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YUKIO MISHIMA ‘One of the outstanding writers of the world.’ New York Times
Thirst for Love After the early death of her philandering husband, Etsuko moves into
Translated by Alfred H Marks her father-in-law’s house, where she numbly submits to the old man’s
advances. But soon she finds herself in love with her young servant
Saburo. Tormented by his indifference, yet invigorated by desire, she
makes her move, with catastrophic consequences.

Yukio Mishima was born into a samurai family and imbued with
the code of complete control over mind and body, and loyalty to
the emperor – the same code that produced the austerity and self-
sacrifice of Zen. He wrote countless stories and thirty-three plays, in
some of which he performed. Several films have been made from his
novels, including The Sound of Waves, Enjo, which was based on
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, and The Sailor Who Fell from
Grace with the Sea. Among his other works are the novels
Confessions of a Mask and Thirst for Love, and the short story
collections Death in Midsummer and Acts of Worship. The Sea of
Fertility tetralogy, however, is his masterpiece. After Mishima
publication: December conceived the idea of The Sea of Fertility in 1964, he frequently
price: £8.99 said he would die when it was completed. On 25 November 1970,
size: 198x129mm the day he completed The Decay of the Angel, the last novel of the
pages: 208 cycle, Mishima committed seppuku (ritual suicide) at the age of
ISBN: 9780099530275
forty-five.
market: UKCWXC

YUKIO MISHIMA YUKIO MISHIMA W SOMERSET MAUGHAM

The Sailor Who Fell from Grace The Temple of the Golden Pavilion Far Eastern Tales
with the Sea

9780099284796 December 9780099285670 December 9780099282846 December

W SOMERSET MAUGHAM JUNICHIRO TANIZAKI JUNICHIRO TANIZAKI

More Far Eastern Tales The Makioka Sisters Some Prefer Nettles
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9780099289609 December 9780749397104 December 9780099283379 December

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ROSE TREMAIN EXCLUSIVE TO VINTAGE CLASSICS
Restoration ‘A most beautiful and original novel.’ Independent

Robert Merivel is a dissolute young medical student when an

accident of fate leads him to the attention of King Charles II.

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Finding favour with the King, Merivel embarks on the time of his
life, enthusiastically enjoying the luxury, women and wine of the
vibrant royal court, until he is called upon to serve his monarch in
an unusual role. However, when he fails at the one thing the King
demands of him he is cast out from his new found paradise.
Determined to be restored to the King’s favour, Merivel begins a
journey to self-knowledge that takes him to the depths of
seventeenth-century society.

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Rose Tremain lives in North London and Norwich, with the
biographer Richard Holmes. Her books have won many prizes
including the Whitbread Novel of the Year, the James Tait Black
publication: July Memorial Prize, the Prix Femina Etranger, the Dylan Thomas Prize,
price: £7.99 the Angel Literary Award and the Sunday Express Book of the Year.
size: 198x129mm Restoration was shortlisted for the Booker and made into a film; The
pages: 192 Colour was shortlisted for the Orange and selected by the Daily Mail

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ISBN: 9780099529637 Reading Club. Her most recent collection, The Darkness of Wallis
market: UKCWC Simpson, was shortlisted for both the first National Short Story Award
and the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award.

JOHN FOWLES IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH

The French Lieutenant’s Woman The Bell The Black Prince

Harvill Secker
Chatto & Windus
Vintage Originals
9780099478331 November 9780099470489 July 9780099283997 May

IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH W SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Sartre Under the Net Cakes and Ale
Romantic Rationalist With an introduction by Nicholas Shakespeare
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9780099273721 July 9780099429074 May 9780099282778 July

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CHARLOTTE, EMILY AND ANNE BRONTË EXCLUSIVE TO VINTAGE CLASSICS

The Brontë Collection
THE BEST OF THE BRONTËS COLLECTED IN A BEAUTIFULLY
DESIGNED GIFT BOX.

Jane Eyre • Wuthering Heights • The Tenant of Wildfell Hall • Villette

The Brontë sisters were extraordinarily creative women whose passionate,

thought-provoking and moving novels have had an enormous influence
over English writing. This collection draws together their most famous
works and showcases both their unique individual talents and their
collective genius.

Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë were born at Thornton in

Bradford. Their father was curate of Haworth, Yorkshire and their
mother died in 1821, leaving five daughters and one son. In 1824,
Charlotte, Maria, Elizabeth and Emily were sent to Cowan Bridge, a
school for clergymen’s daughters, where Maria and Elizabeth both
caught tuberculosis and died. The remaining children were taught at
publication: September
home from this point on and together they created vivid fantasy
price: £20.00
worlds which they explored in their writing. In 1846, the three
size: 198x129mm sisters published Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell, and after
ISBN: 9780099530527 that Charlotte, Emily and Anne went on to enjoy individual success
market: WEL with their writing. Only Charlotte married, and all three women
died before their fortieth birthday.

WILKIE COLLINS WILKIE COLLINS ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

The Moonstone No Name A Study in Scarlet
With an introduction by Mark Billingham

9780099519003 September 9780099519027 September

9780099530534 September

JAMES HOGG MATTHEW LEWIS ANGELA CARTER

The Private Memoirs and The Monk The Bloody Chamber
Confessions of a Justified Sinner Includes ‘The Bravo of Venice’
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With an introduction by Lucy Hughes-Hallet

9780099519041 September 9780099519034 September 9780099529590 September

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Jonathan Cape
NEVIL SHUTE After the war is over, a radioactive cloud begins to sweep
On the Beach southwards on the winds, gradually poisoning everything in its
path. An American submarine captain is among the survivors left
sheltering in Australia, preparing with the locals for the inevitable.
Despite his memories of his wife, he becomes close to a young
woman struggling to accept the harsh realities of their situation.

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Then a faint Morse code signal is picked up, transmitting from the
United States, and the submarine must set sail through the bleak
ocean to search for signs of life.

On the Beach is Nevil Shute’s most powerful novel. Both gripping

and intensely moving, its impact is unforgettable.

Nevil Shute Norway was born on 17 January 1899 in Ealing, London.

Yellow Jersey Press

After attending the Dragon School and Shrewsbury School, he studied
Engineering Science at Balliol College, Oxford. He worked as an
aeronautical engineer and published his first novel, Marazan, in
1926. In 1931 he married Frances Mary Heaton and they went on to
publication: October have two daughters. During the Second World War he joined the
price: £7.99 Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve where he worked on developing secret
size: 198x129mm weapons. After the war he continued to write and settled in Australia,
where he lived until his death on 12 January 1960. His most

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pages: 336
ISBN: 9780099530251 celebrated novels include Pied Piper (1942), No Highway (1948),
market: W A Town Like Alice (1950) and On the Beach (1957).

NEVIL SHUTE NEVIL SHUTE NEVIL SHUTE

Pied Piper Requiem for a Wren A Town Like Alice

Harvill Secker
Chatto & Windus
Vintage Originals
9780099530220 October 9780099530237 October 9780099530268 October

NEVIL SHUTE – PRINT ON DEMAND

In October the entirety of Nevil Shute’s backlist will be made available in the Random House print on demand programme.
9780099529996 Beyond the Black Stump
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9780099530022 The Chequer Board

9780099530039 The Far Country
9780099530046 In the Wet
9780099530053 Landfall
9780099530060 Lonely Road
9780099530077 Marazan
9780099530084 Most Secret
9780099530091 No Highway
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9780099530121 An Old Captivity

9780099530138 Pastoral
9780099530145 The Rainbow and the Rose
9780099530152 Round the Bend
9780099530169 Ruined City
9780099530176 Slide Rule
9780099530183 So Disdained
9780099530190 Stephen Morris
9780099529989 Trustee from the Toolroom
9780099529972 What Happened to the Corbetts
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HENRI ALAIN-FOURNIER When Augustin Meaulnes arrives in François’s home, he
changes everything. Life in the little town where they both go
The Magnificent Meaulnes to school suddenly becomes far more adventurous and
Translated by Valerie Lester exciting. On one of his escapades, Meaulnes gets lost in the
countryside and finds himself at an extraordinary party where
he meets the girl of his dreams. From this point on he is
haunted by her memory and devotes his life, with François’s
willing help, to finding her again.

Alain-Fournier was born Henri Alban Fournier, the son of two

school teachers, on 3 October 1886 in La Chapelle
d’Anguillonin, France. He studied at a boarding school in Paris,
at the naval college in Brest, and also at the Lycée Lakanal in
Sceaux, where he met his lifelong friend, the critic Jacques
Rivière. In 1905, Fournier had a chance meeting with Yvonne de
Quiévrecourt and fell instantly in love. This meeting was the
inspiration for The Magnificent Meaulnes, though the novel was
not finished until Fournier had completed his military service in
1913. While working as a columnist and private tutor, Fournier
publication: November was called up to fight in the First World War. He was killed in
price: £7.99 action at Vaux-les-Palameix in 1914, though his body was not
size: 198x129mm formally identified until 1991. The Magnificent Meaulnes is his
pages: 208 only finished novel.
ISBN: 9780099529729
market: WEL

VICTOR HUGO ROLAND BARTHES ROLAND BARTHES

Les Misérables Camera Lucida Mythologies
With an introduction by Adam Thirwell Translated by Richard Howard Includes new material
Translated by Julie Rose With an introduction by Neil Badmington

9780099529965 July 9780099225416 September 9780099529750 September

BOHUMIL HRABAL BOHUMIL HRABAL FRANZ KAFKA

Dancing Lessons for the I Served the King of England The Trial
Advanced in Age With an introduction by Adam Thirwell Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir
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Jonathan Cape
A A MILNE Far from the gentle slopes of the Hundred Acre Wood lies The Red
House, the setting for A A Milne’s only detective story, where secret
The Red House Mystery passages, uninvited guests, a sinister valet and a puzzling murder lay
the foundations for a classic crime caper. And when the local police
prove baffled, it is up to a guest at a local inn to appoint himself
‘Sherlock Holmes’ and, together with his friend and loyal ‘Watson’,
delve deeper into the mysteries of the dead man.

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The Red House Mystery is a lost gem from a time before Tigger, and a
perfectly crafted whodunnit with witty dialogue, deft plotting and a
most curious cast of characters.

Alan Alexander Milne was born in Hampstead in 1882 and

attended an independent school run by his father before studying
mathematics at Cambridge. After university he worked as an

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assistant editor at the magazine Punch and established himself as
a successful author of both plays and novels, including The Red
House Mystery, until, with the publication of When We Were Very
Young in 1924 and Winnie-the-Pooh in 1926, his career took a
publication: August very different turn. Milne continued to produce works for adults
price: £6.99 but occasionally resented the success of his children’s stories,
size: 198x129mm
which overshadowed much of his other writing.
pages: 224

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In 1952, A A Milne suffered a stroke after brain surgery and
ISBN: 9780099521273
retired to his country home in Sussex as an invalid. He died there
market: WEL
four years later.

JULIAN BARNES J M BARRIE CHARLES DICKENS

Flaubert’s Parrot Peter Pan A Christmas Carol
Cover to be designed in our

Harvill Secker
summer children’s competition

9780099540588 July
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9780099511793 November 9780099529736 November
Chatto & Windus
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KURT VONNEGUT KURT VONNEGUT

Breakfast of Champions Timequake
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9780099842606 May 9780099267546 August