The hearing trumpet
£9.99When 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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End Of The Affair
£9.99The novelist Maurice Bendrix’s love affair with his friend’s wife, Sarah, had begun in London during the Blitz. But, out of the blue she ended the relationship. Years later he sends a private detective to follow Sarah and find out the truth.
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Vintage Classic Brighton Rock
£9.99A gang war is raging in Brighton. Pinkie is 17 and fighting for leadership. He has already proved his ruthlessness by killing Hale, a journalist. But he isn’t prepared for the courageous Ida Arnold who is determined to avenge Hale’s death.
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Slipstream Memoir
£12.99A candid and revealing memoir from Elizabeth Jane Howard, the bestselling and lauded author of the Cazalet Chronicles and one of twentieth century Britain’s greatest storytellers.
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PC Brothers Karamazov
£9.99When brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov is murdered, the lives of his sons are changed irrevocably: Mitya is placed under suspicion; Ivan’s mental tortures drive him to breakdown; Alyosha tries to heal the family’s rifts; and there is always the shadow of their bastard half-brother, Smerdyakov.
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PC Frankenstein
£7.99Mary Shelly’s classic tale of terror is the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young student, who learns the secret of imparting life into a creature that he has constructed from corpses he finds.
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PMC Tender Is The Night
£8.99Tender is the Night is based upon the author’s unhappy marriage, and was written as he was experiencing the tragedies of his wife’s nervous breakdown and his own decline.
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Unbearable Lightness Of Being
£9.99In this story of irreconcilable loves and infidelities, Milan Kundera addresses himself to the nature of 20th century “Being”. The novel encompasses the extremes of comedy and tragedy, and embraces, it seems, all aspects of human existence.
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The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea
£9.99From the acclaimed author of Spring Snow, this novel tells of a band of savage 13-year-old boys who reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness they call objectivity.
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Vintage Classics Crime & Punishment
£9.99This classic, begun as a novel concerned with the psychology of a crime and the process of guilt, surpasses itself to take on the tragic force of myth.
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Berlin Novels
£14.99Piquant, witty and oblique, Christopher Isherwood’s ‘Berlin’ novels vividly evoke the atmosphere of pre-war Berlin whilst forcefully conveying an ironic political parable. This volume features ‘Mr Norris Changes Trains’ and ‘Goodbye to Berlin’.