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Wouldn't you like: - Products that don't damage the environment?- A better way of life without agonising about your 'footprint'?- To really know your stuff?Climate change? Biofuels? Nuclear power? Landfills? Recycling? Renewable energy? Environmental issues can feel overwhelming. But, in fact, it is simple, it all comes down to one thing - stuff. Our use of the Earth's resources - whether a crisp packet or a cargo ship, a T-shirt or a wind tur...

From the author of the much-praised Wasabi: a stunning achievement that has taken the author's native Argentina and the Spanish-speaking world by storm. The Past is a multi-layered novel that brings to mind the works of Nabokov and Proust. "From the Hardcover edition.

A gripping account of Scott's disastrous Antarctic exploration, published in Vintage Classics for the first time, and with an introduction by Sara Wheeler.

A strange and seminal novel about the Tiananmen Sqaure protests. Dai Wei is a medical student who is caught by a bullet whilst protesting and falls into a deep coma for almost a decade, waking to find the China he once knew has changed, irrevocably and forever. A story of politics, madness, mothers and dreamworlds, this is an acknowledged modern masterpiece of Chinese literature. 'Made my heart thump.' "TLS".

MORE VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERIES MARGERY ALLINGHAMMystery Mile Police at the Funeral Sweet Danger Flowers for the Judge The Case of the Late Pig The Fashion in Shrouds Traitor’s PurseCoroner’s Pidgin More Work for the Undertaker The Tiger in the Smoke The Beckoning Lady Hide My Eyes The China Governess The Mind Readers Cargo of EaglesE. F. BENSONThe Blotting BookThe Luck of the VailsNICHOLAS BLAKEA Question of ProofThou Shell of DeathThere’s Trou...

The classic novel of Becky Sharp's dirty rise and fall through high society.

This is the account of Thubron's 15, 000-mile journey through an astonishing country - one twelfth of the land surface of the whole earth.

A man finds himself surrounded by women who are becoming paler, more silent and literally smaller, In these exceptional short stories, by turns funny and searingly honest, Margaret Atwood captures brilliantly the complex forces that govern our relationships, and the powerful emotions that guide them.

This is anecdotal history of the most enjoyable kind - a narrative rich in culture, entertaining, fair-minded, poignant, combining humour and tragedy, the politics of poverty and hatred, the history of the Abbey theatre, fishing, shooting and house-parties, Dublin during WW2, peoty and fiction, fact and folklore.

Reissued in a new series style to match his 2016 "Sunday Times" bestselling novel, "Where My Heart Used To Beat".

Bill 'EL Wingador' Simmons, Sonya 'The Black Widow' Thomas, David 'Coondog' O'Karma, Bill 'EL Wingador' Simmons, Sonya 'The Black Widow' Thomas, David 'Coondog' O'Karma, Eric 'Badlands' Booker, Timothy 'Eater X' Janus - just a few of the stars of one of America's fastest growing sports: competitive eating.

An eclectic and eccentric collection of short stories from the Japanese master of magic realism. Spanning five years of his writing, it includes a stories of a woman put to sleep by tiny flies crawling inside her ear, a nightwatchman whose reflection in a mysterious mirror tries to take control of him, and a couple whose relationship is unbalanced after dining exclusively on crab. Always favouring the surreal over the real, this is a dazzling ...

In this life of the master diplomat, David Lawday follows Talleyrand's remarkable career through the most turbulent age Europe has known and explores - for the first time - in intimate detail his extraordinarily perverse relationship with Napoleon.

In his early years, growing up on a Dutch farm in the southern African Cape, Cupido Cockroach was the greatest drinker, liar, fornicator and fighter of his region. Coming under the spell of the great Dr Johannes Theodorus van der Kemp of the London Missionary Society, Cupido is then made the first Khoi or 'Hottentot' missionary ordained at the Cape of Good Hope. Received into the fold of the Church, Cupido passionately turns against all his ea...

Irish fiction. Reissue.

During the Second World War, Peter Marshall's crew become one of the most successful bombing teams in their Oxfordshire airbase. However, when Peter falls in love with a young WAAF officer, his concentration begins to suffer and it looks as though his perfect run of missions - and his life - may be threatened.

A young English woman leaves her ageing parents to visit friends living in the Australian outback. She falls in love, both with the country and with Carl, a doctor and Czech refugee. Brought together through dramatic encounters and strange twists of fate, their relationship hangs in the balance when Jennifer is called back to England.

How does a novelist write about the facts of his life after spending years fictionalising those facts with irrepressible daring and originality?What becomes of 'the facts' after they have been smelted down for art's sake?

Vintage edition of this early novel by Antonia Byatt.

De Gaulle called it a 'fatal avenue' - that broad sweep of low-lying country stretching north-east of Paris. Over the centuries, invading armies have swept back and forth over this bloody terrain, and the names of battles fought here read like a dictionary of military history - from Agincourt, Calais and Crecy to Verdun, Vimy and Ypres.