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By: Charlotte Bront

ISBN: 9780099529927
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2009
UK Publication Date: 4th June 2009
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Read this beautiful, romantic feminist classic from the author of Jane Eyre.

When Lucy Snowe leaves England to look for a new life on the Continent she has no idea what lies in store for her.


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By: Anne Tyler

ISBN: 9780099589877
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2023
UK Publication Date: 9th March 2017
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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'A thoroughly modern love story' Guardian

Kate Battista is stuck.


How did she end up running house and home for her eccentric scientist father and infuriating younger sister Bunny


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By: Elizabeth West

ISBN: 9780099731016
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 1997
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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A collection of the most brilliant Indian writing of the last 50 years, published to coincide with the anniversary of independence.


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By: Hermione Lee

ISBN: 9780099732518
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 1997
UK Publication Date: 2nd October 1997
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Hermione Lee sees Virginia Woolf afresh, in her historical setting and as a vital figure for our times. It is a writer's life, illustrating how the concerns of her work arise and develop, and a political life, which establishes Woolf as a radically sceptical, subversive, courageous feminist.


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By: Arnaldur Indridason

ISBN: 9780099546627
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2009
UK Publication Date: 3rd September 2009
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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A REYKJAVIK MURDER MYSTERY.

It is a few days before Christmas and a Reykjavik doorman and occasional Santa Claus, Gudlauger, has been found stabbed to death in his hotel room in a sexually compromising position.


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By: Nick Coleman

ISBN: 9781784701338
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2019
UK Publication Date: 7th March 2019
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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***ONE OF BILLBOARD'S TOP TEN MUSIC BOOKS OF 2018***

A brilliant book about singing I have been talking to Nick Coleman about music, in person and in my head, for forty years now.


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By: Zachary Mason

ISBN: 9780224098243
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2017
UK Publication Date: 27th April 2017
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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None are safe as theyre pushed together by subtle forces that stay just out of sight.

Vivid, tumultuous and propulsive, Void Star is Zachary Masons mind-bending follow-up to his bestselling debut The Lost Books of the Odyssey.


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By: Nancy Mitford

ISBN: 9780099528890
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2011
UK Publication Date: 6th October 2011
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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The meeting of Voltaire, successful financier, famous poet and troublemaker, and the enchanting amateur physicist and countess milie du Chtelet, was a meeting of both hearts and minds.


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By: Adam Thorpe

ISBN: 9780224094177
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2012
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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From an abandoned rowing boat in Estonia full of wild flowers to a swimming pool in the Congo full of drowned insects, Adam Thorpe's new collection takes us on a wide-ranging journey through states of gain and loss, alienation and belonging.


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By: David Aaronovitch

ISBN: 9780099478966
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2010
UK Publication Date: 6th May 2010
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon

Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks

Should we doubt the accidental nature of Diana's death

Voodoo Histories entertainingly demolishes the absurd and sinister conspiracy theories of the last 100 years.


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By: Tim Moore

ISBN: 9781529113792
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2022
UK Publication Date: 14th July 2022
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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By: W B Yeats

ISBN: 9780099723509
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 1990
UK Publication Date: 18th January 1990
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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In this edition, Yeats' early narrative poems are in a separate section at the end. Elsewhere the order of poems remains largely undisturbed. Changes arise in the inclusion of new poems, some textual emendations and the relocation of certain poems withheld from publication in the poet's lifetime.


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By: Georges Perec

ISBN: 9780099552352
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2011
UK Publication Date: 3rd March 2011
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Written in alternating chapters, W or the Memory of Childhood, tells two parallel tales, in two parts. The other story is about two people called Gaspard Winckler: one an eight-year-old deaf-mute lost in a shipwreck, the other a man despatched to search for him, who discovers W, an island state based on the rules of sport.


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By: Ahmadou Kourouma

ISBN: 9780099283829
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2004
UK Publication Date: 6th May 2004
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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But when the 'First World' decides it no longer want to support dictatorships and call for democracy, he needs another ruse to maintain himself in power...

Part magic, part history, part savage satire, Waiting for the Wild Beasts to Vote is nothing less than a history of post-colonial Africa itself.


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By: Henry David Thoreau

ISBN: 9781784872410
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2017
UK Publication Date: 6th July 2017
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BENJAMIN MARKOVITS

In 1845 Thoreau, a Harvard-educated 28-year-old, went to live by himself in the woods in Massachusetts.


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By: Thomas Lynch

ISBN: 9780224090063
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2010
UK Publication Date: 5th August 2010
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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If life is pilgrimage, Walking Papers are the pages - the notes on the journey, news of the world, letters of introduction and dismissal - found in one's breast-pocket amongst one's effects.


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By: Banksy

ISBN: 9781844137862
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2005
UK Publication Date: 3rd November 2005
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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_______________

Banksy.
His work.
Photographed.
With comments by Banksy.
In a book.

This is that book.
_______________


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By: Louis de Bernires

ISBN: 9780749391300
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 1991
UK Publication Date: 6th June 1991
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Surreal and hilarious Independent

Enter Louis de Bernires' magical, tragic and hilarious South American odyssey.

When the spoilt and haughty Dona Constanza tries to divert a river to fill her swimming pool, she starts a running battle with the locals.


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By: Paul Collier

ISBN: 9780099523512
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2010
UK Publication Date: 4th March 2010
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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The world is in a mess. For more than a billion people, everyday life is played out against the backdrop of civil wars, military coups and failing economies. Award-winning academic Paul Collier's vision for the future of the developing world is eye-opening, provocative and refreshingly unequivocal.


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By: Fred Vargas

ISBN: 9780099488965
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2008
UK Publication Date: 3rd January 2008
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Years before, Adamsberg's own brother had been the principal suspect in a similar case and avoided prison only thanks to Adamsberg's help.

History repeats itself when Adamsberg, who is temporarily based in Quebec for a training mission, is accused of having savagely murdered a young woman he had met.


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By: David Wardale

ISBN: 9781787290167
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2018
UK Publication Date: 26th July 2018
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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David Wardale writer for the UK's number one Fantasy Football site, Fantasy Football Scout meets previous winners to discover how they beat millions to the crown.


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By: Eva Dolan

ISBN: 9781784701772
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2017
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Until they discover that the victim, Corinne Sawyer, was born Colin Sawyer.

Police records reveal there have been violent attacks on trans women in the local area.


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By: James Lasdun

ISBN: 9780224097093
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2012
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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James Lasdun's new book of poems, his first since his acclaimed collection Landscape with Chainsaw, applies his characteristic blend of the celebratory and the elegiac to a rich variety of new themes and old obsessions.


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By: Roger Deakin

ISBN: 9781784700065
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2014
UK Publication Date: 7th August 2014
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Encompassing cultural history, autobiography, travel writing and natural history, Waterlog is a personal journey, a bold assertion of the native swimmer's right to roam, and an unforgettable celebration of the magic of water.

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