The twenty books in the Vintage Minis box set bring you the world’s greatest writers on the experiences that make us human. These beautifully designed, entertaining little books explore the whole spectrum of life – from birth to death, and everything in between.

Each short, stylish book sees a great contemporary or classic writer from the award-winning Vintage list take on a different subject. From Murakami on Desire to Eating by Nigella Lawson, Home by Salman Rushdie and Jeanette Winterson on Love, these books cover the human themes closest to our hearts.

Desire Haruki Murakami

Love Jeanette Winterson

Babies Anne Enright

Language Xiaolu Guo

Motherhood Helen Simpson

Fatherhood Karl Ove Knausgaard

Summer Laurie Lee

Jealousy Marcel Proust

Sisters Louisa May Alcott

Home Salman Rushdie

Race Toni Morrison

Liberty Virginia Woolf

Swimming Roger Deakin

Work Joseph Heller

Depression William Styron

Drinking John Cheever

Eating Nigella Lawson

Psychedelics Aldous Huxley

Calm Tim Parks

Death Julian Barnes