Category Archives: Accessories
Private – Keep Out!
A forgotten classic brought back into print for the first time in decades – the missing literary sister to Anne of Green Gables and Tracy Beaker, a tough and spirited girl`s adventures growing up in a northern post-war mining town. `I told our Lucy I`m going to be a writer when I grow up and
Sula
Stunningly-designed new editions of Toni Morrison`s best-known novels, published by Vintage Classics in celebration of her life and work.WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY NAMWALI SERPELL, AUTHOR OF THE OLD DRIFT As young girls in a poor but close-knit community, Nel and Sula are inseparable. But their paths as adults couldn`t be more different: while Nel
The Power of the Powerless
Vaclav Havel`s remarkable and rousing essay on the tyranny of apathy, with a new introduction by Timothy Snyder Cowed by life under Communist Party rule, a greengrocer hangs a placard in their shop window: Workers of the world, unite! Is it a sign of the grocer`s unerring ideology? Or a symbol of the lies we
The Bluest Eye
Stunningly-designed new editions of Toni Morrison`s best-known novels, published by Vintage Classics in celebration of her life and work.WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS, AUTHOR OF QUEENIEPecola Breedlove longs for blond hair and blue eyes, so that she will be as beautiful and beloved as all the blond, blue-eyed children in America. In the
Beloved
Stunningly-designed new editions of Toni Morrison`s best-known novels, published by Vintage Classics in celebration of her life and work.WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY BOOKER PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR BERNARDINE EVARISTOSethe is now miles away from Sweet Home – the farm where she was kept as a slave for many years. Unable to forget the unspeakable horrors
Song of Solomon
Stunningly-designed new editions of Toni Morrison`s best-known novels, published by Vintage Classics in celebration of her life and work.WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY BOOKER PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR MARLON JAMESSoon after a local eccentric leaps from a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight, Macon `Milkman` Dead III is born. Brought up by his well-off black
Dickens at Christmas
A selection of the best of Dickens` Christmas stories and writings, in one beautiful edition.It is said that Charles Dickens invented Christmas, and within these pages you`ll certainly find all the elements of a quintessential traditional Christmas brought to vivid life: snowy rooftops, gleaming shop windows, steaming bowls of punch, plum puddings like speckled cannon
Homage to Catalonia
THE AUTHORATITIVE TEXT `There are occasions where it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all` Both a memoir of Orwell`s experiences during the Spanish Civil War and a heartfelt tribute to those who died, Homage to Catalonia is an extraordinary first-hand record of him time on the frontline. Written
Tales from a Master`s Notebook: Stories Henry James Never Wrote
When Henry James died he left behind a series of notebooks filled with ideas for novels and stories that he never wrote. Now ten of our best contemporary authors and James enthusiasts have written new short stories based on these `germs` of ideas. Differing dramatically in setting and style, these stories are modern interpretations of
The Shock of the Anthropocene: The Earth, History and Us
The Earth has entered a new epoch: the Anthropocene. What we are facing is not only an environmental crisis, but a geological revolution of human origin. In two centuries, our planet has tipped into a state unknown for millions of years. How did we get to this point? Refuting the convenient view of a โ€human
Municipal Dreams: The Rise and Fall of Council Housing
A narrative history of council housing–from slums to the Grenfell TowerUrgent, timely and compelling, Municipal Dreams brilliantly brings the national story of housing to life. In this landmark reappraisal of council housing, historian John Boughton presents an alternative history of Britain. Rooted in the ambition to end slum living, and the ideals of those who
Whisky Galore
It`s 1943 and the war has brought rationing to the Hebridean islands of Great and Little Todday. When food is in short supply, it is bad enough, but when the whisky runs out, it looks like the end of the world. Morale is at rock bottom. George Campbell needs a wee dram to give him
The Trick is to Keep Breathing: (Scottish Classics)
From the corner of a darkened room Joy Stone watches herself. As memories of the deaths of her lover and mother surface unbidden, life for Joy narrows – to negotiating each day, each encounter, each second; to finding the trick to keep living. Told with shattering clarity and wry wit, this is a Scottish classic
The Enchanted April
With an introduction by Brenda Bowen. A notice in The Times addressed to `Those Who Appreciate Wistaria and Sunshine` advertises a `small medieval Italian Castle to be let for the month of April`. Four very different women take up the offer: Mrs Wilkins and Mrs Arbuthnot, both fleeing unappreciative husbands; beautiful Lady Caroline, sick of
Mrs Dalloway
In this vivid portrait of one day in a woman`s life, Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of a party she is to give that evening. As she readies her house she is flooded with memories and re-examines the choices she has made over the course of her life.
Scott on Waterloo
On the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo discover a fascinating primary source: Walter Scott`s accounts of his journey to the battlefield. In the immediate aftermath of the Battle of Waterloo tourists flocked from Britain to witness the scene of the most important conflict of their generation. Walter Scott was among them, and with
The Second Sex (Vintage Feminism Short Edition)
Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short formWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NATALIE HAYNESWhen this book was first published in 1949 it was to outrage and scandal. Never before had the case for female liberty been so forcefully and successfully argued. De Beauvoir`s belief that `One is not born, but rather becomes, woman` switched on light
They Burn Thistles
This is the story of a bitter war between the poor Turkish peasants of the Taurus Mountains and the Aghas who covet their land. Ali Safa is determined to take possession of the village of Vayvay but its inhabitants will not sell. Then one villager weakens, prepared to part with his land in return for
Pollyanna
`Most generally there is something about everything that you can be glad about, if you keep hunting long enough to find it` When her father dies, Pollyanna is sent to live with her stern Aunt Polly. She is poor, orphaned and alone but Pollyanna just feels lucky to have an aunt at all. The truth
All Passion Spent
When the great statesman Lord Slane dies, everyone assumes his dutiful wife will slowly fade away, the paying guest of each of her six children. But Lady Slane surprises everyone by escaping to a rented house in Hampstead where she revels in her new freedom, revives her youthful ambition to become an artist and gathers
