Odyssey
£14.99Homer’s epic tells of the adventures of Odysseus, the mythological King of Ithaca and leader of the Trojan war, recounting the hero’s wanderings and his eventual regaining of his kingdom.
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Homo Faber
£10.99‘Homo Faber’ tells the story of a middle-class UNESCO engineer called Walter Faber, who believes in a rational, calculated world. Strange events undermine his security – his plane makes an emergency landing in a Mexican desert, his friend hangs himself in the Mexican jungle, and he falls in love with a woman who dies of concussion.
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On Beauty
£10.99When Howard Belsey’s oldest son Jerome falls for Victoria, the stunning daughter of the right-wing Monty Kipps, both families find themselves thrown together, enacting a cultural and personal war against each other.
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PC Jane Eyre
£8.99A troubled childhood strengthens Jane Eyre’s natural independence and spirit – which prove necessary when she finds a position as governess at Thornfield Hall. But when she finds love with her sardonic employer, Rochester, the discovery of his terrible secret forces her to make a choice.
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In A Summer Season
£10.99Kate marries a man who is 10 years her junior. Their love arms them against the disapproval – until the return of Kate’s old friend, Charles, now widowed with a daughter. At first she watches happily as the two families are drawn together, but one night she has a dream.
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The hearing trumpet
£10.99When 92-year-old Marian Leatherby is given the gift of a hearing trumpet, she overhears her family plotting to commit her to an institution.
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Temporary Kings
£9.99Taking place in the years 1958-59, the opening scenes of this book are at a cultural conference in Venice, which Nicholas Jenkins is attending. The intrigues of Widmerpool, now a life peer come to something of a climax.
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Hearing Secret Harmonies
£10.99It is the mid 1960s and many of the characters who have taken part in this vast panorama of modern life are either old or dead. Obseved by Nicholas Jenkins, several of those who remain have begun to hear secret harmonies.
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Books Do Furnish a Room
£10.99After the war Nicholas Jenkins began work on a biography of the 17th century writer Robert Burton. A job on the side brings about contact with persons both known and unknown.
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Case Histories: (Jackson Brodie)
£9.99Full of suspense and heartbreak, ‘Case Histories’ is a feat of bravura storytelling that conveys the mysteries of life, its inanities and its hilarities. Jackson is 45 but feels much older. Surrounded by death, intrigue and misfortune, his own life is brought sharply into focus.
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The Military Philosophers
£9.99Nicholas Jenkins has been posted to a War Office liaison section to work with the Allied armies. Absurdities coincide with horrors for the characters of ‘A Dance to the Music of Time’, especially in the shadowy secret services.
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The Soldier’s Art
£9.99Taking place during the period between the occupation of Paris by the Germans in June 1940, and their invasion of Russia in the same month a year later, ‘The Soldier’s Art’ further traces the lives of those in ‘A Dance to the Music of Time’.
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Shantaram
£12.99In 1978 Greg Roberts turned to heroin, feeding his addiction with a string of robberies. Sentenced to prison, he escaped and fled to Bombay. Based on his life in Bombay, this is a tale of slums and mansions, Mafia and movies, and much more.
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Vintage Classics To Kill A Mockingbird
£9.99‘Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ’em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird’. This is a lawyer’s advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of the story – a black man charged with raping a white girl in the 30s.
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PMC Nineteen Eighty-Four
£9.99Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in, which demands absolute obedience and controls him through the all-seeing telescreens and the watchful eye of Big Brother, symbolic head of the Party. In his longing for truth and liberty, Smith begins a secret love affair with a fellow-worker Julia, but soon discovers the true price of freedom is betrayal.