Read Thomas Mann's meditation on the power of literary representation and the tyranny of the writer's imagination.

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The Vintage Classics Europeans series - with covers provided by textile design firm Wallace Sewell, these are must-have editions...

The Vintage Classics Europeans series - with covers provided by textile design firm Wallace Sewell, these are must-have editions...

Revisit and discover the sensational first cookbook from Nigella Lawson.

When Nigella Lawson's first book, How to Eat, was...

A spectacular display of this key European writer's early work

This dazzling collection of stories follows the individual...

A high-pitched laugh echoes in an empty church. Servants discover their master dead in his bed, the only sign of disturbance an...

Joseph Heller's other masterpiece - a darkly comic, sometimes tragic satire that does for the American Dream what Catch-22 did...

One hundred and fifty years ago, at the request of her publisher, Louisa May Alcott sat down reluctantly to write 'a girls'...

'I can think of no finer writer to have beside me while Italy explodes, Britain burns, while the world ends' Salman...

A New Translation by Michael Morpurgo, Author of War Horse

If a little fellow comes along, if he laughs, if he has golden...

Franz Kafka's letters to his one-time muse, Milena Jesenska - an intimate window into the desires and hopes of the...

Arthur Maxley is a tense and listless young man. One day he receives a letter from his long-estranged father. Arthur's fear and...

'Extraordinarily mature - technically as well as emotionally' Sunday Times

Arthur Machin's life changes when he is picked for...

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A packet of letters, found in an attic, leads young Jane into the world of love. The attic is in Montefort, a corroding country...

Discover the classic, Man Booker Prize shortlisted novel from one of India's finest ever writers.

To the family living in the...

The final novel in world renowned film-maker, Ingmar Bergman's trilogy of novels plotting the fractious marriage of his...

'Superb... These thirty-two stories inhabit the Technicolor vernaculars of taxi drivers, barbers, paper pushers and society...

‘What is it,’ asks Tom Wolfe, ‘that makes a man willing to sit on top of an enormous Roman Candle…and wait for someone to light...

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The Communist Manifesto is a timeless classic providing intelligent insight into socialism, communism and today’s group identity...

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Michael Braungart and William McDonough propose a plan for our planet in this stunning new edition of their radical ecological...

Read this specially designed new edition of Jared Diamond's Pulitzer-prize winning exploration of what makes us human.

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Discover this beautiful special edition of Charles Darwin's groundbreaking theory on human evolution.

When the eminent...

Ruth Pennistan is a farmer’s daughter, born and brought up in Kent. But her dark hair and eyes belie a forgotten ancestry – a...

'Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.'

The children at Mr Gradgrind's school are...

Dickens' masterful tale of Paris, London, and revolution.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...

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Discover Alex Haley’s Pulitzer Prize-winning search for his family's origins: a powerful memoir, a history of slavery and a...

'A compelling novel about the tragedy of corrupting power, set in post-independence Kenya...Ngugi writes with passion about every...

At the heart of the Ottoman Empire, in the main square of Constantinople, a niche is carved into ancient stone. Here, the sultan...

I believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rather, no shadow unless there is also light.
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