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'The faint figure behind seemed to shake the pattern, just as if she wanted to get out.'In the throes of a ‘temporary nervous depression’ following childbirth, a woman is brought by her physician husband to recuperate in an isolated New England mansion.…
**A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR**‘Lively and humane… Reade’s enthusiasm and curiosity are winning’ GUARDIANSummoned in Haiti’s struggle against colonial rule, read in prison by the young Malcolm X, and reimagined by Virginia Woolf - this is the…
This title is presented with an introduction by Ali Smith. A richly comic tale of the tangled fortunes of two theatrical families, the Hazards and the Chances, Angela Carter's witty and bawdy novel is populated with as many sets of twins, and mistaken…
The phenomenal international and Sunday Times bestseller from the author of SapiensStories brought us together. Books spread our ideas – and our mythologies. The internet promised infinite knowledge.The algorithm learned our secrets – and then turned…
A love story, a quest, an ode to books and to the libraries that house them, The City and Its Uncertain Walls is a parable for these strange times. STEP INTO THE CITY... When a young man’s girlfriend mysteriously vanishes, he sets his heart on finding…
*A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOKER PRIZE GEM* WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 1993Paddy Clarke is ten years old. Paddy Clarke lights fires. Paddy Clarke's name is written in wet cement all over Barrytown.Paddy Clarke's heroes are Father Damien (and the lepers),…
**An EXPLOSIVE thriller from the #1 bestselling author of the Harry Hole series Over 60 MILLION copies sold worldwide from the undisputed king of the cliffhangerThe newest book from global crime writing phenomenon JO NESBO**This is a story about brothers.…
‘What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real’ A lavishly illustrated edition of Murakami’s classic short story. Katagiri found a giant frog waiting for him in his apartment. It was powerfully built, standing over six feet tall on its hind legs.A…
In 1947 Simone de Beauvoir took a road trip across America. She travelled from coast to coast, from New York to Hollywood, taking in New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana and Washington DC. She rode a pony through the Grand Canyon, listened to jazz in New Orleans…
A collection of masterful short stories in Julio Cortazar's sophistocated, powerful and gripping style. 'Julio Cortázar is truly a sorcerer and the best of him is here, in these hilariously fraught and almost eerily affecting stories' Kevin BarryA grieving…
To want to ‘save the planet’, a person has to have a sense of belonging in it…What would a saved planet look like for a Black collective?'This book is validating and monumental' Courttia NewlandGlobally, Black people are among the most affected by the…
'Brilliant' TIM SPECTOR 'Excellent' HENRY MARSH'Thrilling' VENKI RAMAKRISHNANAntibiotics: one of humanity s greatest achievements but invented by microbes.An epic narrative of discovery and innovation but also of extraction and exploitation.This is the…
Life can’t go on like this – can it? This book is for everyone who has ever wanted more: more time, more meaning, more connection. On the surface, Marisa’s life looks enviable. She lives in a nice apartment in the heart of Madrid, her friendly neighbour…
'A sublime novel' Hannah KentAn explosive novel of the wild, and the lengths humans will go to control itThe distant highlands, covered in snow and strewn with ancient bones, are an alien home for a puma from South America. But when Dusk escapes her…
Julio Cortazar's crazed masterpiece, the forbearer of the Latin Boom in the 1960s - published in Vintage Classics for the first time'Cortazar's masterpiece. This is the first great novel of Spanish America... A powerful anti-novel but, like deeply understood…
A wonderfully weird love story about the sometimes mad, troubling and vulnerable things people do to get close to others - Open Wide will quite literally get under your skin'Startling, original... Will leave you questioning the boundaries we draw around…
A powerful exploration of life and death, illness and grace, wonder and beauty, in the posthumous collection from one of our greatest contemporary poets'A master of language' HILARY MANTELJohn Burnside’s last collection of new poems gathers around a…
'An exceptional book' ROBIN LANE FOX'This wondrous book gives us trees as we've never seen them before ... Beautifully explained, brilliantly written and perception-changing' ISABELLA TREEThe Genius of Trees tells a mind-expanding global story revealing…
A beautiful deluxe gift edition of the dystopian masterpiece with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon. The year is 1984. War and revolution have created an unrecognisable world.Great Britain,…
A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Dickens's wonderfully spooky tale with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon. 'Bah! Humbug!'Mr Scrooge is a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching,…
A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Carroll's magical masterpiece with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon. Bored on a hot afternoon, Alice, a bright and inquisitive child, follows a white rabbit…
School should equip children for adulthood. In reality, it means one thing: exams. Exam Nation sets out a better way – and, crucially, shows us how we might get there.'An essential read - as entertaining as it is insightful - for anyone who cares about…
A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Dickens's great masterpiece with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon. Pip's life as an ordinary country boy is destined to be unexceptional until a chain…
A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Austen’s unsung masterpiece with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon. Fanny Price's rich relatives offer her a place in their home so that she can be properly…
On sleepless nights, I open the matchbox and reread the story of the girl who gathered shooting starsAfter the death of her father, twelve-year-old Tomoko is sent to live for a year with her uncle in the coastal town of Ashiya. It is a year which will…
A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Austen’s satirical swipe at the gothic novel with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon. Catherine Morland is a young girl with a very active imagination. Her…
A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Austen's sensational final novel with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon. Eight years ago Anne Elliot bowed to pressure from her family and made the decision…
The perfect gift for Valentine’s DayPossession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars investigating the lives of two Victorian poets. Following…
A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Jane Austen's first novel, with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon. Elinor is as prudent as her sister Marianne is impetuous. Each must learn from the other…
A beautiful deluxe gift edition of classic Sherlock Holmes stories with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon. Discover Sherlock Holmes's most memorable and intriguing cases, including adventures…