Great Minds. Big Ideas. Little Books.

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