET Kazu runs her restaurant with charm and shrewdness, but when she falls in love with one of her clients, she renounces her business to become his wife. When Kazu decides to ressurect her husbands political career she is forced to choose between her marriage and her irrepressible vitality.. Author:MISHIMA, YUKIO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TEMPLE OF DAWN The story of a man called Honda's obsessive pursuit of a beautiful young Thai princess, and an equally passionate search for enlightenment that takes him to India. It dramatizes the Japanese experience from the eve of World War II through the postwar era. One of the "Sea of Fertility" cycle.. Author:MISHIMA, YUKIO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TREE A series of recollections that concern both the childhood and work of the writer John Fowles. For him, the tree is the best analogue of prose fiction, symbolising the wild side of our psyche, and he stresses the importance in art of the unpredictable, the unaccountable and the intuitive.. Author:FOWLES, JOHN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FAR EASTERN TALES A selection of Somerset Maugham stories inspired by his travels in Singapore, Malaya and other British possessions, and providing insights into the life and history of these exotic outposts of Empire.. Author:MAUGHAM, W.SOMERSET. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TALENTED MR.RIPLEY Ripley wanted out. He wanted money, success, the good life - and he was willing to kill for it. This is the first novel to feature Patricia Highsmith's anti-hero, Tom Ripley.. Author:HIGHSMITH, PATRICIA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : RUNAWAY HORSES The second book in Mishima's landmark "The Sea of Fertility" sequence, this is the chronicle of a conspiracy, a novel about the roots and nature of Japanese fanaticism in the years that led to war.. Author:MISHIMA, YUKIO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WILD PALMS In New Orleans in 1937, a man and woman embark on a headlong flight into the wilderness of illicit passion. In Mississippi ten years earlier, a convict risks his one chance at freedom to rescue a pregnant woman. From these seperate stories Faulkner composes a symphony of deliverance and damnation.. Author:FAULKNER, WILLIAM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : NATIVE SON A stark and vehement novel about a young black man hardened by life in the slums whose every effort to free himself proves hopeless. Unwittingly involved in a wealthy woman's death, he finds himself the object of a relentless hunt. He only finally realizes his individuality by facing his death.. Author:WRIGHT, RICHARD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BAGOMBO SNUFF BOX For this unusual collection, Kurt Vonnegut has selected 24 of his favourite stories never published before in book form. Included are "Any Reasonable Offer", "The Powder Blue Dragon", "Hal Irwin's Magic Lamp" and "Lovers Anonymous".. Author:VONNEGUT, KURT. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CRY OF THE OWL Robert Forester didn't look like the kind of man to be a prowler. However, his ex-wife has told the police he was erratic, liable to violence and had even fired a gun at her. Maybe he was a psychopathic murderer. Patricia Highsmith is also the author of "The Talented Mr Ripley".. Author:HIGHSMITH, PATRICIA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SPRING SNOW The first book of Mishima's landmark "The Sea of Fertility" sequence, this novel is set in Tokyo in 1912, when the hermetic world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders.. Author:MISHIMA, YUKIO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WHITE TRASH A story of class-hatred and murder set in a hospital in a satellite town in the south-east of England. The novel pits nurse against consultant; a working-class woman against an upper-middle-class man.. Author:KING, JOHN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : STRANGERS ON A TRAIN From the moment that he constructs a perfect alibi, Guy Haines is trapped in a nightmare of shared guilt and an insidious merging of his personality with that of his conspirator.. Author:HIGHSMITH, PATRICIA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DISAFFECTION Patrick Doyle is a 29 year old teacher in an ordinary school. Disaffected, frustrated and increasingly bitter at the system he is employed to maintain, Patrick begins his rebellion, fuelled by drink and his passionate, unrequited love for a fellow teacher. Originally published in 1989 by Secker and Warburg.. Author:KELMAN, JAMES. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DON'T READ THIS BOOK IF YOU'RE STUPID A series of humourous short stories starting in misery and dropping towards despair. One character has a quest to read every book ever written in English, devouring them two at a time. The aphoristic tales are sandwiched between two novellas and deliver an apocalyptic vision with a grim smile.. Author:FISCHER, TIBOR. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG Kathy, a recovering alcoholic, seperated from her husband, fails to open a series of letters from the tax office. The State seizes her house and it is sold to Behrani, a former Iranian Air Force officer. For him, the house comes to represent a passport to the American dream, but not for Kathy.. Author:DUBUS, ANDRE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LIGHT IN AUGUST Joe Christmas, a man doomed, deracinated and alone, wanders the Deep South in search of an identity, and a place in society. After killing his lover, he is pursued by a lynch-hungry mob. this novel explores the nature of evil.. Author:FAULKNER, WILLIAM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HUMAN PUNK For Joe, the summer of 1977 meant punk rock, fun and violence. Fast forward to 1988 and Joe is on the Trans-Siberian express coming to terms with his best mate's suicide back in 1977. In the present, Joe still has to come to terms with Smiles's death.. Author:KING, JOHN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SECRET HISTORY OF THE LORD OF MUSASHI Two short novels, published initially in the 1930s. "Musashi" deals with the dark obsessions of a 16th-century warlord. "Arrowroot" also touches on the pursuit of legend, but in a different mode, that of the uniquely Japanese form of the "essay" novel.. Author:TANIZAKI, JUN'ICHIRO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : VINTAGE BOOK OF MARRIAGE "Successful marriages have seldom inspired successful poetry" wrote Lord David Cecil. Using this collection of poetry, diaries, letters and favourite passages from novels, the author sets out to prove him wrong.. Author:. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LOST YEARS With his self-imposed wartime vigil behind him, Isherwood careered into a life of frantic socialising, increasing dissipation and eventually despair. He all but ceased to write. This is his own account of his experience during those years.. Author:ISHERWOOD, CHRISTOPHER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MR PYE Equipped with love, Mr Pye lands on the island of Sark; his mission is to convert the inhabitants into a crusading force for the undiluted goodness that he feels within. Mr Pye is, however, prone to excess and this is very nearly his downfall.. Author:PEAKE, MERVYN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : RED DUST In 1983, Ma Jian turned 30 and was overwhelmed by the desire to escape the confines of his life in Beijing. Here, he writes about his disillusion with the Communist system and an extraordinary journey that he made around China in search of himself and his country.. Author:JIAN, MA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ATOMISED Half-brothers Michel and Bruno have a mother in common but little else. This is the story of two brothers, but the subject of the novel is in its dismantling of society and its assumptions, a dissection of modern lives and loves.. Author:HOUELLEBECQ, MICHEL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SOME PREFER NETTLES A subtle and delicate tale of contemporary life that deals with the ramifications of a collapsing marriage.. Author:TANIZAKI, JUN'ICHIRO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ASPECTS OF LOVE A young boy, a beautiful actress, an elderly aristocrat - troubled desire and tangled emotions flowering against the glowing backgrounds of Southern France, Italy and Paris. Such are the "aspects of love" in this novel, the source for Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical.. Author:GARNETT, DAVID. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MEMORIES OF A CATHOLIC GIRLHOOD Many a time in the course of doing these memoirs, I have wished that I were writing fiction. These are Mary McCarthy's words as she blends memories with family myths to take us back to the twenties, when she was orphaned in a world of relations as colourful, potent and mysterious as the Catholic religion itself.. Author:MCCARTHY, MARY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ORWELL A biography of George Orwell that reveals a portrait of the writer who, for all his outward unworldiness, effectively stage-managed his own life, combined chilling detachment with warmth and gentleness, disillusionment with hope, and who produced two of the greatest masterpieces of the 20th century.. Author:TAYLOR, D.J.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TEMPLE OF OPTIMISM "The Temple of Optimism" tells the tale of the relationships of two men and one woman in Derbyshire in 1788. Superficially, the plot is simple: Anthony Apreece covets the land of his young neighbour, Edward Horne. Edward covets Daisy, Anthony's wife.. Author:FLEMING, JAMES. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BIG BANGS An account of the five turning points in Western music, starting with the invention of notation by an 11th century monk, the invention of the piano and opera, and the first musical recording, and the development of musical styles ending with popular music of the 20th century. The book accompanies a 5-part Channel 4 series.. Author:GOODALL, HOWARD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : IN PRAISE OF SHADOWS An essay on asthetics, which show the collision between the shadows of traditional Japanese interiors and the dazzling light of the modern age. The text covers architecture, jade, food, the use of space in buildings, and women in the darkness of the house of pleasure.. Author:TANIZAKI, JUN'ICHIRO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : RIPLEY UNDER GROUND Tom Ripley is a man who wants money, success, the good life - and is willing to kill for it. To avoid charges of forgery, the Buckmaster Gallery must produce the British painter, Derwatt. But he is dead. Tom Ripley is called in to work miracles, and will stop at nothing to protect himself.. Author:HIGHSMITH, PATRICIA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PHILOSOPHER'S PUPIL In the healing waters of Ennistone the townspeople seek health and regeneration, righteousness and ritual cleansing. To this town of subterranean inspiration the Philosopher returns. And there he exerts an almost magical influence, especially over George McCaffrey, his old pupil.. Author:MURDOCH, IRIS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GLASS BEAD GAME The title of this novel refers to an ultra-aesthetic game played by scholars in the kingdom of Castalia around the year 2400. The game involves all branches of knowledge and spiritual values, especially those of the East.. Author:HESSE, HERMANN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MARK OF THE ANGEL Centres on an adulterous affair between Saffie, a silent young German woman, who is first maid and then wife to a famous flautist, and Andras, a Jewish flute-mender. The story unfolds in Paris at the height of the Algerian war in the 1950s.. Author:HUSTON, NANCY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ROCKET DREAMS From the first landings on the moon, UFOs and extra-terrestrials, to the implications of our cyber worlds, this title looks at our fascination with space.. Author:BENJAMIN, MARINA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FORGIVENESS OF NATURE This work explores the world of grass from every possible perspective. It explains its role in the history of Britain and America (and indeed of Humanity itself), elaborates in minute detail the botany of a grass field or lawn and talks to the groundsmen of Wimbledon and West Ham.. Author:HARVEY, GRAHAM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : RIPLEY'S GAME Tom Ripley detests murder - unless it is absolutely necessary. If possible he prefers someone else to do the dirty work; in this case, a victim of a fatal disease, with no criminal record, who will murder for a reward, in order to provide for his young widow and child.. Author:HIGHSMITH, PATRICIA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CUTTING IT FINE A leading chef strips away the mystique and tells us how a restaurant really works, revealing the complex human, economical and technical processes involved in producing great food for a large number of people at 20 minutes' notice.. Author:PARKINSON, ANDREW GREEN, JONATHAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DR.TATIANA'S SEX ADVICE TO ALL CREATION An entertaining fusion of science and natural history, explaining the science behind sexual selection and reproduction in the guise of letters to an agony aunt from creatures great and small worried about their bizarre sex lives.. Author:JUDSON, OLIVIA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GOOD WIVES? Written with a mixture of memoir and dramatic stories, this text explores what it means to be a wife, particularly a "good wife", then and now, examined through the lives and marriages of four extraordinary women in different eras.. Author:FORSTER, MARGARET. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MESSAGE TO THE PLANET Iris Murdoch's 24th novel, published in her 71st year, tells of Alfred Ludens' long search for Professor Marcus Vallar, convinced he possesses a secret fundamental to the human condition. But is Vallar a genius, a madman or a saint? What Ludens discovers is certainly not what he expects.. Author:MURDOCH, IRIS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WAITING FOR THE WILD BEASTS TO VOTE The life story of Koyaga, dictator and President of the Gulf Coast, is told by Bingo, a West African sora - part storyteller, part king's fool. The tale itself - part magic, part history, part satire - is nothing less than a history of post-colonial Africa.. Author:KOUROUMA, AHMADOU. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ON HISTORIES AND STORIES As novelists become increasingly interested in history as fiction and fiction as history, this study is designed to redraw the map of the boundaries of modern fiction. In her opening essays - "Fathers", "Forefathers" and "Ancestors" - the author considers the renaissance of the historical novel.. Author:BYATT, A.S.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FLAME OF ADVENTURE Are humans neglecting their ability to adapt and change? Yates explores that and other questions in an autobiographical narrative following numerous mountaineering expeditions, and looks at the role adventure plays in our lives and the effect it has on them.. Author:YATES, SIMON. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : STARS OF THE NEW CURFEW This collection of short stories is set in Nigeria and reflects the mad, exotic and often dangerous chaos which reigns there. They include jumbled up voodoo stories, stories of shanty towns and of men from the villages seeking their fortunes in the streets and filthy gutters of the new towns.. Author:OKRI, BEN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : NO GREAT MISCHIEF Alexander MacDonald tells the story of his family from the vantage point of the 1980s. In 1779, driven from his home, Calum MacDonald sets sail from the Scottish Highlands for Canada. Reaching "the land of trees", he settles his extensive family until they become a separate Nova Scotian clan.. Author:MACLEOD, ALISTAIR. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BIOGRAPHER'S TALE Phineas G. Nanson is a research student who falls out of love with theory-ridden post-structuralist criticism and into "urgent need of a life full of things". Turning to biography, he becomes obsessed by biographer Scholes Destry-Scholes and his reverence for old-fashioned "facts".. Author:BYATT, A.S.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MONSIGNOR QUIXOTE With his Sancho Panza a deposed communist mayor, and his faithful Rocinante an antiquated motor car, Monsignor Quixote roams through modern-day Spain in a picaresque fable that offers enduring insights into our life and times.. Author:GREENE, GRAHAM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SAME SEA Albert, an accountant and recent widower is trying to put his life back together. His son has gone off to find himself in Tibet. The son's girlfriend makes friendly daughterly overtures to Albert, whose response is less platonic.. Author:OZ, AMOS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LOCAL GIRLS Told from Gretel's sly and knowing perspective, this story charts her progress as she navigates from childhood to the brink of womanhood, picking her way through the tragedies and absurdities of everyday life in the Samuelson family that is rocked by disaster, bad judgement and fierce attachments.. Author:HOFFMAN, ALICE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BLACK PRINCE Murdoch's 15th novel is a study of artistic inspiration, a love song to Shakespeare, and to a dark god, the "Black Prince". Bradley Pearson, is an elderly "blocked" writer; his best friend, Arnold Baffin, is a bestselling author. Jealousy, fear, love, hate and misunderstanding bedevil the pair.. Author:MURDOCH, IRIS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MARTHA GELLHORN This is a biography of Martha Gellhorn, who reported many of the flashpoints of the 20th century, witnessing the Depression, the Spanish Civil War, covering the fall of Czechoslovakia and the Normandy landings, the liberation of Dachau and the Nuremberg Trials.. Author:MOOREHEAD, CAROLINE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PRINCE The summer of 1912 is one of freedom and discovery for Malte, a young boy who roams the beaches and observes the complicated world of the adults around him. One day he finds a coffin on the beach and learns the secret story of the amber collector who made his fortune combing the beach for sea gold.. Author:MICHAEL, IB. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ROSE GROWER Set at the start of the French Revolution, a woman's private passion is her search to create a repeat-flowering crimson rose. An American falls in love with her sister and she is torn between ethics, reason, revolutionary zeal and unrequited love.. Author:KRETSER, MICHELLE DE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LETTER TO SISTER BENEDICTA Ruby has reached a point of crisis. Fat and 50, educated only to look after her family, she can see no future. In her imagination she turns to Sister Benedicta. As Ruby starts to tell her everything, it is clear that Ruby has a capacity to love and understand that is far greater than she imagined.. Author:TREMAIN, ROSE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SEA, THE SEA First published in 1978, this is the story of Charles Arrowby who, retiring from his glittering London world in order to abjure magic and become a hermit turns to the sea: turbulent and leaden, transparent and opaque, magician and mother. But he finds his solitude is peopled by the drama of his own fantasies and obsessions,. Author:MURDOCH, IRIS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BASQUE HISTORY OF THE WORLD They are a mythical people, almost an imagined people, writes Kurlansky. Signs of their civilization exist well before the arrival of the Romans in 218BC. Their forbidden tongue is equally mysterious, it is related to no other, but today the Basques are enjoying what may be the most important cultural renaissance in their long existence.. Author:KURLANSKY, MARK. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TENTH MAN Written in 1944 but first published in 1985, "The Tenth Man" is set in a prison in occupied France during World War II and concerns Lewis Chavel, a captured rich lawyer who is probably going to be shot in a German act of reprisal.. Author:GREENE, GRAHAM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WUHU DIARY A memoir by American jounalist Emily Prager about the search for her adopted daughter's roots in today's China. In 1994, Prager adopted seven month old Lulu in China. Five years later she returned to spend three months in Wuhu city, where Lulu had been found on the street.. Author:PRAGER, EMILY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CUPBOARD When Erica March composes herself to die in a cupboard she knows that Ralph Pears will find her. For at the age of 87, she has told the young journalist the richly colourful story of her life. Only one secret remains - the meaning of the cupboard.. Author:TREMAIN, ROSE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SMILING IN SLOW MOTION This autobiography, taken from his diaries of 1991-94, interweaves Jarman's harrowing account of physical decline and failing eyesight with wonderfully poetic and detailed descriptions of the changing seasons of Dungeness, his meetings with Tennant, Freud and others, his thoughts on his sex life and his love for his boyfriend.. Author:JARMAN, DEREK. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DUNEDIN A Presbyterian minister from Scotland arrives in 19th-century New Zealand with his unhappy wife, and enjoys the botanical and carnal pleasures of Dunedin. His expulsion from this naturalists' paradise has unpleasant consequences for his middle-aged grandchildren decades later.. Author:MACKAY, SHENA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HEY YEAH RIGHT GET A LIFE In this collection - Simpson's third - each short story complements the others in depicting the hectic, day-to-day whirlpool of women's lives, at work, at home, and on holiday. Confronted by situations ranging from excruciating to hilarious, there will be a high-recognition factor for many readers.. Author:SIMPSON, HELEN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MY GARDEN (BOOK) Kincaid gathers all that she loves about gardening and examines it generously, passionately and with sharp, idiosyncratic discrimination. She also examines the implications of the English formal garden in colonised countries. Author:. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CITIES . Author:READER, JOHN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : COLONEL'S DAUGHTER AND OTHER STORIES First published in 1984, this is not just another day, but a culmination of hundreds of days, disappointments, misunderstandings and thousands of very small lies. While her father is preparing for his late afternoon dip in the hotel swimming pool, Charlotte is getting out of her car back in England, preparing to rob the ancestral home.. Author:TREMAIN, ROSE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WHAT ARE YOU LIKE? 20 year old Maria, leaves Dublin for New York and falls in love with a man there. Going through his wallet, she finds a photo of herself, aged 12, wearing the blue shirt she had always wanted but never owned and a pair of red espadrilles when hers had been blue, the smile was hers - the perfect stranger, the same only different. How could this be?. Author:ENRIGHT, ANNE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MIST IN THE MIRROR The night on which Sir James Monmouth returns to England from Penang is not auspicious. The Cross Keys Inn provides shelter from the chill wind and rain, but it offers few comforts. The pale boy, the old woman and the mist in the mirror - do they have any reality beyond Monmouth's imagination?. Author:HILL, SUSAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SADLER'S BIRTHDAY Today is Jack Sadler's birthday. It might be his last day, or the beginning of a chapter in his life. He must find the key to his old room, where he knows he can discover the truth about his past.. Author:TREMAIN, ROSE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BLOODLINES A novel-in-verse that tells the story of a young female slave who falls in love with the son of the plantation owner and runs away with him in search of a new life.. Author:D'AGUIAR, FRED. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : STAR CALLED HENRY A historical tale marking a new turn in Doyle's writing. Born in the slums of Dublin in 1902, his father a one-legged whorehouse bouncer, Henry Smart has to grow up fast. He eventually becomes a Fenian, a rebel, a republican legend - one of Michael Collins's boys, an assassin on a stolen bike.. Author:DOYLE, RODDY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ROCKS OF AGES Instead of having to choose between science and religion, Stephen Jay Gould asks, why not opt for the golden resolution that accords dignity and distinction to both? He explores and elaborates this concept, concluding that science defines the natural world, and religion our moral world.. Author:GOULD, STEPHEN JAY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BONNY LAD Sonny Gee is only six when his mother abandons him. He is taken in by his Grandfather, Joe, a former miner, grim and taciturn. Immediately locked in conflict, an inarticulate tenderness grows between the old man and the boy. This new relationship, however, is threatened by forces from the past.. Author:TULLOCH, JONATHAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DECAY OF THE ANGEL The final volume in the "Sea of Fertility" series. The dominant themes of the story cycle are brought together as Honda discovers and adopts a 16-year-old orphan, Toru, as his heir. Is Toru destined to die young, as did each of the tragic protagonists of the three previous novels?. Author:MISHIMA, YUKIO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DREAM OF SCIPIO Set in Provence during the collapse of the Roman Empire in the 5th century, the Black Death in the 14th century, and World War II, this novel follows the fortunes of three men - a Gallic aristocrat, a poet and an intellectual who joins the Vichy government.. Author:PEARS, IAIN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LAMB On a promontory jutting out into the Atlantic wind stands the home run by Brother Benedict, where boys are taught a little of God and a lot of fear. To Michael Lamb, one of the Brothers, the regime is without hope, and when he inherits a small legacy he runs away, taking a 12-year-old boy with him.. Author:MACLAVERTY, BERNARD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LAST SAMURAI Ludo's mother, Sibylla, is obsessed with Kurosawa's famous film, "The Seven Samurai" and it plays as a bizarre running backdrop to his childhood. His search for his real father ends in disappointment but he does find out more than he needs about his mother's shaky past.. Author:DEWITT, HELEN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TALE OF MURASAKI Arguably the world's first novelist, Murasaki Shikibu wrote "The Tale of Genji" in the 11th century. Liza Dalby's novel is based on existing fragments of Murasaki's diary and poems and is a fictional account of Japan's most famous female writer.. Author:DALBY, LIZA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LETO BUNDLE A story full of myth, mystery and great imaginative power about a young woman who, searching for her lost baby son like Mother Courage, appears in different guises across different centuries and cultures. She is the eternal refugee but ultimately, the survivor.. Author:WARNER, MARINA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SEASON TICKET Sewell and Gerry have only one purpose in life as well as one thing in common, they each need to get a season ticket to see Newcastle United, and for that they need money. Lots of money. This is the story of how they go about getting it.. Author:TULLOCH, JONATHAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : STONED An account of the author's life as the manager and producer of one of the world's greatest rock bands, The Rolling Stones, as well as a story of the whole Sixties scene. Andrew Loog Oldham was a hustler of genius, addicted to scandal, notoriety and innovation.. Author:OLDHAM, ANDREW LOOG. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BOTTOM OF THE HARBOR A collection of tales, each connected with the waterfront of New York City and recording the lives and practices of the rivermen with affection and understanding, and with a sharp eye for the eccentric.. Author:MITCHELL, JOSEPH. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HOTEL These were the balmy days of the 1920s. The Hotel was a comfortable hotel on the Italian Riviera, run for prosperous English visitors. It was a closed world of wealth and a setting for the inexhaustable comedy of casual personal relationships among a variety of "nice" people.. Author:BOWEN, ELIZABETH. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MOON AND SIXPENCE Charles Strickland, a conventional stockbroker abandons his wife and children for Paris and Tahiti, to live his life as a painter. Whilst his betrayal of family, duty and honour gives him the freedom to achieve greatness, his decision leads to an obsession which carries severe implications.. Author:MAUGHAM, W.SOMERSET. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MRS. DE WINTER Out of the fire-wracked ruins of Manderley, could love and renewal rise phoenix-like from the ashes of the embittered past? First published in 1993, this is the story of Maxim and the second Mrs de Winter. After ten years it seemed as if happiness could be theirs, but the vengeful ghost of Rebecca was still there, casting its long shadow over them.. Author:HILL, SUSAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SAILOR WHO FELL FROM GRACE WITH THE SEA After five years of celibate widowhood, Fusako consummates her two-day relationship with Ryuji, a naval officer convinced of his glorious destiny. However, they are spied on by Fusako's son, Noboru, a member of a sinister elite of precocious schoolboys. Together, they conspire against Ryuji.. Author:MISHIMA, YUKIO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MAD MADGE One of the first Englishwomen to make a living through her writing, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, known as Mad Madge, was a dazzling figure - brave, eccentric, loving, clever and energetic. Her colourful story is told against the background of the Civil War and the Restoration.. Author:WHITAKER, KATIE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : RAZOR'S EDGE Written during World War II, this novel takes as its theme the Zen Buddhist phrase describing the narrow, painful path to enlightenment. The book describes an over-populated, materialistic society, in which people increasingly turn inwards to the spiritual life in their search for freedom.. Author:MAUGHAM, W.SOMERSET. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WHY READ THE CLASSICS? Thirty-six essays by Calvino on his personal classics: the writers, poets and scientists who meant most to him at various stages of his life. His pieces range from antiquity (Homer and Ovid), through early modern and Enlightenment Europe, such as (Defoe), to American mentors (Hemingway).. Author:CALVINO, ITALO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DESTINY An Englishman, married to an Italian, is informed of the suicide of his son. He decides to leave his wife of 30 years standing in this exploration of marriage and destiny whilst treading a narrow line between sanity and psychosis.. Author:PARKS, TIM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TIME IN ROME This portrait of Rome, written by the distinguished author Elizabeth Bowen who went to the city already knowing and loving it, is intended both as an introduction for visitors and an attempt to capture the "mood" of the Eternal City.. Author:BOWEN, ELIZABETH. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : OF HUMAN BONDAGE Philip Carey is an orphan eager for life, love and adventure. After a few months studying in Heidelburg, and a brief spell in Paris as a would-be artist, he settles in London to train as a doctor. He meets Mildred, the loud but irresistible waitress with whom he plunges into a formative, tortured and masochistic affair which very nearly ruins him.. Author:MAUGHAM, SOMERSET. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DEATH IN THE AFTERNOON Hemingway's passion for Spain and the bullfight is renowned. This book contains some of the finest short stories Hemingway ever wrote, inspired by the intense life as well as the inevitable death of those hot, violent afternoons.. Author:HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FIESTA A novel set in Paris in the 1920s, in a world of Pernod, loose living, parties and expatriate Americans. A young couple are attracted to the excitement of the Spanish fiesta, with the heady atmosphere of the bullfight, where their affair becomes strained by new passions and new jealousies.. Author:HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BLACK BOY A reissue of Wright's 1945 autobiography about growing up in the Jim Crow South only one step away from slavery. Gradually he learned how to survive in a world of white hostility, secretly satisfying his craving for books. He also wrote "Native Son", "Uncle Tom's Children" and "The Outsider".. Author:WRIGHT, RICHARD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PACK MY BAG Green chronicles his early life, providing an incisive portrait of English society and of the man himself. From reminiscences of a childhood spent among the gentry, to searing descriptions of Eton and Oxford, to reflections on his first experiments with prose and sex.. Author:GREEN, HENRY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PARTY GOING A fogbound London railway terminus is the arena wherein a group of wealthy, well-connected young people attend to their amorous pursuits and evasions over a four hour period.. Author:GREEN, HENRY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LOVING Describes life above and below stairs in an Irish country house during the Second World War. In the absence of their employers, the Tennants, the servants enact their own battles and conflict amid rumours about the war in Europe.. Author:GREEN, HENRY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MARRIED MAN Austin, a middle-age American in Paris, catches the eye of a stranger, Julien, a young French architect with a gleam in his eye. Life suddenly becomes a round of suppers and glittering salons. But the sadness in Julien's past will lead them around the world in a quest for health and happiness.. Author:WHITE, EDMUND. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LEISURE Hiliary Hughes and husband, Shaun, are on holiday in the Costa del Sol in an attempt to rescue their marriage. Pasternak's aim is to get a shag, while Maggie McLaren, the holiday rep, tries to stop naive British girls falling prey to the local gigolos. The essence of a package holiday in the Med.. Author:SAMPSON, KEVIN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GRITS In the late 1990s, a group of young drifters find themselves together on the coast of Wales. They explore and attempt to overcome the yearnings and addictions that brought them this place, promiscuity, drugs, petty crime, the intense and angry search for the meaning which they feel life is lacking at the end of this momentous century.. Author:GRIFFITHS, NIALL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SHEEPSHAGGER Robbed, by English yuppies, of his ancestral home in the mountains of west Wales, Ianto pledges revenge. This latest act of colonial oppression and desecration triggers his lurid and strange imagination into unspeakable savagery - embodying our most primal fears of physical threat.. Author:GRIFFITHS, NIALL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : JAGUAR SMILE Rushdie's visit to Nicaragua in 1986 alerted the writer to a land of difficult, often beautiful contradictions. This portrait of the people, the politics, the land and the poetry highlights the human facts of a country in the midst of a revolution.. Author:RUSHDIE, SALMAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ITALIAN GIRL Edmund has escaped from his family into a lonely life. Returning for his mother's funeral he finds himself involved in the same awful problems, together with some new ones. He also rediscovers the eternal family servant, the ever-changing "Italian girl".. Author:MURDOCH, IRIS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GOOD APPRENTICE A novel centred upon guilt-ridden despair, and the difficult problem of trying to be good, and the various magical devices that console those who are sensible enough not to try.. Author:MURDOCH, IRIS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : NICE AND THE GOOD A novel originally published in 1968, revolving around a happily married couple and telling of a violent death, blackmail, suspected espionage, Black Arts, stress and terror, over which love conquers all.. Author:MURDOCH, IRIS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : JUSTIFICATION OF JOHANN GUTENBERG Around 1400, in the city of Mainz, a man was born whose invention of moveable metal type was to change the written word for ever and alter the course of history itself. Johann Gutenberg died 60 years later, robbed of his business, his printing presses and, so he thought, of his immortality.. Author:MORRISON, BLAKE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : 13.5 LIVES OF CAPTAIN BLUEBEAR Unlike cats, bluebears have 27 lives, which can be very handy when one considers the manner in which the hero of this story repeatedly manages to avoid death only by a paw's breadth. The story describes Captain Bluebear's first 13 and a half lives.. Author:MOERS, WALTER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FAIRLY HONOURABLE DEFEAT In this dark comedy of errors Iris Murdoch portrays the mischief wrought by Julius, a cynical intellectual who decides to demonstrate by a Machiavellian experiment how easily loving couples, caring friends, and devoted siblings can betray their loyalties.. Author:MURDOCH, IRIS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : UNICORN When Marion Taylor takes a post as governess at Gaze Castle, a remote house upon a coast, she finds herself confronted with weird mysteries. Some crime or catastrophe in the past still keeps the house under a spell, whose magic also touches the neighbouring house of Riders, inhabited by a recluse.. Author:MURDOCH, IRIS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : NUNS AND SOLDIERS Gertrude has lost her husband and Anne, an ex-nun, her God. They plan to live together and do good works. Tim is a different sort of soldier. He plans to live off rich friends. Who will judge whom in this story?. Author:MURDOCH, IRIS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SEVERED HEAD Martin believes he can possess both a beautiful wife and a delightful lover. But when his wife, Antonia, suddenly leaves him for her psychoanalyst, Martin is plunged into an intensive emotional re-education.. Author:MURDOCH, IRIS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BRUNO'S DREAM Bruno, dying, obsessed with spiders and preoccupied with death and reconciliation, lies at the centre of an intricate spider's web of relationships and passions. Including creepy Nigel the nurse and his besotted twin Will, fighter of duels.. Author:MURDOCH, IRIS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : UNOFFICIAL ROSE This is the story of nine people, each of whom is looking for love, and the resulting complex relationships between them. Impelled by affection, lust, lost scruple, illusion and disillusion, wanting to be free yet needing to be involved, these characters perform the linked figures of their destiny.. Author:MURDOCH, IRIS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : POWERBOOK A 21st-century fiction that uses past, present and future as shifting dimensions of a multiple reality. Set in London, Paris, Capri and cyberspace, using fairy tales, contemporary myths and popular culture, it works at the intersection between the real and the imagined. Its territory is you.. Author:WINTERSON, JEANETTE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : INVISIBLE MONSTERS A fashion model with everything is disfigured in a road "accident" and goes from being the beautiful centre of attention to being a monster, so hideous that no one will acknowledge she exists. She then has to learn that reinventing herself means erasing her past and making up something better.. Author:PALAHNIUK, CHUCK. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MAN WHO WALKS A scandalous theft has left a pub's World Cup cash kitty missing, causing a homeless drifter to pursue his eccentric uncle into the Highlands. This novel concerns the nephew's progress and bizarre diversions, in pursuit of his uncle.. Author:WARNER, ALAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SATAN IN GORAY In the little town of Goray, laid waste by murder, famine and demonic spirits, the stargazers have reported seeing one Sabbatai Zevi, robed in purple, bedecked with jewels, riding a wild lion into Jerusalem. Meanwhile, as dark forces gather, the prophetess Rechele prepares to be the Devil's bride.. Author:SINGER, ISAAC BASHEVIS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SET THIS HOUSE ON FIRE The day after Peter Leverett met his old friend Mason Flagg in Italy, Mason was found dead. The hours leading up to his death were a nightmare for Peter - both in their violence and in their maddening unreality. The events were ignited by a conflict between Flagg and a self-destructive painter.. Author:STYRON, WILLIAM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER In 1831, Nat Turner awaits death in a Virginia jail cell. He is a slave, a preacher, and the leader of the only effective slave revolt in the history of 'that peculiar institution'. This novel is Turner's confession, made to jailers under the duress of his God.. Author:STYRON, W. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DARKNESS VISIBLE A description of the author's devastating descent into depression, this book is an intimate portrait of the agony of Styron's ordeal. It looks at an illness that affects millions but is still widely misunderstood. Styron reveals the anguish of a mind desperate unto death.. Author:STYRON, WILLIAM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LAST OF THE JUST The story of Ernie Levey, one of the "Lamed-waf", the 36 just men who are born in every generation, according to Jewish tradition, to take the world's suffering upon themselves. Ernie is descended from Rabbi Yom Tov Levey, sacrificed at York in 1185. Ernie meets his own death in Auschwitz in 1943.. Author:SCHWARZ-BART, ANDRE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : POBBY AND DINGAN Pobby and Dingan are two imaginary friends of Kellyanne, the daughter of an opal miner in New South Wales. But they vanish the same day that her father is accused of ratting. As Kellyanne fades with grief, her brother discovers he must start to believe in Pobby and Dingan too, if he is to save her.. Author:RICE, BEN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MOHAWK Mohawk, New York, is a town whose citizens have fallen on hard times. Dallas Younger drifts from tavern to poker game, losing money. His ex-wife Anne is at odds with her mother over the care of her sick father, and their son Randall is deliberately neglecting his schoolwork.. Author:RUSSO, RICHARD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GEORGE SAND "George Sand" was the adopted name of Aurore Dupin. She was famous for her plays, stories, articles and novels, and for her extraordinary life, especially her troubled love-affair with Chopin. The passionate and turbulent life of this powerful and unusual woman is described in this biography.. Author:JACK, BELINDA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CIDER WITH ROSIE A re-issue of the evocative and nostalgic account of Lee's country childhood in a secluded Cotswold valley. Lee describes a vanished rural world of village schools and church outings but also touches on the darker side of village life as it comes into contact with murder, rape, suicide and depression.. Author:LEE, LAURIE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TEMPLE OF THE GOLDEN PAVILLION Bringing together Mishima's preoccupations with violence, desire, religious life and the history of Japan, this novel is based on an actual incident, the burning of a celebrated temple. The novel is a meditation on the state of Japan in the post-war period.. Author:MISHIMA, YUKIO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? Middle-aged history professor George, and his wife Martha, are joined for a social evening by another faculty couple at a New England college. The result is an all-night drinking session that erupts into a nightmare of revelations.. Author:ALBEE, EDWARD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FANNY A fiction about the lives, loves and battles of two extraordinary 19th century women: Fanny Wright and Fanny Trollope.. Author:WHITE, EDMUND. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : RIGHTS OF DESIRE Ruben Oliver's life is coming adrift from its moorings, he has lost his job, become a widower, and his children have emigrated. When Tessa arrives in response to his advertisement for a lodger, she restores passion to his life, but brings with her a turbulent past.. Author:BRINK, ANDRE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PIG WHO SANG TO THE MOON . Author:MASSON, JEFFREY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PRIMATE'S MEMOIR Sapolsky tells of his research of a baboon troop in remote Africa, writing as vividly about people and their society as he does about animals and theirs. "A Primate's Memoir" is the culmination of over two decades of experience and research.. Author:SAPOLSKY, ROBERT. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : EXPERIENCE One of the most gifted and innovative novelists of his generation, Martin Amis writes with candour about his life, and looks intimately at the process of writing itself. His memoir records the changing literary scene in Britain and the USA, with many anecdotes and pen-portraits.. Author:AMIS, MARTIN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LYING STONES OF MARRAKECH In this new collection of essays, Gould has once again applied biographical perspectives to the illumination of key scientific concepts and their history, ranging from the origins of palaeontology to modern eugenics and genetic engineering.. Author:GOULD, STEPHEN JAY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GLUE "Glue" is the story of four boys growing up in the Edinburgh schemes and about the loyalties, experiences and secrets which hold them together into their thirties. We follow their lives from the seventies into the new century, from punk to techno, from speed to Es.. Author:WELSH, IRVINE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ALBERTINE By the wide sands of Normandy, a cluster of young girls ride their bicycles along the promenade while a sickly young boy watches longingly. One of the girls is Albertine from Proust's "A la Recherche du Temps Perdu", and this atmospheric novel retells the story from her point of view.. Author:ROSE, JACQUELINE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : OUR MAN IN HAVANA Wormold, a vacuum cleaner salesman, was short of money. His daughter had reached an expensive age - so he accepted Hawthorne's offer of $300-plus a month and became Agent 59200/5, MI6's man in Havana. To keep the job, he pretends to recruit sub-agents and sends fake stories. Then they come true.. Author:GREENE, GRAHAM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : POWER AND THE GLORY During a vicious persecution of the clergy in Mexico, a worldly priest, the "whisky priest" is on the run. With the police closing in, his routes of escape are being shut off, his chances getting fewer. But compassion and humanity force him along the road to his destiny.. Author:GREENE, GRAHAM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GUN FOR SALE Raven is an ugly man dedicated to ugly deeds. When Raven is paid for killing the Minister of War with stolen notes, he becomes a man on the run. Tracking down the agent who double-crossed him, and eluding the police simultaneously, he becomes both the hunter and the hunted.. Author:GREENE, GRAHAM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MAN WITHIN The key themes running through this novel are betrayal, pursuit, and the search for peace. Andrews has informed on his fellow smugglers. He takes refuge from his avengers in a girl's house and she persuades him to give evidence in court against his accomplices.. Author:GREENE, GRAHAM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TWENTY-ONE STORIES The stories in this text, all written between 1929 and 1954, share the themes that feature so strongly in Graham Greene's novels: humour and violence, pity and hatred, betrayal and pursuit. They recount tales of indiscretions revealed and secrets uncovered.. Author:GREENE, GRAHAM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ENGLAND MADE ME Anthony Farrant has always found his way, lying to get jobs and borrowing money to get by when he leaves them in a hurry. His twin suster Kate persuades him to move and sets him up with a job as a bodyguard to Krogh, which has drastic results.. Author:GREENE, GRAHAM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MINISTRY OF FEAR For Arthur Rowe the charity fair was a trip back to childhood, to innocence, a welcome chance to escape the terror of the Blitz, to forget twenty years of his past and a murder. Then he guesses the weight of the cake, and from that moment on he's a hunted man.. Author:GREENE, GRAHAM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LOSER TAKES ALL Bertram was not a believer in luck or superstition. An unambitious man, he looks for a quiet life. But then he comes to the attention of Dreuther, his boss, who changes Bertram's plans and packs him off to Monte Carlo. Once there, Bertram develops a betting system and his troubles begin.. Author:GREENE, GRAHAM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FALLEN IDOL AND "THE THIRD MAN" This text contains two of Graham Greene's novels. "The Third Man" is a recreation of post-war Vienna in which Rollo Martins visits his friend and hero, Harry Lime, to find Harry has died in suspicious circumstances. "The Fallen Idol" is the chilling story of a small boy caught up in adult games.. Author:GREENE, GRAHAM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LAWLESS ROADS In the late 1930s, Greene was commissioned to visit Mexico to discover how the inhabitants had reacted to the brutal anti-clerical purges of President Calles. His journey took him through the tropical states of Chiapas and Tabasco, and his experiences there fuelled "The Power and The Glory".. Author:GREENE, GRAHAM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : COLLECTED PLAYS A reissue of a volume of Graham Greene's eight plays: "The Return of A.J. Raffles", "Carving a Statue", "The Complaisant Lover", "The Living Room", "The Potting Shed", "Yes and No", "For Whom the Bell Chimes" and "The Great Jowett".. Author:GREENE, GRAHAM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : JANE EYRE OPERA IN TWO ACTS This text presents the libretto for the opera Jane Eyre. The story is condensed from the classic novel by Charlotte Bronte, and tells of the love between Jane Eyre and Mr Rochester, and the mystery of the mad woman behind the locked door.. Author:BRONTE, CHARLOTTE MALOUF, DAVID. Discounted by 18%

Vintage : INGENUITY GAP In our complex world, even the richer countries are no longer immune from the ingenuity gap. We are all caught between soaring requirements for ingenuity, to provide solutions to the problems facing the society of the 21st century, and increasing uncertain supply.. Author:HOMER-DIXON, THOMAS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : VIRTUAL MURDOCH The story of Rupert Murdoch's attempt to establish himself as the most powerful media figure on the planet. Even while battling cancer, Murdoch took his greatest gamble - floating the world's biggest satellite platform on Wall Street.. Author:CHENOWETH, NEIL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HERMIT IN PARIS This volume of posthumously collected personal writings of Italo Calvino range from the early 1950s to his last interview, completed before his death in 1985. They examine major 20th-century events from a personal viewpoint, and provide a homage to his adoptive city, Paris.. Author:CALVINO, ITALO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GEISHA Published with a new preface, this bestseller offers an intimate glimpse into a unique female community. Liz Dalby, the only non-Japanese woman ever to have trained as a geisha, reveals the realities of geisha life.. Author:DALBY, LIZA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BEEF AND LIBERTY This title presents a history and pioneering study in a new subject - food nationalism. It relates the history of eating beef in Britain, from the use of the roasting jack to the foundation of the Sublime Society of Beefsteaks, up to the 21st century.. Author:ROGERS, BEN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DIARY OF AN AMERICAN AU PAIR Pokes fun at both the Brits and the Americans in the voice of Melissa, a sharp-eyed young American abroad. As au pair to a minor aristocratic British family, with a mother from hell, she moves between freezing farmhouses and island castles, and succumbs to the lure of a lean and hungry Englishman.. Author:LEET, MARJORIE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BALZAC AND THE LITTLE CHINESE SEAMSTRESS Two boys, both sons of doctors, are sent to the top of a mountain for "re-education" in Mao's China; an education that involves carting buckets of excrement up and down precipitous paths. They discover instead the discreet charm of bourgeois literature and the local tailor's attractive daughter.. Author:SIJIE, DAI. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : RIGHT HAND OF SLEEP Oskar Voxlauer is in flight from his past. But despite his attempts to live a reclusive existence as a gamekeeper up in the hills, he cannot escape the tensions that are threatening the tranquil town of Niessen when Hitler marches into Austria and the Blackshirts come into the valley.. Author:WRAY, JOHN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CONSTANTS OF NATURE The constants of nature are the numbers that define the essence of the Universe. But what is their ultimate status? Are they truly constant? Are there other universes where they are different? This work grapples with these issues, even asking: are there any constants of Nature at all?. Author:BARROW, JOHN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : INISHOWEN Inspector Martin Allen's life is a mess, and the last thing he needs on Christmas Eve is a collapsed woman on the street. Ellen Donnelly is a woman on a mission, in Ireland to find her mother and escape her husband, Milton Amery, an unfaithful plastic surgeon. All of their roads lead to Inishowen.. Author:O'CONNOR, JOSEPH. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ELIZABETH Published to accompany a Channel 4 series, Starkey turns the paradox into a person. This new approach to the enigma of Elizabeth's character presents a retelling of her reign, her love for Robert Dudley, the tragi-comedy of her suitors, her epic struggles with Mary and Philip II and the final debacle of her relationship with Robert Devereux.. Author:STARKEY, DAVID. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MOUTHING THE WORDS This is the story of Thelma, from childhood to adulthood, and her return to England from Canada to study law at Oxford. Through sexual abuse, anorexia and borderline multiple personality disorder, Thelma retains her spirit, wit and imagination.. Author:GIBB, CAMILLA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BOY WHO FOLLOWED RIPLEY A polite young American whom Tom Ripley casually befriends turns out to be the runaway heir to a retailing fortune. But what precisely is he running from? And into what perils will Tom's commitment to his young friend draw them both?. Author:HIGHSMITH, PATRICIA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WAY OF A SHIP Derek Lundy recreates a sailing trip undertaken by his great-great grandfather, Benjamin Lundy, in the late 19th century. He shows Benjamin and fellow seamen on board "The Beara Head" as they perform the exhausting, dangerous work of sailing a square-rigger across the Atlantic and round Cape Horn.. Author:LUNDY, DEREK. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SMART A true drama of 18th-century life, featuring a mysterious heroine - Caroline, a high-class prostitute who became involved with a financial scam (or "smart") with the intriguing Perreau twins. At the trial, the twins were executed and she was freed. But was she really innocent?. Author:BAKEWELL, SARAH. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ASTRAEA Set in the Netherlands in the 1640s, "Astraea" tells of the relationship between two royal exiles, Elizabeth of Bohemia, daughter of James I, and Omoloju/Pelagius, erstwhile heir to the Yoruba kingdom of Oyo, now a freed slave with shamanic gifts. They meet, fall in love, and marry clandestinely.. Author:STEVENSON, JANE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : EMPRESS OF THE LAST DAYS A group of friends uncover the hidden story of Pelagius's royal marriage. As a result, Michael finds himself journeying to Barbados to meet the last descendant of the marriage of Pelagius and Elizabeth of Bohemia, a young black scientist with a serious claim to the throne of England.. Author:STEVENSON, JANE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PRETENDER Following "Astraea", this is the second volume in Jane Stevenson's trilogy of historical novels. This book follows the life of Balthasar van Overmeer, son of a secret marriage between an African prince and Elizabeth of Bohemia, daughter of James I, from Holland, Restoration London to Barbados.. Author:STEVENSON, JANE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FRUIT OF STONE McEban, a rancher in Wyoming, has loved Gretchen Reilly all his life; and all his life Bennett, Gretchen's husband, has been his best friend. When Gretchen leaves Bennett, the two men follow her trail on a strange, fateful journey across Wyoming to Nebraska.. Author:SPRAGG, MARK. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FERMATA A story about sexual fantasy in which the main character, Arno Strine, a temporary typist, has mastered the technique of freezing time so that he can undress women. Nicholson Baker is the author of "Vox".. Author:BAKER, NICHOLSON. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PLOWING THE DARK In a laboratory in the US, researchers race to complete the Cavern, a blank white room that can become a jungle, a painting, or even a cathedral. In a city in the Middle East, an American is held hostage, chained to a radiator in an empty white room. What links two such remote places?. Author:POWERS, RICHARD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CRAWLING AT NIGHT Ito is a middle-aged Japanese sushi chef, newly-arrived in New York. Having left Japan after the death of his wife, he has arrived in a city that has no idea of how to appreciate his artistry - then he meets Mariane.. Author:POWER, NANI. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : VAGRANT MOOD A colourful collection of essays of literary criticism. Topics covered span from Kant to Raymond Chandler, from the legend of Zurbaran to the art of the detective story, and from Burke to Augustus Hare.. Author:MAUGHAM, SOMERSET. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : THEATRE Julia Lambert is in her prime, the greatest actress in England. Off stage, however, she is bored with her husband. She is at first amused by the attentions of a shy but ambitious young fan, then thrilled by his persistence - and at last wildly but dangerously in love.. Author:MAUGHAM, WILLIAM SOMERSET. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PAINTED VEIL Walter Fane, a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong, discovers his beautiful but shallow wife, Kitty, is having an affair. His revenge is strange but terrible: Kitty must accompany him to his new posting in remote mainland China, where a cholera epidemic rages.. Author:MAUGHAM, WILLIAM SOMERSET. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : I'LL GO TO BED AT NOON . Author:WOODWARD, GERARD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ITALIAN NEIGHBOURS Tim Parks celebrates ten years of living in Italy with this account of the delights and foibles of Italian life. With an Italian wife and family, he is able to introduce the reader to a gallery of characters. Tim Parks won the Somerset Maugham Award for "Tongues of Flame".. Author:PARKS, TIM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ITALIAN EDUCATION After living in Italy for ten years and having married into an Italian family, novelist Tim Parks describes his experiences of the country and its people. How does an Italian become Italian? Focusing on his own children, Parks builds a picture of contemporary family life.. Author:PARKS, TIM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : OUT OF IRELAND Robert Devereux is a man of romantic sensibility who is also a man of action. He is one of the leaders of the Young Ireland group of 1848 who called upon his people to take up arms against the British. His journals, uncovered from a hop farm in Tasmania, tell the story of a highly unusual rebel.. Author:KOCH, CHRISTOPHER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ADAM, ONE AFTERNOON A collection of stories that use the mechanism of fable to examine human reality. Calvino's world envelops nature with both terror and enchantment, where the line between a gun barrel and its target is as tangible as the thread of a spider.. Author:CALVINO, ITALO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BRONTE MYTH Each generation has rewritten the Brontes to reflect changing attitudes - towards the role of the woman writer, towards sexuality, towards the very concept of personality. In this book, Lucasta Miller reveals as much about the impossible art of biography as she does about the Brontes themselves.. Author:MILLER, LUCASTA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FOUCAULT'S PENDULUM This novel by the author of "The Name of the Rose" follows that book's format of a complex intellectual thriller. The plot ranges back and forth through the centuries, full of arcane knowledge, secret societies, love, death, passion and perversion.. Author:ECO, UMBERTO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DARK ROOM "The Dark Room" tells three stories: that of Helmut a young photographer in the 1930s; Lore a 12-year-old girl at the end of the war; and Micha, a young school teacher, half a century later. Between them, the reader traces the legacy of the Nazi period on the lives of ordinary Germans.. Author:SEIFFERT, RACHEL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : POEMS FOR REFUGEES This is an anthology of poems, chosen by well-known names from the worlds of theatre, literature and film in response to the Afghan crisis. The poems range from Auden to Shakespeare, Brecht to Harry Secombe.. Author:. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GARDENING AT NIGHT Set in a South African mining town, this story follows the unfolding of a young girl's life through a childhood filled with silences, through adolescence and young womanhood. It is about how much people are the total of their longings, how high drama can also be low comedy.. Author:AWERBUCK, DIANE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : COLLECTED SHORT STORIES This collection of Somerset Maugham's short stories includes stories based in England, France and Spain, as well as the South Pacific. It includes "Rain", the tradgedy of a missionary and a prostitute and "The Three Fat Women of Antibes", a sardonic tale of abstention and greed.. Author:MAUGHAM, WILLIAM SOMERSET. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DARK BACK OF TIME This digressive, constantly surprising and humorous book moves seamlessly from virtuoso storytelling to intimate autobiography, and from the grand movements of history, the battle fields of the Somme and Spain under Franco, to the strange patterns of small lives.. Author:MARIAS, JAVIER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CHAUCER . Author:ACKROYD, PETER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : IN EVERY SENSE LIKE LOVE A collection of short stories based around the theme of the definition of love in the 21st century. Preoccupied by physical extremism, Vinci tells thirteen dark and strange tales about obsession.. Author:VINCI, SIMONA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : REPENTANT MORNING Beginning in the morally ambivalent London of the '30s, this novel contrasts the sordid ennui of the lives of a bunch of young Londoners playing on the fringes of fascism with the struggle between left and right that was taking place in Republican Spain.. Author:PALING, CHRIS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : STUMP . Author:GRIFFITHS, NIALL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WAITING This novel tells the story of Lin Kong, a man living in two worlds, struggling with the conflicting claims of two utterly different women, as he moves through the political minefields of a society designed to regulate his every move.. Author:JIN, HA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LIFE OF GRAHAM GREENE 1904-39 This work presents a narrative of Graham Greene's early life - including a breakdown in his early teens, his years at Oxford, and his courtship of his future wife, Vivien, for whose sake he became a Roman Catholic - uncovering the origins of his literary preoccupations.. Author:SHERRY, NORMAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : COLLECTED STORIES Throughout these 79 stories - of love, childhood, of English middle-class life in the 1920s and 30s, of London during the Blitz - the author combines social comedy and reportage.. Author:BOWEN, ELIZABETH. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : EVA TROUT Eva Trout has a capacity for making trouble, attracting trouble and for spreading trouble around her. This book was the author's last completed novel, first published in 1968.. Author:BOWEN, ELIZABETH. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ARTIST'S WIDOW From the author of THE ORCHARD ON FIRE, a novel set in London and New York. As a storm rages, four apparently unrelated events occur: a woman resolves to find a long-lost friend; a married couple have to take refuge with their despised neighbours; a case of mistaken identity leads to a sexual liaison; and the discovery of a body goes unreported.. Author:MACKAY, SHENA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : I MARRIED A COMMUNIST Radio actor Iron Rinn is a roughneck blighted by a brutal personal secret from which he is perpetually in flight. An idealistic Communist turned popular performer, he marries America's reigning radio actress and silent movie star, Eve Frame. However, both his marriage and his life collapse.. Author:ROTH, PHILIP. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LOVE OF A GOOD WOMAN In this collection, Alice Munro takes mainly the lives of women, and brings their hidden desires bubbling to the surface. The love of a good woman is not as pure and virtuous as it seems - as in her title story, it can be needy and murderous.. Author:MUNRO, ALICE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TWO HEARTS OF KWASI BOACHI In 1837, two young African princes arrive at the court of Willem I in the Netherlands. Treated as curiosities by white people, their friendship suffers and their paths diverge. Years later, as the 20th century dawns, the elderly Kwasi sits down to write his autobiography.. Author:JAPIN, ARTHUR. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PILATE There are few facts available concerning Pontius Pilate. This title is about all the Pilates, real, half-real and invented. Some are familiar, some surprising.. Author:WROE, ANN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PIANO SHOP ON THE LEFT BANK The story of a musical friendship and a mutual obsession, intertwined with reflections on how pianos work, their history, and the people who care for them, from the most amateur pianists to the tuners and craftsmen who make the mechanism sing.. Author:CARHART, T.E.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MATING MIND Miller shows how our brains are the products of sexual selection, rather than natural selection and how this alters and illuminates our understanding of intelligence, art, language, mortality, sex and the differences between men and women.. Author:MILLER, GEOFFREY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PEEPING TOM This erotic novel unites the psychological thriller and the literary novel of romance as the author probes the sexual obsessions of his hero - one of the most revered figures of the 19th-century novel. By the author of "The Very Model of a Man" and "Coming from Behind".. Author:JACOBSON, HOWARD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BOOK OF NOTHING From the zeros of the mathematician to the void of the philosophers, from Shakespeare to the empty set. This book ranges over every nook and cranny of nothingness to reveal how the human mind has had to make something of nothing in every field of human enquiry.. Author:BARROW, JOHN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WOMAN IN BLACK When Arthur Kipps attends the funeral of Alice Drablow he is unaware of the tragic secrets which lie hidden behind her house. It is not until he glimpses a woman dressed all in black at the funeral that a creeping sense of unease begins to take hold.. Author:HILL, SUSAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DR. FISCHER OF GENEVA OR THE BOMB PARTY Mr Jones, a quiet unprepossessing man who works as a translator in a Swiss chocolate factory, meets and falls in love with Anna-Luise, many years his junior and the daughter of Doctor Fischer, the notorious toothpaste millionaire.. Author:GREENE, GRAHAM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HUMAN FACTOR A leak is traced to a small sub-section of SIS, sparking off the inevitable security checks, tensions and suspicions. The sort of atmosphere where mistakes could be made? For Maurice Castle it is the end of the line anyway and time for him to retire with his African wife, Sarah.. Author:GREENE, GRAHAM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WELCOME TO THE WORLD, BABY GIRL A novel spanning late 1940s small-town America and the New York media world of the 1970s, by the author of FRIED GREEN TOMATOES AT THE WHISTLESTOP CAFE. It tells the story of a television interviewer with emotional and drink problems who was abandoned as a teenager by her mother.. Author:FLAGG, FANNIE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ROMAN SPRING OF MRS.STONE Mrs Stone changed from a rich American actress to a very rich American widow, but the transition took place as her legendary beauty slipped away, and so she escaped to Rome, the Eternal City. Frantic, she decides to take a lover, but in the end it is too high a price to pay for her dignity.. Author:WILLIAMS, TENNESSEE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HARLOT'S PROGRESS This tale reinvents William Hogarth's famous painting of 1732 which tells the story of a whore, a Jewish merchant, a magistrate and a quack doctor, bound together by sexual and financial greed.. Author:DABYDEEN, DAVID. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MOTHERKIND Jayne Anne Philips explores the spiritual education at the heart of that most fundamental transition: the child who grows up to look after his or her parent. It is the story of Kate, whose care for her terminally ill mother coincides with the birth of her first child. She must come to terms with crucial loss and radiant beginnings.. Author:PHILLIPS, JANE ANNE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : IN MENDEL'S FOOTNOTES In the 1850s and 1860s, growing peas in his monastery garden in Brno in Moravia, Augustinian friar Gregor Mendel worked out the basic laws of heredity. Colin Tudge argues that once what Mendel is understood, subsequent advances fall naturally into place and light is thrown on humanity's future.. Author:TUDGE, COLIN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FEELING OF WHAT HAPPENS A leading expert of the neurophysiology of emotions, Damasio shows how our consciousness arose out of the development of emotion. At its core human consciousness is consciousness of the feeling and experiencing self.. Author:DAMASIO, ANTONIO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TULIP FEVER The story of sexual betrayal and human failings in 17th-century Amsterdam, as the characters move inexorably towards a grand deception and a tragic climax.. Author:MOGGACH, DEBORAH. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GORMENGHAST TRILOGY First published between 1946 and 1959, this trilogy consists of "Titus Groan", "Gormenghast" and "Titus Alone". Gormenghast is a vast crumbling castle to which the 77th Earl, Titus Groan, is lord and heir. It is also a cobwebbed kingdom of Byzantine government and age-old ritual.. Author:PEAKE, MERVYN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : POINTS OF VIEW The essays collected in this volume, the last that Somerset Maugham published, include an appreciation of Goethe's novels, an encounter with an Indian holy man and an evaluation of the short story form.. Author:MAUGHAM, SOMERSET. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MAGICIAN Set in Bohemian Paris at the turn of the 20th century, this sinister novel was inspired by the notorious black magician, Aleister Crowley, and portrays Parisian cafe society.. Author:MAUGHAM, SOMERSET. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BY THE SHORE May lives in a former girls' school that her mother has turned into a guest house. May is 12 and she and her mother and brother have come to live by the sea. May observes the adults and their complicated games with an eye unmisted by sentimentality, and struggles to find solid ground for herself.. Author:CRAZE, GALAXY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ARTEMISIA Artemisia Gentileschi was the first recorded major female painter and this vivid recreation of her tempestuous life contains new revelations discovered in the depths of the Vatican archives.. Author:LAPIERRE, ALEXANDRA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WHERE THE STRESS FALLS This collection of over 40 essays, written between 1980 and 2000, illustrates the array of Susan Sontag's interests, passions, observations and ideas. It also records her engagement with some of the most significant aesthetic and moral issues of the late 20th century.. Author:SONTAG, SUSAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DISGRACE A divorced, middle-aged English professor finds himself increasingly unable to resist affairs with his female students. When discovered by the college authorities he is expected to apologize to save his job, but instead he refuses and resigns, retiring to live with his daughter on her remote farm.. Author:COETZEE, J.M.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : IN RUINS Why are we so fascinated by ruins? Woodward looks back to the start of the cult in the 18th century, when follies were built in English landscape gardens. He examines Nazi fantasies, the shattered Statue of Liberty in the film "Planet of the Apes" and the Chelsea Flower Show's "Millennium Ruin".. Author:WOODWARD, CHRISTOPHER (DIRECTOR, HOLBURNE MUSEUM OF ART, BATH). Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ORCHID THIEF The story of orchid thief and obsessive, John Laroche, and the bizarre world of the orchid fanciers of Florida. The world of the orchid hunters, breeders and showmen, their rivalries, vendettas and crimes, smuggling, thefts and worse provide the backdrop to an exploration of one of the byways of human nature, the obsessive world of the collector.. Author:ORLEAN, SUSAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MORE FAR EASTERN TALES A selection of Somerset Maugham stories inspired by his travels in Singapore, Malaya and other exotic parts of the British Empire.. Author:MAUGHAM, W.SOMERSET. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DR SIMON FORMAN Charismatic and ambitious, Simon Forman rose from a poor upbringing in Wiltshire to become one of the wealthiest doctors in Elizabethan London. This account sees him denounced as a quack, and an astrologer who used black magic. It covers his private life through deciphering his coded diary.. Author:COOK, JUDITH. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FASTING, FEASTING From the heart of a close-knit Indian household to the cool centre of an American family, this novel examines a surfeit of feasting and Indian family life, and the self-denial and starving of affluent American women in the land of plenty.. Author:DESAI, ANITA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DIAMOND DUST AND OTHER STORIES A collection of stories where the protagonists set out on journeys and find themselves suddenly beyond the pale, or back where they started from. A beloved dog brings chaos, old relationships stir up buried resentments and a businessman sees his own death.. Author:DESAI, ANITA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ASHENDEN Inspired by Maughams's own experiences as a British secret agent in World War I, this series of stories features a fictional spy, John Ashenden, whose dangerous assignments entangle him with traitors, assassins and beautiful but treacherous women.. Author:MAUGHAM, W.SOMERSET. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : COUNTRY OF MY SKULL Krog captures the complexity of South Africa's Truth and Reconcilliation Commission in a personal narrative, taking the reader beneath the big movements of the Truth Commission and beyond, into the heart of what it means to be a South African today. Originally published by Jonathan Cape.. Author:KROG, ANTJIE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : VIRTUAL WAR This text looks at the way the war in Kosovo was fought. Kosovo was a virtual war, fought by pilots at 15,000 feet, commanded by Generals whose only view of the battle was through their pilot's bombing sights, and reported by opposing media with competing versions of collateral damage stories.. Author:IGNATIEFF, MICHAEL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer, has been sent to handle the dynamiting. There, in the mountains, he finds the dangers and the intense comradeship of war. And there he discovers Maria, a young woman who has escaped from Franco's rebels.... Author:HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SEE UNDER Momik, the protagonist of the book, is the only child of survivors of the Holocaust. He grows up in the shadow of their history, determined to understand the nature of the Nazi "beast" and to prepare for a holocaust he knows is still to come.. Author:GROSSMAN, DAVID. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DREAM STUFF This collection of stories from David Malouf range over more than a century of Australian life, from green tropical lushness to blacksoil country, evoking dark shadows beneath a bright sun.. Author:MALOUF, DAVID. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ELEGANT UNIVERSE String theory proclaims that all of the wondrous happenings in the universe are reflections of one grand physical principle and manifestations of one single entity: microscopically tiny vibrating loops of energy. This text relates the scientific story and the human struggle behind this theory.. Author:GREENE, BRIAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PLATO PAPERS Plato, the orator, summons the citizens of London on ritual occasions to impart the ancient history of their city. He dwells particulary on the unhappy era of Mouldwarp (AD 1500-2300), which existed before the dimming of the stars and the burning of the machines. But then he is put on trial.. Author:ACKROYD, PETER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : POWDER Can any young pop group evade the pitfalls of fame, sex, drugs and all their inherent baggage? Will the Grams headline Glastonbury? And, crucially, can their guitarist achieve orgasm with a fully-limbed lover?. Author:SAMPSON, KEVIN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BRUCE CHATWIN A biography of Bruce Chatwin, based on private notebooks, diaries, letters and hundreds of interviews. It illuminates the many sides of Chatwin, from Sotheby's director, archaeologist, "Sunday Times" journalist and traveller to devoted husband and active gay, socialite and loner.. Author:SHAKESPEARE, NICHOLAS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SOUND OF WAVES Set in a remote fishing village in Japan, this is a story of first love. Shinji is entranced at the sight of Hatsue in the twilight on the beach, upon her return from another island, where she had been training to be a pearl diver. They fall in love, but then endure the calumny and gossip of the villagers.. Author:MISHIMA, YUKIO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DAISY FAY AND THE MIRACLE MAN A journey to the South that only Southerners know, to a time when "Blue Velvet" was played at the Senior Prom, and into the life of Daisy Fay Harper. Daisy is a sassy, truth-telling heroine who just can't stay out of trouble. What's more, she tells us everything.. Author:FLAGG, FANNIE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MY LAST BREATH The film-maker Luis Bunuel was unrelenting in his assault on bourgeous values. This autobiography encompasses Madrid, Paris, Hollywood, New York and Mexico; and Salvador Dali, Lorca, Andre Breton, Max Ernst, Miro and Charlie Chaplin.. Author:BUNUEL, LUIS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : UNRULY TIMES With a novelist's insight and eye for detail, A.S. Byatt examines the relationship between Wordsworth and Coleridge against the background of the great changes of their times - in society, politics, education and literature.. Author:BYATT, A.S.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DEGREES OF FREEDOM Examines Iris Murdoch's early works of fiction and main philosophical ideas, relating the two and providing an insight into the larger dimensions of the novels. Byatt's survey groups and interrelates the novels, picks out recurrent themes and presents the key ideas.. Author:BYATT, A.S.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : REMEMBERING BABYLON A picture of Australia at the time of its foundation, focused on the hostility between early British settlers and native Aboriginals. It is essentially the story of a boy caught between both worlds. David Malouf, himself an Australian, is the prize-winning author of "The Great World".. Author:MALOUF, DAVID. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DEAD MAN IN DEPTFORD Set in Elizabethan England, Burgess's first novel for four years centres on the life of Christopher Marlowe, who was killed in suspicious circumstances in a tavern brawl in Deptford 400 years ago. It portrays a theatre genius riven by sexual and political conflicts.. Author:BURGESS, ANTHONY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : OPERATION SHYLOCK A novel in which Philip Roth confronts his double, an imposter whose self-appointed task is to lead the Jews not into, but out of Israel, and back to Europe.. Author:ROTH, PHILIP. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MARRIAGE OF CADMUS AND HARMONY Forming a link in a chain that reaches back through Ovid's "Metamorphoses" directly to Homer, Roberto Calasso's award-winning re-examination of fantastic fables and mysteries, which we may only think we know, sets out to explore the entire world of Greek mythology and piece it back together.. Author:CALASSO, ROBERTO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION The narration of a summer motorcycle trip undertaken by a father and his son becomes a text which speaks directly to the confusions and agonies of existence, detailing a personal, philosophical odyssey.. Author:PIRSIG, ROBERT M.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TREE OF MAN At the turn of the century Stan Parker takes a wife and makes a home as a small farmer in the wilderness of Australia. Amy bears his children and time brings him a procession of ordinary events - achievements, disappointments, sorrows and dreams. The author won the 1973 Nobel Prize for Literature.. Author:WHITE, PATRICK. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : VOSS Set in 19th-century Australia, this is the story of the secret passion between an explorer and a young orphan. Although they have met only a few times, Voss and Laura are joined by overwhelming, obsessive feelings for each other. The Australian author won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973.. Author:WHITE, PATRICK. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : NUMBERS IN THE DARK AND OTHER STORIES A collection of stories and fables by Italo Calvino. The first part of the collection consists of his early political stories, whilst the second part shifts from politics to everyday life - filling a car with petrol, telephoning a lover or turning on the shower.. Author:CALVINO, ITALO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LYTTON STRACHEY Drawing on new material, both published and unpublished, this is a revised edition of a biography of Lytton Strachey which was first published in 1967. It is the story of a complex man and his world which it was felt could not be told while many of his friends and lovers were still alive.. Author:HOLROYD, MICHAEL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : AUGUSTUS JOHN - THE NEW BIOGRAPHY Drawing on the mass of new material which has come to light since the first edition was published in 1974, this revised biography presents a detailed account of the passionate and unruly life of the bohemian British painter, Augustus John, and his circle.. Author:HOLROYD, MICHAEL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MYTHS OF THE NEAR FUTURE A collection of ten short stories originally written for magazines such as "Time Out" in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The settings include an American wasteland of drained swimming pools, lushest Knightsbridge, a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp, and a suburb of Cape Kennedy.. Author:BALLARD, J.G.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CONCRETE ISLAND A 35-year-old architect is driving home from his London office when his car swerves and crashes onto a traffic island lying below three converging motorways. Uninjured, he climbs the embankment to seek help, but no one will stop for him and he is trapped on the island, where he remains.. Author:BALLARD, J.G.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TIN CAN TREE When young Janie Pike dies in an accident she leaves behind a family numbed with grief and torn with guilt and recrimination. In this novel, the author explores how each member of the family learns to face the future. Tyler - a Pulitzer prizewinner - also wrote "The Accidental Tourist".. Author:TYLER, ANNE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN The novel on which the major 1985 film was based. Sometimes Molina and Valentin talk all night long in the still darkness of their cell. Each has always been alone and in danger of betrayal, but in Cell 7 each surrenders to the other something of himself that he has never surrendered before.. Author:PUIG, MANUEL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WOODBROOK Thomson's memoir of 10 years spent as tutor in an Anglo-Irish household not far from Sligo, grew out of his two great loves - for Woodbrook and for Phoebe, his pupil. It offers a picture of genteel pre-war society, of the enchantment of falling in love and the desolation of bereavement.. Author:THOMSON, DAVID. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME SWANN'S WAY Volume One of Marcel Proust's "In Search of Lost Time", in a revised and updated edition of the Moncrieff and Kilmartin translation. It also contains notes, addenda and synopses.. Author:PROUST, MARCEL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME WITHIN A BUDDING GROVE Volume Two of Marcel Proust's "In Search of Lost Time", in a revised and updated edition of the Moncrieff and Kilmartin translation. It also contains notes, addenda and synopses.. Author:PROUST, MARCEL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME GUERMANTES WAY Volume Three of Marcel Proust's "In Search of Lost Time", in a revised and updated edition of the Moncrieff and Kilmartin translation. It also contains notes, addenda and synopses.. Author:PROUST, MARCEL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME SODOM AND GOMORRAH Volume Four of Marcel Proust's "In Search of Lost Time", in a revised and updated edition of the Moncrieff and Kilmartin translation. It also contains notes, addenda and synopses.. Author:PROUST, MARCEL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME CAPTIVE AND THE FUGITIVE Volume Five of Marcel Proust's "In Search of Lost Time", in a revised and updated edition of the Moncrieff and Kilmartin translation. It also contains notes, addenda and synopses.. Author:PROUST, MARCEL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME TIME REGAINED AND A GUIDE TO PROUST Volume Six of Marcel Proust's "In Search of Lost Time", in a revised and updated edition of the Moncrieff and Kilmartin translation. It also contains notes, addenda and synopses, and a guide to the complete work.. Author:PROUST, MARCEL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ROOTS This is the extraordinary account of Alex Haley's own 12 year search for his family's origins. Tracing his ancestry through six generations, he discovered a 16 year-old youth, Kunta Kinte. It was this young man who held the key to Haley's deep and distant past.. Author:HALEY, ALEX. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : STATE WE'RE IN An analysis of how Britain's economic, social and political arrangements have become out of date. The book also gives ideas of how these arrangements can be modernized.. Author:HUTTON, WILL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : STRAIGHT MAN The despair of his wife, the scourge of the university campus geese, Professor William Henry Devereaux Jr is a man at odds with himself and in thrall to the perversity principle. This is the comic portrait of a middle-aged man caught somewhere between cause and effect.. Author:RUSSO, RICK. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : THIS GAME OF GHOSTS A sequel to the award-winning "Touching the Void", in which Simpson described a fall in the Himalayas which crippled and almost broke him. This is a memoir of the signposts that have directed him since childhood to measure fear and embrace the unknown.. Author:SIMPSON, JOE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DISTANT VOICES Published to coincide with a John Pilger television documentary on Indonesia's genocidal policies in East Timor, this expanded edition of his bestselling book contains all the original essays, together with new material, the centrepiece of which is Pilger's reporting from East Timor.. Author:PILGER, JOHN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : AGAINST INTERPRETATION A selection from Susan Sontag's early writings about the arts and contemporary culture. As well as the title essay, "On Style" and "Notes on Camp", the book includes discussions of such figures as Sartre, Simone Weil, Georg Kovacs, Levi-Strauss, Artaud, Genet, Brecht, Beckett, Bresson and Godard.. Author:SONTAG, SUSAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : STYLES OF RADICAL WILL Susan Sontag's second collection of essays extends the investigations she undertook in "Against Interpretation", with essays on film, literature and politics, and a study of pornography.. Author:SONTAG, SUSAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : VONNEGUT OMNIBUS An anthology of writings by Kurt Vonnegut. "Welcome to the Monkeyhouse" brings together some of his shorter essays and stories, and "Palm Sunday" consists of speeches, letters, fiction, articles and autobiography.. Author:VONNEGUT, KURT. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BIRDSONG Set in France before and during World War I, this is the story of a young Englishman who is impelled through a series of extreme experiences, including a traumatic love affair which tears apart the bourgeois French family with whom he lives. By the author of "The Girl at the Lion d'Or".. Author:FAULKS, SEBASTIAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ROAD TO SAN GIOVANNI A series of five autobiographical essays by the Italian writer, Italo Calvino. The first revolves around his father and where he grew up; the second explores his childhood experience of film; the third, his experience of war; the fourth, houses; and the fifth, his philosophical thoughts.. Author:CALVINO, ITALO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : NIGHTS AT THE CIRCUS Haunted by Fevvers, child of a brothel, a journalist stumbles into a journey which takes him from London to Siberia via St Petersburg into an earthy, rich, turn-of-the-19th-century world which reeks of human and animal variety. By the author of "Shadow Dance" and "The Passion of New Eve".. Author:CARTER, ANGELA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PROFESSOR OF DESIRE David Kapesh, an adventurous man of intelligence and feeling, tries to make his way to both pleasure and dignity through a world of sensual possiblities. This novel, by the author of "Portnoy's Complaint", explores the pursuit and loss of erotic happiness.. Author:ROTH, PHILIP. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BLOOD AND BELONGING Presents a perspective on the complex and volatile issue of modern nationalism, and explores the question of blood and belonging that nationalism raises. In his study, Ignatieff begins in former Yugoslavia and ends with a return to the "disunited" kingdom.. Author:IGNATIEFF, MICHAEL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CHARLOTTE GRAY In 1942, Charlotte Gray goes to Occupied France on a duel mission, to run a simple errand for a British special operations group and to find her lover, an English airman who has gone missing in action. It is in the town of Lavaurette that she finds friendship and experiences life under Nazi rule. From the author of BIRDSONG.. Author:FAULKS, SEBASTIAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT Philip Roth's bestselling novel, which takes the form of a monologue featuring the confession of a comic character who is thrust through life by his unappeasable sexuality, yet at the same time held back by the iron grip of his unforgettable childhood.. Author:ROTH, PHILIP. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : KONIN This is the story of a small Jewish ghetto in a small town in Poland - and of one man's obsessive quest to discover its fate and that of its survivors.. Author:RICHMOND, THEO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LOOKING FOR SPINOZA An eminent neuroscientist explores the science of human emotion and what the great Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza can teach of how and why we feel. Damasio shows how joy and sorrow, those most defining of human feelings, are the cornerstones of our survival and culture.. Author:DAMASIO, ANTONIO R.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : AND THE JUDGES SAID... A wide-ranging volume of essays from the Booker Prize-winning author, dealing with matters literary, artistic, political and philosophical. Outlined are some of the influences that led Kelman to create literary art, from music to Russian writers, from the steel industry to the Kurds in Turkey.. Author:KELMAN, JAMES. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MARIAGE Full of witty insights and hilarious asides, "Le Mariage" has a moral complexity that belies its frothy exterior. The story follows the fortunes of Anne-Sophie, a young Frenchwoman and her American fiance, a struggling young journalist.. Author:JOHNSON, DIANE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FURY The story of a dollmaker whose dolls run wild, living women turned into dolls and then broken, and a revolt on the planet's far side led by an army of living dolls. A portrait of life at the start of the third millennium, in a world empire that America rules, though it barely knows where it is.. Author:RUSHDIE, SALMAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : STEP ACROSS THIS LINE The subjects of Salman Rushdie's new collection of non-fiction essays in this volume includes: "The Wizard of Oz", U2, the death of Princess Diana and football to 20th-century writers including Angela Carter, Arthur Miller and Arundhati Roy.. Author:RUSHDIE, SALMAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FINAL DEMAND Natalie is stuck in a dead end job, so when she sees a chance to change her life, she takes it. After all it's only a minor crime, it won't hurt anyone, will it? But other people do get hurt, like Colin the man Natalie marries, because Natalie's actions do have consequences, tragic consequences.. Author:MOGGACH, DEBORAH. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SNAPSHOTS A collection of stories that explore the chemistry between mothers and daughters. Contributors include: Isabel Allende; Margaret Atwood; Jamaica Kincaid; Alice Walker; Edna O'Brien; and many more.. Author:. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MY UNCLE SILAS A series of studies of a rural reprobate. Over the course of 95 years, Uncle Silas found the time to do most things. Crotchety, vainglorious and audacious, he was a wencher, a liar, a poacher, a toper. Yet at the same time, he possessed a certain integrity, a rough charm.. Author:BATES, H.E.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CASA ROSSA Casa Rossa, home of the Strada family, stands amidst the olive groves of Puglia. As the story opens, the old farmhouse is being sold and Alina, the daughter entrusted with packing it up, is piecing together the fragments of her family's past - which is when the family secrets collide with history.. Author:MARCIANO, FRANCESCA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SACRED COUNTRY This novel begins in rural East Anglia in 1952. At the age of six, Mary Ward has the revelation that she is in fact, someone else and will grow up to be a man eventually. One, tragic, ineradicable belief alters a life in ways unimaginable to the rest of humanity, safe within fixed genders.. Author:TREMAIN, ROSE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : KELLY AND VICTOR Set against a backdrop of urban despair, spiritual absence and a world swamped with pornography, this is a novel about yearning for union, for purity, and for magic and mystery in a world that denies them all.. Author:GRIFFITHS, NIALL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BRIDEGROOM A collection of 12 short stories that bring to life the daily dramas of Chinese men and women who are beginning to feel the influence of the West while still immersed in a society that attempts to control their every move and thought.. Author:JIN, HA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : KAFKA'S LAST LOVE Based on original sources and interviews, including material from the Comintern and Gestapo archives and Dora's newly discovered notebook, diary, and letters, this book illuminates the life of a literary 'wife', who like Vera Nabokov and Nora Joyce, is a remarkable woman in her own right.. Author:DIAMANT, KATHI. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TRANSLATED ACCOUNTS Set in an unnamed territory that appears to be under military rule, this novel features narratives in English which resemble the kind of basic translation that might appear in an overseas "foreign office". The accounts have been passed to a senior civil servant and then a state agency.. Author:KELMAN, JAMES. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WAR AGAINST CLICHE A selection of reviews and essays by Martin Amis, written over the past quarter-century. It contains pieces on a wide range of writers, from Cervantes to John Updike, and covers such subjects as chess, nuclear weapons, masculinity, Andy Warhol, Hillary Clinton and Margaret Thatcher.. Author:AMIS, MARTIN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : OUTLAWS Gun law rules in Liverpool. Organised gangs fight for control of clubland and with it, regulation of the lucrative supply of narcotics. Supremacy in this violent world is short-lived as more and hungrier gangs move in. Against this brutal backdrop, three South End villains pursue a dying trade.. Author:SAMPSON, KEVIN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DOUBLE THREAD An evocative picture of a lost London, these are also the memoirs of a boy discovering his own path through books, films and school. Looking back on his childhood as the son of a Jewish doctor, Gross reflects on his double inheritance - Jewish culture contrasted with the daily life of the East End.. Author:GROSS, JOHN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : EMPIRE FALLS Miles Roby, a gentle, funny loser, runs the Empire Grill and hopes one day to own it. Meantime, though, his wife has run off with his worst customer, he's anxious about his adored teenage daughter and his one-handed brother, and his incorrigible father sponges off everyone.. Author:RUSSO, RICHARD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : QUINTESSENCE The author demonstrates how the dark matter problem is now connected with two of the hottest areas in recent cosmology: the fate of the universe and the cosmological constant. This classic text (previously "The Fifth Essence") has been updated to include significant new theories of the 1990s.. Author:KRAUSS, LAWRENCE M.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LONG SUIT On the second green of a Long Island golf course there are three golf balls and a corpse with a bullet-hole in his forehead. The call goes out for Harry Fielding to come in from the cold. With a new suit and a new partner, Harry is back where he least wants to be - playing the deadly game of MI5.. Author:DAVISON, PHILIP. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ISLAND These short stories are set against the unforgiving landscape of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. They are all concerned with the complexities and mysteries of the human heart, the unbreakable bonds between man and woman, parent and child.. Author:MACLEOD, ALISTAIR. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : YEATS IS DEAD! A serial novel by 15 of the brightest talents in Irish writing (including Marian Keyes, Pauline McLynn, Gina Moxley and Frank McCourt), telling an elaborate tale of murder, mayhem and literary shenanigans in present-day Dublin. Approximately #1 from every copy sold will go to Amnesty International.. Author:DOYLE, RODDY MCCOURT, FRANK ET AL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BAUDOLINO It is 1204, and Constantinople is being sacked and burned by the knights of the fourth Crusade. Amid the carnage and confusion, Baudolino saves a Byzantine historian and high court official from certain death at the hands of the crusading warriors, and proceeds to tell his own fatastical story.. Author:ECO, UMBERTO (PROFESSOR OF SEMIOTICS, UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA, ITALY). Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DOGHOUSE ROSES A collection of short stories from the alternative country music singer and songwriter Steve Earle. They reflect the many facets of the man and the hard-fought struggles, defeats, and eventual triumphs he has experienced during a career that has spanned three decades.. Author:EARLE, STEVE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BECKONING SILENCE The author reveals the inner truth of climbing, exploring the frailties of the body and the power of the mind. He sees his attempt on the Eiger as the culmination of his climbing career, his narrative takes the reader through an avalanche in South America to ice-climbing in the Alps.. Author:SIMPSON, JOE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : INTERNATIONALS . Author:MAY, SARAH. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PORNO Ten years on from "Trainspotting", Sick Boy is back in Edinburgh to realize his dream of making a pornographic movie with old pal, Mark Renton. Sick Boy and Renton find that they have unresolved issues to address, concerning Frank Begbie, the drug-addled Spud, but most of all, with each other.. Author:WELSH, IRVINE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HOUSE IN CORFU Tells the story of one of the most beautiful places on earth - still astonishingly unspoilt - on the west coast of Corfu. In the early 1960s, Emma Tennant's parents spotted a magical bay from a cruise and decided to build a house there.. Author:TENNANT, EMMA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BACK WHEN WE WERE GROWNUPS After losing her husband in a motor accident, at 53 Rebecca asks herself whether she is an imposter in her own life. Is she really the joyous and outgoing celebrator that her family think she is? What would have happened if she'd married her college sweetheart? And should she try to find him again?. Author:TYLER, ANNE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : STRANGER SHORES A collection of 29 pieces on books, writing, photography, and the 1995 Rugby World Cup in South Africa. With literary subjects ranging from Defoe through Rilke and Kafka to the giants of the 20th century, those who admire Coetzee as a novelist can also read his literary criticism.. Author:COETZEE, J.M.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WITH BOLD KNIFE AND FORK Over 140 of the author's favourite and most famous recipes can be found in this book. There are dishes for every course of every meal - from "Teasers and Titbits", through "Some Seeds of this Planet" to "A Plethora of Puddings".. Author:FISHER, M.K.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SOMETHING SPECIAL Yvonne believes there's more to life than marriage to Sam, the young man who's courting her. But when she tries to have fun, she gets caught up in a fracas in a bar. Sam's idea of "something special" meanwhile is to take her to St Stephen's Green later that night to show her a ghostly tree!. Author:MURDOCH, IRIS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SEASON WITH VERONA Tim Parks goes on the road to follow the fortunes of Hellas Verona football club, to pay a different kind of visit to some of the world's most beautiful cities and to get a fresh take on the conundrum that is national character.. Author:PARKS, TIM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CHOKE Victor Mancini has devised a scam to pay for his mother's medical care: pretend to be choking on a piece of food in a restaurant and the person who "saves" you will feel responsible for the rest of their lives. Multiply that by a couple of hundred times and you generate a healthy income.. Author:PALAHNIUK, CHUCK. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DYING ANIMAL David Kapesh, white-haired and over 60, is a TV culture critic and lecturer at a New York college. He meets Consuela, a 24-year-old student, daughter of wealthy Cuban exiles, who puts his life into erotic disorder and haunts him for the next eight years.. Author:ROTH, PHILIP. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PASQUALE'S NOSE Funny, philosophical and surprisingly moving, this is the story of how a rootless criminal lawyer from New York finds home in the most unexpected place, a small Italian town, and of how Pasquale and his compatriots put life into perspective in the strangest way.. Author:RIPS, MICHAEL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GIGI Two stories of the politics of love in which Colette is at her witty, instinctive best.. Author:COLETTE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CHERI First published in 1920, "Cheri" is considered Colette's finest novel. It did, however, cause considerable controversy at the time, both in its choice of setting - the fabulous demi-monde of the Parisian courtesans - and in its portrayal of the exquisitely handsome, spoilt and sardonic Cheri.. Author:COLETTE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LAST OF CHERI A sequel to "Cheri": as Cheri's looks and his reputation begin to deteriorate, his life is thrown into crisis and he finds it impossible to settle down to a new life with his efficient, entrepreneurial wife, Lea, and friends.. Author:COLETTE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BODIES Inside every hospital there exists a world no outsider has been allowed to see, not even those who arrive there to begin careers in medicine. Into this plunges an idealistic young doctor who is about to lose all innocence in a world that long ago lost its sense of right or wrong.. Author:MERCURIO, JED. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : RECONSTRUCTIONIST Coolly and compellingly narrated by a man, this is a novel of psychological insight and power, about the reckless quality of exclusive love, about the damage families do - and try, sometimes dangerously, to undo.. Author:HART, JOSEPHINE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DARKNESS AT NOON Koestler's story, first published in 1940, of an old-guard communist who falls victim to Stalin's purges, yet attains a personal freedom in his destruction.. Author:KOESTLER, ARTHUR. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : Rose TREMAIN, The Colour Powerful novel of greed & aspiration set in the New Zealand gold rush of the mid 19th-century. P/B

Vintage : COLOUR . Author:TREMAIN, ROSE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BLOODY GOOD FRIDAY Good Friday, 1977, in Merthyr Tydfil. A number of forces converge - Macky, ex-convict, P.C. Phillips, and 50 or 60 skinheads in pursuit of recreational violence. The result: mayhem. "Race riot erupts in valleys town". And witness to it all Davey Daunt, the only one knows what really happened.. Author:BARRY, DESMOND. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : COMPLETE PSYCHOLOGICAL WORKS OF SIGMUND FREUD The first volume of the standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud.. Author:FREUD, SIGMUND. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : COMPLETE PSYCHOLOGICAL WORKS OF SIGMUND FREUD The second volume of the standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud.. Author:FREUD, SIGMUND BREUER, JOSEF. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : COMPLETE PSYCHOLGICAL WORKS OF SIGMUND FREUD The third volume of the standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud.. Author:FREUD, SIGMUND. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : COMPLETE PSYCHOLOGICAL WORKS OF SIGMUND FREUD "THE INTERPRETAION OF DREAMS", PT.1 The fourth volume of the standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud.. Author:FREUD, SIGMUND. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : COMPLETE PSYCHOLOGICAL WORKS OF SIGMUND FREUD "THE INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS", PT.2 AND "ON DREAMS" The fifth volume of the standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud.. Author:FREUD, SIGMUND. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : COMPLETE PSYCHOLOGICAL WORKS OF SIGMUND FREUD "THE PSYCHOPATHOLOGY OF EVERYDAY LIFE" The sixth volume of the standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud.. Author:FREUD, SIGMUND. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : COMPLETE PSYCHOLOGICAL WORKS OF SIGMUND FREUD "A CASE OF HYSTERIA", "THREE ESSAYS ON SEXUALITY" AND OTHER WORKS The seventh volume of the standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud.. Author:FREUD, SIGMUND. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : COMPLETE PSYCHOLOGICAL WORKS OF SIGMUND FREUD "JOKES AND THEIR RELATION TO THE UNCONSCIOUS" The eighth volume of the standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud.. Author:FREUD, SIGMUND. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : COMPLETE PSYCHOLOGICAL WORKS OF SIGMUND FREUD JENSEN'S "GRADIVA" AND OTHER WORKS The ninth volume of the standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud.. Author:FREUD, SIGMUND. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : COMPLETE PSYCHOLOGICAL WORKS OF SIGMUND FREUD TWO CASE HISTORIES ("LITTLE HANS" AND "THE RAT MAN") The tenth volume of the standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud.. Author:FREUD, SIGMUND. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : COMPLETE PSYCHOLOGICAL WORKS OF SIGMUND FREUD The eleventh volume in a collection of 24, this seies is the first full paperback publication of the standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud in English.. Author:FREUD, SIGMUND. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : COMPLETE PSYCHOLOGICAL WORKS OF SIGMUND FREUD "THE CASE OF SCHREBER", "PAPERS ON TECHNIQUE" AND OTHER WORKS The twelfth volume of the standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud.. Author:FREUD, SIGMUND. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : COMPLETE PSYCHOLOGICAL WORKS OF SIGMUND FREUD "TOTEM AND TABOO" AND OTHER WORKS The thirteenth volume of the standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud.. Author:FREUD, SIGMUND. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : COMPLETE PSYCHOLOGICAL WORKS OF SIGMUND FREUD "ON THE HISTORY OF THE POST PSYCHOANALYTIC MOVEMENT", "PAPERS ON METAPSYCHOLOGY" AND OTHER WORKS The fourteenth volume of the standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud.. Author:FREUD, SIGMUND. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : COMPLETE PSYCHOLOGICAL WORKS OF SIGMUND FREUD "INTRODUCTORY LETTERS ON PSYCHO-ANALYSIS" (PARTS 1 AND II) The fifteenth volume of the standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud.. Author:FREUD, SIGMUND. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : COMPLETE PSYCHOLOGICAL WORKS OF SIGMUND FREUD "INTRODUCTORY LETTERS ON PSYCHO-ANALYSIS", PART 3 The sixteenth volume of the standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud.. Author:FREUD, SIGMUND. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : COMPLETE PSYCHOLOGICAL WORKS OF SIGMUND FREUD "AN INFANTILE NEUROSIS" AND OTHER WORKS The seventeenth volume of the standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud.. Author:FREUD, SIGMUND. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : COMPLETE PSYCHOLOGICAL WORKS OF SIGMUND FREUD "BEYOND THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE", "GROUP PSYCHOLOGY" AND OTHER WORKS The eighteenth volume of the standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud.. Author:FREUD, SIGMUND. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : COMPLETE PSYCHOLOGICAL WORKS OF SIGMUND FREUD "THE EGO AND THE ID" AND OTHER WORKS The nineteenth volume of the standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud.. Author:FREUD, SIGMUND. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : COMPLETE PSYCHOLOGICAL WORKS OF SIGMUND FREUD "AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL STUDY", "INHIBITIONS", "SYMPTOMS AND ANXIETY", "LAY ANALYSIS" AND OTHER WORKS The twentieth volume of the standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud.. Author:FREUD, SIGMUND. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : COMPLETE PSYCHOLOGICAL WORKS OF SIGMUND FREUD "THE FUTURE OF AN ILLUSION", "CIVILIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS" AND OTHER WORKS The twenty-first volume of the standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud.. Author:FREUD, SIGMUND. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : COMPLETE PSYCHOLOGICAL WORKS OF SIGMUND FREUD "NEW INTRODUCTORY LECTURES ON PSYCHO-ANALYSIS" AND OTHER WORKS The twenty-second volume of the standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud.. Author:FREUD, SIGMUND. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : COMPLETE PSYCHOLOGICAL WORKS OF SIGMUND FREUD INDEXES AND BIBLIOGRAPHIES The twenty-fourth volume of the standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud.. Author:FREUD, SIGMUND. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ANSWER ME The stories in this triptych are about responsibility and the problems of conscience that each one of us must solve if we are to discover the deepest meaning of life.. Author:TAMARO, SUSANNA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BLUESMAN To Leo Suther, a harmonica is the harp of the gods and 1967 is the year he turns 18. To Leo Suther, life is simple. But when he discovers that his girlfriend's father is a communist and civil rights organizer and that the war in Vietnam isn't uncontested, he feels his existence changing.. Author:DUBUS, ANDRE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MERCY AMONG THE CHILDREN As a young man - in the belief that he has accidentally killed a friend - Sydney Henderson makes a pact with God, promising never to harm another if the boy's life is spared. And so the almost pathologically gentle Sydney holds true to his promise, at terrible cost to himself and his family.. Author:RICHARDS, DAVID ADAMS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : IN THE POND Ha Jin's themes of personal honour in the face of political rectitude are carried forward here in his first novel, a close, unsentimental depiction of life in a small factory town; the manoeuvring, posturing, petty jealousies and injustices of an ordinary man who tangles with party bosses.. Author:JIN, HA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : NEW WORLD ORDER In this collection of essays, Caryl Phillips ranges across the Atlantic World he has created and focuses on such diverse topics as: literature; politics; films; and music. He also explores his own position as a writer born into a post-colonial world, and examines his relationship to Britain.. Author:PHILLIPS, CARYL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SWIMMING POOL SEASON When his swimming pool business collapses, Larry Kendall exiles himself to a sleepy French village where he formulates a dazzling new idea. He plans to build the most beautiful, artistic swimming pool, a monumental piece of architecture that mirrors his aspirations.. Author:TREMAIN, ROSE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : POETRY OF ROBERT FROST A volume comprised of over 350 poems that brings together the full contents of all 11 of Frost's books of verse, from "A Boy's Will" to "In the Clearing". Edited by a Frost scholar and friend of the poet, it also records extensive bibliographic information and traces textual changes.. Author:FROST, ROBERT. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : POP When Maggie is 13 she goes to live with her grandfather, Pop, in Sutton Coldfield. Pop knows everything - he's a quiz champion of the Plough and Harrow and his ambition is to appear on "Sale of the Century". Maggie knows about the great comedians, country music - and about how her mother died.. Author:ALDRIDGE, KITTY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SNAKE OIL At his death from cancer, journalist John Diamond had completed six chapters of "an uncomplimentary look at the world of complementary medicine". Written with total candour and his usual wit, they appear here together with a selection of emails, press articles, and excerpts from his final notebook.. Author:DIAMOND, JOHN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HORNED MAN This excursion into panic and urban paranoia opens with a man losing his place in a book, then deepens into a dark and terrifying story of a man losing his place in the world.. Author:LASDUN, JAMES. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FRESHERS . Author:SAMPSON, KEVIN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MURDERERS I HAVE KNOWN Like her novels, Marina Warner's stories conjure up mysteries and wonders in a physical world, treading a delicate, magical line between the natural and the supernatural, between openness and fear.. Author:WARNER, MARINA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : I DON'T KNOW HOW SHE DOES IT A victim of time famine, 35 year-old Kate counts seconds like other women count calories. A comedy about failure, a tragedy about success, this novel is the untold story of the professional working mum at the start of the 21st century.. Author:PEARSON, ALLISON. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SHOP TALK A collection of conversations and essays about writers and writing. The collection explores the importance of religion, politics and history in the work of others. The essays trace the imaginative path by which a writer's individualized art is informed by the wider conditions of life.. Author:ROTH, PHILIP. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SUNDAY MORNING IN THE CENTRE OF THE WORLD A celebration of the author's ten years living above a small shop in a London suburb. The shop had been an outlet for many things, and de Bernieres writes about the people, their humour and their tragedy, that helped make him feel he was living at the centre of the world.. Author:BERNIERES, LOUIS DE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SECRET Iris and her mother have a particularly strong bond - insular and self-sufficient - they live in harmony in almost total isolation. As she reaches adulthood, Iris begins to question the abnormality of this bond, believing that some event from her past is being deliberately kept from her. But what?. Author:HOFFMAN, EVA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ANATOMY SCHOOL The story of the growing up of Martin Brennan, a troubled boy in troubled times. This is Belfast in the late sixties. Before he can become an adult, Martin must unravel the sacred and contradictory mysteries of religion, science and sex; and he must learn the value of friendship.. Author:MACLAVERTY, BERNARD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN . Author:DESAI, ANITA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : IN CUSTODY Asked to interview India's greatest poet, Nur, Deven sees a way to escape the miseries of life as a small-town scholar. But the old man he finds deep in the bazaars of Old Delhi bears no resemblance to the idol of his youth. Deven is fooled, bullied and cheated, and drawn into a new captivity.. Author:DESAI, ANITA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BAUMGARTNER'S BOMBAY Hugo Baumgartner is a lifelong wandering Jew. From his agonising childhood in pre-war Berlin, through his spell in business first in Calcutta and then Bombay, he simply doesn't belong. Too dark for Hitler's Germany, too fair for India, he remains a foreigner wherever he goes.. Author:DESAI, ANITA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GAMES AT TWILIGHT AND OTHER STORIES Set in contemporary Bombay and other cities, this is a collection of 11 short stories that reflect Desai's skill for evoking the full flavour of Indian life. The colours, smells and sounds, as well as some intensely individual characters, are here.. Author:DESAI, ANITA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MARCOVALDO A collection of stories about an Italian peasant's struggle to reconcile country habits with urban life. Oblivious to the garish attractions of the town, Marcovaldo is the attentive recorder of natural phenomena but, at every turn, the city is there to thwart his inclinations.. Author:CALVINO, ITALO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HOWARD MARKS' BOOK OF DOPE STORIES In this text, celebrated drug smuggler Howard Marks has collected together all of the unpublished material sent to him over the years from drug users, traffickers, smugglers, and prisoners - people from all walks of life. Also included are selections from Marks' own collection of drug writing.. Author:MARKS, HOWARD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CONNED AGAIN WATSON In this illuminating collection of 12 new Sherlock Holmes stories, challenges of logic, probability, statistics, game theory and more are illustrated. A thought-provoking introduction to maths relevant to everyday life, this book could change the way you look at making decisions.. Author:BRUCE, COLIN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ACCIDENTS IN THE HOME Clare is married, with three small children, she bakes her own bread and buys her clothes from the charity shop. Her best friend Helly is a model and has her golden curves pasted up on billboards ten feet high. Each of them seems to want what the other has.. Author:HADLEY, TESSA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HOW TO TRAVEL WITH A SALMON . Author:ECO, UMBERTO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TRIAL . Author:KAFKA, FRANZ. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DEATH IN VENICE AND OTHER STORIES . Author:MANN, THOMAS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WALK WITH A WHITE BUSHMAN Laurens Van Der Post shared a deep-rooted attachment to Europe, Africa and Japan, and this work is a testament to his commitment to writing and initiating cultural and political commentaries on the issues and personalities of his time.. Author:POST, LAURENS VAN DER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : VENTURE TO THE INTERIOR Adventure, discovery and tragedy teem in this account into the sinister, primeval heights of Mount Mlanje and the cloud walled uplands of Myika.. Author:POST, LAURENS VAN DER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LOST WORLD OF THE KALAHARI A reissue of Van der Post's classic account of his rediscovery of the Bushmen of the Kalahari desert, outcast survivors from Stone Age Africa. His attempt to capture their way of life and the secrets of their ancient heritage provide captivating reading and an insight into a forgotten culture.. Author:POST, LAURENS VAN DER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : NO TELLING . Author:THORPE, ADAM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : COLLECTED SHORT STORIES The second of four volumes of short stories which reflect Somerset Maugham's wry perception of human foibles and gift for evoking drama from a sense of time and place. Set in Malaya, America and England, they include "Flotsam and Jetsam", "The Man With the Scar" and "The Vessel of Wrath".. Author:MAUGHAM, W.SOMERSET. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : COLLECTED SHORT STORIES The third in a series of four volumes of short stories, containing the celebrated "Ashenden" series based on Maugham's own experiences with the British Intelligence service in Switzerland.. Author:MAUGHAM, W.SOMERSET. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : COLLECTED SHORT STORIES This final, classic collection of stories reveals Maugham's unique talent for exposing and exploring the bitter realities of human relationships. Included are: "The Lotus Eater", "The Outstation" and "The Back of Beyond".. Author:MAUGHAM, W.SOMERSET. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DISTANT SHORE The English village is a place where people come to lick their wounds. Dorothy has walked away from a bad 30-year marriage and is trying to rebuild a life. It's not immediately clear why her neighbour, Solomon, is living nearby, but gradually they establish a form of comfort in each other's presence that alleviates the isolation they both feel.. Author:PHILLIPS, CARYL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BIG QUESTIONS IN SCIENCE What is life about? How are men and women different? How did the universe begin? In this book, leading scientific thinkers address 20 of the really big questions that people have been asking for hundreds of years.. Author:. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CHILD'S BOOK OF TRUE CRIME Australian schoolteacher Kate Byrne is having an affair with the father of her most gifted pupil, nine-year-old Lucien. Kate is fixated on a crime of passion that occurred years earlier in a nearby town and as her mind unravels, she becomes less and less aware of her own reputation in the present.. Author:HOOPER, CHLOE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LADIES COUPE Akhila, 45 and single, gets a one-way ticket to the seaside town of Kanyakumari. In the intimate atmosphere of the all-women sleeping car, Akhila can ask the question that has been haunting her: can a woman stay single and be happy, or does she need a man to feel complete?. Author:NAIR, ANITA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : KIMONO This work traces the history of the Kimono - its designs, uses, aesthetics and social significance - and in doing so explores the world of the geisha, last wearers of the kimono.. Author:DALBY, LIZA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DOUBLE FOLD Since the 1950s, some of the world's greatest libraries have dismantled much of their collections of original bound newspapers and books, replacing them with microfilmed copies. In this book the real motives behind the dismantling of our recorded heritage is examined.. Author:BAKER, NICHOLSON. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : RED DOG In 1998, Louis de Bernieres went to Perth in Western Australia to attend a literature festival. While exploring, he discovered a statue to Red Dog and decided that he must find out more about the animal. This book consists of stories about the dog that the author collected on a return visit.. Author:BERNIERES, LOUIS DE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : NIAGARA FALLS ALL OVER AGAIN The comedy team of Carter and Sharp thrives for 30 years, from the vaudeville backwaters to Hollywood, until one unforgivable act leads to another and the partnership begins to unravel. An exploration of the fragile structures that underlie love affairs, friendships and families.. Author:MCCRACKEN, ELIZABETH. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : UNDER THE NET Jake Donaghue is a drifting, clever, likeable young man who makes a living as a translator and by sponging on his friends. Meeting again, after some years, an old flame, Anna, he is led into a series of fantastic adventures.. Author:MURDOCH, IRIS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HENRY AND CATO The story of two prodigal sons that questions the nature of love, whether it is a route to salvation or a type of demonic possession.. Author:MURDOCH, IRIS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TIME OF THE ANGELS Carel Fisher is a priest who is experiencing doubt and beginning to feel hate for God. The novel explores the forces of good and evil, and studies a religious man transferring his faith from one force to the other.. Author:MURDOCH, IRIS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WORD CHILD Hilary Burde, saved by education from a delinquent childhood, cheated out of Oxford by a tragic love triangle, cherishes his obsessive guilt and disappointment in dull civil service job. When the man he has harmed reappears as head of his department, Hilary hopes for forgiveness and a new life.. Author:MURDOCH, IRIS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : RED AND THE GREEN Ireland 1916, it is the eve of the Easter Rebellion and tension mounts throughout sombre rain-soaked Dublin streets; and if, in the end, death disperses most of the people, this is felt to be as inevitable as in a Sophoclean play.. Author:MURDOCH, IRIS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BLUE DIARY Ethan and Jorie, the perfect couple, have been married for 13 years, and are still very much in love. But 13 years ago, Ethan committed a brutal rape and murder. A young girl's phone call exposes him, and nothing will ever be the same for them again.. Author:HOFFMAN, ALICE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : 52 WAYS OF LOOKING AT A POEM Modern poetry is often represented as difficult or remote from most people's experience. This is a passionate attempt to introduce and examine all aspects of contemporary poetry and make it a familiar part of our lives.. Author:PADEL, RUTH. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TURTLE MOON Verity, Florida, is a town remarkable only for its unbearable heat, strange inhabitants and the high number of women divorcees who live there. Lucy and Bethany Lee are two of them. Lucy's bad-penny son Keith witnesses Bethany Lee's murder but the murderer witnesses him.. Author:HOFFMAN, ALICE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PRACTICAL MAGIC Having escaped from a childhood world of mystical mayhem, lived under the watchful gaze of their two elderly guardian aunts, Gillian and Sally Owens, along with their own children, are re-united with their aunts later in life. Together, the women share an experience of unexpected insight.. Author:HOFFMAN, ALICE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ILLUMINATION NIGHT Vonny lives on the island of Martha's Vineyard with husband Andre and son Simon. Their elderly neighbour, Elizabeth, has an accident and her granddaughter, Jodie comes to nurse her. So the players are assembled for a magical story of love and loneliness, of terror and human frailty.. Author:HOFFMAN, ALICE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CROW LAKE This slow-burning story is set in the rural "badlands" of Northern Ontario, where tragedy and hardship are mirrored in the landscape. It is a universal drama of family love and misunderstandings, of resentments harboured and driven underground.. Author:LAWSON, MARY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ZEN OF MUHAMMAD ALI Collected here are the best of David Miller's essays and memoirs. The volume contains his trilogy of award-winning Muhammad Ali pieces. There are also two pieces about Miller's unusual relationship with another boxer, "Sugar" Ray Leonard, and he continues to explore the Bruce Lee phenomenon.. Author:MILLER, DAVIS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HOUND MUSIC Only one person in the village is not a supporter of fox-hunting, Dorothy Lupus, wife of the master himself. When her husband dies, Dorothy banishes the hounds and their hound music forever and goes away to North Africa for her health. But in her absence, her children begin to hunt again.. Author:BELBEN, ROSALIND. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : NANCY MITFORD Nancy Mitford was witty, intelligent, a great tease and an acute observer of upper-class English idiosyncrasies. Hastings captures the gaiety and frivolity as well as the unhappy truth of Mitford's life: her failed marriage sharply contrasting with her glittering social success.. Author:HASTINGS, SELINA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BALZAC Balzac, with his monumental legacy, the "Comedie Humaine" (an unsurpassed picture of French society from Napoleon to the Revolution), was a genius among novelists. Pritchett presents a portrait of the exhuberant man inside the artist, working 16 hours a day fuelled by an ocean of strong coffee.. Author:PRITCHETT, V.S.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LOVE AND GARBAGE The narrator of this novel has temporarily abandoned his work-in-progress - an essay on Kafka - and exchanged his writer's pen for the orange vest of a Prague road-sweeper. As he works, he meditates on Czechoslovakia, Kafka, life, art and his passionate and adulterous affair with Daria.. Author:KLIMA, IVAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : 1968 . Author:KURLANSKY, MARK. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PEOPLEWATCHING This is the culmination of a career of watching people - their behaviour and habits, their personalities and their quirks. Morris shows us how people, consciously and unconsciously, signal their attitudes, desires and innermost feelings with their bodies and actions.. Author:MORRIS, DESMOND. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : Ian MCEWAN, Atonement Thoughtful, provocative & moving novel, concerning 13 year old Briony Tallis & the secrets that engulf her entire family as the years go by. 384pp P/B

Vintage : ATONEMENT A story that begins with three young people in the garden of a country house on the hottest day of 1935, and ends with three profoundly changed lives. A depiction of love and war, class, childhood and England, that explores shame and forgiveness, atonement and the possibility of absolution.. Author:MCEWAN, IAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : INVISIBLE CITIES Each time he returns from his travels, Marco Polo is invited by Kublai Khan to describe the cities he has visited. The conqueror and the explorer exchange visions: for Kublai Khan the world is constantly expanding; for Marco Polo - who has seen so much of it - it is an ever-diminishing place.. Author:CALVINO, ITALO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PORTRAITS IN FICTION The extended version of a lecture given by Byatt at London's National Portrait Gallery in 2000, about portraits in fiction and about portraits of writers of fiction. She delves into the complex relations between the two, ranging from Henry James to Iris Murdoch and from Botticelli to Manet.. Author:BYATT, A.S.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : YET BEING SOMEONE OTHER This is a revealing work which Laurens van der Post wrote about his extraordinary and eventful life. It is a distillation of the experiences that have moved him at the deepest level of the imagination and made him the person and writer he was.. Author:POST, LAURENS VAN DER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : JUNG Recounts the life and career of the great psychiatrist, C.G.Jung, his conversations with the author, a longtime friend, and the importance of his theories and writings to contemporary humanity.. Author:POST, LAURENS VAN DER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LITTLE BLACK BOOK OF STORIES A.S. Byatt's anthology departs from her normal subject matter. As well as giving the reader a magical thrill the stories also send shivers down the spine. By turns funny, spooky, sparkling, and sad, these tales will linger in your mind forever.. Author:BYATT, A.S.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ATLANTIC SOUND Phillips explores three cities of slavery. Liverpool, constructed on the slave trade, now denying its past; the Ghanaian city of Elmina, site of the important slave embarkation fort in Africa; and Charleston, known as the entry point to America where one-third of black slaves were bought and sold.. Author:PHILLIPS, CARYL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : EUROPE'S LAST SUMMER . Author:FROMKIN, DAVID. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LITERATURE MACHINE This is a collection of essays by the Cuban essayist and journalist. His work often seeks to confront the role of reader, author and character and question the form of each in order to explore new literary possibilities.. Author:CALVINO, ITALO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : OUR ANCESTORS A triptych of novels in one volume. Viscount Medardo is bisected by a cannonball on the plains of Bohemia; Baron Cosimo, aged 12, retires to the trees for the rest of his days; and Charlemagne's knight, Agiluf, is an empty suit of armour.. Author:CALVINO, ITALO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MR.PALOMAR Calvino focuses a probing eye on Mr Palomar's attempt to name the parts of his universe, almost as though to define his own existence. Stars and planets, birds, a loaded food counter, all take on an extra reality, as though observed for the first time in wonder by a man previously blind.. Author:CALVINO, ITALO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : IF ON A WINTER'S NIGHT A TRAVELLER A postmodern novel which combines a love and a detective story with a sardonic dissection of the publishing industry in an allegory of reading. Two readers attempt to finish the same book, but are comically and repeatedly frustrated.. Author:CALVINO, ITALO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SUICIDE KIT David Hayles's debut collection of short stories is an alarming excursion to a world populated by the suffering, the delusional and the criminally insane. It contains tales of ingenious cruelty and sudden death in which menace and hilarity go hand in hand.. Author:HAYLES, DAVID L.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : POSSESSION A mystery where the clues lurk in university libraries, old letters and dusty journals. Together with Roland Michell, a fellow academic and accidental sleuth, Maud Bailey discovers a love affair between two Victorian writers. This is a tie-in edition to the film starring Gwynneth Paltrow.. Author:BYATT, A.S.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : EDMUND BURKE Statesman, political thinker, orator and ardent campaigner, Edmund Burke was one of the greatest minds of the 18th century. His ideas and principles were expressed in the great debates over liberty, the rights of man and the American and French Revolutions.. Author:O'BRIEN, CONOR CRUISE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DISTANT MUSIC This novel recreates the same heroine through several historical periods, and weaves stories around her love for a clever and sympathetic man, who through the centuries represents the powerful attractions of the Jewish tradition. We first meet Esperanca in timeless 15th-century Madeira.. Author:LANGLEY, LEE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : INDELIBLE ACTS The 12 stories in "Indelible Acts" are variations on a theme of longing. In the title story, two lovers confront their lusts amid the ruins of Rome. In others, a queue outside a cheese shop leads to a thrilling infidelity; and a crematorium funeral exposes a love gone sour.. Author:KENNEDY, A.L.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PARADISE . Author:KENNEDY, A.L.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LITTLE INFAMIES These stories are all set in the same nameless Greek village, a world where magic invariably loses out to harsh reality, a world at once universal, funny and compelling. The villagers' lives intersect, as lives do in a small place, and they all know each other's secrets - all the little infamies.. Author:KARNEZIS, PANOS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BOOK AND THE BROTHERHOOD A group of liberal-minded intellectuals get together in their youth to subsidize their friend, David Crimond, to write the definitive book about their political beliefs. Now, years later, there is no sign of the book, but Crimond is about to erupt into their lives again.. Author:MURDOCH, IRIS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : METAPHYSICS AS A GUIDE TO MORALS Concerned with the humanistic element of the history of philosophy, from Plato to Structuralism, and how it affects our thoughts and feelings about our moral lives, Murdoch draws on a novelist's insight into art, literature and abnormal psychology to provide fresh answers to acute ethical issues.. Author:MURDOCH, IRIS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ACCIDENTAL MAN This is the story of the comic and yet relentless struggle for survival of Austin Gibson Grey, the accidental man. Austin is one of those people who needs to survive through the destruction of others. The others, in Austin's case, include his successful elder brother, Matthew.. Author:MURDOCH, IRIS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SANDCASTLE The quiet life of schoolteacher Bill Mor and his family is disturbed when Rain Carter arrives at the school to paint the portrait of the headmaster. Mor becomes aware of new desires and his wife and children fight discreetly and ruthlessly against Rain and her influence over him.. Author:MURDOCH, IRIS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : YOUTH The narrator, a student in 1950s South Africa, plots an escape from his native country, from the stifling love of his mother, from a father whose failures haunt him - and from what he is sure is impending revolution. However, arriving at last in London, he begins the dark pilgrimage of an outsider.. Author:COETZEE, J.M.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FRENCH REVOLUTIONS A depiction of an inadequate man's attempt to achieve the unachievable and ride the route taken by the pros on the 2000 Tour de France, this is a tale of calorific excess, ludicrous clothing and intimate discomfort.. Author:MOORE, TIM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DO NOT PASS GO This title tells the story of London since the 1930s through the 28 streets, stations and utilities of the Monopoly board. Tim Moore reveals how Pall Mall got its name and why the sorry cul-de-sac that is Vine Street has a special place in the heart of Britain's most successful Monopoly champion.. Author:MOORE, TIM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ACID HOUSE The characters in this collection by the author of "Trainspotting" are often - on the surface - depraved, vicious, cowardly and manipulative, but their essential humanity is never undermined. Stereotypes are at once celebrated and destroyed, as the protagonists find themselves on unfamiliar ground.. Author:WELSH, IRVINE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MARABOU STORK NIGHTMARES Roy Strang is engaged in a strange quest in a surrealist South Africa. His mission is to eradicate the evil marabou stork before it drives away the flamingo from picturesque Lake Torto. Part of the 1995 Scottish Book Fortnight promotion.. Author:WELSH, IRVINE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PLEASURE OF ELIZA LYNCH This title opens in Paris with Eliza in bed with Francisco Solano Lopez - heir to the untold wealth of Paraguay. Sent across the Atlantic on the regal vogage to claim her glorious future in Ascuncion, she becomes briefly, in the 1860s, the richest woman in the world.. Author:ENRIGHT, ANNE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : EVELYN WAUGH A biography of Evelyn Waugh which traces the career of a writer who, though respected, was always controversial and undoubtedly eccentric. It focuses on his personal relationships, his attitude to the Church, and his disastrous involvement with the military.. Author:HASTINGS, SELINA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MAGIC BARREL Many of the characters in these short stories are Jewish, but through the author's gentle exploration of their predicaments, he illuminates a region that is common to everyone.. Author:MALAMUD, BERNARD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : NATURAL Roy Hobbs, who knows himself to be - potentially - the greatest baseball player ever, has his career altered when a mad woman puts a violent end to his first attempt to join the league. Years later, at an age when most players retire, he tries, once again, to realize his lifetime's ambition.. Author:MALAMUD, BERNARD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LITTLE WILSON AND BIG GOD The first volume of Anthony Burgess's two-volume autobiography. Complete in itself, it tells the story of a disaffected Manchester Catholic from his birth in 1917 up to the commencement, in 1959, of his career as a professional writer.. Author:BURGESS, ANTHONY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : YOU'VE HAD YOUR TIME The second volume of Burgess's autobiography begins in 1959 with the author's return to England from Brunei and - after the mistaken prognosis which gave him a year to live - the start of his professional writing career. It ends in 1982 with the centenary celebrations of James Joyce's birth.. Author:BURGESS, ANTHONY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LIBRARY . Author:BATTLES, MATTHEW. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DICKENS This is a specially edited shorter version of the title published in 1990. It takes the reader into the life of one of the world's greatest writers and is a study of both a culture and period, as well as of Dickens himself.. Author:ACKROYD, PETER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : AS IT HAPPENED Involuntary self-murder is a symptom of what Matthew Maddox, emeritus professor of the Drayburgh School of Fine Art, considers to be a cultural as well as a social malaise - his millennial summing-up of the century he has lived through.. Author:STOREY, DAVID. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : COLD WATER Carmel McKisco, a 20-year-old girl working nights in a Manchester dive bar, cut off from her family, and from her ex, forms strange alliances with her customers and daydreams about escaping to Cornwall. She soon finds herself compelled to confront her romantic preoccupations, for better or worse.. Author:RILEY, GWENDOLINE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FALLING . Author:THUBRON, COLIN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CRUEL MADNESS . Author:THUBRON, COLIN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TO THE LAST CITY This work is set deep in the Peruvian Andes, where five ill-prepared travellers - men and women with different values, temperaments and motives - find themselves trekking through one of the most exacting and beautiful regions on Earth.. Author:THUBRON, COLIN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SIX WIVES Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived. This title narrates the stories of Henry VIII's six wives: Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleeves, Catherine Howard and Catherine Parr.. Author:STARKEY, DAVID. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : OLD MAN GOYA An account of the life of Francisco de Goya from 1792 when he was 47 and contracted a serious illness which left him totally deaf. Through times of war and political turmoil he continued to work with passion and ferocious energy, transforming the scenes around him into his visionary artwork.. Author:BLACKBURN, JULIA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : AH, BUT YOUR LAND IS BEAUTIFUL This powerful novel - the first of a trilogy - is set in South Africa in the 1950s, time of the Passive Resistance campaign, the Sophiatown removals, the emergence of the Liberal Party, and the early stages of the Nationalist government's Apartheid policy.. Author:PATON, ALAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DEAD BABIES It's Friday at the Appleseed Rectory, and hosted by Quentin Villers and Celia, a weekend house-party is in full swing. Who's popping what? Who's screwing Lucy? Can they take the pace? Friday melts into Saturday, Saturday spirals into Sunday.. Author:AMIS, MARTIN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : EMPEROR OF OCEAN PARK A story rooted in two fascinating worlds: that of the New York-Washington upper-middle class, and the complex world of an Ivy League law school. Judge Oliver Garland has just died in suspicious circumstances - and his death raises even more questions than his controversial life.. Author:CARTER, STEPHEN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WHO'S SORRY NOW Marvin Kreitman lives for sex, and infidelity is a way of life for him. His friend, Charlie Merriweather, on the other hand, has been faithful to his wife for 20 years. But then Charlie decides he wants a piece of Marvin's disordered life.. Author:JACOBSON, HOWARD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PORTABLE VIRGIN A collection of pained, precise and disquieting stories that restore to us the strangeness of the lives we follow beneath the surface of the lives we lead.. Author:ENRIGHT, ANNE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LOVER'S DISCOURSE Here, Barthes addresses the language of love, a language of solitude, of mythology, of what he calls an "image repertoire". It is aimed at two groups of readers: those who have been in love, and those who have not. A wide range of examples are included, from Nietzsche to Zen.. Author:BARTHES, ROLAND. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA Set in the last century, this novel tells the story of a family of English children who, on being sent by their parents back to England from Jamaica, fall into the hands of pirates. As this voyage of innocence continues the events which unfold begin to take on a savagely haunting quality.. Author:HUGHES, RICHARD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : RECKONING In 1593 the controversial young playwright Christopher Marlowe was stabbed to death in a Deptford lodging-house. The circumstances were shady, and the official account - a violent quarrel over a bill - has long been questioned. This is a story of the Elizabethan underworld.. Author:NICHOLL, CHARLES. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WHORE'S CHILD In his first collection of stories, Richard Russo focuses on a range of human behaviour. In the title story, a septuagenarian nun resolutely invades the narrator's college writing workshop with an incredible saga.. Author:RUSSO, RICHARD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CHERRY Written with new material and the full co-operation of his family, this biography of Apsley Cherry-Garrard, one of the youngest members of Captain Scott's final expedition to the Antarctic, reveals his epic journey in the Antarctic winter and his depression over the loss over the Scott expedition.. Author:WHEELER, SARA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BILLIE'S KISS In the spring of 1903, a ship explodes as it docks on a Scottish island. Billie will not say why, before the explosion, she jumped from ship to shore, and so falls under the suspicion of her fellow passenger, Murdo Hesketh, and his cousin and employer, Lord Hallowhulme, who owns the island.. Author:KNOX, ELIZABETH. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : IAN MCEWAN "CHILD IN TIME", "ENDURING LOVE", "ATONEMENT" One of a series introducing some of the most exciting works in contemporary fiction. This volume deals with the themes, genre and narrative techniques employed by Ian McEwan in "The Child in Time", "Enduring Love" and "Atonement", and also features an interview with the author.. Author:REYNOLDS, MARGARET NOAKES, JONATHAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SEBASTIAN FAULKS "BIRDSONG", "CHARLOTTE GRAY", "ON GREEN DOLPHIN STREET" One of a series introducing some of the most exciting works in contemporary fiction. This volume deals with the themes, genre and narrative techniques employed by Sebastian Faulks in "Birdsong", "Charlotte Gray" and "On Green Dolphin Street", and also features an interview with the author.. Author:REYNOLDS, MARGARET NOAKES, JONATHAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LOUIS DE BERNIERES "CAPTAIN CORELLI'S MANDOLIN", "TROUBLESOME OFFSPRING OF CARDINAL GUZMAN", "SENOR VIVO AND THE COCA LORD", "WAR OF DON EMMANUEL'S NETHER PARTS" One of a series introducing some of the most exciting works in contemporary fiction. This volume deals with the themes, genre and narrative techniques employed by Louis de Bernieres in four of his novels, including "Captain Corelli's Mandolin", and also features an interview with the author.. Author:REYNOLDS, MARGARET NOAKES, JONATHAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : IN WATERMELON SUGAR iDEATH is a place where the sun shines a different colour every day and where people travel to the length of their dreams. Rejecting the violence and hate of the old gang at the Forgotten Works, they lead gentle lives in watermelon sugar. Brautigan expresses the mood of a new generation.. Author:BRAUTIGAN, RICHARD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MAKING BABIES . Author:ENRIGHT, ANNE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SALMAN RUSHDIE One of a series introducing some of the most exciting works in contemporary fiction. This volume deals with the themes, genre and narrative techniques employed by Salman Rushdie in three of his novels, including "The Satanic Verses", and also features an interview with the author.. Author:REYNOLDS, MARGARET NOAKES, JONATHAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TONI MORRISON One of a series introducing some of the most exciting works in contemporary fiction. This volume deals with the themes, genre and narrative techniques employed by Toni Morrison in three of her novels, "Beloved", "Jazz" and "Paradise", and also features an interview with the author.. Author:REYNOLDS, MARGARET NOAKES, JONATHAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : JEANETTE WINTERSON One of a series introducing some of the most exciting works in contemporary fiction. This volume deals with the themes, genre and narrative techniques employed by Jeanette Winterson in four of her novels, including "The Powerbook", and also features an interview with the author.. Author:REYNOLDS, MARGARET NOAKES, JONATHAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SIGNS AND WONDERS . Author:WARNER, MARINA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : VOYAGE TO THE END OF THE ROOM Oceane likes to travel but never goes out. She brings the world into her home via satellite, the Internet and passing foreigners. Tibor Fischer's novel is about what can be known, what evil looks like, why ketchup is important and how Lambeth Council was rated one of the worst councils in the UK.. Author:FISCHER, TIBOR. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : UNREASONABLE BEHAVIOUR McCullin grew up in London during the aftermath of World War II. He has spent a large part of his life photographing wars in the Middle East, Africa and Asia. In this book he writes of the deprivation of his childhood and the much greater misery and horror he has witnessed during his career.. Author:MCCULLIN, DON. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : OFFCOMER A psychologically acute examination of a troubled young woman's life and mind. Claire has little self-esteem and is often given to cutting herself with a razor. After university and a disastrous affair, she begins to unearth her mother's secrets and comes to a gradual acceptance of herself.. Author:BAKER, JO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : IF IT DIE A record of Gide's childhood and early manhood, up until his engagement to his cousin. Trying to express a passionate love of truth at the same time this work aims to be a memorable account by itself of childhood, of friendships and travels, and of sexual awakening.. Author:GIDE, ANDRE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SICK NOTES . Author:RILEY, GWENDOLINE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BREAD AND ASHES This is Tony Anderson's account of when set out in the summer of 1998 to walk through Georgia. From Azerbaijan to Svaneti, Anderson found communities where the old customs and beliefs still triumphantly survive, despite years of Communist oppression and the terrible uncertainties since the collapse of the Soviet Union.. Author:ANDERSON, TONY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PLATFORM When he comes into some money, Michel takes a leave of absence from his Civil Service job and embarks on a package tour to Thailand, where he meets Valerie. This leads to an attempt to set up a package-holiday company based on the idea of sexual tourism in the Third World.. Author:HOUELLEBECQ, MICHEL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : IN THE ABSENCE OF MEN The year is 1916. Vincent is 16 years old and, with almost every able-bodied man away at the front, he is approaching manhood. In his relationships with the soldier son of one of his parent's servants and with the writer, Marcel Proust, he enters a world of love, both erotic and platonic.. Author:BESSON, PHILLIPE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LULLABY A journalist notices a link between a number of victims of cot death. All of the children had the same poem read to them the night before they died. The journalist desperately fights to find all copies of the book containing the accursed poem. This title is by the author of "Fight Club".. Author:PALAHNIUK, CHUCK. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : NON-FICTION . Author:PALAHNIUK, CHUCK. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SHORT TREATISE ON THE GREAT VIRTUES Described as "Alain de Botton for grown-ups", this book presents philosophy in the traditional manner, as an examination of what it means to lead the good life. Comte-Sponville explores what he argues are 24 crucial virtues, from Politeness (not a virtue but a condition for them) to Courage.. Author:COMTE-SPONVILLE, ANDRE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WHAT SHOULD I DO WITH MY LIFE? In this title, Po Bronson tackles the biggest, most threatening, most obvious question that anyone has to face, 'what should I do with my life?' It is a problem, he explains, that is increasingly encountered not just by the young, but by people who have half their lives or more behind them.. Author:BRONSON, PO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FLUSH Flush was Elizabeth Barrett Browning's aristocratic pet cocker spaniel. In his biography, Virginia Woolf follows Flush's career from his birth in Berkshire and early years with the invalid, Miss Barrett, through to his kidnapping by London vagabonds and his dotage in Italy.. Author:WOOLF, VIRGINIA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : KOBA THE DREAD Containing a 100-page study of Stalin - Koba the Dread, Iosif the Terrible - Amis's memoir addresses itself to the central lacuna of 20th-century thought, that is the indulgence of Communism by intellectuals of the West.. Author:AMIS, MARTIN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : UNDER THE FROG Set in post-war Hungary between 1944 and 1956, this ferociously funny and bitterly sad story follows the fortunes of two young men in the pursuit of sex and the avoidance of work and army service. They survive the chaos of communism by becoming part of a travelling basketball team.. Author:FISCHER, TIBOR. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ALBION This volume covers the whole of English cultural history from its roots in the Anglo-Saxon period, through the centuries, to numerous entertaining examples from our own times.. Author:ACKROYD, PETER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PERFECT TENSE The narrator of this novel is a man broken on the beige wheel of office life, the grinding routine and endless buff envelopes. One particular day he scrutinizes the arcana of his environment like an urban anthropologist, looking for spiritual purpose, and finding only yuccas and polystyrene cups.. Author:BRACEWELL, MICHAEL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TALK OF THE DEVIL What happened to the great dictators of contemporary history, responsible for some of its most gruesome chapters? And now that they are disgraced, or in prison, or exiled, or simply forgotten, do they still seem as terrifying as when they held power?. Author:ORIZIO, RICCARDO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ROAD TO REALITY . Author:PENROSE, ROGER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MAN-MADE FIBRE A poignant and sharply funny novel about life, love and marriage at that pivotal moment in 1961 when the man-made world of the 50s was about to change, for women like Patsy in particular.. Author:STOCK, FRANCINE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : THINGS MY MOTHER NEVER TOLD ME In this title, Blake Morrison tells of his search to discover the truth about his mother - the remarkable Kerry girl who qualified as a doctor in Dublin in 1942, worked in British hospitals throughout the war and then reinvented herself again to adapt to a quieter post-war family life.. Author:MORRISON, BLAKE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HEAR THAT LONESOME WHISTLE BLOW The story of the great American railroads - of breathtaking technological ingenuity, pioneering idealism, hard-driven labour and greed. By the end of the 19th century, five transcontinental railroads criss-crossed a continent that, only a few years before, had been largely uncharted.. Author:BROWN, DEE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GOOD WOMEN OF CHINA An account of how Xinran, a Chinese radio presenter, negotiated the minefield of restrictions imposed on her and her fellow journalists in order to reach out to women across the country. Here, through the intimacy of her writing, those women's voices continue to confide in the reader.. Author:XINRAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ENGLISH CORRESPONDENCE Janet Davey's first novel condenses all of the major questions of adult life, covering love, marriage, children, loss and grief, into the time and space needed to arrange a funeral and discover what happened to a missing letter.. Author:DAVEY, JANET. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HEDGEHOG, THE FOX AND THE MAGISTER'S POX In this volume, Stephen Jay Gould uses the centuries-old conflict between science and the humanities to investigate urgent scientific issues of the past and present.. Author:GOULD, STEPHEN JAY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ANGELS This is about two men who meet on a Greyhound bus heading East from California. They both have a little money to burn so they decide to do it together. And so begins a stunning, tragic odyssey through the motels, sleazy bars, bus stations and mental wards of the dark side of America.. Author:JOHNSON, DENIS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FISKADORO A surreal allegory that presents the vision of a possible American future. It is set in a post-apocalypse society where the inhabitants of Twicetown await the second comings of the gods Jesus, Quetzalcoatl and Bob Marley.. Author:JOHNSON, DENIS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WELCOMING COMMITTEE Crawford Hollander has done well from his deal with the devil. He has cajoled, manipulated and cheated his way to riches. But he has also accumulated enemies. On his return to New Zealand, three men are waiting for him. They have formed the Welcoming Committee.. Author:BERE, IMOGEN DE LA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MADAME PROUST AND THE KOSHER KITCHEN The lives of three women intersect in this novel about memory, recall, death and deliverance, mothers and sons, prejudice and unrequited love, not to mention literature and cooking as a cure for heartbreak.. Author:TAYLOR, KATE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GARDEN OF THE VILLA MOLLINI . Author:TREMAIN, ROSE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HOW SLEEP THE BRAVE First published in 1942 under the pseudonym of Flying Officer X, this volume contains stories of the heroic exploits of British pilots during World War II.. Author:BATES, H.E.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : OTHER SIDE OF SILENCE As a small child in wintry Bremen, Hanna dreams about escaping from years of abuse in the orphanage and in service. She joins a shipload of young women transported in the early years of the 20th century to the colony of South-West Africa to assuage the needs of the male settlers.. Author:BRINK, ANDRE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WHITE POWDER, GREEN LIGHT James Hawes' fourth novel takes his not-quite-innocent heroine, Jane Feverfew, on a comic journey from the eccentrities of Wales into the unholy Soho movie world.. Author:HAWES, JAMES. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : EARTH AND ASHES This short novel, which can be read in one sitting, takes readers into the minds of civilians caught up in the extremity and ambiguity of war. Set during the Russian occupation of Afghanistan, an old man and his grandson sit in a deserted landscape. As we watch them, we learn their story.. Author:RAHIMI, ATIQ. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HAUNTED HOUSE AND OTHER STORIES Rich in fictional delights, this complete collection of Woolf's shorter fiction ranges from 1906 until the month before she committed suicide in 1941. It offers a valuable insight into the writer's development, demonstrating her evolving characterizations, narrative methods and themes.. Author:WOOLF, VIRGINIA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ROGER FRY After his death, Woolf wrote a loving account of Roger Fry's passion for art and his challenging critical theories. Born in 1866, Fry was primarily responsible for introducing the post-Impressionists to Britain, and establishing the Omega workshops. He was also curator of New York's MOMA.. Author:WOOLF, VIRGINIA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GATHERING EVIDENCE Born in 1931, the illegitimate child of an abandoned mother, Thomas Bernhard was brought up by an eccentric grandmother and adored grandfather. He ran away from home at 15 and at 18, was put in a hospital ward for the old and terminally ill when he caught pneumonia. This volume tells his story.. Author:BERNHARD, THOMAS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CORRECTION Roithamer has committed suicide having been driven to madness by his own frightening powers of pure thought. We witness the gradual breakdown of a genius ceaselessly compelled to correct and refine his perceptions until the only logical conclusion of the negation of his own soul.. Author:BERNHARD, THOMAS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : COMPLETE ENDERBY This is a collection of four novels by Anthony Burgess, featuring the poet and social critic, Enderby. These novels are a chronicle of the gross and fitfully inspired poet's triumphs despite all the obstacles in his path.. Author:BURGESS, ANTHONY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BOOK OF IMAGINARY BEINGS Few readers will want, or be able, to resist this modern bestiary. Here are familiar beasts like gryphons, minotaurs and unicorns as well as the monkey of the inkpot. The text by Borges is a cunning and humorous commentary on these beasts.. Author:BORGES, JORGE LUIS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TWO TOWNS IN PROVENCE Over the years, M.F.K Fisher spent much time living and travelling round France, ruminating on French food, manners, places and of course the French themselves. Here she celebrates Aix-en-Provence and Maseille by weaving together topography, history, folklore and personal memoirs.. Author:FISHER, M.F.K.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SOMEWHERE, HOME A moving novel about modern Lebanon, this story intermingles the lives of three women and explores their reactions to war, loss, displacement, exile and return to the homeland.. Author:JARRAR, NADA A.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WHISTLING WOMAN Frederica is the spirited heroine of three earlier Byatt novels. In this, the concluding volume of the quartet, she falls almost by accident into a career in television in London, while tumultuous events in her home county of Yorkshire threaten to change her life, and those of the people she loves.. Author:BYATT, A.S.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : JOURNALS . Author:FOWLES, JOHN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FREUD ON WOMEN This collection contains Freud's most significant statements on women, taken from letters as well as published work, presenting an accessible view of his own struggle for understanding and coherence. The author untangles the arguments relating to his ideas on women and broader theory.. Author:YOUNG-BRUEHL, ELIZABETH. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MY FATHER'S WAR Born in Holland shortly after the war, a young boy grows up an outsider in the midst of his family. He looks on as his mixed race half sisters are mocked for their 'blue skin', endures a brutal military training at his father's hands, and wonders about the wartime hardships his family suffered at the hands of the Japanese.. Author:DIS, ADRIAAN VAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BETHANY BETTANY . Author:D'AGUIAR, FRED. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SHAKEY This biography tells the story of Neil Young's life and career: from his childhood in Canada to the founding of folk-rock pioneers Buffalo Springfield; the success of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young; to the Geffen years; and his unprecedented 1990s "comeback".. Author:MCDONOUGH, JIMMY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : YOU ARE NOT A STRANGER HERE? Nine stories make up Haslett's first collection. They are set in Los Angeles, the Midwest, New England and England, but each summons its own distinctive world. The characters include a widower, a young couple, middle-aged siblings and an orphaned boy who finds solace in a classmate's violence.. Author:HASLETT, ADAM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : 2STONED In 1963, in a south London hotel, Andrew Loog Oldham discovered a rhythm and blues band called the Rolling Stones and became their manager and producer. This title follows on from "Stoned", in which Oldham recorded the Stones' early years, to reveal what happened afterwards.. Author:OLDHAM, ANDREW LOOG. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : COMMON READER Woolf attempts to see literature from the perspective of the "common reader", someone whom she distinguished from the critic and the scholar. She invesigates medieval England, tsarist Russia, Elizabethan playwrights, Victorian novelists and modern essayists.. Author:WOOLF, VIRGINIA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GREAT DREAM OF HEAVEN In these 17 stories, Sam Shepherd taps the same wellspring that has made him one of America's most acclaimed playwrights: sex and regret; the yearning for a frontier that has been subdivided out of existence and the anxious gulf that separates men and women.. Author:SHEPARD, SAM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LET ME GO . Author:SCHNEIDER, HELGA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : NAVIGATOR OF NEW YORK Weaving together fact and fiction, at the centre of this story is the account of a race between two rivals to be the first American to reach the North Pole. It follows the adventures of Devlin Stead, whose mother died in mysterious circumstances when he was five.. Author:JOHNSTON, WAYNE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SIX DEGREES Duncan Watts, one of the principal architects of 'network theory', tells how he set out to investigate the claim of six degrees of separation and to discover whether we live in a world that can be mathematically described as a 'small-world network'.. Author:WATTS, DUNCAN J.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MORE THAN ENOUGH After a gang of neighbourhood boys attacks Steven and his sister, Jenny, the Parkers are doing very well on the resulting settlement money. But their period of high living soon ends and each family member grasps at what he or she wants most.. Author:FULTON, JOHN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GIRL WHO PLAYED GO In the 'Place of a Thousand Winds', a 16 year-old Chinese girl beats all-comers at the game of go. One of her opponents is a young Japanese officer of the occupying power. As their two stories unfold, the Japanese army moves inexorably through their huge land, leaving blood and destruction in its wake.. Author:SA, SHAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER This is the story of a nightmare voyage to the South Pole told by the sole survivor, the bright-eyed ancient mariner whose wanton killing of an albatross, a bird of good omen, brought misfortune on the ship and all its crew.. Author:COLERIDGE, SAMUEL TAYLOR. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI "Bridge on the River Kwai" tells the story of three British prisoners of war who survived the hell of the Japanese camps on the Burma-Siam railway - Colonel Nicholson, Major Warden and Commander Shears.. Author:BOULLE, PIERRE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : INVENTING GOD Written by one of England's best novelists and set in the Middle East, Nicholas Mosley's story suggests that by examining the interweaving actions of many different characters in Lebanon, Turkey, Israel and England there might be a chance for humans to evade their self-destructive programming and conditioning.. Author:MOSLEY, NICHOLAS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : JUDGE SAVAGE Daniel Savage is a Crown Court judge. The author offers a penetrating glimpse into the human condition when, through the judge's eyes, he observes that those with whom we have the greatest intimacy are suddenly the most frighteningly mysterious.. Author:PARKS, TIM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FOURTH TREASURE Tina Suzuki knows very little about her family and cultural heritage. But when her boyfriend's Japanese calligraphy teacher suffers a stroke, loses his ability to communicate, but continues to create magnificent calligraphic art, Tina knows she has stumbled across an ideal research project.. Author:SHIMODA, TODD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : STONER The son of a Midwestern farmer, William Stoner arrives at the University of Missouri in 1910 to study agriculture. He had intended to return home to take over his father's farm - but instead, inspired by the professor of English literature, he remains at the university to teach.. Author:WILLIAMS, JOHN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : REIGN OF HENRY VIII An overview of the great game of politics over which Henry VIII presided. The small group of intimates and personal attendants who made up the staff of the Privy Chamber surrounded the king 24 hours a day and were supremely well-placed to rig politics and patronage for their own benefit.. Author:STARKEY, DAVID. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MR.POTTER Kincaid's first obsession, the island of Antigua, comes vibrantly to life under the gaze of Mr Potter, an illiterate taxi chauffeur who makes his living along the wide open roads that pass the only towns he has ever seen and the graveyard where he will be buried.. Author:KINCAID, JAMAICA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : JIM GIRAFFE . Author:KING, DAREN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FIFTH WOMAN When his father dies and a serial killer confounds him and his team of detectives with increasingly brutal murders, Wallander is plunged into the dark reality of his life as a cop. He must find out how a series of seemingly unrelated deaths are connected before it happens again.. Author:MANKELL, HENNING. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PETTY DETAILS OF SO-AND-SO'S LIFE The tale of two siblings, Emma and Blue, who, despite an almost telepathic connection, respond to the disruptions of their childhood and the sudden disappearance of their brutal father, in remarkably different ways. Emma goes in pursuit of a new family, while Blue searches for their elusive parent.. Author:GIBB, CAMILLA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CAMOUFLAGE AND OTHER STORIES In these remarkable stories, Bail has extended the manifold possibilities of short fiction. Each one creates a strange and fascinating new world, revealed with wry humour and haunting power.. Author:BAIL, MURRAY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BIRDS OF HEAVEN The story of a remarkable journey across continents by a great nature writer in search of every species of the crane family. He captures the beauty of a vanishing species and the dilemma of a planet in ecological crisis. With illustrations by the Canadian wildlife artist Robert Bateman.. Author:MATTHIESSEN, PETER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SECRET HISTORY OF MODERNISM A chance meeting has New Zealand writer Laszlo Winter thinking back to his time in London in the late 1950s. The Empire might have been in a state of collapse, but for young "colonials", England remained a mythical place that drew them from the farthest corners of the globe.. Author:STEAD, C.K.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WILDLIFE In 1960 Joe Brinson and his parents move to the edge of the Rocky Mountains to cash in on the promise of the American frontier. But when Joe's father leaves home to fight the forest fires that have raged since the summer, and his mother meets an older man, Joe finds his life changed too suddenly.. Author:FORD, RICHARD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SPORTSWRITER In the aftermath of his divorce and the death of his son, Frank Bascombe struggles to come to terms with failure and tries to find consolation in the arms of a new girlfriend. What he hoped would be an idyllic adventure turns into a succession of calamities.. Author:FORD, RICHARD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : INDEPENDENCE DAY Estate agent Frank Bascombe moves into his newly-married ex-wife's old home, and is looking forward to the upcoming Fourth-of-July weekend with his son. But somehow, nothing turns out the way he expects. This is the sequel to "The Sportswriter".. Author:FORD, RICHARD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LANZAROTE In this novel, Michel Houellebecq explores the hedonism of Lanzarote. Pam and Barbara are non-exclusive German lesbians, who can give rise to some interesting combinations. Will they succeed in seducing Rudi, the police inspector from Luxembourg?. Author:HOUELLEBECQ, MICHEL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TOMORROW IN THE BATTLE THINK ON ME Victor has left his new mistress, Marta, dead on her bed. An unexpected end to what was supposed to be an evening of passion - but the girl had suddenly taken ill and died in his arms. Dean, the widowed husband, is determined to find out who was sharing her bed that night.. Author:MARIAS, JAVIER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BOX OF MATCHES Both funny and serious, this novel recounts what is really going on in the head of domesticated mid-life man. As he gets up earlier and earlier each day, he rummages through the thoughts which crowd his head and preoccupy him: love and marriage, firelighters and suicide, and ant-farms.. Author:BAKER, NICHOLSON. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WEB OF DECEIT This title reveals a new picture of Britain's real role in the world, analysing British foreign policy since 1945 and offering a comprehensive critique of the foreign policies of the Blair government.. Author:CURTIS, MARK (FORMERLY RESEARCH FELLOW, INSTITUTE OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS). Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DOCTOR ZHIVAGO "Doctor Zhivago" is a classic love story set in Russia at the time of the revolution. Yuri Zhivago, physician and poet, wrestles with the new order and confronts the changes cruel experience has made in him, and the anguish of being torn between the love of two women.. Author:PASTERNAK, BORIS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PEOPLE IN THE PARK Set in the Moscow Hill district of San Francisco, this novel introduces a disparate concoction of characters and their dogs who meet most days in a park. They pour out their hearts to total strangers and one another and inevitably become like their dogs.. Author:FORD, MARJORIE LEET. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CARPENTER'S PENCIL It is the summer of 1936, in the early months of the civil war that engulfed Spain. In a prison in the city of Santiago de Compostela, an artist sketches the Portico de la Gloria. He uses a carpenter's pencil. He replaces the faces of the prophets and elders with those of his Republican inmates.. Author:RIVAS, MANUEL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SPUTNIK SWEETHEART K, a primary school teacher, is in love with Sumire. But Sumire is in love with Miu, an older woman. Frustrated, K has an affair with the mother of one of his pupils. Then Miu calls K from a Greek island to ask for his help and soon discovers that something very strange has happened to Sumire.. Author:MURAKAMI, HARUKI. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ALL SOULS In this story of Oxford college life, an affair unfolds between a young Spanish academic and a pretty, flirtatious young tutor who also happens to be married. English academia at work and play is portrayed in the coming together of these two contrasting characters.. Author:MARIAS, JAVIER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HEART SO WHITE Juan knows little about his widowed father Ranz, a man with a troubled past. The unspoken dialogue between father and son, however, becomes a spelling-out of the horrifying truth once Juan has been married for a year to Luisa and she turns discreet confessor to the burdened old man.. Author:MARIAS, JAVIER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FATAL SHORE An epic description of the brutal transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian Britain into a horrific penal system which was to be the precursor to the Gulag and was the origin of Australia.. Author:HUGHES, ROBERT. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LIVING NOWHERE Brilliantly evoking the turned-on, tuned-out seventies, with LSD the vehicle to reinvention, 'Living Nowhere' is a story of friendship and loss, about trying to make a pure connection with the earth through a miasma of contamination.. Author:BURNSIDE, JOHN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : AFTER THE QUAKE The economy was booming. People had more money than they knew what to do with. And then the earthquake struck. For the characters in Murakami's latest short-story collection, the Kobe earthquake is an echo from a past they buried long ago.. Author:MURAKAMI, HARUKI. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SOUTH OF THE BORDER, WEST OF THE SUN Growing up in the suburbs in post-war Japan, Hajime and Shimamoto had been childhood sweethearts. The two eventually lost touch but now, in their thirties, they meet up again. Hajime, now a father and husband, finds himself catapulted into the past, risking all that he has in the present.. Author:MURAKAMI, HARUKI. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LOVELY GREEN EYES When her family are deported to Auschwitz, 15-year-old Hanka chooses to live - by virtue of her Aryan looks - working in an SS brothel behind the eastern front. She battles cold, hunger and shame, sustained by her hatred for the men she entertains and her friendship with the mysterious Estelle.. Author:LUSTIG, ARNOST. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DUMAS CLUB Lucas Corso, a gin-swilling book hunter and an expert in Napoleonic war games, is hired to authenticate an Alexandre Dumas manuscript. At the same time a Spanish bookseller asks him to investigate two other editions of the book.. Author:PEREZ-REVERTE, ARTURO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FENCING MASTER On the eve of the Revolution of 1868, old-fashioned gentleman and master of fencing, Jaime Astarloa, is above the rumours of political exploit and the Queen's love life. But even he is distracted when mysterious, beautiful young Adela arrives at his door and asks him to take her on as a pupil.. Author:PEREZ-REVERTE, ARTURO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WOMEN WITH MEN In these three novellas, as the women and men each experience the consolations and complications of relationships with the opposite sex, they must confront the difference between privacy and intimacy and the distinction between pleasing another and pleasing oneself.. Author:FORD, RICHARD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : UNDER THE MOUNTAIN WALL In the Baliem Valley in central New Guinea lived a Stone Age tribe which survived into the 20th century - the Kurelu. This is an account of a lost culture: the Kurelu's timeless rhythms of work and play, or warriorship, feasting and funerals.. Author:MATTHIESSEN, PETER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MARCEL The narrator of this story is a ten-year-old boy who lives with his grandparents in a Flemish village. Among the photographs cherished by his grandmother is a portrait of Marcel, who died young, far away - and for whom there is no grave. But how did he die? The little boy is determined to find out.. Author:MORTIER, ERWIN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MASTER AND MARGARITA "The Master and Margarita" is a revision of the stories of Faust and Pontius Pilate, a novel of political satire and surreal humour. After the devil and his two demons leave Moscow, the asylums are full and the forces of law and order in disarray. Only the Master, a man devoted to truth, and Margarita, the woman he loves, remain undiminished.. Author:BULGAKOV, MIKHAI. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MURDERED HOUSE At the turn of the century, in a remote inn in Upper Provence, a family is violently massacred. The sole survivor of the tragedy is a three-week-old baby. In 1920, the orphaned survivor, Seraphin Monge, returns home to discover the truth.. Author:MAGNAN, PIERRE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ELEPHANT VANISHES In these haunting, hilarious stories Murakami once again makes a determined assault on the normal. A man's favourite elephant simply vanishes; a couple suffering midnight hunger pangs hold up a McDonalds; and a woman finds she is irresistible to a green monster that burrows through her garden.. Author:MURAKAMI, HARUKI. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DANCE, DANCE, DANCE Combining an offbeat cast of characters with Murakami's idiosyncratic prose, this novel is an assault on all the senses, a murder mystery that is also philosophical speculation, and a dark fable of advanced capitalism.. Author:MURAKAMI, HARUKI. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WILD SHEEP CHASE The story of a man, a girl, her ears and a very special sheep. It is a world where people sweat about their careers, drink too much, and drift through broken marriages. The protagonist is an advertising executive who finds himself drawn into an elaborate quest for a mysterious sheep.. Author:MURAKAMI, HARUKI. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HARD-BOILED WONDERLAND AND THE END OF THE WORLD This novel tracks one man's descent into the Kafkaesque underworld of contemporary Tokyo, to unite East and West, tragedy and farce, compassion and detachment, slang and philosophy.. Author:MURAKAMI, HARUKI. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WIND-UP BIRD CHRONICLE Toru Okada is an apparently happy man - his domestic routine seems familiar and comfortable. Admittedly, he has recently quit his job, the cat has disappeared, and a strange woman has begun to bother him with explicit phone calls. Then one day his wife does not come home from work.. Author:MURAKAMI, HARUKI. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : NORWEGIAN WOOD Toru Watanabe is looking back on the love and passions of his life and trying to make sense of it all. As his first love Naoko sinks deeper into mental despair, he is inexorably pushed to find a new meaning and a new love in order to survive.. Author:MURAKAMI, HARUKI. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SILK In 1861, Herve Joncour has to leave his doting wife and his comfortable home in the small French town of Lavilledieu and travel across Siberia as far as Japan, in order to obtain uncontaminated silkworm eggs for breeding. There he meets a local baron's concubine and falls in love.. Author:BARICCO, ALESSANDRO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ONE STEP BEHIND Midsummer's Eve, and three friends gather to perform a masque in a wood. A hidden watcher soon brings their performance to an end. His approach is careful; his aim is perfect. Three bullets, three corpses. The murderer then carefully photographs the grisly tableau. Inspector Wallander investigates.. Author:MANKELL, HENNING. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : EMIGRANTS What initially appears to be a plain account of the lives of Jewish emigrants in Norfolk, Austria, America and Manchester, merges into an evocation of the experience of exile and the loss of homeland.. Author:SEBALD, W.G.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : VERTIGO At moments when reality shows itself to be unstable or uncanny, we experience a form of vertigo. This experience is further complicated when we try to transform experience into writing, and fact clashes with memory. Sebald's novel, part fiction, part travelogue explores this theme.. Author:SEBALD, W.G.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : RINGS OF SATURN A work of imaginative literature, this fictional record of a journey on foot through coastal East Anglia, Sebald's home for the last 20 years, is also an exploration of England's pastoral and imperial past, evoking people and cultures of the region, past and present. Author:SEBALD, W.G.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : STANDING IN THE RAINBOW Meet the unforgettable residents of Elmwood Springs, Missouri, in a story that captures the humorous and complex realities of ordinary people, including Neighbor Dorothy, a radio hostess, and her wayward son Bobby, the Oatman Family gospel singers, and hotshot salesman Hamm Sparks.. Author:FLAGG, FANNIE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ULTIMATE GOOD LUCK Harry Quinn and his lover, Rae, plan to spring Rae's brother from jail in Oaxaca, Mexico but fall into a nightmarish series of entanglement with ex-pat whores and mute Zapotec Indians.. Author:FORD, RICHARD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PIECE OF MY HEART Two men, one in search of a woman, the other in search of his true self, meet in a bizarre household on an uncharted island hideaway in the Mississippi. Both these godless pilgrims find what they have been looking for in an explosion of violence.. Author:FORD, RICHARD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ROCK SPRINGS A collection of stories about ordinary men, women and children. Unemployed, on the way back to prison, marriages in tatters, the characters confront their fates with optimism, humour and flashes of insight.. Author:FORD, RICHARD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LIGHT COMEDY Barcelona in the late 1940s provides the backdrop to this novel. Prullas, a popular playwright whose day is now past, initiates a love affair with his leading lady.. Author:MENDOZA, EDUARDO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FLIGHT OF THE STORKS At the invitation of the Swiss ornithologist, Max Boehm, a young French academic, Louis Antioch, agrees to undertake a journey tracing the flight of the stork in order to solve the mystery of the birds' disappearance. But before the trip, Boehm dies of a heart attack in suspicious circumstances.. Author:GRANGE, JEAN-CHRISTOPHE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BLOOD RED RIVERS A corpse is discovered wedged in an isolated crevice. It has been horribly mutilated. The brilliant but violent ex-commando Pierre Niemans is sent from Paris to the French Alps to lead the investigation.. Author:GRANGE, JEAN-CHRISTOPHE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : COLLECTED STORIES OF COLETTE Comprising 100 stories, this anthology includes "Bella-Vista", "The Tender Shoot" and "Le Kepi", Colette's subtle and ruthless rendering of a woman's belated sexual awakening. These short stories reverberate with the colours and flavours of the Parisian world and the fertile French countryside.. Author:COLETTE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SMALL WORLD Konrad is an Alzheimer's victim, haunted by images of his early childhood, while he forgets his immediate past. Simone, the newcomer to the family, takes pity on Konrad and unwittingly helps him to regain his distant past, rewinding towards the crucial moment the family would like to conceal.. Author:SUTER, MARTIN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GOLDEN SECTION Tough, unconventional psychologist Igi Heitman is part of an art gallery audience which unwittingly views a video of a real killing, and one of Igi's clients is accused of murder. Igi finds herself trapped in a postmodern nightmare as she explores the world in which art, sex and violence meet.. Author:RYGG, PERNILLE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CAVE Cipriano Algor, an ageing potter, lives with his daughter in the shadow of the Centre, a nebulous megaplex that provides his livelihood - until it haughtily decrees it is no longer interested in his humble wares. Then late one night he comes across a horrifying secret.. Author:SARAMAGO, JOSE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF A BESTSELLING AUTHOR This volume is a collection of short stories from Michael Kruger. Whether by abandoning fame to care for a gymnasium-sized beast, by endeavouring to prove that all history stems from typos, or by harnessing the moon to predict world events, Kruger's characters consistently opt for art over life.. Author:KRUGER, MICHAEL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GATE Francois Bizot's memoir of the 'killing fields' of Cambodia is a contemporary classic - the perfectly recalled, bitterly meditative account of one man's journey through a world gone mad.. Author:BIZOT, FRANCOIS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : RORY AND ITA This title tells the story, laregely in their own words, of the lives of the author's parents. They remember every detail of their Dublin childhoods - the people, politics, idyllic times in the Wexford countryside for Ita, and Rory's apprenticeship as a printer.. Author:DOYLE, RODDY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BERLIN BLUES The year is 1989 and Herr Lehmann lives entirely free of responsibility in a tiny flat in the bohemian Berlin district of Kreuzberg. But suddenly one unforseen incident after another seems to threaten his idyllic and rather peaceable existence.. Author:REGENER, SVEN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : NINE EMOTIONAL LIVES OF CATS Drawing from literature, history, animal behavioural research, and the wonderful true stories of cat experts and cat lovers around the world, Jeffrey Masson vividly explores the delights and mysteries of the feline heart.. Author:MASSON, JEFFREY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LIFE Set in a Paris apartment block, this novel describes in minute detail the lives of the inhabitants and the apartments they inhabit at a specific moment in time.. Author:PEREC, GEORGES. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BUTTERFLY EFFECT Igi Heitman is a researcher. Psychology is her field, which she is trying to adapt to modern chaos theory. Her husband, whom she loves, is a transvestite. As for her father, a private investigator, he died in a hit-and-run accident. She ends up pursuing the truth about her father's death.. Author:RYGG, PERNILLE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVAN DENISOVICH The story of a typical day in a Stalinist labour camp as experienced by prisoner Ivan Denisovich Shukhov.. Author:SOLZHENITSYN, ALEKSANDR ISAEVICH. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DIARY OF AN ORDINARY WOMAN Presented as the "edited" journal of a real-life woman who was born in 1901 and whose life spans the 20th century, Millicent King vividly records the dramas of everyday life in a family touched by war, tragedy and money troubles.. Author:FORSTER, MARGARET. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : Margaret FORSTER, Diary Of A Ordinary Woman On ther eve of the Great War, Millicent King begins to keep a journal - one that will span the 20th century, telling the story of a 20th century woman. 407pp P/B

Vintage : VERY LONG ENGAGEMENT In 1917, five French soldiers were court-martialled for self-inflicted wounds and pushed, their hands bound, into "No-Man's Land". The youngest of the condemned men was the fiance of Mathilde, only daughter of a rich industrialist, who sets out to discover what really happended to him.. Author:JAPRISOT, SEBASTIAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CHARLOTTE BRONTE In this biography of Charlotte Bronte, Rebecca Fraser places Charlotte's life within the perceptual framework of contemporary attitudes to women. She shares her admiration for a woman prepared to stand out agaist some of the cruellest Victorian ideas about her sex.. Author:FRASER, REBECCA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BEYOND THE GRAVE Ranging over half a century, this is a self-contained sequel to "The Murdered House". Seraphin Monge has avenged the horrific murder of his family and vanished as abruptly as he appeared. If he's dead, how to explain the vivid memories or miraculous events for which he is seemingly responsible?. Author:MAGNAN, PIERRE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PAVEL'S LETTERS This is the history of central Europe seen from the other side of the Iron Curtain. It is also the history of three generations of Monika Maron's own family.. Author:MARON, MONIKA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HEAD HUNTERS Jerome Carceville is selected by a top head-hunting organization to take part in a final examination on an island in the middle of an Alpine lake. The nature of the contest is simulated economic warfare and their aim is to eliminate the other competitors. This is no ordinary recruitment drive.. Author:CRESPY, MICHEL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT LOVE In these stories, some only three or four pages long, plots are set in the American mid-West among the lonely men and women who drink, fish and play cards to ease the passing of time. In spare, colloquial narration, Raymond Carver reveals the razor-sharp sense of how people really communicate.. Author:CARVER, RAYMOND. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CATHEDRAL In the title story of this collection of twelve, which established Carver's reputation as a master story teller, the hand of a blind man guides the hand of a sighted man as together they draw the cathedral the blind man can never see.. Author:CARVER, RAYMOND. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ELEPHANT AND OTHER STORIES These seven stories were the last that Carver wrote. Among them is "Errand" in which he imagines the death of Chekhov, a writer Carver hugely admired and to whose work his own was often compared.. Author:CARVER, RAYMOND. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BROKEN APRIL From the moment that Gjorg's brother is killed by a neighbour, his own life is forfeit: for the Kanun, the code of the blood feud that operates in the Albanian mountains, requires Gjorg to kill his brother's murderer and in turn to become an outcast to be hunted down by the new victim's family.. Author:KADARE, ISMAIL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LUCK A child's eye view of a family in decline, "Luck" combines humour, suspense and pathos. This is the story of a nuclear family - father, mother, daughter and son. But all is not as it seems. Mother is in love with Herr Herkenrath and now father and son must leave home.. Author:HOFMANN, GERT. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WILL YOU PLEASE BE QUIET, PLEASE? With this, his first collection, Raymond Carver breathed new life into the short story. In the pared-down style that has since become his hallmark, Carver showed how humour and tragedy dwell in the hearts of ordinary people.. Author:CARVER, RAYMOND. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CLOUD FOREST Peter Matthiessen recounts the story of a South American journey that took him from the Sargasso Sea to the jungles of Amazonia, from the Inca city of Machu Picchu high in the Andes to the bleak rocks of Tierra del Fuego and the winds and vast skies of Patagonia.. Author:MATTHIESSEN, PETER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TO MY DAUGHTER IN FRANCE... "And to my daughter in France, I bequeath the remainder of my Estate". These words, read from the will of an Irish academic, come as a total surprise, to his grieving family, and also to Solange de Valbay, whose ordered world is also shattered when she discovers the identity of her true father.. Author:KEATING, STEPHANIE KEATING, BARBARA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MAZE . Author:KARNEZIS, PANOS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PERKIN The truth about Perkin Warbeck is shrouded in mystery. He claimed to be Richard of York, one of the princes in the Tower and, as such, tormented Henry VII for eight years. Everyone concerned gave him the identity they wished him to have, so it is possible that he did not really know who he was.. Author:WROE, ANN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CHOICE CUTS . Author:KURLANSKY, MARK. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MAKING OF MEMORY This volume is about the biological processes by which humans - and other animals, learn and remember - and how researchers can explore these mechanisms. This revised edition includes a chapter on how a potential breakthrough has occured in the treatment for Alzheimer's Disease.. Author:ROSE, STEVEN (PROFESSOR OF BIOLOGY AND DIRECTOR, THE BRAIN AND BEHAVIOUR RESEARCH GROUP, OPEN UNIVERSITY). Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TALE OF LOVE AND DARKNESS . Author:OZ, AMOS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : NIGHT GEOMETRY AND THE GARSCADDEN TRAINS . Author:KENNEDY, A.L.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GENET Examines the motivations behind the extremes in Jean Genet's life and writing. Striving to separate the facts from the myths surrounding one of the century's strangest and most mysterious literary rebels, Edmund White worked from assembled letters and interviews to create this portrait.. Author:WHITE, EDMUND. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LITTLE BOOK OF PHILOSOPHY . Author:COMTE-SPONVILLE, ANDRE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME . Author:HADDON, MARK. Discounted by 30%

Vintage : WELCOME TO COOLSVILLE Is nine days enough for Dr. Kiely Flanagan to shop business mogul J.P. Gillespie to the media, time for Marshall McLemon to secure the backing he needs? Papa Charlie McCormack is racing against the clock to discover if Sister Jasmine is the type of nun that goes in for celibacy. And what about the cyber-terror known as Mantra?. Author:MORDAUNT, JASON. Discounted by 20%

Vintage : TIETAM BROWN Swimming through a morass of crudity and violence, Andy is stunned to find himself pursued by the high school homecoming queen, a born-again Christian. Obsessed with the idea of offering his girlfriend a pure love and driven to find out whether he's descended from a monster or not, Andy searches for the truth.. Author:FOLEY, MICK. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : COMING FROM BEHIND Sefton Goldberg - mid-thirties, English teacher at Wrottesley Poly in the West Midlands - is gnawingly aware of being an urban Jew islanded in a sea of country-loving Anglo-Saxons. Obsessively, he plans the ultimate revenge - a bestselling novel celebrating his own failure.. Author:JACOBSON, HOWARD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BALTHASAR'S ODYSSEY In the Koran there are 99 names for God. Does the 100th exist? Months before the dawn of 1666, the apocalyptic Year of the Beast, Balthasar Embriaco embarks on a quest to find out whether it does. Merely to know this most secret of the names of God will, Balthasar believes, ensure that he is saved.. Author:MAALOUF, AMIN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DON'T LOOK BACK Beneath Kollen Mountain lies a small village where the children run in and out of one another's houses and play unafraid in the streets. When this tranquil scene is disturbed by the discovery of a naked body beside the lake, tough, no-nonsense Inspector Sejer is determined to uncover the truth.. Author:FOSSUM, KARIN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : AND NOW YOU CAN GO . Author:VIDA, VENDELA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BONJOUR BLANC . Author:THOMSON, IAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SHORTCUT THROUGH TIME Nanotechnology meets quantum mechanics in this exciting review of the potentialities of the 'quantum computer'. When the switches in a computer are so small that each consists of an individual atom, the logic of the atom takes over and this could have startling consequences.. Author:JOHNSON, GEORGE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SUSAN HILL One of a series introducing some of the most exciting works in contemporary fiction. This volume deals with the themes, genre and narrative techniques employed by Susan Hill in four of her novels, including "The Woman in Black", and also features an interview with the author.. Author:REYNOLDS, MARGARET NOAKES, JONATHAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : RODDY DOYLE One of a series introducing some of the most exciting works in contemporary fiction, this volume deals with themes, genre and narrative techniques employed by Roddy Doyle in five of his novels, 'Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha', 'The Van', 'The Commitments', 'The Snapper' and 'The Woman Who Walked into Doors'.. Author:REYNOLDS, MARGARET NOAKES, JONATHAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : A.S.BYATT This title is one of a series introducing some of the most exciting works in contemporary fiction. This volume deals with the themes, genre and narrative techniques employed by A.S. Byatt in three novels, 'Possession', 'Angels and Insects' and 'A Whistling Woman', and features an interview with the author.. Author:REYNOLDS, MARGARET NOAKES, JONATHAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : IRIS MURDOCH This title is one of a series introducing some of the most exciting works in contemporary fiction. This volume deals with the themes, genre and narrative techniques employed by Iris Murdoch in three of her novels, 'The Black Prince', 'The Sea, The Sea' and 'The Bell', and features an interview with the author.. Author:REYNOLDS, MARGARET NOAKES, JONATHAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BALZAC AND THE LITTLE CHINESE SEAMSTRESS . Author:SIJIE, DAI. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TOUCHING THE VOID Joe Simpson and his partner, Simon Yates, tackled the unclimbed West Face of the remote 21,000 ft Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes. In June 1985 they achieved the summit before disaster struck. In "Touching the Void" they tell their story.. Author:SIMPSON, JOE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MORTALS 'Mortals' constitutes the final element in Norman Rush's trilogy on the Western presence in contemporary southern Africa. Set in Botswana in the 1990s, it is a political adventure, a social comedy and a passionate love story.. Author:RUSH, NORMAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FOREIGN PARTS This is the tale of Rona and Cassie, two women on a driving holiday in northern France. It is an unsentimental, caustic and funny account of mortality, dysfunctional relationships and women abroad.. Author:GALLOWAY, JANICE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : RELATIONS . Author:MILLER, JANE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SOMETHING MIGHT HAPPEN . Author:MYERSON, JULIE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WHISKY GALORE Wartime food rationing is bad enough, but when the whisky supplies run out on the Hebridean islands of Great and Little Todday, nothing seems to go right. Then the 50,000-bottle cargo of the shipwrecked S.S. Cabinet Minister brings salvation - in its most giddily intoxicating form.. Author:MACKENZIE, COMPTON. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BOOK AGAINST GOD When his father is taken ill, Thomas hopes that he may be able to communicate honestly with him, as his father sets a formidable Christian example, and sort out his wayward life. But Thomas is a chronic liar, and athiest as well, and instead finds that once at home, he falls back into the disastrous and evasive patterns of his childhood years.. Author:WOOD, JAMES. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MAN OF FEELING . Author:MARIAS, JAVIER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GOYA . Author:HUGHES, ROBERT. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CHILD OF AN ANCIENT PEOPLE In 1872, Lislei, an Alsatian woman rescued from the turmoil of the Paris Commune, and Kader, an Arab prince who has been captured during the revolt of the Saharan tribesmen against the French colonists, are both deported to New Caledonia. They succeed in escaping aboard a ship bound for Australia.. Author:BENMALEK, ANOUAR. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BARTLEBY AND CO . Author:VILA-MATAS, ENRIQUE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ADVOCATE This is a story of a backward community living with a guilty conscience, a small-town lawyer with a passion for justice, and a boy in love.. Author:FOIS, MARCELLO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HAMILTON CASE . Author:KRETSER, MICHELLE DE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TIME OF OUR SINGING 'The Time of Our Singing' tells the story of a mixed-race American family and of the frictions that arise within it in the years following World War Two that reflect the tragedy of race in America.. Author:POWERS, RICHARD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CHINA Digby Walton was once the heir to an English pottery company. Now in old age, he contemplates the history of that company as he reflects upon the modern world.. Author:WALL, ALAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PROBABLE FUTURE When the women in the Sparrow family reach 13, they develop a unique ability. In Stella's case, the gift is the ability to see a person's probable future. When Stella foresees a gruesome murder, she tells her father, but it is too late. The murder has already been committed and suspicion falls on him.. Author:HOFFMAN, ALICE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BLACKBIRD HOUSE . Author:HOFFMAN, ALICE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CLOCHEMERLE "Clochemerle" satirizes the titanic confrontation of secular and religious forces in a small wine-growing village in Beaujolais which begins when the mayor, wishing to leave behind a monument to his administration's achievements, proposes to build a public urinal in the town centre - right next to the church.. Author:CHEVALLIER, GABRIEL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BOYS AND GIRLS FOREVER Are some of the world's most talented writers of children's books essentially children themselves? In this series of essays, author Alison Lurie considers this theory, exploring children's classics from many eras and relating them to the authors who wrote them, including Louisa May Alcott, Salman Rushdie, Dr Seuss and J.K. Rowling.. Author:LURIE, ALISON. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG . Author:DUBUS, ANDRE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FLANDERS PANEL In the 15th century, a Flemish master introduces a game of chess into a painting, and thereby offers the key to resolving a crime of that era. Five centuries later in Madrid, a woman art-restorer joins forces with an antiquarian and a chess-player in an effort to crack the enigma.. Author:PEREZ-REVERTE, ARTURO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SEVILLE COMMUNION A hacker gets into the Pope's personal computer to leave a warning about the threatened demolition of a small church in Seville. Two people have already died in the church in unexplained circumstances. Lorenzo Quart, urbane agent from the Vatican's Information Service, is put on the case.. Author:PEREZ-REVERTE, ARTURO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DIARY . Author:PALAHNIUK, CHUCK. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ATOM STATION This title is a satire on politics, politicians, Communists, anti-Communists, phoney culture fiends, big business and all the pretensions of authority. The novel follows a country girl's experiences after she takes up employment as a maid in the house of her Member of Parliament.. Author:LAXNESS, HALLDOR. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LIZARD TAILS In an evocation of childhood and adolescence, Juan Marse explores the experiences of the son of a Spanish Republican family. Throughout the novel, the members of the family are still recovering from defeat in Spain's harrowing Civil War whilst the rest of the world is turned upside down by World War II.. Author:MARSE, JUAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CAMERA . Author:LIFFNER, EVA-MARIE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HE WHO FEARS THE WOLF A 12-year-old boy runs into the police station claiming to have seen Halldis Horn's brutally murdered corpse. Errki Johrma, an escaped psychiatric patient, was sighted at the scene disappearing into the woods. The next day the bank is robbed at gunpoint, a hostage is taken and they flee into the woods.. Author:FOSSUM, KARIN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WRESTLING WITH THE ANGEL Near the end of his life, Eugene Delacroix painted one of the most enigmatic episodes from the Bible: Jacob wrestling with the angel. This painting hangs on the wall of the Chapel of the Holy Angels in the church of Saint-Sulpice. In this text the author investigates the painting and church.. Author:KAUFFMANN, JEAN-PAUL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CASE OF THE GENERAL'S THUMB Two investigators are put on the case of a murdered Russian general. Their stumbling researches take them all over Europe until eventually it dawns on them that they are merely pawns in a game in which the KGB are the key players.. Author:KURKOV, ANDREY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TRAVELLING WITH DJINNS Yasin is driving through Europe with his seven-year-old son Leo. He's not sure where they're going. He just knows he's 37 years old, his wife is about to divorce him and this is his last chance to explain to his son who he is and where he comes from. The problem is that he isn't sure of the answer himself.. Author:MAHJOUB, JAMAL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ALL THIS IS MINE Life is short on pleasures for Liam Bennett; watching the local football team be thrashed and beating up his younger brother. But his drab life is enlivened by the arrival of the glamorous Marek Sikorski - foreign, courageous to the point of foolishness and in possession of a former fighter pilot for a father.. Author:FRENCH, RAY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TIME'S ARROW OR THE NATURE OF THE OFFENCE The story of a life told backwards. Its narrator, Doctor Tod T. Friendly, trapped and hurtling towards a terrible secret, moves "out of the blackest sleep" to find himself surrounded by doctors and on the deathbed of a man in whose body he is imprisoned.. Author:AMIS, MARTIN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : RACHEL PAPERS Charles Highway, a precociously intelligent and highly sexed teenager, is determined to sleep with an older woman before he turns twenty. Rachel fits the bill perfectly and Charles plans his seduction meticulously, setting the scene with infinite care - but it doesn't come off quite as expected.. Author:AMIS, MARTIN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : EMPIRE LITE In this text, Michael Ignatieff explores both sides of what he sees as a new global empire - the imperial and the humanitarian - and argues that the international community has failed to engage intelligently with the problems of nation building in the aftermath of apocalyptic events.. Author:IGNATIEFF, MICHAEL (CARR PROFESSOR OF HUMAN RIGHTS POLICY, KENNEDY SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT, HARVARD UNIVERSITY, USA). Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HARUKI MURAKAMI AND THE MUSIC OF WORDS . Author:RUBIN, JAY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BOOK OF SALT The Vietnamese cook to Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas reveals his fascinating story in a novel that takes the reader on a strange journey from Indo-China to Paris in the 1930s.. Author:TRUONG, MONIQUE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : RETURN OF THE DANCING MASTER Lindman, a police officer on extended sick leave, hears of the death of his former colleague and decides to involve himself in the case. What he discovers, to his horror and disbelief, is a network of evil almost unimaginable in a remote district, and one which seems impossible to link to Molin's death.. Author:MANKELL, HENNING. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LOVE May, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida - even L - all are women obsessed by Bill Cosey. More than the wealthy owner of the famous Cosey Hotel and Resort, he shapes their yearnings for a father, husband, lover, guardian, and friend, yearnings that dominate the lives of these women long after his death.. Author:MORRISON, TONI. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SIGNIFICANT SISTERS This volume traces the lives of eight women, each of whom pioneered vital changes in the spheres of law, education, the professions, morals or politics.. Author:FORSTER, MARGARET. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MOTHER CAN YOU HEAR ME? Angela Bradbury has an appalling mother - self-effacing, self-sacrificing, expert at emotional blackmail. But in her relationship with her eldest daughter, Sadie, Angela realises that she is imposing the same resentments and guilt that her mother inflicted on her.. Author:FORSTER, MARGARET. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SEDUCTION OF MRS.PENDLEBURY Stanley and Rose live in Rawlinson Road, Islington, surrounded by younger, smarter families like the Orams. Encroached on by age and affluence, the only answer to their problems, in spite of everything, lies in their fierce and prickly devotion to each other.. Author:FORSTER, MARGARET. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PRIVATE PAPERS For Penelope, the family is everything. Her daughters, however, had different ideas. Rosemary rejected the ideal of motherhood and family life; Jess was destroyed by it; Celia found it eluded her. Only Emily pursued her mother's ideal, with bad results.. Author:FORSTER, MARGARET. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BATTLE FOR CHRISTABEL Rowena wants a baby. What she doesn't want is the baby's father. Yet five years after the birth of Christabel, Rowena is dead, tragically killed in a climbing accident. The battle for Christabel has begun.... Author:FORSTER, MARGARET. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HAVE THE MEN HAD ENOUGH? What do men run away from? Not war, not physical hardship, but the day-to-day emotional demands of impossible domestic situations. That's women's work. This is a story of female courage, where black comedy turns to disturbing pathos revolving around the rights of an indomitable woman.. Author:FORSTER, MARGARET. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : STONE BOAT In 'A Stone Boat', Andrew Solomon tells a perceptive story of family, identity and the changes wrought by grief and loss.. Author:SOLOMON, ANDREW. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SO I AM GLAD Jennifer M. Wilson has decided to become a voice, a professional enunciator, an announcer, a voice-over artiste. Behind the sound-proof doors of the recording studio she must surely be safe from the painful inconveniences of hate and love. Until reality breaks in.. Author:KENNEDY, A.L.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GIGI In this title with two stories, "Gigi", educated in the skills of the Courtesan, does not want to obey the rules when it comes to the question of Gaston Lachaille. In "The Cat" a strong-minded Russian Blue is struggling for mastery of Alain with his seductive fiancee, Camille.. Author:COLETTE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : EYELESS IN GAZA Anthony Beavis is a man inclined to recoil from life. His past is haunted by the death of his best friend Brian and by his entanglement with the cynical and manipulative Mary Amberley. Realising this is caused by moral cowardice, Anthony attempts to find a new way to live.. Author:HUXLEY, ALDOUS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ANTIC HAY When Theodore Gumbril hits upon the notion of designing a type of pneumatic trouser to ease the discomfort of a sedentary life, he decides the time has come to leave his position as housemaster in a boys' public school and seek his fortune in the metropolis.. Author:HUXLEY, ALDOUS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : 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; Walter is in love with the luscious but cold-hearted Lucy; and the repulsive Spandrell deflowers young girls for the sake of entertainment.. Author:HUXLEY, ALDOUS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DOORS OF PERCEPTION WITH HEAVEN AND HELL In 1953, in the presence of an investigator, Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gramme of mescaline, sat down and waited to see what would happen. Huxley described his experience in 'The Doors of Perception' and its sequel 'Heaven and Hell'. This joint volume has a foreword by J.G. Ballard.. Author:HUXLEY, ALDOUS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BRAVE NEW WORLD REVISITED . Author:HUXLEY, ALDOUS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : JUST LAW . Author:KENNEDY, HELENA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BEGGAR MAID Alice Munro's collection of stories reads like a novel chronicling the life of Rose, who battles against her repressive stepmother Flo and eventually escapes her impoverished Canadian small-town roots to forge her own path in the world.. Author:MUNRO, ALICE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MOONS OF JUPITER . Author:MUNRO, ALICE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PRISON HOUSE . Author:KING, JOHN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SOME GREAT THING . Author:MCADAM, COLIN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BOY WHO TAUGHT THE BEEKEEPER TO READ Unexpected liaisons, relationships and sympathies, isolated and odd individuals all feature in this collection of short stories.. Author:HILL, SUSAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FREDERICA QUARTET This boxed set features four "Frederica" titles by A.S. Byatt, including "The Virgin in the Garden", "Still Life", "Babel Tower" and "A Whistling Woman".. Author:BYATT, A.S.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : POLITICS This debut novel is not about politics but a comedy about everything else. Thirlwell explores crucial domestic problems of sexual etiquette and also tells the story of a father and daughter.. Author:THIRLWELL, ADAM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MY NAME IS SEI SHONAGON . Author:BLENSDORF, JAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BEFORE THE FROST . Author:MANKELL, HENNING. Discounted by 30%

Vintage : FIREWALL . Author:MANKELL, HENNING. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : NOODLE MAKER . Author:JIAN, MA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : VILLAGE OF STONE . Author:GUO, XIAOLU. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CHARLIE JOHNSON IN THE FLAMES . Author:IGNATIEFF, MICHAEL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ONE TONGUE SINGING . Author:MANN, SUSAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HALF BROTHER This novel follows the lives of four generations in a far from ordinary family in Oslo. This is a haunting novel about friendship and loneliness, as well as a poignant portrayal of life in an Oslo tenement building.. Author:CHRISTENSEN, LARS SAABYE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FUNNY BOY In the world of his large family, affluent Tamils living in the capital of Sri Lanka, Arjie is an oddity - a "funny boy" - who likes dressing as a girl. Through his eyes, the reader watches him come to terms with his homosexuality and with the violent racism of the society in which he lives.. Author:SELVADURAI, SHYAM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DRY BONES . Author:BEARD, RICHARD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LOST HEART OF ASIA Travelling through Central Asia in the wake of the break-up of the Soviet Union, the author guides us through the history, people and culture of a region resonating with history and politics.. Author:THUBRON, COLIN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : AMONG THE RUSSIANS 'Among the Russians' tells the story of Colin Thubron's journey by car from St Petersburg to Armenia in the last decade of the Soviet Union. Thubron grapples with the complexities of Russian identity and presents a sharp and insightful social commentary on Russian life in the 1980s.. Author:THUBRON, COLIN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BEHIND THE WALL Colin Thubron relates the story of his 10,000 mile journey across China, which he undertook when the country was just emerging from the Cultural Revolution.. Author:THUBRON, COLIN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BEQUEST After years of service in the Russian navy and a gruelling expedition, Captain Frederick Ziege of the Royal Danish Navy is enjoying chaperoning his mother, sister and nieces for a season on the Riviera. There he meets Emmeline Leslie, a young Australian widower - and romance ensues.. Author:FALBE, JOHN DE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : THURSBITCH . Author:GARNER, ALAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : YELLOW RAIN The last surviving inhabitant of the Pyrenean village of Ainielle lingers on at death's door as the first snows of the year arrive and the autumn leaves flutter about him like a yellow-coloured rain. As he dies, his friends and neighbours who now frequent his wavering memory possess his solitude too.. Author:LLAMAZARES, JULIO COSTA, MARGARET JULL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ALMOST BLUE A serial killer is terrorising the students of Bologna. Rookie female detective Grazia Negro is determined to solve the case. But only one witness can positively identify the witness - and he's blind.. Author:LUCARELLI, CARLO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BIRTH OF PLEASURE With the channelling of boys into "masculinity"; the anxiety of girls in adolescence, the silences between men and women, and the split between our social and our inner voice, the underlying patterns and patriarchal structures remain. Carol Gilligan sets out to create a radical new map of love.. Author:GILLIGAN, CAROL (GRAHAM PROFESSOR OF GENDER STUDIES, HARVARD UNIVERSITY, USA). Discounted by 27%

Vintage : OPEN SECRETS Ranging from the 1850s to the present and from Ontario to Brisbane and Albania, these eight linked stories are concerned with the daily threads of life in two small Ontario towns. All the stories centre on unconventional women who refuse to let themselves be constrained by society or everyday life.. Author:MUNRO, ALICE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GLADIATORS Tells the story of the revolt of Spartacus and deals with the age-old problem of whether the end ever justifies the means.. Author:KOESTLER, ARTHUR. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GHOST WRITER . Author:HARWOOD, JOHN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BULLET POINTS . Author:WATSON, MARK. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : I CAPTURE THE CASTLE This is the journal of Cassandra Mortmain. First, there is her eccentric father. Then there is her sister, Rose - and her stepmother, Topaz. Finally, there is Stephen, who is in love with Cassandra. Cassandra records her feelings on all of them.. Author:SMITH, DODIE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : JOHN FOWLES One of a series introducing some of the most exciting works in contemporary fiction. This volume deals with the themes, genre and narrative techniques employed by John Fowles in three of his novels, including "The French Lieutenant's Woman", and also features an interview with the author.. Author:REYNOLDS, MARGARET NOAKES, JONATHAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SNOWS OF KILIMANJARO In these early Hemingway stories, which are partly autobiographical, men and women of passion live, fight, love and die in scenes of dramatic intensity. They range from haunting tragedy on the snow-capped peak of Kilimanjaro, to brutal America with its deceptive calm, and war-ravaged Europe. Author:HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GREEN HILLS OF AFRICA This title is Ernest Hemingway's lyrical journal of a month on safari in the great game country of East Africa, where he and his wife Pauline journeyed in December 1933. It is an examination of the lure of the hunt and an impassioned portrait of the glory of the African landsape.. Author:HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : THOMAS GAGE . Author:FLEMING, JAMES. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : YOU CAN'T DO BOTH Robin Davies is both a shrewd observer and an energetic actor in a drama that takes him from school to Oxford describing the pangs of a pre-war adolescence in South London and on through his rites of passage to adulthood. 'You Can't do Both' is strongly autobiographical.. Author:AMIS, KINGSLEY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : STANLEY AND THE WOMEN Just when Stanley Duke thinks it safe to sink into middle age, his son, Steve, goes insane. As if that weren't terrible enough, Stanley finds himself beset on all sides by women - neurotic, half-baked, critical or just plain capricious.. Author:AMIS, KINGSLEY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : OLD DEVILS Malcolm, Peter and Charlie and their wine-sodden wives have one main ambition left in life: to drink Wales dry. But their routine is both shaken and stirred when they are joined by professional Welshman Alun Weaver and his wife, Rhiannon.. Author:AMIS, KINGSLEY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MEMOIRS Kingsley Amis's memoirs are filled with anecdotes, experiences and portraits of famous friends, family and acquaintances. From his childhood days to Oxford and army life, his travels abroad and his years as a novelist, "Memoirs'" offers insights into a unique literary life.. Author:AMIS, KINGSLEY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GREEN MAN Like all good medieval coaching inns, the Green Man boasts a resident ghost: Dr Thomas Underhill. Led by curiosity, the landlord, Maurice Allington, uncovers the key to Underhill's satanic secrets. But the skeletons in the cupboard of Allington's own domestic affairs are rattling to get out too.. Author:AMIS, KINGSLEY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ALTERATION Of all the choristers at the Cathedral Basilica of St George, he is the angel - the one whose voice could only have been made in heaven. Hubert is a nice, rather timid ten-year-old boy. It stands to reason that Hubert's glorious voice must be preserved at all costs. So castration is clearly the only answer.. Author:AMIS, KINGSLEY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : UNDERGROUND A many-layered account of the Tokyo subway gas attack in 1995, in which 12 people died, as told to the novelist Haruki Murakami by surviving victims and members and ex-members of the doomsday cult responsible. Out of the 3800 victims, Murakami tracked down only 60 willing to be interviewed.. Author:MURAKAMI, HARUKI. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WHEN THE DEVIL HOLDS THE CANDLE . Author:FOSSUM, KARIN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : NATASHA AND OTHER STORIES . Author:BEZMOZGIS, DAVID. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TAINTED BLOOD . Author:INDRIDASON, ARNALDUR. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BORGES AND THE ETERNAL ORANG-UTAN . Author:VERISSIMO, LUIS FERNANDO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PENGUIN LOST . Author:KURKOV, ANDREY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GOTZ AND MEYER During World War II, the Nazis killed thousands of Belgrade's Jews by the simple method of carbon monoxide poisoning in the back of specially-designed trucks. This is the bleakly humorous story of two of the truck drivers that carried out the will of the Third Reich.. Author:ALBAHARI, DAVID. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FIELD STUDY . Author:SEIFFERT, RACHEL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : RATHCORMICK . Author:POTTERTON, HOMAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : THESE FOOLISH THINGS . Author:MOGGACH, DEBORAH. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SUCCESS Gregory leads an existence of formidable foppishness, his days and nights a series of effortless, titillating conquests. His foster brother, Terry, has to make do with the leavings as he trawls through life in a miasma of grief. But roles are reversed with both lives dramatically changed.. Author:AMIS, MARTIN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : VISITING MRS NABOKOV . Author:AMIS, MARTIN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MONEY . Author:AMIS, MARTIN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CROME YELLOW Denis Stone, a naive young poet, is invited to stay at Crome, a country house renowned for its gatherings of bright young things. Crome's hosts, Henry Wimbush and his exotic wife Priscilla are joined by a party of colourful guests whose intrigues and opinions make Denis's stay is a memorable one.. Author:HUXLEY, ALDOUS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ELIZABETH COSTELLO . Author:COETZEE, J.M.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SKY BURIAL . Author:XINRAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : EVERYTHING WILL BE ALL RIGHT . Author:HADLEY, TESSA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GOLDFISH BOWL . Author:BOOTH, CHERIE HASTE, CATE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DON'T MOVE . Author:MAZZANTINI, MARGARET. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A GEISHA The glamorous world of Kyoto's geisha is familiar to many readers. This text presents a different view. Sayo Masuda was a geisha at a hot-springs resort, where the realities of sex for sale were unadorned by the trappings of wealth and power.. Author:MASUDA, SAYO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LONGEST MEMORY The tragic story of a rebellious, fiercely intelligent young slave who breaks all the rules: in learning to read and write; in falling in love with a white girl, the daughter of his owner, and finally in trying to escape and joining her in the free North.. Author:D'AGUIAR, FRED. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ART AND LIES Handel, Picasso and Sappho separately flee a London of the near future and find themselves on the same train, drawn to one another through the curious agency of a book. Stories within stories take the reader through the love affairs of an 18th-century bawd and into a world of painful beauty.. Author:WINTERSON, JEANETTE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ORSON WELLES A biography of the young Orson Welles, from his prodigious childhood and youth, his triumphs with the Mercury Theatre, to the making of "Citizen Kane".. Author:CALLOW, SIMON. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : EARTHLY POSSESSIONS The past and present of 35-year-old Charlotte Emory, burdened with the possessions and emotional clutter of everyday life, unfolds during a journey to Florida with a young man who has taken her hostage. By the author of "Breathing Lessons" and "The Accidental Tourist".. Author:TYLER, ANNE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WAITING FOR LEAH . Author:LUSTIG, ARNOST. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DAY AFTER DAY . Author:LUCARELLI, CARLO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE . Author:NIFFENEGGER, AUDREY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : Audrey NIFFENEGGER, The Time Traveler's Wife Intensely moving novel about Henry & Claire who have known each other since Claire was 6 & Henry was 36 & who married when Claire was 20 & Henry 28. Possible only because Henry is one of the first people diagnosed with chrono- displacement disorder - allowing him to travel in time. P/B

Vintage : BETWEEN MOUNTAINS . Author:HELWIG, MAGGIE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DESCENT . Author:BROADBENT, SABRINA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : EX LIBRIS A cryptic summons from Lady Marchamont launches a London bookseller Isaac Inchbold on an odyssey through the back alleys of 17th-century Europe. He suddenly finds himself in a game where forces are anonymous, motives inexplicable but the outcome deadly.. Author:KING, ROSS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DOMINO While George Cutley is painting the portrait of Lady Beauclair in 1770s London, she tells him the scandalous story of Tristano, a castrato singer in Handel's opera 50 years before. He then hears a tragic tale from Eleanora, one that will have him unwittingly re-enacting the fate of Tristano.. Author:KING, ROSS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TEN LITTLE INDIANS . Author:ALEXIE, SHERMAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LATE-NIGHT NEWS . Author:MARKARIS, PETROS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LAND'S END In this celebration of one of America's oldest towns (incorporated in 1720), Michael Cunningham brings us Provincetown, one of the most idiosyncratic and extraordinary towns in the United States, perched on the sandy tip at the end of Cape Cod.. Author:CUNNINGHAM, MICHAEL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FUGITIVES AND REFUGEES This title takes readers through the streets, sewers and local haunts of Portland, Oregan, providing "a little history, a little legend, and a lot of friendly, sincere, fascinating people who maybe should've kept their mouths shut".. Author:PALAHNUIK, CHUCK. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ISLANDS . Author:SLEIGH, DAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WHITE LIONESS In 1992, in peaceful Southern Sweden, a young housewife, pillar of the Methodist church, disappears and is later found murdered, execution style. Inspector Kurt Wallander and his team are called in to investigate. It is a case with its roots far away, in Apartheid South Africa.. Author:MANKELL, HENNING. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : AFTER SUCH KNOWLEDGE . Author:HOFFMAN, EVA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TRAINSPOTTING This is the story of Edinburgh heroin addicts which changed the face of British fiction.. Author:WELSH, IRVINE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS . Author:COETZEE, J.M.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : IN THE HEART OF THE COUNTRY . Author:COETZEE, J.M.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DANTE CLUB Boston, 1865: a small group of elite scholars put the finishing touches to America's first translation of "The Divine Comedy". Their plans come to an abrupt halt when a series of murders occurs, in a form stolen directly from Dante's "Inferno".. Author:PEARL, MATTHEW. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SWALLOWS OF KABUL . Author:KHADRA, YASMINA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : NAME OF THE ROSE One after the other, half a dozen monks are found murdered in the most bizarre of ways. A learned Franciscan who is sent to solve the mysteries finds himself involved in the frightening events.. Author:ECO, UMBERTO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TIN DRUM Bitter and impassioned, this novel delivers a scathing dissection of the years from 1925-1955 through the eyes of Oskar, the dwarf whose manic beating on the toy of his childhood fantastically counterpoints the horrors of Germany and Poland under the Nazis. Author:GRASS, GUNTHER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : UNDERSTANDING POWER Characterised by Chomsky's informative style, the enlightening and wide-ranging discussions in this book are an ideal introduction to his work, as well as radical interpretations of political events of the past three decades for those who have been listening for years.. Author:CHOMSKY, NOAM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FEAR OF FLYING Isadora Wing is a compulsive daydreamer, seeker of saviours and fully-fledged phobic - as she travels to Vienna with her husband, jaunts around Europe with a Laingian analyst, and is forced to face her demons in this novel of liberation.. Author:JONG, ERICA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SNOWLEG . Author:SHAKESPEARE, NICHOLAS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : VISION OF ELENA SILVES Winner of the 1990 Somerset Maugham Award, 'The Vision of Elena Silves' is Nicholas Shakespeare's first novel. Exploring contemporary concerns, it combines Anglo-Saxon irony with magic realism.. Author:SHAKESPEARE, NICHOLAS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HIGH FLYER . Author:SHAKESPEARE, NICHOLAS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DANCER UPSTAIRS Colonel Rejas, the policeman charged with the task of capturing guerrilla leader Ezequiel who has inspired a war against the Peruvian state, is taken off the case and sworn to silence, just after finding Ezequiel. But the burden of silence is heavy.. Author:SHAKESPEARE, NICHOLAS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CHANCE MEETING . Author:COHEN, RACHEL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : RIVER OF THE BROKEN-HEARTED . Author:RICHARDS, DAVID ADAMS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SCOTT FITZGERALD Andrew Turnbull follows the life of one of America's most enduring authors, F. Scott Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald lived on Turnbull's family estate in the early 1930s and he befriended young Andrew. Their personal relationship and the hundreds of interviews with those who knew him capture the dramatic story of his flamboyant life.. Author:TURNBULL, ANDREW. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FIFTH BOOK OF PEACE . Author:KINGSTON, MAXINE HONG. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : RACHEL PAPERS Charles Highway, a precociously intelligent and highly sexed teenager, is determined to sleep with an older woman before he turns twenty. Rachel fits the bill perfectly and Charles plans his seduction meticulously, sets the scene with infinite care - but it doesn't come off quite as Charles expects.. Author:AMIS, MARTIN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ROUND-HEELED WOMAN 'Round-heeled' is an old-fashioned term for a promiscuous woman of easy virtue. It is a surprising way for a respectable English teacher of a certain age, with a passion for the novels of Anthony Trollope, to describe herself, but then that's just the first of many surprises in this memoir.. Author:JUSKA, JANE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : 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". This is a lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of the story - a black man charged with raping a white girl in the 1930s.. Author:LEE, HARPER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : KEY The Key is the moving tale of a middle-aged man deeply in love with his younger wife. In spite of that love, they have grown physically apart, each unsure of the other's thoughts and desires until Ikuko finds the key to her husband's diary.. Author:TANIZAKI, JUN'ICHIRO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CRASH The car provides the hellish tableau in which Vaughan, a 'TV scientist', experiments with erotic atrocities among crash victims, each more sinister than the last: ultimately, he craves a union of blood, semen and engine coolant in a head-on collision with Elizabeth Taylor.. Author:BALLARD, J.G.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FERMATA Arno Strine, a modest temporary typist who has perfected the knack of stopping time in its tracks and taking women's clothes off, is hard at work on his autobiography, 'The Fermata'.. Author:BAKER, NICHOLSON. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : JAKE'S THING This is the story of a lecherous Oxford don who, rapidly approaching 60 and horrified at the dwindling resources of his normally hyperactive libido, seeks professional advice and tours the modern inferno of self-awareness and sexuality.. Author:AMIS, KINGSLEY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : EAT ME In this novel, Linda Jaivin creates a seductive world in which she plays havoc with ideas about truth, lust and power.. Author:JAIVIN, LINDA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MADNESS OF LOVE . Author:DAVIES, KATHARINE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LAST FAMILY IN ENGLAND . Author:HAIG, MATT. Discounted by 30%

Vintage : DARIEN DOGS . Author:SHUKMAN, HENRY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FINAL PASSAGE "The Final Passage" is Caryl Phillips's first novel and tells the story of Leila, a 19th-year-old woman living on a small Caribbean island in the 1950s. Her subsequent passage to England brings her face to face with the consequences of the decisions she has made to determine her life on her own terms.. Author:PHILLIPS, CARYL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LIFELINES . Author:ROSE, STEVEN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : EARTHLY POWERS Anthony Burgess' epic work revolves around a writer, Kenneth Marchal Toomey, and the man he is linked to through family ties, Carlo Campanati, an earthy Italian priest destined to become Pope. Toomey, now in his 80s recalls the past.. Author:BURGESS, ANTHONY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MANSFIELD . Author:STEAD, C.K. (FORMERLY PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND). Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DISTANT PALACES . Author:ESTEVEZ, ABILIO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TOWN THAT FORGOT HOW TO BREATHE . Author:HARVEY, KENNETH J.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LIGHT . Author:O'GRADY, TIMOTHY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : Anne TYLER, The Amateur Marriage Rich & compelling novel, spanning 3 generations, about a mismatched marriage & its consequencies. 320pp P/B

Vintage : AMATEUR MARRIAGE . Author:TYLER, ANNE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CLOCK WINDER Having sacked her handyman, newly-widowed Mrs Emerson finds a replacement in Elizabeth, a lanky, awkward girl. The Emersons have a reputation for craziness and Elizabeth is drawn into their disorderly lives against her will. The author won the l989 Pulitzer Prize for "Breathing Lessons".. Author:TYLER, ANNE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : Joseph O'CONNOR, Star Of The Sea Winter of 1847 the Star Of The Sea sets sail for New York from an Ireland torn by injustice & disaster. The 26 day journey sees many lives end & others begin afresh in a spellbinding story of tragedy & healing. 410pp P/B

Vintage : STAR OF THE SEA Winter 1847, the Star of the Sea sets sail from Ireland for New York. Among the refugees are a maidservant, bankrupt Lord Merridith, an aspiring novelist and a maker of revolutionary ballads. Each is connected more deeply than they know. But a killer is stalking the decks, hungry for vengeance.. Author:O'CONNOR, JOSEPH. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : L-SHAPED ROOM Jane is unmarried and pregnant when she is turned out by her father. She lights on a room at the top of a squalid house. She cares nothing for it, or her neighbours. But it is these neighbours that draw her back into life - Toby, a Jewish writer, John, a jazz player, and even her landlady.. Author:BANKS, LYNNE REID. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FIRST AID . Author:DAVEY, JANET. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DON QUIXOTE . Author:CERVANTES, MIGUEL DE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : UNPEOPLE Mark Curtis's latest book introduces a new concept, that of Unpeople - those whose lives have been deemed expendable, worthless, in the pursuit of British foreign policies. The book is based overwhelmingly on new revelations from declassified government documents.. Author:CURTIS, MARK. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BUTCHER In this account of sexual awakening, a young girl goes to work in a butcher's shop during her college holiday. Every day the butcher whispers obscenities in her ear, describing their imagined lovemaking. And as the summer heat takes hold, so does her lust.. Author:REYES, ALINA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : END OF THE AFFAIR The novelist Maurice Bendrix's love affair with his friend's wife, Sarah, had begun in London during the Blitz. But, out of the blue she ended the relationship. Years later he sends a private detective to follow Sarah and find out the truth.. Author:GREENE, GRAHAM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DIANA MOSLEY . Author:COURCY, ANNE DE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MASTER OF PETERSBURG . Author:COETZEE, J.M.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SOPHIE'S CHOICE Set in Brooklyn in 1947, this novel tells the story of Sophie, a Polish Catholic immigrant who is haunted by her memories of the concentration camp in wartime Europe and the terrible choice she was forced to make.. Author:STYRON, WILLIAM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MRS. DALLOWAY Exploring the hidden springs of thought and action in one day of a woman's life, Virginia Woolf is direct and vivid in her account of the details of Clarissa Dalloway's preparation for a party. The novel was first published in 1925 by the same Hogarth press that Woolf and her husband founded.. Author:WOOLF, VIRGINIA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : COLLECTOR Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick collects butterflies and takes photographs. After a chance pools win, Frederick captures an art student, Miranda, and keeps her in his cellar as another object to collect.. Author:FOWLES, JOHN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BELL Iris Murdoch's funny and sad novel is about religion, the fight between good and evil and the terrible accidents of human frailty.. Author:MURDOCH, IRIS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SPANISH STEPS . Author:MOORE, TIM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BEING AN ACTOR . Author:CALLOW, SIMON. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CRESSIDA'S BED . Author:BARRY, DESMOND. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SHOOTING THE ACTOR . Author:CALLOW, SIMON. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SIXTY LIGHTS . Author:JONES, GAIL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ZIGZAG WAY . Author:DESAI, ANITA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LAMBS OF LONDON . Author:ACKROYD, PETER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BLIND FLIGHT Brian Keenan went to Beirut in 1985 for a change of scene from his native Belfast. He became headline news when he was kidnapped by fundamentalist Shi'ite militiamen and held for the next four and a half years.. Author:KEENAN, BRIAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MAKING OF HENRY . Author:JACOBSON, HOWARD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : UNFINISHED LIFE . Author:SPRAGG, MARK. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : OUT . Author:KIRINO, NATSUO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BODIES Inside every hospital exists a world no outsider is allowed to see. Into this plunges an idealistic young doctor who is about to lose all innocence in a world that long ago lost its sense of right or wrong.. Author:MERCURIO, JED. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MATISSE STORIES A collection of three stories, each haunted in a different way by the spirit of Matisse, from the winner of the 1990 Booker Prize for "Possession".. Author:BYATT, A.S.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : IN AMERICA In 1876, a group of Poles led by Maryna Zalewska, Poland's greatest actress, travels to California to found a "utopian" commune. The commune fails, and most of the group go home, but Maryna stays and triumphs on the American stage.. Author:SONTAG, SUSAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PATH TO THE SPIDERS' NESTS Set on the Ligurian coast during World War II, this is the story of Pin, a cobbler's apprentice who lives with his sister, a prostitute, and spends as much time as he can at the local bar. But when he steals a pistol from a Nazi soldier, he sets off on a series of adventures with some partisans.. Author:CALVINO, ITALO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TURLOUGH Turlough O'Carolan - the legendary blind Irish harper of the 17th century - led a life driven by dreams and riven by contradictions. His story - narrated largely from his deathbed - is panoramic and picaresque, rich with the textures and smells of rural Ireland.. Author:KEENAN, BRIAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : VERY LONG ENGAGEMENT . Author:JAPRISOT, SEBASTIEN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : IRISH GAME . Author:HART, MATTHEW. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ESSENTIAL PRITCHETT V.S. Pritchett was one of the best-loved of modern British writers. This volume is a tribute to a lifetime of writing with extracts from his novels and autobiographies and the best of his short stories.. Author:PRITCHETT, V.S.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FOOTBALL FACTORY 'The Football Factory' describes the culture surrounding a group of Chelsea supporters and exposes the racism, sexism and hooliganism still prevalent behind football's glossy image. At the same time the author paints a wider picture of inner-city life.. Author:KING, JOHN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SWEET DANGER What starts as a light-hearted, slightly crazy wild-goose chase becomes something much more dangerous, nasty and sinister.. Author:ALLINGHAM, MARGERY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MYSTERY MILE Judge Crowdy Lobbett has found evidence pointing to the identity of the criminal mastermind behind the deadly Simister gang. After four attempts on his life, he ends up seeking the help of the enigmatic and unorthodox amateur sleuth, Albert Campion. It's a race against time for Campion to get the judge to safety.. Author:ALLINGHAM, MARGERY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ANGEL'S CREST . Author:SCHWARTZ, LESLIE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CHROMA A meditation on the colour spectrum by the painter, poet and film-maker, Derek Jarman. He explains the use of colour in medieval painting through the Renaissance to the modernists. It also discusses the meaning of colour in literature, science, philosophy, psychology, religion and alchemy.. Author:JARMAN, DEREK. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SOUND AND THE FURY A novel which describes the dissolution of the once aristocratic Compson family in the American South, told through the eyes of three of its members. In different ways they prove unable to deal with either the responsibility of the past or the imperatives of the present.. Author:FAULKNER, WILLIAM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ABSALOM, ABSALOM! Narrated by Quentin Compson, the suicide in "The Sound and the Fury", this is the tale of Thomas Sutpen, a poor White who dreams of founding a dynasty. His refusal to accept his wife's Negro blood initiates a bloody train of events to create a vision of doom of the American South.. Author:FAULKNER, WILLIAM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FOLDING STAR Shortlisted for the 1994 Booker Prize, this tale of sexual obsession, love and death is by the author of "The Swimming Pool Library". Edward Manners, 33 and disaffected, escapes to Belgium, falls in love with 17-year-old Luc, and enters the twilight world of the 1890s Belgian painter, Edgard Orst.. Author:HOLLINGHURST, ALAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ARISTOCRATS The story of four sisters, Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox, great-grandchildren of Charles II, whose extraordinary lives spanned the period from 1740 to 1832. Underlying the drama of their aristocratic existence is a story of everyday life. Winner of the 1995 Fawcett Book Prize.. Author:TILLYARD, STELLA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CATCH-22 At the heart of Joseph Heller's bestselling novel, first published in 1961, is a satirical indictment of military madness and stupidity, and the desire of the ordinary man to survive it. It is the tale of the dangerously sane Captain Yossarian, who spends his time in Italy plotting to survive.. Author:HELLER, JOSEPH. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : 1 OUT OF 10 . Author:HYMAN, PETER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BEFORE I FORGET . Author:BRINK, ANDRE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DAMASCUS . Author:BEARD, RICHARD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : X20 . Author:BEARD, RICHARD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ZUCKERMAN UNBOUND . Author:ROTH, PHILIP. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GHOST WRITER . Author:ROTH, PHILIP. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : OH, PLAY THAT THING . Author:DOYLE, RODDY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : STOLEN . Author:MOGGACH, DEBORAH. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SEESAW . Author:MOGGACH, DEBORAH. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DEVILS OF LOUDON . Author:HUXLEY, ALDOUS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GREY EMINENCE . Author:HUXLEY, ALDOUS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : VIRGIN GARDEN A novel which combines enlightenment and sexuality, Elizabethan drama and contemporary comedy. It is a tale of a brilliant and eccentric family, fatefully divided. The author won the Booker Prize and the "Irish Times"/Aer Lingus International Fiction Prize in 1990 for "Possession".. Author:BYATT, A.S.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WIFE The story of the long and stormy marriage between novelist Joe Castleman and his wife Joan and the secret they've kept for decades.. Author:WOLITZER, MEG. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : JACOB'S ROOM 'Jacob's Room' tells the story of Jacob Flanders, a young man killed in the World War I. This new edition of Virginia Woolf's novel, with commentaries by contemporary writers, brings a new perspective to this classic work.. Author:WOOLF, VIRGINIA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WAVES Tracing the lives of a group of friends, this novel follows their development from childhood to youth and middle age. Separately and together, they query the relationship of past to present, and the meaning of life itself.. Author:WOOLF, VIRGINIA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ORLANDO Originally published in 1928, this classic story by Virginia Woolf was modelled on her friend Vita Sackville-West's personality. Orlando chooses her own sexual identity as she lives through three centuries as both a man and a woman.. Author:WOOLF, VIRGINIA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TO THE LIGHTHOUSE 'To the Lighthouse' was Virginia Woolf's fifth novel, and was the first book to win her a large public. The story of an English middle class family in the years leading up to the First World War, it has remained the most popular of all her works.. Author:WOOLF, VIRGINIA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : UP AT THE VILLA Newly widowed after an unhappy marriage, Mary Panton finds tranquillity in a beautiful villa in the hills above Florence. From this haven of peace, she contemplates a second marriage. But then a tragic rush of events destroy her serenity.. Author:MAUGHAM, W.SOMERSET. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN Set in Lyme Regis in 1867, 'The French Lieutenant's Woman' tells the story of a woman wronged, depicted against an unrelenting Victorian England.. Author:FOWLES, JOHN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DANIEL MARTIN Spanning three decades and many different countries, Daniel Martin is the account of a contemporary Englishman's attempt to see himself and his time in the mirrors of his past and his present.. Author:FOWLES, JOHN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MAGUS On a remote Greek island, Nicholas Urfe finds himself embroiled in the deceptions of a master trickster. Fowles unfolds a tale that is lush with over-powering imagery in a spellbinding exploration of the complexities of the human mind.. Author:FOWLES, JOHN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : STAMBOUL TRAIN . Author:GREENE, GRAHAM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : COMEDIANS . Author:GREENE, GRAHAM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HONORARY CONSUL . Author:GREENE, GRAHAM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : QUIET AMERICAN . Author:GREENE, GRAHAM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : 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 he is forced to betray everything he believes in, with drastic and tragic consequences.. Author:GREENE, GRAHAM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BURNT-OUT CASE . Author:GREENE, GRAHAM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : END OF THE AFFAIR The love affair between Maurice Bendix and Sarah, flourishing in the turbulent times of the London Blitz, ends when she suddenly and without explanation breaks it off. After a chance meeting rekindles his love and jealousy two years later, Bendix hires a private detective to follow Sarah, and slowly his love for her turns into an obsession.. Author:GREENE, GRAHAM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BRIGHTON ROCK A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold, who is determined to avenge a death.. Author:GREENE, GRAHAM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LADY'S MAID London 1844, and a shy young woman has arrived to take up a new position in the grandeur of No. 50, Wimpole Street. Subtly and compellingly, Lady's Maid gives voice to Elizabeth Wilson's untold story, her complex relationship with her mistress, Elizabeth Barrett, and her dramatic role in the most famous elopement in history.. Author:FORSTER, MARGARET. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GEORGY GIRL . Author:FORSTER, MARGARET. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MOTHER'S BOYS . Author:FORSTER, MARGARET. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HELP US TO DIVORCE . Author:OZ, AMOS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PLOT AGAINST AMERICA . Author:ROTH, PHILIP. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WHEN ELEPHANTS WEEP Arguments that animals possess an emotional life are often dismissed as sentimental anthropomorphism. This book challenges that notion by proposing that the objective scientific evidence for human emotions is all but non-existent.. Author:MASSON, JEFFREY MCCARTHY, SUSAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BIRDS WITHOUT WINGS . Author:BERNIERES, LOUIS DE. Discounted by 30%

Vintage : I AM CHARLOTTE SIMMONS . Author:WOLFE, TOM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LIFE AND TIMES OF MICHAEL K . Author:COETZEE, J.M.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TWENTY THOUSAND STREETS UNDER THE SKY Written in the early 1930s, 'Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky' displays Patrick Hamilton's talent for understanding the milieu who stand at the side of the bar. Hamilton's other books include 'Hangover Square' and 'Slaves of Solitude'.. Author:HAMILTON, PATRICK. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : AS I LAY DYING Successive episodes in the death and burial of Addie Bundren are recounted by various members of the family circle, principally as they are carting their mother's coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi, in order to bury her among her people.. Author:FAULKNER, WILLIAM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BLACK SNOW . Author:BULGAKOV, MIKHAIL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HEART OF A DOG . Author:BULGAKOV, MIKHAIL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LADDER OF YEARS One day, during a family seaside holiday, something which has already begun to fray quietly snaps. Delia simply walks off the beach, away from her husband, Sam, and her three almost grown-up children. In a nearby town, she reinvents herself as a serious and independent-minded woman without ties.. Author:TYLER, ANNE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FROM THE BEAST TO THE BLONDE Looks beyond the Freudian interpretation of fairy tales, to the tellers of tales and to the social and cultural contexts in which the tales are told. This volume considers tales through the centuries, from the ancient sibyl to 18th-century salonieres, from Disney to Angela Carter.. Author:WARNER, MARINA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ROSE FOR WINTER Andalusia is a passion, and 15 years after his previous visit Laurie Lee returned. He found a country broken by the civil war, but the totems of indestructible Spain survive: the Christ in agony, the pride in poverty and the gypsy intensity - the paradoxes deep in the fiery bones of Spain.. Author:LEE, LAURIE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DRIVING IN THE DARK Desmond never did have much luck with women - except getting them through their driving tests. Now a coach driver, he is at the most crucial crossroads of his life. Thrown out by his wife, he decides to take his bus on a journey to find his son.. Author:MOGGACH, DEBORAH. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PORKY Nicknamed Porky at school, because of the pigs her family kept outside their home near Heathrow, the main character in this book is robbed of her childhood by knowing too late what it's like to be loved too little and loved too much.. Author:MOGGACH, DEBORAH. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : STAND-IN Jules is a little-known English actress with a precarious career and a wayward but irresistible boyfriend. But then she gets the break of a lifetime - a part as stand-in for Lila Dune, American film star and sex-symbol - and her world is transformed.. Author:MOGGACH, DEBORAH. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : STILL LIFE In this sequel to "The Virgin in the Garden", Byatt illuminates the conflicts between ambition and domesticity, confinement and self-fulfilment, while providing a observation of intellectual and cultural life in England during the 1950s.. Author:BYATT, A.S.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ACCIDENTAL TOURIST A novel which has been made into a film starring Kathleen Turner, Geena Davis and William Hurt. How does a man addicted to routine - a man who flosses his teeth before love-making - cope with the chaos of everyday life? Macon's attempts to do so are tragically and comically undone.. Author:TYLER, ANNE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CELESTIAL NAVIGATION By the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Breathing Lessons", this is the tale of Jeremy Pauling, a 38-year-old bachelor who has never left home. The death of his mother leaves him in charge of a ramshackle boarding house and the arrival of a female lodger brings him a challenge he can't handle.. Author:TYLER, ANNE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : EBONY TOWER A series of novellas which explore the nature of art. The title story concerns a journalist visiting a celebrated but reclusive painter. He is intrigued by the complicated erotic relationship between the elderly painter and the beautiful young women who share their lives with him.. Author:FOWLES, JOHN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BLACK VENUS A collection of short stories full of extraordinary people, some of them real - Jean Duval, Baudelaire's black mistress, Edgar Allan Poe and Lizzie Borden. Other characters flow from the author's imagination. She also wrote "Nights at the Circus", "The Magic Toyshop" and "Shadow Dance".. Author:CARTER, ANGELA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ENDURING LOVE . Author:MCEWAN, IAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LITTLE CRIMINALS . Author:KERRIGAN, GENE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS . Author:HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : QUIET AMERICAN . Author:GREENE, GRAHAM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : RAILWAY MAN . Author:LOMAX, ERIC. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : NAKED APE First published in 1967, this work has become a benchmark of popular anthropology and psychology. Morris considers humans as being simply another animal species.. Author:MORRIS, DESMOND. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HUMAN ZOO This study concerns the city dweller. Morris finds remarkable similarities with captive zoo animals and looks closely at the aggressive, sexual and parental behaviour of the human species under the stresses and pressures of urban living.. Author:MORRIS, DESMOND. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : VINTAGE BOOK OF WAR STORIES . Author:. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT . Author:REMARQUE, ERICH MARIA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : NINETEEN TWENTY-ONE . Author:THORPE, ADAM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DARK ROOM . Author:SEIFFERT, RACHEL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TIN DRUM . Author:GRASS, GUNTHER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SOPHIE'S CHOICE . Author:STYRON, WILLIAM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SORROW OF WAR Winner of the Independent foreign fiction award This is the semi-autobiographical account of a soldier's experiences. The hero of the story, Kien, is a captain. After 10 years of war and months as a MIA body-collector, Kien suffers a nervous breakdown in Hanoi as he tries to re-establish a relationship with his former sweetheart.. Author:NINH, BAO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LOVELY GREEN EYES . Author:LUSTIG, ARNOST. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ATONEMENT . Author:MCEWAN, IAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ESSENTIALS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS . Author:FREUD, SIGMUND. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TO SIR WITH LOVE . Author:BRAITHWAITE, E.R.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : KING MATT THE FIRST . Author:KORCZAK, JANUSZ. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : REDBIRD CHRISTMAS . Author:FLAGG, FANNIE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GREAT PSYCHEDELIC ARMADILLO PICNIC . Author:FRIEDMAN, KINKY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MILLION DOLLAR BABY The hermetic world of boxing is notoriously difficult for outsiders to understand, though it has provided a source of fascination to numerous writers, including Norman Mailer, A.J. Liebling, Joyce Carol Oates and Ernest Hemingway.. Author:TOOLE, F.X.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ARROW IN THE BLUE . Author:KOESTLER, ARTHUR. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : INVISIBLE WRITING . Author:KOESTLER, ARTHUR. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DON'T CALL IT NIGHT A novel which combines passion in a small, closed community with humour and an intimate anatomy of a relationship. The central characters are a middle-aged Israeli couple who met in South America and have been together for eight years following a tempestous love affair.. Author:OZ, AMOS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ZUCKERMAN UNBOUND A novel which features the literary novelist Nathan Zuckerman. Zuckerman, dogged by personal neuroses and ill-health, has to contend with a tough television celebrity, who accuses him of plagiarising his personal life, whilst watching his father's terminal illness move towards its sad conclusion.. Author:ROTH, PHILIP. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PRIMO LEVI This biography of Primo Levi is the product of more than five years thorough research in Italy, England, Poland, Germany and France. Light is shed on Levi's recurring depressions and information is unearthed regarding the writer's premature death.. Author:THOMSON, IAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SLIPPING DOWN LIFE In a Southern town, teenager Evie Decker becomes obsessed with local rock singer Casey, and decides to take her life into her own hands. When she carves his name on her forehead their two lives become entwined. The author also wrote "Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant" and "The Accidental Tourist".. Author:TYLER, ANNE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FATAL ENGLISHMAN A triple biography by the author of "Birdsong". It gives accounts of three extraordinary lives tragically cut short - of Christopher Wood, Richard Hillary and Jeremy Wolfenden - and is also an exploration of three powerful eras of English history, the 1920s, World War II and the Cold War.. Author:FAULKS, SEBASTIAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL An account of a killing in a mansion in Savannah, Georgia, in the heart of the American South, in the early morning hours of 2nd May 1981. Was it murder or self-defence? The unpredictable twists and turns of a murder case are interwoven with a first-person account of life in the Old South.. Author:BERENDT, JOHN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BLACKWATER In 1974 in the far north of Sweden, Annie's lover is brutally murdered. She tries to bury the past, but many years later, her grown daughter is seen in the arms of the man Annie believes responsible for the killings.. Author:EKMAN, KERSTIN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DJINN AND THE NIGHTINGALE'S EYE A.S. Byatt's fairy tales and fables are among the best-loved features of her fiction. This volume contains "The Glass Coffin" and "Gode's Tale" of the Breton Baie des Trepasses, together with three other stories with medieval and oriental settings, including the title tale.. Author:BYATT, A.S.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE Chronicles the American West from 1860-1890. The book tells the stories of such famous Red Indian warriors and tribal chieftains as Sitting Bull, Cochise, Crazy Horse and Geronimo.. Author:BROWN, DEE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MORGAN'S PASSING You would say he was a man who had gone to pieces. With his house in shambles, and his daughters growing up and leaving him, Morgan Gower needs new roles to play, new lives to enter into. Then comes his first dramatic encounter with Emily Meredith, and the start of an extraordinary obsession.. Author:TYLER, ANNE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SLOW LEARNER This collection of short stories is derived from Pynchon's early work and contains a revelatory essay on his early influences and writing.. Author:PYNCHON, THOMAS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CRYING OF LOT 49 This short fable followed Pynchon's first novel "V." First published in 1966, it is a surreal comedy satirizing Californian life. Oedipa Maas, a recent heiress, pursues enquiries into the nature of her inheritance and the motivation of her dead lover and is led on an ambiguous trail of clues.. Author:PYNCHON, THOMAS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT This World War I novel is a German author's attempt to tell - through the persona of a young, "unknown soldier" - of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped its shells, were betrayed and destroyed by the war.. Author:REMARQUE, ERICH MARIA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CHILDHOOD AND SOCIETY An interpretation of human life on psychological lines. Using case histories as springboards for theoretical discussion of the formative years of childhood, Professor Erikson identifies human life as a delicate balance between bodily, mental and social influences.. Author:ERIKSON, ERIK H.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : EAST, WEST In these nine stories, Rushdie looks at what happens when East meets West, at the forces that pull his characters first in one direction, then the other.. Author:RUSHDIE, SALMAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MANUFACTURING CONSENT The authors set out to show that an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets of the news. The result is an account of the propagandist nature of the communications media, and of how they can be read, and their function interpreted, in a new way.. Author:HERMAN, EDWARD S. CHOMSKY, NOAM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GRAVITY'S RAINBOW Set in the closing years of World War II, this is a story of labyrinthine interconnections involving a Nazi Lieutenant Weissmann (once V.'s lover in another Pynchon novel), disguised as Captain Blicero, and an American sleuth, Lieutenant Tyrone Slothrop, while V-2 rockets fall on London.. Author:PYNCHON, THOMAS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : V This reissue represents Pynchon's first published work, a complex philosophical allegory, proclaimed in 1963 as a new kind of novel which recalled Joyce, Beckett and Joseph Heller.. Author:PYNCHON, THOMAS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : A.J.AYER Freddie Ayer (1910-89) was one of the most influential philosophers of his generation, his TV and radio appearances making him Britain's first media philosopher. In this biography, Ayer's ideas are related to his life. He was the only child of a Swiss-French father and a Dutch-Jewish mother.. Author:ROGERS, BEN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : NOBODY'S FOOL By the author of "Mohawk" and "The Risk Pool", this comic novel has been made into a film starring Paul Newman, Bruce Willis and Melanie Griffith. Set in small-town America, it tells of a smug, college-educated son's reconciliation with his ne'er-do-well father.. Author:RUSSO, RICHARD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FREUD READER Freudian thought permeates many aspects of 20th-century life, and to understand Freud is to explore not only his scientific papers but also his writings on art, literature, politics, religion and culture. This collection of 51 texts, with introductions by Peter Gay, spans Freud's entire career.. Author:FREUD, SIGMUND. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ISAIAH BERLIN The result of ten years of interviews between Berlin and Ignatieff, this is the biography of one of the greatest and most humane of modern philosophers. Berlin (born in Russia in 1909) was caught up in the most powerful currents of the century, and the book is full of memorable encounters.. Author:IGNATIEFF, MICHAEL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : THESE DEMENTED LANDS An aircrash investigator gathers fallen pieces of planes and a young woman arrives at the Drome Hotel, strangely familiar. A rave is organized for twisted characters: The Argonaut, The Knife Sharpener, and The Devil's Advocate converge for one last Saturday night at the Drome Hotel.. Author:WARNER, ALAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MAGIC FURNACE One of the greatest detective stories in the history of science reveals how astronomers and nuclear physicists deduced where the elements in our bodies come from. It is both the story of atoms and the story of stars.. Author:CHOWN, MARCUS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : STORMS OF SILENCE A moving account of the author's maverick life as a mountaineer. Behind these tales of adventure lies a brooding disquiet as he struggles to come to terms with the grinding poverty and violence lurking so close to the surface of life everywhere that he travels.. Author:SIMPSON, JOE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ONCE WERE WARRIORS A first novel which has been a bestseller in New Zealand, and has been made into a film. It is a portrayal of Maoris in New Zealand society, and a story in which everyone is a victim until the strength and vision of one woman transcends brutality and leads the way to a new life.. Author:DUFF, ALAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN Salman Rushdie's 1981 Booker Prize-winning novel and 1993 Booker of Bookers winner. Born at the midnight of India's independence, Saleem is "handcuffed to history" by the coincidence. He is one of 1001 children born that midnight, each of them endowed with an extraordinary talent.. Author:RUSHDIE, SALMAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WOMAN'S EDUCATION Home-educated in the Australian outback, Jill Ker Conway was told she could never be an academic achiever. But from unlikely beginnings she gained a PhD, wrote bestselling books, and became the first woman president of the prestigious Smith College in America.. Author:CONWAY, JILL KER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : JUSTICE GAME Geoff Robertson made his name as the defender of "Oz" magazine. This text includes accounts of cases including the defence of a West London gym owner against the Prince of Wales, teh Matrix-Churchill affair, and the defence of "The Guardian" in the cash-for-questions affair.. Author:ROBERTSON, GEOFFREY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : INVENTING IRELAND A critical history of modern Irish literature. Kiberd develops his story through subtle readings of such writers as Joyce, O'Casey, Beckett and Bowen. Giving a controversial interpretation of post-colonial Ireland, he then surveys more recent works, from Brian Friel to the younger Dublin writers.. Author:KIBERD, DECLAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : RAILWAY MAN Eric Lomax was a prisoner of war, forced to work on the Burma-Siam railway in 1943, and was tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio. Fifty years later he met one of his torturers again. Lomax's story culminates in their reconciliation.. Author:LOMAX, ERIC. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DARK HEART An investigation into poverty, corruption, crime and related issues in Britain including drugs and prostitution amongst children. The investigation moves from the slums and ghettos of our cities, to crack houses and brothels, contacts with street gangs and drug dealers uncovering secret rites and a bizarre and cruel world.. Author:DAVIES, NICK. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MORVERN CALLAR Morvern Callar, a low-paid supermarket employee in a remote Highland sea port, wakes one morning to find her strange boyfriend has committed suicide on the kitchen floor. Morvern's laconic reaction is both intriguing and immoral. And what she does next is even more appalling.. Author:WARNER, ALAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SILENT TWINS From an early age, twins June and Jennifer Gibbons had a close, almost psychic relationship, and as they grew up they would not talk to anyone else, speaking only to each other in a secret language. This is the story of the twins who turned to arson and ended up in Broadmoor.. Author:WALLACE, MARJORIE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BLOODY CHAMBER AND OTHER STORIES The old fairy stories live again, subtly altered. By the prize-winning author of "Wise Children", "Nights at the Circus", "American Ghosts and Old World Wonders" and "Expletives Deleted".. Author:CARTER, ANGELA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TIME TRAVEL A collection of essays on pop music, including pieces on The Clash, The Sex Pistols, David Bowie and Nirvana. The book offers an account of changing fashions in style and musical taste, and of related issues: youth, hatred, androgyny, sexual experimentation, drugs, America, Englishness.. Author:SAVAGE, JON. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MONUMENTS AND MAIDENS This work examines three very different allegorical uses of the female form: New York's statue of Liberty; the public sculptures of central Paris; and the images of Mrs Thatcher favoured by Fleet Street.. Author:WARNER, MARINA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ART OBJECTS A collection of pieces on modernism, autobiography, style, and painting, arguing the importance of art in our lives. The essays also discuss intimately the author's relationship to her own work and the books that she loves.. Author:WINTERSON, JEANETTE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BIOGRAPHY OF FANNY BURNEY A biography of Fanny Burney, author of "Evelina", who also kept a diary that records the Georgian England of Dr Johnson, Garrick and Reynolds. Events she recorded include drinking tea with the "Bluestockings", taking the waters at Bath and being chased round Kew Palace by King George III.. Author:CHISHOLM, KATE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DEEP IN A DREAM James Gavin gives the reader a full account of the dark journey that was trumpet-player Chet Baker's life, from his emergence in the 1950s on the West Coast, to his becoming, virtually overnight, a giant of "cool" jazz, until his mysterious death in Amsterdam in 1988.. Author:GAVIN, JAMES. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DAYDREAMER Ten-year-old Peter Fortune lives somewhere between dream and reality. Grown-ups don't understand him. No one can understand the amazing things that fill his head. His dreams bring him nothing but trouble. In these stories he unlocks the secret world of his imaginings and invites us inside.. Author:MCEWAN, IAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ECSTASY Three tales of the vicissitudes of love, by the author of "Trainspotting" and "Shallow Grave". "Lorraine Goes to Livingston" features an authoress who suffers a stroke; "Fortune's Always Hiding" is a corporate drug romance; "The Undefeated" is set in the grim backstreets of modern Edinburgh.. Author:WELSH, IRVINE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FILTH With the festive season almost upon him, Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson is winding down at work and gearing up socially - kicking off Christmas with a week of sex and drugs in Amsterdam. Irvine Welsh has here created one of the most corrupt characters in contemporary fiction.. Author:WELSH, IRVINE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WHITE MERC WITH FINS Take four ne'er-do-wells, add some plastic guns, the IRA and a white Merc with fins and you have a plan - to walk into Michael Winner's private bank and walk out with half a million pounds.. Author:HAWES, JAMES. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SEARCHING FOR CALEB Tells of the Peck family's search for its own deepest roots, from the ragtime era at the end of the last century to small-town America in the mid-Seventies. This is a story of growing up and breaking away, of rebellion and acceptance.. Author:TYLER, ANNE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : QUEEN OF THE ELEPHANTS The author of "Travels on My Elephant" describes his elephant ride along the ancient migratory route through the tea gardens of West Bengal, and along the rarely visited Himalayan corridor to Assam. It is also an account of his quest for a solution to the problem of conserving the Asian elephant.. Author:SHAND, MARK. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SIN Ruth is beautiful, intelligent and privileged, but she can never be satisfied - there is a moral vacuum where her heart should be. She envies her cousin Elizabeth and this obsession leads her inexorably to tragedy.. Author:HART, JOSEPHINE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DAMAGE A successful doctor and politician arrives at middle age and the highpoint of his career. A chance meeting with Anna, his son's lover, unlocks the violent reality behind his carefully created facade and his consuming obsession threatens everyone around him.. Author:HART, JOSEPHINE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MOOR'S LAST SIGH 'Moor' Zogoiby, only son of a wealthy, artistic Bombay family, finds himself at crisis point. After a tragic love affair, he plunges into a life of depravity in Bombay before leaving for involvement in financial scandal in London and, ultimately, violence in Spain. From the author of MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN.. Author:RUSHDIE, SALMAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GRIMUS Flapping Eagle, a young Indian, receives the gift of immortality after drinking a magic fluid. Tiring of the burden of eternal life, he sets out on a monumental search for the mystical Calf Island, where he can rejoin the human race. His journey is peopled with strange characters.. Author:RUSHDIE, SALMAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BURNING YOUR BOATS Designed for Carter aficionados, this key collection brings some important work back into print. It includes "The Bloody Chamber", Carter's seminal offering of fairy tales, in which she rewrote such stories as Little Red Riding Hood in her characteristically subversive way.. Author:CARTER, ANGELA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BLACK SEA This title is a homage to the ocean and its shores, and a meditation on Eurasian history from the earliest times to the present. It evokes the culture, history and politics of the volatile region along these shores.. Author:ASCHERSON, NEAL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DIFFERENT FOR GIRLS In a series of essays on female icons like the Princess of Wales and Naomi Campbell, as well as ogres like Rosemary West, Joan Smith demonstrates the extent to which judgements are influenced by unconscious ideas about gender - the idea of difference is more important than reality.. Author:. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LOVE A novel set at the end of the 1960s which describes an almost incestuous triangular relationship between a wife, her husband, and the husband's disruptive and aggressive brother. By the author of "The Magic Toyshop" and "Several Perceptions".. Author:CARTER, ANGELA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GRIDIRON Ray Richardson, a brilliant architechnologist, has created "The Gridiron" in the heart of LA. Every aspect of the building is controlled by an intricate computer system, but after two bizarre deaths, on the eve of the official opening, the computer reveals itself as set to destroy its creators.. Author:KERR, PHILIP. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : EXCELLENT CADAVERS Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino set out to destroy the Mafia. In 1992, aware that the magistrates didn't have the support of the Italian government, the Mafia assassinated them. The public outcry demanded their work was completed, which led to the toppling of crucial political alliances.. Author:STILLE, ALEXANDER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : COVERING ISLAM A penetrating look at the way in which experts, policy-makers and the media have dealt with the crisis in Iran and the Middle East. With examples, Said demonstrates that the government-business establishment has produced a portrait of Islam and Muslims based on ignorance, inaccuracy and prejudice.. Author:SAID, EDWARD W.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CIVILWARLAND IN BAD DECLINE Six short stories and a novella. Set in a dystopian near-future in which America has become little more than a theme park in terminal disrepair, they constitute a searching and bitterly humorous commentary on the current state of the American Dream.. Author:SAUNDERS, GEORGE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BED FOR THE NIGHT This volume reveals how humanitarian organizations trying to bring relief to an ever more dangerous world are often betrayed and misused and have increasingly lost sight of their purpose. Rief contends that these organizations must remain independent if they are to continue to relieve suffering.. Author:RIEFF, DAVID. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SHAKESPEARE This biography of William Shakespeare aims to build up a profound sense of literary and theatrical history, and the energy of the Elizabethan age.. Author:BURGESS, ANTHONY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SUGAR AND OTHER STORIES The constant theme running through this collection of short stories, the first collection by A.S. Byatt, is that of repetition, taking the form of family patterns recurring across generations, the return of the past in the form of ghosts and the disruptive force of family stories.. Author:BYATT, A.S.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : NAIRN IN DARKNESS AND LIGHT This memoir of David Thomson's childhood in Scotland won the NCR Book Award for Non-Fiction in 1988. Set in the 1920s, it recreates the varied community of Nairn, charts the author's formative years and recalls the town's involvement in many significant events of Scottish history.. Author:THOMSON, DAVID. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : COLLECTED POEMS In this edition, Yeats' early narrative poems are in a separate section at the end. Elsewhere the order of poems remains largely undisturbed. Changes arise in the inclusion of new poems, some textual emendations and the relocation of certain poems withheld from publication in the poet's lifetime.. Author:YEATS, W.B.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ROSAMOND LEHMANN Lehmann's life was as romantic and harrowing as that of any of her fictional heroines. This biography conjures up with warmth and wit the intimate world of a woman whose dramatic life, work and relationships criss-crossed the cultural, literary and political landscape of England in that era.. Author:HASTINGS, SELINA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SIX MEMOS FOR THE NEXT MILLENNIUM A series of lectures which Italo Calvino wrote in the final year of his life. Drawing on the works of Lucretius, Ovid, Boccaccio, Flaubert, Kundera, Perec and many more, he pinpoints the universal laws and literary values: lightness, quickness, exactitude, visibility and multiplicity.. Author:CALVINO, ITALO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : EVERYTHING YOU NEED Frustrated and appalled by his life and the way he lives it, Nathan Staples is sustained only by his passionate devotion for his estranged wife and teenage daughter. Nathan's path to becoming complete and alive again will be strewn with obstacles.. Author:KENNEDY, A.L.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ORIGINAL BLISS A collection of stories concerned with the complexities of sex and the lack of it. Whether in Copenhagen or New York, the characters are engaged in possibly fruitless attempts to close down emotional distances and fill a physical void.. Author:KENNEDY, A.L.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : VINTAGE BOOK OF INDIAN WRITING An anthology of the work of the most important and influential Indian writers of the last 50 years. This volume is published to coincide with the anniversary of India's independence.. Author:. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TERRA INCOGNITA Sara Wheeler was the first woman selected by the American government to be the "Writer in Residence at the US South Pole Station". She spent six weeks at the pole. In this book she reveals how people live on the bases and how the landscape affects them.. Author:WHEELER, SARA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FOOTBALL FACTORY A first novel about a seasoned Chelsea Football Club hooligan who represents a disaffected society operating by brutal rules. The story encompasses social degradation, unemployment, racism, casual violence, excessive drink and bad sex - and how they fall into a political context.. Author:KING, JOHN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SELECTED STORIES A selection of the stories of Alice Munro, from her earliest published work in 1968 to her latest in 1994. Monro won the 1994 W.H. Smith Award, and was shortlisted for the "Irish Times" International Fiction Award in 1995. Her novels include "Open Secrets" and "The Beggar Maid".. Author:MUNRO, ALICE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : VIRGINIA WOOLF A biography of Virginia Woolf which moves freely between a detailed life-story and attempts to understand significant questions. She is presented as occupying a distinct and even uneasy position within the Bloomsbury Set, and also as a radically sceptical, subversive, courageous feminist.. Author:LEE, HERMIONE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ROOM OF ONE'S OWN A combined edition of Virginia Woolf's classic feminist texts "A Room of One's Own" (1929) and its sequel "Three Guineas" (1938).. Author:WOOLF, VIRGINIA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FEYNMAN'S LOST LECTURE The discovery of the notes for Richard Feynman's major lecture on the motion of planets around the sun, presented in this book, allows readers an insight into the workings of his mind. The book relates how the notes came to be lost, and how they came to be found again and reconstructed.. Author:FEYNMAN, RICHARD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : KILLING OF THE COUNTRYSIDE An attack on modern British agricultural policy and practice. Harvey pleads for a return to natural cycles, an end to subsidies and the domination of agri-businesses, and for a safe, sustainable farming system. He hopes the link between the British people and the countryside may be re-established.. Author:HARVEY, GRAHAM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SAPPHO COMPANION This work combines representations of Sappho through the ages, in art and literature, from fragments of her own writing to the present-day. It offers narrative accounts of the way different periods have interpreted Sappho's haunting story, from Ovid's poetry and classical statues to Roman mosaics.. Author:REYNOLDS, MARGARET. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HEADHUNTERS Formed in the mists of New Year's Eve, The Sex Division sees procreation at its most material, as five men devise a point system based upon the act. A missing brother, prophetic visions, a love-affair, and a confrontation draw the characters out into the open, revealing the men behind the machismo.. Author:KING, JOHN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ENGLAND AWAY This third novel in the trilogy that began with "The Football Factory" looks at notions of what it means to be English abroad. King explores stereotypes of language and nationalism, as he writes about sex and violence abroad, under the Union Jack.. Author:KING, JOHN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : NO GO THE BOGEYMAN Travelling from ogres to cradle songs, from bananas to cannibals, Warner traces the roots of our commonest anxieties, unravelling the myths and fears which define human sensibilities. She looks at the creatures which dominate popular fiction, and at films such as "The Silence of the Lambs".. Author:WARNER, MARINA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GIANT'S HOUSE Set in a small town on Cape Cod in 1950, this tells of the relationship between Peggy Cort, a 28-year-old librarian, and James Carlson Sweatt, an "over-tall" 11-year-old. They are odd candidates for friendship, but they still find their lives entwined in ways that neither one could have predicted.. Author:MCCRACKEN, ELIZABETH. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BURY ME STANDING A study of gypsies - especially those of Eastern Europe - which is a blend of the scholarly and the personal. While researching the book, the author learned Romany and stayed with the gypsies, becoming deeply involved with their lives and befriending several gypsy kings.. Author:FONSECA, ISABEL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : INTRUDER IN THE DUST The story of an elderly black farmer arrested for the murder of a white man and threatened by a lynch mob in America's Deep South. A characteristically Faulknerian tale of dark omen, its sole ray of hope the character of a young white boy who repays on old favour by proving the farmer's innocence.. Author:FAULKNER, WILLIAM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FALL ON YOUR KNEES A story of four sisters tied by inescapable family bonds, of miracles, terrible secrets, attempted murder and an extraordinary love affair. The settings range from haunted Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, through the battlefields of World War I, to the emerging jazz scene of New York City.. Author:MACDONALD, ANN-MARIE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DOGS NEVER LIE ABOUT LOVE This is an investigation into the emotional lives of dogs. Masson argues that we never know precisely what another person is feeling because of language restrictions. However, dogs live in a universe of scent - a world of emotion available only to other dogs.. Author:MASSON, JEFFREY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BODILY HARM Rennie Wilford, a young journalist running for her life, takes an assignment on a Caribbean island and tumbles into a world where people are not what they seem. When a burnt-out Yankee offers Rennie a no-hooks, no-strings affair, she is caught up in a lethal web of corruption.. Author:ATWOOD, MARGARET. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HANDMAID'S TALE The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed. If she deviates she will, like all dissenters, be hanged or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs.. Author:ATWOOD, MARGARET. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LIFE BEFORE MAN Elizabeth, monstrous yet pitiable; Nate, her husband, a patchwork man, gentle, disillusioned; Lesje, a young woman at the natural history museum, for whom dinosaurs are as important as men. These are three people in thrall to the tragicomedy we call love.. Author:ATWOOD, MARGARET. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DANCING GIRLS AND OTHER STORIES Pregnant women, students and journalists, farmers and bird-watchers, ex-wives, adolescent lovers - and dancing girls: all ordinary people - or are they? This collection of short stories, by the author of "The Handmaid's Tale" and "Cat's Eye", offers a study of human motivation.. Author:ATWOOD, MARGARET. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BLUEBEARD'S EGG In the light of these stories, Atwood has been described as "an outstanding correspondent on the war between sexes (who) writes wittily on the hopes and shortcomings of women who bake for poets, sleep with their accountants, and attribute their preference for awful men to fearlessness".. Author:ATWOOD, MARGARET. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HIDDEN AGENDAS The model for this volume is Pilger's previous "Distant Voices". It gathers together essays on a range of subjects including Burma, Fleet Street, East Timor, Vietnam today, the media, and UK politics. Pilger has been described as "the closest we have to the great correspondents of the 1930s".. Author:PILGER, JOHN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SECOND SEX A work of anthropology and sociology, of biology and psychoanalysis, which stands - almost five decades after its first appearance - as the first landmark in the modern feminist upsurge that has transformed perceptions of the social relationship of man and womankind in our time.. Author:BEAUVOIR, SIMONE DE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : READING IN THE DARK A novel in which the boy narrator grows up enclosed in two worlds. One is legendary - a Donegal house where children are stolen away by demonic forces; the other is actual - the city of Derry in the Northern Ireland of the 1940s and 1950s, a place haunted by political enmities and family secrets.. Author:DEANE, SEAMUS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SEXING THE CHERRY Set in 17th-century England this is a novel of magical fantasy that celebrates the power of imagination as it juggles the readers perception of history and reality. A novel about love and sex; lies and truths; and 12 dancing princesses who lived happily ever after, but not with their husbands.. Author:WINTERSON, JEANETTE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MY MICHAEL Set in Jerusalem at the time of the Suez crisis, this is a study of a woman's retreat from an unhappy marriage into a private world of fantasy and repressed desires. Her subsequent mental breakdown is mirrored in the local scenes of disruption and violence caused by the coming war.. Author:OZ, AMOS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HILL OF EVIL COUNSEL . Author:OZ, AMOS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA A novel which is both playful and serious, hilarious and melancholy. It takes a journey which starts at the foot of the Benjamin Franklin statue in Washington Square, San Francisco, and wanders through the wonders of America's rural waterways.. Author:BRAUTIGAN, RICHARD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : COLLECTED STORIES A collection of the American author's short stories. They are stories of love and squalor, set in a world in which momentary glimpses of brightness - sea, clouds, light, the East River, a wife in a torn slip at the dressing table - contend with time, social change and the chaos of history.. Author:CHEEVER, JOHN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LONDON FIELDS Set in the pubs and streets of West London, this is a murder story for the end of the millennium. The narrator Samson Young, enters the Black Cross, an undesirable public house, and finds the main characters of his drama waiting to begin.. Author:AMIS, MARTIN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : NIGHT TRAIN Detective Mike Hoolihan, an American policewoman, begins to investigate the suspicious death of a police colleague's daughter, a girl too blessed in looks, love and intelligence to commit suicide. As Mike probes further into Jennifer's life and death, she has to ask, "If not who, then why?". Author:AMIS, MARTIN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MY TRAITOR'S HEART The first book by a South African who has worked as a journalist in both his native country and the United States. It offers a black and Afrikaaner view of South Africa, expressed through the medium of a reporter's anguished conscience.. Author:MALAN, RIAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BERNARD SHAW Playwright, wit, socialist, polemicist, vegetarian and charmer, Shaw was a controversial literary figure, the scourge of Victorian values and middle-class pretensions. Holroyd has cut his huge biography to a manageable single-volume life - the definitive Shaw for general readers and students alike.. Author:HOLROYD, MICHAEL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : I HAVE LANDED This collection of essays apply biographical perspectives to the illumination of key scientific concepts and their history, ranging from the discovery of the scourge of syphilis by Fracastero in the 16th century to Isabelle Duncan's 19th-century attempt at reconciling scripture and palaeontology.. Author:GOULD, STEPHEN JAY (FORMER ALEXANDER AGASSIZ PROFESSOR OF ZOOLOGY AND PROFESSOR OF GEOLOGY, HARVARD UNIVERSITY, USA). Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CLARA Based on the life of Clara Schumann, this novel considers the place of love in a life of increasing isolation and alienation. Clara, herself a celebrated pianist, composer and teacher, was the wife of Robert Schumann, and cared for him through a series of crippling mental illnesses.. Author:GALLOWAY, JANICE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK On St Valentine's day in 1900, a party of Australian schoolgirls set off with two schoolmistresses on a picnic to a place called Hanging Rock. Some were never to return. What began as a pleasant and happy day out ended in terror.. Author:LINDSAY, JOAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : KA The first impact of this text about the "Indianness" of India is one of strangeness, bewilderment and disorientation. However, slowly the strange becomes familiar, and as Ka folds and enfolds the world of Deva and the Seven Seers, of Siva, and through to the advent of Budhha, all becomes clear.. Author:CALASSO, ROBERTO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HERE ON EARTH Evoking the tempo of small-town life and the mysterious atmosphere of the surrounding marshy countryside, this novel draws the reader inside a consuming love affair, its history and the ripples it causes. Author:HOFFMAN, ALICE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : JAZZ It is 1926 and winter grips Harlem. Joe Trace shoots to death his lover, the impetuous 18-year-old Dorcas. At the funeral his determined, hardworking wife Violet tries to disfigure the corpse with a knife. Their story captures the complex humanity of black American urban life at that time.. Author:MORRISON, TONI. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FOREST OF HOURS The central character of this novel is Skord, a magical being who is neither man nor animal. It begins in the Middle Ages when Skord finds himself in a forest with no memory, no past and no language. He then observes the humans he meets there, and gradually begins to understand civilization.. Author:EKMAN, KERSTIN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : INSTANCE OF THE FINGERPOST An intellectual thriller set in the Oxford of the 1660s, a time of great ferment - intellectual, religious and political. The action takes place around the suspicious death of Robert Grove, a Fellow of New College.. Author:PEARS, IAIN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DAISY BATES IN THE DESERT This blend of documentary and fiction describes the author's search for Daisy Bates, an eccentric woman who lived alone in the deserts of South Australia in the early years of the century and whose accounts of her time there make no distinction between fact and fantasy.. Author:BLACKBURN, JULIA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : NARRATIVE OF A CHILD ANALYSIS A new edition of Melanie Klein's account of her analysis of a 10-year old boy, previously published by Hogarth Press in 1961 and Virago in 1989. Klein describes the day-to-day course of the analysis, interpreting drawings, play, verbal associations and reports of dreams, thus providing a guide to the technique of psychoanalysing children.. Author:KLEIN, MELANIE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TAO OF MUHAMMAD ALI A biography of Muhammad Ali in which the author also tells his own story and explores the nature of hero-worship, friendship, and the relationship between fathers and sons.. Author:MILLER, DAVIS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DIVORCE, LE Isabel arrives in Paris to find that her sister's French husband has just walked out, leaving her sister pregnant. While she finds herself seduced by gourmet food, antiques and older men, her sister's marriage disintegrates into wrangles over money in this social comedy.. Author:JOHNSON, DIANE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PANTHER IN THE BASEMENT Set in the summer of 1947, this is a rites-of-passage novel about a lonely boy growing up in Jerusalem in the last years of British rule. From underground resistance he is drawn into friendship with the enemy, in the form of a British soldier to whom he teaches Hebrew in return for English lessons.. Author:OZ, AMOS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : IN BETWEEN THE SHEETS A collection of macabre short stories. Ian McEwan received the Somerset Maugham Award in 1976 for a previous collection of short stories entitled "First Love, Last Rites".. Author:MCEWAN, IAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FIRST LOVE, LAST RITES The awakening sensations of first love and its ritual initiations are the focus of the stories contained in this collection.. Author:MCEWAN, IAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : COMFORT OF STRANGERS As their holiday unfolds, Colin and Maria are locked into their own intimacy. They groom themselves meticulously, as though there waits someone who cares deeply about how they appear. Then they meet a man with a disturbing story to tell and become drawn into a fantasy of violence and obsession.. Author:MCEWAN, IAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CHILD IN TIME A novel in which a young couple have their child snatched from them and are subsequently driven apart by despair. From the author of THE COMFORT OF STRANGERS, THE CEMENT GARDEN and THE DAYDREAMER.. Author:MCEWAN, IAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CEMENT GARDEN In the relentless summer heat, four abruptly orphaned children retreat into a shadowy, isolated world, and find their own strange and unsettling ways of fending for themselves.. Author:MCEWAN, IAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PRITCHETT CENTURY This collection of Pritchett's prose includes autobiographical extracts, travel writing, and criticism of both classic and contemporary writers, from Kipling and Eliot, to Bellow and Rushdie. The volume also contains extracts from his novels, and the best of his short stories.. Author:PRITCHETT, V.S.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DARK SHADOWS FALLING In 1992, a climber was left to die by other climbers on Mount Everest, which horrified Joe Simpson who was himself left for dead in Peru in 1985. In this book Simpson explores anecdotally and in heated debates with his climbing companions on Pumori, the moral climate of mountaineering in the 1990s.. Author:SIMPSON, JOE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DEAD LONG ENOUGH Gathered together yearly for Harry's "false birthday", Ben and his chums areused to waking up in unfamiliar towns and strange moods. This time however, Harry is approaching 40, and his mind has tended firmly towards the unresolved past.. Author:HAWES, JAMES. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BLUEST EYE The chronicle of the tragic lives of a poor black family in 1940s America. Every night Pecola, unlovely and unloved, prays for blue eyes like those of her white schoolfellows. She becomes the focus of the mingled love and hatred engendered by her family's frailty and the world's cruelty.. Author:MORRISON, TONI. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SULA A novel set in a small town in Ohio, focusing on two girls, Nell and Sula, both black, both poor, who share their dreams until Sula escapes to live a vagrant city life for ten years. When she returns, the bond of their friendship is broken.. Author:MORRISON, TONI. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BELOVED It is the mid-1800s. At Sweet Home in Kentucky, an era is ending as slavery comes under attack from the abolitionists. For Sethe, Paul D. Halle and the others, the benign imprisonment of Sweet Home is destroyed. By the Nobel Prize-winning author of "Song of Solomon" and "Tar Baby".. Author:MORRISON, TONI. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TAR BABY In a Caribbean mansion the millionaire, Valerian, and his younger wife, Margaret, live as if in a troubled sleep. Their comforts are supplied by a black servant couple. The fifth member of the household is a beautiful black protegee of Valerian. The author won the 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature.. Author:MORRISON, TONI. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : VERONICA GUERIN Victoria Guerin, a young crime reporter with the "Sunday Independent", was shot dead in Dublin in June 1996 as a direct consequence of her work - investigating the shadowy figures of Dublin's underworld. This is an account of one of the biggest and most shocking of Irish news stories.. Author:O'REILLY, EMILY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ONLY GIRL IN THE CAR 'The Only Girl in the Car' is a coming-of-age memoir of the oldest daughter in an American Catholic family of six children. From 14, Kathy was very promiscuous and tells her story, including gang rape, with detachment, honesty and a lack of self-pity.. Author:DOBIE, K. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : POLITICS OF HOPE A broad treatment of politics and society in Britain by the Chief Rabbi of the Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth. Sacks proposes a new politics of responsibility in which all portions of society have a part to play - a politics not of interest but of involvement - and hope.. Author:SACKS, JONATHAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GROUND BENEATH HER FEET Vina Aspara, a famous and much-loved singer, is caught up in a devastating earthquake and never seen again. This is her story, and that of Ormus Cama, the lover who finds, loses, seeks and again finds her throughout his extraordinary life in music. It is narrated by Ormus's childhood friend, Rai.. Author:RUSHDIE, SALMAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : AGAINST THE WALL An account of Yeates' ascent of one of the world's largest vertical rock faces, the 4,000 foot Central Tower of Paine in Chile. The greatest difficulties come not from the elements but from within themselves; crippled with fear the team is forced into a retreat but after resting return to complete the climb.. Author:YATES, SIMON. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WHITE MISCHIEF Investigative reporting which possesses the resonance of a social history and the drama of a good mystery. Fox presents a well researched, lucidly written "last word" on the notorious case of the 1941 murder of the Earl of Erroll, found shot through the head in his car just outside Nairobi.. Author:FOX, JAMES. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CRY, THE BELOVED COUNTRY Over 50 years after its creation, this is the classic narrative on racial tension in South Africa. In the city of Johannesburg a father seeks his delinquent son; his search takes him through a labyrinth of murder, prostitution, racial hatred and, ultimately, reconciliation.. Author:PATON, ALAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CAL A love story set in Northern Ireland. For Cal, some of the choices are simple. He can work in an abattoir that nauseates him or join the dole queue; he can brood on his past or plan a future with Marcella. From the author of LAMB and GRACE NOTES.. Author:MACLAVERTY, BERNARD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : UNDERTAKING The American poet, Thomas Lynch, is also a funeral director in a small Michigan town, and this is his testimony. It comprises 12 essays - each a lesson taught to the living by the dead.. Author:LYNCH, THOMAS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FAREWELL SYMPHONY Named after Haydn's work, in which the players leave the stage one by one, this completes the story of a gay man in his adult years, through Stonewall riots, the hedonism of the 70s and the ravages of AIDS in the 80s and 90s. It follows "A Boy's Own Story" and "The Beautiful Room is Empty".. Author:WHITE, EDMUND. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PARADISE The theme of this novel is the anatomy of an internecine war, cultural, religious and racial. It is waged between a community of nuns and the strays and misfits who arrive at their convent for safe haven, and those who dwell in the surrounding black township in Oklahoma.. Author:MORRISON, TONI. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING The story of Elizabeth Barrett Browning has become part of literary mythology - the invalid kept locked up in Wimpole Street by a tyrannical father until her elopement and flight to Italy at the age of 40. This biography introduces the reader to a strong and determined Elizabeth Barrett.. Author:FORSTER, MARGARET. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : EINSTEIN'S MONSTERS A collection of five short stories creating perplexing visions of the post-nuclear-holocaust world.. Author:AMIS, MARTIN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : OTHER PEOPLE In this metaphysical thriller, Mary awakes - on a white trolley in a white room - to discover that she cannot recall her past. As she tries to piece together the clues to her life, Mary ponders the gains that the loss of her past has brought her.. Author:AMIS, MARTIN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : IN PATAGONIA 'In Patagonia' is a quest or a Wonder Voyage. It is about wandering and exile. Bruce Chatwin travels to a remote country in search of a strange beast and, in the course of his travels, describes his encounters with the people whose fascinating stories delay him on the road.. Author:CHATWIN, BRUCE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : VICEROY OF OUIDAH Francisco Manoel da Silva, a poor Brazilian sailed to the African kingdom of Dahomey in the early 1800s, determined to make his fortune in the slave trade. Armed with nothing but an iron will, he became a man of substance in Ouidah, and friend to the mad, mercurial king.. Author:CHATWIN, BRUCE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ON THE BLACK HILL . Author:CHATWIN, BRUCE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WHAT AM I DOING HERE? In this text, Bruce Chatwin writes of his father, of his friend Howard Hodgkin, and of his talks with Andre Malraux and Nadezhda Mandelstram. He also follows unholy grails on his travels, such as the rumour of a "wolf-boy" in India, or the idea of looking for a Yeti.. Author:CHATWIN, BRUCE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SONGLINES "Songlines" are what Europeans call the labyrinth of invisible pathways that meander all over Australia - they are both intricate sources of personal identity and territorial markers. From these, Bruce Chatwin has traced a great deal about Aboriginal culture, as complex as it is different.. Author:CHATWIN, BRUCE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : UTZ Harbouring his private collection of Meissen porcelains, Kaspur Utz finds a refuge from the horrors of the 20th century. Compared with the exquisite reality of his figurines, rescued and safe in the illusionist city of Prague, the Gestapo, and the Secret Police are to Utz "as creatures of tinsel".. Author:CHATWIN, BRUCE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TOUCHING THE VOID An account of the ascent of the 21,000ft Siula Grande peak in the Peruvian Andes. Joe Simpson and his climbing partner, Simon Yates, had achieved the summit before the first disaster struck. What happened and how they dealt with the psychological traumas that resulted is the subject of this book.. Author:SIMPSON, JOE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SNOW LEOPARD An account of the author's search for the rare snow leopard, travelling on foot from Kathmandu to the remote Crystal Mountain, high in the Himalayas by way of Annapurna. What began as an expedition became, for Mathiessen, a true pilgrimage of the heart. The book won the US National Book Award.. Author:MATTHIESSEN, PETER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MR. NORRIS CHANGES TRAINS . Author:ISHERWOOD, C. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA Summoning up more than 20 years of Japan's most dramatic history, the geisha's story uncovers a hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation. It moves from a small fishing village in 1929 to the glamorous and decadent Kyoto of the 30s and on to postwar New York.. Author:GOLDEN, ARTHUR. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : AMERICAN PASTORAL Seymour Levov, a devoted family man and inheritor of his father's factory, comes of age in thriving post-war America. His daughter Merry is the apple of his eye until America begins to run amok in the turbulent 1960s, and Merry grows up to be a terrorist bent on destroying her father's paradise.. Author:ROTH, PHILIP. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MASON AND DIXON Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon were 18th-century British surveyors who ran the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland - the Mason-Dixon Line. This is their story, featuring Native Americans and frontier folk, ripped bodices, erotic and political conspiracies, naval warfare and caffeine abuse.. Author:PYNCHON, THOMAS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PARIS TO THE MOON In 1995, the Gopnik family left the familiar comforts and hassles of New York for the urbane glamour of Paris. For the next five years, the author filed his "Paris Journals" to the "New Yorker" and his sojourn traces a sentimental re-education in what it means to be an American in Paris.. Author:GOPNIK, ADAM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : IMPOSSIBILITY What can we never do? The end of each century leads to a stocktaking of human achievement and our expectations about the future. This book looks at what limits there might be to human discovery and what we might find, ultimately, to be unknowable, undoable, or unthinkable.. Author:BARROW, JOHN D.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GREEN MAN RUNNING A novel about a man in flight from his rural past, in thrall to his job and in despair about his life. Dexter Bucknell is a 40-year-old single parent hoping to inveigle his live-in girlfriend into marrying him and being a mother to his two young sons.. Author:HAMMICK, GEORGINA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : AUSTRALIA Australia celebrates 100 years as a nation in 2001. This book - part history, part travelogue, part memoir - tells the inspiring story of how a colony with only two sorts of citizens, convicts and gaolers, became a confident modern country.. Author:KNIGHTLEY, PHILLIP. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ANNIE JOHN Annie John is growing up on the magical island of Antigua. It should be a sojourn in paradise for her but adolescence takes the brilliant, headstrong girl into open rebellions and secret discoveries, and finally to a crisis of emotions that wrenches her away from her island home.. Author:KINCAID, JAMAICA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GIRL AT THE LION D'OR A story of love and conscience, will and desire, which begins when a mysterious young girl arrives to take up a post at the seedy Hotel du Lion D'Or in a small French town in the mid-1930s.. Author:FAULKS, SEBASTIAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GRACE NOTES Returning to Belfast after a long absence to attend her fathers funeral, it is brought home to Catherine exactly why she left. But she also remembers the more innocent times and realises she must come to terms with her past. A novel from the author of CAL.. Author:MACLAVERTY, BERNARD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SO MAY IT SECRETLY BEGIN A companion volume to "The Tao of Muhammad Ali" concerning another iconic figure of the 20th century, the film star and martial arts hero Bruce Lee.. Author:MILLER, DAVIS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SLAUGHTERHOUSE 5 An anti-war novel in which Billy Pilgrim, prisoner of war, optometrist and time-traveller is the hero. This is a story of innocence faced with apocalypse.. Author:VONNEGUT, KURT. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : POSSESSION Winner of the 1990 Booker Prize, this novel describes the romance between two 19th-century poets and the parallel relationship of their two biographers and includes passages of "Victorian verse". It is structured in the form of a literary and biographical treasure hunt.. Author:BYATT, A.S.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TOUCH THE WATER, TOUCH THE WIND As the Germans advance into Poland in 1939, Elisha Pomeranz, a Jewish mathematician and watchmaker, escapes into the forest, leaving behind his wife, Stepha. After the war, having evaded the concentration camps, they begin to build new lives in Israel where another war is brewing.. Author:OZ, AMOS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MOTHER NIGHT A companion novel to "Slaughterhouse 5", covering similar themes and drawing on the author's experiences as a prisoner of war in Dresden. A black satire, it tells of an American spy in Germany who becomes confused by his own methods as he sends his coded messages by using pro-Nazi radio broadcasts.. Author:VONNEGUT, KURT. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FRIEND OF MY YOUTH Men and women recall the events, the long-buried yearnings and dreams, the sometimes puzzling choices that have made them what they are. In this collection of short stories, the nature of adultery and honour and love is laid bare.. Author:MUNRO, ALICE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BABEL TOWER A sequel to "Virgin in the Garden" and "Still Life". A cast of characters play out their personal dramas amid the clashing politics, passionate ideals and stirring languages of the early-1960s. Their crises mirror some of the major world events of the age in which they live.. Author:BYATT, A.S.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS The author of "Slaughterhouse 5" and "Hocus Pocus" satirizes the horrors of plastic, disposable America with a mixture of cartoons and comic outbursts against rules and reason.. Author:VONNEGUT, KURT. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SLAPSTICK, OR LONESOME NO MORE Wilbur and Eliza Swain are so immensely hideous, helpless and vile in their infancy that their wealthy parents send them to live on a nearby asteroid. But the monstrous pair possess a joint intelligence that could outstrip the most advanced computers. By the author of "Slaughterhouse 5".. Author:VONNEGUT, KURT. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BEAUTY MYTH In the struggle for women's equality, there is one subject still shrouded in silence - women's compulsive pursuit of beauty. The myth of female beauty challenges every woman, every day of her life. The author exposes the tyranny of the beauty myth through the ages and its oppressive function today.. Author:WOLF, NAOMI. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BREAKING ICE An anthology of African-American writing, edited by the author of "Mama" and "Disappearing Acts". The collection includes works by both established and emerging authors, including Alice Walker, Gloria Naylor, John Edgar Wideman and J.California Cooper.. Author:. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HOCUS POCUS OR, WHAT'S THE HURRY, SON? It is the year 2001, and Eugene Dabbs Hartke, suffering from TB, is recording his disastrous life on scraps of paper while awaiting trial for a crime he hasn't committed. This humorous novel is set in a Japanese-owned America, where everything is run for profit. By the author of "Slaughterhouse 5".. Author:VONNEGUT, KURT. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SOLOMON GURSKY WAS HERE This comic novel won the 1990 Commonwealth Writers Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Moses Berger decides to write a history of the wealthy Gursky family in Canada, and traces it back to the mysterious Solomon's grandfather - a forger, Arctic explorer and self-styled rabbi.. Author:RICHLER, MORDECAI. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN In this biography of Wittgenstein, the author interleaves the philosophical and emotional aspects of his subject's life.. Author:MONK, RAY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SOMETHING HAPPENED Bob Slocum is a promising executive and society demands that he should be happy. But his wife is a drunken flirt and his daughter wages her own cunning campaign against him. Slocum's soliloquy moves to a shocking climax as fate hands him a tragic focus for his despair.. Author:HELLER, JOSEPH. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TO KNOW A WOMAN Following the bizarre accidental death of his wife, an Israeli secret agent retires to the suburbs. After a lifetime of uncovering other people's secrets, he is forced to look back at the lies he has told himself. The author's other books include "My Michael" and "The Slopes of Lebanon".. Author:OZ, AMOS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : RISE AND FALL OF THE THIRD CHIMPANZEE More than 98per cent of human genes are shared with two species of chimpanzee. This is a survey of man's life-cycle, culture, sexuality and destructive urges - both towards ourselves and the planet - which explores the ways in which we are uniquely human, yet still influenced by our animal origins.. Author:DIAMOND, JARED. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PATRIMONY Novelist Philip Roth's account of his 86-year-old father's last year. Suffering from a brain tumour and fighting death, Herman is accompanied through each fearful stage of his final ordeal by his son, who marvels at his father's long, stubborn engagement with life.. Author:ROTH, PHILIP. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SAINT MAYBE In 1967 the Bedlow family lives quietly in Baltimore - an ideal, apple-pie household. The youngest, 17-year-old Ian, seems just an ordinary boy - until suddenly he feels compelled to tell his older brother that his wife's been unfaithful. The author won the Pulitzer Prize for "Breathing Lessons".. Author:TYLER, ANNE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MAO II Written by the author of "Libra", which won the Aer Lingus International Fiction Prize, this novel is about words and images, novelists and terrorists. It is haunted by the intermingled spirits of such diverse figures as Andy Warhol and Mao Zedong.. Author:DELILLO, DON. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DINNER AT THE HOMESICK RESTAURANT Pearl Tull is the matriarchal head of the Tull family since being abandoned by her husband Beck 35 years ago. She was left to bring up their three children. The author also wrote "Saint Maybe", "The Clock Winder", "Morgan's Passing" and "If Morning Ever Comes".. Author:TYLER, ANNE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BROTHERS KARAMAZOV An English version of Dostoevsky's last novel that reveals all its levels of artistry and intention, as murder mystery, black comedy, pioneering work of psychological realism, and enduring statement about freedom, sin and suffering.. Author:DOSTOEVSKY, FYODOR. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : RATNER'S STAR Billy Twillig has won the first Nobel Prize ever to be given in mathematics. Set in the near future, this book charts an innocent's education when Billy is sent to live in the company of 30 Nobel laureates and he is asked to decipher transmissions from outer space. By the author of "Libra".. Author:DELILLO, DON. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PLAYERS Explores the dark side of contemporary affluence and its discontents. Pammy and Lyle Wynant are a modern New York couple who seem to have it all. But behind their "ideal" life is a lingering boredom and quiet desperation which leads them into violent adventures. By the author of "Ratner's Star".. Author:DELILLO, DON. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FAMISHED ROAD Azaro is a spirit child, born to live only a short while before returning to the idyllic world of his spirit companions. Now he has chosen to stay in the world of the living and this is his story.. Author:OKRI, BEN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ORANGES ARE NOT THE ONLY FRUIT This title, the winner of the 1985 Whitbread Award for a First Novel, chronicles the struggles of a young girl against a domineering mother and the strictures of religion. The novel takes a look at religious excess and human obsession.. Author:WINTERSON, JEANETTE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BARNEY'S VERSION Even Barney Penofsky's friends tend to agree that he is a wife-abuser, an intellectual fraud, a purveyor of pap, a violent drunk, and probably a murderer. But when his sworn enemy threatens to publish this calumny, Barney is driven to write his own memoirs, selecting and plagiarizing his life.. Author:RICHLER, MORDECAI. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : INFLATIONARY UNIVERSE The author, one of the world's foremost cosmologists, sets out to answer the vexed question surrounding the Big Bang Theory: if matter can neither be created nor destroyed, how could so much matter arise from nothing? This is the story of Guth's quest to understand the origins of the universe.. Author:GUTH, ALAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CULTURE AND IMPERIALISM From Jane Austen to Salman Rushdie, and from Yeats to the news coverage of the Gulf War, this is broad account of the roots of imperialism in European culture, and an analysis of the impact of 19th-century British and French imperialism on the culture of the period.. Author:SAID, EDWARD W.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MYTHOLOGIES A series of essays in which Barthes seeks to tear away masks and demystify the signs, signals, gestures and messages through which western society sustains, sells, identifies and yet obscures itself.. Author:BARTHES, ROLAND. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WISE CHILDREN Shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize and "The Sunday Express" Book of the Year Award, this is a comic and bawdy tale of the tangled fortunes of two theatrical families. It is populated with sets of twins and mistaken identities, and spans more than a century of showbusiness.. Author:CARTER, ANGELA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CRIME AND PUNISHMENT Begun as a novel concerned with the psychology of a crime and the process of guilt, this title eventually takes on the tragic force of myth.. Author:DOSTOEVSKY, FYODOR. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ORLANDO Originally conceived by Virginia Woolf as a playful tribute to Vita Sackville-West, this novel's central character lives as both a man and a woman through four centuries.. Author:WOOLF, VIRGINIA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : JACOB'S ROOM Jacob Flanders first appears as a child playing by the seaside. The novel follows his progress to school, to Cambridge, to London, Paris, Italy, Greece and to his death in World War I. A portrait of a young man, this is also a tribute to the generation which was decimated in the Great War.. Author:WOOLF, VIRGINIA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LORDS OF THE HORIZONS An evocation of the power of the Ottoman Empire, which swelled and declined over a period of six centuries. The book charts its history from the first campaigns to the Charge of the Light Brigade, from the Crusades to the Dardanelles, and aims to bring to life details of Ottoman life.. Author:GOODWIN, JASON. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LIES OF SILENCE When the IRA orders Dillon to park his car at a Belfast hotel, he knows he's planting a bomb that will kill and maim dozens. He also knows his wife will be killed if he disobeys. The author's award-winning novels include "The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne" and "The Great Victorian Collection".. Author:MOORE, BRIAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GAME Cassandra, an Oxford don, and Julia, a best-selling novelist, are sisters who share disturbing memories of a bizarre childhood game - and of Simon, who loved them both. The memories re-surface when they see Simon on a television programme, and their relationship is played out to a fatal finish.. Author:BYATT, A.S.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : JAILBIRD When Walter F. Starbuck, the least celebrated of the Watergate conspirators, is freed from jail after two years, his first 24 hours of freedom take shape with the unforeseen turns of fortune and moral innuendo of an urban fairytale. The author's other novels include "Slaughterhouse 5".. Author:VONNEGUT, KURT. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : VISIT . Author:DURRENMATT, FRIEDRICH. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WE DIDN'T MEAN TO GO TO SEA The four Walker children are dismayed when they discover that the friend's yacht they have been staying on is drifting out to sea in a thick fog, and their friend is still on shore.. Author:RANSOME, ARTHUR. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PIGEON POST . Author:RANSOME, ARTHUR. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PETER DUCK . Author:RANSOME, ARTHUR. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LIFE OF PICASSO 1907-17: PAINTER OF MODERN LIFE The first volume of this biography emphasized Picasso's Spanish roots from Malaga to Barcelona. This volume covers ten pivotal years of Picasso's life. It describes his relationship with Cocteau, his affair with Fernande Olivier, and the influence of women on his art.. Author:RICHARDSON, JOHN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MORTALS The final element in Norman Rush's trilogy on the Western presence in contemporary South Africa. Set in Botswana in the 1990s, the novel provides a political adventure, a social comedy and a passionate love story.. Author:RUSH, NORMAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BRONTE MYTH This "afterlife" explores one of the great legends of literary history, beginning with Charlotte Bronte's first attempts to mould her own and her sisters' public image, and following the Brontes through their many reincarnations at the hands of their biographers.. Author:MILLER, LUCASTA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PISTILS This third volume of the work of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe collects together his flower studies. Mapplethorpe's reputation rests largely on his black and white sexual imagery, yet he was an elegant still-life photographer.. Author:MAPPLETHORPE, ROBERT. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : STRANGER MUSIC Brings together Cohen's song lyrics and a selection of his poetry (originally published between 1956 and 1992).. Author:COHEN, LEONARD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GRIMALKIN AND OTHER POEMS The poems in this volume are all concerned, one way or another, with achieving a balance in the face of gravity. Lynch looks for this equilibrium between equal and opposing forces, such as sex and death, and love and grief - all the things that make us mortal and memorable.. Author:LYNCH, THOMAS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DOWNING STREET DIARY . Author:DONOUGHUE, BERNARD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LAND OF GHOSTS . Author:CAMPBELL, DAVID G. (HENRY R. LUCE PROFESSOR OF NATIONS AND THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT, GRINNELL UNIVERSITY, USA). Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CASTLES OF STEEL In August 1914 the two greatest navies in the world confronted each other across the North Sea. This is a book about leadership and command, bravery and timidity, genius and folly.. Author:MASSIE, ROBERT K.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MARGARET THATCHER 1925-1979 This first volume in a biography of Margaret Thatcher, explores her early life, re-examining the mythology and suggesting a more complex reality behind the idealized pictures previously presented. It presents an ambitious, ruthless, determined woman.. Author:CAMPBELL, JOHN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BURNING HUNGER This story of a remarkable family who embrace just about every facet of the liberation struggle follows mainly the four sons who all lived very different lives. Rocks was a high-ranked army officer, Tsieti went underground then into exile, Dee became a key figure on the Johannesburg council and Mpho established the Soweto Youth Congress.. Author:SCHUSTER, LYNDA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BELLOCQ A collection of photographs, taken around 1912, of New Orleans prostitutes. They include some previously unpublished photographs, many of which are marked by the patina of their age, with which they are considered to have acquired a heightened and evocative beauty.. Author:BELLOCQ, E.J.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ROAD TO REALITY This book aims to provide a comprehensive account of our present understanding of the physical universe, and the essentials of its underlying mathematical theory.. Author:PENROSE, ROGER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FROM THE SHADOW OF DRACULA In this meticulously researched new biography of Bram Stoker, Paul Murray illuminates a multi-faceted man of extraordinary creativity. Dracula is presented in the context of Stoker's life and entire fictional output.. Author:MURRAY, PAUL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ETHEL AND ERNEST The story of Raymond Briggs's parents' marriage, from their first, chance encounter to their deaths. Told in Briggs's familiar strip-cartoon format, with nothing embroidered or altered, the book is also a social history of a kind, embracing such events as World War II and the advent of television.. Author:BRIGGS, RAYMOND. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ONE YAK CALLED JACK . Author:LABROSSE, DARCIA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CHERRY A biography of Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1886-1959), one of the youngest members of Captain Scott's final expedition to the Antarctic. Cherry's life was a terrible struggle against depression, breakdown and despair, haunted by the possibility that he could have saved Scott and his companions.. Author:WHEELER, SARA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SELECTED POEMS Michael Longley's life in Northern Ireland has contributed to the complexity of a poetic universe in this collection where love, friendship and aesthetics contend with war, death and violence. He looks to poets such as Homer and Ovid, and the poets of the world wars, for his mentors.. Author:LONGLEY, MICHAEL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY IN MUDVILLE Among Stephen Jay Gould's many gifts was his ability to write eloquently about baseball, his great passion. Through the years, the renowned palaeontologist published numerous essays on the sport which have now been collected in this volume.. Author:GOULD, STEPHEN JAY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : VILLA AND ZAPATA Emiliano Zapata and Pancho Villa are two of the best-known figures in Mexican history. This dual biography examines their lives and the impact they had on the Mexican Revolution of 1910 to 1919.. Author:MCLYNN, FRANK. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : REQUIEM Between the French Indochina war of the 1950's and the fall of Phnom Penn and Saigon in 1975, 134 war photographers were killed. In this volume many thousands of photographs have been gathered to form a monument to the dead and a record of war photography in south-east Asia.. Author:. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : YELLOW DOG A post-9/11 comedy, concerned with what is perhaps unchangeable: patriarchy and the entire edifice of masculinity; the enormous category-error of violence between man and man; the tortuous alliances between men and women; and the illusion/delusion that we can protect our future and our progeny.. Author:AMIS, MARTIN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : INDIA To photographer Don McCullin, India is the most visually exciting place in the world. He first discovered it in 1966, in the company of Eric Newby, and has returned many times since. These pictures depict "real life" in all its diversity.. Author:MCCULLIN, DON. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MAN WHO WALKS A scandelous theft has left a pub's World Cup cash kitty missing, causing a homeless drifter to pursue his eccentric uncle - "The Man Who Walks" - north, into the Highlands, to recover the #27,000. This novel concerns the nephew's progress and bizarre diversions, in pursuit of his uncle.. Author:WARNER, ALAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BOB DYLAN LYRICS, 1962-96 This volume contains all Bob Dylan's lyrics, from the beginning of his career to his last album, "Time Out of Mind".. Author:DYLAN, BOB. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FULL MOON This is a visual journey to the moon and back. In the course of the Apollo missions the astronauts took 32,000 photographs, shot on the Hasselblad cameras. From 900 of these photographs, Michael Light has constructed a composite journey including the launch, a walk in space, and moon orbit.. Author:LIGHT, MICHAEL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ON HUNTING The feelings stirred by hunting are here explored by writer and philosopher Roger Scruton. Drawing on his own experiences of hunting, and offering a portrait of the people and animals who take part in it, Scruton introduces the reader to some of the mysteries of country life.. Author:SCRUTON, ROGER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : STILL LIFE IN MILFORD A collection of poems from the writer of the cult classic, "The Undertaking". Examining the dynamics of faith, remembrance and intimate conduct, these poems are informed by the tribulations and visions that make up the ordinary enterprise of daily life.. Author:LYNCH, THOMAS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MANSLAUGHTER UNITED The Kingston Arrows are an unusual football team. Confined to playing home matches at HMP Kingston, the players are nine convicted murderers serving life sentences and two of their warders. Chris Hulme spent a season with them.. Author:HULME, CHRIS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : RULES OF PERSPECTIVE . Author:THORPE, ADAM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GEMMA BOVERY When Gemma Bovery receives a sudden windfall she takes her family across the Channel to Normandy, but the charms of French country life soon wear off. Is it by chance, then, that she bears a similar name to Flaubert's heroine? And that she too is bored and adulterous? Is she doomed as well?. Author:SIMMONDS, POSY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BILL BRANDT Although born in Hamburg in 1904, Bill Brandt's photographic work struck at the heart of what was "English" from the publication of his first book, "The English at Home" in the 1930s to his later famous landscapes. This title explores his life and work.. Author:DELANY, PAUL (HEAD, DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY, BRITISH COLOMBIA, CANADA). Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ASYLUM DANCE Lucid, tender and strangely troubing, the poems in Burnside's seventh collection are hymns to the tension between the sanctuary of home and the lure of escape.. Author:BURNSIDE, JOHN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : I'M A LITTLE SPECIAL Muhammad Ali has been labelled celebrity, draft dodger, activist, poet, victim and inspiration, depending on the year. This text aims to reintroduce some perspective to the myth that has grown up around the man with a collection of divers articles from the 1960s to the late 1990s.. Author:ALI, MUHAMMAD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : JOHN FOWLES This biography of John Fowles chronicles his pre-war childhood in Leigh-on-Sea and in wartime rural England, his Oxford education, his apprentice years in Europe and London and, from a lifetime of intimate correspondence, narrates Fowles's 37-year love affair with his wife Elizabeth, the woman who inspired his most memorable female characters.. Author:WARBURTON, EILEEN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GODFORSAKEN SEA Account of the 1996-97 Vendee Globe round-the-world yacht race - interviews with the sailors, intercut with descriptions of meteorology and physics of the sea. It covers how we are drawn to the sea and how it repels us, how storms are born, architecture of boats and why people risk their lives to sail.. Author:LUNDY, DEREK. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LIFE OF GRAHAM GREENE 1955-1991 The third and final volume of Sherry's biography takes Greene from his amusingly frustrating journey to China to the very real peril of Cuba, the rigours of the Belgian Congo, through tumultuous Haiti, Nicaragua and Panama, his confrontation with the French Mafia and then into Spain, up to his quiet death in Switzerland aged 86.. Author:SHERRY, NORMAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ENZO FERRARI Ferrari, the name itself evokes the world of speed, a world of fast cars, heroic deeds and glamour. This is the story of the man behind the name. This biography goes back to Enzo Ferrari's origins and traces his remarkable rise to prominence.. Author:WILLIAMS, RICHARD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DEVIL'S DISCIPLES In this chronological narrative, the author shows how the personalities of Hitler's inner circle developed and how their jealousies and constant intrigues affected the regime, the war and Hitler himself. It focuses on Goring, Goebbels, Himmler, Bormann, Speer and Ribbentrop.. Author:READ, ANTHONY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BABYWATCHING Paperback edition to this guide to the first 12 months of human life. In a revealing portrait of life, from the baby's point of view, Desmond Morris answers the questions parents ask: Do babies dream? What makes them cry, or smile? How well can they hear, smell and taste? and more.. Author:MORRIS, DESMOND. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DREAM OF SCIPIO Set in Provence at three diffrent critical moments of Western Civilization - the collapse of the Roman Empire in the 5th century, the Black Death in the 14th, and World War II, this novel follows the fortunes of three men: a Gallic aristocrat, a poet and an intellectual.. Author:PEARS, IAIN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS On 10th February 1567, an explosion devastated the Edinburgh residence of Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary Queen of Scots. This investigation into Darnley's murder sheds light on the actions and motives of the conspirators and, in particular, the extent of Mary's own involvement.. Author:WEIR, ALISON. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ROGER MAYNE PHOTOGRAPHS In the space of three days in 1956, Roger Mayne photographed children at play in a street in North Kensington. The photographs of Southam Street became evidence of a community and way of life that vanished under the eyes of developers and politicians. These pictures capture the essence of the age.. Author:MAYNE, ROGER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WORD FREAK To many, Scrabble is just a board game. For others it's an intellectual pilgrimage, a balancing act between language and mathematics. This book charts the history and theory of the game, alongside the authors own rise from living-room player to competitive shark.. Author:FATSIS, STEFAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WAR, BABY This is the story of what brought Nigel Benn and Gerald McClellan together on the night of the 25th of February 1995 and how that night changed them forever. It's a story too about those associated with the promotion of public fist fighting, who bend morality to suit their needs.. Author:MITCHELL, KEVIN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : IT'S NOT ABOUT THE BIKE Lance Armstrong won the 1999 Tour de France in spectacular style, taking four stages and both a mountain and a time trial. His story is even more remarkable because he was diagnosed with stage 4 testicular cancer in October 1996.. Author:ARMSTRONG, LANCE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GHOST WORLD A graphic novel, which tells of the adventures of Enid Coleslaw and Beck Doppelmeyer, two bored, supremely ironic teenage girls. They pass the time complaining about the guys they know and fantasising about strange men they see in the local diner.. Author:CLOWES, DANIEL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BLOOD, TIN, STRAW Each section of this anthology suggests the progression of the making of a soul cleansed by blood, forged by fire, suffused by light. Unafraid to confront the ecstatic of the brutal side of a woman's experience, Olds transforms the subjects with an alchemist's art, using language that is casual and startling, fierce and transcendent.. Author:OLDS, SHARON. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : NELSON . Author:SUGDEN, JOHN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ON BULLFIGHTING Sex and death are brought together in bullfighting. A man faces death while the crowd looks on, and so people are drawn to the arena to witness the ultimate spectator sport. Here A.L. Kennedy explores all the definitions: sport, art form, stylized torture.. Author:KENNEDY, A.L.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LONGEST SILENCE From the river in his backyard to the holiest waters of the fly-fisher's world, Thomas McGuane's obsession takes him to Ireland, Montana, Argentina, New Zealand and Russia. "The Longest Silence" shows what a life dedicated to sport reveals about life.. Author:MCGUANE, THOMAS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ON GOLF Since his childhood initiation into the mysteries of golf, Timothy O'Grady has been obsessed with the sport. This personal history tells how his father played and taught his son, how golf dominated his teenage years, his adulation of Arnold Palmer and what it was like to eventually beat his father.. Author:O'GRADY, TIMOTHY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ON GOLF . Author:O'GRADY, TIMOTHY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GEMMA BOVERY Is is a coincidence that Gemma Bovery has a name rather like Flaubert's notorious heroine? Is it by chance that, like Madame Bovary, Gemma is bored, adulterous, and a bad credit risk? Is she inevitably doomed? These questions consume her neighbour.. Author:SIMMONDS, POSY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ON PENALTIES The England football team is notorious for missing penalty kicks in vital matches. This book asks whether England can overcome their phobia of the penalty? The author looks at the history of the penalty from its arrival in 1890 to its dramatic effects on the contemporary game.. Author:ANTHONY, ANDREW. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BREAKING THE CHAIN Written by an author who is close to the centre of the sport, this book discusses the revelations claiming drug abuse amongst participants in the 1998 "Tour de France". Voet reveals how close the sport was to being totally destroyed by the regular use of cocaine, amphetamines, EPO and heroin.. Author:VOET, WILLY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PIG WHO SANG TO THE MOON Weaving history, literature, science, and his own vivid experiences observing pigs, cows, sheep, goats, and chickens, Masson bears witness to the emotions and intelligence of these remarkable animals, each unique with distinct qualities.. Author:MASSON, JEFFREY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BEAUTY OF THE HUSBAND A long-time love, now a crumbling marriage, unfolds in 29 "tangos" of narrative verse, informed by the poet's own sensibility. This is a work that explores the oldest of lyrical subjects - beauty, desire, love, betrayal - with freshness and power.. Author:CARSON, ANNE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CONSTANTS OF NATURE This text looks at the discoveries of the first constants of nature - gravity, velocity of light, electromagnetism and quantum mechanics - and the impact they had on scientists like Einstein. It also looks at whether they are truly constant or subject to the ravages of time.. Author:BARROW, JOHN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ON SNOOKER This look at the game of snooker begins with the author's own experiences and leads into a history of the game from its beginnings in the 19th century. He explores the "bad boys" of snooker, from Alex Higgins to Ronnie O'Sullivan, and focuses particularly on Stephen Hendry.. Author:RICHLER, MORDECAI. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SEMIAUTOMATIC Having resolved an explosive case in a controversial manner, lawyer Andrew Giobberti was exiled from the high-powered DA's Homicide Bureau to the dusty decay of the Appeals Bureau. But now the powers that be want this brilliant, difficult prosecutor back in the courtroom.. Author:REULAND, ROBERT. Discounted by 18%

Vintage : MARGARET THATCHER IRON LADY John Campbell draws on the mass of memoirs and diaries of Mrs Thatcher's colleagues, aides, advisers and rivals, as well as on original material from the Ronald Reagan archive, shedding light on the Reagan-Thatcher "special relationship", and on dozens of interviews.. Author:CAMPBELL, JOHN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SHALIMAR THE CLOWN . Author:RUSHDIE, SALMAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : KELLY AND VICTOR The story of Kelly and Victor progresses through two mirror-image narratives: a story of the growth and spiralling intensity of a sexual obsession, traced to its inevitable, devastating conclusion. Above everything, it is a love story - or all that 21st-century Britain will allow of one.. Author:GRIFFITHS, NIALL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GIVE US THIS DAY . Author:TULLOCH, JONATHAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ROUGH RIDE Second revised edition of the Irish rider's frank insight into the world of professional cycling, addressing the issue of drugs in sport. Kimmage rode in the Tour de France three times, before leaving the sport and becoming a journalist. Originally published by Stanley Paul. Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year, 1990.. Author:KIMMAGE, PAUL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : VOYAGE BY DHOW In over 60 years of travelling and writing, Norman Lewis has yet to find a place that is not worth visiting, or to make a journey that is not worth reporting. From pre-war Aden to the jungles of South America, this collection takes the reader through a long and distinguished career.. Author:LEWIS, NORMAN. Discounted by 18%

Vintage : YEATS IS DEAD! A serial novel by 15 of the brightest talents in Irish writing (including Marian Keyes, Pauline McLynn, Gina Moxley and Frank McCourt), telling an elaborate tale of murder, mayhem and literary shenanigans in present-day Dublin. Approximately #1 from every copy sold will go to Amnesty International.. Author:CRONIN, ANTHONY DOYLE, RODDY ET AL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PUT ME BACK ON MY BIKE This is an evaluation of the life and tragic death of the cyclist Tom Simpson, Olympic medallist, world champion and the first Briton to wear the fabled yellow jersey of the Tour de France. Despite admitting to using banned drugs and being accused of fixing races, he inspired awe and affection.. Author:FOTHERINGHAM, WILLIAM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ON BECKHAM In 1998, David Beckham was scorned by the press for making two mistakes - he got a red card and he was photographed wearing a skirt. In 2002, teenaged girls pine over his posters and Thai monks build shrines to him. This title tracks his acsent from vilified man to national hero.. Author:BURCHILL, JULIE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PENDULUM OF WAR Based on extensive original research, the author paints a vivid picture of the fighting during the Battle of El Alamein. From the early and desperate days of July 1942 to the final, if costly, victory in November later that year, this is the story of an army that learnt from its mistakes.. Author:BARR, NIALL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : REFORM! A vivid account of the events surrounding the Reform Act of 1832 - the most important in the last 300 years of British parliamentary history. The new Whig government staggered everyone with a reform bill designed to wipe out rotten boroughs and enfranchise industrial towns.. Author:PEARCE, EDWARD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : JAPANESE RULES In 1993 Japan set up the professional J. League, a national project aimed at enrolling the Japanese as one of the world's footballing powers. After Japan's hosting of the World Cup in 2002 this book looks at what worked, what didn't and why.. Author:MOFFETT, SEBASTIAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SPANISH FLY Continuing where he left off in "A Spillage of Mercury", this collection of poetry from Neil Rollinson delves again into the dark, moist, unexpected bag of human experience. The poems explore the themes of love, sex and life's unpredictable mysteries.. Author:ROLLINSON, NEIL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : VIETNAM Photographer Larry Burrows was in Vietnam as the course of the war unfolded. He witnessed the coups in Saigon in 1963 and 1964 amd watched the policy of US advisors escalate events into full-blown war. In this work, his photographs include heroic events and the mundane routines of military life.. Author:BURROWS, LARRY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SELECTED POEMS Representing the best of ten books and 20 years' work, this is a magical mystery tour into Sweeney's strange, unsettling world. The secret, spiky narratives shift from the commonplace to the hallucinatory, from the surprisingly real to the really surprising.. Author:SWEENEY, MATTHEW. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HAROLD NICOLSON A biography of Nicolson after his 'Nigel Nicolson's Portrait of a Marriage'. It contains much new material, disentangling fact from fiction, showing a life of achievement, that he himself could only see as a life of failure.. Author:ROSE, NORMAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BOOKING PASSAGE . Author:LYNCH, THOMAS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BY PERMISSION OF HEAVEN This account of the Great Fire of London explores the history of a cataclysm and its consequences, from the first small blaze to the long work of rebuilding. It also describes the human story of the Fire and its aftermath - the panic and terror, the hunt for scapegoats and the rebirth of a city.. Author:TINNISWOOD, ADRIAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BOMB Bombs are only as old as hatred itself but, since 6 August 1945, "the". bomb has haunted our dreams and threatened our existence. This is a historical account of the life story of the nuclear bomb, from its development in physics labs and testing in Bikini and Australia to its legacy that hangs over us today.. Author:DEGROOT, GERARD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : NO TELLING Set in the Parisian suburbs of 1968, this novel is told through the voice of 12-year-old Gilles. As he and his friend Christophe try and piece together a world from fragments of rumour and hushed adult conversation, they discover a trauma deeper than anything Gilles could have dreamt of.. Author:THORPE, ADAM. Discounted by 18%

Vintage : BIG QUESTIONS IN SCIENCE In this work, leading scientific thinkers address 20 of the really big questions that people have been asking for hundreds of years, such as how are men and women different and how did the universe begin. Contributors include John Sulston, Susan Greenfield, John Barrow and David Buss.. Author:. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MICROCOSM In order to present a portrait of Central Europe, the authors study the history of Breslau, one of its major cities. The history of this city embodies all the experiences which have made Central Europe what it is, such as the rich mixture of nationalities and cultures.. Author:DAVIES, NORMAN MOORHOUSE, ROGER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : 1759 Although 1759 is not a date as well known in British history as 1215, 1588 or 1688, there is a strong case to be made that it is the most significant year since 1066, due to two great battles where Britain beat France for global supremacy and founded the first British Empire.. Author:MCLYNN, FRANK (VISITING PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF LITERATURE, STRATHCLYDE UNIVERSITY). Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GREATEST TRAITOR This biography of Sir Roger Mortimer traces the adventures of a brutal English baron who escaped the Tower of London in 1323, became Queen Isabella's lover, and later deposed her husband, Edward II, by force of arms. Until now, the full implications of his evil genius have lain largely unrevealed.. Author:MORTIMER, IAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : 1968 . Author:KURLANSKY, MARK. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : STALKING THE RIEMANN HYPOTHESIS . Author:ROCKMORE, DANIEL N.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : 21ST CENTURY BRAIN . Author:ROSE, STEVEN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FALLING HARD Chris Jones looked for a sport to call his own when he was hired as a rookie reporter and found boxing. In this title, readers can find out what happened when he was dressed down by Don King, went to Muhammed Ali's birthday party and witnessed Naseem Hamed explode while Mike Tyson imploded.. Author:JONES, CHRIS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PARADISE From the north-east of Scotland to Dublin, from London to Montreal, to Budapest and onwards, Hannah Luckraft travels beyond her limits, beyond herself, in search of the ultimate altered state: the one where she can be happy - her paradise.. Author:KENNEDY, A.L.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MAEVE BRENNAN Born in Dublin in 1917 to politically active parents, Maeve Brennan wrote fashion copy at "Harper's Bazaar" until being asked to join the "New Yorker". Focusing on migration, memory, and identity, as well as women's lives, she displayed a brilliant eye for human behaviour, fashion and style.. Author:BOURKE, ANGELA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DO NOT PASS GO The story of London since the 1930s is told through the 28 streets, stations and utilities of the Monopoly board. Sampling both rags and riches, the author stays in hotels in Mayfair and in the Old Kent Road; reveals how Pall Mall got its name; and which three addresses you won't find in your A-Z.. Author:MOORE, TIM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SPANISH STEPS . Author:MOORE, TIM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FARM Magazine photographer Jackie Nickerson quit the commercial world, bought a truck and spent two and a half years travelling through Southern Africa, photographing the small towns and the corporate plantations, taking portraits of farm workers in their workplace.. Author:NICKERSON, JACKIE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WILL IN THE WORLD The theatre for which Shakespeare wrote and acted was a cut-throat commercial entertainment industry. Yet his plays were also intensely alert to the social and political realities of their times.. Author:GREENBLATT, STEPHEN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SMILING AFFAIR After years of ghosthunting for a living, Jay Richards is tired of the whole business and wants to do something else. Then Zelda Smiling hires him to investigate a haunting at her family's ancestral seat, home to her glamorous twin sister, Helena, who once broke Jay's heart years ago.. Author:SHELDON, JEREMY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : YEARS OF LYNDON JOHNSON MASTER OF THE SENATE At the heart of part three in Caro's biography of Lyndon Johnson, is its revelation of how legislative power works, how the US Senate works, how Lyndon Johnson on his way to the presidency mastered both and how he used his power to pass the first Civil Rights legislation since 1868.. Author:CARO, ROBERT A.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TELL ME NO LIES In this anthology, John Pilger presents 35 articles and book extracts published between 1945 and the present day that have exposed injustice and abuse of power, with topics ranging from Vietnam and Cambodia to East Timor and Palestine. Many of the pieces "revisit" locations covered in Pilger's own reporting.. Author:. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : QUIET PLEASE Seduced by the glamour of sport's most compelling contest and obsessed with the desire to take part, Lawrence Donegan fails in his quest to become Sergio Garcia's bagman. Undeterred he does the next best thing - slipping on a steward's bib and wielding a 'Quiet Please' sign. This is the fan's-eye view from the back of the tee.. Author:DONEGAN, LAWRENCE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MAKING BABIES . Author:ENRIGHT, ANNE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ZENDURANCE "Zendurance" explores the capacity of ultra-distant athletes to control their mental states in order to produce supreme performances. In his quest for the truth about "Zendurance", the author talks to Channel swimmers and examines the feats of Buddhist monks and American Indians and more.. Author:DAVIES, HUW. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BREAD AND ASHES In 1998, Tony Anderson walked from the Caspian to the Black Sea, along the southern crest of the Caucasus. He found that Georgia, devastated time and again through history, has survived with a vibrant culture still intact and, in the mountains, still deeply connected to its ancient ways.. Author:ANDERSON, TONY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LULLABY A journalist notices a link between a number of victims of cot death. All of the children had the same poem read to them the night before they died. The journalist sets out to find and destroy every copy of the book containing the accursed poem.. Author:PALAHNUIK, CHUCK. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : NONFICTION . Author:PALAHNIUK, CHUCK. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FULL MOON First published in 1999 on the 30th anniversary of the first landing on the moon, this heavily illustrated volume depicts a composite journey to the moon and back to Earth using the original photographs that were taken at the time. This small-format version preserves the quality of the original.. Author:LIGHT, MICHAEL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BIG FIGHT On 19 July 1972, Muhammad Ali defeated Al "Blue" Lewis in 11 rounds at Croke Park, Dublin. It was an extraordinary week both for Ali and the sporting and cultural history of Ireland. Thirty years on, through interviews with dozens of those whose paths Ali crossed, Hannigan presents this narrative.. Author:HANNIGAN, DAVE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CAN'T BE SATISFIED The long-awaited biography of the man who invented electric blues, rising from the cotton fields to Chicago's South Side, and then on to international stardom. It follows Muddy Waters through scores of women, hits, bottles of booze and moments of divine grace.. Author:GORDON, ROBERT. Discounted by 18%

Vintage : PROF Frederick Lindemann, Viscount Cherwell, was one of the most influential yet least known figures of the 20th century. Born in 1886, he became Winston Churchill's scientific adviser and close friend and reached the pinnacle of political, scientific and social life in Britain.. Author:FORT, ADRIAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : YELLOW JERSEY COMPANION TO THE TOUR DE FRANCE Red polkadot, green, white and the fabled yellow - these are the colours to be seen in if you're riding the Tour de France. But if you've ever wondered why, this is the book for you. Everything you've wanted to know about the world's greatest sporting event.. Author:. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ISABELLA . Author:WEIR, ALISON. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DAVID BORING In this graphic novel, David Boring, a 19-year-old security guard with a tortured inner life and obsessive nature, finds love with a mysterious woman called Wanda. He also gets shot in the head (twice) and stranded on an island with his brutish family.. Author:CLOWES, DANIEL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LONG ROUND 'The Long Round' chronicles the lives of those who faced 'Iron' Mike Tyson when he dominated the heavyweight scene during the 1980s.. Author:CALDER-SMITH, DOMINIC. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : NINE LESSONS FROM THE DARK These poems perform an archaeology on lives lived. In this his fourth collection, Adam Thorpe continues his engagement with history, the living continuum that connects us with our near and distant past, nourishing and illuminating our present.. Author:THORPE, ADAM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : A-Z GUIDE TO MODERN BRITISH HISTORY This comprehensive survey of events, people and themes explores the interwoven culture, society, politics and economics of Britain at the start of the 21st century. Two hundred concise essays cover topics as diverse as pornography and the poll tax, the Blitz and New Labour.. Author:GARNETT, MARK WEIGHT, RICHARD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : RELATIONS This title offers a portrait of a middle-class kinship, reaching back into the past. It presents more than 200 years of English history, which show the gradual and uneven emancipation of women, the effects of the empire on family life and the importance to it of religion, education and money.. Author:MILLER, JANE. Discounted by 18%

Vintage : SOMETHING MIGHT HAPPEN On a Monday night in October, in a small seaside town in Suffolk, a woman is brutally murdered. But this is not a murder mystery: there are clues, detectives, all the paraphenalia of a whodunnit, but it is really the story of how a crime casts its shadow over everyone who lives in that community.. Author:MYERSON, JULIE. Discounted by 18%

Vintage : MUDDIED OAFS . Author:BEARD, RICHARD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BOOK AGAINST GOD Thomas Bunting, the charming, chaotic, and deeply untruthful narrator, is in despair; his marriage is disintegrating and his academic career is in ruins. Instead of completing his PhD, he is secretly writing a vast atheistic project entitled "The Book Against God".. Author:WOOD, JAMES. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : NAKED WOMAN . Author:MORRIS, DESMOND. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : JIMMY CORRIGAN Jimmy Corrigan - the creation of artist Chris Ware - is a boy with the face of a disappointed old man. This graphic novel tells the poignant story of a shy character and his relationship with his absent father. It was the first graphic novel to be awarded a major British literary prize.. Author:WARE, CHRIS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SICK NOTES Returning to her flat in Manchester, Esther writes "don't go out" on her hand in biro, and seems to have closed the door on the world. Then Newton appears, and the world opens. He has bad skin, a straggly beard and a drinker's face - but a fantastic smile. He changes everything. But for how long?. Author:RILEY, GWENDOLINE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SOMEWHERE ELSE . Author:WILSON, CHARLES RANGELY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GARRINCHA . Author:CASTRO, RUY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BEAUTIFUL GAME? . Author:CONN, DAVID. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HURRAH FOR THE BLACKSHIRTS! . Author:PUGH, MARTIN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PERSEPOLIS This work paints a portrait of daily life in Iran and of the bewildering contradictions between home life and public life. Amidst the tragedy, Marjane's child's eye view adds immediacy and humour, and her story of a childhood at once outrageous and ordinary, is imme. Author:SATRAPI, MARJANE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CLEAR CALLING From the age of 12, Robert Radnor had been in love with the idea of being a sailor. And a sailor he became, as much at home on the sea as other men were on land. Until the year of 1949, when Radnor's intuition about the sea suddenly deserted him - and he found himself alone with his fear.. Author:AUSTIN, DAVID. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : KEEPER OF DREAMS At the age of 20, Lars Leese was still playing in the "Westerwald" District League, yet by 28 he'd abandoned his job as a computer software salesman and was helping Barnsley to their 1:0 Premiership victory over Liverpool FC. This title traces his stratospheric rise and equally rapid fall.. Author:RENG, RONALD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : KEEPER OF DREAMS At the age of 20, Lars Leese was still playing in the 'Westerwald' District League, yet by 28 he'd abandoned his job as a computer software salesman and was helping Barnsley to their 1:0 Premiership victory over Liverpool FC. This title traces his stratospheric rise and equally rapid fall.. Author:RENG, RONALD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BETWEEN GENIUS AND GENOCIDE . Author:CHARLES, DANIEL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HAUNTED . Author:PALAHNIUK, CHUCK. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PRISON HOUSE The first-person narrative of a young English traveller locked up in a Greek jail for a crime he didn't commit, "The Prison House" is a visceral, violent and compelling novel by the author of "The Football Factory".. Author:KING, JOHN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : IRRESPONSIBLE SELF With studies of Shakespeare, Dickens and Dostoevsky, Naipaul, Pritchett and Bellow, 'The Irresponsible Self' offers more exhilarating despatches from one of our finest living critics.. Author:WOOD, JAMES. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : 100 SUNS This is a collection of 100 previously classified photographs of nuclear tests, accompanied by pictures of the witnesses, conducted by the US between 1945 and 1962, in the Nevada desert and on various Pacific islands. Captions and a chronology of the development of the nuclear bomb are included.. Author:LIGHT, MICHAEL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SOME GREAT THING Set in Ottawa in the 1970s, two men, from different ends of society, see the opportunities. But love is suffocated by work; the drive to succeed and individuals are crushed by money and progress. When both men understand what they are losing, the story spirals to an astonishing conclusion.. Author:MCADAM, COLIN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MEGALITHS This collection of photographs of English and Welsh megalithic sites is accompanied by text by which describes the legends surrounding each megalith site, highlighting the folklore tradition, then addressing the mathematical and astronomical significance of the major sites such as Stonehenge.. Author:CORIO, LAI NGAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : EVERY SECOND COUNTS In this title, Lance Armstrong offers us his life philosophy - his thoughts on training, competing, winning and failure. He also recounts the work done for the Foundation he set up following his dramatic recovery from testicular cancer and introduces further inspirational tales of cancer survival.. Author:ARMSTRONG, LANCE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WITNESSES OF WAR Even in this most murderous of European wars, children were not merely passive victims of genocide, bombing, mechanised warfare, starvation policies and mass flight. They were also active participants, going out to smuggle food, ply the black market, and care for sick parents and siblings.. Author:STARGARDT, NICHOLAS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : POKER NATION On his way to a master's in astrophysics, Andy Bellin made the mistake of falling in love with poker. This volume is a history of the world's most popular card game, a how-to-manual that can make readers better players and the story of one man's obsession.. Author:BELLIN, ANDY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : JOURNALS OF JOHN FOWLES Commencing with his final year at Oxford, this first volume of John Fowles' journals chronicles the year he spent lecturing at a university in France; his experiences teaching on the Greek Island of Spetsai and his love afair there; and his return to England and struggle to achieve literary success.. Author:FOWLES, JOHN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : IN DOCTOR NO'S GARDEN From a lonely mother attempting to learn the piano to a ski-jump that never ends, from a redemptive encounter with horses on a cold day to a miraculous bowl of chicken soup, this is a collection of poems by Henry Shukman.. Author:SHUKMAN, HENRY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PLANET EARTH This collection of satellite imagery, gathered by the German Space Centre in collaboration with space centres from Mexico to India and with its partners at NASA, has been processed through computers and can reveal more than is normally visable such as geological strata and the eye of a hurricane.. Author:. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : INFINITE BOOK . Author:BARROW, JOHN D.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : STAND UP AND FIGHT . Author:ENGLISH, ALAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : RORY AND ITA The story of Roddy Doyle's parents, how they met at a dance in 1947 and married in 1951. They recall details of their Dublin childhoods - the people, the politics, the Wexford countryside; and through their eyes, the intensely Catholic society of their youth transforms to today's vibrant Ireland.. Author:DOYLE, RODDY. Discounted by 18%

Vintage : HARD WATER In this second collection of her poetry, Jean Sprackland shows us the vertigo and vulnerability of human experience with clarity. Her poems are awash with water: a flooded forest, acid rain, an inland tidal wave, jelly fish washed up on the beach that "lay like saints/unharvested, luminous".. Author:SPRACKLAND, JEAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TOM BOLER . Author:KING, DAREN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ON BEING JOHN MCENROE Talking to John McEnroe, his friends and his rivals, and drawing on a range of references, Tim Adams presents a book that is both a fan's-eye portrait of one of the most vivid players to pick up a tennis racket and a study of the idea of sporting obsession.. Author:ADAMS, TIM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ON BEING JOHN MCENROE John McEnroe, at both his best and worst, defined a generation. His quest for perfection, combined with his unstable temper, dramatized the 1980s. Here, the author tries to understand what is was to be McEnroe during this period, drawing parallels between top sports heroes and how we measure our own lives.. Author:ADAMS, TIM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MUSCLE 'Muscle' is the result of two years spent in the land of the giants, men for whom life is given meaning by the pursuit of the perfect pec and who worship at the altar of Arnie. The author fights his unpromising genetics to pump iron with both wannabes and legends, and undergoes his own transformation along the way.. Author:HOTTEN, JON. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MUSCLE . Author:HOTTEN, JON. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TIP OF MY TONGUE This new collection of Crawford's poetry is a celebration of the world he lives in. These are poems that are convincingly earthed in the land and the language and yet unafraid of spiritual, even religious notes, and shot through with a humour and vitality that is engaging.. Author:CRAWFORD, ROBERT. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TIETAM BROWN In the world of WWF wrestling, Mick Foley is a legend. In this, his first novel, ex-reform school boy Antienam Brown is driven to find out whether he's descended from a monster or a hero, as he searches for the truth in the dangerous undercurrents of his father's past and present.. Author:FOLEY, MICK. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MAZE Set in Anatolia in 1922, 'The Maze' is the story of a retreating Greek brigade that has lost its way. It is pursued by a Turkish army that seeks to avenge three years of Greek occupation. No help is forthcoming.. Author:KARNEZIS, PANOS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FOOTBALLEUR In this autobiography, Robert Pires describes how he turned his dreams of playing football for a living into reality; the sacrifices he made; the injuries he has had to endure; the rewards and demand of playing in the Premiership; and how his time with Arsene Wenger and Arsenal has transformed him.. Author:PIRES, ROBERT. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FOOTBALLEUR . Author:PIRES, ROBERT. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PALESTINE Combining the techniques of eyewitness reportage with the medium of comic-book storytelling to explore the complex, emotionally weighty subject of Palestine, this one-volume work combines the previously published nine-issue comic series that won a 1996 American Book Award.. Author:SACCO, JOE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WHO'S YOUR CADDY? Who knows a golfer best? Who's with them every minute of every round, hears their every word, witnesses their despair and triumph? The caddy of course. With this in mind, sportswriter Rick Reilly hired himself out as a caddy to many of the golfing legends, and this title chronicles his experiences.. Author:REILLY, RICK. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FOURTH CRUSADE AND THE SACK OF CONSTANTINOPLE In this re-assessment of the 13th century Fourth Crusade, Jonathan Phillips doesn't just follow the fortunes of the leading players, but explores the conflicting motives that drove the expedition to commit the most infamous massacre of the crusading movement and looks at the experience of crusading from the perspective of a knight.. Author:PHILLIPS, JONATHAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SONGS AND VERSE . Author:DAHL, ROALD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : AMARILLO SLIM IN A WORLD FULL OF FAT PEOPLE In this volume, the famous gambler, Amarillo Slim, reveals the story of his extraordinary life and the secrets of his even more extraordinary success.. Author:PRESTON, THOMAS AUSTIN DINKIN, GREG. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : AMARILLO SLIM IN A WORLD FULL OF FAT PEOPLE Gambler Thomas Austin Preston - 'Amarillo Slim' - reveals the story of his extraordinary life and the secrets of his successful gambling career.. Author:PRESTON, THOMAS AUSTIN DINKIN, GREG. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : POLITICS This debut novel tells two stories with a common theme of kindness. Concerning a father and daughter, it is also a love story - with digressions. Among other things, it is also about being half-Jewish, Bollywood, Chairman Mao's personal hygiene, the late Queen Mother, and pink fluffy handcuffs.. Author:THIRLWELL, ADAM. Discounted by 18%

Vintage : BROKEN BOY . Author:COCKBURN, PATRICK. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DON MCCULLIN The definitive retrospective of one of Britain's leading photographers, and arguably the greatest recorder of conflict in the latter 20th century. With unswerving compassion, McCullin shows us wars in Cyprus, Biafra, Vietnam, Cambodia and Beirut, as well as riots in Derry and famine in Bangladesh.. Author:MCCULLIN, DON SONTAG, SUSAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : THOMAS GAGE Julious Goodby proposes that the North Norfolk Railway should cross Thomas Gage's land. With the railway comes tragedy, and Gage's life begins to unravel until, Waterloo medal on his chest, he travels to London to watch the Duke of Wellington's funeral and to take his revenge.. Author:FLEMING, JAMES. Discounted by 18%

Vintage : TOMB IN SEVILLE An account of a journey Norman Lewis made in 1934 with his Sicilian brother-in-law, Eugene Corvaja, to the cathedral in Seville, the site of the Corvaja family tomb. But Spain is on the brink of Civil War and by the time they reach Madrid, the bullets are flying.. Author:LEWIS, NORMAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WRECKAGE . Author:GRIFFITHS, NIALL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : NATASHA AND OTHER STORIES A collection of stories about Soviet Jewish immigrants to Canada. Sad but comic, Bezmozgis writes with compassion about the pains and joys of immigration.. Author:BEZMOZGIS, DAVID. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MAO . Author:CHANG, JUNG HALLIDAY, JON. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : EVERYTHING WILL BE ALL RIGHT Spanning five decades of extraordinary change in women's lives, this novel explores the complicated relationships of one family. The young ones of each generation are sure that they can correct the mistakes of their parents, and live better than they did. The truth, of course, is not so obvious.. Author:HADLEY, TESSA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ITALIAN BOY Legislation which marked the end of body-snatching in 1830s Britain was the result of investigations in "The Italian Boy" case in which "examples" for dissection were supplied to anatomy schools. This title examines this episode in history and the lives of lower-class Londoners of the period.. Author:WISE, SARAH. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HELEN OF TROY . Author:HUGHES, BETTANY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ROME OR DEATH . Author:PICK, DANIEL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : 100 . Author:. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : 11 EMERALD STREET Robbie's injury changes everything. When he returns to consciousness, he believes that God has given him the power to perform miracles. Then tragedy strikes closer to home and Robbie needs all his powers, miraculous or perhaps just the fruits of a fertile imagination, to keep his world intact.. Author:O'DONNELL, HUGH. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : REVELATIONS . Author:ARBUS, DOON. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HEAT . Author:BUFORD, BILL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TIME TRIALS . Author:LEMOND, GREG. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : K . Author:CALASSO, ROBERTO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : THESE DAYS In these poems, Leontia Flynn writes about Belfast and the north of Ireland. Her subject matter ranges from memories of childhood to the instabilities of adulthood, from the raw domestic to the restless pull of 'elsewhere'. Her theme throughout is a search for physical and mental well-being, for a way to live a life.. Author:FLYNN, LEONTIA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LEMON TABLE If Julian Barnes' new collection of stories has a theme, it is 'rage in age', as each character faces death in a different way. The settings range from 18th-century Sweden to the 'Barnet Shop', a hairdressing salon where an old man measures out his life in haircuts. In another story, a music lover campaigns against those who cough in concerts.. Author:BARNES, JULIAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BIG BOSOMS AND SQUARE JAWS Offers a wild portrait of Russ Meyer, the director, writer, producer and movie making force behind such sexploitation classics as Faster, Pussycat, and Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. The story of greed, lust and the American way.. Author:MCDONOUGH, JIMMY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LOREDANA In 1700, a Venetian priest, Fra Benedict Loredan, compiles an assembly of documents - letters, written confessions, top-secret state files, diary excerpts, pieces of a secret chronicle - which together tell the story of two lovers caught up in a dangerous and controversial revolutionary movement.. Author:MARTINES, LAURO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TIME OF HER LIFE Molly McIntyre was born in 1984 with an abnormality in the formation of her muscles. Her mother, Lesley, a photographer, was told that Molly would probably not survive more than a few weeks. Lesley took Molly home and she lived for 14 years. This is a harrowing photographic portrait of a child's life and death.. Author:MCINTYRE, LESLEY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SNOW WATER The poems in this title find their gravity and centre in Michael Longley's adopted home in West Mayo, but range widely in their attention - from ancient Greece to Paris and Pisa, from Central Park to the trenches of the Somme. The embodiment of their themes is often found in wildlife.. Author:LONGLEY, MICHAEL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CHANCE MEETING . Author:COHEN, RACHEL. Discounted by 18%

Vintage : MYSTERIES Robert, a young traveller, finds himself in the Ontario town of Sunshine, in the middle of a party at the town's wildlife park. He has been given a notebook by a stranger he picked up on the way. The stranger told him to give it to an Alice Pederson. But Alice Pederson disappeared two years ago.. Author:MCGILL, ROBERT. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : RIVER OF THE BROKENHEARTED Janie McCleary runs one of the first movie theatres in New Brunswick. A successful woman in a world of men, she is ostracized, a victim of double-dealing and overt violence. She trusts nobody other than family. Spanning generations this title explores the life of this formidable person.. Author:RICHARDS, DAVID ADAMS. Discounted by 18%

Vintage : QUIMBY THE MOUSE As this cartoon silhouette of a mouse ignominiously suffers at every turn, the spaces between the panels create despair and a Beckett-like rhythm of hope deceived and deferred, buoying Quimby from page to page.. Author:WARE, CHRIS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SNOW . Author:MATTSON, ELLEN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MY FATHER AND OTHER WORKING CLASS FOOTBALL HEROES . Author:IMLACH, GARY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : NOTES FROM A DEFEATIST Part documentary, part satirical autobiography and part satire, this title collects all the shorter works that launched Joe Sacco on the path to his book-length "Palestine", from one-page gags to 30-page "graphic novelettes". The centrepieces of this work are a triptych of war stories.. Author:SACCO, JOE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : AMERICAN MUSIC By 1973, Annie Leibovitz was Rolling Stone Magazine's chief photographer. In this collection of her photographs, she covers the landscape of American music - the juke joints of the Delta, Graceland, B.B. King at his hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, the Carter family in Virginia and more.. Author:LEIBOVITZ, ANNIE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WHERE AM I AND WHO'S WINNING . Author:BAKER, ANDREW. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MISFORTUNE . Author:STACE, WESLEY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LAST FAMILY IN ENGLAND Meet the Hunter family - Adam, a teacher; his wife Kate; and their children Hal, 17, and Charlotte, 13. When a new couple move into their street, Adam is besotted with Emily, the beautiful aromatherapist, while her husband Simon seems to have played a significant part in Kate's past.. Author:HAIG, MATT. Discounted by 18%

Vintage : INTIMATES . Author:FARISH, HELEN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BIG QUESTIONS IN HISTORY . Author:. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SANDSTORM . Author:SHUKMAN, HENRY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DARIEN DOGS Jim Rogers once had everything - a successful career, the love of a beautiful woman, a Manhattan penthouse and more money than he knew what to do with. Now it had all gone wrong and he was in a seedy hotel realizing that the prostitute he'd just been with had stolen his wallet.. Author:SHUKMAN, HENRY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : OBSERVER SPORT MONTHLY Brought to you by Britain's most knowledgeable sporting experts, this book is funny, clever and infuriating. Whether it's the ten greatest ever racehorses, or sport's ten worst fashion disasters, you'll find yourself laughing in agreement.. Author:. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : THINGS . Author:HAWORTH-BOOTH, MARK. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WHEN WE WERE KIDS . Author:. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : INDIA HOUSE . Author:PALMER, WILLIAM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SATURDAY . Author:MCEWAN, IAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SPEAK FOR ENGLAND . Author:HAWES, JAMES. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HEAVEN LIES ABOUT US . Author:MCCABE, EUGENE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CORPUS This collection of poems is a blend of modern and ancient wisdom and an exploration of the mysteries of the body. The bodies in these poems move between different worlds - life and after-life, death and resurrection - encountering pathologists' blades, geneticists' maps and the wounds of love and war.. Author:ROBERTS, MICHAEL SYMMONS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FITZGERALD'S WOOD . Author:NWOKEDI, DAVID. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BLUES . Author:WILLIAMS, JOHN HARTLEY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SANCTUARY . Author:SWEENEY, MATTHEW. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CRESSIDA'S BED . Author:BARRY, DESMOND. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GOOD WOMEN . Author:STEVENSON, JANE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MAKING OF HENRY Out of the blue, Henry Nagel receives a solicitor's letter telling him he has inherited a sumptuous apartment in St. John's Wood. He is glad to escape the north, where there is nothing and no one to keep him. After nearly 60 years of disappointment, his life is about to change.. Author:JACOBSON, HOWARD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : AFTER DAYBREAK: . Author:SHEPHARD, BEN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SUMMER OF THE CICADAS . Author:NAPIER, WILL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : NOTES FROM A COMA Rescued from the squalor of a Romanian orphanage and adopted by the rural community, J.J. O'Malley should have grown up happy. The boy has no gift for it, though, and his new life has a brutal way of giving him plenty to be unhappy about.. Author:MCCORMACK, MIKE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : EDDIE WOULD GO In the world of surfing there are legends and then there's Eddie Aikau. For ten years he was the king of Hawaii's north shore, riding the biggest waves and taming the most dangerous breaks. For ten years he saved countless lives, until tragically, in the end, he sacrificed his own to save his friends.. Author:COLEMAN, STUART HOLMES. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BRITAIN'S GULAG . Author:ELKINS, CAROLINE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PRISON HOUSE The first-person narrative of a young English traveller locked up in a Greek jail for a crime he didn't commit, 'The Prison House' is a visceral, violent and compelling novel by the author of 'The Football Factory'.. Author:KING, JOHN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LIVING PROOF . Author:ISLER, ALAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FIXER Award-winning comix-journalist Joe Sacco goes behind the scene of war correspondence to reveal the anatomy of the big scoop. He begins by returning us to the dying days of Balkan conflict and introduces us to his own fixer; a man looking to squeeze the last bit of profit from Bosnia before the reconstruction begins.. Author:SACCO, JOE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : JUST AS WELL I'M LEAVING . Author:BOOTH, MICHAEL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : 5 IS THE PERFECT NUMBER . Author:TUVERI, IGOR. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : NOT A GAMES PERSON In this mostly light-hearted yet occasionally devastating exploration of her school life, Myerson attempts to answer the question with all the energy and courage she never quite managed to put into school PE.. Author:MYERSON, JULIE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ROULE BRITANNIA . Author:FOTHERINGHAM, WILLIAM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BEYOND A BOUNDARY . Author:JAMES, C.L.R.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BOOGALOO ON SECOND AVENUE . Author:KURLANSKY, MARK. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TOWN BY THE SEA This is the story of one man's journey towards a coastal town, which lies some distance to the east. But along the way he also begins a journey into the past, encountering ghosts and memories from his past. Slowly, the mystery of how he arrived on the shoreline is solved - but is this just another stop on a much longer voyage?. Author:PALING, CHRIS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : OH, PLAY THAT THING . Author:DOYLE, RODDY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SEEING DOUBLE All is not well in the state of Niagra, the America of the African continent. A provocative contemporary tale of dictatorship, kleptocracy, globalization and greed.. Author:WILMOT, PATRICK. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PERSEPOLIS 2 "Persepolis" ended in a cliffhanger in 1984, just as 14 year old Marjane was leaving behind her home in Tehran, escaping fundamentalism and the war in Iraq to begin a new life in the West. Here we follow her through the next eight years of her life - four years in Vienna, and four years back in Iran.. Author:SATRAPI, MARJANE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TWENTY LOVE POEMS AND A SONG OF DESPAIR This remains one of the most celebrated books of erotic poetry published in the last 100 years. Neruda was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1971.. Author:NERUDA, PABLO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PLOT AGAINST AMERICA . Author:ROTH, PHILIP. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FEARLESS MAN . Author:PFARRER, DONALD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : I AM CHARLOTTE SIMMONS . Author:WOLFE, TOM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WINKLER . Author:COREN, GILES. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : URSULA, UNDER . Author:HILL, INGRID. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : EPILEPTIC . Author:B., DAVID. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : RIVALS . Author:HOWARD, JOHNETTE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST Over the past 15,000 years human beings have changed genetically hardly at all. We are therefore as capable as our ancestors of the physical activities required to survive. This book explains how we might regain that physical prowess and adaptability.. Author:STROUD, MIKE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DON MCCULLIN IN AFRICA . Author:MCCULLIN, DON. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : IN THE TIME OF MADNESS . Author:PARRY, RICHARD LLOYD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GOOD NEIGHBOUR . Author:BURNSIDE, JOHN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SCHOOL OF THE ARTS . Author:DOTY, MARK. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SCATTERING EVA . Author:SHEARD, JAMES. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WITH BILLIE . Author:BLACKBURN, JULIA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : RISE, LET US BE ON OUR WAY . Author:JOHN PAUL II, POPE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : UNFINISHED LIFE . Author:SPRAGG, MARK. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TRANCE . Author:SORRENTINO, CHRISTOPHER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TRIUMPH OF PAINTING . Author:SCHWABSKY, BARRY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : EMBROIDERIES From the author of the comic-strip autobiography, 'Persepolis', comes this comic book for grown-ups, an entertaining and revealing look into the sex lives of Iranian women. In it, embroideries gathers together many of the women in Marjane Satrapi's life for an afternoon of tea-drinking and talking.. Author:SATRAPI, MARJANE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS Is the story of how dreams and reality collide, at once glorious and immensely sad. Because for the 30-odd boys of the Permian Panthers, these days will have been the best of their lives.. Author:BISSINGER, H.G.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : THREE INCESTUOUS SISTERS . Author:NIFFENEGGER, AUDREY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SELECTED POEMS . Author:CRAWFORD, ROBERT. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ACME NOVELTY COMPANY . Author:WARE, CHRIS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ARTHUR AND GEORGE . Author:BARNES, JULIAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MEMORIES OF MY MELANCHOLY WHORES . Author:MARQUEZ, GABRIEL GARCIA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FRANK . Author:BRUNO, FRANK MITCHELL, KEVIN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ICE HAVEN . Author:CLOWES, DANIEL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SWALLOWS AND AMAZONS To John, Susan, Titty and Roger, simply being allowed to use the boat, Swallow, to go camping on the island is adventure enough. But they soon find themselves under attack from the fierce Amazon Pirates, Nancy and Peggy. And so begins a summer of battles, alliances, exploration and discovery.. Author:RANSOME, ARTHUR. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SWALLOWDALE . Author:RANSOME, ARTHUR. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SECRET WATER John, Susan, Titty and Roger, the crew of the Swallow, take on the job of mapping the mass of small islands round Pin Mill while living on the biggest one. But who are the mysterious savages who lurk in the islands - and is the tribal totem they find in their campsite a threat of attack...?. Author:RANSOME, ARTHUR. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BIG SIX It's great detective work that's needed now. Bill, Peter and Joe are falsely accused of setting boats adrift and the whole river is against them. Only Dick, Dorothea and Tom Dudgeon are there to stand by their friends and they soon set to work to investigate the crimes and trap the real criminals.. Author:RANSOME, ARTHUR. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MISSEE LEE Nancy Blackett, the terror of the seas, has finally met a real pirate - the tiny, pistol-carrying Missee Lee, who has rescued them after their shipwreck off the coast of China. The only trouble is she wants to keep them... forever.. Author:RANSOME, ARTHUR. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PICTS AND THE MARTYRS . Author:RANSOME, ARTHUR. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GREAT NORTHERN? . Author:RANSOME, ARTHUR. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ICEMAN COMETH First staged in 1946, "The Iceman Cometh" is one of O'Neill's acknowledged masterpieces. Into a waterfront bar full of life's failures, comes Hickey with his urge to make them face the truth.. Author:O'NEILL, EUGENE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT . Author:O'NEILL, EUGENE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : IT'S A BATTLEFIELD . Author:GREENE, GRAHAM. Discounted by 18%

Vintage : NEWSPAPERMEN Opposites in most respects, Hugh Cudlipp and Cecil Harmsworth King were the "Barnum and Bailey" of Fleet Street. Together they created the world's biggest publishing empire but their relationship foundered sensationally in 1968 when, as King tried to topple the Prime Minister, Cudlipp toppled King.. Author:EDWARDS, RUTH DUDLEY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LOST CONTINENT Bill Bryson drove 14,000 miles in search of the mythical small town of his youth. Instead he found a lookalike strip of gas stations, motels and hamburger joints; a continent lost to itself through greed, pollution and television, and lost to him because he had become a foreigner in his own country. A funny and serious view of smalltown America.. Author:BRYSON, BILL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CAPTAIN CORELLI'S MANDOLIN Following THE TROUBLESOME OFFSPRING OF CARDINAL GUZMAN, a novel set on a Greek island in 1940 about the eternal triangle that develops between a doctor's daughter, her fisherman fiance and a young officer who is billeted in the doctor's house.. Author:BERNIERES, LOUIS DE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DON QUIXOTE The classic, satirical romance of an eccentric knight-errant, Don Quixote de La Mancha. It follows the adventures of Don Quixote and his rustic companion, Sancho Panza, in central Spain.. Author:CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL DE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ON BEAUTY 'On Beauty' is neither a history of art, nor a history of aesthetics but Umberto Eco draws on the histories of both these disciplines to define the ideas of beauty that have informed sensibilities from the classical world to modern times.. Author:ECO, UMBERTO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : AFTERMATH . Author:EDWARDS, RUTH DUDLEY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : AUTHOR, AUTHOR The story begins in December 1915, with the dying author Henry James, surrounded by his relatives and servants, then loops back to the 1880s to chart the course of his "middle years", focusing on his friendship with the illustrator George Du Maurier and his relationship with American writer Constance Fenimore Woolson.. Author:LODGE, DAVID. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : RUMO . Author:MOERS, WALTER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH AMERICA? . Author:FRANK, THOMAS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PATRIOT AFTER ALL, 1940-1941 Spanning a period of 20 months, this volume is part of "The Complete Works of George Orwell", available as a separate book. It includes essays, film, book and theatre reviews and the transcripts of a series of broadcasts on literary criticism.. Author:ORWELL, GEORGE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ON THE WING . Author:TENNANT, ALAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : KIND OF COMPULSION, 1903-1936 Spanning Orwell's early years, this volume is part of "The Complete Works of George Orwell", available as a separate book. It includes letters home from school, stories, poems and contributions he wrote at Eton to college publications.. Author:ORWELL, GEORGE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CANNON FODDER . Author:HAYLES, DAVID L.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BIRDS WITHOUT WINGS . Author:BERNIERES, LOUIS DE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : I BELONG TO THE LEFT On 29 March 1945, Orwell's wife Eileen died aged 39. Less than six months later "Animal Farm" was published. Eileen's last, long, very moving letters are reproduced in this, the 17th, volume of his complete works. It also includes his defence of P.G. Wodehouse, essays, articles and correspondence.. Author:ORWELL, GEORGE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BIRDS WITHOUT WINGS . Author:BERNIERES, LOUIS DE. Discounted by 0%

Vintage : SMOTHERED UNDER JOURNALISM Despite the unremitting pressure of journalism during 1946, Orwell produced a major sequence of articles on "The Intellectual Revolt", two radio plays and continued work on "Nineteen Eighty-Four".. Author:ORWELL, GEORGE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : RAPIDS . Author:PARKS, TIM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : UNCERTAIN VISION The BBC is the world's most famous cultural institution. Throughout its 75-year existence it has attracted criticism, controversy and political bullying, as well as epitomizing globally the heights to which public broadcasting can aspire. This is a portrait of this venerable institution.. Author:BORN, GEORGINA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MYSTERIOUS FLAME OF QUEEN LOANA . Author:ECO, UMBERTO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DISTANT SHORE Dorothy has taken early retirement and walked away from a bad marriage, an affair gone sour and a dangerous obsession. She moves to a small English village where she soon learns that England itself is changing beyond measure as the world outside its borders encroaches and intrudes.. Author:PHILLIPS, CARYL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DEATH IN DANZIG . Author:CHWIN, STEFAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : VAN MORRISON . Author:ROGAN, JOHNNY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LOOK AT THE DARK . Author:MOSLEY, NICHOLAS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DANCING IN THE DARK . Author:PHILLIPS, CARYL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WHAT SHOULD I DO WITH MY LIFE? In this title, Po Bronson tackles the biggest, most threatening, most obvious question that anyone has to face, "what should I do with my life?" It is a problem, he explains, that is increasingly encountered not just by the young but by people who have half their lives or more behind them.. Author:BRONSON, PO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CADENCE OF GRASS The Whitelaw patriach, Sunny Jim, exerts his perverse control even in death, by means of a will that binds the family fortune to a marriage that ought to be rent asunder. The charms of this particular son-in-law, lately released from prison, are potent, especially as regards his estranged wife.. Author:MCGUANE, THOMAS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PRAYING MANTIS . Author:BRINK, ANDRE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LOST IN SPACE 'Lost in Space', written by Greg Klerkx, provides a definitive account of the Space Age and the dream of man's future in space.. Author:KLERKX, GREG. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BERLIN BLUES It is 1989 and Herr Lehmann lives entirely free of responsibility in a tiny flat in the bohemian Berlin district of Kreuzberg, whenever he isn't hanging out in the local bars. Then, suddenly, one unforseen incident after another seems to threaten his idyllic and rather peaceable existence.. Author:REGENER, SVEN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GARDENING AT NIGHT A young girl's life unfolds through a childhood filled with silences, through adolescence and young womanhood. She eventually escapes from the South African ghost town that is Kimberley; a town where miners once scraped out the insides of the earth but where now the only tales are those of leaving.. Author:AWERBUCK, DIANE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SLOW MAN . Author:COETZEE, J.M.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ELIZABETH COSTELLO Elizabeth Costello is a writer of international renown. Famous for an early novel from which, it seems, she will never escape, she has reached the stage where her remaining function is to be venerated and applauded. What matters to her is the search for a means of articulating her vision.. Author:COETZEE, J.M.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TEN LITTLE INDIANS This is a collection of eleven poignant and emotionally resonant stories about Native Americans who find themselves at personal and cultural crossroads.. Author:ALEXIE, SHERMAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ISLANDS This title covers the first half-century or so of Dutch settlement at the Cape, opening with a view from the inside of a Khoi nation, the Goringhaicona, under the leadership of Autshumao, dubbed "chief Harry" by early English visitors. Each of the sections of the novel is focused on a man involved with Autshumao's great neice, Pieternella.. Author:SLEIGH, DAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : AFTER SUCH KNOWLEDGE This title on the legacy of the Holocaust asks what insights can be carried from the past to the newly problematic present, and urges the need to transform potent family stories into a fully-formed understanding of a forbidding history.. Author:HOFFMAN, EVA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BETTER THAN WORKING Journalist Patrick Skene Catling covered wars, revolutions and press conferences, interviewed Louis Armstrong and James Baldwin; encountered Jane Russell, married Peggy Lee and was kissed by Billie Holiday. He became a friend of P.G. Wodehouse. This is a hymn to a vanished era in British and American journalism and the story of a remarkable life.. Author:CATLING, PATRICK SKENE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WINTER IN CHINA . Author:GALBRAITH, DOUGLAS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WALLS OF HEBRON . Author:STASUIK, ANDRZEJ. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TOWN THAT FORGOT HOW TO BREATHE This tale by Kenneth Harvey is set in the isolated outport village of Bareneed, Newfoundland, home to a vivid cast of characters who, one by one, come down with a mysterious breathing disorder.. Author:HARVEY, KENNETH J.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LOVESICK BLUES . Author:HEMPHILL, PAUL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LIGHT "Light" traverses Europe and parts of America, the history of physics and political changes in Central Europe. It is about love and ruin, East and West, friendship and betrayal, the search for certainty and the consequent disillusionment.. Author:O'GRADY, TIMOTHY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : KAFKA'S LAST LOVE Based on original sources and interviews, including material from the Comintern and Gestapo archives and Dora's notebook, diary, and letters, this book illuminates the life of the literary "wife" of Franz Kafka, who like Vera Nabokov and Nora Joyce, was a remarkable woman in her own right.. Author:DIAMANT, KATHI. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : IT IS WHAT I THINK This title is the paperback edition of Volume 19 of "The Complete Works of George Orwell". Works included are: changes made in the course of the production of Orwell's radio version of "Animal Farm"; his second Literary Notebook; and his third series of notes for his literary executor.. Author:ORWELL, GEORGE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : OUR JOB IS TO MAKE LIFE WORTH LIVING This is the final paperback volume, Volume 20, of "The Complete Works of George Orwell", with cumulative index, and contains such items as: all Orwells' works in progress; a statement of Orwell's accounts; a list of the 144 books he read in 1949; the names in his address book; and letters.. Author:ORWELL, GEORGE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ON LITERATURE Italian literary theorist and novelist Umberto Eco includes nine essays in this title concerning: the general significance of literature; major authors of the Western canon; the poetic qualities of Dante's "Paradiso"; the style of the "Communist Manifesto"; Joyce's views on language; and more.. Author:ECO, UMBERTO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ONE TONGUE SINGING Camille Pascal, a young, unmarried French nurse comes to South Africa with her father and small daughter during the closing years of Apartheid. The family settles amongst a wine-growing community in the Western Cape where they become involved in the lives of victims of the System.. Author:MANN, SUSAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DOWN AND OUT IN PARIS AND LONDON This text is the outcome of years spent in Paris and months spent tramping south-east England. It depicts what life was like for a striving author who was struggling to write, painting a vivid picture of the life he led in the lower depths.. Author:ORWELL, GEORGE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HOMAGE TO CATALONIA . Author:ORWELL, GEORGE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ROAD TO WIGAN PIER . Author:ORWELL, GEORGE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HEEL TO TOE The south of Italy has been compared to Africa and Ancient Greece, but what is it like today? Lister travelled extensively around the region, captivated by the wines of the region and the beautiful women as much as the plethora of temples and the weight of history.. Author:LISTER, CHARLES. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : STAR OF THE SEA Winter 1847, and the "Star of the Sea" sails from Ireland for New York. On board are hundreds of refugees, some optimistic, many desperate, all braving the Atlantic in search of a new home. But among them, a camouflaged killer stalks the decks, hungry for a vengeance that will bring absolution.. Author:O'CONNOR, JOSEPH. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BAUDOLINO It is 1204 and Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire, is being sacked and burned by knights of the Fourth Crusade. Amid the carnage, one Baudolino saves a Byzantine historian and high court official from certain death and proceeds to tell his own fantastical story.. Author:ECO, UMBERTO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DRY BONES Jay Mason is experiencing a crisis of faith. Disillusioned with his calling as a Deacon in the Anglican Church of Geneva, and estranged from his pregnant girlfriend, he's about to fall into the murky world of celebrity grave-robbing.. Author:BEARD, RICHARD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ALL PROPAGANDA IS LIES In August, 1941, George Orwell joined the BBC's Overseas Service. This volume contains some of the work he produced as Talks Producer responsible for features, talks and commentaries on the war, to be broadcast to India. Orwell read 56 of the 220 news commentaries he wrote.. Author:ORWELL, GEORGE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : YOUNG VISITERS . Author:ASHFORD, DAISY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HOUSE AND GARDEN This illustrated gallery of interiors is photographed by some of the world's leading photograhers. The rooms included celebrate the classic English country house look, the happy combination of comfort, tranquility and timelessness and can be browsed through as well as used as a source of ideas.. Author:HARLING, R. HIGHTON, LEONIE BRIDGES, JOHN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : POEMS This edition commemorates the centenary of the birth of Wilfred Owen who died in World War I. Containing the texts of all the finished poems of Owen's maturity and 12 important fragments, with notes, it derives from John Stallworthy's edition of Owen's "Complete Poems and Fragments".. Author:OWEN, WILFRED. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : COLLECTED POEMS Cavafy was a Greek poet, who died in 1933, whose work deals explicitly with homosexuality. His poems, all fairly short, are both lyrical and colloquial, ranging from the personal confession to the dramatic monologue.. Author:KAVAPHES, K.P. CAVAFY, C.P.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CENSORED From the early peepshows ("How Bridget Served the Salad Undressed"), through to the video and satellite anomalies of today, this book explores film censorship in Britain, demonstrating, through anecdotes and examples, its absurdities, dangers and occasional virtues.. Author:MATHEWS, TOM DEWE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GIFT FROM THE SEA The setting is the seashore and as the author picks up shells she reflects how each symbolizes a facet of her development as a woman from young love to middle age and studies the ebb and flow of human relationships and upholds the importance of the free and individual spirit of woman and man.. Author:LINDBERGH, ANNE MORROW. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WAR POEMS OF WILFRED OWEN This selection of Wilfred Owen's war poems contains an introduction by Jon Stallworthy, which is aimed at a general audience, but is also academic enough to be used in schools.. Author:OWEN, WILFRED. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LONDON RECORDINGS This title contains interviews recorded by art critic David Sylvester. They focus on his contemporaries in ballet, theatre, film, music and sport such as Henry Moore and Bridget Riley, film-set designer Ken Adam, composer Harrison Birtwistle, and Mike Brearley, former English cricket captain.. Author:SYLVESTER, DAVID. Discounted by 18%

Vintage : ISAIAH BERLIN Isaiah Berlin refused to write an autobiography, but he agreed to talk about himself - and so for 10 years, before's Berlin's death in November 1997, he allowed Michael Ignatieff to interview him about his past, his ideas, his most intimate memories, and his inner conflicts.. Author:IGNATIEFF, MICHAEL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : COLLECTED POEMS A collection by one of England's foremost award-winning poets bringing together both his early poetry and his discursive later works. From fantasies, poems about nature, riddles and nonsense poems to love poetry and philosophical meditations, all are included in this work.. Author:FULLER, JOHN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BILL OF RIGHTS A narrative poem which takes the reader into the psyche of a young man caught up in the mass suicide that took place in Jonestown, Guyana in 1978.. Author:D'AGUIAR, FRED. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MOTHER NATURE The author argues that evolution is controlled by the female of the species. She is more diverse, deadlier and more adaptable than the male, and the notion of maternal instinct, with its baggage of self-sacrifice, gentleness and devotion is a misapprehension.. Author:HARDY, SARA BLAFFER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SIEGE OF VENICE . Author:KEATES, JONATHAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WISDOM OF THE BODY The author of "How We Die" combines his clinical knowledge and a sense of wonder to provide an account of the workings of the human body. He also seeks to move beyond mechanics and biology to explore the human spirit.. Author:NULAND, SHERWIN B.. Discounted by 18%

Vintage : CARLYLES This biography of Thomas and Jane Carlyle describes their relationship with each other, from their first meeting in 1821 to Jane's death in 1866, and their relationship with the outside world. The book provides not only a portrait of a marriage but also a vivid picture of Victorian life.. Author:ASHTON, ROSEMARY (PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON). Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HERE NOR THERE Bernard O'Donoghue's third collection of poetry is about the middle ground: being in between two places, being neither here nor there. Again he mines the memories of his rural upbringing in County Cork, weaving a series of tender elegies for the characters and places of his youth.. Author:O'DONOGHUE, BERNARD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : NOONDAY DEMON This work looks at the subject of depression, mental illness and the way we live. It digs deep into personal experience and also covers the wider picture - the historical, social, biological, chemical, pharmaceutical and medical aspects and implications of the disease.. Author:SOLOMON, ANDREW. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LOVE OF A GOOD WOMAN In this collection, Alice Munro takes mainly the lives of women, and brings their hidden desires bubbling to the surface. The love of a good woman is not as pure and virtuous as it seems - as in her title story it can be needy and murderous.. Author:MUNRO, ALICE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LAST EALING COMEDY After editing Britain's most obscure TV listings magazine, Alistair Strange is offered a job teaching media studies at an Ealing secondary school. The famous studios next to the school grounds act as a continuous motif for Alistair's story: a tale of comedy, blind dates and catastrophic urban life.. Author:BAYLIS, MATTHEW. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HOW TO BE A DOMESTIC GODDESS This reassuring cookbook demonstrates that it's not actually hard to bake a tray of muffins, or a sponge layer cake, but that the appreciation and satisfaction they can bring are disproportionately high. There is a wide range of mouthwatering recipes for everything from cakes to bread.. Author:LAWSON, NIGELLA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT Hugely successful in her own time for her adult novels and plays, Frances Hodgson Burnett would be astounded to be remembered best for a handful of books for children. This biography charts the many vicissitudes of her life and reputation, and negotiates the contrasts and paradoxes which define this remarkable author.. Author:GERZINA, GRETCHEN H.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : IN RUINS Why are we so fascinated by ruins? This book looks back to the start of the cult in the 18th century, when follies were built in English landscape gardens. It looks at Nazi fantasies, the shattered Statue of Liberty in the film "Planet of the Apes" and the Chelsea Flower Show's "Millennium Ruin".. Author:WOODWARD, CHRISTOPHER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BIRDS BRITANNICA . Author:COCKER, MARK MABEY, RICHARD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HOW TO EAT Aims to give confidence to the ordinary home cook by providing hundreds of recipes and menus and by encouraging the reader to see cooking in context and, most importantly, to acquire a real understanding. Coverage includes kitchen basics, children's food, everyday cooking, weekend lunch and the last minute dinner party.. Author:LAWSON, NIGELLA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : VIEW OF DELFT Vermeer has always been considered the most elusive of great artists, but this work tracks him down in his home town. It takes the reader back to 17th-century Delft, and gives a portrait of Vermeer, the Protestant who married a prosperous Catholic girl and had 15 children, of whom 11 survived.. Author:BAILEY, ANTHONY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ORWELL This biography of George Orwell reveals a portrait of the writer who, for all his outward unworldiness, effectively staged-managed his own life, combined chilling detachment with warmth and gentleness, disillusionment with hope, and who produced two of the greatest masterpieces of the 20th century.. Author:TAYLOR, D.J.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DRIFT This is a collection of poems which deal with the disjunction between the aspirations of the youth and the realities of middle-age. The narrator looks back on his 20s, full of the grand ambition to be the next Rimbaud and wryly contrasts it with his current position.. Author:JENKINS, ALAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FLORA POETICA From Thomas Campion's "The Garden in Her Face" (1617) to Paul Muldoon's "Milkweed and Monarch" (1994), via "The Song of Solomon" and poetry by Marvel, Keats and Tennyson, Sarah Maguire has gathered together a selection of old and new botanical poems to appeal to all tastes.. Author:. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FLORA POETICA This anthology brings together over 250 poems about flowers, plants and trees from eight centuries of writing in English: 14th-century lyrics sit next to poems of the 21st century; celebrations of plants native to the English soil share the volume with more exotic plant poetry from further afield.. Author:. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LITTLE HISTORY OF BRITISH GARDENING With a brief guide to particular historic or evocative gardens open to the public, ranging from the stone-age to today, this is a book to put in your pocket when planning a summer day out - but also to read in your deckchair with a glass of cold wine, when dead-heading is simply too much.. Author:UGLOW, JENNY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF BRITAIN Rebbeca Fraser aims to write a dramatic narrative which should form a refreshing introduction to traditional history. One of her main themes is freedom. It is packed with anecdotes about the men and women who created turning points in history, about scientists, explorers, writers and artists.. Author:FRASER, REBECCA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SEIZE THE DAY With an entry for every day of a leap year, this book contains tips that are designed to be inspirational, useful, humorous, provocative and insightful. From poets, philosophers, businessmen, novelists and Members of Parliament, the contributions take various forms.. Author:WIENRICH, ALBERY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : VIRTUAL WAR In this moving exploration of the war in Kosovo, Ignatieff combines reportage, theory and analysis to produce a definitive study of a new type of warfare, the virtual war where the watching nation is mobilized as a television audience and instead of victory there is only an uncertain endgame.. Author:IGNATIEFF, M. Discounted by 18%

Vintage : MARTHA GELLHORN This is a biography of Martha Gellhorn, who reported many of the flashpoints of the 20th century, witnessing the Depression, the Spanish Civil War, covering the fall of Czechoslovakia and the Normandy landings, the liberation of Dachau and the Nuremburg Trials.. Author:MOOREHEAD, CAROLINE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SOLDIERS An in-depth study of the character and spirit of soldiers. This book takes as its starting point interviews with Chelsea Pensioners whose lives in the army span the 20th century, and who have seen action from World War I to Korea.. Author:ZIEGLER, PHILIP. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CENSORED A revised edition that provides an entertaining, informed and thought-provoking exploration of the world of film censorship in Britain. The author preserves a rigorous objectivity whilst addressing censorship with a wry approach.. Author:MATHEWS, TOM DEWE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MAN WHO DREW LONDON Hollar was the artist/engraver who drew London before and after the Great Fire of 1666. He was in exile with the royalists in Antwerp and returned to England ahead of Charles II, where he continued to make his unique and invaluable record of London during a time of catastrophe and great change.. Author:TINDALL, GILLIAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ON NOT BEING ABLE TO SLEEP Offering new links between feminism, psychoanalysis, literature and politics, Rose provides a resonant and thought-provoking collection of essays divided into three sections: the first deals with women writers; the second is on psychoanalysis; and the third part concentrates on "modern times".. Author:ROSE, JACQUELINE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BEEF AND LIBERTY Eating bloody meat recalls ancient beliefs in its strengthening power. But why are so many beefy images linked to British "freedom"? Rogers ties a set of icons (roast beef, John Bull, bull dogs and butchers) to plain, stubborn, Protestant Englishness, in contrast to corrupt, effete Catholic Europe.. Author:ROGERS, BEN. Discounted by 18%

Vintage : CRADLE KING When Mary Queen of Scots fled to England in 1567, James VI became King of Scotland at the age of one and eventually gained the throne of England in 1603 as James I. But from adolescence onwards, his personal relationships were the talk of the court. This is a biography of his life and times.. Author:STEWART, ALAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CHAUCER Geoffrey Chaucer, who died in 1400, enjoyed an eventful life. He served with the Duke of Clarence and with Edward III, and in 1359 was taken prisoner in France and ransomed. This short biography of Chaucer by Peter Ackroyd evokes the medieval world of London and Kent, and provides an entertaining introduction to Chaucer's poetry.. Author:ACKROYD, PETER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TURNER . Author:ACKROYD, PETER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HOW TO BE A DOMESTIC GODDESS This volume is not about being a goddess, but about feeling like one. Nigella shows that there can be more feelgood mileage from running up a tray of muffins or baking a sponge cake than in almost any other cooking - and that it's not actually hard.. Author:LAWSON, NIGELLA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : I'LL GO TO BED AT NOON A follow-up to Gerard Woodward's previous novel 'August', this title charts the disintegration of Colette Jones' entire immediate family through alcohol abuse. As the story lurches from tragedy to farce and back again, it presents a stark portrait of the years leading up to the Thatcher revolution.. Author:WOODWARD, GERARD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ANNY This is an enchanting and evocative memoir of Anny Thackeray, daughter of the author of 'Vanity Fair' and step-aunt of Virginia Woolf.. Author:GARNETT, HENRIETTA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BEATRICE'S SPELL This is the story of 16-year old Beatrice Spell, who was executed in Rome in 1599. She had murdered her father, but his cruel treatment of her, including rape, moved the people of the city to take her side, and has provided a destructive fascination for generations of writers and artists.. Author:JACK, BELINDA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HENRY VIII . Author:STARKEY, DAVID. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MICHELANGELO . Author:HALL, JAMES. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BLACK OXEN The story of Risk's pursuit of her beautiful and not quite human father through two worlds and three changes of identity. In the year 2022, Risk has entered narrative therapy. Her memories and her father's journal take her from her earliest childhood to a revolutionary Latin American country.. Author:KNOX, ELIZABETH. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : NIGELLA BITES A collection of uncomplicated, fresh recipes that are easy to make after a busy day at the office, fun to linger over at weekends or to make with the kids, dreamy to look at and delicious to eat. Recipes include late breakfasts, party food, TV dinners, trailer trash and indoor picnics.. Author:LAWSON, NIGELLA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HATESHIP, FRIENDSHIP, COURTSHIP, LOVESHIP, MARRIAGE In this collection of Munro's stories, whole lives come into focus through single events or sudden memories that bring the past bubbling up to the surface. And as her characters discover, the past is made up not only of what is remembered, but also what isn't.. Author:MUNRO, ALICE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : THIRTEEN DAYS Here, Ponting examines in detail the 13 days leading up to World War I, rejecting some of the main theses concerning the causes of the war. He begins with a dramatic recreation of the assassination in Sarajevo, followed by a description of the developments city by city, day by day.. Author:PONTING, CLIVE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : COLOUR Joseph and Harriet Blackstone, along with Joseph's mother Lillian, emigrate to New Zealand in search of new beginnings and prosperity in the mid-19th century gold rush. This novel tells the story of their quest for the impossible and their attempts to mine the complexities of love.. Author:TREMAIN, ROSE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FREEDOM AND ITS BETRAYAL This is one of Isaiah Berlin's earliest and most convincing expositions of his views on human freedom and the history of ideas, views which were at the heart of his lifelong work on the Enlightenment and its critics. This work throws light on the early development of Berlin's ideas.. Author:BERLIN, ISAIAH. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GEORGE STUBBS AND THE WIDE CREATION . Author:BLAKE, ROBIN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PORTRAITS IN FICTION The extended version of a lecture given by Byatt at London's National Portrait Gallery in 2000, about portraits in fiction and about portraits of writers of fiction. She delves into the complex relations between the two, ranging from Henry James to Iris Murdoch and Botticelli to Manet.. Author:BYATT, A.S.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : RUPERT HART-DAVIS . Author:ZIEGLER, PHILIP. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : V.S. PRITCHETT . Author:TREGLOWN, JEREMY. Discounted by 18%

Vintage : SIGNS AND WONDERS A volume of essays written over 25 years, offering a retrospective of Warner's changing ideas on literature and culture, including fiction, drama, religion, language and fairy tale. Different sections range from explorations of our taste for the miraculous to our need for heroes and villains.. Author:WARNER, MARINA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MEMOIRS OF A PET LAMB Art critic David Sylvester, who died in June 2001, achieved fame with his work on Cezanne but also because of studies of personal artist friends: Giacometti, Henry Moore and Francis Bacon. In the weeks before his death, he wrote this brief but revealing account of his childhood in the 1920s.. Author:SYLVESTER, DAVID. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CURRY . Author:COLLINGHAM, LIZZIE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ENGLISH DANE Jorgen Jorgenson was a Dane who made Britain his adopted country, and became caught up in its story at opposite ends of the earth. The son of a Copenhagen clockmaker, inspired by his hero Captain Cook he came to London. He was among the small party to establish a new colony, Tasmania.. Author:BAKEWELL, SARAH. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : THINGS MY MOTHER NEVER TOLD ME In "And When Did You Last See Your Father?", Blake Morrison's mother remains an intriguing but mostly silent figure. One of the many things she never quite told him was that before becoming Kim Morrison she had been Agnes O'Shea. This is her story - and a son's search to uncover the truth.. Author:MORRISON, BLAKE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GOOD WOMEN OF CHINA This work presents women's stories collected by Xinran Xue when she was hosting a radio phone-in about women's lives in China. The stories reveal what it means to be a woman in today's China, telling of almost inconceivable suffering as well as love in the face of cruelty and politics.. Author:XINRAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GOSPEL ACCORDING TO GRACEY Beneath the prosperous New South surface of modern-day Atlanta lies a dangerous world of drug addiction and poverty. Gracey Fill tells her story, chronicling 24 hours on the streets of the city.. Author:KINGSBURY, SUZANNE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BLOOD CANTICLE Lestat is back, saviour and demon, moving through the worlds of Blackwood Farm and the Mayfair family. He finds himself enslaved by love and loyalty amidst all of the characters who dwell in the two worlds of vampires and witches.. Author:RICE, ANNE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CHRIST THE LORD . Author:RICE, ANNE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FOOD OF ITALY Written after Roden spent a year in Italy researching the subject of food, this book (which has been described as a "splendid history, geography and cooking lesson") covers: regional recipes; country cooking; the bravura of grand dishes; pastas; seafood; rice dishes; and authentic Italian desserts.. Author:RODEN, CLAUDIA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ENGLISH CORRESPONDENCE A novel that condenses all of the major questions of adult life, covering love, marriage, children, loss and grief, into the time and space needed to arrange a funeral and discover what happened to a missing letter.. Author:DAVEY, JANET. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FOREVER SUMMER WITH NIGELLA A collection of summery recipes to be enjoyed at any time of year. They range from Italian antipasti and Greek mezze to Spanish cuisine, and the occasions, anything from barbecues to beach picnics.. Author:LAWSON, NIGELLA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BETHANY BETTANY Bethany is five years of age when her father dies and her mother runs away. As the family scapegoat, she suffers, retreats into silence and just listens to the adult conversation around her. Set in Guyana, Bethany becomes a symbol of a nation searching to make itself whole again.. Author:D'AGUIAR, FRED. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CRIMEAN WAR This narrative history of the Crimean War is published to coincide with the 150th anniversary - March 1854 - of the declaration of hostilities. It uses eye-witness accounts including that of Leo Tolstoy, caught up in the action while visiting his brother, and the memories of serving soldiers.. Author:PONTING, CLIVE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GIRL WHO PLAYED GO In Japanese-occupied Manchuria, in the Square of a Thousand Winds, snow falls as a 16 year-old Chinese girl beats all-comers at the game of go. Unknown to her, one of her opponents is a young Japanese officer. Their encounters are like the game itself, restrained, subtle and surprisingly fierce.. Author:SA, SHAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : POEM FOR THE DAY TWO . Author:. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FLOURISHING In this first volume of letters from Isaiah Berlin, he writes a regular telegram to his parents while he is in America, often just saying 'flourishing'. This volume opens when he is pupil at St Paul's, continuing until he returns to Oxford in 1946 after working for the British Government in the US.. Author:BERLIN, ISAIAH. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TALE OF LOVE AND DARKNESS Love and darkness are just two of the powerful forces that run through Amos Oz's moving story. He takes the reader on a bold, seductive journey through his childhood and adolesence, a child's eye view along Jerusalem's wartorn streets in the 1940s and '50s.. Author:OZ, AMOS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ELIZABETH I With contributions from experts on Tudor history, this catalogue focuses on Elizabeth's court, her relationship with the City of London, the importance of Elizabeth's maritime adventurers, burgeoning maritime enterprise and the beginnings of an overseas empire.. Author:STARKEY, DAVID DAVID, STARKEY (BYE FELLOW, FITZWILLIAM COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE). Discounted by 27%

Vintage : OUTLIVING A new collection - his fourth - from one of the best-loved contemporary Irish poets. O'Donoghue provides moving elegies for people he has outlived. There are poems too about living outside the poet's original environment and the inclination to return there for stories and feelings.. Author:O'DONOGHUE, BERNARD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : JUST LAW In this title, Helena Kennedy roundly challenges the record of modern governments with regard to fudnamental democratic rights, and insists that we return to the fundmamental values of equlity, fairness and respect for human dignity.. Author:KENNEDY, HELENA. Discounted by 18%

Vintage : LOVE Many women are obsessed by Bill Cosey, owner of the Cosey Hotel and resort. More than just the owner, he shapes their yearnings for a father, husband, lover, guardian and friend. Even after his death he dominates their lives. Yet he was driven by secret forces.. Author:MORRISON, TONI. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TRAVELLING WITH DJINNS Yasin is driving through Europe with his seven-year-old son Leo, not sure where they're going. He just knows that he's 37, about to be divorced, and that this is his last chance to explain to Leo who he is and where he comes from. The problem is that Yasin isn't sure of the answers himself.. Author:MAHJOUB, JAMAL. Discounted by 18%

Vintage : BLACKBIRD HOUSE This novel is the compelling story of a house, its inhabitants and the ghosts that haunt a spit of land from 1778 to the present day.. Author:HOFFMAN, ALICE. Discounted by 18%

Vintage : BOYS AND GIRLS FOREVER Ranging from "Little Women" to "Harry Potter", and from Dr Seuss to "Haroun and the Sea of Stories", this is a collection of fascinating and entertaining pieces about children's literature. Lurie's topics include what fairy tales teach us, authors and illustrators, and poetry by and for children.. Author:LURIE, ALISON (CORNELL UNIVERSITY, USA). Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FEAST . Author:LAWSON, NIGELLA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HUMAN CARGO . Author:MOOREHEAD, CAROLINE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : NATURE CURE . Author:MABEY, RICHARD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MY NAME IS SEI SHONAGON Who is Sei Shonagon? Is she the tenth-century author of "The Pillow Book"? Or is she a woman of mixed-race parentage surviving life in modern Japan? Or, is she a voice behind a screen, reaching across the centuries, linking the two?. Author:BLENSDORF, JAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : VILLAGE OF STONE Coral and her boyfriend live in modern-day Beijing. Their already-fragile existence is shattered by the arrival of a mysterious fishy package - as the smell of the sea flood her home, Coral is transported back to a traumatic childhood dominated by solitude, fear and shame.. Author:GUO, XIAOLU. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : NOODLE MAKER Written in the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square massacre, this novel is a virtuoso piece of red humour about the absurdities and cruelties of life in modern China.. Author:JIAN, MA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BULLET POINTS In 'Bullet Points', a middle-aged, successful psychiatrist to America's celebrities reflects back over the high-profile patients he has cured - a female folk singer with a stalker, a celebrated leading actress in Macbeth, and an over-driven but remarkable young tennis star.. Author:WATSON, MARK. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ILLUSTRATED LONDON This large format picture book about London is divided into four parts: Roman and medieval London; the Great Fire of 1666 compared with the Blitz of 1944; Motley Theatrical London, including street fairs; the Industrial Revolution, London as the centre of the Empire, expansion of the suburbs.. Author:ACKROYD, PETER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FOREVER SUMMER . Author:LAWSON, NIGELLA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : THESE FOOLISH THINGS 'These Foolish Things' is about Dunroamin, a converted guesthouse in Bangladore, where Sonny sets up a home for old people. Travel and set-up are inexpensive, staff willing and plentiful - and the British pensioners can enjoy the hot weather and mango juice with their gin.. Author:MOGGACH, DEBORAH. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SOHO LEOPARD Hallucinatory and lyrical, Ruth Padel's poetry starts from the streets of London, reaching out to the Amazon, Siberia, Mexico and even ancient Athenian politics. Full of wildlife and colour, she makes wild connections over space and time, even linking mythology with zoological science.. Author:PADEL, RUTH. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SKY BURIAL Xinran recreates a Chinese woman's extraordinary search for her missing husband, Kejun, in Tibet. It follows her entry into a landscape that nothing had prepared her for and her separation from her regiment leading to her spending years in an alien and confusing culture.. Author:XINRAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GIVE ME (SONGS FOR LOVERS) Irina Denezhkina's stories tell it like it is for Russia's new generation, brought up in a complex post-Communist world where the influences are more MTV than Marx. Teenage sex, alcohol, violence - preoccupations familiar to the urban youth of the West - are mixed with observations of mainly Russian problems.. Author:DENEZHKINA, IRINA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : YOUR FACE TOMORROW . Author:MARIAS, JAVIER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GOLDFISH BOWL . Author:BOOTH, CHERIE HASTE, CATE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DON'T MOVE . Author:MAZZANTINI, MARGARET. Discounted by 18%

Vintage : MONARCHY OF ENGLAND BEGINNINGS 'Monarchy' is more than the biographies of the kings and queens of England. It is an in-depth examination of what the English monarchy has meant. This is the history of ideas and ideals, as well as colourful characters, brought to life by David Starkey's gifts as a communicator.. Author:STARKEY, DAVID. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PURE IN THE HEART . Author:HILL, SUSAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DESCENT Against a backdrop of the seismic 90s, and framed by two air disasters (Lockerbie late 1988 and the twin towers 2001), this is the story of Genevieve, psychiatric nurse, wife, mother, daughter, who's trying to keep a whole lot of stuff airborne while things fall apart, inside and out.. Author:BROADBENT, SABRINA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FAMILIES WHO MADE ROME . Author:MAJANLAHTI, ANTHONY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TRUE STORY . Author:FINKEL, MICHAEL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BETWEEN MOUNTAINS This is a novel about transgressing moral, personal, ethical and social boundaries with tragic results - as a simultaneous translator at the War Crimes tribunal gets too close to a journalist who reports from former Yugoslavia.. Author:HELWIG, MAGGIE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ROUND-HEELED WOMAN Inspired by Eric Rohmer's film "Autumn Tale", a smart, energetic divorcee, decided she'd been celibate too long, and placed a personal ad in "The New York Review of Books". The response was overwhelming, and Juska took a sabbatical from teaching to meet some of the men who replied.. Author:JUSKA, JANE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GOOD VOYAGE Valentina decides that it's time to make some changes in her life. She cuts off her hair and takes a job as a gardener in a small town near the sea in Wales. And so the story takes us to Illerwick, an alluring, timeless place, and to the people who live there.. Author:DAVIES, KATHARINE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PINEAPPLE . Author:BEAUMAN, FRAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : AMATEUR MARRIAGE Michael and Pauline seemed like the perfect couple - young, good-looking, made for each other. The moment Pauline walked into his mother's grocery store in Baltimore, Michael was smitten. And in the fervour of World War II, they were hastily wed. But their marriage should never have taken place.. Author:TYLER, ANNE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FIRST AID Set in a seaside town on the Kent coast, 'First Aid' takes place over one summer weekend. A love affair with a man without family ties is just beginning to give her life new meaning when the man inexplicably lashes out at her and cuts her face. As the novel progresses, we gradually learn what led up to the attack.. Author:DAVEY, JANET. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LOVEBITES . Author:BONDY, NATASHA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MR MUO'S TRAVELLING COUCH Sadly, the 10,000 dollars Muo offers Judge Di to free his beloved aren't enough. The judge, tired of cash and cars, orders Muo to bring him a virgin girl to satisfy his sexual predilection for the unsullied.. Author:SIJIE, DAI. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GHOSTS . Author:FULLER, JOHN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PHIZ . Author:LESTER, VALERIE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ZIGZAG WAY Eric, a young North American, finds himself on a curious quest for his own family in a 'ghost' mining town in Mexico, now barely inhabited, where almost a hundred years earlier young Cornish miners, like his own grandfather, worked the mines. Until Pancho Villa and revolution came to Mexico.. Author:DESAI, ANITA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LAMBS OF LONDON This is Ackroyd's retelling of a 19th century drama which keeps the reader guessing right to the end.. Author:ACKROYD, PETER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : IS THERE ANYTHING YOU WANT? . Author:FORSTER, MARGARET. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : OLIVIA MANNING . Author:BRAYBROOKE, NEVILLE BRAYBROOKE, JUNE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : RUNAWAY . Author:MUNRO, ALICE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HEADS YOU WIN . Author:MOUNT, FERDINAND. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : IRISH GAME Even amongst the crowded annals of spectacular art thefts, no one heist has matched the sheer criminal panache of the raid at Russborough House, Ireland, in May 1986. This is the story of how the Garda were led on an international chase to snare the Dublin gangster who remained at large for many years.. Author:HART, MATTHEW. Discounted by 18%

Vintage : OLD FILTH Old Filth was a "child of the raj". His earliest memories are of his amah, a teenage Malay girl. But soon he is torn away from the only person who loves him and sent to be educated at "home", where he is boarded out with strangers. What is the terrible secret the children shared? What happened at the farmhouse in the Lake District?. Author:GARDAM, JANE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HEADCRUSHER . Author:GARROS, ALEXANDER EVDOKIMOV, ALEKSEI. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BODY PARTS . Author:LEE, HERMIONE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : IN LUCIA'S EYES . Author:JAPIN, ARTHUR. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : 26A . Author:EVANS, DIANA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : COMPLETE POEMS A comprehensive edition of one of America's greatest poets, this collection draws from her four published volumes, together with 50 uncollected works and translations of Octavio Paz, Max Jacob and others.. Author:BISHOP, ELIZABETH. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : OUTSIDE VALENTINE . Author:WARD, LIZA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FRENCH WOMEN DON'T GET FAT . Author:GUILIANO, MIREILLE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SHORTER LIFE . Author:JENKINS, ALAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : NIMROD FLIP OUT . Author:KERET, ETGAR. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : REDBIRD CHRISTMAS A short and poignant Christmas story for all the family. Oswald T. Campbell, aged 52, down-and-out in a Chicago winter, is only given months to live unless he moves South. He finds himself in the small town of Lost River, Alabama, amongst all its eccentric but friendly residents.. Author:FLAGG, FANNIE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : RULES FOR OLD MEN WAITING . Author:POUNCEY, PETER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CHECKPOINT . Author:BAKER, NICHOLSON. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ORIENTALIST . Author:REISS, TOM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WE WERE PEDESTRIANS . Author:WOODWARD, GERARD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : POSITION . Author:WOLITZER, MEG. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TRUTH AND CONSEQUENCES . Author:LURIE, ALISON. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ICE QUEEN . Author:HOFFMAN, ALICE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : INCENDIARY Eleven suicide bombers turn the stadium into an inferno during an Arsenal-Chelsea match. Her husband and four-year-old son are blown to smithereens. She is left with an empty ex-Council flat in Bethnal Green and nothing to live for. And so she writes Osama Bin Laden a letter to tell him just what she thinks. Author:CLEAVE, CHRIS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TAKE A GIRL LIKE ME . Author:MELLY, DIANA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BOER WAR As war correspondent for the "Morning Post", this is Winston Churchill's account of the Boer War, the conditions under which it was fought and the problems which faced the British Army when confronted by the Boers' dogged determination.. Author:CHURCHILL, WINSTON. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FIERY HEART . Author:ROE, NICHOLAS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : RAGGED GLORIES This volume is a collection of pieces covering 20 years of music - pop, soul, country and blues - in the US. It includes interviews with Lou Reed, Randy Newman and Johnny Cash; profiles of cult heroes Big Star, Little Feat and Todd Rungeon; and essays on disco, cyberpunk and Americana.. Author:HOSKYNS, BARNEY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ACROSS THE GREAT DIVIDE This definitive history of one of the great iconic bands of the 1960s and 1970s, spans the entire course of American rock and roll, with a supporting cast that includes Bob Dylan, the Beatles, Janis Joplin, Muddy Waters, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young and U2.. Author:HOSKYNS, BARNEY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN The Middle Ages was a decisive time in Japan's history as it confirmed the country's national identity. Here, Souyri discusses religious, intellectual and literary practices to provide an overview of medieval Japanese culture, revealing the era's enormous economic potential.. Author:SOUYRI, PIERRE FRANCOIS (DIRECTEUR DES ETUDES, ECOLE FRANCAIS D'EXTREME-ORIENT, FRANCE). Discounted by 27%

Vintage : EMPIRE This study explores the role of empire in world history, addressing questions such as: what does it mean to be an empire?, how does one empire differ from another?, why does an empire rise and why fall, and why have empires flourished in some eras and regions of the world but not in others?. Author:LIEVEN, DOMINIC (PROFESSOR OF RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT, LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS). Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ABOUT MODERN ART . Author:SYLVESTER, D.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : STANLEY Originally published in two volumes, this is the story of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, one of the greatest African explorers. Born into poverty, he survived a series of adventures at sea before being commissioned to find David Livingstone in Africa, the greatest single feat in African exploration.. Author:MCLYNN, FRANK. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BONNIE PRINCE CHARLIE Following the crushing defeat at Culloden in 1746, Bonnie Prince Charlie was to play out the rest of his career dogged by a sense of failure and betrayal. This biography of Charles Stuart argues that failure was far from inevitable and history in 1745 came closer to taking a quite different turn.. Author:MCLYNN, FRANK (VISITING PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF LITERATURE, STRATHCLYDE UNIVERSITY). Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CROOKED TIMBER OF HUMANITY The author discusses in the eight essays in this volume the meaning and significance of utopianism; cultural history; relativism; Fascism; romanticism and nationalism; and explores the conditions which have allowed these ideals to flourish and those which have threatened them.. Author:BERLIN, ISAIAH. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WORKHOUSE Everyone has heard of the workhouse. But exactly what was it? Who went there? And how did an institution so universally hated come to be set up? This title tells the story from its first beginnings in Elizabethan times until the final demise of "the union" in the 1940s.. Author:LONGMATE, NORMAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : UNEASY ETHICS An exploration of moral dilemmas of the new millennium that asks the reader "what would you have done?". The topics are: the separation of Siamese twins; the release of the child killers of James Bulger; the Northern Irish peace process; business and government ethics; and response to September 11.. Author:LEE, SIMON. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GOYA This collection of the letters of Goya, written to close friends, members of the Spanish aristocracy and even the Spanish monarchy, constitute his autobiography, and reveal a highly emotional man, prepared to state his feelings as passionately to those in high position as to his close friends.. Author:GOYA, FRANCISCO DE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : NINE SUITCASES . Author:ZSOLT, BELA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WHITE EAGLE, RED STAR This volume gives a full account of the Polish-Soviet War of 1919-20, when the Red Army was crushed by a devasting Polish attack. The author draws on documentary material and shows how this episode largely determined the course of European history for the next 20 years.. Author:DAVIES, NORMAN (PROFESSOR EMERITUS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON AND SUPERNUMERARY FELLOW, WOLFSON COLLEGE, OXFORD). Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FALL OF BERLIN The scene is set during the 1936 Olympics, with Berlin as the showcase of the 1000-year Reich. The authors sketch the history of this extraordinary city, as it fell under Nazi sway in 1933 and later became the hub of Hitler's war machine. This title recounts the battle for Berlin in 1945.. Author:READ, ANTHONY FISHER, DAVID. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : JESUS This title reappraises our readings of the Gospels, reinterpreting the story of Jesus's birth, his life as a carpenter and the dramatic events surrounding his arrest and trial. It rescues Jesus from the tangles of Christian history, to present a portrait of the man behind the myth.. Author:WILSON, A.N.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : I WAS A GERMAN First published in 1934, this is the autobiography of expressionist playwright Ernst Toller. The book provides an insight into the "generation of 1914" who returned from the trenches as fervent believers in the ideals of socialism.. Author:TOLLER, ERNST. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : NAPOLEONIC WARS, 1803-1815 Known collectively as the "Great War", for over a decade the Napoleonic Wars engulfed not only a whole continent but also the overseas possessions of the leading European states. This title explores the cause and effects of the conflict, placing it in the context of the evolution of modern warfare.. Author:GATES, DAVID. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FAITH Beneath the great themes of Christian history, this text is richly peopled by individuals, saints, mystics, inquisitors, flagellants, scholars, soldiers and artists of sublime brilliance.. Author:MOYNAHAN, BRIAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DEAR DODIE . Author:GROVE, VALERIE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FIRE FROM HEAVEN A re-creation of the character of 17th-century Dorchester, in the county of Dorset. Following a huge conflagration on 6 August 1613, a group of men with a vision of a godly community, rebuilt it into a town renowned for religiously radical ideas, including systems of education and social welfare.. Author:UNDERDOWN, DAVID (PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, YALE UNIVERSITY, USA). Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GLORIANA The history of the portraiture of Elizabeth I is that of the manufacture of an image powerful enough to hold together a people divided by a rigid social hierachy and religious belief. The success of this image is shown by the love inspired by a monarch who was "aged, toothless, bald and irascible".. Author:STRONG, ROY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : JESSE JAMES In this title, the author paints a vivid portrait Jesse James and of the period before the Civil War, during the conflict and its aftermath, both nationally and, more specifically, in the divided border state of James's Missouri.. Author:STILES, T.J.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LONDON RECORDINGS . Author:SYLVESTER, DAVID. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CLOUDS OF GLORY Hoxton today is one of the most fashionable parts of inner London, yet within living memory it was the capital's most notorious slum area. In this work, Bryan Magee recalls the vanished world of his childhood living in Hoxton and brings it to life again in all its drama and surprise.. Author:MAGEE, BRYAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FLOURISHING . Author:BERLIN, ISAIAH. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BLUE NOTE RECORDS This work chronicles a famous and influential jazz label, Blue Note Records, from its beginnings to the present day. It covers the label's development, its rise and fall, and its rebirth under the EMI umbrella. There is also an analysis of all the major records released throughout the years.. Author:COOK, RICHARD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CAMPBELL BUNK From the 1880s to World War II, Campbell Road, Finsbury Park (known as Campbell Bunk), had a notorious reputation for violence, for breeding thieves and prostitutes, and for an enthusiastic disregard for law and order. This title provides insight into the realities of life there.. Author:WHITE, JERRY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MASTER OF MIDDLE EARTH In this title, Paul Kocher focuses on "The Lord of the Rings" but also considers Tolkien's fiction as a whole, showing the relationship of the short prose and verse narratives to the major work.. Author:KOCHER, PAUL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CAN'T BE SATISFIED The biography of Muddy Waters, the man who invented electric blues and laid the foundation for rock and roll. Leaving the cotton fields of Mississippi for Chicago's South Side, he went on to international stardom - through scores of women, hits, bottles of booze, and moments of divine grace.. Author:GORDON, ROBERT. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BISMARCK Late in the morning of 27 May 1941, the German battleship "Bismarck" was sunk by the British in a fierce battle that lasted 90 minutes. This account uncovers much new information, from the key strategic decisions of the national leaders, to a blow-by-blow account of the battle.. Author:BERCUSON, DAVID HERWIG, HOLGER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PROF . Author:FORT, ADRIAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BRITAIN'S ROYAL FAMILIES A reference containing complete genealogical details of all members of the royal houses of England, Scotland and Great Britain from AD 800 to the present day. It provides biographical data for every monarch and their relations. This new, updated edition is timed to mark the Queen's Golden Jubilee.. Author:WEIR, ALISON. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PARIS BABYLON Charts the extraordinary events that beset Paris at the close of the Second Empire. It also paints a richly detailed picture of life in Paris - castigated by moralists for its licentiousness - from its palaces, theatres, hotels and department stores to its prisons, hospitals and back-street dives.. Author:CHRISTIANSEN, RUPERT. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SEVEN TYPES OF AMBIGUITY In his enjoyable readings of ambiguity, puns and paradox, Empson draws on a variety of authors from Chaucer to Eliot, illuminating the strategies of individual writers and creating a brilliant general theory of poetic practice: wide ranging, witty and still controversial.. Author:EMPSON, WILLIAM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MANSION ON THE HILL This hard-nosed history of the rock-music business concentrates particularly on the rise of the manipulative, calculating and utterly ruthless, billionaire music business Svengali, David Geffen.. Author:GOODMAN, FRED. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TRIAL OF ADOLF EICHMANN Although Adolf Eichmann stood alone in the dock at Jerusalem, the crimes with which he was charged called for a complete reappraisal of the Nazi policy for exterminating European Jewry. This is an authoritative reassessment of the Nazi tyranny over Jews and its notorious protagonist.. Author:RUSSELL OF LIVERPOOL, LORD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DR.JOHNSON'S WOMEN . Author:CLARKE, NORMA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PASSIONATE APPRENTICE Comprising the first years of Virginia Woolf's journal, beginning in early January when Woolf was almost 15, the pages in this title open at a time when she was slowly recovering from a period of madness following her mother's death in May 1895.. Author:WOOLF, VIRGINIA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CONGENIAL SPIRITS This volume contains the finest and most enjoyable of Virginia Woolf's letters. They display not only her courage and brilliance, her generosity and love of gossip, but also her genius for close and enduring friendship.. Author:WOOLF, VIRGINIA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MOMENTS OF BEING Virginia Woolf's only autobiographical writing is to be found in this collection of five pieces. Despite Quentin Bell's biography and other studies of her, the author's own account of her early life should hold fascination for its unexpected detail and clear-sighted judgement of Victorian values.. Author:WOOLF, VIRGINIA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : COMPLETE VERSE This volume contains all of Belloc's published verse, including "Heroic Poem in Praise of Wine", rhymes from "Cautionary Tales" and pieces from "The Bad Child's Book of Beasts".. Author:BELLOC, HILAIRE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WEEKEND WODEHOUSE A P.G. Wodehouse collection including Drones Club tales, Mr Mulliner stories, and stories of Jeeves, Lord Emsworth and Ukridge. The selection also features extracts from Wodehouse's novels and non-fiction writings.. Author:WODEHOUSE, P.G.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DONKEYS A study of the Western Front in 1915, this book is a stinging indictment of incompetent generalship. The author explores the truth of the observation that British troops were "lions led by donkeys" and shows how appalling losses almost completely destroyed the old professional army.. Author:CLARK, ALAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CIVIL WAR The American Civil War was the largest war of the 19th century - the bloodiest and the most prolonged - and it marked a crossroads in American history. This book includes a narrative history of the war, essays on various aspects of the war and extracts from contemporary documents.. Author:WARD, GEOFFREY C. BURNS, RIC BURNS, KEN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MEIN KAMPF Hitler's infamous political tract was first published in 1925-26 and has been widely translated since. This edition contains a detailed introduction which analyses Hitler's background, his ideology and his ruthless understanding of political power.. Author:HITLER, ADOLF. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : OTHER MEN'S FLOWERS This anthology of English poetry was first published in 1944. The editor, Field Marshal Lord Wavell, who was Viceroy of India from 1943 to 1947, wrote "Generals and Generalship".. Author:. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ART OF MEMORY This study of memory looks at the history and development of memory enhancement. The book begins by looking at the ancient Greeks who invented a memory system based on a technique of impressing "places" and "images" on the mind. This technique was then developed by the Romans and Europeans.. Author:YATES, FRANCES A.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SIX ARMIES IN NORMANDY The Allied assault on Normandy beaches was an almost flawless success, but it was to take three months of fighting before the German defence of Normandy collapsed and Paris was liberated. In this account of that struggle, the reader is subjected to the ordeals confronted by the combatants.. Author:KEEGAN, JOHN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PURSUIT OF THE MILLENNIUM The Middle Ages inherited a tradition of prophesy which, during those centuries, took on fresh vitality. This tradition foretold a millennium in which the world would be inhabited by happy people. This book tells the story of those millenarian fanaticism and points to their persistence today.. Author:COHN, NORMAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : EUROPE'S INNER DEMONS Traces popular beliefs about witches to their origins, and shows how the great witch-hunt erupted, when thousands of innocent people were tortured and burned alive in the 16th and 17th centuries. Norman Cohn is the author of "The Pursuit of the Millennium" and "Warrant for Genocide".. Author:COHN, NORMAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ON THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MILITARY INCOMPETENCE This text surveys 100 years of military inefficiency from the Crimean War to World War II. It examines the social psychology of military organizations, provides case studies of individual commanders and indentifies an alarming pattern in the causes of military disaster.. Author:DIXON, NORMAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GERONIMO A biography of America's most famous Indian warrior, Geronimo. Other works by Angie Debo include "The Five Civilized Tribes of Oklahoma", "The Road to Disappearance", "The Rise and Fall of the Choctaw Republic" (awarded the John H. Dunning Prize) and "And Still the Waters Run".. Author:DEBO, ANGIE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HISTORY OF THE INDIANS OF THE UNITED STATES A comprehensive survey of the Indians of the United States. It also analyzes the problems that have beset these peoples since their first contact with Europeans.. Author:DEBO, ANGIE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HIDDEN LANDSCAPE An exploration of time and place in which Fortey peels away the top layer of the land to reveal the hidden landscape - the rocks which contain the story of distant events. We travel with him as our guide throughout the British Isles and as the rocks change we learn to read the clues they contain.. Author:FORTEY, RICHARD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WASHING OF THE SPEARS An account of the rise of the Zulu nation in southern Africa, and its fall under Cetshwayo in the Zulu war of 1879. This work sets out to be not only a history of the Zulus but also a full-scale study of the British colonial and military policy in relation to southern Africa, and of those involved.. Author:MORRIS, DONALD R.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HORATIO NELSON This biography of Horatio Nelson juxtaposes details of his daily life, loves, friendships and opinions with the great events which make him one of the most memorable figures in British history. This is the story of the man who saved Britain from invasion and gave it maritime supremacy.. Author:POCOCK, TOM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BLOOD, TEARS AND FOLLY Deighton delivers an account of a recent time when, at the height of their power, the European dictators and Japanese military autocracy ruthlessly ruled almost half the world. He reveals the reality of global conflict with moving individual stories from participants at every level.. Author:DEIGHTON, LEN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : NAPOLEON Tracing Napoleon's career, Frank McLynn begins with his Corsican roots, through the years of the French Revolution and the military triumphs, to the coronation in 1804, and ultimate defeat and imprisonment. McLynn reveals how Napoleon was both existential hero and plaything of fate.. Author:MCLYNN, FRANK. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CHINA This comprehensive cultural history of China ranges from prehistoric times to the present, from the disunity of pre-Imperial China to Tiananmen Square and the 1989 student revolt. By placing the modern country in historical perspective, this study reveals many ancient continuities.. Author:COTTERELL, ARTHUR. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DECEIVED WITH KINDNESS The record of the young Angelica Garnett's struggle to emerge from the extraordinary and intense milieu of the Bloomsbury Set as a mature and independent woman. She creates a poignant picture of her mother, Vanessa Bell, of her own emerging individuality, and of the Bloomsbury era.. Author:GARNETT, ANGELICA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CITY OF LONDON GOLDEN YEARS, 1890-1914 A social and economic history showing how it was possible for the City of London to become all-dominant as Britain's gold-standard reigned across the globe. The dangerously close relationship between finance and politics is explored, together with a portrait of gentlemens' life in the City.. Author:KYNASTON, DAVID. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CITY OF LONDON ILLUSIONS OF GOLD, 1914-45 The third volume of this history tells the story of the City of London in the 20th century and how it survived two world wars.. Author:KYNASTON, DAVID. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CASE OF MARY BELL In 1968, 11-year-old Mary Bell was found guilty of the manslaughter of two young boys. This study asks why one child would murder another, and provides the background to the Bell case. The author also gives her account of the case of James Bulger, now that the debate has tragically re-opened.. Author:SERENY, GITTA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PIMLICO ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE MIDDLE AGES An authoritative, entertaining, and fully illustrated guide to the Middle Ages.. Author:. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SOUTH THE STORY OF SHACKLETON'S LAST EXPEDITION, 1914-17 Based upon Shackleton's diaries and writings, this work gives the reader an insight into the appalling conditions that the author and his party endured when the Endurance lay trapped in sea ice and they were forced to march 600 miles across unstable sea ice.. Author:SHACKLETON, SIR ERNEST. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : USE AND ABUSE OF HISTORY This is a collection of the author's essays illuminating discussions of some major issues: the nature of the Spartan state; the development of Greek law; mythological thinking in the Greek historians; and utopian ideas old and new.. Author:FINLEY, M.I.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WAGONS WEST A history of the incredible heroism and dangerous folly of the mid-Western farmers who made their way to Oregon and California in the 1840s. Using original diaries and memoirs, it presents individual stories, such as that of Brigham Young and the Mormons, as well as thematic investigations.. Author:MCLYNN, FRANK (VISITING PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF LITERATURE, STATHCLYDE UNIVERSITY, SCOTLAND). Discounted by 27%

Vintage : RISE OF THE NOVEL In this study, Ian Watts traces the genesis and development of the literary form, the novel. He investigates the reasons why the three main 18th-century novelists (Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson and Henry Fielding) wrote in the way they did.. Author:WATT, IAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ROAD TO VERDUN A vivid account of the generals' planning and the troops' suffering in the largest, longest and bloodiest battle of World War I. It challenges the narrow horizons of military history and should challenge the reader's view of France, and the very nature of warfare.. Author:OUSBY, IAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BUSHMEN OF SOUTHERN AFRICA Facing up to a shameful history, this book celebrates the culture and courage of the first people of Africa, the Bushmen, who, over the past 200 years, have been dispossessed and almost exterminated. In Botswana - miraculously saved by the Mandela government - they are now making their last stand.. Author:GALL, SANDY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT . Author:GERZINA, GRETCHEN H.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : RUMOR OF WAR In 1965, Marine Lieutenant Philip Caputo landed in Danang with the first ground combat unit committed to fight in Vietnam. After 16 months he returned home - physically whole, emotionally wasted, his idealism shattered. This story is about the things men do in war and the things war does to them.. Author:CAPUTO, PHILIP. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ESSENTIAL ENGLISH A guide to the use of words as tools of communication, written primarily for journalists but of value to all who have to convey information by the written or printed word.. Author:EVANS, HAROLD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HENRY VIII A detailed study written by a popular Tudor historian that sets a personal biography of Henry VIII against the cultural, social and political background of his court (with a rich supporting cast of courtiers, ministers, nobles and commoners) and the splendour of his many palaces.. Author:WEIR, ALISON. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : NOTHING LESS THAN VICTORY The narratives in this oral history offer an account of life in 1944, being young and being at war. They include letters, diaries, memos and interviews with veterans from all sides of the conflict, who recount their memories and feelings.. Author:MILLER, RUSSELL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS AND THE MURDER OF LORD DARNLEY Alison Weir's investigation into the murder of Lord Darnley, second husband to Mary, Queen of Scots, is set against one of the most dramatic periods in British history, and her conclusions will shed new light on the motives of the conspirators and the involvement of Mary Stuart.. Author:WEIR, ALISON. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CHARGE On 25th October 1854, during the seige of Sebastopol, the Light Brigade attacked Russian gun positions at Balaclava. This volume shatters many long-held conceptions of how and why the charge of the Light Brigade happened, and who was to blame.. Author:ADKIN, MARK. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : RISE AND FALL OF THE WOMAN OF LETTERS Following a chronological line beginning at the start of the 18th century, this is a study of writers such as Elizabeth Singer Rowe, Hester Chapone and Joanna Baillie. The author looks closely at how the 18th century woman of letters became a vital part of public life and accounts for why she disappeared.. Author:CLARKE, NORMA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : UNFORGIVING MINUTE In this text, Harry Ricketts presents a vivid study of Rudyard Kipling's life in relation to his work, cutting through the myths that surround him. He explores Kipling's passions, his imperialism, his thirst to find a home and his increasing reclusiveness.. Author:RICKETTS, HARRY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LOVE LETTERS This exchange of letters tells the story of two contrasting personalities, their love for one another and their unusual and creative domestic arrangement. The letters shine with details of daily life, but above all they are a romance in two voices - his besotted, hers tender and sensible.. Author:WOOLF, LEONARD PARSONS, TREKKIE RITCHIE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FLOODS, FAMINES AND EMPERORS In 1997 and 1998, one of the most powerful El Ninos ever recorded disrupted weather patterns all over the world. Here, the author shows that that this is not new and that El Nino has been disrupting weather patterns for at least 5000 years, sometimes with catastrophic effects on civilizations.. Author:FAGAN, BRIAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : OUTLAWS AND HIGHWAYMEN This book is a full-length study devoted to the English robbers of history and legend. It draws on street ballads and social commentary, reportage and satire, gossip and high literature, popular anecdotes and criminal biographies in charting the images of the highway robbers across eight centuries.. Author:SPRAGGS, GILLIAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CULT OF ELIZABETH The author fuses history, politics, religion, literature and the visual arts into what actually constituted the Elizabethan image. The illustrations, through choice of telling detail and illuminating juxtaposition, develop further the iconographic exploration of the Elizabethan era.. Author:STRONG, SIR ROY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MYSTERY OF MALLORY AND IRVINE The compelling story of the greatest mystery in mountaineering, first published in 1996, has now been revised in the light of the discovery of Mallory's body on Everest. In 1924 Mallory and Irvine set off from camp, bound for the summit. But they were never seen alive again. Did they conquer the mountain? How did they die?. Author:HOLZEL, TOM SALKELD, AUDREY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : THREE CRITICS OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT Isaiah Berlin analyses the ideas of three deeply original but unregarded thinkers, and demonstrates their disturbing relevance to the central issues of today's world.. Author:BERLIN, ISAIAH. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LITTLE HISTORY OF BRITISH GARDENING This "potted" history of gardening in Britain takes reader on a garden tour from the thorn hedges around prehistoric settlements to the rage for decking and ornamental grasses of the 21st century. There is also a brief guide to particular historic or evocative gardens open to the public.. Author:UGLOW, JENNY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SPIRIT OF BRITAIN Sir Roy Strong's cohesive, passionate and timely chronicling of the movements which have shaped all that is best in British art and culture serves to remind us WHAT we have and to preserve in all its richness and diversity.. Author:STRONG, ROY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CLOSING OF THE WESTERN MIND This title is a radical reappraisal of the impact of Constantine's adoption of Christianity, both on the later Roman world and on the subsequent development of Christianity and western civilization.. Author:FREEMAN, CHARLES. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : RIVER-HORSE In his most ambitious journey ever, Heat-Moon and his companion set off aboard a small boat from the Atlantic at New York harbour in hopes of entering the Pacific near Astoria. Covering some 5000 watery miles, more than any other river traveller has ever managed, this is a portrait of America at the edge of the millennium,. Author:WILLIAM LEAST HEAT MOON. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : EDEN Eden was one of the most fascinating and ultimately tragic British politicians of the 20th century. A man of rigid honour, he resigned as Foreign Secretary in 1938 over the appeasement of Hitler, eventually achieving his desire to be Prime Minister, only to be brought down by the 1956 Suez Crisis.. Author:THORPE, D.R.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : OCCUPATION Defeat in 1940 left the French so chastened and demoralized that they readily supported the Vichy regime, committed not just to pragmatic collaboration but to finding scapegoats for the nation's disgrace - from Jews to school teachers and freemasons. This is a history of this time.. Author:OUSBY, IAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BLOOD KINDRED . Author:MCCORMACK, W.J.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LONG RECESSIONAL While previous studies of Rudyard Kipling have concentrated on his writing and on his domestic life, this volume studies his public role and his influence on the way Britons saw both themselves and their empire.. Author:GILMOUR, DAVID. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BEHIND THE BATTLE This study surveys and analyzes the military intelligence available to Britain and her allies during World War II. In 1939, Britain was as ill-prepared in intelligence as in armaments. Improvements began in 1941, and Ultra was ultimately responsible for winning the Battle of the Atlantic.. Author:BENNETT, RALPH. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : AT HOME WITH THE MARQUISE DE SADE This unusual biography of the Marquis De Sade draws upon thousands of pages of correspondence between De Sade and his plain bourgeois wife, to explore in historical and psychological detail what it was like to live with such a man.. Author:GRAY, FRANCINE DU PLESSIX. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CAPTIVES Ranging over a quarter of a millenium and four continents, this book uncovers the lives, deaths and autobiographical writings of a vital but forgotten constituency: the tens of thousands of men and women who took part in Britain's rise to imperial pre-eminence but who got caught and caught out.. Author:COLLEY, LINDA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SIX THOMASES OF HENRY VIII The author examines a set of relationships which illustrate just how dangerous life was in the court of the Tudor lion, Henry VIII. Wilson tells the interlocking stories of six men (all, curiously, named Thomas) whose ambitions and principles brought them face to face with violent death.. Author:WILSON, DEREK. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PIMLICO HISTORY OF WESTERN PHILOSOPHY This volume provides a historical analysis of the key figures, schools and movements of Western philosophy, from Plato to Wittgenstein and from Aquinas to Heidegger. The editor has assembled 63 prominent scholars as contributors, and their scope includes Middle Eastern and Asian influences.. Author:. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : STANDARD OF POWER Beginning before World War I and ending in 2001, this Royal Navy history is full of dramatic events, recreated in narrative, and is also a serious study of technological and social change through which the Royal Navy, like Britain itself, has transformed itself almost beyond recognition.. Author:VAT, DAN VAN DER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TUNES OF GLORY This title is a biography of one of the most flamboyant figures in the world of classical music. A carnation ever-present in his lapel, Sargent was disliked by the musical establishment for his populism and showmanship.. Author:ALDOUS, RICHARD (DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN). Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HUMANITY This work is a study of history and morality in the 20th century. It examines the psychology which made possible Hiroshima, the Nazi genocide, Rwanda and Bosnia. It draws on accounts of participants, victims and observers and suggests that different atrocities have common patterns.. Author:GLOVER, JONATHAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BILL BRANDT . Author:DELANY, PAUL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : STORY OF BRITAIN A history of Britain from Celtic times to the present day, which examines institutions such as the monarchy, Parliament, the law and the Church. Strong looks at the changes that have taken place in these representatives of British identity and in social, cultural and economic spheres.. Author:STRONG, ROY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CONCEPTS AND CATEGORIES Included here are Berlin's early arguments against logical positivism, and later essays reflecting his interest in political theory, intellectual history and the philosophy of history. He states: "The goal of philosophy is to assist men to understand themselves and not operate wildly in the dark.". Author:BERLIN, ISAIAH. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : POWER OF IDEAS These essays focus on the social and political role - past, present and future - of ideas and of their progenitors. Contents include "My Intellectual Path", an autobiographical survey of Berlin's main preoccupations, and "Jewish Slavery and Emancipation", the classic statement of his Zionist views.. Author:BERLIN, ISAIAH. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : AUGUSTA LEIGH This biography of Augusta Leigh tells the story of a woman born out of one of the most sensational scandals to hit Georgian England. In fact, scandal pursued Augusta for the rest of her life, through her marriage to Colonel George Leigh and her love affair with Lord Byron, her half-brother.. Author:BAKEWELL, MICHAEL BAKEWELL, MELISSA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CHURCHILL The photographs and cartoon portraits in this volume, selected from more than 5000, portray the variety and span of Churchill's life. Most of the images came from Churchill's own albums and many were rescued from fading originals, or glass-plate negatives all supported with a historical commentary.. Author:. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PIMLICO DICTIONARY OF 20TH CENTURY COMPOSERS A guide to over 500 composers of the 20th century, arranged alphabetically. The author deals broadly with Western classical music, and that of Japan and Latin America, but does not cover folk, pop or ethnic music.. Author:MORRIS, MARK. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : AMERICAN CENTURY This is America's story as it has never been told before, with award-winning editor and journalist Harold Evans documenting and celebrating the last hundred years with more than 900 original photographs, cartoons and illustrations.. Author:EVANS, HAROLD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WORLD HISTORY Starting from the assumption that the human story has to be seen in the round, this history examines the evolution of humans, their lives as hunters and gatherers and their eventual adoption of agriculture, before looking at the emergence of civilization across the globe.. Author:PONTING, CLIVE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SHACKLETON'S BOAT JOURNEY F.A. Worsley was the Captain of HMS "Endurance", the ship used by Sir Ernest Shackleton in his 1914-16 expedition to the Antarctic. On its way, the "Endurance" became trapped and then crushed by ice, the ship's party drifting for five months. This is the story of their expedition.. Author:WORSLEY, F. A.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ILLUMINATIONS This text contains two of Walter Benjamin's essays, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction", and "Theses on the Philosophy of History", as well as others on the art of translation, Kafka, storytelling, Baudelaire, Brecht's epic theatre, Proust, and book collecting.. Author:BENJAMIN, WALTER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LORD BERNERS A biography of Lord Berners, composer, novelist, painter, eccentric millionaire and friend of some of the most important figures in the arts, such as Picasso, Stravinsky, the Sitwells and Dali, from the turn of the century to World War II.. Author:AMORY, MARK. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HITLER EMIGRES This story concerns those central Europeans who escaped the shadow of Nazism, found refuge in Britain and made a lasting mark on the nations's intellectual and cultural life. Far from eliminating the cosmopolitan culture he abhorred, Hitler was instrumental in spreading it throughout the world.. Author:SNOWMAN, DANIEL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BERLIN DIARIES, 1940-45 The biography of a White Russian emigree trapped with her family in Hitler's Germany at the outbreak of World War II. Living among the ruins of Berlin during Allied bombing raids, she grew up to be a strong-minded, committed and courageous woman.. Author:VASSILTCHIKOV, MARIE "MISSIE". Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CARAVAGGIO A new edition of this biography, originally published by Chatto & Windus, in which Langdon uncovers Caravaggio's progress from childhood in plague-ridden Milan to wild success in Rome, and eventual exile and persecution in the South, and sets his work against the political, intellectual and spiritual movements of the day.. Author:LANGDON, HELEN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DEATH OF JEAN MOULIN Who was Jean Moulin? The official answer is that he was General de Gaulle's emissary to occupied France and became the political head of the Resistance in 1943. However, Marnham searches for the key to Moulin's political convictions and suggests that he may have been working to a private agenda.. Author:MARNHAM, PATRICK. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : S.O.E., 1940-46 Those in the Special Operations Executive during World War II were recruited from remarkably diverse callings. This is the story of the men and women who were members of this most secret agency and who lived in constant danger. Their job was to support and stimulate resistance behind enemy lines.. Author:FOOT, M.R.D.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MAGNUM A biography of Magnum in the words of its photographers. The perspective on half a century of world history by a small group of photographers who established the co-operative photographic agency which became the most famous in the world. Includes anecdotal stories of the photographers and their adventures.. Author:MILLER, RUSSELL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : VICTORIAN PRISON LIVES This is an account of the process of imprisonment in England between 1930 and 1914, drawn largely from the writings of the prisoners themselves. The period was one of great change, where the idea of prisons as "moral hospitals" gave way to the idea of penal servitude and its legacy of harshness.. Author:PRIESTLEY, PHILIP. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BURNING OF BRIDGET CLEARY This text offers the story of Bridget Cleary, who in 1895 disappeared from her house in rural Tipperary. Some said the fairies had taken her, but then her body was found. Her husband, father, aunt and cousins were arrested and charged, while newspapers attempted to make sense of what had happened.. Author:BOURKE, ANGELA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PERSONAL IMPRESSIONS A collection of portraits of seventeen people of remarkable distinction in the intellectal or political world - sometimes in both - now supplemented for this edition by five new essays. The names include Churchill, Roosevelt, Weizmann, Einstein, Bowra, Pasternak and Akhmatova.. Author:BERLIN, ISAIAH. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SKETCHES IN PEN AND INK Vanessa Bell was an artist, sister of Virginia Woolf, wife of Clive Bell and lover of Duncan Grant, but as part of the Bloomsbury set was unusual in that she rarely put pen to paper. This volume is a collection of her memoirs, in which Bell writes of her childhood, her family and friends.. Author:BELL, VANESSA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PUNIC WARS The Punic Wars (264-146 BC) sprang from a mighty power struggle between two ancient civilizations - the trading empire of Carthage and the military confederation of Rome. Though this took place more than 2000 years ago, Nigel Bagnall argues that it has remarkable contemporary significance.. Author:BAGNALL, NIGEL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FLAME TREES OF THIKA Originally published in 1962 by Penguin, Huxley's autobiography recalls her extraordinary adventures as a child in Africa.. Author:HUXLEY, ELSPETH. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : IN HIS OWN WRITE This volume combines Lennon's two books of humorous poetry and prose, liberally illustrated with the author's own drawings.. Author:LENNON, JOHN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ATTACHMENT AND LOSS SEPARATION - ANXIETY AND ANGER The second volume of Attachment and Loss continues Bowlby's work on the importance of the parental relationship to mental health and considers separation and the anxiety that accompanies it: the fear of imminent or anticipated separation, the fear induced by parental threats of separation, and the inversion of the parent-child relationship.. Author:BOWLBY, JOHN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CITY OF QUARTZ An exploration of Los Angeles, told with passion, wit and a sharp eye for the absurd, the unjust and the dangerous. The author tells a lurid tale of greed, manipulation, power and prejudice that has made LA one of the most cosmopolitan and class-divided cities in the United States.. Author:DAVIS, MIKE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ATTACHMENT AND LOSS LOSS - SADNESS AND DEPRESSION In this third and final volume, Bowlby completes the trilogy Attachment and Loss, his work on the importance of the parental relationship to mental health and examines the ways in which young children respond to a temporary or permanent loss of a mother-figure and the expressions of anxiety, grief and mourning which accompany such loss.. Author:BOWLBY, J.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DEFEAT OF THE SPANISH ARMADA . Author:MATTINGLY, G. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ONCE THEY MOVED LIKE THE WIND The Apache wars were the final episode in the subjugation of the American Indian peoples. Featuring larger-than-life characters such as Geronimo, Cochise and General Cook, this is an account of the battles between the Apache and the US Army for land and freedom.. Author:ROBERTS, DAVID. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : EUROPE From the Ice Age to the Cold War, from Reykjavik to the Volga, from Minos to Margaret Thatcher, this is the story of Europe in a single volume.. Author:DAVIES, NORMAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : THOMAS AND JANE CARLYLE This biography of Thomas and Jane Carlyle describes their relationship with each other, from their first meeting in 1821 to Jane's death in 1866, and their relationship with the outside world. The book provides not only a portrait of a marriage but also a vivid picture of Victorian life.. Author:ASHTON, ROSEMARY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : KING AND THE GENTLEMAN Derek Wilson examines how the lives of Charles I and Oliver Cromwell - both from very different backgrounds with different sets of values - converge and intertwine until the fatal conclusion in 1649.. Author:WILSON, DEREK. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DUNCAN GRANT Duncan Grant was one of the best-known names on the British art scene and the most charismatic member of the Bloomsbury set. His life spanned great changes in society and art, from Edwardian times to the 1970s.. Author:SPALDING, FRANCES. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FIRST WORLD WAR In this study of World War I the author presents the military conflict, the battles on land, sea and in the air, together with interpretations of military events. He also shows how the war also acted as an engine for social change which shapes our world today.. Author:KEEGAN, JOHN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : INTELLIGENCE IN WARFARE . Author:KEEGAN, JOHN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BRIGHT, SHINING LIE Lt Colonel John Paul Vann went to Vietnam in 1962, but soon became appalled by the slaughter, leaking his pessimistic assessments to the US press corps in Saigon. Neil Sheehan was among them, and became fascinated by the angry Vann, befriended him, and followed his tragic and reckless career.. Author:SHEEHAN, NEIL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HEALING THE MIND This text starts 2500 years ago and ends with the present of DSM-IV. For each century and era, the book outlines major trends, movements and contributing forces that set the tone of the time.. Author:STONE, MICHAEL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PAUL Arguing against the view of Paul as the originator of Christian prejudice against women and homosexuals, or the bigoted theologue who distorted the message of Jesus, Wilson sees Paul as the first of the great romantic poets and the man who made the crucified Jesus his inner light and thus preserved the image of Christ the Saviour for posterity.. Author:WILSON, A.N.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : JOURNEY OF MARTIN NADAUD Martin Nadaud is a work of miniaturist history that recreates, through the life of a little-known figure, the turbulent era of Paris in the mid-19th century. Self-taught, Nadaud was a Republican who endured political exile in London, 1848 to 1871.. Author:TINDALL, GILLIAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : 1066 It has become customary to assume that the Norman victory at Hastings was inevitable due to their superior technology. This study is based on the latest research findings and argues that this view is mistaken, while showing what an inspirational general Harold was.. Author:MCLYNN, FRANK. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LANCASTER AND YORK The war between the houses of Lancaster and York for England's throne saw some of the bloodiest battles on England's soil. This account of the war focuses on the human side - on the people and personalities involved in the conflict, chiefly King Henry VI and the Duke of York, Richard Plantagenet.. Author:WEIR, ALISON. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PIMLICO ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WESTERN GUNFIGHTERS This work contains biographies of 255 gunfighters and gives details of 587 gunfights. It includes dates and places of birth and death, aliases, occupation and a brief biography, followed in chronological order by detailed accounts of verified gunfights by each individual.. Author:. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SCOTLAND A journey through Scotland's landscape by the acclaimed author of "Culloden" and "The Highland Clearances". This is a voyage that spans the Borders, the Highlands and the Isles, drawing upon a rich store of social history, anecdote, folklore and literature.. Author:PREBBLE, JOHN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FLOATING EGG This book contains 25 stories, beginning with the search for an alchemist's secret, and ending with the re-imagination of a past world, and each is connected to a particular part of north-east England, exploring the uncertain line where myth is dissolved into science.. Author:OSBORNE, ROGER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SECOND WORLD WAR This edition is Churchill's own abridgement of his original six-volume history of World War II.. Author:CHURCHILL, WINSTON. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SORCERER'S APPRENTICE Between 1951 and 1961 the author lived in Provence at the Chateau de Castille with the brilliant but controversial art historian Douglas Cooper. This is a memoir of Richardson's ten years in the chateau, a ruined, colonnaded folly which became a private museum.. Author:RICHARDSON, JOHN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CADILLAC DESERT The story of the American West is the story of a relentless quest for a precious resource: water. This is the story of the early settlers, lured by promises of paradise. The author documents the rivalry between government giants and other institutions, in the competition to transform the West.. Author:REISNER, MARC. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MUTINY An account of the mutinies in Highland regiments, beginning with the noble revolt of the Black Watch at Finchley in 1743 and ending with the mutiny of the starving Fencibles on Glasgow Green in 1804. This book completes Prebble's account of the Highland clans, which he began in "Culloden".. Author:PREBBLE, JOHN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DUKES There are only 26 non-royal Dukes in the British Peerage. Their origins divide neatly into Tudor looters, Royal bastards, opportunist generals, territorial, metropolitan or Scottish magnates. The author tells the story of each of these grandees, all of whom are determined to survive.. Author:MASTERS, BRIAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CHURCHILL First published in 1991, this is a story of adventure. The author uses Churchill's personal letters and the recollections of his contemporaries, friends and enemies, to go behind the scenes of some of the stormiest and fascinating political events of our time revealing his qualities in peace and war, not least as an orator and a man of vision.. Author:GILBERT, MARTIN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : IN THE NAME OF HUMANITY A reflection on the history of humanism and the relationship of this philosophical tradition to the rise of totalitarianism in the 20th century. There are reviews of arguments about what makes a man human, and how it was possible for mankind to inspire political systems of dehumanizing proportions.. Author:FINKIELKRAUT, ALAIN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GIVE THE ANARCHIST A CIGARETTE A highly personal account of British counterculture in the 1960s and 70s, from early beatnik adventures in Ladbroke Grove, through the flowering of hippies to the snarl of punk. Along the way, Farren describes encounters with the celebrated and the notorious.. Author:FARREN, MICK. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BEHIND THE LINES Compiled from interviews, diaries, letters and contemporaneous first-person accounts, this oral history follows the adventures of the courageous men and women who volunteered for service with Britain's Special Operations Executives and the United States' Office of Strategic Services.. Author:MILLER, RUSSELL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SOLDIERS An in-depth study of the character and spirit of soldiers. This poignant account of military lives takes as its starting point interviews with Chelsea Pensioners, whose army service spans the 20th century and who have seen action from World War I to Korea.. Author:ZIEGLER, PHILIP. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FREYA STARK This account of Freya Stark's life uncovers the complexity and charm of the doyenne of modern travel writers. It is an adventure story, whether following Alexander the Great's path through Turkey or exploring routes in the Yemen desert.. Author:GENIESSE, JANE FLETCHER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WHITEHALL A history of the British civil service from the Norman Conquest to the present day. It also provides an analysis of present-day ministries. This edition has a new 10,000 word final chapter.. Author:HENNESSY, PETER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MAN WHO DREW LONDON This volume is about how London was perceived by Wenceslaus Hollar, the artist/engraver who drew London before and after the Great Fire of 1666. It is because of his panoramas that we know what Old St Paul's was like, before it was completely destroyed and subsequently rebuilt by Wren.. Author:TINDALL, GILLIAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CRADLE KING Published 400 years after the Scottish King James VI took over the English throne from Elizabeth I in March 1603, this is a biography of a fascinating and misunderstood monarch.. Author:STEWART, ALAN (LECTURER IN HISTORY, QUEEN MARY COLLEGE, LONDON). Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FEAST This volume gathers together all the ingredients which contributed to the phenomenon of the celebratory meal - the people, the clothes, the food, the setting, the action and its circumstances - from Roman villa and monastic refectory to Renaissance banquet and the Victorian dinner party.. Author:STRONG, ROY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BURNING TIGRIS . Author:BALAKIAN, PETER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : RENEGADES Drawn from original documentary material, eyewitness accounts and intelligence files, this book traces the course of treason in World War II. From its roots in Mosely's British Union of Fascists, through the war and subsequent investigations by MI5, to trial, imprisonment and execution.. Author:WEALE, ADRIAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : IRON DUKE This biography follows the life of Lord Wellington, the soldier who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo. It reveals Wellington as a humane, intelligent and acerbic aristocrat as well as a professional fighting man who created remarkable intelligence and logistical services.. Author:JAMES, LAWRENCE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ENGLISHMAN'S ENGLAND Here, Ousby investigates the landmarks chosen by the English for their leisure travel over the centuries. He charts the development of the tourism industry by looking in particular at four types of attraction: literary shrines, country houses, picturesque ruins and the natural landscape.. Author:OUSBY, IAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MICHELANGELO AND THE POPE'S CEILING This title tells the story of the four years Michelangelo spent painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, battling against ill health, financial difficulties, domestic problems and inadequate knowledge of the art of fresco.. Author:KING, ROSS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HAWKER OF MORWENSTOW This biography of Robert Stephen Hawker unravels the famous Cornish parson-poet's rich personality. Drawing on a mass of material, Brendon re-creates one of the most bizarre and eccentric Victorian lives, substituting character for caricature.. Author:BRENDON, PIERS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TOBIAS SMOLLETT A biography of the great 18th-century novelist, Tobias Smollett, by the author of "Cyril Connolly: A Life". It is filled with curious details from the worlds of publishing, medicine, politics and literary life.. Author:LEWIS, JEREMY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MARGARET THATCHER IRON LADY . Author:CAMPBELL, JOHN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WORLD AT WAR A revised and updated edition of Mark Arnold-Foster's account of why and how World War II happened. The book also explores the far-reaching consequences for the post-war generations.. Author:ARNOLD-FORSTER, MARK. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : EAST ASIA In recent decades, Japan has become an economic superpower with China close behind. Cotterell places this economic development both in its Asian perspective and a historical context. He concludes that relations between the Chinese and Japanese will ultimately determine the future of East Asia.. Author:COTTERELL, ARTHUR. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : 1815 The 17 months from April 1814 to August 1815 were an extraordinary period in European history. This book tells the story of these days through the perspectives of three very different European cities: the great metropolis of London, post-revolutionary Paris, and baroque Vienna.. Author:DALLAS, GREGOR. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : APRIL BLOOD In April 1478, a plot to murder the two heads of the powerful Medici family miscarried dramatically in the cathedral of Florence. A bloodbath followed in reprisal. All Italy was affected as it emerged that the Pope, the King of Naples and the Duke of Urbino were deeply implicated in the plot.. Author:MARTINES, LAURO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HITLER AND THE POWER OF AESTHETICS Hitler's aims and motivations have been reassessed to examine his perverse obsessions and show how his artistry destroyed any sense of individuality and linked the German people with his own drives. Topics covered include Wagner's operas and the German Autobahn system.. Author:SPOTTS, FREDERICK. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WINDSORS A biography of the British royal family, this book tells the story of the House of Windsor from its foundations in 1917 to the turn of the new century. The book shows how the monarchy has recreated itself down the ages, and looks at the role of the media.. Author:BRENDON, PIERS WHITEHEAD, PHILLIP. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ALL THE KING'S WOMEN . Author:WILSON, DEREK. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : AUSCHWITZ AND THE ALLIES When Hitler announced that the result of the war in Europe would be "the complete annihilation of the Jews" before an enormous crowd in Berlin, the Allies heard, but, astonishingly, they did not listen. First-hand reports of the death camps were ignored by the allies. This book explains why.. Author:GILBERT, MARTIN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SHACKLETONS FORGOTTEN MEN An account of the little-known, tragic expedition launched by Ernest Shackleton in 1915 to provide support for his own Antarctic expedition which would follow. The group lost their ship, and supplies had to be hauled across hostile terrain for an expedition which never came.. Author:BICKEL, LENNARD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ASCENT OF RUM DOODLE A funny spoof about the ascent of a 40,000-and-a-half-foot peak. Many thought on first publication in 1956, that it was inspired by the conquest of Everest in 1953. Bowman had in fact drawn on the earlier adventures of Bill Tilman and his 1937 Nandi Devi expedition.. Author:BOWMAN, W.E.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : UNFINISHED JOURNEY First published in 1976, Lord Menuhin's autobiography was updated by him and reissued in 1996. This book tells the full story and reflects the many and varied interests of one of the most gifted musicians and original intellects of the 20th century.. Author:MENUHIN, YEHUDI. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FRANCIS OF ASSISI Francis of Assisi (1182-1226) was the least dogmatic of saints, seeing himself as God's troubadour or fool. His life was rich in its succession of dramas. This book is a comprehensive account of the saint's life.. Author:HOUSE, ADRIAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LIFE OF JOHN MILTON A.N. Wilson's sympathetic, readable and analytical narrative places John Milton, one of the greatest poets of the 17th century, in the context of his political and religious ideas.. Author:WILSON, A.N.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : POWER AND IMAGINATION This study rethinks the evolution of the city-state in Renaissance Italy, recasting the conventional distinction between "society" and "culture". It traces the growth of commerce and the governments as well as exploring the period's towering works in literature, painting and philosophy.. Author:MARTINES, LAURO (FORMERLY PROFESSOR OF EUROPEAN HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, USA). Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CULLODEN This text, using contemporary memoirs, letters, newspapers and regimental order books, reconstructs the common man's version of the Moorland Battle and the repression and brutality that followed it for the highlanders. It challenges the rose-tinted legend of Bonnie Prince Charlie and Culloden.. Author:PREBBLE, JOHN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : EDWIN LUTYENS The biography of a witty, complex personality, a man who had little formal education and yet became the greatest English architect since Wren. Edwin Lutyens produced his most significant work in the heyday of the British Empire, the English weekend country house party and a vanished social world.. Author:RIDLEY, JANE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DO YOU MR.JONES? In this collection, poets and professors explore different aspects of Dylan's work, writing about his impact on their own intellectual and artisitic lives, as well as on his wider influence.. Author:. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : THIRTEEN DAYS . Author:PONTING, CLIVE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PENDULUM OF WAR . Author:BARR, NIALL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HOW WE LIVED THEN Compiled by the historical adviser to the TV series "The 1940s House", this is an engagingly written social chronicle of wartime civilian life in England from September 1939 to August 1945 - from the grandeurs of the Blitz to the miseries of dried egg powder - with numerous individual testimonies.. Author:LONGMATE, NORMAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : KING'S CARDINAL The author examines every aspect of Wolsey's career: foreign policy, Church and State, law and order, social policy, relations with the Crown, with Parliament and the nobility. He gives the reader a very different Wolsey from the caricature of tradition.. Author:GWYN, PETER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : INTERVIEWS WITH AMERICAN ARTISTS A collection of 19 interviews, recorded over 40 years, with leading American artists. All the artists offer insights about their aims, techniques, beliefs and allegiances. Artists interviewed include: David Smith, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, Jasper Johns, Alex Katz, and Robert Morris.. Author:SYLVESTER, DAVID. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FREDERICK II This biography overturns the myths and reveals Frederick II as neither the Beast of the Apocalypse nor the Universal Hero adopted by pre-Nazi Germany. Instead we are shown a man very much of his time, an emperor whose reign coincided with the great turning-points of the high Middle Ages.. Author:ABULAFIA, DAVID. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CHARLES DARWIN POWER OF PLACE This concluding volume of Charles Darwin's biography looks closely at the wider publishing world of Victorian England and the different audiences which responded to Darwin's ideas. It considers the Darwinian revolution from his point of view and what it was like to become a scientific celebrity.. Author:BROWNE, JANET. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : REFORM! . Author:PEARCE, EDWARD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BY PERMISSION OF HEAVEN This account of the Great Fire of London explores its history and consequences, from the first small blaze to the long work of rebuilding. It also describes the human story of the fire and its aftermath - the panic and terror, the hunt for scapegoats and the rebirth of a city.. Author:TINNISWOOD, ADRIAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LONGEST NIGHT Here, Eicher provides an authoritative modern battle history that spans the entire Civil War, covering major battles such as Gettysburg and Chancellorsville, as well as lesser-known actions. Drawing on hundreds of sources, he discusses leading figures in the war and militarily significant topics.. Author:EICHER, DAVID. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MONEY AND THE POWER Here, the authors provide a detailed and illuminating chronicle of how and why Las Vegas became the greatest "business success story" of the 20th century, and how the rest of America ensured this success by contributing capital as well as customers.. Author:DENTON, SALLY MORRIS, ROGER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FUTURE OF THE PAST A collection of essays by some of the finest historians of Cambridge University, examining some of the key issues facing mankind, and challenging many long-held beliefs. Topics include the reshaping of Europe, the devolution of Britain, and American globalization.. Author:. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : IN GREAT WATERS The Battle of the Atlantic cost 30,000 allied merchant seamen their lives. This history traces the complete history of the battle, looking at all aspects of the conflict: in the air; on the water and below its surface. It tells the story from both sides, including first-hand accounts.. Author:DUNMORE, SPENCER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CHARIOT Right across the Old World from Ireland, through Rome, Greece, Mesopotamia, Egypt, India and China, the use of the chariot is recounted in epic and history. The author also looks at its legacy and provides a broad-ranging view of the world's first revolutionary war machine.. Author:COTTERELL, ARTHUR. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : 1918 A history that traces the transition from war to peace across Europe after World War I. The start of peace is more complex and fascinating than the start of war and Dallas examines these dramatic events from the perspective of five capitals: Berlin, Paris, London, Moscow and Washington.. Author:DALLAS, GREGOR. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Nietzschean terms are constantly used and aspects of his work have been the subject of many books and articles, yet many remain unfamiliar with his ideas. This biography aims to provide a full account of his ideas and their influence.. Author:CATE, CURTIS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FLORENCE A survey of the physical evolution and enhancement of Florence from medieval republican times to the beginning of the 19th century. While discussing artefacts of many kinds, it also considers some of the chief personalities who have contributed to the present-day physical appearance of the city.. Author:LEVEY, MICHAEL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ELIZABETH, THE QUEEN From the author of "The Six Wives of Henry VIII", this work examines the private life of Queen Elizabeth I. She is portrayed as both a woman and a queen, an extraordinary female in a patriarchal age. Elizabeth's dealings with her family and her long affair with Robert Dudley are examined.. Author:WEIR, ALISON. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ELEANOR OF AQUITAINE A fresh and provocative biography of Eleanor of Aquitaine, one of the most controversial personalities of the Middle Ages. Married in turn to Louis VII of France and Henry II of England, she was mother of Richard the Lionheart and King John. She lived to be 82 and became virtual ruler of England.. Author:WEIR, ALISON. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CHILDREN OF ENGLAND This work looks at the characters and relationships of Henry's four heirs. Using contemporary sources, it describes an extraordinary period of history, when each of Henry's heirs was potentially the tool of powerful political and religious figures, and when the realm was seething with intrigue.. Author:WEIR, ALISON. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PROPER STUDY OF MANKIND First published in 1997, this selection of Berlin's work includes his defence of philosophy and history against assimilation to the methods of science, his seminal essays on liberty and his exposition of pluralism. These are followed by studies of intellectual originators, Russian writers and some of his most distinguished contemporaries.. Author:BERLIN, ISAIAH. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PEOPLE'S TRAGEDY An accessible single-volume history of the Russian Revolution between 1891 and 1924.. Author:FIGES, ORLANDO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PASSION OF THE WESTERN MIND A collection of the pivotal ideas from the great minds of Western civilization. From Plato to Hegel, from Augustine to Nietzsche, from Copernicus to Freud, their concepts are described simply but without simplifying them.. Author:TARNAS, RICHARD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SONG OF THE DODO In Darwin's time, island biogeography was the science that opened Victorian minds to the wonder of evolution. Today with all the world's wild landscape being chopped into island-like fragments, it's the science of jeopardy and extinction. This book combines science, historical narrative and travel.. Author:QUAMMEN, DAVID. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LAST ENEMY This work recounts Richard Hillary's experiences as a fighter pilot in World War II, in which he was shot down and spent months in hospital, undergoing operations to rebuild his face and hands. It was first published in 1942, seven months before his death in a second crash.. Author:HILLARY, RICHARD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SECOND WORLD WAR In this history of World War II, the author explores both the technical and the human impact of the conflict. The text concentrates on five crucial battles with the aim of illuminating the war as a whole: Crete, Midway, Falaise, Berlin and Okinawa.. Author:KEEGAN, JOHN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LIFE OF PICASSO 1907-17: PAINTER OF MODERN LIFE The first volume of this biography emphasized Picasso's Spanish roots from Malaga to Barcelona. This second volume covers ten pivotal years of Picasso's life. It describes his relationship with Cocteau, his affair with Fernande Olivier, and the influence of women on his art.. Author:RICHARDSON, JOHN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HIS INVENTION SO FERTILE This portrait of Christopher Wren (1632-1723), the great British architect, aims to show us the man behind the legend - a man who was the Surveyor of the King's Works, a pioneering anatomist and mathematician, who devised new navigational instruments and lectured on planetary motion.. Author:TINNISWOOD, ADRIAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SENSE OF REALITY A collection of essays by Isaiah Berlin, which include the topics: realism in history; judgement in politics; the special right of philosophers to self-expression; the history of socialism; the nature and impact of Marxism; and the radical cultural revolution instigated by romanticism.. Author:BERLIN, ISAIAH. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GAME OF WAR A full biography of Guy Debord - artist and revolutionary, charlatan and alcoholic, implicated in the events of May 1968 and European terrorism. It charts his life and theories and influence on such things as the Sex Pistols and Damien Hirst.. Author:HUSSEY, ANDREW. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PRINCES IN THE TOWER The story of the suspicious deaths of Edward V and his brother Richard, is one of the most fascinating murder mysteries in history. In this book, the author re-examines all the evidence, including that against Richard III. Weir reconstructs the events leading to their murder, and why they died.. Author:WEIR, ALISON. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SIX WIVES OF HENRY VIII Drawing upon documentary material from the Tudor period, this text reveals each of Henry's wives as a distinct and compelling personality in her own right. It shows a court where personal needs influenced public events, and where ritualised pleasure was shot through with ambition and violence.. Author:WEIR, ALISON. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ANNAPURNA Herzog was the leader of the French expedition up Annapurna in 1952. This is his account of the conquest of the mountain, more than 8000 metres high, and at that time, the highest mountain ever climbed.. Author:HERZOG, MAURICE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MARGARET THATCHER This first volume in a biography of Margaret Thatcher, explores her early life, re-examining the mythology and suggesting a more complex reality behind the idealized pictures previously presented. It presents an ambitious, ruthless, determined woman.. Author:CAMPBELL, JOHN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ANIMAL LIBERATION Discusses the evolution of the animal rights movement and the extent to which the author's own views have changed since the first publication of this book. There is an update of what is being done to animals in the name of scientific, military and commercial research.. Author:SINGER, PETER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : INTO THAT DARKNESS Only four men commanded Nazi extermination (as opposed to concentration) camps. Franz Stangl was one of them; he commanded Treblinka and was found guilty of co-responsibility for the slaughter of at least 900,000 people. This is an investigation of Stangl's mind and the influences which shaped him.. Author:SERENY, GITTA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WHY THE ALLIES WON This analytical history offers a reinterpretation of the protagonists and events of World War II. Overy uses the argument that the Allies turned out to be better at fighting, and benefited more from "total war", than any of their totalitarian adversaries, or their ally, Stalin's Russia.. Author:OVERY, RICHARD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ONE DAY IN A VERY LONG WAR This text focuses on a single day when the Allied war machine was in top gear but victory was far from a foreseeable reality. It describes a world-wide conflict from the viewpoint of those who took part on all fronts in both Allied and Axis forces.. Author:ELLIS, JOHN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ATTACHMENT AND LOSS ATTACHMENT The first book in a psychology trilogy, this study examines the processes that take place in attachment and separation and shows how experimental studies of children reveal a recognizable behaviour pattern which is confirmed by discoveries in the biological sciences.. Author:BOWLBY, JOHN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PIMLICO DICTIONARY OF CLASSICAL CIVILIZATIONS An overview and detailed analysis of the ancient civilisations of the world, the first social structures where culture and religion were born. Cotterell deals with the complex relations that existed among the key peoples and events of Greece, Rome, Persia and India and contrasts these with China's relative geographical isolation.. Author:COTTERELL, ARTHUR. Discounted by 18%

Vintage : GLOBALISATION IN WORLD HISTORY A collection of essays that address the history of globalization. A look at the many possible origins of globalization and as well as its cultural background. The themes give prominence to China, South Asia, China, South Asia, Africa, the world of Islam, Europe and the United States.. Author:HOPKINS, A.G.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BOMB . Author:DEGROOT, GERARD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HELL WITH A CAPITAL H As Scott and his two companions lay dying in their tent, elsewhere on the polar ice-cap six members of his ill-fated expedition, the Northern Party, were fighting for their lives. Led by Dr Levick, this title is based on his previously unpublished diaries, monographs, photographs and sketches.. Author:KING, PETER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CHARACTERS OF FITZROVIA Fitzrovia lies between Oxford Street and Euston Road, bordered by Portland Place, Gower Street and Tottenham Court Road. This is a portrait of a mysteriously evocative area of London, creative hub for the avant garde, as well as a meeting place for princes, prostitutes, spivs and spies.. Author:PENTELOW, MIKE ROWE, MARSHA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FIRST WORLD WAR ILLUSTRATED HISTORY This large-format study of World War I presents the military conflict, the battles on land, sea and in the air, together with interpretations of military events. It also shows how the war acted as an engine for social change, which shaped our contemporary world.. Author:KEEGAN, JOHN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : JOURNAL 1935-44 Mihail Sebastian was a promising young Jewish writer in pre-war Bucharest who counted among his friends the leading intellectuals and social luminaries of a sophisticated Eastern European culture. He survived the war and the Holocaust, only to be killed in a road accident in 1945.. Author:SEBASTIAN, MIHAIL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : IN THE SIXTIES At the beginning of the 1960s, Barry Miles was at art achool in Cheltenham; at the end he was running the Beatles' Apple label and living in New York's Chelsea Hotel. This is his memoir of what happened in between and also includes portraits of Allan Ginsberg, William Burroughs and Charles Olson.. Author:MILES, BARRY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GEORGE CRABBE The poet George Crabbe (1754-1832), best known as the author of 'Peter Grimes' and 'The Village', was also a surgeon, a clergyman, a botanist and a novelist. Neil Powell provides this revealing portrait of a uniquely gifted poet - a man of low-key and unsentimental vision who lived a quintessentially English life.. Author:POWELL, NEIL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CHAMELEON POET This biography of poet George Barker offers both a portrait of a talented, tormented and entertaining man, and a broad cultural landscape.. Author:FRASER, ROBERT. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MICROCOSM In order to present a portrait of Central Europe, the authors of this volume have made a case study of one of the most colourful cities, the former German Breslau, which became the Polish Wroclaw after World War II.. Author:DAVIES, NORMAN (PROFESSOR EMERITUS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON AND SUPERNUMERARY FELLOW, WOLFSON COLLEGE, OXFORD) MOORHOUSE, ROGER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : 1759 . Author:MCLYNN, FRANK. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : RUPERT HART-DAVIS . Author:ZIEGLER, PHILIP. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GREATEST TRAITOR King Edward II was deposed and apparently murdered by the lover of his estranged Queen Isabella, Sir Roger Mortimer. This biography of 14th century England's evil genius offers a new and controversial theory regarding the fate of Edward II.. Author:MORTIMER, IAN (LECTURER IN BRITISH HISTORY AND ARCHIVIST, UNIVERSITY OF EXETER). Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SPANISH ULCER By July 1807 Napoleon dominated most of Europe; the only significant gap in his continental system was the Iberian Peninsula. Here, Gates provides a social and political history of the savage guerilla war which Napoleon considered insignificant, yet which ended in defeat for the French.. Author:GATES, DAVID. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : JOHN BUCHAN Forever associated with the classic thriller "The Thirty-nine Steps", John Buchan wrote many books of fiction, history and biography. A man of formidable energy, he also had a distinguished career in public life, including eight years as an MP, and ending up as Governor General of Canada.. Author:LOWNIE, ANDREW. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HARVEST OF SORROW As a result of the blow struck at the peasantry of the USSR between 1929 and 1932 by the Soviet Communist Party, there followed a "terror-famine". This is an account of the deprivations and starvation state-inflicted upon millions of collectivised workers in the Ukraine and certain other regions.. Author:CONQUEST, ROBERT. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WALTER SCOTT A.N. Wilson's biography looks back through the indifference which has surrounded Walter Scott in recent times, and the distortions of his Victorian idolaters, to recapture the freshness of Scott as he appeared to his contemporaries.. Author:WILSON, A.N.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MAEVE BRENNAN . Author:BOURKE, ANGELA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TROLLOPE Victoria Glendinning provides a woman's view of Anthony Trollope, placing emphasis on family, particularly on his relationship with his mother. But it is Anthony as a husband and lover that intrigues her most. She looks at the nature of his love for his wife, Rose and at his love for Kate Field.. Author:GLENDINNING, VICTORIA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CIVIL WAR FORT SUMTER TO PERRYVILLE A narrative history of the American Civil War, which covers not only the battles and the troop movements but also the social background that brought on the war and led, in the end, to the South's defeat.. Author:FOOTE, SHELBY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CIVIL WAR RED RIVER TO APPOMATTOX A narrative history of the American Civil War, which covers not only the battles and the troop movements but also the social background that brought on the war and led, in the end, to the South's defeat.. Author:FOOTE, SHELBY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MYTH OF THE BLITZ During World War II, there seemed to be a gap between the reality and what could be called the "myth of the Blitz". The author shows that this myth was not purely propaganda but was a deep-rooted, common conception of pastoral England and the perfect gentleman.. Author:CALDER, ANGUS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LONDON AT WAR, 1939-1945 A social history of London in World War II, throughout which a spirit of defiance united all sections of society. Based on published sources as well as interviews, letters and diaries, the book presents a record of a population under siege.. Author:ZIEGLER, PHILIP. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PELOPONNESIAN WAR . Author:BAGNALL, NIGEL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SCOTLAND This full-length history of Scotland spans 18 centuries, from the Picts to the 1980s. The book focuses on social and cultural history, including life in the towns, the changing role of the nobility and the shifting images of Scottish identity.. Author:LYNCH, MICHAEL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : RIVER OF TIME Between 1970 and 1975 Jon Swain, the English journalist portrayed in "The Killing Fields", lived in the lands of the Mekong river. This is his account of those years, and how their tumultuous events affected him. He also describes the beauty of the landscape, as well as its violence and corruption.. Author:SWAIN, JON. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CELESTINE One summer evening in central France, Gillian Tindall went on an errand into a deserted house. There she discovered a cache of letters in various hands, all written to the same woman. In piecing together the life of this extraordinary person, the author rediscovered a vanished village world.. Author:TINDALL, GILLIAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GREAT SHAME A new non-fiction book recounting the 19th century history of Ireland. The book traces the three causes of the halving of the Irish population in that century: the famine, the Irish emigrations to American and Canada, and the transportation of political activitists to Australia. It is a quest for the author's Irish ancestors.. Author:KENEALLY, THOMAS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CHAOS This book brings together all the work in a new field of physics, the chaos theory, an extension of classical mechanics. The author shows how computers have been able to help researchers, by mapping the whole plane of solutions of non-linear equations.. Author:GLEICK, JAMES. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MILTON IN AMERICA The poet John Milton is transposed to the New World, where he has travelled to flee the tyranny of the Old. His adventures with his amanuensis, Goosequill, are by turns picaresque and delightful. However, Paradise Found will ultimately be lost in the most appalling and bloody circumstances.. Author:ACKROYD, PETER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CLERKENWELL TALES Sister Clarice, a nun in the House of St Mary at Clerkenwell, experiences visions. This novel begins with "The Nun's Tale", and continues with the "The Friar's Tale", "The Merchant's Tale" and "The Clerk's Tale", building a portrait of medieval London, where people are disenchanted by the Church.. Author:ACKROYD, PETER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WAR OF DON EMMANUEL'S NETHER PARTS This boxed set consists of "Senor Uno and the Cocalord", "The War of Don Emmnauel's Netherparts" and "Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman".. Author:BERNIERES, LOUIS DE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LIFE OF THOMAS MORE Pre-eminent as a courtier and a humanist, a friend to Henry VIII and the author of "Utopia", Thomas More is one of the great figures of England's history. This is a portrait of the first English layman to be beatified as a martyr, and of the social and cultural world in which he lived.. Author:ACKROYD, PETER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MAGIC MOUNTAIN This is an intellectual drama of the forces which play upon modern man. Its theatre is a sanatorium in the Swiss mountains - a community organized with exclusive reference to ill-health.. Author:MANN, THOMAS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BUDDENBROOKS This story of a prosperous Hanseatic family and their gradual disintegration is also a portrayal of the transition from the stable bourgeois life of the 19th century to a modern uncertainty.. Author:MANN, THOMAS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DOCTOR FAUSTUS THE LIFE OF THE GERMAN COMPOSER ADRIAN LEVERKUHN AS TOLD BY A FRIEND This is the story of Adrian Leverkuhn, whose extraordinary career is charted, from his precocious childhood to his tragic death. His revelation of the horrifying price he had to pay for his achievement highlights Mann's vast theme: the discord between genius and sanity.. Author:MANN, THOMAS 1875-1955. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PAUL MCCARTNEY This authorized biography of Paul McCartney is based on hundreds of hours of exclusive interviews and complete access to McCartney's own archives. It is the story of a man made public property by the age of 21, the trajectory of The Beatles, from beginning to break-up, and of Swinging London.. Author:MCCARTNEY, PAUL MILES, BARRY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LONE RANGER AND TONTO FISTFIGHT IN HEAVEN Weaves characters, themes and language in 22 linked stories that evoke the complex density of life in and around the Spokane Indian Reservation. The author is one of Granta's 20 Best Young American Writers.. Author:ALEXIE, SHERMAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : NOT, NOT WHILE THE GIRO AND OTHER STORIES A collection of short stories which takes the reader from the pub to the Labour Exchange, from the snooker tables to the greyhound track. James Kelman won the 1994 Booker Prize for "How Late it Was, How Late".. Author:KELMAN, JAMES. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GOODBYE TO BERLIN First published in 1939, this novel obliquely evokes the gathering storm of Berlin before and during the rise to power of the Nazis. Events are seen through the eyes of a series of individuals, whose lives are all about to be ruined.. Author:ISHERWOOD, CHRISTOPHER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LOST IN TRANSLATION In 1959 13-year-old Eva Hoffman made a voyage that took her from the familiar, loved country of her childhood to the unknown New World. In this personal memoir she offers the reader an insight into the profound consequences of living a bicultural identity.. Author:HOFFMAN, EVA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SNAPPER Barrytown, Dublin, is humming with speculation. For Sharon Rabbitte is pregnant. After the soccer club Christmas do, only she knows the father of her "snapper". But she's not telling - even though her father has taken a remarkably lively interest in this sudden, but obvious, family crisis.. Author:DOYLE, RODDY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WAR OF DON EMMANUEL'S NETHER PARTS A story of life, love and politics in South America. When the spoilt and haughty Dona Constanza tries to divert a river to fill her swimming pool, she starts a running battle with the locals. The Government sends a squadron of soldiers led by the fat, brutal and stupid Figueras to deal with them.. Author:BERNIERES, LOUIS DE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : VINELAND Thomas Pynchon's first novel for 17 years is set in California in 1984, where a group of people are struggling against political passions and the consequences of the 1960s. The author also wrote "The Crying of Lot 49", "V" and "Gravity's Rainbow".. Author:PYNCHON, THOMAS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BOATING FOR BEGINNERS A pleasure boat company is transformed when the proprietor, Noah, is chosen by the "One True God" to put "sunny" faith back in the world and women back in the kitchen. The author has written "Oranges are Not the Only Fruit",(winner of the 1985 Whitbread award) and "Sexing the Cherry".. Author:WINTERSON, JEANETTE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FOUR BARE LEGS IN A BED A debut collection of short stories, some of which have appeared in "Soho Square", "Storia 1" and "Best Short Stories 1988". The stories are mainly concerned with contemporary metropolitan life, ranging across subjects such as relationships, marriage, sex and independence.. Author:SIMPSON, HELEN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : COMMITMENTS The Commitments are a band with a mission - bringing soul to Dublin. Led by Jimmy Rabitte, a man with ambition, coached by Joey 'The Lips' Fagan, an old man with a trumpet, protected by Mickah Wallace, owner of the most feared forehead in Barrytown.. Author:DOYLE, RODDY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TRICK IS TO KEEP BREATHING A young drama teacher in the West of Scotland suffers deep psychological problems which affect all areas of her life. She fails to find meaning in anything around her, but in her search she strips situations of their conventional values and sees them in a sharp, new light.. Author:GALLOWAY, JANICE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BLAKE Poet, painter, engraver and visionary, William Blake was a radical spirit fired by genius. This work shows Blake in the context of his period, reveals the true affinities between Blake's art and his poetry, and recreates the atmosphere of 18th-century London.. Author:ACKROYD, PETER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MY LEFT FOOT The autobiography of Christy Brown, a victim of cerebral palsy who was born and raised in Dublin, and died in 1981. He recounts his childhood struggle to learn to read, write, paint and finally type, with the toe of his left foot. He also wrote "Down All the Days".. Author:BROWN, CHRISTY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ORCHARD ON FIRE When her parents abandon their seedy Streatham pub for a tearoom in Kent, life for April changes dramatically. She is befriended by the wonderfully dangerous Ruby and by the creepy but immaculately dressed Mr Greenridge, who likes to follow her around the village.. Author:MACKAY, SHENA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DOG YEARS First published in 1963, this is the concluding part of the Danzig Trilogy. In a fusion of mythology and reality, magic and romance, it charts 40 years of German history from 1917, with the objective of exposing the madness of a society that bred and nurtured the Third Reich.. Author:GRASS, GUNTER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : RIPLEY BOGLE Shifting from the streets of London to Oxford and Belfast, a tramp tells an alarming story. His observations merge with "flashback" reminiscences from his youth as it becomes increasingly difficult to tell fact from fiction.. Author:WILSON, ROBERT MCLIAM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CAT AND MOUSE To compensate for his unusually large Adam's apple - source of both comfort and stress - 14-year-old Mahlke turns himself into an athlete and ace driver. Soon he is known to the nation as "The Great Mahlke" but remains a target to his enemies. He is different, and doomed.. Author:GRASS, GUNTER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GORMENGHAST The second volume in the GORMENGHAST trilogy. Titus Groan, now aged seven, has come to understand that the kingdom he has inherited has an attendant evil which has begun to spread. Meanwhile, Steerpike is making inroads into the heart of the castle, leaving imprisonment, manipulation and murder in his wake.. Author:PEAKE, MERVYN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TITUS ALONE The final volume of the GORMENGHAST trilogy. Titus Groan has abdicated in rebellion against the steeped traditions of the kingdom he inherited. Heading instead into the outside world, he is confronted by a vivid sequence of events, figures and landscapes as he passes beyond the boundaries of childhood.. Author:PEAKE, MERVYN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TITUS GROAN The first volume of the GORMENGHAST trilogy of fantasy novels. Titus Groan is born the heir to Gormenghast castle, and finds himself in a world predetermined by complex rituals that have been made obscure by the passage of time. Along the corridors of the castle, the child encounters some of the dark characters who will shape his life.. Author:PEAKE, MERVYN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PUSH Precious is a 16-year-old who has never left Harlem. Her story is one of neglect and abuse and a fierce determination to acquire an education. Pregnant by her own father, she is forced to leave school. Her defences and her world unravel as she struggles to gain control of her own life.. Author:SAPPHIRE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DEAR GEORGE AND OTHER STORIES This second collection of short stories by the author of the prize-winning "Four Bare Legs in a Bed", recently nominated as one of Granta magazine's Best Young British Novelists, continues to explore ideas of independence, solitude, marriage, sex and babies.. Author:SIMPSON, HELEN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : THOUGHT GANG A novel about a British philosopher who teams up with a one-armed French convict to rob banks, from Montpellier to Toulon. Tibor Fischer has also written "Under the Frog", which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.. Author:FISCHER, TIBOR. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MR. NICE During the mid-1980s, Marks had 43 aliases and 25 companies, all laundering money from dealing cannabis. After a world-wide operation, he was arrested and sentenced to 25 years at a State Penitentiary in Indiana, but was released in 1995 after serving seven years. This is his own story.. Author:MARKS, HOWARD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : COLLECTED STORIES Although known mainly for his plays, Tennessee Williams also published four volumes of short stories. These are included in this collection, with a wealth of other work, ranging from his first story, published in "Weird Tales" when Williams was 17, to his later frank homosexual fantasies.. Author:WILLIAMS, TENNESSEE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : IMAGININGS OF SAND Kristien's grandmother is dying and she finds herself leaving London to fly back to her native South Africa. Her grandmother is determined to hand down her treasury of family history, telling of magic, treachery, heroism and farce - the panorama of a nation's experience.. Author:BRINK, ANDRE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MALAYAN TRILOGY "TIME FOR A TIGER", "ENEMY IN THE BLANKET", "BEDS IN THE EAST" Burgess's trilogy dissects the racial and social prejudices of post-war Malaya during the chaotic upheaval of independence. Through a succession of colourful characters he delineates the conflict and confusion arising from the enforced mingling of cultures.. Author:BURGESS, ANTHONY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WOMAN WHO WALKED INTO DOORS Prize-winner Roddy Doyle's novel is the story of an ordinary woman from Dublin and her stormy relationship with her husband Charlo.. Author:DOYLE, RODDY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MALGUDI OMNIBUS Three of Narayan's novels ("Swami and Friends", "The Bachelor of Arts" and "The English Teacher") featuring the imaginary Indian town of Malgudi, which he has used for 60 years as the setting for his stories. They provide an introduction to a universal world of humour, sadness, wisdom and joy.. Author:NARAYAN, R.K.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FEAR OF FLYING One of the best-selling novels of the 1970s. Compulsive daydreamer Isadora Wing doesn't want much - just to be free and to find the perfect, guiltless, zipless sexual encounter. Pursuing her ideal across two continents, she discovers just how hard it can be to make dreams come true.. Author:JONG, ERICA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TONGUES OF FLAME At 15, Richard Bowen is a cool and articulate observer of the havoc wreaked when a wave of religious euphoria sweeps through his father's well-to-do suburban parish. In the period that follows the young curate Rowlandson's spectacular conversion, strange and disturbing events begin to happen.. Author:PARKS, TIM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : STILL Ricky's head is full of voices - the voices of his bewildered guests, of his dead relations and lost wives, of his favourite film crew and the masters of cinema he never remotely matched, and above all of the elusive figure of love that flickers in and out of his life. By the author of "Ulverton".. Author:THORPE, ADAM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : INTIMATE HISTORY OF HUMANITY The author of "The French", "Happiness" and "A History of French Passions" writes about the history of human feelings, habits, emotions and perceptions across time. Zeldin looks at the dilemmas of ordinary life, exploring the intimate experience of men and women through the ages.. Author:ZELDIN, THEODORE (SENIOR FELLOW, ST ANTONY'S COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD). Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MIMI'S GHOST A sequel to "Cara Massimina". Morris can't get over the Italian girl who eloped with him two years ago, but perhaps the dear, dead Mimi can't get over him either. Living in Verona and married to her sister, he hears Mimi's voice and sees her endlessly reincarnated face in Renaissance madonnas.. Author:PARKS, TIM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FAITH IN FAKES The author of "The Name of the Rose" considers a wide range of topics, from "Superman" and "Casablanca", Federico Fellini and Michelangelo Antonioni, Jim Jones and mass suicide, and Woody Allen, to pop festivals and football, and not least the social and personal implications of tight jeans.. Author:ECO, UMBERTO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WAY IN THE WORLD This novel explores colonial inheritance in a series of narratives that swing back and forth between past and present. It draws on examples of Spanish and British imperial history in the Caribbean, such as Raleigh's last expedition, placed within a context of echoing modernity.. Author:NAIPAUL, V.S.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CHAIN OF VOICES For a group of slaves owned by an early-19th-century Afrikaner farmer, when hopes of freedom are dashed and promises of equal treatment are broken, an escalating spiral of bitterness, resentment and finally explosive violence becomes inevitable.. Author:BRINK, ANDRE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DAN LENO AND THE LIMEHOUSE GOLEM In this novel the light and the dark sides of 19th-century London flow into each other, attracting the attention of famous names such as Marx and Gissing, but also of less well-known characters, who play a significant role in a tale that is a mixture of fable, adventure and Gothic comedy.. Author:ACKROYD, PETER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ISLAND OF THE DAY BEFORE Set in the 17th century, in Italy, France and on the high seas, this is a tale of medieval legends and dastardly deeds, mixed with portions of exploration literature. Roberto, a young nobleman, waits alone on a Pacific island, separated from the island beyond: the island of the day before.. Author:ECO, UMBERTO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : EUREKA STREET Belfast, in the six months just before and after the ceasefire. Chuckie Lurgan - fat, Protestant and poor, suddenly becomes wealthy by various means; Jake Jackson - reformed tough guy - is looking for love; and the strange letters "OTG" appear all over the city to the ignorance of all.. Author:WILSON, ROBERT MCLIAM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CARA MASSIMINA Morris Duckworth's dreams of financial salvation and escape from a humdrum existence are realized when he runs away with Massimina, a young heiress who has fallen in love with him. His dreams of blackmail, theft and murder plunge him deep into a chilling nightmare of deception and violence.. Author:PARKS, TIM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WAY I FOUND HER In the hot summer of 1994, Lewis Little, a clever and precocious 13-year-old boy, goes to Paris with his mother, Alice. Alice is there to translate the latest romance by a bestselling Russian novelist; Lewis is there to see the city; neither foresee the events that lie in wait for them.. Author:TREMAIN, ROSE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BERLIN NOVELS Includes "Mr Norris Changes Trains" and "Goodbye to Berlin", the inspiration for the stage and screen musical "Cabaret". It is a haunting evocation of the gathering storm of the Nazi terror and a portrait of Bohemian Berlin - a city and a world on the very brink of ruin.. Author:ISHERWOOD, CHRISTOPHER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ULVERTON A dozen accounts, narrated by a dozen different voices, tell the story of Ulverton, a fictional village on the Wessex Downs, through its generations. Based on a bedrock of folktales, myth and oral tradition, the author builds layers of new narrative, often using dialect or the true demotic voice.. Author:THORPE, ADAM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : NAME OF THE ROSE Set in Italy in the Middle Ages, this is not only a narrative of a murder investigation in a monastery in 1327, but also a chronicle of the 14th century religious wars, a history of monastic orders, and a compendium of heretical movements.. Author:ECO, UMBERTO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MAKIOKA SISTERS The story of the extinction of a great family through pride and over-refinement. It is a nostalgic recreation of the sumptuous, intricate upper-class life of Osaka immediately before World War II.. Author:TANIZAKI, JUN'ICHIRO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SORROW OF WAR This is the semi-autobiographical account of a soldier's experiences. The hero of the story, Kien, is a captain. After 10 years of war and months as a MIA body-collector, Kien suffers a nervous breakdown in Hanoi as he tries to re-establish a relationship with his former sweetheart.. Author:NINH, BAO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PADDY CLARKE HA HA HA The 1993 Booker Prize-winner. Paddy Clarke, a ten-year-old Dubliner, describes his world, a place full of warmth, cruelty, love, sardines and slaps across the face. He's confused; he sees everything but he understands less and less.. Author:DOYLE, RODDY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BARRYTOWN TRILOGY Together in one volume, this book contains Roddy Doyle's trilogy about the Rabbitte family of Barrytown, north Dublin. "The Commitments", "The Snapper" and "The Van", which was shortlisted for the 1991 Booker Prize.. Author:DOYLE, RODDY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CAPTAIN CORELLI'S MANDOLIN When the Axis powers reach the Greek island of Cephallonia, a young Italian captain is billeted in the doctor's house. Captain Corelli turns out to be an accomplished musician, and for a while the war seems to suit them well. But then the brutality of the conflict catches up with them.. Author:BERNIERES, LOUIS DE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SHORT STORIES A collection of 24 stories, including "The Alien Corn", about an aspiring pianist who commits suicide when told he will never be better than second rate, and "Rain", characteristic of Somerset Maugham's style in its evocation of the atmosphere of hot, wet, tropical Samoa, and neat twist of plot.. Author:MAUGHAM, W.SOMERSET. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LOOKING FOR THE POSSIBLE DANCE A first novel which dissects the intricate difficulties of human relationships, from a Scotswoman's passionate attachment to her father and her more problematic involvement with her lover, to the wider social relations between pupil and teacher, employer and employee, individual and state.. Author:KENNEDY, A.L.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WAR BETWEEN THE TATES Once the Tates were an attractive family, but now Erica is bored, Brian's career is at a standstill, and the children have become revolting teenagers. Then Erica discovers that her husband is carrying on with one of his students. The author won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for "Foreign Affairs".. Author:LURIE, ALISON. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FOREIGN AFFAIRS A Pulitzer Prize-winning story which is both a comedy and a poignant love story about two American academics in London. The separate paths of these two lonely and naive innocents abroad lead them to strikingly similar destinations of new-found passion, and unexpected love.. Author:LURIE, ALISON. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : COMPLETE NOVELS A single volume containing Kafka's three novels. "The Trial" is a fusion of nightmare and reality, and "The Castle" a religious allegory. In "America" the innocent Karl Rossman falls gradually but unerringly into a state of often comic degradation.. Author:KAFKA, FRANZ. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LEMPRIERE'S DICTIONARY As the 17th century opens, a band of venturers forms the Honourable Company of Merchants. In France the siege of La Rochelle ends with the massacre of 30,000 people. Almost two centuries later, in 1788, John Lempriere publishes his classical dictionary. This novel relates these three events.. Author:NORFOLK, LAWRENCE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TROUBLESOME OFFSPRING OF CARDINAL GUZMAN The third part of a trilogy, following "The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts", which won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Fiction. The author expands his panorama of South American life with a story full of quizzical events, where farce and tragedy interbreed.. Author:BERNIERES, LOUIS DE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DEATH AND NIGHTINGALES It is 1883, and all Ireland's in turmoil with agrarian, political and sectarian revolt. From the opening of this pastoral of love and betrayal, events roll towards an inevitable, tragic end. Below the surface, complex tensions between religions, between men and women, good and evil are explored.. Author:MCCABE, EUGENE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : POPE'S RHINOCEROS The tale of the sinking of a Portuguese ship off the coast of Italy in 1516, while attempting to deliver a rhinoceros to Pope Leo X. The hero, Salvestro, is caught up in a mission to Rome by a sect of secretive monks from a Baltic island, their first pilgrimage in 200 years.. Author:NORFOLK, LAWRENCE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HOW LATE IT WAS, HOW LATE An ex-convict returns to Glasgow and tries to make a new start. One morning he wakes up after a drinking session, finding he is blind, and with few memories of what happened. The police start to question him in connection with "politics and violence". This book won the 1994 Booker Prize.. Author:KELMAN, JAMES. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ROAD FROM COORAIN Jill Ker Conway grew up in New South Wales in the 1940s and '50s. This is her account of an Australian childhood in the outback, and subsequently in Sydney, encompassing family tragedy, a devastating struggle with the desert environment, and an evocation of the Australian landscape.. Author:CONWAY, JILL KER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DINO Offering an irreverent inside look at American entertainment, from the heyday of Hollywood and Las Vegas and the rise of television, this is a biography of Dean Martin. It incorporates the dark side of his success: the underworld secrets and the hidden regions of the American dream racket.. Author:TOSCHES, NICK. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LOST HONOUR OF KATHARINA BLUM Gradually disclosing an entire panorama of human relationship and motive, this novel is a comment on the law and the press, the labyrinth of social truth and the relentless collision of fact and fiction.. Author:BOLL, HEINRICH. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : INDIA Naipaul returns to the country with which he has a close yet oblique relationship. He provides an in-depth analysis of society in India, from high to low, as he did 25 years ago in "Area of Darkness". Naipaul also wrote "India: A Wounded Civilization" and "Among the Believers".. Author:NAIPAUL, V.S.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : INSTANT IN THE WIND In early 1749 a white woman and a black man are stranded together in the wilderness of the South African interior. She is an educated person, totally helpless in the wilds. He is a runaway slave. As they face the long trek back to civilization, a fellowship emerges between them.. Author:BRINK, ANDRE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : COMPLETE SHORT STORIES OF FRANZ KAFKA A collection of all Kafka's shorter fiction, from fragments, parables and sketches, to longer, complete tales. Together, they reveal the breadth of Kafka's literary vision and the depth of his thought. Some, like "The Metamorphosis" and "The Judgement", are well-known; others are mere jottings.. Author:KAFKA, FRANZ. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : AMERICA Kafka's key obsessions reappear in this novel, including his desire to avoid power by transforming himself into something small, and his belief in the infinite ambiguity of life and art. This novel is in simultaneous publication with "The Castle", "The Trial" and "The Metamorphosis".. Author:KAFKA, FRANZ. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CASTLE Kafka's novel is a study of relationships, particularly between the individual and society and between thought and action. K's isolation and perplexity and his begging for the approval of elusive and anonymous powers, epitomize Kafka's vision of 20th-century alienation and anxiety.. Author:KAFKA, FRANZ. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : METAMORPHOSIS This volume contains some of Kafka's most famous stories, including "Metamorphosis", "Investigations of a Dog" and "In the Penal Settlement".. Author:KAFKA, FRANZ. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : JOY LUCK CLUB A first novel which became a major US film. From the wealthy homes of pre-Revolutionary China to downtown San Francisco, this is the story of four mothers and their first-generation Chinese-American daughters; two generations of women struggling to come to terms with their cultural identity.. Author:TAN, AMY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SENOR VIVO AND THE COCA LORD A sequel to "The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts". Dionisio Vivo, a young South American lecturer in philosophy, leads a charmed life in a world where the supernatural is routine. He is insulated from attacks by the local coca lord's hit-men, by a sense of justice and pig-headed integrity.. Author:BERNIERES, LOUIS DE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LOOKING ON DARKNESS Banned for many years in the author's native South Africa, this novel tells the story of black actor Joseph Malan as he awaits execution for the murder of his white lover. Andre Brink was twice nominated for the Booker Prize.. Author:BRINK, ANDRE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DRY WHITE SEASON Ben Du Toit is an ordinary, decent, harmless man whose sense of justice is outraged by the death at the hands of the police of a man knew. As Ben investigates, he finds that his curiosity becomes labelled as rebellion. The author has won South Africa's CNA award for both Afrikaans and English work.. Author:BRINK, ANDRE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : VAN Shortlisted for the 1991 Booker Prize, and set in a Dublin suburb during the 1990 World Cup, this completes a trilogy which began with "The Commitments" and "The Snapper". Jimmy Rabitte Sr seeks refuge from the vicissitudes of unemployment by joining a friend in running a fish-and-chip van.. Author:DOYLE, RODDY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SATANIC VERSES . Author:RUSHDIE, SALMAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GATE In 1971, on a routine outing through the Cambodian countryside, the young French scholar Francois Bizot was captured by the Khmer Rouge. Written 30 years later, this is Francois Bizot's memoir of his horrific experiences in the "killing fields" of Cambodia.. Author:BIZOT, FRANCOIS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DOCTOR GLAS An intolerable situation develops when Doctor Glas becomes emotionally attached to the young wife of an elderly and offensive pastor and the pastor is poisoned to death. The aftermath of his death and the doctor's unforeseen reactions to it bring the story to a chilling and horrifying close.. Author:SODERBERG, HJALMAR. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LEOPARD This is the evocative tale of Fabrizio, Prince of Salina, who in 1860 is the last of his aristocratic line, watching and waiting in the mingled splendour, squalor and heat of his Sicilian acres as Garibaldi's landing heralds the start of a new order.. Author:LAMPEDUSA, GIUSEPPE DI. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CASE OF THE GENERAL'S THUMB A black comedy about two investigators who are put on the case of a murdered Russian general. Their stumbling researches take them all over Europe until eventually it dawns on them that they are merely pawns in a game in which the KGB are the key players.. Author:KURKOV, ANDREY. Discounted by 18%

Vintage : FATHERS AND FOREFATHERS Starting in Belgrade before World War II, this is the story of the marriage between Steven, a Serb and Elizabeth, an Englishwoman. Through Steven's narrative and Elizabeth's letters home, it explores the difficulties and dangers of mixed marriages.. Author:SELENIC, SLOBODAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MONSIEUR MALUSSENE Benjamin Malaussene, the Belleville scapegoat, and his family of half sisters and brothers are once again the target for a series of increasingly catastrophic mishaps which culminate in his imprisonment on 21 counts of murder. Meanwhile, the real serial killer remains at large.. Author:PENNAC, DANIEL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LIZARD TAILS Explores the experiences of the adolescent David, son of a Spanish Republican family. Throughout the novel, various members of the family are still recovering from defeat in Spain's harrowing Civil War, while the rest of the world is turned upside down by World War Two.. Author:MARSE, JUAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BY NIGHT IN CHILE During the course of a single night, Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest who is a member of Opus Dei, a literary critic and a mediocre poet, relives some of the crucial events of his life.. Author:BOLANO, ROBERTO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LIVING'S THE STRANGE THING Carmen Martin Gaite's drama of broken dreams, lies and the search for love is an intense meditation on the strange adventure of living.. Author:GAITE, CARMEN MARTIN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SOUL This is ultimately a story about being in possession of your own life. Zoroastrian myth, Sufism, Communism and Freud are woven together to create a work of psychological and philosophical complexity, with the hero, Chagataev, in the role of a 20th-century Moses.. Author:PLATANOV, ANDREY PLATONOV, ANDREY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : NOMAD'S HOTEL After making his first voyage as a sailor, to earn his passage from his native Holland to South America, Cees Notteboom has never stopped travelling. From exotic places like Isfagan and Mali to domesticated places like Austraia and Zurich, his unique view of the world is contained in this title.. Author:NOOTEBOOM, CEES. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DEATH OF A PRIMA DONNA . Author:SVIT, BRINA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : JOURNALS OF A WHITE SEA WOLF Mariusz Wilk, a Polish journalist fascinated by the mysteries of the Russian soul, spent six years living on a remote Russian island. This is his attempt to observe and come to terms with the complexities and contradictions of Russian history, its glorious past and the cruelty of Soviet Communism.. Author:WILK, MARIUSZ. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BRIDE FROM ODESSA Cozarinsky's characters are writers, lovers, scholars, artists and dreamers. They are all travellers of a kind, characters who inhabit a secret land, without frontiers.. Author:COZARINSKY, EDGARDO COZARINKSY, EDGARDO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BARTLEBY AND CO Marcelo inhabits a world peopled by characters in literature. He once wrote a novel about the impossibility of love, but since then he has written nothing and a nervous breakdown has meant that he has been unable to put pen to paper.. Author:VILA-MATAS, ENRIQUE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CHILD OF AN ANCIENT PEOPLE Deported to New Caledonia in 1872, Lislei, an Alsatian woman rescued from the turmoil of the Paris Commune, and Kader, an Arab prince, succeed in escaping aboard a ship bound for Australia. With them is an orphan boy, the last representative of his people, the Tasmanian Aboriginals.. Author:BENMALEK, ANOUAR. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GOYA This journey through Goya's life in 18th-century Spain begins with Hughes' own first encounter with the artist's work when he was a student in Australia. The remainder of the book charts the artist's entire career, describing his painted and graphic oeuvre within its historical context.. Author:HUGHES, ROBERT. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WRITER AT WAR . Author:GROSSMAN, VASILY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : RETURN OF THE DANCING MASTER This tale marks the end of the Kurt Wallander mysteries and yet leads back to Wallander's Ystad, where a new series of thrillers can begin. Stefan Lindman investigates the murder of a former police colleague and to his horror uncovers links to a global web of neo-Nazi activity.. Author:MANKELL, HENNING. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GULAG ARCHIPELAGO . Author:SOLZHENITSYN, ALEKSANDR. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : THURSBITCH An exploration, through fiction, of a C18 mystery that lives on in the valley of Thursbitch. John Turner, a packman, died in a storm in 1755, and was found with a woman's footprint in the snow beside him. His death leaves an emotional charge that Ian and Sal find affects their own relationship.. Author:GARNER, ALAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WHEN THE DEVIL HOLDS THE CANDLE In this psychological thriller, Karin Fossum once again takes a terrifyingly realistic look into the criminal mind. As in her previous works, the line between victim and killer is fine and easily crossed.. Author:FOSSUM, KARIN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GOTZ AND MEYER During the summer of 1942, the Nazis exterminated most of Serbia's Jews. Years later, in trying to find out what happened to his relatives, the narrator pieces together the horrific truth of this systematic extermination - an act carried out primarily by two soldiers named Gotz and Meyer.. Author:ALBAHARI, DAVID. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DISTANT STAR An unnamed narrator attempts to piece together the life and world of an enigmatic would-be poet turned military assassin during Pinochet's regime in Chile.. Author:BOLANO, ROBERTO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CURRICULUM VITAE OF AURORE ORTIZ . Author:SOLANA, ALMUDENA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BORGES AND THE ETERNAL ORANG-UTANS In this hilarious spoof on academic conferences, Luis Fernando Verissimo tells the story of Vogelstein, a bibliophile who attends a conference in Buenos Aires on Edgar Allen Poe. Mixing the Elizabethan John Dee's 'Eternal Orang-Utan' with Kabbala, the author introduces murder into Vogelstein's humdrum life.. Author:VERISSIMO, LUIS FERNANDO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MAN WHO SMILED . Author:MANKELL, HENNING. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DOUBLE What happens when Tertuliano Maximo Afonso, a 38 year-old professor of history, discovers that there is a man living in the same city who is identical to him in every physical detail, but not related by blood at all. And what happens when each of these men attempt to investigate each other's lives?. Author:SARAMAGO, JOSE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MATTER OF DEATH AND LIFE . Author:KURKOV, ANDREY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : KAFKA ON THE SHORE At the age of 15, Kafka Tamura runs away from home, either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-lost mother and sister. Instead, he finds himself setting out on an odyssey where he shall encounter some very strange characters indeed.. Author:MURAKAMI, HARUKI. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FIREWALL A search for answers leads Inspector Kurt Wallander dangerously close to a shadowy group of anarchic terrorists, hidden within the anonymity of cyberspace. Somehow these criminals seem always to know the police's next move and Wallander finds himself fighting to outsmart them.. Author:MANKELL, HENNING. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BEFORE THE FROST After the success of the Kurt Wallander series, Henning Mankell begins a new chapter: as Kurt prepares for retirement, his daughter Linda prepares to join the Ystad police force and becomes an immediate star in her own right.. Author:MANKELL, HENNING. Discounted by 18%

Vintage : IMAGO . Author:LIFFNER, EVA-MARIE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WAITING FOR LEAH . Author:LUSTIG, ARNOST. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LANG The story of Christian Lang is one of obsession, both physical and emotional. A famous novelist and chat-show host, Lang wants to keep his affair with the enchanting Sarita a secret, but she has her own reasons for keeping it quiet too.. Author:WESTO, KJELL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DAY AFTER DAY A professional killer is at large in the cities of Italy. Code named 'The Pit Bull', the killer is a master of disguise and an expert with weapons. It is up to Ispettore Grazia Negro to track down the faceless killer.. Author:LUCARELLI, CARLO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HORRIFIC SUFFERINGS OF THE MIND READING MONSTER HERCULES BAREFOOT . Author:VALLGREN, CARL-JOHAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HAVE MERCY ON US ALL Set in Paris, this novel addresses a particularly serious and chilling case of murder. Superintendent Adamsberg loves mysteries, but when the town crier begins reading disturbing messages that have been slipped in between the daily news, he knows this is no ordinary crime.. Author:VARGAS, FRED. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : IN TASMANIA . Author:SHAKESPEARE, NICHOLAS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SNOWLEG The gripping tale of a guilty conscience, a family secret and a young man's quest for reconciliation.. Author:SHAKESPEARE, NICHOLAS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BIRTHDAY STORIES This is a collection of 12 birthday stories from some of the most distinguished authors of recent years. The stories have been selected and introduced by Haruki Murakami.. Author:. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PRICE OF WATER IN FINISTERE . Author:MALMSTEN, BODIL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : EMPIRE OF THE WOLVES In Paris 10th arrondissement - the Turkish district - two police officers are trying to solve the mystery of the atrocious torture and subsequent killing of three clandestine Turkish women workers. As they investigate they discover that the 'Grey Wolves', a group of Turkish mafia members, might be responsible.. Author:GRANGE, JEAN-CHRISTOPHE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LATE-NIGHT NEWS The first in a new series set in Greece and centred around the grumpy but irresistible figure of Inspector Costas Haritos. Called to investigate the murder of a celebrated TV journalist, he finds himself sucked ever deeper into the grubby world of the Greek media.. Author:MARKARIS, PETROS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MANSFIELD C.K. Stead's fictionalised account of Katherine Mansfield's life describes her search to write the new kind of fiction towards which she strives. The author sticks scrupulously to what is known about her whilst taking the reader beyond mere biography and on into her mind, emotions and sensibilities.. Author:STEAD, C.K.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DISTANT PALACES Abilio Estevez conjures up the melancholy beauty of contemporary Havana in this story about a trio of misfits. Victorio quits his job after he is evicted and becomes a vagrant. Salam, a young prostitute, befriends him and they move into a ruined theatre with eccentric musician Don Fuco.. Author:ESTEVEZ, ABILIO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PIANO Max Delmarc is a middle-aged concert pianist with a sharp case of stage fright and something of a drink problem. We follow Max to his untimely death and out into the afterlife, where he moves from purgatory into his own personal hell - an overcast Paris in which he can no longer play the piano or have a drink.. Author:ECHENOZ, JEAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SILENCE OF THE GRAVE Building work in an expanding Reykjavik uncovers a shallow grave. Years before, this part of the city was all open hills, and Erlendur and his team hope this is a typical Icelandic missing person scenario; perhaps someone once lost in the snow, who has lain peacefully buried for decades. Things are never that simple.. Author:INDRIDASON, ARNALDUR. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ISLAND OF SOUND Published to coincide with the Hungarian Year of Culture in 2003/2004, this anthology comprises a selection of Hungarian prose and poetry from the second half of the 20th century.. Author:. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DEATH IN THE TRUFFLE WOOD . Author:MAGNAN, PIERRE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GIRL FROM THE CHARTREUSE . Author:PEJU, PIERRE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SIXTY LIGHTS This is the story of Lucy Strange, a photographer, while the art is in its infancy, in the 1870s. It tracks her life from her childhood in Australia, to her stormy adolescence in England and India and finally to her death in London at the age of 23. She is a remarkable character: forthright, gifted, passionate and canny.. Author:JONES, GAIL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SUN AND SHADOW When the investigation unearths a possible link between the murders and the police force, even friendly faces are not to be trusted and, when the killer strikes again, Winter is in a race against time to protect both the city and his family from this threatening evil.. Author:EDWARDSON, AKE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PARTY IN THE BLITZ . Author:CANETTI, ELIAS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : I DIE, BUT THE MEMORY LIVES ON In this personal account of the Aids epidemic in Africa, the author tells not only of his experiences whilst working for Aids charities on the continent, but of his fears and anxieties for the sufferers.. Author:MANKELL, HENNING. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BELOVED POONA . Author:FOSSUM, KARIN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : POEMS . Author:ROSS, ALAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FATELESSNESS . Author:KERTESZ, IMRE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : AUTO DA FE . Author:CANETTI, ELIAS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GEORGE AND RUE . Author:CLARKE, GEORGE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FOURTH CRUSADE AND THE SACK OF CONSTANTINOPLE . Author:PHILLIPS, JONATHAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : EMINENT EDWARDIANS In his account of four characters, each of whose importance was global, each of them in their different ways "monsters", Piers Brendon, who maintains that the Edwardian era has been obfuscated by huge biographies, illuminates the age.. Author:BRENDON, PIERS (FELLOW, CHURCHILL COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE). Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PANDORA'S BREECHES This is an original and highly readable exploration of how women of the 17th and 18th centuries engaged in science and contributed to its rapid growth.. Author:FARA, PATRICIA (FELLOW, CLARE COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE). Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PAINTING THE PAST This is an entertaining and illuminating look at how the Victorians constructed their - and our - sense of the past and expressed it through art, by one of Britain's most celebrated historians.. Author:STRONG, ROY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MODEL OCCUPATION This title chronicles what happened when the Germans arrived on the Channel Islands after the defeat of France in the summer of 1940. Every islander was faced with uncomfortable choices - where did patriotism end and self-preservation begin?. Author:BUNTING, MADELEINE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CODENAME TRICYCLE . Author:MILLER, RUSSELL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ARCHITECT OF GENOCIDE Both as a portrait of a truly evil man, and a careful, exhaustively-researched investigation of that man's terrible achievements, "The Architect of Genocide" shows the reader who Heinrich Himmler was, from his unlikeable boyhood to the perfect bureaucrat including the origins of his policies.. Author:BREITMAN, RICHARD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FASCISM Fascism is one of the most destructive and influential political movements of the 20th century. This study tackles how fascism is defined, the basis of its appeal and why it took root so successfully in Germany and Italy, but not in France or Britain.. Author:EATWELL, ROGER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SECOND OLDEST PROFESSION Intelligence is very big business with a very rich history, told here by a master historian. The big question is, 'Did the actions of spies such as Sorge, Donovan or Angleton and their masters make any difference at all in the course of history?'. Author:KNIGHTLEY, PHILLIP. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PEOPLE'S MUSIC This title takes the reader on a journey through the music of the sixties and seventies. Essays range from the psychedelia of the Beatles and the rebellion of the Rolling Stones to the political activism of John Lennon, the "dark doings" of David Bowie and the spiritual quest of Nick Drake.. Author:MACDONALD, IAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : IRRESPONSIBLE SELF . Author:WOOD, JAMES. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MEDICI . Author:STRATHERN, PAUL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MYTH OF DECLINE Contrary to conventional wisdom, this title finds that the story of Britain since World War II is marred not by decline but by progress on almost all fronts.. Author:BERNSTEIN, GEORGE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WORST JOURNEY IN THE WORLD One of the youngest members of Scott's team, Apsley Cherry-Garrard was later part of the rescue party that eventually found the frozen bodies of Scott and three men who had accompanied him on the final push to the Pole. This is his account of an expedition that had gone disastrously wrong.. Author:CHERRY-GARRARD, APSLEY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MODERN BRITISH HISTORY This is a comprehensive survey of events, people and themes that make us who we are. In 200 concise essays, covering topics as diverse as pornography and the poll tax, the Blitz and New Labour, the authors explore the interwoven culture, society, politics and economics of the recent past.. Author:GARNETT, MARK WEIGHT, RICHARD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MODERN PHILOSOPHY The author turns his attention to the whole field of modern philosophy, from the philosophy of logic to aesthetics, and in so doing provides readers with an essential and comprehensive guide to modern thinking.. Author:SCRUTON, ROGER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ONE'S COMPANY Catching all the fascination and humour of travel in out-of-the-way places, One's Company is Peter Fleming's account of his journey through Russia and Manchuria to China when he was Special Correspondent to The Times in the 1930s.. Author:FLEMING, PETER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : OSTER CONSPIRACY OF 1938 Vividly told and impressively documented, this work tells the fascinating story of an aborted coup and a wide-ranging plan to eliminate Adolf Hitler.. Author:PARSSINEN, TERRY (PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF TAMPA, FLORIDA, USA). Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CHARLES DARWIN VOYAGING Few lives of great men offer so much interest, and so many mysteries, as the life of Charles Darwin, whose ideas are still inspiring discoveries and controversies more than 100 years after his death. His biography is recounted here, by trained biologist and historian of science, Janet Browne.. Author:BROWNE, JANET. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : INJURY TIME: A MEMOIR D.J. Enright died soon after putting the finishing touches to this memoir and commonplace book in which he muses upon his own condition and that of the world he knows he is leaving. With humanity and wit, he contemplates literature, manners, morals, people and the English language.. Author:ENRIGHT, D.J.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PEACE IN IRELAND Through an exploration of the dynamics of war and peace in Northern Ireland, this book sets out to uncover the true significance of the principles of democracy and imperialism, in order to chart the dangers which accompany their misapplication in political conflicts which threaten the world.. Author:BOURKE, RICHARD (LECTURER IN ENGLISH, QUEEN MARY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON). Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SURVIVING THE HOLOCAUST Interwoven with personal testimonies of survivors, liberators, military government officials and aid workers, this is a remarkable account of German Jews returning to their homes after 1945.. Author:KOLINSKY, EVA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MONSTER OF GOD . Author:QUAMMEN, DAVID. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : RUSSIA 1812 Napoleon's calamitous invasion of Russia in 1812 is the stuff of legend. In a day-by-day account, Curtis Cate depicts a disaster which never should have happened. He shows how two emperors led their nations to a momentous confrontation fed by their pride, suspicion, vanity and stubbornness.. Author:CATE, CURTIS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ITALIAN BOY . Author:WISE, SARAH. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DIARIES OF CHARLES GREVILLE . Author:GREVILLE, CHARLES. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CASTLES OF STEEL . Author:MASSIE, ROBERT K.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : NEVER GIVE IN! This volume is a personal selection of Winston Churchill's greatest and most memorable speeches, chosen by his grandson. It includes Churchill's best-known speeches as well as some that have never been published in popular form.. Author:CHURCHILL, WINSTON S.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WINSTON CHURCHILL Gilbert covers the years leading up to the Second World War during which Churchill remained alone in the political wilderness because of his warnings of Nazi danger even before Hitler came to power.. Author:GILBERT, MARTIN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GREAT WAR The 30 articles in this book examine the Great War in all its diverse aspects. A number of the subjects covered are not just unfamiliar, but totally fresh, including a hard look at the 'Massacre of the Innocents' at Ypres, the Gallipoli campaign, and the horrors of naval warfare at the Battle of Jutland.. Author:. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : NEWSPAPERMEN They were 'Cudlipp' and 'Mr King' when they met in 1935.. Author:EDWARDS, RUTH DUDLEY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ROMANTIC AFFINITIES The winner of a 1989 Somerset Maugham Award, Romantic Affinities is a kaleidoscopic series of portraits from an era of tumultuous change in Europe as it was experienced and communicated by the writers of the age.. Author:CHRISTIANSEN, RUPERT. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ROAD TO OXIANA In 1933, Robert Byron set out on a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad and Teheran to Oxiana - the country of the Oxus, the ancient name for the river Amu Darya which forms part of the border between Afghanistan and the Soviet Union. Here he recounts his adventures.. Author:BYRON, ROBERT. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : AWOPBOPALOOBOP ALOPBAMBOOM This classic book on rock 'n' roll is regarded as one that defined the genre.. Author:COHN, NIK. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GWEN RAVERAT This text offers a fascinating portrait of Darwin's granddaughter, Gwen Raverat, a key figure in the artistic and intellectual worlds of Cambridge and Bloomsbury.. Author:SPALDING, FRANCES. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MARCH UP . Author:SMITH, RAY WEST, BING. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TRAVELLING WITH CHE GUEVARA Published for the first time in English, this is an account of Che Guevara's 1952 motorcycle tour of South America by his close friend and travelling companion, Alberto Granado.. Author:GRANADO, ALBERTO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : IRAQ WAR . Author:KEEGAN, JOHN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DREADNOUGHT A chronicle of the coming of World War I in which the author focuses chiefly on England and Germany. It tells the behind-the-scenes story of the personalities, events and optimism that propelled the world towards war.. Author:MASSIE, ROBERT K.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ROAD TO DELPHI . Author:WOOD, MICHAEL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : COVER VERSIONS . Author:SWEETING, ADAM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ROME '44 This volume brings together the skill and insight of an accomplished historian, the narrative drive of a storyteller, and the rage and terror of a man experiencing at first hand the momentous events from Anzio to Monte Cassino and on to Rome.. Author:TREVELYAN, RALEIGH. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BRITAIN'S GULAG . Author:ELKINS, CAROLINE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF BRITAIN . Author:FRASER, REBECCA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CONTINUE TO PESTER, NAG AND BITE . Author:GILBERT, MARTIN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SOUL SIGNS The 13 soul signs were shown to Rosemary by her spiritual guide Grey Eagle. By discovering your soul sign, readers should begin to make sense of what motivates them and why they behave as they do. This title shows readers how to work out which soul sign they fall into, and what this means.. Author:ALTEA, ROSEMARY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SACRED SPACE . Author:LINN, DENISE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PILGRIMS . Author:MCDERMOTT, PAUL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WIDENING THE CIRCLE OF LOVE . Author:BSTAN-'DZIN-RGYA-MTSHO, DALAI LAMA XIV. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CHARGE Shatters many long-held conceptions of how and why the charge of the Light Brigade happened, and who was to blame.. Author:ADKIN, MARK. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ARTS IN BRITAIN . Author:STRONG, ROY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BATTLE AT SEA Concentrating on four key conflicts - Trafalgar, Jutland, Midway and the Battle of the Atlantic - the author takes us into the heart of the fighting, examining the realities of naval warfare.. Author:KEEGAN, JOHN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MASK OF COMMAND . Author:KEEGAN, JOHN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SIX ARMIES IN NORMANDY The Allied assault on Normandy was an almost flawless success, but it was to take three months of fighting before the German forces were beaten and Paris liberated. This account of the struggle is related through the different points of view of the six armies who fought to liberate and defend France.. Author:KEEGAN, JOHN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CONQUEST OF MEXICO . Author:THOMAS, HUGH. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FACE OF BATTLE . Author:KEEGAN, JOHN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HISTORY OF WARFARE . Author:KEEGAN, JOHN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WARPATHS Military history and geography explain each other in North America as nowhere else in the world. Award-winning historian John Keegan explores their relationship and examines the battles fought over three centuries between Frenchman and Indian, Royalist and colonist, Union and Confederacy.. Author:KEEGAN, JOHN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LIFE OF GRAHAM GREENE 1939-1955 . Author:SHERRY, NORMAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LIFE OF GRAHAM GREENE 1904-1939 . Author:SHERRY, NORMAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : COMANCHES . Author:FEHRENBACH, T.R.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MISS ANGEL . Author:GOODDEN, ANGELICA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SON OF THE MORNING STAR . Author:CONNELL, EVAN S.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GERONIMO . Author:DEBO, ANGIE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : 500 NATIONS The epic story of the hundreds of Indian nations that have inhabited North America for more than 15,000 years and of their centuries-long struggle with Europeans. It is a story of friendship, treachery, courage and war, from when Columbus disembarked at Hispaniola in 1492, to the Sioux massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890.. Author:JOSEPHY, ALVIN M.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BRUNELLESCHI'S DOME . Author:KING, ROSS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : REVOLUTION IN THE HEAD . Author:MACDONALD, IAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BOLIVIAN DIARY . Author:GUEVARA, ERNESTO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : KINSEY The life of one of a scientist whose investigations into human sexuality ignited the sexual revolution. Alfred Kinsey was this century's first scientifically reputable and most influential researcher into sex.. Author:GATHORNE-HARDY, JONATHAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PASSIONS PAST AND PRESENT . Author:STRONG, ROY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DIANA MOSLEY A portrait both of an extraordinary individual, Diana Mosley (one of the six Mitford sisters) and the terrible world of political extremism in the 1930s. The death of her husband, fascist leader Oswald Mosley, left her unquestioning and still refusing to believe the reality of the Holocaust.. Author:COURCY, ANNE DE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FLORA BRITANNICA Covering the native and naturalized wild plants of England, Scotland and Wales, this reference guide to plants and flowers contains over 500 colour images.. Author:MABEY, RICHARD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : POEM FOR THE DAY This collection contains 366 inspirational poems from around the world. With a different poem for each day of the year, including old favourites and new discoveries, this book aims to uplift and brighten the day of those who read it.. Author:. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BOOK OF NIGHTINGALES Despite being the most celebrated songbird in the western world, the real nightingale is a drab-coloured migrant. Mabey examines why humans have so often fallen under its spell; how it came to inspire the Romantic poets; and what this tells us about our own responses to place and season.. Author:MABEY, RICHARD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CLERKENWELL TALES Sister Clarisse, a nun in the House of St Mary at Clerkenwell, experiences visions. This novel begins with "The Nun's Tale", and continues with the "The Friar's Tale", "The Merchant's Tale" and "The Clerk's Tale", building a portrait of medieval London, where people are disenchanted by the Church.. Author:ACKROYD, PETER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : VARIOUS HAUNTS OF MEN A lonely woman of 53 vanishes in fog. Experienced policemen know that most missing persons either turn up or go missing on purpose. But fresh young D.S. Freya Graffham refuses to drop the case.. Author:HILL, SUSAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LONDON Much of Peter Ackroyd's work has been concerned with the life and past of London but here, as a culmination, is his definitive account of the city. For him it is an organism with its own laws of growth and change, so he regards this as a "biography" rather than a history.. Author:ACKROYD, PETER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SHAKESPEARE . Author:ACKROYD, PETER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LIFE AND FATE . Author:GROSSMAN, VASILY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WHERE I'M CALLING FROM . Author:CARVER, RAYMOND. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SHORT CUTS . Author:CARVER, RAYMOND. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : EDUCATION OF A GARDENER A collection of inspirational wisdom.. Author:PAGE, RUSSELL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FOUNDATION PIT . Author:PLATONOV, ANDREY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BRIDGE OVER THE DRINA . Author:ANDRIC, IVO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FRENCH This is a guide to France intended for the traveller who wants to get to know French people as individuals, for the negotiating businessman and for students who wishes to discover in-depth aspects of their lives. It looks at what makes up the national character of France.. Author:ZELDIN, THEODORE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BERLIN WALL CAFE . Author:DURCAN, PAUL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MAN WHO PLANTED TREES . Author:GIONO, JEAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LEOPARD A bitter-sweet tale of quiet lives in the small and apparently timeless world of mid-19th-century Sicilian nobility. Through the eyes of his princely protagonist, the author chronicles the details of an aristocratic, pastoral society, torn apart by revolution, death and decay.. Author:TOMASI DI LAMPEDUSA, GIUSEPPE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FOLLOWING STORY Socrates is a former classics teacher at a lycee. Dr Strabon is a travel writer and Mussert is a misanthrope, but also the man behind the masks of these other incongruous alter egos. In this novel, Nooteboom illustrates the polarities and similarities of scientific reality and philosophical theory.. Author:NOOTEBOOM, CEES. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FATAL SHORE "The Fatal Shore" reveals the full extent of Australia's role as the concentration camp of Georgian England, and in doing so has set new standards in the writing of narrative history. Author:HUGHES, ROBERT. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVAN DENISOVICH . Author:SOLZHENITSYN, ALEXANDER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : COUNTRY DOCTOR'S NOTEBOOK . Author:BULGAKOV, MIKHAIL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MISS SMILLA'S FEELING FOR SNOW A little boy falls off a roof in Copenhagen and is killed. Smilla, his neighbour, suspects it is not an accident: she has seen his footsteps in the snow, and, having been brought up by her mother, a Greenlander, she has a feeling for snow.. Author:HOEG, PETER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PIECE OF MY HEART . Author:FORD, RICHARD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LOVE . Author:NERUDA, PABLO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SNAIL IN MY PRIME First published in 1993, this contains the poet's own selection of his life's work.. Author:DURCAN, PAUL. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : EGYPTIANS Portraying 4000 years of history in Egypt through its artistic achievements, the distinguished photographer Werner Forman demonstrates the threads that link Ancient Egypt, the centuries of Greco-Roman rule and the first epochs of Islam.. Author:FORMAN, WERNER QUIRKE, STEPHEN BIANCHI, BOB EMPEREUR, JEAN-YVES BARRUCAND, MARIANNE RODENBECK, MAX. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SECOND HARVEST In the village of Aubignane only three inhabitants remain - the blacksmith, a widow and Panturle, the hunter. Soon Panturle is abandoned and begins to lose his mind. But then a woman arrives and life is restored to the village as Panturle plants wheat to produce a second harvest.. Author:GIONO, JEAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : AFRICA ADORNED . Author:FISHER, ANGELA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CLASSIC ROSES This rose encyclopaedia provides a history and a useful manual for all rose growers and rose lovers. It identifies and describes all the species, cultivars and varieties that have stood the test of time. There is a grower's guide to the buying, propagation, feeding and pruning of old roses.. Author:BEALES, PETER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HEART SO WHITE If Ranz has told no lies to his son Juan, that is because Juan has asked no questions. But when Juan marries, and his wife and father have things to tell each other, drama follows. And everything we learn about Ranz's troubled past seems set to repeat itself in a cycle of intrigue and violence.. Author:MARIAS, JAVIER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ELENI On August 28, 1948, some peasant women with firewood on their backs were descending a steep path above the Greek village of Lia. Eleni Gatzoyiannis was arrested, tortured and shot. Her crime had been to help her children escape the Communist guerillas during the Greek Civil War.. Author:GAGE, NICHOLAS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : VIOLET This biography of Violet Gordon Woodhouse recounts a noted musician of early music, irresistable to both sexes and the woman at the centre of a scandalous menage a cinq. Her salon was visited by Picasso, Diaghilev, the Sitwells, Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot.. Author:DOUGLAS-HOME, JESSICA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WOMAN AND THE APE Madelene is married to Burden, an ambitious zoologist, comfortably off and a chronic alcoholic. The ape is Erasmus, who comes ashore in London from sailing boat called "The Ark". Burden aims to use the ape as the means to fulfil his ambition to direct the London Zoo. Erasmus and Madelene elope.. Author:HOEG, PETER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : REDBIRDS A vivid account of growing up as "poor white trash" in the race-torn rural South of the 1960s, with an alcoholic and largely absent father, an extraordinarily strong mother and a younger brother drawn into a cycle of poverty and crime.. Author:BRAGG, RICK. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SO LONG, SEE YOU TOMORROW On a winter morning in the 1920s, a shot is fired on a farm in rural Illinois. Lloyd Wilson is dead. A tenuous friendship between two lonely teenagers - the narrator, whose mother died young, and Cletus Smith, a troubled farmboy - is shattered: Cletus's father committed the murder.. Author:MAXWELL, WILLIAM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ROADS TO SANTIAGO Derived from studies and sketches made between 1979 and 1992, this book covers ten centuries of Spain's history - its politics, its architecture, its climate and its people. Cees Nooteboom's destination is Santiago de Compostela, though he makes numerous detours.. Author:NOOTEBOOM, CEES. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ALL SOULS In this story of Oxford life, an affair unfolds between a young Spanish academic and a married flighty, English woman. In the coming together of these two very different characters, English academia, at work and at play, is portrayed.. Author:MARIAS, JAVIER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : YEAR OF THE DEATH OF RICARDO REIS Lisbon. 1936. Ricardo Reis is a doctor, returning to his native Portugal from Brazil after 16 years away. But what kind of doctor is he? His companions include: the ghost of the poet Pessoa; a girl with a paralysed hand; and the hotel chambermaid, who slips into his bed at night.. Author:SARAMAGO, JOSE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TALES OF THE NIGHT Eight tales, all concerned with love and its conditions, on the night of 19 March, 1929.. Author:HOEG, PETER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : I COULD READ THE SKY Accompanied by photographs, this novel tells the story of a man's journey from the West of Ireland to the fields/boxing-booths/building sites of England. Now at the century's end, he finds himself alone, struggling to make sense of a life of dislocation and loss.. Author:O'GRADY, TIMOTHY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FIRE UNDER THE SNOW The autobiography of Palden Gyatso, who was arrested in 1959 after taking part in a non-violent demonstration for Tibetan independence. After a failed escape bid he was starved and tortured. Following his release in 1992, after 33 years of captivity, he fled to India and began to reveal the true extent of the Chinese oppression in Tibet.. Author:GYATSO, PALDEN SHAKYA, TSERING. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ENGLISH GARDEN IN PROVENCE A literary record of the creation by Natasha and Stephen Spender of a beautiful garden in the hills of Provence during the 60s. The book also documents the visits of the Spenders' friends, such as Iris Murdoch, John Bayley, Francis Bacon and the Annans.. Author:SPENDER, NATASHA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : RETURN Combining scientific realism with a poetic vision and elements of folk tale, this text of ten stories presents the dreams of the builders of socialism.. Author:PLATONOV, ANDREY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : KEW An illustrated history of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew over two centuries. The text includes examinations of the work of garden designers Charles Bridgeman and "Capability" Brown and architects James Wyatt and Decimus Burton.. Author:DESMOND, RAY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : AMERICAN VISIONS A companion volume to the BBC television series of 1996, which looks at the art produced in America from early Native American art to contemporary works and artists with a view to understanding the American psyche.. Author:HUGHES, ROBERT. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TRAP FOR CINDERELLA A beach house at a French resort is gutted by fire. Trapped inside are two women - one rich and the other poor. Only one of them survives, burnt beyond recognition and in a state of total amnesia. Who is she, the heiress or her penniless friend? A killer, or an intended victim?. Author:JAPRISOT, SEBASTIEN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TIME WILL DARKEN IT When Austin King entertains some distant relatives he unwittingly sets in motion events that will threaten his marriage, his law practice and his standing in the community. Austin's eagerness to please his foster cousin Nora is mistaken for other motives, especially since Nora is besotted with him.. Author:MAXWELL, WILLIAM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FRIENDSHIP Ara and Kit, two girls in the village school, seem to have nothing in common. Ara, the elder, is large, earthy and illiterate; Kit is lean, brainy and interested in abstractions like philosophy. After they leave school Ara cannot let Kit alone - she is drawn to her as a moth to a candle flame.. Author:PALMEN, CONNIE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : AFRICAN ELEPHANTS For years, Kunkel has stalked elephants with his camera, establishing a deep rapport with them. The photographer also asks the ultimate question about these friendly giants: will they survive? If so, how? Driven from the wild into national parks and game reserves, will they remain safe from the poaching which has dramatically reduced their numbers.. Author:KUNKEL, REINHARD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CZAR'S MADMAN Translated by Anselm Hollo. The story of Colonel Timo von Bock discharged as insane after nine years incarceration for addressing the Czar candidly. The events were recorded in the secret journal kept over the years by von Bock's brother-in-law Jakob an educated commoner.. Author:KROSS, JAAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ARCTIC DREAMS A portrait of the Arctic that celebrates the landscape, wildlife and people of the vast and mysterious region. Above all, it is a story of light - solar and lunar rings, halos and coronas, the aurora borealis, and the distant mountain that is actually a looming and convincing mirage.. Author:LOPEZ, BARRY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HOLDEN'S PERFORMANCE Traces the epic life of Holden Shadbolt as he passes through the cities and landscapes of Australia. He encounters a cast of unforgettable characters: from the ebullient ex-Corporal Frank "Bloodnut" McBee who lost his eyelashes in Tobruk to Holden's uncle Vern Hartnett.. Author:BAIL, MURRAY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MIDNIGHT IN SICILY A journey into the heart of Sicily, using art, food, history and literature to shed light on southern Italy's legacy of political corruption and violent crime. The book takes as its starting point the ongoing trial of seven-times Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti.. Author:ROBB, PETER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WISE MAN FROM THE WEST This text gives account of the meeting and subsequent relationship between Matteo Ricci, an early recruit of the Jesuit order, and the Chinese Emperor and the Mandarins. It tells of how Ricci, sent as missionary in 1582, took with him Christianity and the technology and philosophy of the West.. Author:CRONIN, VINCENT. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CATHEDRAL In the title story of this collection the hand of a blind man guides the hand of a sighted man as together they draw the cathedral the blind man can never see.. Author:CARVER, RAYMOND. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : EMINENCE Secret passions and conflicts divide the Vatican, the Pope lies in a coma, dying. With the media rife with reports of the dying pontiff's personal diaries, full of doubts about his papacy and the future of the Catholic Church, Cardinal Rossini's dubious past threatens to rise up and engulf him.. Author:WEST, MORRIS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : PAVEL'S LETTERS This history of central Europe, seen from the other side of the Iron Curtain, is also the history of three generations of Monika Maron's own family.. Author:MARON, MONIKA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WEEPING SUSANNAH At 33, Susannah Rabin lives with her mother, protected from the torment of human contact. But then her cousin arrives from New York and Susannah finds herself going out and meeting his friends. Susannah's mother becomes troubled by their friendship and questions his reasons for visiting Israel.. Author:KIMHI, ALONA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HOPE AGAINST HOPE The story of the poet Osip Mandelstam, who suffered continuous persecution under Stalin, but whose wife constantly supported both him and his writings until he died in 1938.. Author:MANDEL'SHTAM, NADEZHDA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HAPPY MOSCOW Chestnova is a woman fascinated by the brave new world supposedly taking shape around her. In a variety of styles, this novel exposes the gulf between the premature triumphalism and the substandard living conditions of Stalinist Russia.. Author:PLATONOV, ANDREY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SWEETNESS Two brothers are practically at death's door. The only thing that keeps them alive is hatred for one another. They used to share a wife, each thinking he had sole tenure and that he was the father of the woman's son. All the rancours come to light when a woman arrives in the village.. Author:LINDGREN, TORGNY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JESUS CHRIST A retelling of the Gospel following the life of Christ from his conception to his crucifixion. A naive Jesus is the son not of God but of Joseph. In the desert it is not Satan but God that Christ tussles with, an autocrat with whom he has an unbalanced and unsettled relationship.. Author:SARAMAGO, JOSE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BLINDNESS A city is hit by an epidemic of sudden blindness. The authorities segregate the newly-blind and all who have come into contact with them. It is not long before the criminal element take over, the compound is set on fire and the blind escape - only to find a deserted, looted city.. Author:SARAMAGO, JOSE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FOLDED LEAF Set in the suburbs of 1920s Chicago, this is an account of the unlikely friendship between two teenage boys: the newcomer Spud Latham, brimming with energy and physical belligerence, and the scholar, Lymie Peters, heading for academia and no good at games.. Author:MAXWELL, WILLIAM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : RETURN OF LITTLE BIG MAN Jack Crabb was ill when he dictated his memoirs, "Little Big Man". His supposed death cut short his tale as he finished recounting how he was the last white survivor of Custer's Last Stand. This newly discovered manuscript reveals that he faked his own death to escape his publishing contract.. Author:BERGER, THOMAS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : STONE RAFT One day a rift opens along the border between Spain and France, and the Iberian peninsula floats off across the Atlantic, a great stone raft. But what of the floating population? While the tourists and investors flee, the Spanish and Portuguese escape the coast and wander the inland roads.. Author:SARAMAGO, JOSE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HISTORY OF THE SIEGE OF LISBON When Raimundo Silva, humble proof-reader for a Lisbon publishing house, takes it upon himself to insert a negative into the sentence of a history book, he rewrites history. The effect of this act of insubordination is to make his editor, the voluptuous Dr Maria Sara, fall in love with him.. Author:SARAMAGO, JOSE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : JADE CAT 'The Jade Cat' traces the true story of a rich half-Jewish family, the Lovins, whose fortunes rise and fall with the tide of history but whose erotic obsessions are handed down through generations.. Author:BROGGER, SUZANNE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : HARVILL BOOK OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY POETRY IN ENGLISH A collection of poetry in English by more than 100 20th-century poets. It reveals the seismic shifts and conflicting spirits of the age, from the modified romanticism of the Georgians, to the tragedy of AIDS; from the rage of World War II poets, to the drug-induced poetics of the 1960s.. Author:. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : UNIVERSAL HISTORY OF NUMBERS COMPUTER AND THE INFORMATION REVOLUTION The final volume in Georges Ifrah's history of numbers, this work explores the computer and the information revolution. It introduces the reader to the departure made from the decimal Base 10 to the spread of the binary Base 2, and examines the origins and progress of the computer revolution.. Author:IFRAH, GEORGES. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : GOOD PLACE TO DIE John Pitt, drop-out from university, has arrived in Iran as a naive English teacher. It is 1974 and in Iran the forces of religious conservatism and of liberal reform are at collision point. Amidst all this, John falls madly, irresponsibly and uncontrollably in love with one of his students.. Author:BUCHAN, JAMES. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : INDEPENDENT PEOPLE Bjartur is a sheep farmer. After 18 years of servitude to a master he despises, he desires to raise his flocks unbeholden to any man. Only Asta, the child he brings up, can pierce his rebatative soul, but she wishes to live unbeholden to him.. Author:LAXNESS, HALLDOR. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : JERK ON ONE END Mixing memoir, history, adventure, folklore and descriptions of the deep, this is a meditation on the excitement and pleasures of fishing. Robert Hughes traces his love of fishing back to his boyhood on Sydney Harbour, and recounts the high and low points of his career with rod and reel.. Author:HUGHES, ROBERT. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FACELESS KILLERS As his personal life is falling apart, Swedish Police Inspector Kurt Wallander is confronted with a hideous crime which has devastating repercussions. An elderly couple are brutally murdered in their remote farmhouse and the suspicion falls on the immigrant community.. Author:MANKELL, HENNING. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : AMSTERDAM Cosmopolitan, stylish, decadent, Amsterdam is a city of dreams and nightmares, of grand civic architecture and legendary beauty. In this book, part history, part travel guide, Geert Mak has an eye for the bizarre and unexpected.. Author:MAK, GEERT. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : UNIVERSAL HISTORY OF NUMBERS "WORLD'S FIRST NUMBER SYSTEM", "UNIVERSAL HISTORY OF NUMBERS", "COMPUTERS AND THE INFORMATION REVOLUTION" A comprehensive history of numbers and mathematics, in a three-volume set. It covers the art and science of numeration from Magnon Man to the electronic spreadsheet, and from Scandinavia to China, via the Classical World. There are explanatory figures and tables throughout.. Author:IFRAH, GEORGES. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LAST OF THE WIND SHIPS A photo-historical record of the last days of the wind-borne merchant ships. Taken during the 1920s and 1930s by Alan Villiers, a professional seaman and a narrator and geographer for the National Geographic Society, the photographs provide an insight into a real way of life.. Author:VILLIERS, ALAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LETTERS FROM PRISON A collection of letters written from prison by the Marquis de Sade. They are principally written to his beloved (and devoted) wife and to his hated mother-in-law, Madame la presidente de Montreuil. They offer insights into society, religion, morals, politics, and his fellow men - and women.. Author:SADE, MARQUIS DE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : THEY CAME LIKE SWALLOWS A sensitive portrait of an American family and of the complex woman who is its emotional pillar. Beautifully observed, deftly rendering the civilities and constraints of a vanished era, the novel measures the subterranean currents of love and need that run all our lives.. Author:MAXWELL, WILLIAM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CHATEAU It is 1948 and a young American couple arrive in France for a holiday, full of anticipation and enthusiasm. But the countryside and people are war-battered, and their reception at the Chateau Beaumesnil is not all the open-hearted Americans could wish for.. Author:MAXWELL, WILLIAM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BIRDS OF PASSAGE The Batrakanis are a family caught between cultures. Francophile, "Syrian", Levantine Christians, birds of passage who have come to rest in the extraordinarily cosmopolitan Egypt of the first half of the 20th century.. Author:SOLE, ROBERT. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DANUBE A celebration of a river which has forever been at the centre of the great movements in history. In this fascinating journey through the history and culture of the Danube, the author invites the reader to accompany him along the whole course of the river, from the Bavarian hills to the Black Sea.. Author:MAGRIS, CLAUDIO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BARCELONA A modern homage to a proud, cosmopolitan city, where geniuses like Picasso and Miro learned how to break the rules. Robert Hughes takes us down the Ramblas through the "intestinal windings" of the ancient gothic quarter, past the bountiful Boqueria market to the Eixample.. Author:HUGHES, ROBERT. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CAUGHT When war breaks out, Roe volunteers for the Auxillary Fire Service in London, and is trained under a professional fire officer, Pye. The two men discover that a quite different link exists between them. In the apocalyptic atmosphere of the Blitz, the relationship between the two men develops.. Author:GREEN, HENRY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : TWO BROTHERS This is an elegiac tale of lost innocence and the ruthlessness of the natural world, where the hunter all too soon becomes the prey.. Author:ATXAGA, BERNARDO. Discounted by 18%

Vintage : TALKING ABOUT O'DWYER Two Oxford dons, Mike Newall and Bertie Winterstoke, attend the funeral of Donovan O'Dwyer, an expatriate New Zealander. After the ceremony, Newall reveals that O'Dwyer spent his life haunted by a Maori curse, the "makutu", allegedly brought down upon him because he killed one of his own men.. Author:STEAD, C.K.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WAY OF ALL FLESH As old age takes its toll people try to resist and retain their youth. Midas Dekkers argues that humans should accept decay in a similar manner to the changes of the seasons and the natural decay process in plants.. Author:DEKKERS, MIDAS MARX-MACDONALD, SHERRY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : AFRICAN DREAM The complete text of the campaign diaries kept by Guevara in the Congo in 1965-1966 where he led 100 Cuban guerilla fighters in a campaign to help the oppressed peoples of Africa throw off the yoke of colonial imperialism.. Author:GUEVARA, CHE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CLUB OF ANGELS There were ten of them in the dining club, and Daniel was thrilled to have recruited Lucidio to cook their monthly dinner. But the ten gourmets quickly became nine when Abel succumbed after a second helping of beef bourguignon. Thereafter, trips to the cemetry became rather too predictable.. Author:VERISSIMO, LOUIS FERNANDO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : I HAVE SEEN THE WORLD BEGIN Carsten Jensen's epic journey takes him through China, Cambodia and Vietnam, with many pauses on his way to meditate on the history and customs of the people he meets.. Author:JENSEN, CARSTEN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : JOURNEY TO PORTUGAL Crossing his native land from northeast to southwest, Jose Saramago explores the villages and towns of Portugal and discovers what it is that binds him to his country and his people.. Author:SARAMAGO, JOSE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : SECRET TIBET Fosco Maraini looks back at the world he first unfolded nearly 50 years ago in his classic account of the visits he made to Tibet. He brings back to life a world which will never be seen again.. Author:MARAINI, FOSCO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MARCEL A ten-year-old boy lives alone with his grandmother in a Flemish village. Among the photographs his grandmother cherishes is a portrait of Marcel, who died young, far away. But how did he die? The little boy is determined to find out.. Author:MORTIER, ERWIN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LIAISONS CULINAIRES Dimitris and Damocles live in the same block of flats, on the same floor. Gradually it dawns on them that they also have the same lover, Nana. It turns into a contest, as each sets out to conquer Nana's willing palate with their culinary skills.. Author:STAIKOS, ANDREAS. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MOSCOW MEMOIRS Part biography and part autobiography, this title alters popular perceptions of Russia's two greatest 20th-century poets. It provides memorable glimpses of numerous other figures and offers several vignettes of Boris Pasternak.. Author:GERSTEIN, EMMA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : WHEN I WAS MORTAL A collection of twelve stories which tackle several genres, such as the satirical ghost story of the title, a grisly tale of murder at the racetrack, and a surprising insight into the life of a porn movie star.. Author:MARIAS, J.. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MAN OF FEELING The narrator, a tenor known as "the Lion of Naples" recalls a moment of his life when he first encounted Manur, a Flemish banker, who was with his wife and his secretary at an opera. The emotional ties that link this little group form the background to this sometimes perverse comedy of manners.. Author:MARIAS, JAVIER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DIRTY WAR The first account written by a Russian woman of the Chechen conflict, "A Dirty War" is an edgy and intense study of a country in crisis. In a series of articles from July 1999 to February 2000, journalist Anna Politkovskaya vividly describes the atrocities and abuses of the war.. Author:POLITKOVSKAYA, ANNA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BALTASAR AND BLIMUNDA Set in early 18th-century Portugal, this novel tells the story of the love between Baltasar, a soldier who lost a hand in the wars, and Blimunda, whose mother died at the hands of the Inquisition.. Author:SARAMAGO, JOSE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ADVOCATE A tale of a backward community harbouring a guilty conscience, a small-town lawyer with a passion for justice, and a boy in love.. Author:FOIS, MARCELLO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : JACQUES TATI What emerges from this biography of the French filmmaker Jacques Tati, is the portrait of a man at once dedicated, impassioned and shy, more an artist than a businessman. He died in 1982 but his comedy films are as popular now as in their heyday.. Author:BELLOS, DAVID (PROFESSOR OF FRENCH, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, USA). Discounted by 27%

Vintage : CASSADA Roberto Cassada is the latest arrival in a complacent Air Force squadron in Cold War Germany. His Puerto Rican birth and unabashed ambition alienate him from the tightly-knit group of men he joins. He struggles to prove his superiority as a pilot on routine flying procedures - leading to tragedy.. Author:SALTER, JAMES. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : FISH CAN SING This tender novel tells the tale of Alfgrim, an abandoned child, whose mother gave birth to him in the turf-and-stone cottage of Bjorn of Brekkukot, the fisherman, on the outskirts of what is now Reykjavik.. Author:LAXNESS, HALLDOR. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ALL THE DAYS AND NIGHTS The 21 stories that make up this collection represent more than 50 years of story writing from William Maxwell, one of America's most acclaimed authors.. Author:MAXWELL, WILLIAM. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ALPHONSE COURRIER AFFAIR In a village in the Auvergne, Alphonse Courrier set up shop as an ironmonger and prospered sufficiently to maintain a mistress, Adele, and a wife, Agnes. All goes like clockwork until Alphonse's friend, the local vet, finds himself attracted to Agnes, who is sufficiently bored to reciprocate.. Author:MORAZZONI, MARTA. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DEATH AND THE PENGUIN Viktor, with only his pet penguin for company, composes obituaries for the local newspaper, even though their subjects cling to life. When he sees his work in print for the first time, his pride turns to terror. He and Misha are drawn into a trap from which there appears to be no escape.. Author:KURKOV, ANDREY. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : VISIT OF THE ROYAL PHYSICIAN When Christian VII, young, mad and highly impressionable, assumes the Danish throne, many seek to control the new king, capitalizing on his mental frailty to advance their own interests. Two men stand out: Struensee, the court physician and Guldberg, the religious fanatic.. Author:ENQUIST, PER OLOV. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : I'M OFF AND ONE YEAR AND "ONE YEAR" "I'm Off" tells the story of Felix Ferrer, a creature of appetite, impulse and habit, who embarks on a journey of extremes. In "One Year", Victoire runs away after waking up to find her boyfriend lying dead beside her. One year later she returns, but is unprepared for the shock that greets her.. Author:ECHENOZ, JEAN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : YELLOW RAIN The last surviving inhabitant of the Pyrenean village of Ainielle lingers on at death's door as the first snows of the year arrive and the autumn leaves flutter about him. As he dies, his friends and neighbours who now frequent his wavering memory possess his solitude too.. Author:LLAMAZARES, JULIO. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DOGS OF RIGA It is winter 1991. Inspector Kurt Wallander and his team are called in to investigate the murder of two Latvian criminals. Wallander travels to Riga, where he is plunged into a nightmare world of police surveillance, veiled threats and lies.. Author:MANKELL, HENNING. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : MULTITUDE OF SINS A collection of ten stories about marriage and adultery, passion and infidelity, disappointment and revenge. Ford looks at commitment, boredom, responsibility and the cruel things people do to themselves and others through the need for and the fear of love.. Author:FORD, RICHARD. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : ALEXANDRIA SEMAPHORE Journalist Maxime Touta is the perfect eye through which to observe an Egypt poised on the brink of change. The Suez Canal is nearing completion, and Ottoman Egypt is torn between the French and the British. For Maxime the political machinations of the day are woven in with the life of his family.. Author:SOLE, ROBERT. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : BACK ON THE ROAD Throughout his travels around Latin America, Che Guevara kept a spasmodic diary in which he recorded his impressions of his two-year journey. This was a formative period in his life and the diary illustrates the transformation from idealist student into political activist.. Author:GUEVARA, ERNESTO "CHE". Discounted by 27%

Vintage : DON'T LOOK BACK Beneath the imposing Kollen Mountain lies a small village where the children run in and out of one another's houses and play unafraid in the streets. When a naked body is found by the lake at the top of the mountain, Inspector Sejer is determined to uncover the truth.. Author:FOSSUM, KARIN. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : INNOCENCE Pierrot, a 15-year-old boy, stumbles across the murdered body of a local resistance hero one morning in 1945. He discovers a letter in the dead man's wallet, the contents of which unearth a series of dramatic events that in turn lead to Pierrot's association with Madame Henry.. Author:MAGNAN, PIERRE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : LIME'S PHOTOGRAPH When Danish paparazzo Peter Lime routinely snaps a Spanish minister out with his mistress, his world is turned upside down. When a fire destroys his home, but not all of his photographs, he sets out to discover a motive and finds himself drawn into the complex web of international terrorism.. Author:DAVIDSEN, LEIF. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : IN THE WAKE After a ferry accident, Arvid and his brother are the only remaining members of his family. At first, Arvid feels disconnected from real life, but slowly, the memories of his family begin to return.. Author:PETTERSON, PER. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : STONE COUNCIL Diane Thiberge believes she has found a purpose to life when she adopts a five-year-old Thai boy. A nightmare ensues, however, when he is declared brain-dead after an accident. Then a series of murders make her realize that he is no ordinary child, but the prey of sinister and paranormal forces.. Author:GRANGE, JEAN-CHRISTOPHE. Discounted by 27%

Vintage : Vintage double-cutaway 5-string Bass Offering bass ability in plenty thanks to a 5-string format, the Vintage EST96AF is set to be a æmust haveÆ instrument.

Vintage : Vintage EST96 double-cutaway natural ash An all-purpose bass guitar with a 21-fret maple neck and neat 3-over-1 headstock tuner layout, offset double-cutaway ash body, highlighted by a Natural finish and contrasting 3-ply scratchplate.

Vintage : Vintage TC200B Tele Style Guitar, Black Serious quality new guitar from the well established Vintage brand, featuring Wilkinson hardware.

Vintage : Vintage TC200BD Tele style guitar,Blonde Serious quality new guitar from the well established Vintage brand, featuring Wilkinson hardware.

Vintage : Vintage V100 70`s style electric guitar The fixed-neck construction of the Vintage V100GDL offers rock solid looks to match its rock solid ability. Gold Top

Vintage : Vintage 12 String, Solid Top Acoustic Few guitars can match the dramatic resonance and harmonics of a 12 string dreadnought instrument. With its spruce laminate top

Vintage : Vintage Solid Top Dreadnought guitar One of the most popular and identifiable of acoustic guitar series. Colour: Natural

Vintage : Vintage V6 Wilkinson pickup Guitar,Black Serious quality new guitar from the well established Vintage brand, featuring Wilkinson hardware.

Vintage : Vintage V6 Wilkinson pickup Guitar, Red Serious quality new guitar from the well established Vintage brand, featuring Wilkinson hardware.

Vintage : Vintage V6 Wilkinson pickup Guitar, S/B Serious quality new guitar from the well established Vintage brand, featuring Wilkinson hardware.

Vintage : Vintage V6 Wilkinson pickup Guitar,Green Serious quality new guitar from the well established Vintage brand, featuring Wilkinson hardware.

Vintage : Vintage V800 Bass Guitar, Black Attractive downsize-bodied bass guitar with stylishly-shaped double cutaways and upper and lower horns.

Vintage : Vintage V8 Super Drop Top Guitar Using the traditional, double cutaway electric guitar design, the Vintage V8 Super Drop Top is a superbly versatile and attractive guitar. Colour: Blood Red Quilt

Vintage : Vintage V940B Natural 4 string Bass With an exotic bubinga body matched to high-performance active circuitry,these sleek-looking bass guitars offer a pleasingly natural look and feel for the discerning bass player.

Vintage : Vintage V940FL Natural 4 string fretless With an exotic bubinga body matched to high-performance active circuitry,these sleek-looking bass guitars offer a pleasingly natural look and feel for the discerning bass player.

Vintage : Vintage V950B Natural 5 string Bass With an exotic bubinga body matched to high-performance active circuitry,these sleek-looking bass guitars offer a pleasingly natural look and feel for the discerning bass player.

Vintage : Vintage Electro Acoustic Bass Guitar The resurgence of interest in acoustic music has led to equal interest in acoustic basses. With the added versatility of and usefulness of onboard preamps and EQ systems, these big-bodied, big toned electro-acoustic basses are ready for any musical situation, whether acoustic or plugged in.

Vintage : Vintage 12 String Solid-T Elec-Acoustic The VEC500 acoustic-electric guitar range offers a big-toned dreadnought style body shape with the useful addition of a single cutaway facility.

Vintage : Vintage Electro Acoustic Dreanought The VEC500 acoustic-electric guitar range offers a big-toned dreadnought style body shape with the useful addition of a single cutaway facility. Colour: Ruby Red

Vintage : Vintage VJ6 GMS Electric Guitar Sharp looks, sharper attitude. Nobody could accuse these VJ6 guitars of being half-hearted. And what a spec two single coils with a beefy bridge humbucker plus a genuine Floyd Rose double locking tremolo system all mounted on a tone-enhancing solid Maple body. From nu-metal to blues, the versatile VJ6 will rock till you drop.

Vintage : Vintage Metal Axxe Razer, Black The asymmetric double cutaways and swept forward top body section of the Metal Axxe« RazerÖ Blacker Than Black give the guitar a purposeful, poised attitude. Colour: Blacker Than Black

Vintage : Vintage Electro Acoustic Resonator These electro-acoustic resonators offer a more up-to-date take on this type of instrument. Utilising mahogany laminate bodies and tops, the sound of both of these instruments is centred around a 10.5ö spun aluminium resonator

Vintage : Vintage VS6 Twin Horn Cutaway Guitar Light and stylish, this exciting guitar with its twin horn cutaway looks has twin double coil pickups, each with its own volume and tone controls, 3-way pickup selector and Tune-O-Matic bridge layout. Colour: Cherry

Vintage : Vintage Semi Acoustic Guitar Sunburst Big and beautiful, this double cutaway semi acoustic guitar has a presence like no other. Fitted with humbucking pickups across a solid central body section

Vintage : Vintage Semi Acoustic Guitar, Cherry Red Big and beautiful, this double cutaway semi acoustic guitar has a presence like no other. Fitted with humbucking pickups across a solid central body section

Vintage : Vintage Semi Acoustic Guitar Ebony Offering all the attractive features of construction and tone of its brother VSA535, the VSA555 adds a few individual features to make it a very attractive guitar indeed.

Vintage : Vintage Metal Axxe Wraith, Blood Red With an aggressively individual look that definitely takes no prisoners, the Metal Axxe« WraithÖ is an extremely versatile and toneful guitar. Blood Red Quilt Colour

Vintage : Vintage Metal Axxe Wraith, Helms Black With an aggressively individual look that definitely takes no prisoners, the Metal Axxe« WraithÖ is an extremely versatile and toneful guitar. Helms Black Flame

Vintage : Vintage Metal Axxe Wraith Bass With an aggressive, individual look that definitely takes no prisoners, the Metal Axxe Wraith bass is a power loaded guitar.

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