Nigella Lawson has written eleven bestselling cookery books including the classics How to Eat and How To Be A Domestic Goddess – the book that inspired a whole new generation of bakers. These books, and her TV series, have made her a household name around the world. 
 
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Marcel Proust

Can we truly know the one we love? In this painfully candid book Marcel Proust looks straight into the green eye of every lover’s jealous struggle. He broods on why we are driven to try possess one another, how jealousy can outlive death, and whether we can ever reclaim those careless days of first love. There is no greater chronicler of jealousy’s darkest fears and destructive suspicions than Proust. 
 
Selected from the book In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust 
 
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 
 
Also in the Vintage Minis series: 
Desire by Haruki Murakami 
Eating by Nigella Lawson 
Home by Salman Rushdie 
Babies by Anne Enright

Jealousy

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Charles Dickens

‘Wealth and beggary, virtue and vice, repletion and the direst hunger, all treading on each other and crowding together’ 
 
Could any writer portray London better than Charles Dickens? Dickens knew the city inside out, walking the streets day and night, in all weathers, and drawing inspiration from everything he saw. The fog, the mud, the churning river, the clamour of church bells, and at every corner schemes of business or pleasure – this is Dickens’s London in the company of some of his most memorable characters. 
 
Selected from the work of Charles Dickens 
 
 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 
 
 Also in the Vintage Minis series: 
Murder by Arthur Conan Doyle 
Power by William Shakespeare 
Independence by Charlotte Bronte

London

Louisa May Alcott

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 famous sisters in literature, and these stories of the joys and heartaches they share are a touching celebration of the special ties of sisterhood. 
 
Selected from the books Little Women and Good Wives by Louisa May Alcott 
 
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 
 
Also in the Vintage Minis series: 
Fatherhood by Karl Ove Knausgaard 
Motherhood by Helen Simpson 
Babies by Anne Enright 
Love by Jeanette Winterson

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Arthur Conan Doyle

‘Well, Watson, we seem to have fallen upon evil days’ 
 
Sherlock Holmes: the quintessential British hero and the world's most popular detective. Through his powers of deduction, and with the help of his faithful companion Dr Watson, Holmes takes on all manner of devious criminals and dangerous villains – and wins. But the cases involving murder are the most dastardly of them all… 
 
Selected from The Complete Sherlock Holmes 
 
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 
 
 Also in the Vintage Minis series: 
 Power by William Shakespeare 
 Independence by Charlotte Bronte 
London by Charles Dickens

Murder

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Immerse yourself in a literary wonderland with this collection of timeless Christmas tales. 
 
'There seems a magic in the very name of Christmas’ said Charles Dickens. From yuletide carols to scrumptious food to presents under the tree, from cold winter nights in Victorian London to countryside festivities by the fire, from the melancholies of the season to the injustices, our best writers have seen it all and written it down. A Vintage Christmas captures the very essence of what Christmas means to us and what real magic can be found, written by some of the world’s finest authors, including Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Anthony Trollope, Laurie Lee, E. Nesbit and Alice Munro. 
 
 
Stories in A Vintage Christmas: 
‘Carol-Barking’ from Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee 
‘Obadiah Oak, Mrs Griffiths and the Carol Singers’ by Louis de Bernières 
‘The Turkey Season’ by Alice Munro 
‘Christmas at Thompson Hall’ by Anthony Trollope 
‘Christmas Shopping’ from The Green Road by Anne Enright 
‘A Conscience Pudding’ from The New Treasure Seekers by E. Nesbit 
‘Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm’ by Stella Gibbons 
‘There Never Was Such a Goose’ from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 
‘Let Nothing You Dismay’ by Helen Simpson 
‘Christmas Is a Sad Season for the Poor’ by John Cheever 
‘A Serious Talk’ by Raymond Carver 
‘The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle’ by Arthur Conan Doyle 
 
VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS. 
 
Vintage Minis bring you the world’s greatest writers on the experiences that make us human – from birth to death and everything in between.

A Vintage Christmas

F. Scott Fitzgerald

‘I want to give a really bad party. I mean it. I want to give a party where there’s a brawl and seductions and people going home with their feelings hurt and women passed out in the cabinet de toilette. You wait and see.’ 
 
The crackle of gin on ice, the first chords of the band, the low hum of gossip– whether you love or loathe parties, Fitzgerald writes them like no one else. From glittering occasions complete with an orchestra and dancing girls to a fist-fight at the end of a toddler’s birthday, this is a dazzling collection of party pieces from the master of celebration. 
 
Selected from The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night and Flappers and Philosophers 
 
 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

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