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Austerity (Vintage Minis) by Yanis Varoufakis
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
VINTAGE MINIS- GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.How do we choose between what is fair and just, and what our debtors demand of us? Yanis Varoufakis was put in such a dilemma in 2015 when he became the finance minister of Greece. In this rousing book, he charts the absurdities that underpin calls for ...Show more
Babies: Vintage Minis by Anne Enright
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
Babies- our biggest mystery and our most natural consequence, our hardest test and our enduring love. Anne Enright describes the intensity, bewilderment and extravagant happiness of her experience of having babies, from the exhaustion of early pregnancy to first smiles and becoming acquainted with the l ...Show more
Death: Vintage Minis by Julian Barnes
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
When it comes to death, is there ever a best case scenario? In this disarmingly witty book, Julian Barnes confronts our unending obsession with the end. He reflects on what it means to miss God, whether death can be good for our careers and why we eventually turn into our parents. Barnes is the perfect ...Show more
Depression: Vintage Minis by William Styron
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
How does a writer compose a suicide note? This was not a question that the prize-winning novelist William Styron had ever contemplated before. In this true account of his depression, Styron describes an illness that reduced him from a successful writer to a man arranging his own destruction. He lived to ...Show more
Desire: Vintage Minis by Haruki Murakami
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Minis Ser. | Reading Level: very good
You've just passed someone on the street who could be the love of your life, the person you're destined for - what do you do? In Murakami's world, you tell them a story. The five weird and wonderful tales collected here each unlock the many-tongued language of desire, whether it takes the form of hunger ...Show more
Drinking: Vintage Minis by John Cheever
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
What's the worst another drink could do? John Cheever pours out our most sociable of vices, and hands it to us in a highball. From the calculating teenager who raids her parents' liquor cabinet, only to drown her sorrows in it, to the suburban swimmer withering away with every plunge he takes, these are ...Show more
Eating: Vintage Minis by Nigella Lawson
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
In this inspiring, witty and eminently sensible book, Nigella Lawson sets out a manifesto for how to cook (and eat) good food every day with a minimum of fuss. From basic roast chicken and pea risotto to white truffles and Turkish Delight figs, Nigella brings the joy back into the kitchen. Selected fro ...Show more
Fatherhood: Vintage Minis by Karl Ove Knausgaard
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
How to be a good father? Children?s birthday parties, unsuccessful family holidays, humiliating antenatal music classes- the trials of parenthood are all found in Knausgaard?s compelling and honest account of family life. Contrasting moments of enormous love and tenderness towards his children with the ...Show more
Freedom: Vintage Minis by Margaret Atwood
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
Can we ever be wholly free? In this book of breathtaking imaginary leaps that conjure dystopias and magical islands, Margaret Atwood holds a mirror up to our own world. The reflection we are faced with, of men and women in prisons literal and metaphorical, is frightening, but it is also a call to arms t ...Show more
Friendship: Vintage Minis by Rose Tremain
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
Selected from the novels of Rose Tremain. VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS. A series of short books by the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us human
Ghosts: M.R. James by M. R. James
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
A high-pitched laugh echoes in an empty church. Servants discover their master dead in his bed, the only sign of disturbance an open window. The coffin of a woman hanged as a witch is found to be empty. A skeletal figure creeps closer and closer to the house where an unsuspecting family lie sleeping. ...Show more
Home: Vintage Minis by Salman Rushdie
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
Salman Rushdie, a self-described 'emigrant from one place and a newcomer in two', explores the true meaning of home. Writing with insight, passion and humour, he looks at what it means to belong, whether roots are real and homelands imaginary, what it is like to reconfigure your past from fragments of m ...Show more