In search of the unpublished manuscript of a martyred Yiddish writer, American novelist Nathan Zuckerman travels to...

One day, out of the blue, Henry Nagel inherits a sumptuous apartment in St John's Wood. Divine intervention? Or his late father's...

Ludicrous, heart-warming and improbably inspirational, Spanish Steps is the story of what happens when a rather silly man tries...

'Lynne Reid Banks' compassionate first novel examines the stigma of unmarried motherhood in pre-pill, pre-Abortion Act Britain......

Michael and Pauline seemed like the perfect couple - young, good-looking, made for each other.

The moment she walked into his...

When Klara appears in Paris, two months after the end of the war and years after her disappearance into Auschwitz, her best...

Elegant, provocative and hugely entertaining, Kingsley Amis's memoirs are filled with anecdotes, experiences and portraits of...

A gripping time-slip novel by the author of the 2022 Booker Prize-longlisted Treacle Walker

Here John Turner was cast away in...

Every week, a writer of political propaganda and a professional blood donor meet for dinner. They are unlikely friends - one of...

Discover the moving powerful prequel to Snow Country

'An extraordinary novel of magnificent scope' Evening Standard

As...

What do men run away from? Not war, not physical hardship, but the day-to-day emotional demands of impossible domestic...

Charles Highway is every mother’s worst nightmare.

Precociously intelligent, mercilessly manipulative and highly sexed,...

A funny look at the social and political dynamic of French village life.

Gabriel Chevallier's delightful novel Clochemerle...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory, an enthralling, wrenching novel about the lives and choices of one...

Margaret Forster presents the 'edited' diary of a woman, born in 1901, whose life spans the twentieth century. On the eve of the...

A powerful, heart-breaking story about tempting fate and living with the consequences

Arthur and Jake are brothers yet worlds...

'A very fine collection of connected short stories - funny, disturbing, ironic and bloody' - Annie Proulx, Daily...

'Brilliant-a feast' Guardian

'This brilliant collection of essays should be a feast for his admirers, as well as for those who...

The enchanting story of a very remarkable dog from the author of the bestselling Captain Corelli's Mandolin.

‘In early 1998 I...

In this enthralling book van der Post establishes his role as a distinguished explorer and writer describing the rediscovery of...

'Beautifully accomplished and memorable' The Times

Set in contemporary Bombay and other cities, these stories reflect the...

Now reissued with a stunning new jacket look, The Colour is a gripping drama of sacrifice and greed set during the...

Stan Parker, with only a horse and a dog for company journeys to a remote patch of land he has inherited in the Australian hills....

Philip Roth's entire oeuvre - 31 books - to be reissued in electric new Vintage jackets for October 2016

'Subtle, funny and...

'The funniest book about sex ever written' - Time Out

Barney Fugleman has two major preoccupations in life: sex and...

The winner of the 1999 US National Book Award for Fiction, a poignant and deliciously funny love story, set in China during and...

The first volume of collected short stories, written by a master of the form

This classic collection of stories moves from...

A miracle of storytelling bursting with heartache and high spirits.

Half Apache and mostly orphaned, the adventures of Edgar...

Inishowen is by turns wildly funny and deeply moving, from the author of Star of the Sea.

From the bestselling author of Star...

Here is one of those rare novels, so captivatingly original, so absurdly funny, surprising and moving, that it crosses all...