Maugham spent the winter months of 1919 travelling fifteen hundred miles up the Yangtze river. Always more interested in people...

Just as Peter Ackroyd's bestselling London is the biography of the city, Thames: Sacred River is the biography of the river, from...

Agatha Christie called her ‘a shining light’. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder...

The second novel in Willa Cather’s Great Plains trilogy, is a lyrical coming-of-age story charting the struggles of an artists...

Children are vanishing. The village of Lafferton is shattered.

There are no witnesses and no leads - just a kidnapper at...

A captivating novella about long-term relationships, getting older and how to live a good life, by the great Simone de...

The opera singer Sophia Simeonidis wakes up one morning to discover that a tree has appeared overnight in the garden of her Paris...

In the Caribbean, at the beginning of the last century, a poor rice-growing family struggle to exist. Four siblings pass their...

'Like to spend a night in the Goblin?’

The Swallows are staying on the Suffolk coast while they wait for their father to...

Agatha Christie called her 'a shining light'. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder...

Agatha Christie called her ‘a shining light’. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder...

Seven Pillars of Wisdom is an unusual and rich work. It encompasses an account of the Arab Revolt against the Turks during the...

Agatha Christie called her ‘a shining light’. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder...

Japanese fairy tales - enchanting, enigmatic stories of animals, human beings and the great natural world.

Dark and innocent,...

An English comic novel about a World War II expedition to a Himalayan peak.

An outrageously funny spoof about the ascent of a...

Igor is confident his old Soviet policeman’s uniform will be the best costume at the party. But he hasn’t gone far before he...

Edmund de Waal uncovers the history of a family through a turbulent century through 264 objects.

264 wood and ivory carvings,...

Agatha Christie called her 'a shining light'. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder...

Time Regained begins in the bleak and uncertain years of World War I. Years later, after the war's end, Proust's narrator returns...

People are going missing. Only one thing links their cases.

They all disappear on the hill.

A woman vanishes in the fog up...

What would happen if society was run by women? Charlotte Perkins Gilman imagines the result...

When three American men...

Roland Barthes is knocked down in a Paris street by a laundry van. It’s February 1980 and he has just come from lunch with...

Rediscover Gladys Mitchell – one of the 'Big Three' female crime fiction writers alongside Agatha Christie and Dorothy L....

Meet Lucy Brennan – an aggressive personal trainer who has just become a media hero after taking down a would-be gunman in...

Tom Wolfe's genre-defining magical mystery tour through the 1960s published in Vintage Classics for the first time to mark its...

Love sonnets are for romantics, starry-eyed lovers and ardent hearts. And Shakespeare's sonnets are the best ever written. But...

'Now she had taken off her goodness and left it behind her like a heap of rain-sodden clothes, and she only felt joy'

Mrs...

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Do you believe in ghosts?

Ghosts, spirits, spectres or spooks, we have always felt the presence of someone - or something -...

When you betray the Fisherman...

Jon is on the run. He has crossed Oslo's biggest crime lord. Fleeing to an isolated corner of...

When you betray the Fisherman...

Jon is on the run. He has crossed Oslo's biggest crime lord. Fleeing to an isolated corner of...