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Invisible Women
Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Paperback || Caroline Criado Perez || Vintage UK
Discover the shocking gender bias that affects our everyday lives
Imagine a world where your phone is too big for your hand, where your doctor prescribes a drug that is wrong for your body, where in a car accident you are 47% more likely to be seriously injured, where every week the countless hours of work you do are not recognised or valued.
If any of this sounds familiar, chances are that you're a woman.
Invisible Women shows us how, in a world largely built for and by men, we are systemati...
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Norwegian Wood
Paperback || Haruki Murakami || Vintage UK
'Evocative, entertaining, sexy and funny; but then Murakami is one of the best writers around' Time Out'Such is the exquisite, gossamer construction of Murakami's writing that everything he chooses to describe trembles with symbolic possibility' GuardianWhen he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student days in Tokyo, adrift in a world of uneasy fr...
Success
Paperback || Martin Amis || Vintage UK
Smooth-talking, sensual and self-deluded, Gregory Riding leads an existence of formidable foppishness, his days and nights a series of effortless, titillating conquests and tireless sex - sister, employers, acquaintances are but co-stars among a cast of thousands to have passed through his busy bed. His foster brother, Terry, has to make do with the leavings as he trawls through life in a miasma of grief, burdened by an unmentionable past and the unlikelihood of ever having a good time in bed...
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Bewilderment (Heruitgave)
2022 || Paperback || Richard Powers || Vintage UK
SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2021
AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB SELECTION
AN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF SEPTEMBER 2021
FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING, BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE OVERSTORY
'Powers has extraordinary gifts as a writer' Guardian
'Impressively precise in its scientific conjectures, Bewilderment is no less rich or wis...
The Three of Us
2024 || Paperback || Ore Agbaje-Williams || Vintage UK
‘Everyone should be screaming about it’ MONICA HEISEY
WIFE. HUSBAND. BEST FRIEND. What if your two favourite people hated each other with a passion?
A nice house, a carefree life, a doting husband, a best friend who never leaves your side. You couldn’t ask for more. There’s just one problem: your husband and best friend love you, but they hate each other.
Over a single day, wife, husband and best friend Temi toe the lines of compromise and betrayal. Slowly, their lives begin to unrave...
Politics On the Edge (Heruitgave)
2024 || Paperback || Rory Stewart || Vintage UK
Technofeudalism (Heruitgave)
what Killed Capitalism
2024 || Paperback || Yanis Varoufakis || Vintage UK