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Travels With My Aunt: Vintage Voyages

Soon after, she persuades Henry to abandon Southwood, to travel to Brighton, Paris, Istanbul, Paraguay, and a shiftless, twilight society of hippies, war criminals, CIA men that will help Henry come alive after a dull suburban life. VINTAGE VOYAGES: A w

Through the Window

From the deceptiveness of Penelope Fitzgerald to the directness of Hemingway, from Kipling's view of France to the French view of Kipling, from the National Treasure Status of George Orwell to the despair of Michel Houellebecq, the author considers what f

A History of Burning

To The Lighthouse: Vintage Voyages

Woolf's textured prose invites us into each of the characters' minds as we follow them on a winding, decade-long journey to the lighthouse. Mr and Mrs Ramsay and their eight children have always holidayed at their summer house in Skye, surrounded by fam

A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers: Vintage Voyages

A charming and clever account of one woman's exploration of love, language and identity. Twenty-three-year-old Zhuang (or Z as she calls herself) arrives in London to spend a year learning English.

While Mortal Sleeps

A travelling salesman falls in love a robot, Jenny, a refrigerator with personality. A man plays with his model trains too much until the women in his life decide to take matters into their own hands.

An Arrow in Flight

Trainspotting

An unremitting powerhouse of a novel that marks the arrival of a major new talent. Trainspotting is a loosely knotted string of jagged, dislocated tales that lay bare the hearts of darkness of the junkies, wide-boys and psychos who ride in the down escalator of opportunity in the nation's capital. Loud with laughter in the dark, this novel is the real McCoy. If you haven't heard of Irvine Welsh

Murder on the Midnight Star

Heart of Darkness: Vintage Voyages

Follow a dark and powerful journey up the Congo River in Conrad's sharp and incisive exploration of the damages of imperialism.Life on the river is brutal, and unknown threats lurk in the darkness;

The Sunny Side of Franz Kafka

The Ascent Of Rum Doodle: Vintage Voyages

An outrageously funny spoof about the ascent of a 40,000-and-a-half-foot peak, discover this laugh-out-loud cult favourite.Led by the reliably under-insightful Binder, a team of seven British men including Dr Prone (constantly ill);

Headhunters Film Tie

Roger Brown has it all: Norway's most successful headhunter, he is married to a beautiful gallery owner and owns a magnificent house. But he's also a highly accomplished art thief. At a gallery opening, his wife introduces him to Clas Greve. Not only is Greve the perfect candidate for a position that Brown is recruiting for; he is also in possession of 'The Calydonian Boar Hunt' by Rubens, one of

The Slicks

Night Train to the Stars

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Family: Vintage Minis

In these three tales of quarrelling clans and fraught reunions, Mark Haddon shows family in its frank, unsparing yet frequently absurd light, and, in doing so charts a stormy course into the crucible of the self. Selected from The Pier Falls, The Red Ho

And the Weak Suffer What They Must

A spectre is haunting Europe - the spectre of failed capitalism. In this account of Europe's economic rise and catastrophic fall, the author pinpoints the flaws in the European Union's design - a design that was thought up after the Second World War, and

Sputnik Sweetheart

Sumire is in love with a woman seventeen years her senior. But whereas Miu is glamorous and successful, Sumire is an aspiring writer who dresses in an oversized second-hand coat and heavy boots like a character in a Kerouac novel. Sumire spends hours on the phone talking to her best friend K about the big questions in life: what is sexual desire, and should she ever tell Miu how she feels for