Vintage Classics

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  Under the Glacier

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  A young emissary of the Bishop is sent from Reykjavik to a small town to investigate whether they are following Christianity: there are rumours that their pastor Jon Jonsson (known as Primus) has n...

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  Beloved

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  It is the mid-1800s and as slavery looks to be coming to an end, Sethe is haunted by the violent trauma it wrought on her former enslaved life at Sweet Home, Kentucky. Her dead baby daughter, whose...

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  1984

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  The year is 1984 and war and revolution have left the world unrecognisable. Great Britain, now known as Airstrip One, is ruled by the Party, led by Big Brother. Mass surveillance is everything and ...

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  Animal farm

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  This is the famous and iconic fable of revolutionary farm animals who overthrow their elitist human master only to find themselves subject to a new authority. Determined and steadfast horses Boxer ...

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  Gone with the wind

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  Set against the historical backdrop of the American Civil War, this historical epic is a tale of a nation mortally divided. It is the love story of beautiful, ruthless Scarlet O’Hara and the ...

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  Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea: Vintage Classics Japanese Series

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  A band of savage 13-year-old boys reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness they call ‘objectivity’. When the mothe...

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  Housekeeper and the Professor: Vintage Classics Japanese Series

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  He is a maths professor with a peculiar problem – ever since a head injury 17 years ago, he has lived with only 80 minutes of short-term memory. She is a housekeeper with a ten-year-old son, ...

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  Makioka Sisters: Vintage Classics Japanese Series

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  This is the story of the extinction a great family through pride and over-refinement. It is a loving and nostalgic recreation of the sumptuous, intricate upper-class life of Osaka immediately befor...

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  Across The River & Into The Trees

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  Richard Cantrell, an American colonel falls passionately in love with an Italian countess in Venice just after World War Two has ended. The fighting may have ended, but for some the longed-for peac...

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  To Have & Have Not

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  Harry Morgan was a hard, classic Hemingway hero. He had to be hard, rum-running, gun-running and man-running from Cuba to the Florida Keys in the Depression. He ran risks too, from stray coastguard...

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  Desire

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  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 them a story. The...

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  The Camomile Lawn

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  ‘The Camomile Lawn’ presents a vivid and lively picture of wartime London and Cornwall as seen through the eyes of five cousins.

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  A wild sheep chase

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  Dark, dry and downright weird but also incredibly funny, ‘A Wild Sheep Chase’ is the story of a man, a girl, her ears and a very special sheep. But this is no lost sheep, the sheep went...

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  Stoner

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  The son of a midwestern farmer, William Stoner comes to the University of Missouri in 1910 to study agriculture. Stoner tells of love and conflict, passion and responsibility against the backdrop o...

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  Doctor Zhivago

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  The story of Yuri Zhivago, physician and poet, is both a panoramic, epic portrait of a country in the throes of the most radical revolution in history, and an intense love story.

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  Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition

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  At the heart of Joseph Heller’s bestselling novel is a satirical indictment of military madness and stupidity, and the desire of the ordinary man to survive it. It is the tale of Captain Yoss...

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  Great Gatsby

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  A social satire and a milestone in 20th century literature, ‘The Great Gatsby’ peels away the layers of the glamorous twenties in the U.S. to display the coldness and cruelty at its hea...

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  Beautiful & Damned

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  Gloria and Anthony Patch party until their money runs out – then their goal becomes Adam Patch’s fortune. Gloria’s beauty fades and Anthony’s drinking takes its horrible tol...

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  Master & Margarita

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  Russia’s literary world is shaken to its foundations when a mysterious gentleman – a professor of black magic – arrives in Moscow, accompanied by a bizarre retinue of servants. It...

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  Brave New World

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  The World Controllers have created the ideal society. Genetic science has brought the human race to perfection. From the Alpha-Plus mandarin class to the Epsilon Semi-Morons, man is bred and educat...

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  Vintage Classics To The Lighthouse

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  ‘To the Lighthouse’ was Virginia Woolf’s fifth novel, and was the first book to win her a large public. The story of an English middle class family in the years leading up to the ...

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  Vintage Classics Jacobs Room

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  ‘Jacob’s Room’ tells the story of Jacob Flanders, a young man killed in the First World War. This new edition of Virginia Woolf’s novel, with commentaries by contemporary wr...

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  Vintage Classic Brighton Rock

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  A gang war is raging in Brighton. Pinkie is 17 and fighting for leadership. He has already proved his ruthlessness by killing Hale, a journalist. But he isn’t prepared for the courageous Ida ...

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  Vintage Classics Snows Of Kilimanjaro

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  From haunting tragedy on the snow-capped peak of Kilimanjaro to brutal sensationalism in the bullring; from rural America with its deceptive calm to the heart of war-ravaged Europe, each of the sto...

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  Green Hills of Africa

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  This title is Ernest Hemingway’s lyrical journal of a month on safari in the great game country of East Africa, where he and his wife Pauline journeyed in December 1933. It is an examination ...

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