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The Handmaid's Tale
The iconic Sunday Times bestseller that inspired the hit TV series
1996 || Paperback || Margaret Atwood || Vintage Publishing
The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs...
Death In Venice And Other Stories
2001 || Paperback || Thomas Mann || Vintage Publishing
TRANSLATED AND INTRODUCED BY DAVID LUKE. Death in Venice is a story of obsession. Gustave von Aschenbach is a successful but ageing writer who travels to Venice for a holiday. One day, at dinner, Aschenbach notices an exceptionally beautiful young boy who is staying with his family in the same hotel.
Soon his days begin to revolve around seeing this boy and he is too distracted to pay attention to the ominous rumours that have begun to circulate about disease spreading through the city.
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Black Hole Survival Guide
2024 || Paperback || Janna Levin || Vintage Publishing
Our solar system is currently orbiting a Black Hole 26,000 light years away at a speed of 200 km per second. In Ten Tips for Surviving a Black Hole physicist and novelist Janna Levin takes you on a journey inside a black hole, explaining what would happen to you in there and why.
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The Road to Unfreedom
Russia, Europe, America
2024 || Paperback || Timothy Snyder || Vintage Publishing
'Brilliant and disturbing' Yuval Noah HarariA wake-up call that aims to restore our understanding of the basis of our way of life, from the author of international bestseller On Tyranny.
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Liberty
Vintage Minis
2024 || Paperback || Virginia Woolf || Vintage Publishing
Why should one half be free to live, while the other is doomed to watch silently from the sidelines? In this collection, the author leads us on a transformative journey through the liberating powers of the mind.
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The Rich People Have Gone Away
2024 || Paperback || Regina Porter || Vintage Publishing
Lies of Silence
2024 || Vintage || Brian Moore || Vintage Publishing
When Michael Dillon is ordered by the IRA to park his car in the carpark of a Belfast hotel, he is faced with a moral choice which leaves him absolutely nowhere to turn. He knows that he is planting a bomb that would kill and maim dozens of people. But he also knows that if he doesn't, his wife will be killed.
W or The Memory of Childhood
2011 || Paperback || Georges Perec || Vintage Publishing
Written in alternating chapters, W or the Memory of Childhood, tells two parallel tales, in two parts. One is a story created in childhood and about childhood. The other story is about two people called Gaspard Winckler: one an eight-year-old deaf-mute lost in a shipwreck, the other a man despatched to search for him, who discovers W, an island state based on the rules of sport.
As the two tales move in and out of focus, the disturbing truth about the island of W reveals itself. Perec combine...
The Power of Art
2023 || Paperback || CBE Simon Schama || Vintage Publishing
* 'Great art has dreadful manners...' Simon Schama observes at the start of his epic exploration of the power, and whole point, of art. 'The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are polite things, visions that soothe, charm and beguile, but actually they are thugs. Merciless and wily, the greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure and then proceed in short order to re-arrange your sense of reality...' * With the same disarming force,...