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

'Of the novelists who have made their bow since the war she seems to me to be the most remarkable' Raymond Mortimer

This is...

'Iris Murdoch has written a book which concerns all of us as human beings. There are pages here that one wants to embrace her...

A highlight amongst Murdoch's novels, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.

It's the midsummer ball at Oxford, and a group of...

'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...

Iris Murdoch conjures a murky London setting for a story of a brilliant and flawed man hoping for redemption

Saved from a...

In this haunting novel that 'troubles our sleep' (Richard Holloway) seven characters circle the enigmatic and callous figure of...

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...

A darkly powerful and blackly funny expose of the horrors of life as a junior doctor, from the BAFTA award-winning creator of...

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


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

Peter Ackroyd at his most magical and magisterial - a glittering, evocative, fascinating, story-filled portrait of Venice:...

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

Is she really this joyous and outgoing...

'A totally compelling journey into a lost world - a masterpiece' Sunday Telegraph

An extraordinary epic, brilliantly-imagined,...

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...

'Raunchy, raucous...a rich, turn of the 19th century world, which reeks of human and animal variety' The Times

Is Sophie...

A selection of the best sci-fi shorts from an American genius of the genre, collected alongside his most personal essays.

A...

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