Realising that his New Year is probably going to be a disaster, as usual, our narrator, on impulse, walks into a travel agency to...

By the author of Stoner, the surprise international bestseller

After the brutal murder of his great-uncle, Julius Caesar,...

The Bridge on the River Kwai tells the story of three POWs who endure the hell of the Japanese camps on the Burma-Siam railway -...

Tusker and Lily Smalley stayed on in India. Given the chance to return 'home' when Tusker, once a Colonel in the British Army,...

Roithamer, a character based on Wittgenstein, has committed suicide having been driven to madness by his own frightening powers...

'The window panes reflected apples, reflected roses; all the leaves were green in the glass'

Nowhere are Virginia Woolf's...

Heroic and moving accounts of the R.A.F. in war time by the author of Fair Stood the Wind for France and The Darling Buds of...

Tibor Fischer's hilarious first novel follows the adventures of two young Hungarian basketball players through the turbulent...

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

Arthur and Jake are brothers yet worlds...

'A beautiful debut novel... A real achievement... This is a wise and incisive first novel from a real talent' -...

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

A witty, elegant novel about looking, seeing, thinking, knowing and understanding

Mr Palomar is a delightful eccentric whose...

Viscount Medardo is bisected by a Turkish cannonball on the plains of Bohemia; Baron Cosimo, at the age of twelve, retires to the...

'Brilliant-a feast' Guardian

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

'The best thing he has ever written' Observer


Discover the modern classic that has sold over two million copies.

‘A...

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...

'A story of the voluptuousness of doom' Thomas Mann

Death in Venice is a story of obsession. Gustave von Aschenbach is a...

From the author of The Past, Tessa Hadley's first novel now rejacketed for a whole new audience

An improbable coincidence...

'Beautifully accomplished and memorable' The Times

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

'A remarkable piece of work. A magnificent novel' Salman Rushdie, Observer

Touching and wonderfully funny, In Custody is woven...

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

Travels around Italy in search of illusion, national character and goals.


'Delves into the very essence of being a fan,...

One morning, Rebecca wakes up and realises she has turned into the wrong person.

Is she really this joyous and outgoing...

The collected stories by one of the greatest short-story writers in the world.

These slow, beautiful stories - resolute and...

A glittering, magical fable, the follow-up to the bestselling Haroun and the Sea of Stories

On a beautiful starry night in the...

'A delight to read' Evening Standard

In an idyllic American village, elderly romantic Lemuel Sears still has it in him to fall...

Reissued in new series style to match Faulks's most recent novel Where My Heart Used to Beat, which was a major Sunday Times...

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

As a student in...

From the Pulitzer prize-winning Sunday Times bestseller Anne Tyler. The Tin Can Tree is now re-jacketed along with the rest of...