Fiction

Winifred Holtby / South Riding (Vintage Paperback) (3)

Written as she lay dying, South Riding was Holtby's masterpiece. Edited by her close friend, Vera Brittain and published posthumously in 1936. The book was an instant success. It is a melodrama set...

John Creasey / Scene of the Crime (Vintage Paperback)

A pretty young girl and a crippled old woman have been strangled, and a fortune in antique jewellery has been stolen. Were all 3 crimes the work of the same left ha nded killer? If so, Superintendent...

Morris West / The Salamander (Vintage Paperback) (1)

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Jack Higgins / Exocet (Vintage Paperback) (2)

The war in the Falklands was at its height. Argentina needed more Excocets to attack the British Navy, sending Colonel Montera to Europe to secure them and the British sent SAS Major Villiers to stop...

Macdonald Ross / The Instant Enemy (Vintage Paperback)

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Richmal Crompton / More William (Just William Series) (Vintage Paperback)

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Jennifer Johnston / The Gates (Coronet Books) (Vintage Paperback)

The second novel by award-winning author Jennifer Johnston --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition. Once, the villagers would tip their hats repectfully when the McMahons drove out...

Nigel Slater / Falcon (Vintage Paperback) (1)

Novel of suspense, murder and intrigue surrounding the sole remaining blueprint for an exotic jet.   All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive...

Tom Sharpe / Ancestral Vices (Vintage Paperback) (2)

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Rudyard Kipling / Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories (Vintage Paperback)

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Jack Higgins / Bloody Passage (Vintage Paperback)

Oliver Grant is a hardened veteran of the US Special Services. Until recently, his forte was springing people from prison - at a price. Now Dimitri Stavrou, big-time crook, wants Grant to come out of...

James Graham / Wrath of God (Vintage Paperback)

Mexico 1922 - a place and time when life was cheap and survival was for those who fought dirtiest. And when it came to dirty fighting, there were few men more skilled than Emmet Heogh, the young...

Jack Higgins / Solo (Vintage Paperback)

A psychotic concert pianist who murders for pleasure makes the mistake of accidentally running down the daughter of an SAS soldier who is himself a trained and vicious killer. By the author of "The...

Hal Fishman / Flight 902 is Down (Vintage Paperback)

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John Ehrlichman / The Company (Vintage Paperback)

Although all characters are fictional, the plot is mainly based on the breakup of the Watergate Scandal and Nixon administration and illegal Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) activity. Many...

Wilbur Smith / Cry Wolf (Vintage Paperback)

A wartime thriller in which three people - a Texan, an Englishman and an American reporter - embark on a daring adventure as they attempt to save the Ethiopian people from annihilation by Mussolini's...

Trevanian / The Main (Vintage Paperback)

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Agatha Christie / Dumb Witness (Vintage Paperback) (1)

Emily Arundel changed her will only days before her death, and Hercule Poirot must "determine which of the victim's disgruntled relatives did not have a motive for murder."--Cover.     All of our...

Agatha Christie / The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (Vintage Paperback) (1)

First came a sinister warning to Poirot not to eat any plum pudding...then the discovery of a corpse in a chest...next, an overheard quarrel that led to murder...the strange case of the dead man who...

Agatha Christie / Murder on the Links (Vintage Paperback)

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Agatha Christie / They Do It with Mirrors (Vintage Paperback) (1)

E-book exclusive extras:1) Christie biographer Charles Osborne's essay on They Do It with Mirrors;2) "The Marples": the complete guide to all the cases of crime literature's foremost female detective...

Agatha Christie / Mrs McGinty’s Dead (Vintage Paperback) (1)

Mrs McGinty died from a brutal blow to the back of her head. Suspicion fell immediately on her shifty lodger, James Bently, whose clothes revealed traces of the victim's blood and hair. Yet something...

Agatha Christie / Mrs.McGinty's Dead (Vintage Paperback)

Poirot, disillusioned by the "senseless cruel brutality" of modern crime, pays no attention to the sad case of Mrs McGinty, an old woman apparently struck dead by her lodger for thirty pounds that...

Agatha Christie / The Body in the Library (Vintage Paperback) (1)

The very-respectable Colonel and Mrs Bantry have awakened to discover the body of a young woman in their library. She is wearing evening dress and heavy make-up, which is now smeared across her cold...

Georges Bernanos / Diary of a Country Priest (Vintage Paperback)

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Kenneth Dodson / Away All Boats (Vintage Paperback)

Dodson's 'Away All Boats' is a novel that is both a study of human nature and the art of command. The central theme is the ship and it's missions. The charecters of the crew bring this mass of steel...

Dick Francis / Dead Cert (Vintage Paperback) (1)

Discover the classic mystery from Dick Francis, one of the greatest thriller writers of all time 'A classic. If you like a rattling good yarn, then Dick Francis is your man!' 5***** Reader Review...

William Wordsworth / (William) Wordsworth [Poems] (Vintage Paperback)

In this series, a contemporary poet advocates a poet of the past or present whom they have particularly admired. By their selection of verses and by the personal and critical reactions they express,...

Winifred Holtby / South Riding (Vintage Paperback) (2)

When Sarah Burton returns to her hometown as headmistress she is full of ambition, determined to create a great school and to inspire her girls to take all they can from life. But in the aftermath of...

Norman Mailer / The Naked and the Dead (Vintage Paperback)

Based on Mailer's own experience of military service in the Philippines during World War Two, The Naked and the Dead' is a graphically truthful and shattering portrayal of ordinary men in battle...

Paul Scott / The Jewel in the Crown (Vintage Paperback)

The story of the rape of a white girl in India in 1942 which tells of racial prejudice and misunderstanding.     All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will...

Colette / Claudine Married (Vintage Paperback)

THE STORIES THAT INSPIRED THE FILM COLETTE, out Jan 2019. The third book in Colette's enchanting Claudine series. Following the excitement of a shared life in Paris, Claudine's marriage to Renaud has...

Oliver Lange / Red Snow (Vintage Paperback)

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Anna Sewell / Black Beauty (Puffin Story Books) (Vintage Paperback)

A horse in nineteenth-century England recounts his experiences with both good and bad masters.     All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive...

Len Deighton / Ss-Gb (Vintage Paperback) (2)

In February 1941 British Command surrendered to the Nazis. Churchill has been executed, the King is in the Tower and the SS are in Whitehall... For nine months Britain has been occupied - a blitzed,...

Clive Cussler / Iceberg (Vintage Paperback)

In order to thwart an international conspiracy, Dirk Pitt must uncover the mysteries surrounding a frozen ship, including the reasons behind why the crew was horribly burned.     All of our Vintage...

Emma Lathen / Sweet and Low (Vintage Paperback)

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Barbara Rowan / Flower for a Bride (Vintage Paperback)

Lois Fairchild ends up becoming he governess to the son of Dom Julyan, a charming and wealthy Portuguese widower. Yet not everyone is happy about Lois staying at Quinta de Valerira, Julyan’s...

Roberta Gellis / Bond of Blood (Vintage Paperback)

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Willa Cather / Youth and the Bright Medusa (Vintage Paperback)

In 1920 Willa Cather collected eight of the stories she had written over the past twenty years into Youth and the Bright Medusa, stories of the perilous pursuit of the bright medusa of art in a...

Jeffrey Archer / A Quiver Full of Arrows (Vintage Paperback) (2)

Twelve short stories with locations as far apart as London, New York, Mexico and Nigeria involving cricket matches, unscheduled train trip and more.     All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the...

Phillip Rock / The Passing Bells (Vintage Paperback)

Before Downton Abbey, there was Abingdon Pryory, the elegant country home of the Grevilles—a titled English family who, along with their servants, see their world turned upside down when England goes...

D.H. Lawrence / Women in Love (Vintage Paperback) (1)

Two sisters - two contrasting love affairs. Gudrun Brangwen, an artist, becomes deeply involved in a destructive entanglement with the industrialist Gerald Crich. Ursula, a schoolteacher, embarks...

Wilbur Smith / Wild Justice (Vintage Paperback) (1)

A story of ruthless men and a beautiful woman locked in a struggle for power such as few men dream of. A novel of treachery and betrayal; of loyalty and courage; of hatred and love.     All of our...

Giles Gordon / Modern Short Stories 2, 1940-1980 (Vintage Paperback)

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Bernard Shaw / Heartbreak House (Vintage Paperback) (3)

One of the distinguished comic dramatist's more somber plays, this entertaining allegory examines apathy, confusion and lack of purpose as causes of major world problems, with larger-than-life...

D.H. Lawrence / The Plumed Serpent (Vintage Paperback) (1)

The story of a European woman's self-annihilating plunge into the intrigues, passions, and pagan rituals of Mexico. Lawrence's mesmerizing and unsettling 1926 novel is his great work of the political...

Wilbur A. Smith / Eagle in the Sky (Vintage Paperback)

‘With a dull but awful roar, the Mirage bloomed with dark crimson flame and sooty black smoke, the wind ripped flames outwards in great streamers and pennants that engulfed all around them, and David...

Graham Greene / The Honorary Consul (Vintage Paperback) (2)

Relates the story of the politically motivated kidnapping of Charlie Fortnum, a minor British functionary in Argentina.     All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual...

John Mortimer / In Character (Vintage Paperback)

The author's interviews in "The Sunday Times" command an enthusiastic following. Using his powers of cross-examination, and his playwright's ear for detail, he talks to such diverse personalities as...

Sven Hassel / Monte Cassino (Vintage Paperback)

Sven Hassel's iconic novel about the Battle for Monte Cassino. The thunder of the guns could be heard in Rome, 170 miles away... Having survived the horrors of the Eastern Front, the 27th Penal...

John le Carré / A Small Town in Germany (Vintage Paperback) (1)

A thriller from the author of THE HONOURABLE SCHOOLBOY. London security officer, Alan Turner, is sent to locate a missing official from the British Embassy in Bonn, and the 43 confidential files that...