Книги Vintage Books

Persepolis | The Story of a Childhood and The Story of a Return The intelligent and outspoken child of radical Marxists, and the great-grandaughter of Iran's last emperor, Satrapi bears witness to a c...

Starlight | Gladys and Annie Barnes are impoverished sisters who have seen better times. They live in a modest cottage in the backstreets of Highgate with Mr. Fisher, a mild but eccentric old man livi...

Little Women | Christmas won't be the same this year for Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, as their father is away fighting in the Civil War, and the family has fallen on hard times. But though they may be poor,...

A History of God | The idea of a single devine being - God, Yahweh, Allah - has existed for over 4,000 years. But the history of God is also the history of human struggle. While Judaism, Islam and Chr...

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...

Paris Echo | Here is Paris as you have never seen it before – a city in which every building seems to hold the echo of an unacknowledged past, the shadows of Vichy and Algeria.American postdoctoral re...

The Turn of the Key | When Rowan stumbles across the advert, it seems like too good an opportunity to miss: a live-in nanny position, with a very generous salary. And when she arrives at Heatherbrae H...

London | Wealth and beggary, virtue and vice, repletion and the direst hunger, all treading on each other and crowding together Could any writer portray London better than Charles Dickens? Dickens kne...

Midnight`s Children | Born at the stroke of midnight at the exact moment of India's independence, Saleem Sinai is a special child. However, this coincidence of birth has consequences he is not prepare...

The Enchantress of Florence | When a young European traveller arrives at Sikri, the court of Mughal Emperor Akbar, the tale he spins brings the whole imperial capital to the brink of obsession. He cal...

GOD HELP THE CHILD (EXP) | Spare and unsparing, "God Help the Child" the first novel by Toni Morrison to be set in our current moment weaves a tale about the way the sufferings of childhood can shape,...

Alice s adventures in wonderland | Alice is one of the most beloved characters of English writing. A bright and inquisitive child, one boring summer afternoon she follows a white rabbit down a rabbit-...

Midnight Sun | Jon is on the run. He has betrayed Oslo’s biggest crime lord: The Fisherman.Fleeing to an isolated corner of Norway, to a mountain town so far north that the sun never sets, Jon hopes t...

Disgrace | After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is d...

The Green Road | This title was shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Novel Award. It is longlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize. A darkly glinting novel set on Ireland's Atlantic coast, The Green Road is a...

Cockroaches | Harry is on a special mission.Detective Harry Hole arrives in a steaming hot Bangkok. The Norwegian ambassador has been found dead in a seedy motel room, and Harry has been sent to inves...

Men Without Women: Stories | Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here are vanishing cats and...

The Testaments | The Republic of Gilead is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, two girls with radically different experiences of the regime come face to face with the legendary, ruth...

Art | ...The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are visions that soothe, charm and beguile, but actually they are thugs. Merciless and wily, the greatest painting...

The Bat | HARRY IS OUT OF HIS DEPTH. Detective Harry Hole is meant to keep out of trouble. A young Norwegian girl taking a gap year in Sydney has been murdered, and Harry has been sent to Australia to...

Sugar | Young and confident, with a swagger in her step, Sugar arrives in the southern town of Bigelow hoping to start over. Soon Bigelow is alight with gossip and suspicion, and Sugar fears her past ...

The Picturegoers | Welcome to the Palladium, Brickley. Once the grandest music-hall south of the river, now its peeling foyer is home to stale popcorn, a depressed manager, and a cast of disparate pic...

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...

Selected Stories | The midnight hour approaches. You lie in bed and try to sleep, but there is the howling of the wind outside, the creak of a floorboard, the scream of a cat, the ticking clock... You...

Skagboys | Mark Renton has it all: he's good-looking, young, with a pretty girlfriend and a bright future. But there's no room for him in the 1980s and when his family starts to fracture, Mark's life ...

Push | This is the story of Precious Jones, a sixteen year old illiterate black girl who has never been out of Harlem. She is pregnant by her own father for the second time, and kicked out of school. ...

Death of a River Guide | FROM THE WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014. Trapped within a waterfall on the wild Franklin River, Tasmanian river guide, Aljaz Cosini, lies drowning. As the tourists he has...

Don t Turn Around | TWO STRANGERS. DANGEROUS SECRETS. THEIR ONLY CHANCE IS EACH OTHER. Cait’s job is to transport women to safety. Out of respect, she never asks any questions. Like most of the women,...

The Four Books | "One of China's greatest living authors and fiercest satirists." (Guardian). In the ninety-ninth district of a sprawling labour camp, the Author, Musician, Scholar, Theologian and Tec...

Absalom, Absalom! | Quentin Compson and Shreve, his Harvard room-mate, are obsessed by the tragic rise and fall of Thomas Sutpen. As a poor white boy, Sutpen was turned away from a plantation owner's ...

UFO in Her Eyes / (мягк). Guo X. (ВБС Логистик) | Книга для чтения на английском языке. Код номенклатуры: ORS301732985227935. nodiscount: no. Категория: книги на английском языке, книги на иностранных...

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...

The Devil`s Star | The mark of the devil, the sign of a killer... .A young woman is murdered in her flat and a tiny red diamond in the shape of a five-pointed star is found behind her eyelid. .Detecti...

The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women | In the struggle for women's equality, there is one subject still shrouded in silence - women's compulsive pursuit of beauty. The myth of ...

Metamorphosis and Other Stories | WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ADAM THIRWELL One morning, Gregor Samsa wakes up to find himself transformed into a giant insect. His family is understandably perturbed and h...

Mothering Sunday. A Romance | On an unseasonably warm spring day in 1924, twenty-two-year-old Jane Fairchild, a maid at an English country house, meets with her secret lover, the young heir of a neigh...

Parties | I want to give a really bad party. I mean it. I want to give a party where theres a brawl and seductions and people going home with their feelings hurt and women passed out in the cabinet de...

The Doors of Perception. And Heaven and Hell | Discover this profound account of Huxleys famous experimentation with mescalin that has influenced writers and artists for decades. Concise, evocative, w...

Drinking | What's the worst another drink could do? John Cheever pours out our most sociable of vices, and hands it to us in a highball. From the calculating teenager who raids her parents' liquor cab...

Filth | Suitable only for persons of strong constitution. Contains: Drug use, Perversion, Murder, Sexism, Racism and a tapeworm. Код номенклатуры: ORS997574131305497. nodiscount: no. Категория: книги ...

Blood on Snow | Olav is a fixer for a high-profile crime kingpin in 1970s Oslo. He easily takes care of anyone who causes trouble for his boss. But he is more complicated than he seems. Olav's latest ...

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet s Nest / (мягк). Larsson S. (ВБС Логистик) | Книга для чтения на английском языке. Код номенклатуры: ORS995673282468257. nodiscount: no. Категория: книги на английском я...

Therapy | I want to change, but not if it means changing, a patient once said to me in complete innocence What do we do when we find ourselves trapped by our own thoughts or behaviour? Drawing on his ...

The Wind in the Willows | Ho! ho! I am the Toad, the motor-car snatcher, the prison-breaker, the Toad who always escapes"! Tired of spring cleaning, Mole ventures above ground into the warm sunshine, ...

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Vintage) | This title provides with introductions by Dr Dieter Fuchs and Joseph O'connor. Against the backdrop of nineteenth century Dublin, a boy becomes a ma...

Redhead by the Side of the Road | A perfect love story for imperfect people. Micah Mortimer measures out his days running errands for work, maintaining an impeccable cleaning regime and going for runs...

The Moustache | One morning, a man shaves off his long-worn moustache, hoping to amuse his wife and friends. But when nobody notices, or pretends not to have noticed, what started out as a simple tric...

The Truths We Hold: An American Journey | The daughter of immigrants and civil rights activists, Vice President Kamala Harris was raised in a California community that cared deeply about social justic...

Jealousy | Can we truly know the one we love? In this painfully candid book Marcel Proust looks straight into the green eye of every lover's jealous struggle. He broods on why we are driven to try pos...

Great expectations | Pip's life as an ordinary country boy is destined to be unexceptional until a chain of mysterious events lead him away from his humble origins and up the social ladder. His effort...

Wild Palms | In New Orleans in 1937, a man and woman embark on a headlong flight into the wilderness of illicit passion, fleeing her husband and the temptations of respectability. In Mississippi ten y...

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...

The Magus | On a remote Greek Island, Nicholas Urfe finds himself embroiled in the deceptions of a master trickster. As reality and illusion intertwine, Urfe is caught up in the darkest of psychologic...

Out | In the Tokyo suburbs four women work the graveyard shift at a factory. Burdened with heavy debts, alienated from husbands and children, they all secretly dream of a way out of their dead-end liv...

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle | Toru Okada’s cat has disappeared. His wife is growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has recently been receiving. As t...

How to Hide an Empire | The United States denies having dreams of empire. We know America has spread its money, language and culture across the world, but we still think of it as a contained territory...

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, Murakami, Haruki | nan Код номенклатуры: AST000000000158677. nodiscount: no. Категория: Художественная литература/Книги на иностранных языках/Книги на англ...

Solar / (мягк). McEwan I. (ВБС Логистик) | Книга для чтения на английском языке. Код номенклатуры: ORS654088428816997. nodiscount: no. Категория: книги на английском языке, книги на иностранных языках...

The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Tales | An introduction to the weird and unsettling world of H. P. Lovecraft, master of horror and pioneer of 'weird fiction.' . .Between these pages you will find ...

A Redbird Christmas | Welcome to the charming town of Lost River - and an enchanting and unforgettable Christmas... When Oswald moves to the sleepy little town of Lost River he’s not expecting to make...

Fires. Essays, Poems, Stories | "Fires" is the best introduction to the full range and humanity of Carver's writing. It contains four essays, including a moving memoir of his father's working life in ...

Bleeding Edge | With occasional excursions into the DeepWeb and out to Long Island, Thomas Pynchon, channeling his inner Jewish mother, brings us a historical romance of New York in the early days of ...

Bad Blood | In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the next Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup "unicorn" promised to revolutionize the medical indust...

Under The Net | Iris Murdoch's first novel is set in a part of London where struggling writers rub shoulders with successful bookies, and film starlets with frantic philosophers. Its hero, Jake Donagh...