Vintage Classics

**A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BIG JUBILEE READ PICK**'A sinister tale' GuardianThe classic, atmospheric Australian thriller about the mysterious disap...

No food, no water, no government, no obligation, no order. Discover a chillingly powerful and prescient dystopian vision from one of Europe's gre...

Discover the most famous anti-war novel ever written, now a major Netflix film adaptationOne by one the boys begin to fall... In 1914 a room full...

This powerful collection of stories, set in the mid-West among the lonely men and women who drink, fish and play cards to ease the passing of time,...

As a girl, Clara del Valle can read fortunes, make objects move as if they had lives of their own, and predict the future. Following the mysterious...

The Leopard is a modern classic which tells the spellbinding story of a decadent, dying Sicilian aristocracy threatened by the approaching forces o...

*WINNER OF THE BOOKER AND BEST OF THE BOOKER PRIZE***A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BIG JUBILEE READ PICK**'A wonderful, rich and humane novel... a class...

Discover Thomas Pynchon's brilliant writing in this postmodern literature classic. ...

Penelope has been waiting for her husband Odysseus to return from Troy for many years. Little does she know that his path back to her has been bloc...

** THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER **Discover the dystopian novel that started a phenomenon before you read the Booker Prize-winning sequel The T...

Discover Toni Morrison's most iconic work in this Pulitzer-prize winning novel that exemplifies her powerful and important place in contemporary Am...

The great Russian 20th-century novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Stalingrad. ...

**A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BIG JUBILEE READ PICK**'A milestone in the campaign for racial equality' GuardianIn 1945, Rick Braithwaite, a smart, hig...

The death and burial of Addie Bundren is told by members of her family, as they cart the coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi, to bury her among her pe...

Gripping, terrifying, an unputdownable read. Discover Graham Greene's most iconic novel. A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brig...

Discover Graham Green's prescient political masterpiece'The novel that I love the most is The Quiet American' Ian McEwanInto the intrigue and viole...

For over a hundred years the Pacific island of Pala has been the scene of a unique experiment in civilisation. Its inhabitants live in a society wh...

A complex, intense American novel of family from the winner of the Nobel Prize for LiteratureWith an introduction by Richard HughesEver since the f...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY EVIE WYLD 'There is not a page in this first novel which does not prove that its author is a master storyteller' New York T...

SOON TO BE A MAJOR TV SERIES Discover Joseph Heller's hilarious and tragic satire on military madness, and the tale of one man's efforts to survive...

Discover this profound account of Huxley's famous experimentation with mescalin that has influenced writers and artists for decades. ...

'A charming and original work... The parable itself is extremely relevant' The TimesiDEATH is a place where the sun shines a different colour every...

You go into a bookshop and buy If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino. You like it. But alas there is a printer's error in your copy. ...

'A subtle and beautiful meditation' Sunday TimesIn Invisible Cities Marco Polo conjures up cities of magical times for his host, the Chinese ruler ...

'A work of art...altogether a joyous and lovely thing' New York TimesSet in a remote fishing village in Japan, The Sound of Waves is a timeless sto...

Because of the boyhood trauma of seeing his mother make love to another man in the presence of his dying father, Mizoguchi becomes a hopeless stutt...

The classic evocative tale of an idyllic childhood in the English countryside ...

Hemingway's captivating memoir of living in Paris during the twenties. 'If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then where...

Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of this spiritual odyssey involves him with some of Maugham's most brilla...

An intimate reflection on Japanese art and architecture from one of the country's greatest novelists. This is an enchanting essay on aesthetics b...

Tokyo, 1912. The closed world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders - rich provincial families, a new and po...

Read this classic exploration of political violence, traditional samurai values and right wing nihilism. ...

Ernest's Hemingway's powerful autobiographical story of war. 'I don't live at all when I'm not with you'In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war. He ...

The book that won Ernest Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature'It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought'Set in the Gulf Stream off the coas...

The graphic novel adaptation of the classic dystopian masterpiece. From Fred Fordham, graphic novelist behind the sensational TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD...

Read Kurt Vonnegut's powerful masterpiece, which is as timely now as when it was first published. 'An extraordinary success. A book to read and rer...

Read the greatest rediscovered classic of recent years 'A beautiful, sad, utterly convincing account of an entire life' Ian McEwanWilliam Stoner en...

Bulgakov paints an excellent picture of Stalin's regime in this allegorical masterpiece. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY WILL SELFThe devil makes a persona...

Explosive, subversive, wild and funny, 50 years on the novel's strength is undiminished. Reading Joseph Heller's classic satire is nothing less tha...

Shoot all the Bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a Mockingbird.' Atticus Finch gives this advice to his childre...