Calm - Vintage Minis (Parks Tim)(Paperback / softback)

Calm - Vintage Minis (Parks Tim)(Paperback / softback)

How do we find calm in our frantic modern world? The author - lifelong sceptic of all things spiritual - finds himself on a Buddhist meditation retreat trying to answer this very question. He recounts his journey from disbelief to something approaching inner peace and tackles one of the great

Art - Vintage Minis (Schama Simon CBE)(Paperback / softback)

Italian Education (Parks Tim)(Paperback / softback)

How does an Italian become Italian? In An Italian Education Tim Parks focuses on his own young children in the small village near Verona where he lives, building a fascinating picture of the contemporary Italian family at school, at home, at work and at

Dreams - Vintage Minis (Freud Sigmund)(Paperback / softback)

Have you ever dreamt you were naked on stage, or woken having failed an exam? In these fascinating, pioneering essays, Sigmund Freud plunges into the recesses of our minds, and awakens the hidden meanings behind our most typical and surprising night-time fantasies. From dreams of violence and

Hero's Way (Parks Tim)(Paperback)

Happy Families (Parks Adele)(Paperback / softback)

Sunday Times bestseller Adele Parks writes novels that real women want to read. With her trademark tell-it-like-it-is style, she gets right to the heart of the dilemmas people face in their lives and takes her stories to unexpected

Out of My Head - On the Trail of Consciousness (Parks Tim)(Paperback / softback)

'An exceptionally witty and compelling look at the nature of consciousness... Parks is a delight to read' Iain McGilchrist'[It has] wit, humanity and insight... Parks is an entertaining companion throughout' Mail on

Motherhood - Vintage Minis (Simpson Helen)(Paperback / softback)

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. Selected from Helen Simpson's short story collections, this title deals with

Fatherhood - Vintage Minis (Knausgaard Karl Ove)(Paperback / softback)

How to be a good father? From children's birthday parties, unsuccessful family holidays, to humiliating antenatal music classes, this account of family life presents the trials of

Lies Lies Lies (Parks Adele)(Paperback / softback)

I Invited Her In (Parks Adele)(Paperback / softback)

Love - Vintage Minis (Winterson Jeanette)(Paperback / softback)

How do we love? With romance. With work. Through heartbreak. Throughout a lifetime. As a means, but not an end. This book focuses on love in all its forms. It includes selections from Jeanette Winterson's books about that impossible, essential force, stories and truths that search for the mythical

Therapy - Vintage Minis (Grosz Stephen)(Paperback / softback)

In these beautifully told cases we find compulsive liars, deceived spouses, violent children and delusional adults but we also find ourselves and in doing so, understand a little more about what it is to be human. Selected from The Examined Life. VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT

Recovery - Vintage Minis (Macdonald Helen)(Paperback / softback)

The hawk was everything I wanted to be: solitary, self-possessed, free from grief, and numb to the hurts of human life. How do we carry on when someone close to us

Friendship - Vintage Minis (Tremain Rose)(Paperback / softback)

Thought-provoking and life-affirming, this is at once an examination and a celebration of friendship in all its glorious complexity. Selected from the books Restoration and The Gustav Sonata by Rose TremainVINTAGE MINIS: GREAT

London's Parks and Gardens (Ocran Nana)(Paperback / softback)

Start Your Business Week by Week - How to plan and launch your successful business - one step at a time (Parks Steve)(Paperback / softback)

Europa (Parks Tim)(Paperback / softback)

A brilliantly comic, dark and dyspeptic novel about an obsessive love gone sour. Jealousy and revenge, passion and dread intertwine in one man's soul as he's trapped in the awful claustrophobia of a three-day coach journey across Europe with a group of people he loathes - and the woman who broke

A Literary Tour of Italy (Parks Tim)(Paperback)

An acclaimed author of novels and short stories, Tim Parks--who was described in a recent review as 'one of the best living writers of English'--has delighted audiences around the world with his finely observed writings on all aspects of Italian life and customs. This volume contains a selection of

Science : Vintage Minis - Ian McEwan

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

Swimming - Vintage Minis (Deakin Roger)(Paperback / softback)

Is there anything quite so exhilarating as swimming in wild water? This swimming tour of Britain offers a frog's-eye view of the country's best bathing holes - the rivers, rock pools, lakes, ponds, lochs and sea that define a watery

Language - Vintage Minis (Guo Xiaolu)(Paperback / softback)

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. But with increasing fluency in English surviving turns to living. And they say that the best way to learn a language is to fall in love with a native

Summer - Vintage Minis (Lee Laurie)(Paperback / softback)

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

Home - Vintage Minis (Rushdie Salman)(Paperback / softback)

A self-described 'emigrant from one place and a newcomer in two', the author explores the true meaning of home. 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 memory and what happens when East meets