Vintage Publishing

"I find writing novels a challenge, writing stories a joy. If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden."

She noticed him before anyone else...Arriving at his fourth school in six years, diplomat's son Osei Kokote knows he needs an ally if he is to survive his first day - so he's lucky to hit it off with Dee, the most popular girl in school.

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. "These 128 pages are a brief primer in every important thing we might have learned from the history of the last century, and all that we appear to have forgotten". (Observer).

Nineteen Arab women journalists speak out about what it's like to report on their changing homelands in this first-of-its-kind essay collection, with a foreword by CNN chief international anchor Christiane Amanpour.

Paradise Lost, Milton's epic poem, charts humanity's fall from grace and the origin of the struggle between God and Satan, good and evil, life and death.

In Queer City Peter Ackroyd looks at London in a whole new way - through the history and experiences of its gay population.

Astonishingly inventive, amusing and engrossing, Rumo is a captivating story from the unique imagination of Walter Moers. Rumo is a little Wolperting who will one day become the greatest hero in the history of Zamonia.

In this hugely powerful book, Karen Armstrong argues that it isn't enough to change our behaviour to avert environmental catastrophe - we must rekindle our spiritual bond with the natural world.