Книги Vintage Books

Solo. A James Bond Novel | It is 1969 and James Bond is about to go solo, recklessly motivated by revenge. A seasoned veteran of the service, 007 is sent to single-handedly stop a civil war in the sma...

The Practice of Writing | In this absorbing volume, David Lodge turns his incisive critical skills onto his own profession, salutes the great writers who have influenced his work, wonders about the mo...

The Song of the Lark | The second novel in Willa Cather’s Great Plains trilogy, is a lyrical coming-of-age story charting the struggles of an artists life. Thea Kronberg, gifted with a beautiful voice...

Jailbird | Vonnegut's riotous urban fairytale about the various fiascos of the Nixon years - a firm fan favourite Walter J. Starbuck's life was on the up. With a Harvard education, a job in federal go...

How I Learned to Live With Panic | 'An electric, warm, comforting and funny handbook on panic and how to cope and live alongside it' Laura Dockrill, author of What Have I Done? Award-winning blogger a...

Love On The Dole | 'As a novel it stands very high, but it is in its qualities as a "social document" that its great value lies' Times Literary Supplement In Hanky Park, near Salford, Harry and Sally ...

Planet of the Apes | In a spaceship that can travel at the speed of light, Ulysse, a journalist, sets off from Earth for the nearest solar system. He finds there a planet which resembles his own, but ...

Lost You | You're looking for your son. But she found him first. When a little boy goes missing, his mother desperately wants to find him… before someone else does. Libby would do anything for her thr...

Friend Of My Youth | A woman haunted by dreams of her dead mother. An adulterous couple stepping over the line where the initial excitement ends and the pain begins. A widow visiting a Scottish villag...

Travels With My Aunt | A witty, inventive read with anyone for a passion for travel Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in over fifty years ...

The Guts | Longlisted for the 2015 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Jimmy Rabbitte is back. The man who invented the Commitments back in the eighties is now forty-seven, with a loving wife, four kids ... a...

Checkout 19 | 'We read in order to come to life.' With fierce imagination, a woman revisits the moments that shape her life; from crushes on teachers to navigating relationships in a fast-paced world;...

Breathing Lessons | From the Pulitzer prize-winning Sunday Times bestseller Anne Tyler. Breathing Lessons is now re-jacketed along with the rest of Tyler’s books in striking new backlist style Meet Ma...

Too Much Happiness | These are beguiling, provocative stories about manipulative men and the women who outwit them, about destructive marriages and curdled friendships, about mothers and sons, about m...

The Old Man and the Sea | 'The best story Hemingway has written. No page of this beautiful master-work could have been done better or differently' Sunday Times If you loved BBC4's Hemingway , read the...

Look To The Lady | Finding himself the victim of a botched kidnapping attempt, Val Gyrth suspects that he might be in a spot of trouble. Unexpected news to him – but not to the mysterious Mr Campion, ...

A Death in the Family | Karl Ove Knausgaard writes about his life with painful honesty. He writes about his childhood and teenage years, his infatuation with rock music, his relationship with his lovi...

The World As It Is. Inside the Obama White House | A revelatory, behind-the-scenes account of the Obama presidency and a political memoir about the power of words to change our world This is a book ab...

The Chequer Board | John Turner, a young man with a chequered past, has been told he has just one year to live. He decides to use his time in search of three very different men he met briefly during t...

Haroun and Luka | Haroun: What's the use of stories that aren't even true? I asked that question and the Unthinkable Thing happened: my father can't tell stories anymore. That means no more laughter i...

Talking to My Daughter. A Brief History of Capitalism | Begin the new year with a fresh perspective on economics, capitalism, and the society we live in. Yanis Varoufakis, world renowned economist, wr...

The Great American Novel | The Ruppert Mundys, once the greatest baseball team in America, are now in a terminal decline, their line-up filled with a disreputable assortment of old men, drunks and eve...

After the Banquet | An acute psychological portrait of a marriage where lofty traditions clash with appetite and ambition For years Kazu has run her fashionable restaurant with a combination of charm ...

The Traitor's Niche | At the heart of the Ottoman Empire, in the main square of Constantinople, a niche is carved into ancient stone. Here, the sultan displays the severed heads of his adversaries. Tu...

The Sound of Waves | A classic, elegant romance set in a Japanese fishing village. 'A work of art...altogether a joyous and lovely thing' New York Times Set in a remote fishing village in Japan, The S...

Northanger Abbey | Jane Austen takes a satirical swipe at the gothic novel in this classic book bursting with sly subversive wit. 'Jane Austen is a genius, and Northanger Abbey is hugely underrated' M...

Heartbreak Hotel | From Deborah Moggach, bestselling author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, comes another hilarious and romantic comedy, this time set in a run-down B&B in Wales. When retired actor...

The Living Sea of Waking Dreams | An ember storm of a novel, this is Booker Prize-winning novelist Richard Flanagan at his most moving-and astonishing-best. Anna's aged mother is dying - if her three ...

Invisible. The History of the Unseen from Plato to Particle Physics | If you could be invisible, what would you do? The chances are that it would have something to do with power, wealth or sex. Perhap...

The Literature Machine | 'Brilliant-a feast' Guardian 'This brilliant collection of essays should be a feast for his admirers, as well as for those who approach his dazzling oeuvre for the first time-...

Broken April | From the moment that Gjorg's brother is killed by a neighbour, his own life is forfeit: for the code of Kanun requires Gjorg to kill his brother's murderer and then in turn be hunted do...

V. | The first novel from the great, incomparable Thomas Pynchon. The quest for V. sweeps us through sixty years and a panorama of Alexandria, Paris, Malta, Florence, Africa and New York. But who, whe...

A Dead Man In Deptford | 'One of the most productive, imaginative and risk-taking of writers... It is a clever, sexually explicit, fast-moving, full blooded yarn' Irish Times A Dead Man in Deptford re...

Everything Will Be All Right | Joyce Stevenson is thirteen when her widowed mother takes them to live with Aunt Vera, a formidable teacher neglected by her unfaithful husband. Joyce watches the two si...

Morgan's Passing | Read Pulitzer Prize-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author Anne Tyler's funny and uplifting exploration of what it is to be an outsider. Morgan Gower has an outsize hairy beard, a...

A Perfect Peace | 'Prophetic... a novelist of stature and wisdom' - Daily Telegraph 'Evocative and penetrating. Oz handles his narrative with great agility' Sunday Times One day a man may just pick up...

Billy | The tale of Billy Lee Turner, a black boy convicted of murdering a white girl in 1930s Mississippi, is a powerful story of racial injustice and a haunting evocation of life in the American Sou...

Homage to Catalonia | The authoratitive text 'There are occasions where it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all' Both a memoir of Orwell's experiences during the Spanish Civil W...

To a Mountain in Tibet | Mount Kailas is the most sacred of the world's mountains - holy to one fifth of humanity. Isolated beyond the central Himalayas, its summit has never been scaled, but for cent...

Gigi | 'He must know by now, I should think, that I can give as good as I get!' This is the story of Gigi, educated as a future courtesan in Paris, her days are filled with cigars, lobster, lace and s...

Luka and the Fire of Life | A glittering, magical fable, the follow-up to the bestselling Haroun and the Sea of Stories On a beautiful starry night in the city of Kahani in the land of Alifbay a terri...

Lowborn. Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns | A powerful, personal agenda-changing exploration of poverty in today's Britain. 'When every day of your life you have been ...

Waiting | The winner of the 1999 US National Book Award for Fiction, a poignant and deliciously funny love story, set in China during and after the Cultural Revolution. For more than seventeen years, ...

Silence Of The Grave | Building work in an expanding Reykjavik uncovers a shallow grave. Years before, this part of the city was all open hills, and Erlendur and his team hope this is a typical Icelan...

Ludwig Wittgenstein. The Duty of Genius | An intelligent, yet emotionally honest portrait of one of the 20th century's influential, engimatic thinkers. 'Monk's energetic enterprise is remarkable for t...

A State of Freedom | What happens when we attempt to exchange the life we are given for something better? Five people, in very different circumstances, from a domestic cook in Mumbai, to a vagrant and...

The Mighty Walzer | 'Poignant, moving, hilarious...laugh-out-loud funny...the sort of book that might change your life' - Observer From the beginning Oliver Walzer is a natural - at ping-pong. Even wi...

Almost Blue | A serial killer is terrorising the people of Bologna and rookie Detective Inspector Grazia Negro is determined to solve the case. She only has one witness who can identify the killer - a...

Treasure Islands. Tax Havens and the Men who Stole the World | Billionaire Warren Buffet, currently the third wealthiest man in the world, paid the lowest rate of tax among his office staff, including...

The Wall | A woman takes a holiday in the Austrian mountains, spending a few days with her cousin and his wife in their hunting lodge. When the couple fails to return from a walk, the woman sets off t...

Birth of a Theorem. A Mathematical Adventure | How does a genius see the world? Where and how does inspiration strike? Cedric Villani takes us on a mesmerising adventure as he wrestles with the Boltzm...

How Should a Person Be? | Sheila's twenties were going to plan. She got married. She hosted parties. A theatre asked her to write a play. Then she realised that she didn't know how to write a play. Th...

Letters to Milena | Franz Kafka's letters to his one-time muse, Milena Jesenska - an intimate window into the desires and hopes of the twentieth-century's most prophetic and important writer Kafka fir...

Civilwarland In Bad Decline | In his first collection, George Saunders' vision of our near future is as black and funny as you can get. He takes us on a trip to the shopping malls and theme parks and ...

Arthur & George | Arthur and George grow up worlds and miles apart in late nineteenth-century Britain: Arthur in shabby-genteel Edinburgh, George in the vicarage of a small Staffordshire village. Arth...

The Confidential Agent | Bright, photographic, evocative new covers for Greene's backlist, to celebrate one of the keystone writers of the Vintage Classics list WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY IAN RANKIN '...

World Without Mind. Why Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple Threaten Our Future | A timely and powerful must-read on how the big tech companies are damaging our culture – and what we can do to fight th...

The Impossible State. North Korea, Past and Future | The definitive account of North Korea - its veiled past and uncertain future - from former White House adviser and Korea expert Victor Cha 'We kill...

Don Quixote | Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, and one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight...

A Special Providence | Bobby is eighteen and lost on the battlefields of Europe, stumbling his way through World War II. He has turned out to be the heroic soldier he imagined and his experience of ba...

Emma | Discover the classic story behind the major new film 'Jane Austen's Emma is her masterpiece, mixing the sparkle of her early books with a deep sensibility' Observer Emma is young, rich and inde...

Travels With My Aunt | Greene takes us on a wild, unconventional and enlightening voyage with an ordinary, retired bank manager and his eccentric, daring aunt. Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, m...

No Pain Like This Body | In the Caribbean, at the beginning of the last century, a poor rice-growing family struggle to exist. Four siblings pass their days in the ricefield, as does Ma. But Pa is an ...

David Golder | From the author of the bestselling Suite Franзaise. Translated by Sandra Smith, with an introduction by Patrick Marnham. In 1929, 26-year-old Irиne Nйmirovsky shot to fame in France wit...