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Art by Simon Schama
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Category: No Category | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
'Great art has dreadful manners... ...The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are visions that soothe, charm and beguile, but actually they are thugs. Merciless and wily, the greatest paintings grab you in a headlock and proceed in short order to re-arrange your sen ...Show more
Austerity (Vintage Minis) by Yanis Varoufakis
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Category: Classics | 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
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
Dreams Vintage Minis by Sigmund Freud
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Selected from the writings of Sigmund Freud. 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
Family: Vintage Minis by Mark Haddon
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Category: No Category | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
Selected from the books of Mark Haddon. 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
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
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
Independence: Vintage Minis by Charlotte Bronte
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'I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.'We collect some of the most heartening statements of independence from Bronte's heroines Jane Eyre and Lucy Snowe as in the face of temptation, hardship and heartache they cling determi ...Show more
Language: Vintage Minis by Xiaolu Guo
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
Have you ever tried to learn another language? When Zhuang first arrives in London from China she feels like she is among an alien species. The city is disorientating, the people unfriendly, the language a muddle of personal pronouns and moody verbs. But with increasing fluency in English surviving turn ...Show more
Lies (Vintage Minis) by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
From disguises and impostors to locked doors and deadly secrets, Wilde was obsessed with lying as an art form rich with delights- and dangers.Selected from Wilde's essays, plays and prose including The Picture of Dorian Gray.VINTAGE MINIS- GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.A series of short books by ...Show more