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Art by Simon Schama
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Category: Current Affairs | 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
Babies: Vintage Minis by Anne Enright
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Category: Parenting | 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: Biographies | 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: Psychology | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
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
Family: Vintage Minis by Mark Haddon
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Category: Fiction | 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
Fatherhood: Vintage Minis by Karl Ove Knausgaard
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Category: Parenting | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
How to be a good father? Children?s birthday parties, unsuccessful family holidays, humiliating antenatal music classes- the trials of parenthood are all found in Knausgaard?s compelling and honest account of family life. Contrasting moments of enormous love and tenderness towards his children with the ...Show more
Home: Vintage Minis by Salman Rushdie
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Category: Current Affairs | 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
Love: Vintage Minis by Jeanette Winterson
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Category: Psychology | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
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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Category: Parenting | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
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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Category: Science | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
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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Category: Current Affairs | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
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
Recovery: Vintage Minis by Helen Macdonald
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Category: Biographies | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
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 dies? Is it simply a case of putting one foot in front of the other in a bleak new world or do we need something more? Reeling with grief aft ...Show more