Книги Vintage Books

Tudor. The Family Story | Tudor tells a family story like no other. The Tudors are a national obsession, undoubtedly British history's most notorious family. But beyond the well-worn headlines is a fa...

Hard Times | Facts alone are wanted in life: the children at Mr Gradgrind's school are sternly ordered to stifle their imaginations and pay attention only to cold, hard reality. They live in a smoky, ...

Chinaman | One of the most acclaimed debuts of the year - a rumbustuous, brilliant novel about Sri Lanka, cricket and the search for a legendary sportsman 'A crazy ambidextrous delight' Michael Ondaat...

The Female Persuasion | A warm and immersive novel about ambition, power, women, friendship and finding your place in the world, from the bestselling author of The Wife and The Interestings. Greer Kad...

Down To The Sea In Ships | Winner of the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Our lives depend on shipping but it is a world which is largely hidden from us. In every lonely corner of every sea, th...

Darkness Rising | Vienna, 1903. Outside one of the city's most splendid baroque churches, the decapitated body of a monk is found. Then, the remains of a municipal councillor are discovered in the gro...

Self-Portrait | I'm not a portrait painter. If I'm anything, I have always been an autobiographer. In Self-Portrait, Celia Paul reveals a life truly lived through art. She moves effortlessly through t...

Here and Gone | Her fresh start is about to turn into a nightmare… Audra has finally left her abusive husband. She’s taken the family car and her young children, Sean and Louise, are buckled up in the...

The Making Of Henry | One day, out of the blue, Henry Nagel inherits a sumptuous apartment in St John's Wood. Divine intervention? Or his late father's love nest? Henry doesn't know, but he is glad to...

The House in Paris | A timeless masterpiece of nuance and atmosphere that represents the very best of Bowen's work. When eleven-year-old Henrietta arrives at the Fishers' residence in Paris, little do...

Genghis Khan. The Man Who Conquered the World | Genghis Khan was by far the greatest conqueror the world has ever known, whose empire stretched from the Pacific Ocean to central Europe, including all ...

The Lives of Others | Calcutta, 1967. Unnoticed by his family, Supratik has become dangerously involved in extremist political activism. Compelled by an idealistic desire to change his life and the wo...

T Singer | The new novel in English from one of Norway’s most celebrated writers. T Singer confronts indomitable loneliness in Solstad’s classic, heartbreaking yet darkly comic style. Singer, a thirty...

Cinderella Liberator. A Fairy Tale Revolution | Rebecca Solnit retells 'Cinderella'. A Fairy Tale Revolution is here to remix and revive our favourite stories. 'She looked like a girl who was evening,...

A Most Remarkable Creature. The Hidden Life of the World’s Smartest Bird of Prey | An enthralling voyage of discovery to meet a rare and mysterious bird of prey that puzzled Darwin, fascinates modern-...

Claxton. Field Notes from a Small Planet | 'After Mark Cocker's glorious book, you will never look at a blackberry bush the same way again.' Philip Hoare, New Statesman In 2001 Mark Cocker moved to Cl...

The Quick | You are about to discover the secrets of The Quick – But first, reader, you must travel to Victorian England, and there, in the wilds of Yorkshire, meet a brother and sister alone in the w...

Truth and Consequences | 'Delightful... Her characters are, as always, wonderfully imperfect' New York Review of Books Alan has changed because he's injured his back. Pain has altered his appearance a...

Mario and The Magician and other stories | Mann's short stories explore his abiding interest in the split nature of humanity and the discordance of the world it inhabits. In 'A Man and his Dog', domes...

Brunelleschi's Dome. The Story of the Great Cathedral in Florence | Even in an age of soaring skyscrapers and cavernous sports stadiums, the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence still retain...

Gigi and The Cat | Gigi’s days are filled with cigars, lobster, lace and superstitions: the education of a future courtesan. Bored and unconvinced by what she’s taught, Gigi surprises all with her app...

White Chrysanthemum | 'Look for your sister after each dive. Never forget. If you see her, you are safe.' This is the story of Hana and her little sister Emi, who are part of an island community of ha...

Revolution In The Head. The Beatles Records and the Sixties | As dazzling as the decade they dominated, The Beatles almost single-handedly created pop music as we know it. Today, their songs are cited...

The Private Lives Of The Impressionists | Manet, Monet, Pissarro, Cezanne, Renoir, Degas, Sisley, Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt. Though they were often ridiculed or ignored by their contemporaries, ...

Plays. Volume Two | Witty, comedic and engrossing, this second collection showcases the range of W. Somerset Maugham’s talent as a playwright. The delightful satires of marriage Lady Frederick and Hom...

The Book of Nothing | 'Barrow explains nothing with great clarity, a lovely lightness of touch and enormous erudition' Spectator How do you begin to understand the concept of nothing? Where does it be...

The See-Through House. My Father in Full Colour | Shelley Klein grew up in the Scottish Borders, in a house designed on a modernist open-plan grid. With colourful glass panels set against a forest of ...

In His Own Write & A Spaniard in the Works | First published in 1964 and 1965, In His Own Write and A Spaniard in the Works are a brilliantly inventive and offbeat collection of John Lennon's stories,...

Grace Notes | Returning to Belfast after a long absense, to attend her father`s funeral. Catherine McKenna - a young composer-remembers exactly why she left: the claustrophobic intimacies of the Catho...

Go Big. 20 Bold Solutions to Fix Our World | How do we rein in the power of Big Tech? How do we tackle the climate crisis? How can all of us play a part in making change happen? For the past four year...

We Need New Names | 'There are times, though, that no matter how much food I eat, I find the food does nothing for me, like I am hungry for my country and nothing is going to fix that' This is the sto...

Street Haunting and Other Essays | Virginia Woolf began writing reviews for the Guardian 'to make a few pence' from her father's death in 1904, and continued until the last decade of her life. The res...

Frankenstein | Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, generally known as Frankenstein, is a novel written by the British author Mary Shelley. The title of the novel refers to a scientist, Victor Fra...

Doctor Zhivago | Doctor Zhivago is the epic novel of Russia in the throes of revolution and one of the greatest love stories ever told. Yuri Zhivago, physician and poet, wrestles with cruel experience...

Bleak House | 'The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself' 'Jarndyce and Jardyce' is an infamous lawsuit that has been in process for generations. Nobody can remember e...

The Innocents | What if everything you'd ever wanted was no longer enough? Adam and Rachel are getting married at last. Childhood sweethearts whose lives and families have been intertwined for years; ...

The Ghost Writer | When talented young writer Nathan Zuckerman makes his pilgrimage to sit at the feet of his hero, the reclusive master of American Literature, E. I. Lonoff, he soon finds himself enm...

Traitor's Purse | Agatha Christie called her ‘a shining light’. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder mystery? Celebrated detective Albert Campion awakes in hos...

I Don't Know How She Does It | The twentieth anniversary edition of Allison Pearson's first novel that became a global sensation, now with a new introduction from the author. Meet Kate Reddy, hedge-fu...

American Caesars. Lives of the US Presidents, from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush | The twentieth century has been called 'the American Century'. Not since the days of the Roman emperors has ...

The Shadow Killer | The crime: Reykjavik, August 1941. When a travelling salesman is found murdered in a basement flat, the police initially suspect a member of the Allied occupation force. The suspec...

Hame | Hame, n. Scottish form of ‘home’: a valued place regarded as a refuge or place of origin After her relationship breaks down, Mhairi McPhail dismantles her life in New York and moves with her ni...

Palm Sunday | An 'autobiographical collage' of speeches, stories and essays, in Palm Sunday, Kurt Vonnegut writes beguilingly about everything from country music to George Bush, his favourite comedian...

The Reinvention of Humanity. How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Remade Race, Sex and Gender | The riveting story of the pioneers who redefined conceptions of 'normality' in the early twentieth c...

Detective Story | ‘A sophisticated and brilliant dissection of nihilistic power’ Times Literary Supplement From his prison cell, Antonio Martens, an interrogator for the recently fallen dictatorship, ...

Now We Have Your Attention. The New Politics of the People | Now We Have Your Attention makes sense of what is happening in British politics by taking a radically different perspective: the people's. ...

The Devonshires. The Story of a Family and a Nation | William Cavendish, the father of the first Earl, dissolved monasteries for Henry VIII. Bess, his second wife, was gaoler-companion to Mary Queen o...

The Illogic of Kassel | A puzzling phone call shatters a writer’s routine. An enigmatic female voice extends an invitation to take part in Documenta, the legendary contemporary art exhibition held eve...

Don't Read This Book If You're Stupid | A dazzling collection of short fiction, containing stories published in New Writing and the Times Literary Supplement, as well as several new stories. The Novel...

Fiesta | Paris in the twenties: Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley, aristocratic and irresistibly beautiful, with an ab...

The Secret Agent | Read the world's first political thriller. London is under threat. It has become a haven for political exiles and anarchists. Frequent bomb threats and disturbances interrupt the li...

The Railway Man | During the second world war Eric Lomax was forced to work on the notorious Burma-Siam Railway and was tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio. Left emotionally scarred and ...

Untold Night and Day | Finishing her last shift at Seoul's only audio theatre for the blind, Kim Ayami heads into the night with her former boss, searching for a missing friend. The following day, she...

The Gardener and the Carpenter | Caring deeply about our children is part of what makes us human. Yet the thing we call ‘parenting’ is a surprisingly new invention. In the past thirty years, the conce...

The Captive & The Fugitive | In the two novels - The Captive and The Fugitive - contained in this volume, Proust's narrator is living in his mother's apartment in Paris with his lover, Albertine. Howe...

English Monsters | When ten-year-old Max is sent to boarding school, his idyllic childhood comes to an abrupt end. Away from the freedom of his grandfather's farm, a world of rules and punishment awai...

The Lost World of the Kalahari | In this enthralling book van der Post establishes his role as a distinguished explorer and writer describing the rediscovery of the Bushmen, outcast survivors from Sto...

The Dust that Falls from Dreams | In the brief golden years before the outbreak of World War I, Rosie McCosh and her three very different sisters are growing up in an eccentric household in Kent, with...

Lies Of Silence | When Michael Dillon is ordered by the IRA to park his car in the carpark of a Belfast hotel, he is faced with a moral choice which leaves him absolutely nowhere to turn. He knows tha...

The Overstory | 'This is not our world with trees in it. It's a world of trees, where humans have just arrived' This is the story of a group of strangers, each summoned in different ways by the natura...

The Professor of Desire | Philip Roth's entire oeuvre - 31 books - to be reissued in electric new Vintage jackets for October 2016 As a student in college, David Kepesh styles himself as 'a rake among...

Pulse | The stories in Julian Barnes' long-awaited third collection are attuned to rhythms and currents: of the body, of love and sex, illness and death, connections and conversations. A divorcee fall...

How to Measure a Cow | Tara Fraser has a secret. Desperate to escape herself and her past, she changes her name, packs up her London home and moves to a town in the North of England where she knows no...

The Common Reader. Volume 1 | Discover Virginia Woolf’s informative and erudite critical essays on some of the key novelists and dramatists of the canon – from the ancient Greeks to Jane Austen and be...