Книги Vintage Books

Bangkok Days | Tourists come to Bangkok for many reasons: a night of love, a stay in a luxury hotel, or simply to disappear for a while. Lawrence Osborne comes for the cheap dentistry, and then stays ...

The Breast | Like a latter-day Gregor Samsa, Professor David Kepesh wakes up one morning to find that he has been transformed. But where Kafka's protagonist turned into a monstrous cockroach, the narr...

David Copperfield | 'The most perfect of all the Dickens novels' Virginia Woolf When David Copperfield escapes from the cruelty of his childhood home, he embarks on a journey to adulthood which will l...

Braised Pork | The dreamlike story of a young woman in contemporary Beijing forging a different life for herself, from one of our brightest new literary stars. One morning in autumn, just after breakf...

Bodily Harm | Rennie Wilford, a young jounalist running from her life, takes an assignment to a Caribbean island and tumbles into a world where no one is what they seem. When the burnt-out Yankee Paul...

Mythologies | In this magnificent and often surprising collection of essays Barthes explores the myths of mass culture. Taking subjects as diverse as wrestling, films, plastic and cars, Barthes elegan...

The Thirst | There's a new killer on the streets...A woman is found murdered after an internet date. The marks left on her body show the police that they are dealing with a particularly vicious killer...

The Wapshot Chronicle | The first novel John Cheever wrote is a wonderful introduction to his writing; clever, funny, charming and bursting with life Meet the Wapshots of St Botolphs. There is Captain...

Our Friends in Berlin | London, 1941. The city is in blackout and an enemy is hiding in plain sight. Jack Hoste has become entangled in a national treachery. His mission: to locate the most dangerous ...

A Christmas Carol | Ebenezer Scrooge despises Christmas. He has no time for festivities or goodwill toward his fellow men and is only interested in money. Then, on the night of Christmas Eve, his life...

The L-Shaped Room | 'Lynne Reid Banks' compassionate first novel examines the stigma of unmarried motherhood in pre-pill, pre-Abortion Act Britain... While the social climate has changed drastically s...

The Glass Kingdom | Sarah Talbot Jennings, a young American living in New York, has fled to Bangkok to disappear. Armed with a suitcase full of cash, she takes up residence at the Kingdom, a glitterin...

Loving, Living, Party Going | Henry Green, whom W. H. Auden called 'the finest living English novelist', is the most neglected writer of the last century and the one most deserving of rediscovery by a...

Magdalena. River of Dreams | A captivating new book from Wade Davis - winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Into the Silence - that brings vividly to life the story of the great Rio Magdalena, illumi...

Mrs Dalloway | 'The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames' In this vivid portrait of one day in a woman's life, Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details o...

Shame | The novel that set the stage for his modern classic, The Satanic Verses, Shame is Salman Rushdie's unforgettable epic. Omar Khayyam Shakil had three mothers who shared everything. They shared ...

Clear Light of Day | Discover the classic, Man Booker Prize shortlisted novel from one of India's finest ever writers. To the family living in the shabby, dusty house in Delhi, Tara's visit brings a s...

Tastes of Honey. The Making of Shelagh Delaney and a Cultural Revolution | On 27 May 1958, A Taste of Honey opened in a small fringe theatre in London. Written by a nineteen-year-old bus driver's daug...

The Greatest Traitor. The Life of Sir Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, Ruler of England | The first biography of the rebel baron who deposed and murdered Edward II. One night in August 1323 a captiv...

The Colour | Now reissued with a stunning new jacket look, The Colour is a gripping drama of sacrifice and greed set during the mid-nineteenth-century gold rush in New Zealand. Joseph and Harriet Blac...

The Extraordinary Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | 'On the contrary, my dear Watson, you can see everything. You fail, however, to reason from what you see' Herein lie the problems: a stolen jewel, the...

Van Gogh's Ear. The True Story | In December 1888, Vincent van Gogh cut off his ear. It is the most famous story about any artist in history. But what really happened on that dark winter night? In Van...

Death and the Penguin | All that stands between one man and murder by the mafia is a penguin. Viktor is an aspiring writer in Ukraine with only Misha, his pet penguin, for company. Although Viktor wou...

Cryptocurrency. The Future of Money? | 1988 saw the birth of the internet. 2008 gave us bitcoin. Today, cybercurrencies are changing the world we live in. What would a world without banks, credit card...

The Following Story | One morning Herman Mussert wakes up in a hotel room in Lisbon, where twenty years previously he slept with another man’s wife. Yet he is quite certain that the night before he we...

War and Turpentine | Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 in The Times, Sunday Times and The Economist, and one of the 10 Best Books of 2016 in the New York Times Shortly before his death, Stefan Hertm...

The Riddle of the Sands | The first modern spy novel and a must-read for espionage junkies and fans of James Bond and John Le Carre. When Carruthers receives a letter from his friend Davies suggesting...

The Black Prince of Florence. The Life of Alessandro de' Medici | 'A spectacular, elegant, brilliant portrait of skulduggery, murder and sex in Renaissance Florence' Simon Sebag Montefiore, Evening St...

Platform | From the author of cult favourite Atomised 'Reading Houellebecq is like being caught up in a tropical storm: you are blown away by the ferocity of his imagination' Observer Michel is a civi...

Lanzarote | Realising that his New Year is probably going to be a disaster, as usual, our narrator, on impulse, walks into a travel agency to book a week in the sun. Sensitive to his limited means and...

Touch the Water, Touch the Wind | As the Germans advance into Poland in 1939, Elisha Pomeranz, a Jewish mathematician and watchmaker, escapes into the wintry forest, leaving behind his beautiful, inte...

Barnaby Rudge | 'One of Dickens's most neglected, but most rewarding, novels' Peter Ackroyd Dickens's first historical novel is a thrilling tale of murder, treachery and forbidden love with rioting mo...

Falconer | Discover John Cheever’s quirky psychological novel that is the perfect book club read. Ezekiel Farragut is a college professor, a drug-addict and a murderer. Locked in Falconer State Penite...

Make Something Up | This book includes twenty-one stories and a novella that will disturb and delight, from the author of Fight Club. The absurdity of both life and death are on full display. In 'Zomb...

Ladder of Years | One warm summer's day at the beach, forty-year-old Cordelia Grinstead, dressed only in a swimsuit and beach robe, walks away from her family and just keeps on going. After hitching a...

The Pyramid | When the new Egyptian Pharaoh decrees that he does not want a pyramid built in his honour his advisers are aghast. It is their firm belief that peace and prosperity only make the people ...

Prayers for the Stolen | 'Now we make you ugly,' my mother said. 'The best thing you can be in Mexico is an ugly girl.' On the mountainside in rural Mexico where Ladydi lives, being a girl is dangerou...

The Awkward Age | What does it take to be a family? Julia has fallen deeply, unexpectedly in love. James is her second chance, and everything she never knew she wanted. It’s perfect but for two things...

Voltaire in Love | The meeting of Voltaire, successful financier, famous poet and troublemaker, and the enchanting amateur physicist and countess Emilie du Chatelet, was a meeting of both hearts and m...

Midwinter Break | A retired couple, Gerry and Stella Gilmore, fly to Amsterdam for a midwinter break. A holiday to refresh the senses, to see the sights and to generally take stock of what remains of ...

Diary of an Ordinary Woman | Margaret Forster presents the 'edited' diary of a woman, born in 1901, whose life spans the twentieth century. On the eve of the Great War, Millicent King begins to keep h...

The Journals | John Cheever's journals reveal the inner life of this remarkable writer and the contradictions that drove him. He loved his wife and their children, but was acutely lonely; he loved wom...

Nemesis. The Hunt for Brazil’s Most Wanted Criminal | Husband. This is the story of an ordinary man who became the king of the largest slum in Rio, the head of a drug cartel and Brazil's most notoriou...

Now You're Talking | Why are human beings the only animals that can speak? And why does it matter? If you’ve ever felt the shock of listening to a recording of your own voice, you realise how importan...

Sunday's Children | The second novel in world renowned film-maker, Ingmar Bergman’s trilogy of novels plotting the fractious marriage of his parents Over the course of one summer, eight-year-old Pu Be...

My Own Story | Категория: классическая проза, на английском языке.

To the Lighthouse | WITH INTROUCTIONS BY EAVAN BOLAND AND MAUD ELLMAN The serene and maternal Mrs Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr Ramsay, together with their children and assorted guests, are holiday...

The Flight Attendant a novel | From the author of The Guest Room, a powerful story about the ways an entire life can change in one night: A flight attendant wakes up in the wrong hotel, in the wrong b...

The Black Prince | Категория: классическая проза, на английском языке.

The Leopard | INCLUDES RECENTLY DISCOVERED NEW MATERIAL In the spring of 1860, Fabrizio, the charismatic Prince of Salina, still rules over thousands of acres and hundreds of people, including his own...

Redhead by the Side of the Road | LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE From the beloved Anne Tyler, a sparkling new novel--an instant New York Times bestseller--about misperception, second chances, and the...

Lost Children Archive | In Valeria Luiselli's fiercely imaginative follow-up to the American Book Award-winning Tell Me How It Ends, an artist couple set out with their two children on a road trip fro...

The Secret Garden | Категория: детская литература, на английском языке.

The Lost City of Z Movie Tie-In | In 1925, the legendary British explorer Percy Fawcett ventured into the Amazon jungle, in search of a fabled civilization. He never returned. Over the years countless...

Someone Who Will Love you in all your Damaged Glory | Категория: современная проза, на английском языке.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Vintage | Категория: классическая проза, на английском языке.

I Capture the Castle | Cassandra's father was once a famous writer, but now he mainly reads detective novels while his family slide into genteel poverty. Her sister Rose is bored and beautiful, and de...

The New Hunger | The Guardian called Warm Bodies 'the zombie novel with a heart'; Audrey Niffenegger said 'Warm Bodies is an unexpected treat', and Stephenie Meyer eagerly looked forward to the next b...

On A Chinese Screen | Maugham spent the winter months of 1919 travelling fifteen hundred miles up the Yangtze river. Always more interested in people than places, he noted down acute and finely crafte...

Glue | Glue is the story of four boys growing up in the Edinburgh schemes, and about the loyalties, the experiences and the secrets that hold them together into their thirties. As we follow their live...

A Farewell To Arms | Категория: классическая проза, на английском языке.

Sanctuary | Категория: классическая проза, на английском языке.

Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit | Категория: современная проза, на английском языке.

Baudolino | An extraordinary epic, brilliantly-imagined, new novel from a world-class writer and author of The Name of the Rose. Discover the Middle Ages with Baudolino - a wondrous, dazzling, beguili...