Книги Vintage Books

Armageddon in Retrospect | First published on the anniversary of Kurt Vonnegut's death, Armageddon in Retrospect is a collection of twelve new writings - a fitting tribute to the author, and an essent...

Inconvenient People. Lunacy, Liberty and the Mad-Doctors in Victorian England | This highly original book brilliantly exposes the phenomenon of false allegations of lunacy and the dark motives behind ...

Wash This Blood Clean From My Hand | Between 1943 and 2003 nine people have been stabbed to death with a most unusual weapon: a trident. In each case, arrests were made, suspects confessed their crime...

Boyhood Island | Childhood is exhilarating and terrifying. For the young Karl Ove, new houses, classes and friends are met with manic excitement and creeping dread. Adults occupy godlike positions of ...

Amy and Lan | How did the good life go so wrong? Amy Connell and Lan Honey are having the best childhood. When their families make the leap from city living to a farm in the West Country they have unt...

The Strawberry Girl | Summer 1893. In a small Norwegian fishing village, local girl Johanne dutifully gathers berries for tourists and poses barefoot for painters as ‘The Strawberry Girl’. When Johann...

Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes | The only autobiography by the great Roland Barthes, philosopher, literary theorist and semiotician. This is the autobiography of one of the greatest minds of the twe...

The Saltmarsh Murders | Rediscover Gladys Mitchell – one of the 'Big Three' female crime fiction writers alongside Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers. Noel Wells, curate in the sleepy village of Sa...

Blowout. Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Eart | A ground-breaking investigation into the oil and gas industry, international corruption and world...

The Art of Love | The Art of Love may have been written in the days of gladiators and emperors, but Ovid remains the smartest teacher on the subject of love in all of history. His advice is enduringly...

The Quiet American | Into the intrigue and violence of Indo-China comes Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through a mysterious 'Third Force'. As his naive optimism starts to ...

The Dumb House | As a child, Luke’s mother often tells him the story of the Dumb House, an experiment on newborn babies raised in silence, designed to test the innateness of language. As Luke grows up...

Anna Karenina | 'The greatest love story I've ever read' Andrew Davies Anna Karenina is a novel of unparalleled richness and complexity, set against the backdrop of Russian high society. Tolstoy chart...

Here Comes a Chopper | Rediscover Gladys Mitchell – one of the 'Big Three' female crime fiction writers alongside Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers. When a pair of ramblers, lost in the English co...

Middlemarch | Discover one of the most admired, best loved and influential novels in the history of English literature. 'If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life...' Dorothea is ...

French Braid | When Mercy Garrett moves herself out of the family home, everyone determines not to notice. All she wants is space and silence. No clutter. Not even their cat, Desmond. But it turns out...

Restoration | The bestselling classic from a 'magnificent story-teller' (Independent on Sunday). Journey to the glittering seventeenth-century court, and witness the rise and fall of young, charming R...

In Between the Sheets | The second collection of blazingly original short stories from Booker prize-winning, Sunday Times-bestselling author Ian McEwan. A two-timing pornographer becomes the unwilling...

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 Philip's London studio, this play of ...

The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories | Discover Henry James's most famous and terrifying story in an edition which also includes a unique selection of his best loved ghost stories. A young governes...

The Accidental Tourist | Discover a beautiful story of what it is to be human from Pulitzer prize-winning Sunday Times bestselling Anne Tyler How does a man addicted to routine - a man who flosses his...

Don't Call It Night | In the summer of 1989, at Tel-Kedar, a small settlement in the Negev Desert, the long time love affair between Theo, a sixty-year-old civil engineer, and Noa, a much younger scho...

1Q84. Book 3 | Book Two of 1Q84 ended with Aomame standing on the Metropolitan Expressway with a gun between her lips. She knows she is being hunted, and that she has put herself in terrible danger in...

Clever Girl | The fifth novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Free Love, The Past and Late in the Day, Clever Girl is a tale of an ordinary life made extraordinary by the gifts of Tessa Ha...

Europa Blues | A Greek gangster arrives in Stockholm, only to be murdered in a macabre fashion at Skansen zoo, his body consumed by animals. As the Intercrime Unit - a team dedicated to solving intern...

Kidnapped | 'As a writer of the English language there has been no one to touch Stevenson in a hundred years...as a story-teller he is unsurpassed' George MacDonald Fraser When young David Balfour is ...

It's All in Your Head. Stories from the Frontline of Psychosomatic Illness | A neurologist explores the very real world of psychosomatic illness. Pauline first became ill when she was fifteen. What se...

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...

Disturbing the Peace | John Wilder is in his mid-thirties, a successful salesman with a place in the country, an adoring wife and a ten-year-old son.But something is wrong. His family no longer intere...

Have The Men Had Enough? | What do men run away from? Not war, not physical hardship, but the day-to-day emotional demands of impossible domestic situations. That's women's work. This is a story of fe...

Sense and Sensibility | ‘I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way’ Discover the beloved story of sisters, love and society that laun...

China Room | Mehar, a young bride in rural Punjab, is trying to discover the identity of her new husband. It is 1929, and she and her sisters-in-law - married to three brothers in a single ceremony - ...

The Invisible Man | A cautionary horror story about the dangers of greed, isolation and a science without ethics, from the father of science fiction. The stranger arrives early in February, one wintry...

The Twenty-Third Man | Rediscover Gladys Mitchell – one of the 'Big Three' female crime fiction writers alongside Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers. Renowned criminologist, psychoanalyst and sardo...

Life. A User's Manual | In this ingenious book Perec creates an entire microcosm in a Paris apartment block. Serge Valene wants to make an elaborate painting of the building he has made his home for t...

The Time of Our Singing | From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory, an enthralling, wrenching novel about the lives and choices of one family, caught on the cusp of identities. Jonah, R...

Sacred Nature. How we can recover our bond with the natural world | In this hugely powerful book, Karen Armstrong argues that it isn't enough to change our behaviour to avert environmental catastrophe...

The Ex-Wives | Buffy's bachelorhood is worrying until he meets Celeste, a young girl at the chemist's shop who appears to hold the prescription for the elixir of Buffy's lost youth. Dazzled by love, B...

Jazz | Joe Trace - in his fifties, door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, erstwhile devoted husband - shoots dead his lover of three months, the impetuous, eighteen-year-old Dorcas. At th...

Difficult Women. A History of Feminism in 11 Fights | The first book by the acclaimed journalist Helen Lewis - the imperfect and unfinished story of the battles for women's rights Well-behaved women d...

Cathedral | Raymond Carver said it was possible 'to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language and endow these things - a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a ston...

Frostquake. How the frozen winter of 1962 changed Britain forever | On Boxing Day 1962, when Juliet Nicolson was eight years old, the snow began to fall. It did not stop for ten weeks. The threat of n...

The Pregnant Widow | Summer 1970 - a long, hot summer. In a castle in Italy, half a dozen young lives are afloat on the sea of change, trapped inside the history of the sexual revolution. The girls ar...

The Passion | Henri has a passion for Napoleon - but Napoleon has a passion for chicken. As soldier and emperor butcher their way across Europe, glory falls to ruin and love turns to hate. But, when H...

Adam, One Afternoon | An acclaimed collection of enchanting, comic and clever tales from the Italian master This collection of playful, deadly febles is populated with waifs and strays, a gluttonous t...

Missing Fay | 'An intricately crafted novel, sharp-eared, current and full of heart' Guardian, Books of the Year A spirited fourteen-year-old, Fay, goes missing from a Lincoln council estate. Is she a...

Snow Country | The epic new novel from the bestselling author of Birdsong 'Wistful, yearning and wise' Elizabeth Day 1914: Aspiring journalist Anton arrives in Vienna where he meets Delphine, a woman ...

The Richness of Life | There aren't many scientists famous enough in their lifetime to be canonized by the US Congress as one of America's 'living legends'. Yet few would have grudged this accolade to...

Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space | The full inside story of the detection of gravitational waves at LIGO, one of the most ambitious feats in scientific history 'This is empirical poet...

If You Liked School, You'll Love Work | Discover five short stories from the bestselling author of Trainspotting. In 'Rattlesnakes', three young Americans find themselves lost in the desert, held capt...

Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven | Ball games, cars, and romances: the icons and battlefields of modern life. In twenty-two linked stories, with infinite humour and pathos, Sherman Alexie exp...

The White Lioness | In 1992, in peaceful Southern Sweden, Louise Akerblom, an estate agent, pillar of the Methodist church, wife and mother, disappears. There is no explanation and no motive. Inspecto...

Carpenter's Pencil | It is the summer of 1936, the early months of the agonising civil war that engulfs Spain and shakes the rest of the world. In a prison in the pilgrim city of Santiago de Compostel...

The Man with the Compound Eyes | From the author of The Stolen Bicycle - longlisted for the International Man Booker Prize On the island of Wayo Wayo, every second son must leave on the day he turns f...

The Ghost Riders of Ordebec | ‘People will die,’ says the panic-stricken woman outside police headquarters. She refuses to speak to anyone besides Commissaire Adamsberg. Her daughter has seen a vision...

Joseph Anton. A Memoir | From the author of The Satanic Verses and Midnight's Children, which was awarded the Best of the Booker Prize in 1993, comes an unflinchingly honest and fiercely funny account...

Babel Tower | After her husband becomes violent, Frederica Potter flees with her young son to London. There, she secures a teaching position in an art school, and finds herself surrounded by painters ...

Goodbye, Columbus | Philip Roth's debut novella and Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction Goodbye, Columbus is the story of Neil Klugman and pretty, spirited Brenda Patimkin, he of poor Newark...

The Concert | It's the 1970s and cracks are starting to appear in the alliance between China and its Communist cohort Albania. When an Albanian steps on the foot of a Chinese diplomat the tension cran...

Mr Weston's Good Wine | Among the residents of a small Dorset town called Folly Down, an unlikely struggle between the forces of good and evil is taking place. For a single winter's evening, Time stan...

A Season With Verona | Travels around Italy in search of illusion, national character and goals. 'Delves into the very essence of being a fan, while seamlessly exploring Italian history, politics, cul...

The Three Evangelists | The opera singer Sophia Simeonidis wakes up one morning to discover that a tree has appeared overnight in the garden of her Paris house. Intrigued and unnerved, she turns to he...

Thunderball | There's no better time to rediscover James Bond. SPECTRE - the international terrorist organization led by Blofeld - is holding the world to ransom with two stolen nuclear weapons. Opera...

Persuasion | 'In Persuasion, Jane Austen picks up the pen to tell us who we are and what we want' Independent Eight years ago Anne Elliot bowed to pressure from her family and made the decision not to...