Emerence is a domestic servant - strong, fierce, eccentric, and with a reputation for being a first-rate housekeeper. When Magda,...

Haunted by the fate of Dora Bruder – a fifteen-year-old girl listed as missing in an old December 1941 issue of Paris Soir –...

Discover a powerful collection of the hardships, hairbreadth escapes, and mortal struggles of enslaved people seeking freedom:...

'A brilliant and seemingly effortless accomplishment...steady uninterrupted delight' Sunday Telegraph

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'Delightful... Her characters are, as always, wonderfully imperfect' New York Review of Books

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'Marvellous entertainment' Sunday Times

Just married and newly arrived in Los Angeles are Paul and Katherine Cattleman. Paul...

Brian and Erica Tate appear to have every advantage in life: academic careers, two children, nice friends and money. But when...

'If you're coming to Lurie for the first time, you must begin with the Pulitzer Prize-winning Foreign Affairs' Guardian...

Eighteen-year old orphan Andrea moves to battle-scarred Barcelona to take up a scholarship at the university. But staying with...

Rebecca Solnit retells 'Cinderella'. A Fairy Tale Revolution is here to remix and revive our favourite stories.

'She looked...

When Tom Cutter hires Constantine Shaklin as an engineer in his air freight business, he little realises the extraordinary gifts...

‘Well, Watson, we seem to have fallen upon evil days’

Sherlock Holmes: the quintessential British hero and the world's most...

'Why, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust?
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‘Wealth and beggary, virtue and vice, repletion and the direst hunger, all treading on each other and crowding together’

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‘The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete...

‘To myself alone could I look’

Jane Eyre and Lucy Snowe are heroines who depend upon no one but themselves. In the face of...

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Julio Cortazar's crazed masterpiece, the forbearer of the Latin Boom in the 1960s - published in Vintage Classics for the first...

A collection of masterful short stories in Julio Cortazar's sophistocated, powerful and gripping style.

'Julio Cortazar is...

The first authorised selected collection of the twentieth-century's most influential short story writer.

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‘No other voice has borne truer witness to the dark of our times’ George Steiner

After an embarrassing sexual misadventure...

A beautiful new edition of Mary Shelley's Gothic horror classic, Frankenstein

Includes A Cultural History of Frankenstein's...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Philip Roth turns his gaze on 30s and 40s America in this magnificent successor to American...

This is the story of a haunted Irish childhood.

The setting is Derry in the Northern Ireland of the 40s and 50s, fraught with...

When Michael Dillon is ordered by the IRA to park his car in the carpark of a Belfast hotel, he is faced with a moral choice...

Set in the Northern Ireland of the 1980s, Cal tells the story of a young Catholic man living in a Protestant area. For Cal, some...

Mishima's greatest novel, and one of the greatest of the past century' The Times

A band of savage thirteen-year-old boys...

A compulsively readable account of an African country now virtually inaccessible to the outside world and one journalist's daring...

Encountering an eccentric cast of characters along the way, Sebald confronts the frailty of human existence as he voyages along...

Colin Thurbon’s beautiful prose unfolds along the Silk Road, unearthing a richly layered past on his most ambitious...