Vintage Classics

A beautifully packaged hardback edition of Haruki Murakami’s brilliantly surreal, detective-story classic, now with a new introduction by the author. The man was leading an aimless life, time passing, one big blank. His girlfriend has perfectly formed ears, ears with the power to bewitch, marvels of creation. The man receives a letter from a friend, […]

A beautifully packaged hardback edition of Haruki Murakami’s brilliantly surreal, detective-story classic, now with a new introduction by theA beautifully packaged hardback edition of Haruki Murakami’s mesmerizingly evocative classic, now with a new introduction by the author Eyes mark the shape of the city The midnight hour approaches in an almost-empty diner. Mari sips her […]

Stunningly-designed new editions of Toni Morrison’s best-known novels, published by Vintage Classics in celebration of her life and work. WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY BOOKER PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR BERNARDINE EVARISTO. Sethe is now miles away from Sweet Home – the farm where she was kept as a slave for many years. Unable to forget the […]

A sumptuous gift edition to mark the 90th anniversary of first publication. With an Introduction by Yuval Noah Harari. ‘A masterpiece of speculation… As vibrant, fresh, and somehow shocking as it was when I first read it’ Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid’s Tale Welcome to New London. Everybody is happy here. Our perfect society […]

A special hardback edition of Murakami’s surreal, mind-bending masterpiece, in a new, unabridged translation from Jay Rubin. A narrative particle accelerator that zooms between Wild Turkey Whiskey and Bob Dylan, unicorn skulls and voracious librarians, John Coltrane and Lord Jim. Science fiction, detective story and post-modern manifesto all rolled into one rip-roaring novel, The End of […]

New to the Vintage Classics Woolf series, this is Woolf’s groundbreaking experimental novel. Jacob’s Room is Virginia Woolf’s first truly experimental novel. It is a portrait of a young man, tracing his life from childhood, to Cambridge University, and to his early adult life in artistic London. Jacob always yearns for something greater, and embarks […]

A beautifully packaged hardback edition of Haruki Murakami’s mesmerizingly surreal classic, now with a new introduction by the author and a unique design by japanese artist Kyoko Nakamura. Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father’s dark prophesy. The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from […]

Discover one of the most famous and ground-breaking pieces of twentieth century literature about one day in the mind of woman as she prepares to give a party. In this vivid portrait of one day in a woman’s life, Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of a party she is to give that […]

Japanese fairy tales – enchanting, enigmatic stories of animals, human beings and the great natural world. Dark and innocent, sublime and whimsical, Miyazawa’s stories have the ageless feel of the best fairy tales. There are animal allegories such as ‘The Ungrateful Rat’ where a rude rodent insults all the objects he meets – until he […]

A beautifully packaged hardback edition of Haruki Murakami’s breakout hit, now with a new introduction by the author and a unique design by japanese artist Takeshi Miyasaka. When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is transported back almost twenty […]

Virginia Woolf’s most unusual and fantastic creation, a funny, exuberant tale that examines the very nature of sexuality. **One of the BBC’s 100 Novels That Shaped Our World** As his tale begins, Orlando is a passionate young nobleman whose days are spent in rowdy revelry, filled with the colourful delights of Queen Elizabeth’s court. By […]

A beautifully packaged hardback edition of Haruki Murakami’s classic mystery story about love, the cosmos and other fictional universes, now with a new introduction by the author. Sumire is in love with a woman seventeen years her senior. Miu is glamorous and successful. Sumire is an aspiring writer who dresses in an oversized second-hand coat […]

Edgar Allan Poe was a writer of uncommon talent; in The Murders in the Rue Morgue he created the genre of detective fiction while his genius for finding the strangeness lurking within us all has been an influence on

The lost novel from the author of The Second Sex. The compulsive story of two friends growing up and falling apart. INTRODUCED BY DEBORAH LEVY. When Andrée joins her school, Sylvie is immediately fascinated. Andrée is small for her age, but walks with the confidence of an adult. Under her red coat, she hides terrible […]

Virginia Woolf wanted to write about the vast unknown uncertain continent that is the world and us in it’ Jeanette Winterson, from her introduction to The Waves. The Waves is an astonishingly beautiful and poetic novel. It begins with six children playing in a garden by the sea and follows their lives as they grow […]

A special hardback edition of Murakami’s epic, magical masterpiece, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, now with a new introduction from the author and a unique design by japanese artist Heisuke Kitazawa⁠. Toru Okada’s cat has disappeared. His wife is growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has recently been […]

The Years follows the lives of the Pargiters, a large middle-class London family, from an uncertain spring in 1880 to a party on a summer evening in the 1930s. We see them each endure and remember heart-break, loss, radical change and stifling conformity, marriage and regret. Written in 1937, this was the most popular of […]

Rediscover one of Virginia Woolf’s greatest works in this beautiful new gift edition from Vintage Classics. Mr and Mrs Ramsay and their eight children have always holidayed at their summer house in Skye, surrounded by family friends. The novel’s opening section teems with the noise, complications, bruised emotions, joys and quiet tragedies of everyday family […]

Vintage Minis bring you the world’s greatest writers on the experiences that make us human – from birth to death and everything in between.

Vintage Minis bring you the world’s greatest writers on the experiences that make us human – from birth to death and everything in between.

Vintage Minis bring you the world’s greatest writers on the experiences that make us human – from birth to death and everything in between.

Vintage Minis bring you the world’s greatest writers on the experiences that make us human – from birth to death and everything in between.

Vintage Minis bring you the world’s greatest writers on the experiences that make us human – from birth to death and everything in between.

Vintage Minis bring you the world’s greatest writers on the experiences that make us human – from birth to death and everything in between.

Vintage Minis bring you the world’s greatest writers on the experiences that make us human – from birth to death and everything in between.

Vintage Minis bring you the world’s greatest writers on the experiences that make us human – from birth to death and everything in between.

Vintage Minis bring you the world’s greatest writers on the experiences that make us human – from birth to death and everything in between.

Vintage Minis bring you the world’s greatest writers on the experiences that make us human – from birth to death and everything in between.

Published for the first time in the UK, one of Japan’s greatest modern female writers. Ibuki loves widow Yasuko who is young, charming and sparkling with intelligence as well as beauty. His friend, Mikamé, desires her too but that is not the difficulty. What troubles Ibuki is the curious bond that has grown between Yasuko […]

A shocking, hilarious and strangely tender novel about a young woman’s experiment in narcotic hibernation, aided and abetted by one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature. Our narrator has many of the

Vintage Minis bring you the world’s greatest writers on the experiences that make us human – from birth to death and everything in between.

Vintage Minis bring you the world’s greatest writers on the experiences that make us human – from birth to death and everything in between.

Published for the first time in the UK, one of Japan’s greatest modern female writers In the late nineteenth century, Tomo, the faithful wife of a government official, is sent to Tokyo, where a heartbreaking task is awaiting her. From among hundreds of geishas and daughters offered up for sale by their families she must […]