Psychedelics: Vintage Minis
Aldous Huxley
Vintage
Could drugs offer a new way of seeing the world? In 1953, in the presence of an investigator, Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gramme of mescalin, sat down ...
Home: Vintage Minis
Salman Rushdie
Vintage
Salman Rushdie, a self-described `emigrant from one place and a newcomer in two', explores the true meaning of home. Writing with insight, passion and humour, ...
Summer: Vintage Minis
Laurie Lee
Vintage
How do you remember the summers of your childhood? For Laurie Lee they were flower-crested, heady, endless days. Here is an evocation of summer like no other - ...
Desire: Vintage Minis
Haruki Murakami
Vintage
You've just passed someone on the street who could be the love of your life, the person you're destined for - what do you do? In Murakami's world, you tell ...
Depression: Vintage Minis
William Styron
Vintage
How does a writer compose a suicide note? This was not a question that the prize-winning novelist William Styron had ever contemplated before. In this true ...
Calm: Vintage Minis
Tim Parks
Vintage
How do we find calm in our frantic modern world? Tim Parks - lifelong sceptic of all things spiritual - finds himself on a Buddhist meditation retreat trying ...
Jealousy: Vintage Minis
Marcel Proust
Vintage
Can we truly know the one we love? In this painfully candid book Marcel Proust looks straight into the green eye of every lover's jealous struggle. He broods ...
Freedom: Vintage Minis
Margaret Atwood
Vintage
Can we ever be wholly free? In this book of breathtaking imaginary leaps that conjure dystopias and magical islands, Margaret Atwood holds a mirror up to our ...
Austerity: Vintage Minis
Yanis Varoufakis
Vintage
VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS. How do we choose between what is fair and just, and what our debtors demand of us? Yanis Varoufakis was ...
Friendship: Vintage Minis
Rose Tremain
Vintage
What is the secret to true friendship? Is it really love's quieter relation or something stronger and more profound? And where does the line between the two ...
Rave: Vintage Minis
Irvine Welsh
Vintage
Irvine Welsh, 'poet laureate of the chemical generation', exposes the seamy underbelly of rave's utopian dream. Lloyd, our permanently pilled-up protagonist, ...
Money: Vintage Minis
Yuval Noah Harari
Vintage
Selected from the books Sapiens and Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari How did money come to be invented? Why does it now have such significance in our lives? ...
Hag-Seed: The Tempest Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare)
Margaret Atwood
Vintage
LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017 Selected as a Book of the Year - Observer, Sunday Times, Times, Guardian, i magazine Felix is at ...
In the Springtime of the Year
Susan Hill
Vintage
After just a year of close, loving marriage, Ruth has been widowed. Her beloved husband, Ben, has been killed in a tragic accident and Ruth is left, suddenly ...
The American Lover
Rose Tremain
Vintage
A seductive new collection of stories from the Orange Prize-winning author of The Road Home and Restoration Trapped in a London flat, Beth remembers a ...
Tulip Fever
Deborah Moggach
Vintage
Seventeenth-century Amsterdam - a city in the grip of tulip fever. Sophia's husband Cornelis is one of the lucky ones grown rich from this exotic new ...
The Laughing Monsters
Denis Johnson
Vintage
`In this land of chaos and despair, all I can do is wish for magic armour and the power to disappear.' Freetown, Sierra Leone. A city of heat and dirt, of ...
Stamboul Train
Graham Greene
Vintage
With an Introduction By Christopher Hitchens Carleton Myatt meets Coral Musker, a naïve English chorus girl, aboard the Orient Express as it heads across ...
Cain
Jose Saramago
Vintage
After killing his brother Abel, Cain must wander for ever. He witnesses Noah's ark, the destruction of the Tower of Babel, Moses and the golden calf. He is ...
Raised From The Ground
Jose Saramago
Vintage
This early work is deeply personal and José Saramago 's most autobiographical, following the changing fortunes of the Mau-Tempo family - poor, landless ...