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In this text Plato uses a dinner party as a scene for a series of speeches by the guests. From these there emerges a complete and complex philosophy of love....

This edition includes a detailed glossary of Greek names, and a map outlining the Argo's voyage Written in the third century BC in Alexandria, this is the only full surviving...

A funny, fabulous tale of two twentieth-century misfits and their adventures across Europe Stanley Williams, angst-ridden banker and boffin, wonders whether there's more to life than his daily nine-to-five grind....

A riotously smart and sassy coming-of-age story from the Booker Prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other - beautifully repackaged for the next generation Meet Zuleika: sassy girl about town, former...

Willy Muller has survived imprisonment for murdering his wife, the suicide of his daughter Sadie and, most recently, a heart attack. While recuperating he finds himself drawn into the lonely...

A moving culmination to an epic personal story from one of the twentieth century's great writers Beginning in 1956 with the publication of A Legacy, Sybille Bedford has narrated -...

Trawler has sold 25,000 copies in hardback to date. Redmond O'Hanlon describes his extraordinary three-week trip on an Orkney trawler as it journeys far into the north Atlantic in search...

RAF Flight lieutenants John Peters and John Nichol were shot down over enemy territory on their first airbourne mission of the Gulf War. Their capture in the desert, half a...

Dr Mukti and Other Tales of Woe is another warped window on the wibbly-wobbly world of fear and fun that Self - like some malevolent deity - has fashioned over...

Will Self's third collection of short stories takes his readers straight into the distorting hall-of-mirrors that is his fictional world. In one story a Londoner finds his house underpinned by...

Although he is best known for his luminous reports from the farthest-flung corners of the earth, Bruce Chatwin possessed a literary sensibility that reached beyond the travel narrative to span...

Martin Middlebrook's "The First Day on the Somme" is a compelling and intensely moving account of the blackest day in the history of the British army. On 1 July, 1916,...

Based on a series of lectures given by Professor Jenner in New Zealand shortly after Tianenmen Square in 1989, this book examines the peculiarities of Chinese history, and of the...

The state of Oregon is the grass-seed capital of the world and every year thousands of acres of stubble are burned to make way for next year's crop. In August...

The moral problems of abortion, infanticide, suicide, euthanasia, capital punshiment, war and othe life-or-death choices.

A dark and haunting tale from the author of the bestselling Perfume Set in Paris and attracting comparisons with Franz Kafka and Edgar Allan Poe, The Pigeon is Patrick S...

This book sets out to expose and analyse a major historical fraud. The author's theme is the Western Front in Haig's time - from the Somme to the armistice. Using...

'One of the century's finest writers' Sunday Times WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALI SMITH A richly comic tale of the tangled fortunes of two theatrical families, the Hazards and the...

In July 1991, nine skeletons were exhumed from a grave in Siberia, a few miles from where the last Tsar of Russia and his family were murdered 73 years before....

Frederick Douglass was a key figure in helping to secure the abolition of slavery in America - discover his Narrative on the 150th anniversary of that event. Frederick Douglass was...

Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson wants to wind down to Christmas with a week of sex and drugs in Amsterdam. The last thing he needs is a messy murder to solve....

From the author of internationally acclaimed The Flamethrowers - a fearless and heartbreaking novel about love, friendship and incarceration. SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A...

Petterson's debut novel, about growing up and rancorous family life, published in English for the first time Petterson's debut novel, published in English for the first time Twelve-year-old Arvid and...

The sequel to Grass's controversial and successful book Peeling the Onion. In this delightful sequel to Peeling the Onion, G nter Grass writes in the voices of his eight children...

Philip Roth's entire oeuvre - 31 books - to be reissued in electric new Vintage jackets for October 2016 Simon Axler is one of America's leading classical stage actors, but...

'Here is a writer of astonishing compassion and honesty, utterly free of pretence. His eye is so clear, it almost breaks your heart' Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Fires is the...

Edwin Fisher is on holiday at the English seaside - but this revisiting of childhood haunts is no ordinary holiday. Edwin is seeking to understand the failure of his marriage...

A magical, thrilling journey and a hugely seductive book which combines the best travel and nature writing. From the slums of Cape Town to the palaces of Algiers, through Pygmy...

A strikingly powerful novel exploring the motivations of a suicide bomber in Iraq. By the IMPAC shortlisted author of The Swallows of Kabul and The Attack. Forced to leave the...

Written in her final illness, Persuasion is Jane Austen's finest novel. **FEATURED IN THE TIKTOK BOOKCLUB** 'In Persuasion, Jane Austen picks up the pen to tell us who we are...

A tangled tale of falling in love - with three very different men. Flora Trevelyan is a ten-year-old misfit, despised by her selfish and indolent parents, and left to wander...

An impressive and generous selection of the best and most representative writing by one of the best loved scientists and science writers. There aren't many scientists famous enough in their...

In the dramatic landscape of the Italian Alps a group of English canoeists arrive for an 'introduction to white water.' Camping, eating and paddling together, six adults and nine adolescents...

'Provocative, enthralling... Truly, Moggach gets better and better' - Daily Mail From the bestselling author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. From the bestselling author of The Best Exotic Marigold...

'Part love story, part Lonely Planet guide to Japanese customs, Blensdorf's first novel has skillfully written passages and artful observations' - Daily Mail Who is Sei Shonagon? The tenth-century author...

A big-hearted American novel for our times, by the Pulitzer prize-winning author of Empire Falls, about innocence and cynicism, families and growing up, and the secrets which define a community....

From the Booker-shortlisted author of The Overstory, an enthralling, wrenching novel about the lives and choices of one family, caught on the cusp of identities From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author...

In Vintage Living Texts, teachers and students will find the essential guide to the works of Ian McEwan. Vintage Living Texts is unique in that is offers an in-depth inteview...