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By: Peter Moore

ISBN: 9781784743192
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2023
UK Publication Date: 29th June 2023
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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By: Peter Moore

ISBN: 9781529922479
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2025
UK Publication Date: 5th June 2025
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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By: Ann Wroe

ISBN: 9781529922547
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2024
UK Publication Date: 11th July 2024
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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By: Jan Costin Wagner

ISBN: 9780099572671
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2014
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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As autumn turns to winter, and Christmas fast approaches, Kimmos attempts to unravel the case and identify the first victim are complicated by the disappearance of his sometime girlfriend, who has vanished after a party thrown by the head of the police force, and by a colleagues spiral into the depths of a gambling addiction.


(Paperback)

By: Alexander MacLeod

ISBN: 9780099563396
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2013
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Light Lifting is a suite of darkly urban, unflinching elegies. The seven stories each encompass a keenly observed, immersive world, rooted firmly in the real life of work and family. They are elemental stories of work and its bonds, of tragedy and tragedy barely averted, but also of beauty and love and moments of pure transcendence.


(Paperback)

By: Rose Tremain

ISBN: 9781529115178
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
UK Publication Date: 7th July 2022
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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By: Hugh Warwick

ISBN: 9780099597766
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2018
UK Publication Date: 3rd May 2018
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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(Paperback)

By: Xiaomei Martell

ISBN: 9780099532095
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2009
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Lion's Head, Four Happiness is the captivating story of Xiaomei Martell, who was born in one of China's most remote regions just two years before Mao launched the Cultural Revolution.


(Paperback)

By: Martin Amis

ISBN: 9780099565680
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2013
UK Publication Date: 6th June 2013
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Meanwhile, Des desires nothing more than books, a girl to love and to steer clear Uncle Lis psychotic pitbulls, Joe and Jeff.

One of Amis's funniest novels New Yorker

A book that looks at us, laughs at us, looks at us harder, closer, and laughs at us harder and still more savagely Observer


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By: Frank McLynn

ISBN: 9780712694179
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2007
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Anyone who has seen The Lion in Winter will remember the vicious, compelling world of the Plantagenets and readers of the romance of Robin Hood will be familiar with the typecasting of Good King Richard, defending Christendom in the Holy Land, and Bad King John who usurps the kingdom in his absence.


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By: Christopher Isherwood

ISBN: 9780099561224
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2013
UK Publication Date: 23rd May 2013
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY JAMES FENTON

Subtitled 'An education in the twenties', this work blends autobiography and fiction to describe the inner life of a writer evolving from precocious public school boy to Cambridge drop-out at large in Londons Bohemia.


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By: Imre Kertesz

ISBN: 9781784872168
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2017
UK Publication Date: 7th September 2017
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Kingbitter, an editor at a publishing house on the verge of closure, believes himself to have been the closest friend of a celebrated writer and Auschwitz survivor, B, who recently committed suicide. Amongst the papers, Kingbitter finds a play entitled Liquidation that predicts the behaviour of B's ex-wife, his mistress and Kingbitter himself.


(Hardback)

By: Posy Simmonds

ISBN: 9781911214380
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2016
UK Publication Date: 24th November 2016
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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First published in 2003, Literary Life became an instant classic as readers (and writers) delighted in watching Posy Simmonds skewer the pains and pretensions of the writers (and readers) calling with her inimitable flair for witty satire and sharp social observation.


(Paperback)

Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2015
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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We love to concoct stories from food but what about making food from some of our favourite stories This book answers this question.


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By: Geling Yan

ISBN: 9780099569633
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2017
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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She is sold to a wealthy Chinese family, where she becomes Duohe - the clandestine second wife to the only son, and the secret bearer of his children. Against all odds, Duohe forms an unlikely friendship with the first wife Xiaohuan, united by the unshakeable bonds of motherhood and family.


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By: Janette Jenkins

ISBN: 9780099516569
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2013
UK Publication Date: 6th June 2013
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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It's 1899 and a young girl is abandoned in London by her feckless family. But Jane Stretch is no ordinary girl, and Mr Swift is no ordinary doctor. Jane does her best to keep up with the doctor, her twisted bones throbbing, as they hurry past the markets, stage doors and side shows to appointments in certain boarding houses across town.


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By: Frances Hodgson Burnett

ISBN: 9781784873066
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Aug 2017
UK Publication Date: 3rd August 2017
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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And so this is little Lord Fauntleroy

Ceddie is a regular little boy living in New York with his mother, until the day a tall, old gentleman arrives to give him some startling news.


(Paperback)

By: Louisa May Alcott

ISBN: 9781784870263
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Sep 2015
UK Publication Date: 4th June 2015
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Discover timeless favourites from The Jungle Book and Alices Adventures in Wonderland to modern classics such as The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.


(Paperback)

By: Louisa May Alcott

ISBN: 9780099511496
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2008
UK Publication Date: 6th March 2008
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Sensible Meg, impetuous Jo, shy Beth and artistic Amy each have to confront different challenges as they grow up together and attempt to learn how to be both happy and good.

Deals with life's big questions - love and death, war and peace, and ambition versus family responsibility - in a way that is inspiring and realistic.


(Paperback)

By: Howard Jacobson

ISBN: 9781529110555
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2020
UK Publication Date: 6th August 2020
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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'A . It pulses with warmth and intelligence' The Times

A wickedly observed novel about falling in love at the end of your life, by the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Finkler Question.

At the age of ninety-something, Beryl Dusinbery is forgetting everything including her own children.


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By: Paul Mason

ISBN: 9780099492887
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2008
UK Publication Date: 7th February 2008
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Globalisation has created a whole new working class - and they are reliving stories that were first played out a century ago. This title tells the story of this working class alongside the history of the global labour movement, from its formation in the factories of the 1800s through its near destruction by fascism in the 1930s.


(Paperback)

By: Hannah Berry

ISBN: 9780224097659
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2017
UK Publication Date: 25th May 2017
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Excitement is building for this years Twammies and Clementine Darling is hotly tipped to win Best Female Singer and Political Spokesperson!


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By: W. Somerset Maugham

ISBN: 9780099282747
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2000
UK Publication Date: 4th May 2000
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Down among the drab slums of Lambeth, eighteen-year-old Liza is the darling of Vere Street. But then Liza meets Jim Blakeston, charming and worldy, new to the area, and married. Soon the streets are wise to their passionate affair and Liza's fall from grace is fast and fatal.


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By: David Szalay

ISBN: 9780099515890
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2009
UK Publication Date: 2nd April 2009
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Paul Rainey, an ad salesman, perceives dimly through a fog of psychoactive substances his dissatisfaction with his life- professional, sexual, weekends, the lot. But when this offer turns out to be as misleading as Paul's sales patter, his life and that of his family are transformed in ways very much more peculiar than he ever thought possible.

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