What begins as the record of W. G. Sebald’s own journey on foot through coastal East Anglia, from Lowestoft to Bungay, becomes...

By the author of Stoner, the surprise international bestseller

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

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

Mr Palomar is a delightful eccentric whose...

'A story of the voluptuousness of doom' Thomas Mann

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

'A delight to read' Evening Standard

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

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

A...

Bright, photographic, evocative new covers for Greene's backlist, to celebrate one of the keystone writers of the Vintage...

The evocative tale of an idyllic childhood in the English countryside.

The classic evocative tale of an idyllic childhood in...

'If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with...

'A major work of art' Time

A band of savage thirteen-year-old boys reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and...

'A masterpiece - tapped out in the lean, sharp prose that film work taught Greene to perfect' - Sunday Times

With an...

The Booker Prize-winning masterpiece from one of the twentieth century's most important and entertaining writers.

Iris...

An acute psychological portrait of a marriage where lofty traditions clash with appetite and ambition

For years Kazu has run...

A witty, inventive read with anyone for a passion for travel

Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his septuagenarian...

'A wise, winning and utterly charming concoction of fiction, commentary and autobiography' Literary Review

'Timequake is...

On a remote Greek Island, Nicholas Urfe finds himself embroiled in the deceptions of a master trickster. As reality and illusion...

Discover Joseph Heller's hilarious and tragic satire on military madness, and the tale of one man's efforts to survive it.
It's...

Explosive, subversive, wild and funny, 50 years on the novel's strength is undiminished. Reading Joseph Heller's classic satire...

Welcome to New London. Everybody is happy here. Our perfect society achieved peace and stability through the prohibition of...

Shakespeare's sonnets are lyrical, haunting, beautiful and often breath-taking, representing one of the finest bodies of poetry...

As the Easter Rebellion looms, tension mounts in the rain-soaked streets of Dublin. Tension is also ratcheting up at home. Pat...

Into the intrigue and violence of Indo-China comes Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through a...

The original translation by Robert Chandler, updated and revised
The twentieth century War and Peace, a broad portrait of an...

Doctor Zhivago is the epic novel of Russia in the throes of revolution and one of the greatest love stories ever told. Yuri...

The 900-day siege of Leningrad (1941-44) was one of the turning points of the Second World War. It slowed down the German advance...

Discover Sherlock Holmes's most memorable and intriguing cases, including adventures with mysterious masked strangers, ingenious...

When sixteen-year-old Portia is orphaned she is plunged into the sophisticated and politely treacherous world of her wealthy...

In this dark comedy of errors, Iris Murdoch portrays the mischief wrought by Julius, a cynical intellectual who decides to...

Charles Smithson, a respectable engaged man, meets Sarah Woodruff as she stands on the Cobb at Lyme Regis, staring out to sea....

Solzhenitsyn's celebrated novel describes the lives of people in the Soviet Union under Stalin who were condemned on health...