Category Archives: Travel Guides
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: Vintage Classics Japanese Series
Enter the surreal and enchanting world of Haruki MurakamiToru Okada`s cat has disappeared. His wife is growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has recently been receiving. As this compelling story unfolds, the tidy suburban realities of Okada`s vague and blameless life, spent cooking, reading, listening to jazz
Shadow of the Silk Road
Winner of the 2019 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award`s Outstanding Contribution to Travel WritingOn buses, donkey carts, trains, jeeps and camels, Colin Thubron traces the drifts of the first great trade route out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia, across northern Afghanistan and the plains of Iran into Kurdish Turkey.
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea: Vintage Classics Japanese Series
A band of savage thirteen-year-old boys reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness they call `objectivity`. When the mother of one of them begins an affair with a ship`s officer, he and his friends idealise the man at first; but it is not long before they
The Makioka Sisters: Vintage Classics Japanese Series
“An exquisite novel about four sisters living though a turbulent decade… I`d put it in the 10 greatest books of the 20th century” David Mitchell”A near-perfect novel” Hanya YanagiharaIn the years leading up to the Second World War, four sisters live in dilapidated houses in Osaka and Ashiya, and each navigate their own complex, personal
The Housekeeper and the Professor: Vintage Classics Japanese Series
Each morning, the Professor and the Housekeeper are introduced to one another. The Professor may not remember what he had for breakfast, but his mind is still alive with elegant mathematical equations from the past. He devises clever maths riddles – based on her shoe size or her birthday – and the numbers reveal a
Doctor Glas
With an introduction from Margaret Atwood”A searing masterwork of Northern European literature. The retrieval of `Doctor Glas` in English is a bracing gift to hungry readers” Susan SontagLonely and introspective, Doctor Glas has long felt an instinctive hostility toward the odious local minister. So when the minister’s beautiful wife complains of her husband’s oppressive sexual
Travels With My Aunt
Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in over fifty years at what he supposes to be his mother`s funeral. Soon after, she persuades Henry to abandon Southwood, to travel to Brighton, Paris, Istanbul, Paraguay, and a shiftless, twilight society of hippies, war criminals, CIA men that
Death Comes for the Archbishop
“Quite simply a masterpiece” Daily TelegraphTwo priests are despatched from Rome to New Mexico to reinvigorate Catholicism among the locals, knowing little of the challenges that await them. Over almost four decades they encounter a rich variety of people, from rebellious Mexican priests to steadfast Native Americans uninterested in changing their longstanding customs. This is
The Sea, The Sea: Vintage Classics Murdoch Series
Funny, subversive, fearless and fiercely intelligent, Iris Murdoch was one of the great writers of the twentieth century. To celebrate her centenary Vintage Classics presents special editions of her greatest and most timeless novels.With an introduction from Daisy Johnson”I saw a monster rising from the waves”Charles Arrowby has determined to spend the rest of his
Austerity: Vintage Minis
How do we choose between what is fair and just, and what our debtors demand of us? Yanis Varoufakis was put in such a dilemma in 2015 when he became the finance minister of Greece. In this rousing book, he charts the absurdities that underpin calls for austerity, as well as his own battles with
Freedom: Vintage Minis
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 own world. The reflection we are faced with, of men and women in prisons literal and metaphorical, is frightening, but it is also a call to arms to
The Little Prince: A new translation by Michael Morpurgo
A NEW TRANSLATION BY MICHAEL MORPURGO, AUTHOR OF WAR HORSEIf a little fellow comes along, if he laughs, if he has golden hair, and if he never answers questions, then you will know who he is.He is the Little Prince, the mysterious, innocent and beautiful boy who appears to a pilot stranded in the desert
The Baron in the Trees
A gorgeous new edition of a playful, romantic fable by one of the twentieth century`s master storytellers.From the age of twelve, the Baron Cosimo Piovasco di Rondo makes his home among ash, elm, magnolia, plum and almond. He walks through paths made from the twisted branches of olive, makes his bed in a holly oak,
My Own Story (Vintage Feminism Short Edition)
Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short formWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JESS PHILLIPSSoldier, criminal, militant, hooligan, revolutionary: these labels Emmeline Pankhurst took up and wore proudly in her long struggle for women`s suffrage. This shortened edition of her autobiography tells the inside story of this struggle: the tireless campaigning, the betrayals by men in power,
My Antonia
A reissue of Willa Cather`s best-loved novel and a beautiful portrayal of frontier life in Nebraska with a new introduction by travel writer Sara Wheeler. When young orphan Jim Burden is sent to live with his grandparents in Nebraska, he finds himself growing up alongside Bohemian immigrant Antonia Shimerda. Their childhoods are full of shared
A Room of One`s Own (Vintage Feminism Short Edition)
Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short formWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JEANETTE WINTERSON`What conditions are necessary for the creation of works of art?` Security, confidence, independence, a degree of prosperity – a room of one`s own. All things denied to most women around the world living in Virginia Woolf`s time, and before her time, and
War: Vintage Minis
A soldier falls asleep on duty and is threatened with being court-martialled. An officer lies in mud, fighting for his life and the life of his men. A young man walks across Waterloo Bridge, explosives in his rucksack, heart pounding. In this powerfully moving book, Faulks shows us the true face of war. These are
Slaughterhouse 5: 50th Anniversary Edition
50th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITIONAs a young man and a prisoner of war, Kurt Vonnegut witnessed the 1945 US fire-bombing of Dresden in Germany, which reduced the once proudly beautiful city to rubble and claimed the lives of thousands of its citizens.For many years, Kurt tried to write about Dresden but the words would not come.
The Leopard (Vintage Classic Europeans Series)
The Vintage Classics Europeans series – with covers provided by textile design firm Wallace Sewell, these are must-have editions of European masterpieces, celebrating the warp and weft of a shared literary treasury It is the spring of 1869 and there is talk of revolution in Sicily, by day the rattle of firing squads and by
O Pioneers!
The first novel in Willa Cather`s acclaimed Great Plains Trilogy, followed by `The Song of the Lark` and `My Antonia`. “She is undoubtedly one of the greatest American writers” ObserverAlexandra Bergson inherits the family farm when her father dies early. In spite of her brothers` doubts, her ambitious vision for the land comes to fruition,
