Vintage Fontana Books

Michael Banton - Racial Minorities - PB 1972

Published by Fontana UK, 1972. Banton bases his study of racial minorities in post war Britain - examining social isolation of immigrants in the UK, urban pressurea, and the relationships between immigrant and host society.  Banton spent his long...

Raymond Williams - Orwell ( Fontana Modern Masters Series ) - PB - 1971

Issued as part of the popular 1970s series of publications on "Modern Masters": study guides focused on modernist writers and thinkers.To become ' Orwell' Eric Blair deliberately exposed himself to the squalor and misery of urban 1930's England, to Spain...

John Gross - Joyce ( Fontana Modern Masters Series ) - PB - 1971

Issued as part of the popular 1970s series of publications on "Modern Masters": study guides focused on modernist writers and thinkers.In the first half of the book Gross provides us more with his own impressions of Joyce than with a straight biography,...

L. Dudley Stamp - Britain's Structure and Scenery - ( Fontana New Naturalist Series ) - PB 1970 ( Originally 1946)

Britains Structure and Scenery deals with the physical background, the stage on which the drama of life is played and which provides the fundamental environment for plants, newnaturalists.com It would be difficult to find an area of comparable size...

Anthony Powell - The Valley of Bones - Vintage PB ( A Dance to the Music of Time - Book 7 )

He is, as Proust was before him, the great literary chronicler of his culture in his time.' GUARDIAN'A Dance to the Music of Time' is universally acknowledged as one of the great works of English literature. Reissued now in this definitive edition,...

Anthony Powell - Casanova's Chinese Restaurant - Vintage PB ( A Dance to the Music of Time - Book 5 )

'He is, as Proust was before him, the great literary chronicler of his culture in his time.' GUARDIAN 'A Dance to the Music of Time' is universally acknowledged as one of the great works of English literature. Reissued now in this definitive edition, it...

Anthony Powell - The Military Philosophers - Vintage PB 1968 ( A Dance to the Music of Time - Book 9 )

Mackie, as ever, presents well-balanced arguments and produces his own views with a degree of clarity and style which makes him stand out amongst the writers of philosophy. His Ethics is no different, presenting a clear refutation of objective morality...

Helen MacInnes - Message From Malaga - Vintage PB -1973 ( Originally 1971)

To the accompaniment of flamenco guitars, a drama of espionage begins in a cafe courtyard in Malaga. For Ian Ferrier, on a vacation visit to his old friend Jeff Reid, it means the startling discovery that Reid is more than just a wine exporter...he is in...

Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966)

A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist it was a jaw dropping work at the time and open so many lines of research. 

Ogg, David - Europe of the Ancien Régime 1715-1783 - PB Fontana History of Europe

 While Empress Maria Teresa of Austria was trying to recover Silesia from the Prussians, a subject of hers was born in Salzburg, Mozart, and, further south, Canaletto gave the first brushstrokes to his Capriccio con edifici palladiani. During...

Cormier, Robert - The Chocolate War - Vintage Fontana PB ed 1984

A Fontana Lions edition, Uk, 1984 of the original 1974 bestseller by Robert Cormier, The Chocolate WAR.  Internally as new, no marks or damage, light bumps and edgewear to the cover, nicked bup to base of spine.  The bestselling controversial...

Tim Pat Coogan - The I.R.A - Vintage Fontana PB 6th Revised Edition 1980

First published in hardcover in 1971, this is a revised 1980 edition in paperback of what was to become the standard book on the IRA in the 20th century - and it arguably was hardly supplanted for many years, certainly as a bestseller. Written in 1970-71...