Книги Vintage Books

A Mercy | A powerful tragedy distilled into a jewel of a masterpiece by the Nobel Prize–winning author of Beloved and, almost like a prelude to that story, set two centuries earlier. In the 1680s the ...

The Black Prince | The Black Prince is both a remarkable thriller and a story about being in love. . .Bradley Pearson, narrator and hero, is an elderly writer with a 'block'. Finding himself surrounde...

Wild | Oprah's Book Club 2.0 selection. A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe—and built her back up ...

Something Like An Autobiography | Translated by Audie E. Bock. A first rate book and a joy to read.... Its doubtful that a complete understanding of the directors artistry can be obtained without read...

Appeasing Hitler | On a wet afternoon in September 1938, Neville Chamberlain stepped off an aeroplane and announced that his visit to Hitler had averted the greatest crisis in recent memory. It was, h...

The Pier Falls | An expedition to Mars goes terribly wrong. A seaside pier collapses. A thirty-stone man is confined to his living room. One woman is abandoned on a tiny island in the middle of the oc...

The Less Dead | When Margo goes in search of her birth mother for the first time, she meets her aunt, Nikki, instead. Margo learns that her mother, Susan, was a sex worker murdered soon after Margo's ...

The Awkward Age | 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: their children. Julia’s beloved ...

Goldfinger | Who is Auric Goldfinger? The Bank of England wants to know and they're also curious to find out what he's done with the huge stock of gold he's been collecting since the war. James Bond i...

Throw Me to the Wolves | A young woman has been murdered, and a neighbour, a retired teacher from Chapleton College, is arrested. An eccentric loner - intellectual, shy, a fastidious dresser with expe...

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...

Knife | HARRY HOLE IS ABOUT TO FACE HIS DARKEST CASE YET. Harry is in a bad place: Rakel has left him, he’s working cold cases and notorious murderer Svein Finne is back on the streets. THE FIRST KILL...

The Susan Effect | Susan Svendsen has an unusual talent. She is an expert in finding out secrets. People feel compelled to confide in her and unwittingly confess their innermost thoughts. Her whole li...

The Sandman | The chilling story of an insidious serial killer and the two brilliant detectives who must try to beat him at his own game.An emaciated young man named Mikael is found wandering outside ...

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 Curious Incident of The Dog in The Night-Time | "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" is a murder mystery novel like no other. The detective, and narrator, is Christopher Boone. Chri...

While Mortals Sleep | While Mortals Sleep. Издание на английском языке. Код номенклатуры: ORS025222850961728. nodiscount: no. Категория: Художественная литература/Книги на иностранных языках/Книги на ...

Deception | He is a middle-aged American writer called Philip; she is an articulate, well-educated Englishwoman trapped in a loveless and humiliating marriage. In Philips London studio, this play of v...

Shadowplay | London, 1878. Three extraordinary people begin their life together - and the idea for Dracula is born. Fresh from life in Dublin, Bram Stoker - now manager of the Lyceum Theatre - is wres...

The Crying of Lot 49 | Today, globalism has a bad reputation. Citizens of the world are depicted as recklessly uninterested in how international economic networks can affect local communities. Meanwhi...

Invisible Women | From government policy and medical research, to technology, workplaces, and the media. Invisible Women reveals how in a world built for and by men we are systematically ignoring half...

The Last Devil To Die | Shocking news reaches them—an old friend has been killed, and a dangerous package he was protecting has gone missing.The gang's search leads them into the antiques business, wh...

Down and Out in Paris and London | As a struggling writer in his twenties, Orwell lived as a down-and-out among the poorest members of society. In this, his early memoir, Orwell recalls with vivid cla...

Language | Have you ever tried to learn another language? When Zhuang first arrives in London from China she feels like she is among an alien species. The city is disorientating, the people unfriendly...

Selected Poems | WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CAROL ANN DUFFY Anna Akhmatova is one of the most accomplished and well loved poets Russia has ever produced. Her moving and passionate writing has won her an ...

Stoner | #1 BESTSELLER William Stoner enters the University of Missouri at nineteen to study agriculture. A seminar on English literature changes his life, and he never returns to work on his father's...

Tess of the D Urbervilles | Tess is an innocent young girl until the day she goes to visit her rich 'relatives', the D'Urbervilles. Her encounter with her manipulative cousin, Alec, leads her onto a p...

Independence | Jane Eyre and Lucy Snowe are heroines who depend upon no one but themselves. In the face of hardship, from small sacrifices to great heartache, they cling resolutely to their principles...

Demons | This title comes from the award-winning translators of "Crime and Punishment", Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Based on a real-life crime which horrified Russia in 1869, Dostoevsky in...

Things We Say in the Dark | A shocking collection of dark stories, ranging from chilling contemporary fairytales to disturbing supernatural fiction. Alone in a remote house in Iceland a woman is unner...

Home | Salman Rushdie, a self-described 'emigrant from one place and a newcomer in two', explores the true meaning of home. Writing with insight, passion and humour, he looks at what it means to belon...

The Castle | He is the greatest German writer of our time. Such poets as Rilke or such novelists as Thomas Mann are dwarfs or plaster saints in comparison to him Vladimir Nabokov The story of K. and h...

Freedom | Can we ever be wholly free? In this book of breathtaking imaginary leaps that conjure dystopias and magical islands, Margaret Atwood holds a mirror up to our own world. The reflection we are...

Science | How far have we come in our understanding of the world around us? In this eye-opening collection, Ian McEwan looks back at the history of scientific discovery from Darwin to Dawkins as well ...

The Fire Next Time | A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful ...

The Leopard / (EXP) (мягк). Nesbo J. (ВБС Логистик) | Издание на английском языке. Код номенклатуры: ORS149025094759627. nodiscount: no. Категория: Художественная литература/Книги на иностранных языка...

Family | Where do you go if you can't feel at home in your own family? When the people who made you can't fathom who you become? In these three tales of quarrelling clans and fraught reunions, Mark Ha...

Intruder In The Dust | Set in the deep south that provided the backdrop for all of Faulkner's finest fiction, Intruder in the Dust is the novel that marks the final phase of its author's outstanding c...

England, England / (мягк). Barnes J. (ВБС Логистик) | Книга для чтения на английском языке. Код номенклатуры: ORS434122434092681. nodiscount: no. Категория: книги на английском языке, книги на иностра...

The Bass Rock | A modern gothic triumph Max Porter The Bass Rock has for centuries watched over the lives that pass under its shadow on the Scottish mainland. And across the centuries the fates of thr...

Murder Most Festive. A Christmas Mystery | Christmas Eve, 1938. The Westbury family and assorted friends have gathered for another legendary celebration at their beautiful country house. The champagne...

Cat Person and Other Stories | These are stories of women’s lives now. They also happen to be horror stories. In some, women endure the horror. In others, they inflict it. Here are women at work, at h...

Mrs Dalloway | Discover this groundbreaking work of twentieth-century literary fiction about one day in the life of a woman preparing to give a party. In this vivid portrait of one day in a woman's li...

Satin Island | U. is a 'corporate anthropologist' who, while working on a giant, epoch-defining project no one really understands, is also tasked with writing the Great Report on our society. But inst...

Killing Commendatore | When a thirty-something portrait painter is abandoned by his wife, he holes up in the mountain home of a famous artist. The days drift by, spent painting, listening to music and...

The Time Traveller s Guide to Restoration Britain | If you could travel back in time, the period from 1660 to 1700 would make one of the most exciting destinations in history. It is the age of Samuel ...

A Decent Ride | This book is shortlisted for the 2015 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize for comic fiction. A rampaging force of nature is wreaking havoc on the streets of Edinburgh, but has top shagg...

V. | The quest for V. sweeps us through sixty years and a panorama of Alexandria, Paris, Malta, Florence, Africa and New York. But who, where or what is V.? Bawdy, sometimes sad and frequently hilario...

Chronicles of a Liquid Society | Umberto Eco was an international cultural superstar. A celebrated essayist as well as novelist, in this, his last collection, he explores many aspects of the modern wo...

If On A Winter s Night A Traveller | You go into a bookshop and buy If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino. You like it. But alas there is a printer’s error in your copy. You take it back...

Death in the East | Calcutta police detective Captain Sam Wyndham and his quick-witted Indian Sergeant, Surrender-not Banerjee, are back for another rip-roaring adventure set in 1920s India. 1905, Lon...

Death In The Afternoon | In "Death in the Afternoon", Hemingway shares the sights, the sounds, the excitement, and above all, the knowledge which fuelled his passion for Spain and the bullfight. This ...

Dickens at Christmas | It is said that Charles Dickens invented Christmas, and within these pages you'll certainly find all the elements of a quintessential traditional Christmas brought to vivid life...

The Secret Garden | A favourite childhood classic. What little girl can turn a whole household upside down and breathe new life back into a strange, old manor The wonderfully contrary, strong-willed, ...

Marriage | Why do we set so much store by marriage? Jane Austen was fascinated by this question, subjecting it to her forensic eye and wonderfully ironic wit again and again. Here are stolen glances a...

The Sea, The Sea | This title is presented with an introduction by John Burnside. When Charles Arrowby retires from his glittering career in the London theatre, he buys a remote house on the rocks by ...

The Little Prince | Meet the Little Prince, a young fellow who hails from a tiny, distant planet. He loves to watch sunsets and look after his flower, to ask questions and to laugh. And now here he is...

The Sense of an Ending | Now a major film starring Academy Award nominees Jim Broadbent and Charlotte Rampling.Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2011.Tony Webster and his clique first met ...

To The Lighthouse | Rediscover one of Virginia Woolf's greatest works in this beautiful new gift edition from Vintage Classics. Mr and Mrs Ramsay and their eight children have always holidayed at thei...

Still Life | Frederica Potter arrives at Cambridge University greedy for knowledge, sex and love. It isnt long before she becomes infatuated with a mysterious and controlling poet. Back in Yorkshire, ...

The Brothers Karamazov | "The Brothers Karamazov" is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving Karamazov and his three ...

Ecstasy (мягк). Welsh I. (Британия ИЛТ) | Rebecca Navarro, bestselling authoress of Regency romances, suffers a paralyzing stroke. Assisted by her nurse, Rebecca plans her revenge on her unfaithful hu...

Lies | The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility. Is lying simply an uncomfortable truth about life...

The Room, The Invoice, and The Circus | In this trilogy of novellas, Jonas Karlsson explores the quirkier side of human nature, helping us to see the world anew via three eccentric narrators.Firstly, ...