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On Photography
Author: Susan Sontag Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form....
One-Way Street and Other Writings
Author: Walter Benjamin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Walter Benjamin - philosopher, essayist, literary and cultural theorist - was one of the most original writers and thinkers...
The Futurist Cookbook
Author: Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Part manifesto, part artistic joke, Fillippo Marinetti's Futurist Cookbook is a provocative work about art disguised as an...
Literature and Evil
Author: Georges Bataille Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 'Literature is not innocent,' stated Georges Bataille in this extraordinary 1957 collection of essays, arguing that only by acknowledging...
Autobiography
Author: Morrissey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Steven Patrick Morrissey was born in Manchester on May 22nd 1959. Singer-songwriter and co-founder of the Smiths (1982-1987), Morrissey has...
The Knowledge Machine: How an Unreasonable Idea Created Modern Science
Author: Michael Strevens Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Rich with tales of discovery from Galileo to general relativity, a stimulating and timely analysis of how science works and why...
Climate Change and the Nation State: The Realist Case
Author: Anatol Lieven Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 A major new book on why the most urgent issue confronting us all needs national solutions In the past two centuries...
The Yage Letters: Redux
Author: Allen Ginsberg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 William Burroughs closed his classic debut novel, Junky, by saying he had determined to search out a drug he...
Maigret's Revolver: Inspector Maigret #40
Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Maigret goes to London on the trail of a young man on the run. When Maigret's prized gun goes...
Ecology of Wisdom
Author: Arne Naess Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Drawing on his years spent in an isolated hut high in the Norwegian mountains, and on influences as diverse...
The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe
Author: Arthur Koestler Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 Passionate, provocative and lyrically told, The Sleepwalkers is the remarkable story of how man grew to understand the universe....
The Unconscious
Author: Sigmund Freud Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 One of Freud's central achievements was to demonstrate how unacceptable thoughts and feelings are repressed into the unconscious, from...
Stephen Hawking: A Memoir of Friendship and Physics
Author: Leonard Mlodinow Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 An intimate portrait of Stephen Hawking -- the man, the friend, and the physicist An icon of the last fifty years,...
Head Hand Heart: The Struggle for Dignity and Status in the 21st Century
Author: David Goodhart Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A profound investigation into the deeper reason for our political alienation The coronavirus pandemic taught us something we ought already to...
Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women
Author: Kate Manne Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 A vital exploration of gender politics from a highly influential philosopher who has been described as 'the Simone de Beauvoir of...
Trans-Europe Express: Tours of a Lost Continent
Author: Owen Hatherley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 A searching, timely account of the condition of contemporary Europe, told through the landscapes of its cities. Over the past twenty...
The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything
Author: Michio Kaku Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 The best-selling physicist returns with a thrilling account of the search for the 'god equation' This is the story of a...
Dracula
Author: Bram Stoker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Rediscover a dread of Dracula in this handsome new Vintage Classics edition Within the pages of this book can...
Dubliners
Author: James Joyce Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A collection of fifteen stories, evoking the voices and lives that teem in Joyce's vision of his native city...
In the Land of Pain
Author: Alphonse Daudet Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 Daudet's fascinating notebook, revived and translated by Julian Barnes. Alphonse Daudet was a highly popular nineteenth-century French novelist, whose...
The Handmaid's Tale
Author: Margaret Atwood Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'Compulsively readable' Daily Telegraph ** THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER **Discover the dystopian novel that started a phenomenon...
Breakfast of Champions
Author: Kurt Vonnegut Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Another iconic title from the brilliant space-wanderer Kurt Vonnegut - rejacketed in a new, witty series style Discover Vonnegurt's...
The Swimming-Pool Library
Author: Alan Hollinghurst Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 'Deserves first prize in every category... superbly written, wildly funny' Daily Telegraph Young, gay, William Beckwith spends his time,...
The Doors of Perception: And Heaven and Hell
Author: Aldous Huxley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 The profoundly wise and humane account of Huxley's famous experimentation with mescalin that has influenced writers and artists for...
Island
Author: Aldous Huxley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Read and loved Brave New World? Now experience Aldous Huxley's utopia. Special 3D cover edition - every copy comes...
The Right Stuff
Author: Tom Wolfe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 The Right Stuff is the best, the funniest, and the most vivid book ever written about America's manned space...
The Traitor's Niche
Author: Ismail Kadare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A surreal, chilling tale of rebellion and tyranny in the Ottoman Empire, by the winner of the Man Booker...
Life: A User's Manual
Author: Georges Perec Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 One of the most dazzling and ingeniously contrived works of twentieth-century fiction, an entire microcosm brought to life in...
The Second Sex
Author: Simone de Beauvoir Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 864 Required reading for anyone who believes in the equality of the sexes, The Second Sex is the crowning...
The Three Musketeers
Author: Alexandre Dumas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 752 'God's teeth!' Unfailingly exciting and a complete joy to read, this new translation of The Three Musketeers is published...
Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf
Author: Edward Albee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Middle-aged history professor George, and his wife Martha, are joined by another college couple. The result is an all-night...
Death In The Afternoon
Author: Ernest Hemingway Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Hemingway's classic portrait of the pageantry of bullfighting In Death in the Afternoon, Hemingway shares the sights, the sounds,...
Agnes Grey
Author: Anne Bronte Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 The lesser-known but brilliant novel by the hugely under-appreciated Anne Bronte Discover the lesser-known but brilliant novel by the...
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Author: John Fowles Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 'A remarkable performance... As gripping as The Collector and The Magus' Observer Widely acclaimed since publication, John Fowles' most...
Butcher's Crossing
Author: John Williams Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The author of Stoner delivers something completely different but equally unique, skewering romantic notions of the Wild West with...
The Complete Fairy Tales
Author: The Brothers Grimm Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1072 'In oldentimes, when wishing still helped, there lived a king whose daughters were all beautiful...' - 'The Frog...
Seeing Things as They Are: Selected Journalism and Other Writings
Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 An enlightening anthology of George Orwell's journalism and non-fiction writing Famous for his novels and essays, Orwell remains one...
Stephen Hawking: A Memoir of Friendship and Physics
Author: Leonard Mlodinow Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 An intimate portrait of Stephen Hawking -- the man, the friend, and the physicist An icon of the last...
Heart of Darkness: And Youth
Author: Joseph Conrad Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 He cried in a whisper at some image, at some vision - he cried out twice, a cry that...
The Honourable Schoolboy
Author: John le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 The second book in le Carre's 'Karla Trilogy', The Honourable Schoolboy is a new addition to Penguin Modern...
The Origin of Species and the Voyage of the Beagle
Author: Charles Darwin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 992 The most important work of modern science now available in Vintage Classics WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DARWIN'S GREAT-GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER, RUTH...
The Unwomanly Face of War
Author: Svetlana Alexievich Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The unforgettable oral history of Soviet women's experiences in the Second World War from the winner of the Nobel...
A Streetcar Named Desire
Author: Tennessee Williams Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire is the tale of a catastrophic confrontation between...
Goodbye To Berlin
Author: Christopher Isherwood Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 'The best prose writer in English' Gore Vidal Christopher Isherwood introduces Sally Bowles in this pre-war Berlin novel. Set...
Pale Fire
Author: Vladimir Nabokov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire, with its wildly original narrative structure, is a postmodern masterpiece from the author of Lolita,...
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Author: Truman Capote Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Immortalised by Audrey Hepburn's sparkling performance in the 1961 film of the same name, Breakfast at Tiffany's is Truman...
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas
Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Woolf exposes the prejudices and constraints against which women writers struggled for centuries, and argues for a more equal...
Look Up: Our story with the stars
Author: Sarah Cruddas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 'Sarah Cruddas is a gifted writer and Look Up is an inspired book. I am hopeful that we will...