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By: Mireille Guiliano

ISBN: 9780099502692
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2007
UK Publication Date: 3rd May 2007
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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The bestselling author of French Women Don't Get Fat, Mireille Guiliano offers the perfect combination of delicious, balanced recipes.

French Women Dont Get Fat was a mould-breaking book that unlocked the secrets of 'The French paradox' and sold well over a million copies worldwide.


(Hardback)

By: Lucian Freud

ISBN: 9780224078719
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2006
UK Publication Date: 12th October 2006
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Lucian Freud is not only the most celebrated artist working in England, but one of the most private.


(Paperback)

By: Joe Stretch

ISBN: 9780099515968
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2008
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Justin wants a sex life, not a sex death. Steve wants cash so he can enjoy his trendy body. He wants Carly too, but she just wants a never-ending orgasm. Johnny wants to be touched and, if possible, he'd like to seem happy. Colin wants to know why tits make his fists clench.

This is their story.


(Paperback)

By: H G Bissinger

ISBN: 9780224076746
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2005
UK Publication Date: 28th April 2005
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Bissinger spent a season in Odessa discovering just what makes a town pin its hopes on eleven boys on a football field. He returned with a compassionate but hard-eyed story of a town riven by money, race and class, where a high school can spend more on medical supplies for its athletic program than on its English department.


(Paperback)

By: Fannie Flagg

ISBN: 9780099143710
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 1992
UK Publication Date: 2nd April 1992
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Rediscover the ultimate comfort read in the classic story of friendship, loyalty and secrets set in the deep south of America in the 1930s.


The day Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison opened the Whistle Stop Cafe, the town took a turn for the better.


(Paperback)

By: Alice Munro

ISBN: 9780099820604
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 1991
UK Publication Date: 5th December 1991
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

A woman haunted by dreams of her dead mother. The ten stories in this collection not only astonish and delight but also convey the unspoken mysteries at the heart of all human experience.


(Paperback)

By: Rose Tremain

ISBN: 9781784874032
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2018
UK Publication Date: 5th April 2018
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Thought-provoking and life-affirming, this is at once an examination and a celebration of friendship in all its glorious complexity.

Selected from the books Restoration and The Gustav Sonata by Rose Tremain

VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS.


(Paperback)

By: Dr Mark Garnett

ISBN: 9781844135325
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2008
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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In this groundbreaking new book, Mark Garnett charts the changes in British politics, society and culture since 1975.

Britain in the early years of the twenty-first century seems a very different and much quieter place, but is it as 'apathetic' as the political commentators argue


(Paperback)

By: Susan Hill

ISBN: 9781784706135
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2018
UK Publication Date: 4th January 2018
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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A devastating coming-of-age story about a woman caught in the wrong era, from the bestselling author of The Woman in Black.
Everyone likes Olive Piper.


(Paperback)

By: Juliet Nicolson

ISBN: 9781529111033
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2021
UK Publication Date: 30th December 2021
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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These were the shadows that hung over a country paralysed by frozen heating oil, burst pipes and power cuts.

And yet underneath the frozen surface, new life was beginning to stir, with JF Kennedy, the pill, Bob Dylan, Mary Quant and the Beatles symbols of an exuberant youthquake.


(Paperback)

By: Peter Cossins

ISBN: 9781787290204
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2019
UK Publication Date: 6th June 2019
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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** WINNER OF THE CYCLING BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE 2019 TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDS**

So how do you win a bike race


Riding as fast as you could for as long as you could was the main tactic in the early days of road racing when Grand Tours could be won by hours.


(Paperback)

By: Robert Crawford

ISBN: 9780224080873
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2008
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Holding in balance the ecological and the technological, ancient and modern, Full Volume sings languages and cultures, people and habitats burgeoning on the brink of extinction.


(Paperback)

By: Shyam Selvadurai

ISBN: 9781529110746
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2020
UK Publication Date: 30th April 2020
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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(Paperback)

By: Salman Rushdie

ISBN: 9780099421863
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2002
UK Publication Date: 5th September 2002
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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An astounding, intense novel by the Booker-prize winning author of Midnights Children.

In the summer of 2000 New York is a city living at breakneck speed in an age of unprecedented decadence. And so he steps out of his life once again and begins a new one in New York.

But New York is a city boiling with fury.


(Paperback)

By: Anita Desai

ISBN: 9780099428534
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2001
UK Publication Date: 4th October 2001
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Set in contemporary Bombay and other cities, these stories reflect the kaleidoscope of urban life - evoking the colour, sounds and white-hot heat of the city.


(Paperback)

By: Denise Mina

ISBN: 9781784709549
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2018
UK Publication Date: 19th July 2018
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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(Paperback)

By: Elias Khoury

ISBN: 9780099461593
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2007
UK Publication Date: 5th October 2006
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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In a makeshift hospital in a refugee camp on the outskirts of Beirut, Yunis, an aging Palestinian freedom fighter, lies in a coma.


(Paperback)

By: Thomas Bernhard

ISBN: 9780099442530
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2003
UK Publication Date: 6th March 2003
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Born in 1931, the illegitimate child of an abandoned mother, Thomas Bernhard was brought up by an eccentric grandmother and adored grandfather. He ran away from home at 15 and at 18, was put in a hospital ward for the old and terminally ill when he caught pneumonia. This volume tells his story.


(Paperback)

By: Liza Dalby

ISBN: 9780099286387
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2000
UK Publication Date: 28th September 2000
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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In the mid-1970s, an American graduate student in anthropology joined the ranks of white-powdered geisha in Kyoto, Japan. Liza Dalby took the name Ichigiku and apprenticed in the famed Pontocho district.


(Paperback)

By: Posy Simmonds

ISBN: 9780224061148
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2000
UK Publication Date: 5th October 2000
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Gemma is the bored, pretty second wife of Charlie Bovery, the reluctant stepmother of his children and the bete-noire of his ex-wife. Gemma's sudden windfall and distaste for London take them across the Channel to Normandy, where the charms of French country living soon wear off.


(Paperback)

By: Ismail Kadare

ISBN: 9780099518266
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2008
UK Publication Date: 4th December 2008
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Twenty years after the end of the Second World War, an Italian general is despatched to Albania to recover his country's dead. Once there he meets a German general who is engaged upon an identical mission, and their conversations brings out into the open the extent of their horror and guilt, newly exacerbated by their present task.


(Paperback)

By: Rachel Aspden

ISBN: 9781846557637
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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In 2003, the author arrived in Egypt as a 23-year-old trainee journalist. She found a country on the brink of change. In this book, she unravels the complex forces shaping the lives of four young Egyptians caught between tradition and modernity, and what their stories mean for the future of the Middle East.


(Hardback)

By: Raymond Briggs

ISBN: 9780224085243
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2008
UK Publication Date: 7th August 2008
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Encouraged by his wife, Hilda, also eager to incorporate more adventure into her life, Jim sets out to bring these dreams to fruition by accumulating various accoutrements, only to discover that the life of an executive, an artist or a cowboy is more complicated and costly than it appears.


(Paperback)

By: Jane Ridley

ISBN: 9780099590125
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2023
UK Publication Date: 4th May 2023
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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