Книги Vintage Books

Shadow of the Silk Road | Colin Thurbon’s beautiful prose unfolds along the Silk Road, unearthing a richly layered past on his most ambitious journey. On buses, donkey carts, trains, jeeps and camels,...

The Captain and the Enemy | A young boy, Victor, is collected from school by a stranger in a bowler hat - the stranger says he has won Victor in a game of backgammon with Victor's father. The stranger...

The Philosopher's Pupil | A darkly comic story of creativity, conscience, rebirth and love, which displays all of Murdoch's virtuoso imagination and narrative genius. In the English town of Ennistone,...

Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister. Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China | Meet the three women who helped shape the course of modern Chinese history; a gripping story of sisterhood ...

Arctic Dreams | The author of Horizon's classic work explores the Arctic landscape and the hold it continues to exert on our imagination. Lopez's journey across our frozen planet is a celebration of t...

Ghosts | A high-pitched laugh echoes in an empty church. Servants discover their master dead in his bed, the only sign of disturbance an open window. The coffin of a woman hanged as a witch is found t...

Dog Will Have His Day | How do you solve a murder without a body? Keeping watch under the windows of the Paris flat belonging to a politician's nephew, ex-special investigator Louis Kehlweiler catches...

Elizabeth of York. The First Tudor Queen | Britain's foremost female historian reveals the true story of this key figure in the Wars of the Roses and the Tudor dynasty who began life a princess, spent...

Blank Pages and Other Stories | The extraordinary new story collection from one of Ireland's greatest writers and bestselling author of Mindwinter Break. Bernard MacLaverty is a consummately gifted sh...

Satan in Goray | A dark and mesmerising story, at once lyrical and terrifying The pogrom that swept through Poland was interpreted as a sign of the Coming of the Lord. In the little town of Goray, lai...

Adam Bede | Discover George Eliot's first novel, a tale of rural tragedy and redemption. It may seem like an old tale: the beautiful village girl, her faithful admirer, a country squire's seduction. B...

Step Across This Line | The subjects of Salman Rushdie's collection of non-fiction range from The Wizard of Oz, U2, India and Indian writing, the death of Princess Diana, and football, to twentieth-ce...

Sophie's Choice | In this extraordinary novel, Stingo, an inexperienced twenty-two year old Southerner, takes us back to the summer of 1947 and a boarding house in a leafy Brooklyn suburb. There he me...

The Grand Babylon Hotel | Nella, daughter of millionaire Theodore Racksole, orders a dinner of steak and beer at the exclusive Grand Babylon Hotel in London. Her order is refused, so Theodore promptly...

The Attack | A strikingly powerful novel exploring the motivations of a suicide bomber in Israel, told through the eyes of her husband. Now an award-winning film, winner of the Frankfurt Book Fair pri...

Runaway | The matchless Munro makes art out of everyday lives in this exquisite short story collection. Here are men and women of wildly different times and circumstances, their lives made vividly pal...

Cancer Ward | Solzhenitsyn's celebrated novel describes the lives of people in the Soviet Union under Stalin who were condemned on health grounds to "internment" or death. It also give a psychological...

Fima | Fima, our eponymous hero, is a receptionist at a gynaecology clinic. A preposterous, yet curiously attractive figure, he spends his hours fantasising about solving the nation's problems and pur...

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Stories | How thin is the line between good and evil? Discover the classic tale of gothic horror Dr Jekyll has been experimenting with his identity. He has developed a ...

Our Place. Can We Save Britain’s Wildlife Before It Is Too Late? | A radical examination of Britain's relationship with the land by one of our greatest nature writers. The British love their countrysi...

Reading in the Dark | This is the story of a haunted Irish childhood. The setting is Derry in the Northern Ireland of the 40s and 50s, fraught with political hatred, family secrets and lethal intrigue...

Roads To Santiago | 'One of the great books about Spain' - Tristan Garel-Jones, Observer A many-tangented pilgrimage through ten centuries of Spain's history, its politics, its art, literature and arc...

The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea | Mishima's greatest novel, and one of the greatest of the past century' The Times A band of savage thirteen-year-old boys reject the adult world as illusor...

What Happened to the Corbetts | Nevil Shute wrote this prophetic novel just before the start of the Second World War. In it he describes the devastation that results from an aerial bomb attack on Sout...

The Finance Curse. How global finance is making us all poorer | We need finance – but when finance grows too big it becomes a curse. The City of London is the single biggest drain on our resources, su...

Four Fields | In his first book since the acclaimed The Running Sky Tim Dee tells the story of four green fields. Four fields spread around the world: their grasses, their hedges, their birds, their s...

Salka Valka | A new translation of Nobel Prize-winning author Halldor Laxness's masterpiece Late one snowy midwinter night, in a remote Icelandic fishing village, a penniless woman arrives by boat. Sh...

The Stone Raft | A majestic tale, rich in allegory, wit and philosophy; another masterpiece from the Nobel prize-winning novelist Jose Saramago. What if, one day, Europe was to crack along the length ...

The Enchanted April | Mrs Wilkins and Mrs Arbuthnot, cowed and neglected by their husbands, make a daring plan: they will have a holiday. Leaving a drab and rainy London one April and arriving on the ...

Nicholas Nickleby | 'The novel has everything: absorbing melodrama, with a supporting cast of heroes, villains and eccentrics' The Times When Nicholas's father dies he, his mother and sister are left ...

The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Stories | Edgar Allan Poe was a writer of uncommon talent; in The Murders in the Rue Morgue he created the genre of detective fiction while his genius for find...

Amsterdam. A brief life of the city | A delightful journey through time and through the streets of one of the greatest cultural capitals in Europe. A magnet for trade and travellers from all over the ...

The Suitcase. Six Attempts to Cross a Border | If you open that suitcase you'll never close it again. Ten years ago, Frances Stonor Saunders was handed an old suitcase filled with her father's papers....

Road Ends | 'Tender and surprising... A vivid and evocative tale' New York Times Twenty-one-year-old Megan Cartwright has never been outside the small town she was born in but one winter's day in 1966...

Some Rain Must Fall | As the youngest student to be admitted to Bergen's prestigious Writing Academy, Karl Ove arrives full of excitement and writerly aspirations. Soon though, he is stripped of his y...

1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows. Two lives, one nation and a century of art under tyranny in China | A family story and the tale of a nation. Ai Weiwei - one of the world's most famous artists and acti...

Mystery Mile | Agatha Christie called her 'a shining light'. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder mystery? Judge Crowdy Lobbett is a man of justice, an upstand...

Imaginary Homelands | Drawing from two political and several literary homelands, this collection presents a remarkable series of trenchant essays, demonstrating the full range and force of Salman Rush...

Black Hearts in Battersea | ‘Wait, wait! Save us! What’ll we do?’ Simon is determined to become a painter when he grows up so he sets off to London to make his fortune. But the city is plagued by wolv...

Manual of Painting and Calligraphy | H. is a struggling artist with a commission to paint a portrait of a well-known industrialist. Whilst the industrialist sits for the portrait, H. begins an affair ...

The Accordionist | When two Parisian women are murdered in their homes, the police suspect young accordionist Clement Vauquer. As he was seen outside both of the apartments in question, it seems like ...

Brighton Rock | Gripping, terrifying, an unputdownable read. Discover Graham Greene's most iconic novel. A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign...

Disgrace. Reading Guide Edition | 'A great novel by one of the finest authors writing in the English language today' The Times After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape ...

Bee Quest | 'Warmly entertaining... an endearing account of the search for rare bees' Guardian A hunt for the world's most elusive bees leads Dave Goulson from Poland to Patagonia as well as closer to...

Hocus Pocus | Some get all the luck - but not Eugene Debs Hartke. Ex-Vietnam vet, ex-college professor, and now a TB-stricken inmate at Tarkington State Reformatory, his life has been warped by one lu...

Foreigners. Three English Lives | 'A brilliant hybrid of reportage, fiction, and historical fact that tells the stories of three black men whose tragic lives speak resoundingly to the place and role o...

Villette | Read this beautiful, romantic feminist classic from the author of Jane Eyre. When Lucy Snowe leaves England to look for a new life on the Continent she has no idea what lies in store for he...

Cargo Of Eagles | Agatha Christie called her 'a shining light'. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder mystery? Private detective Albert Campion sets out to plum...

Dubliners | In this powerfully influential series of short stories, James Joyce captures uneasy souls, shabby lives and innocent minds in the dark streets and homes of his native city. In doing so, he...

The Unknown Terrorist | After a one-night stand with an attractive stranger, pole-dancer Gina Davies finds herself prime suspect in an attempted terrorist attack on Sydney. Hunted by the police, her f...

Blood on Snow | The contract killer. Olav lives the lonely life of a fixer. When you 'fix' people for a living - terminally - it's hard to get close to anyone. The gangster's wife. Now he's finally me...

Heads of the Colored People | A satirical and daring collection of short stories exploring black life from one of America's rising stars. 'Makes you shake your head in delight... Her stories feel simu...

The Return of the Dancing Master | Herbert Molin, a retired police officer, is living alone in a remote cottage in the vast forests of northern Sweden. He has two obsessions: one is the tango and the ...

Roots | Discover Alex Haley’s Pulitzer Prize-winning search for his family's origins: a powerful memoir, a history of slavery and a landmark in African-American literature. Tracing his ancestry throug...

Age of Ambition. Chasing Fortune, Truth and Faith in the New China | A young army captain who risked execution to swim from free-market Taiwan to Communist China. A barber who made $150 million in the...

A World Of Love | A packet of letters, found in an attic, leads young Jane into the world of love. The attic is in Montefort, a corroding country house in County Cork, which harbours a collection of p...

Castles Of Steel. Britain, Germany and the Winning of The Great War at Sea | In August 1914 the two greatest navies in the world confronted each other across the North Sea. At first there were skirmis...

City on Fire | Midnight, New Year's Eve, 1976. Nine lives are about to be changed forever. Regan and William Hamilton-Sweeney, heirs to one of New York's greatest fortunes; Keith and Mercer, the men w...

The Beckoning Lady | Agatha Christie called her ‘a shining light’. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder mystery? Private detective Albert Campion's glorious su...

Beyond A Boundary | C L R James, one of the foremost thinkers of the twentieth century, was devoted to the game of cricket. In this classic summation of half a lifetime spent playing, watching and wri...

The Camomile Lawn | Behind the large house, the fragrant camomile lawn stretches down to the Cornish cliffs. Here, in the dizzying heat of August 1939, five cousins have gathered at their aunt's house...

Eleanor of Aquitaine | Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine was one of the leading personalities of the Middle Ages and also one of the most controversial. She was beautiful, intelligent and wilful, and in h...

Herland and The Yellow Wallpaper | What would happen if society was run by women? Charlotte Perkins Gilman imagines the result... When three American men discover a community of women, living in perfe...

The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea | 'A major work of art' Time A band of savage thirteen-year-old boys reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and train themselves...