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Reissued to mark the centenary of Patricia Highsmith and the upcoming BBC adaption, Ripley, these beautiful new editions mark Highsmith's entry into Vintage Classics
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This volume combines two books which were among the greatest contributions to feminist literature this century. Together they form a brilliant attack on sexual inequality. A Room of One's Own, first
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Simone de Beauvoir famously wrote, 'One is not born, but rather becomes, woman'. In this groundbreaking
Will Andrews is no academic. He longs for wildness, freedom, hope and vigour. He leaves Harvard and sets out for the West to discover a new way of living.
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I finished it in one sitting. Probably for the tenth time... it carries me along waves of wonder' Franz Kafka
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A beautiful hardback edition of Angela Carter's feminist retelling of fairy tales - masterful, seductive and luminous.
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Celebrating the finest works of the Harlem Renaissance, one of the most important Black arts movements in modern history.
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On a remote Greek Island, Nicholas Urfe finds himself embroiled in the deceptions of a master trickster. As reality and illusion intertwine, Urfe is caught up in the darkest of psychological games.
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