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By: W. Somerset Maugham
ISBN: 9780099289500
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Publication Date: Oct 2000
UK Publication Date: 6th July 2000
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Maugham spent the winter months of 1919 travelling fifteen hundred miles up the Yangtze river. Maugham keenly observes, and gently ridicules, their dogged and oblivious persistence with the life they know.
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By: Chika Unigwe
ISBN: 9780099523949
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Publication Date: Sep 2010
UK Publication Date: 2nd September 2010
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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They have come to claim for themselves the riches they believe Europe promises but when Sisi, the most enigmatic of the women, is murdered, their already fragile world is shattered.
Drawn together by tragedy, the remaining three women - Joyce, a great beauty whose life has been destroyed by war;
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By: A.L. Kennedy
ISBN: 9780224060998
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Publication Date: Jul 2000
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Acclaimed novelist A.L.Kennedy unpeels the layers and explains the mechanics before dissecting them with surgical precision. Beyond the theatre, the costume and the well-worn plot she focuses on the fact that a man faces his death while a crowd looks on. The result is a startling confrontation with her own, and mankind's mortality.
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By: Laura Cumming
ISBN: 9781784708634
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Publication Date: Apr 2020
UK Publication Date: 2nd April 2020
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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By: Ian McEwan
ISBN: 9781784705565
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Publication Date: Jun 2018
UK Publication Date: 3rd May 2018
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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It is July 1962. Edward and Florence, young innocents married that morning, arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in their rooms they struggle to suppress their private fears of the wedding night to come and, unbeknownst to them both, the events of the evening will haunt them for the rest of their lives.
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By: Timothy Snyder
ISBN: 9781847928054
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Publication Date: Oct 2024
UK Publication Date: 19th September 2024
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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By: Amin Maalouf
ISBN: 9781860467295
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Publication Date: Aug 2002
UK Publication Date: 19th October 2000
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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A lucid enquiry into the precise meaning of identity - that which makes each of us unique and dissimilar to any other individual. In this series of reflections, the author considers how we define ourselves and what identity has meant and continues to mean in different cultures.
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By: Umberto Eco
ISBN: 9780099453949
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Publication Date: Mar 2006
UK Publication Date: 5th January 2006
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Remarkably accessible and unfailingly stimulating, this collection of essays exhibits the diversity of interests and the depth of knowledge that made Umberto Eco one of the world's leading writers.
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By: Bruce Chatwin
ISBN: 9780099769712
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Publication Date: Jan 1999
UK Publication Date: 3rd December 1998
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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On the Black Hill is an elegantly written tale of identical twin brothers who grow up on a farm in rural Wales and never leave home.
In depicting the lives of Benjamin and Lewis and their interactions with their small local community Chatwin comments movingly on the larger questions of human experience.
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By: Andr Brink
ISBN: 9780749397982
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Publication Date: Dec 1994
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Estienne Barbier, born in the Loire Valley in 1699, lays claim to service in the armies of the kings of France and Prussia, but he is an inveterate liar, and the truth is less glorious: irate husbands have made the Lowlands too hot to hold him, and he has deserted his pregnant wife to stow away for the Cape of Good Hope.
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By: Ned Boulting
ISBN: 9780224092098
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Publication Date: Jun 2014
UK Publication Date: 29th May 2014
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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And what, exactly is 'this'.
In On the Road Bike, Ned Boulting asks how Britain became so obsessed with cycling.
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By: Umberto Eco
ISBN: 9781787301450
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Publication Date: Nov 2019
UK Publication Date: 24th October 2019
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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By: Michael Holroyd
ISBN: 9780701187439
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Publication Date: Nov 2012
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Weaving together memoir and historical anecdote, he traces his relationship with cars through a lifetime of biography.
Learning to drive was no easy matter for Michael: the lessons required military precision when practising how to get in and out of his car correctly.
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By: A.L. Kennedy
ISBN: 9780099575238
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Publication Date: Mar 2014
UK Publication Date: 6th March 2014
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Useful for readers and aspiring writers, this book contains what they need to know about the complexities of researching, writing and publishing fiction. It features essays on character, voice, writers' workshops and writers' health.
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By: Antony Gormley
ISBN: 9780224090780
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Publication Date: Oct 2010
UK Publication Date: 14th October 2010
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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The entire enterprise was the conceived by Antony Gormley, and can be seen as a further example of the artist's ability to tap into the public consciousness. The whole event has been remarkably photographed by Clare Richardson and the final edit will be drawn from a selection of 600 of her pictures of 'plinthers and public by day and night.
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By: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
ISBN: 9780099449270
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Publication Date: Jul 2003
UK Publication Date: 1st January 1996
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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FROM THE PUBLISHER OF THE GULAG ARCHIPELAGO - THE OFFICIALLY APPROVED TRANSLATION OF SOLZHENITSYN'S SEARING DEBUT NOVEL
The Gulag, the Stalinist labour camps to which millions of Russians were condemned for political deviation, has become a household word in the West.
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By: Mark Cocker
ISBN: 9781529921991
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Publication Date: Jul 2024
UK Publication Date: 13th June 2024
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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By: Wade Davis
ISBN: 9780099592969
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Publication Date: Sep 2014
UK Publication Date: 26th June 2014
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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In 1941, Richard Evans Schultes took a leave of absence from Harvard University and disappeared into the Northern Amazon of Colombia. The world's leading authority on the hallucinogens and medicinal plants of the region, he returned after twelve years of travelling through South America in a dug-out canoe.
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By: Sharon Olds
ISBN: 9780224087841
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Publication Date: Mar 2009
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Sharon Olds completes her cycle of family poems in a book at once intense and harmonic, playful with language, and rich with a new self-awareness and sense of irony.
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By: Henning Mankell
ISBN: 9780099571759
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Publication Date: Jan 2013
UK Publication Date: 25th October 2012
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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It is Midsummer's Eve. Three young friends meet in a wood to act out an elaborate masque. Each is killed by a single bullet.
Soon afterwards, one of Inspector Wallander's colleagues is found murdered. Is it the same killer, and what could the connection be In this investigation Wallander is always, tantalisingly, one step behind.
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By: Kristine Naess
ISBN: 9781910701805
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Publication Date: Jun 2017
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Bea Britt wakes to find a police hunt outside her window and drama unfolding on her TV. Volunteers are scouring the local woods looking for Emilie, a missing schoolgirl. The mystery of Emilie's disappearance and Bea Britt's story are intricately bound to the lives of two other women: Bea Britt's grandmother Cecilie, and university student Beate.
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By: Lawrence Osborne
ISBN: 9781784706371
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Publication Date: Jul 2019
UK Publication Date: 4th July 2019
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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'Osborne and Chandler are a perfect match' William Boyd
Discover the rest of the inimitable Philip Marlowe series nine classic Chandler adventures, from The Big Sleep to The Long Goodbye, available now in paperback and ebook from Penguin Books.
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By: George Plimpton
ISBN: 9780224100397
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Publication Date: Aug 2016
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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After forays into American football, golf and the world of professional boxing, George Plimpton accepts his riskiest assignment yet: taking to the ice as goalie for his beloved National Hockey League team, the Boston Bruins.
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By: Alice Munro
ISBN: 9780099459712
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Publication Date: Sep 2021
UK Publication Date: 9th March 1995
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Ranging from the 1850s through two world wars to the present, and from Canada to Brisbane, the Balkans and the Somme, these dazzling stories reveal the secrets of unconventional women who refuse to be contained.
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