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Audition
55.00 ₾Katie Kitamura’s precisely observed novel about a middle-aged actor as the boundaries between self and role begin to blur. Cool, analytical, and quietly devastating: Kitamura at her most psychologically intense, exploring performance, authenticity, and what we lose as we age.
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
46.00 ₾One of the defining novels of the last decade — a young woman with everything decides to sleep for a year, aided by a cocktail of psychiatric medications. Ottessa Moshfegh’s dark, funny, and deeply unsettling portrait of numbness, grief, and the desire to absent yourself from your own life.
Letters to Milena
46.00 ₾Franz Kafka’s extraordinary love letters to Czech journalist Milena Jesenská — among the most naked and revealing correspondence in literary history. Anxious, longing, and obsessively self-analytical, they illuminate the inner life of one of the twentieth century’s most essential writers.
Extracts from the Second Sex
30.00 ₾Key passages from Simone de Beauvoir’s foundational 1949 feminist masterpiece — ‘One is not born, but becomes, a woman.’ This Vintage selection makes de Beauvoir’s essential analysis of femininity’s social construction accessible without sacrificing the rigour that makes it indispensable.
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Men Without Women Stories
46.00 ₾Seven stories about men who have been left — by death, disappearance, or emotional disconnection. Haruki Murakami works in the short form with characteristic quiet surrealism and melancholy, producing some of his most emotionally direct and formally accomplished writing.
Queens of the Crusades Eleanor of Aquitaine and Her Successors
60.00 ₾Alison Weir’s sweeping narrative history recovers the powerful women who shaped the Crusades — queens, regents, and noblewomen whose political and military decisions were as consequential as any king’s. A fundamentally different view of medieval history from Britain’s bestselling female historian.
Homesick for Another World
46.00 ₾Ottessa Moshfegh’s debut story collection — self-destructive, deluded, and occasionally monstrous narrators rendered with the cool precision and dark humour that defines her best work. An excellent introduction to one of contemporary fiction’s most discomforting original voices.
Culture and Imperialism
50.00 ₾Edward Said’s landmark companion to Orientalism — a groundbreaking analysis of how canonical Western literature is inseparable from the colonial project. Examining Austen, Conrad, and Dickens alongside postcolonial responses, this essential work permanently changes how we read culture and power.
Pure Colour
46.00 ₾Sheila Heti’s luminous, philosophically ambitious novel about grief and what it means to be alive — told partly from inside a leaf. Meditative, essayistic, and genuinely challenging, Pure Colour asks large questions with the open intelligence that makes Heti one of literature’s most distinctive voices.
Death in Her Hands
46.00 ₾An elderly widow discovers a note in the woods naming a dead woman — and becomes consumed by a mystery that may exist only in her own mind. Ottessa Moshfegh’s hypnotic, disturbing novel is a masterclass in unreliable narration and the psychology of isolation.
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
50.00 ₾Ocean Vuong’s extraordinary debut novel — a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read, weaving Vietnam, the immigrant experience, queer identity, and the search for language adequate to love. Prose of rare beauty from one of literature’s most essential new voices.
The Complete Short Stories
50.00 ₾The Complete Short Stories by Franz Kafka (Vintage) — every piece of Kafka’s short fiction in a single volume: ‘The Metamorphosis’, ‘In the Penal Colony’, ‘A Hunger Artist’, the animal stories, the parables, the miniatures, the fragments. Each piece demonstrating the same formal mastery: a premise established with deadpan certainty, a logic pursued to its inevitable conclusion, an effect combining comedy and horror in proportions that never resolve. The essential Kafka collection. Published by Vintage.
The Birth of Tragedy and The Case of Wagner
46.00 ₾The Birth of Tragedy and The Case of Wagner by Friedrich Nietzsche (Vintage) — the Apollonian-Dionysian distinction explained and the cultural case against Wagner made. Two essential works in the philosophy of art, in Walter Kaufmann’s standard translation.
Jailbird
46.00 ₾Jailbird by Kurt Vonnegut (Vintage) — a darkly comic political novel narrated by minor Watergate figure Walter Starbuck after his prison release. Drawing on American labour history and McCarthyism, it explores political conscience and its costs with Vonnegut’s characteristic blend of tenderness, humour, and anger.
Hocus Pocus
46.00 ₾Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut (Vintage) — narrated by Vietnam veteran and prison warden Eugene Debs Hartke from a prison cell, it is a dark, funny portrait of America in decline. Vonnegut’s compassion, anger, and moral intelligence at full power. Essential late Vonnegut.
Breakfast of Champions
46.00 ₾Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut (Vintage) — one of the most formally inventive American satirical novels. Vonnegut brings together the unhinged Dwayne Hoover and the sci-fi writer Kilgore Trout in a work illustrated with his own drawings — a devastating, funny critique of consumerism and the stories America tells itself.
The Tennis Partner
46.00 ₾The Tennis Partner by Abraham Verghese (Vintage) — a remarkable memoir about friendship, medicine, and addiction. Verghese’s friendship with David Smith, a brilliant medical student fighting cocaine addiction, is told with clinical precision and emotional intelligence. One of the finest books about addiction in recent American literature.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
46.00 ₾The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (Vintage) — narrated by Christopher Boone, a fifteen-year-old with extraordinary mathematical ability, as he investigates the murder of his neighbour’s dog. Simultaneously a detective story, a portrait of neurodiversity, and a moving father-son narrative. Winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year Award.
The Story of a Nutcracker
40.00 ₾The Story of a Nutcracker by Alexandre Dumas (Vintage) — his charming retelling of E.T.A. Hoffmann’s Christmas tale that inspired Tchaikovsky’s ballet. Written for his own children, Dumas brings characteristic warmth and narrative pace to Marie’s magical adventures. A delightful festive classic.
The Second Sex
55.00 ₾The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir (Vintage) — the foundational text of modern feminism, first published in 1949. ‘One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman’ — de Beauvoir’s central argument revealed femininity as social construction and permanently transformed thinking about gender. In Borde and Malovany-Chevallier’s landmark translation.
Covering Islam
50.00 ₾Covering Islam by Edward W. Said (Vintage) — the third volume of his landmark trilogy examines how Western media distort their coverage of the Islamic world. Drawing on the Iranian hostage crisis and other events, Said shows how ‘Islam’ functions as a threat-image in Western journalism. First published in 1981 — still urgently relevant.
The Ten Types of Human
55.00 ₾The Ten Types of Human by Dexter Dias (Vintage) — a human rights barrister uses evolutionary psychology and neuroscience to identify ten fundamental human responses to extreme situations. Moving between international courts and cutting-edge science, it asks what makes us capable of both cruelty and compassion. Remarkable science writing.
Bestseller
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
46.00 ₾Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami (Vintage) — Tsukuru, still haunted by his friends’ inexplicable rejection sixteen years earlier, finally seeks the truth. Murakami’s most emotionally direct novel — about friendship, loss, and the wounds that shape a life. Translated by Philip Gabriel.
How Should a Person Be?
46.00 ₾How Should a Person Be? by Sheila Heti (Vintage) — one of the most original and provocative novels of the twenty-first century. Blurring fiction and autobiography, Sheila pursues the central question through friendship, love, and art with radical candour and considerable humour. A landmark of contemporary autofiction.
Look at the Birdie
46.00 ₾Look at the Birdie by Kurt Vonnegut (Vintage) — fourteen previously unpublished stories discovered after his death. These 1950s tales of postwar American life stand fully alongside his published work: warm, funny, and morally intelligent. A genuine posthumous discovery.
Independent People
50.00 ₾Independent People by Halldór Laxness (Vintage) — the Nobel Prize-winning Icelandic masterpiece. The story of the magnificently stubborn crofter Bjartur, who sacrifices everything for independence, is both absurd and devastating: one of world literature’s great portraits of human will. Translated by J.A. Thompson.
The Prince
35.00 ₾The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli (Vintage) — the 1513 political masterpiece that inaugurated modern political science. Machiavelli’s stark account of how power is acquired and maintained, separated from conventional morality, remains one of the most famous and influential short texts in the history of ideas.
The Complete Novels
60.00 ₾The Complete Novels by Franz Kafka (Vintage) — The Trial, The Castle, and Amerika in one definitive volume. These three unfinished masterpieces define the Kafkaesque: arbitrary authority, impenetrable bureaucracy, and the individual’s helpless confrontation with the incomprehensible. Essential Kafka.
As I Lay Dying
46.00 ₾As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (Vintage) — told through fifteen narrators as the Bundren family transports their dead matriarch for burial. A formally brilliant, darkly comic masterpiece of American modernism, written in six weeks with concentrated power. One of literature’s great experiments in narrative voice.
Absalom, Absalom!
46.00 ₾Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner (Vintage) — widely considered his greatest novel. Through multiple overlapping narrators reconstructing the story of the enigmatic Thomas Sutpen, Faulkner creates a devastating meditation on Southern history and the impossibility of knowing the past. A masterwork of world literature.
The Sound and the Fury
46.00 ₾The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (Vintage) — a masterpiece of American modernism. The Compson family’s decline is told through four radically different perspectives, beginning with the fragmented consciousness of Benjy. Technically dazzling, emotionally devastating, and one of the most important American novels ever written.
Bestseller
The Elephant Vanishes
46.00 ₾The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami (Vintage) — seventeen short stories that established his international reputation. The mundane and the surreal coexist with quiet, unsettling force in tales of loneliness, strange encounters, and inexplicable loss. An essential introduction to Murakami’s singular voice.
Bestseller
South of the Border, West of the Sun
40.00 ₾South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami (Vintage) — a quietly devastating novel about the longing that haunts a life. When Hajime is reunited with his childhood love after twenty-five years, his apparently settled existence begins to unravel. Murakami’s most focused exploration of desire and the life unlived. Translated by Philip Gabriel.
Bestseller
Sputnik Sweetheart
46.00 ₾Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami (Vintage) — a haunting short novel of unrequited love and mysterious disappearance. When Sumire vanishes on a Greek island, her friend K’s search opens onto the uncanny distances between even the closest people. Translated by Philip Gabriel.
Cutting for Stone
50.00 ₾Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese (Vintage) — a sweeping, luminous family saga set in an Ethiopian mission hospital. The story of twin brothers born of a vanished surgeon and a nun, unfolding against Ethiopia’s political upheavals. One of the most celebrated debut novels of the twenty-first century.
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