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London (Vintage Minis) by Charles Dickens
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Charles Dickens spent much of his working life walking the streets of London and drawing inspiration from them. The distinct London weather, the neighbourhoods, the poverty, the high society, the restlessness of the great city - Dickens describes all in his inimitable style.Selected from across Dickens' ...Show more
Love: Vintage Minis by Jeanette Winterson
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How do we love? With romance. With work. Through heartbreak. Throughout a lifetime. As a means, but not an end. Love in all its forms has been an abiding theme of Jeanette Winterson's writing. Here are selections from her books about that impossible, essential force, stories and truths that search for t ...Show more
Motherhood: Vintage Minis by Helen Simpson
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Welcome to motherhood - a land of aching fatigue, constant self-sacrifice and thankless servitude, a land of bottomless devotion, small hands and feet like warm pink roses, and velvet kisses. Here is a land where men and women, once carefree and engrossed in work and sex, now try to solve age-old argume ...Show more
Psychedelics: Vintage Minis by Aldous Huxley
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Could drugs offer a new way of seeing the world? In 1953, in the presence of an investigator, Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gramme of mescalin, sat down and waited to see what would happen. When he opened his eyes everything, from the flowers in a vase to the creases in his trousers, was transform ...Show more
Race: Vintage Minis by Toni Morrison
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Is who we are really only skin deep? In this searing, remonstrative book, Toni Morrison unravels race through the stories of those debased and dehumanised because of it. A young black girl longing for the blue eyes of white baby dolls spirals into inferiority and confusion. A friendship falls apart over ...Show more
Sisters: Vintage Minis by Louisa May Alcott
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Your sister might be the kindred soul who knows you best, or the most alien being in your household; she might enrage you or inspire you; she might be your fiercest competitor or closest co-conspirator, but she'll always share with you a totally unique bond. Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy are four of the most fa ...Show more
Summer: Vintage Minis by Laurie Lee
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How do you remember the summers of your childhood? For Laurie Lee they were flower-crested, heady, endless days. Here is an evocation of summer like no other - a remote valley filled with the scent of hay, jazzing wasps, blackberries plucked and gobbled, and games played until the last drop of dusk. Lee ...Show more
Swimming: Vintage Minis by Roger Deakin
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Is there anything quite so exhilarating as swimming in wild water? This is Roger Deakin's swimming tour of Britain, a frog's-eye view of the country's best bathing holes - the rivers, rock pools, lakes, ponds lochs and sea that define this watery island. Charming, funny, inspiring, an assertion of the n ...Show more