Книги Vintage Books

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...

Mouth Full of Blood | Spanning four decades, these essays, speeches and meditations interrogate the world around us. They are concerned with race, gender and globalisation. The sweep of American histo...

Frankenstein | What you create can destroy you. One freezing morning, a lone man wandering across the Acrtic ice caps is rescued from starvation by a ship's captain. Victor Frankenstein's story is one...

The Heart Of A Dog | A rich, successful Moscow professor befriends a stray dog and attempts a scientific first by transplanting into it the testicles and pituitary gland of a recently deceased man. A ...

The Blade Artist | Jim Francis has finally found the perfect life – and is now unrecognisable, even to himself. A successful painter and sculptor, he lives quietly with his wife, Melanie, and their tw...

The Stranger | With the intrigue of a psychological thriller, Camuss masterpiece gives us the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach. Behind the intrig...

The Trial | Rediscover Kafka’s classic work of psychological horror. The Trial is the terrifying tale of Joseph K, a respectable functionary in a bank, who is suddenly arrested and must defend his inn...

Collected Short Stories: Volume 1 | This classic collection of stories moves from England, France and Spain to the silver sands of the South Pacific. It includes the famous story 'Rain', the tragedy o...

The Overstory | A wondrous, exhilarating novel about nine strangers brought together by an unfolding natural catastrophe. The perfect literary escape. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographi...

Liberty | Why should one half be free to live, while the other is doomed to watch silently from the sidelines? In this visionary collection, Virginia Woolf leads us on a transformative journey through...

A Horse Walks into a Bar | The setting is a comedy club in a small Israeli town. An audience that has come expecting an evening of amusement instead sees a comedian falling apart on stage; an act of d...

Under The Net | Funny, subversive, fearless and fiercely intelligent, Iris Murdoch was one of the great writers of the twentieth century. To celebrate her centenary Vintage Classics presents special e...

Collected Short Stories: Volume 4 | This final classic collection of stories reveals Somerset Maugham's unique talent for exposing and exploring the bitter realities of human relationships. Brilliant ...

The Kingdom | Jo Nesbo, author of the number one bestselling Harry Hole series, is back with a tense and atmospheric thriller about two brothers bound together by dark secrets. When Roy and Carls pare...

Love | How do we love? With romance. With work. Through heartbreak. Throughout a lifetime. As a means, but not an end. Love in all its forms has been an abiding theme of Jeanette Wintersons writing. H...

Small Memories | A delightful insight into the formation of an artist who would become one of the world's most respected writers.Born in 1922 in the tiny Portuguese village of Azinhaga, Jose Saramago ...

Selected Diaries | Virginia Woolf turned to her diary as to an intimate friend, to whom she could freely and spontaneously confide her thoughts on public events or the joys and trials of domestic life...

Robinson Crusoe | Robinson Crusoe runs away from home to join the navy. After a string of adventures at sea, he is shipwrecked in a devastating storm, and finds himself alone on a remote desert island...

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas | Berlin 1942. When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the fami...

The End of the Affair | The love affair between Maurice Bendrix and Sarah, flourishing in the turbulent times of the London Blitz, ends when she suddenly and without explanation breaks it off. After a...

Three Tigers One Mountain | Two tigers cannot share the same mountain - Chinese proverb Despite geographical proximity, cultural similarities, and shared status as highly powerful nations, China, Kore...

Peter Pan | The Darling children are tucked up in bed when Peter Pan bursts in to their nursery. Peter and his mischievous fairy Tinker Bell entice Wendy and her brothers to fly away with them to a ma...

Travels With My Aunt / (мягк) (Vintage). Greene G. (ВБС Логистик) | Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in over fifty years at his mother's ...

Vesper Flights | Animals don't exist to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most of what they teach us is what we think we know about ourselves. From the bestselling author of...

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...

From Russia with Love | SMERSH, the Russian intelligence unit, is hell-bent on destroying Special Agent James Bond. His death would deal a hammer blow to the heart of The British Secret Service. The l...

Strangers on a Train | "Hey! Cheeses, what an idea! I kill your wife and you kill my father! We meet on a train, see, and nobody knows we know each other! Perfect alibis! Catch?" Код номенклатуры: ORS...

Chaos | Uncover one of the most exciting frontiers of modern physics in this fascinating, insightful and accessible overview of Chaos theory. 'An exceedingly readable introduction to a new intellectua...

Ghost Stories | SELECTED AND INTRODUCED BY RUTH RENDELL M. R. James wrote his ghost stories to entertain friends on Christmas Eve, and they went on to both transform and modernise a genre. James harne...

Inside Story | So begins a love letter to life, a resuscitation of sorts, encountering vibrant characters from Saul Bellow, to Philip Larkin to Iris Murdoch and Elizabeth Jane Howard, and to the perso...

Curiosity. How Science Became Interested in Everything | With the recent landing of the Mars rover Curiosity, it seems safe to assume that the idea of being curious is alive and well in modern science...

First Person | From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North, the hypnotic tale of a ghost writer writing the memoir of a notorious con man, and the chilling events tha...

Sonnets | Sonnets are for romantics, starry-eyed lovers and ardent hearts. And Shakespeares sonnets are the best ever written. But this is why they are also for cynics, for star-crossed lovers and for...

Star of the North | North Korea and the USA are on the brink of war.A young American woman disappears without trace from a South Korean island.The CIA recruits her twin sister to uncover the truth.Now...

Sanctuary | Spolit, feckless Temple Drake, the daughter of a judge, runs away from school with an unsuitable man. Abandoned by him with a gang of moonshiners, Temple falls into the clutches of the psy...

A Place for Us | As an Indian wedding gathers a family back together, parents Rafiq and Layla must reckon with the choices their children have made. There is Hadia: their headstrong, eldest daughter, ...

The Satanic Verses | Just before dawn one winter’s morning, a hijacked aeroplane blows apart high above the English Channel and two figures tumble, clutched in an embrace, towards the sea: Gibreel Far...

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 Matchmaker | Uprooted from war-torn London, Alda Lucie-Brown and her three daughters start a new life at Pine Cottage in rural Sussex. Unsuited to a quiet life, Alda attempts to orchestrate - with...

So Happy It Hurts | Ottila McGregor is thirty years old and has decided it’s time to sort her life out. She’s going to quit drinking, stop cheating and finally find true happiness. Easy, right?Getting...

The Tao of Bruce Lee / (мягк). Miller D. (ВБС Логистик) | Книга для чтения на английском языке. Код номенклатуры: ORS525297306592457. nodiscount: no. Категория: книги на английском языке, книги на ино...

The Watch | A visceral, unforgettable novel about the brutal realities of life in a war zone . Код номенклатуры: ORS069053275275071. nodiscount: no. Категория: Художественная литература/Книги на иност...

The Housekeeper and the Professor | Each morning, the Professor and the Housekeeper are introduced to one another. The Professor may not remember what he had for breakfast, but his mind is still alive...

McMafia | With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the deregulation of international financial markets in 1989, governments and entrepreneurs alike became intoxicated by...

The Plot Against America | When celebrity aviator, Charles A. Lindbergh, wins the 1940 presidential election on the slogan of America First, fear invades every Jewish household. Not only has Lindbergh...

The Children s Book | Famous author Olive Wellwood writes a special private book, bound in different colours, for each of her children. In their rambling house near Romney Marsh they play in a story-b...

Selected Stories | This first-ever selection of Alice Munro's stories sums up her genius. Her territory is the secrets that cackle beneath the facade of everyday lives, the pain and promises, loves an...

The Golden House | When powerful real-estate tycoon Nero Golden immigrates to the States under mysterious circumstances, he and his three adult children assume new identities, taking 'Roman' names, an...

The Death of Mrs Westaway | When Harriet Westaway receives an unexpected letter telling her she's inherited a substantial bequest from her Cornish grandmother, it seems like the answer to her prayers....

The Porcupine | Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011 Stoyo Petkanov, the deposed Party leader of a former Soviet satellite country, is on trial. His adversary, the prosecutor general, stand...

Memoirs of a Geisha | A young peasant girl is sold as servant and apprentice to a renowned geisha house. Many years later she tells her story from a hotel in New York, opening a window into an extraor...

Peter Pan | 'Intensely moving as well as enchanting in its evocation of childhood' Daily Telegraph The Darling children are tucked up in bed when Peter Pan bursts in to their nursery. Peter and his mi...

Dan Leno And The Limehouse Golem | Before the Ripper, fear had another name. London, 1880. A series of gruesome murders attributed to the mysterious 'Limehouse Golem' strikes fear into the heart of th...

Filth | With the festive season almost upon him, Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson is winding down at work and gearing up socially - kicking off Christmas with a week of sex and drugs in Amsterdam. T...

The Memory Police | Hat, ribbon, bird, rose. To the people on the island, a disappeared thing no longer has any meaning. It can be burned in the garden, thrown in the river or handed over to the Memor...

Eileen | Trapped between caring for her alcoholic father and her job as a secretary at the boys' prison, Eileen Dunlop dreams of escaping to the big city. In the meantime, her nights and weekends are ...

Quite A Good Time to be Born. A Memoir. 1935-1975 | 'I drew my first breath on the 28th of January 1935, which was quite a good time for a future writer to be born in England...’ The only child in a l...

Selected Stories. Volume One | Covering the first half of Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro's career, these are some of the best, most touching and powerful short stories ever written This first-ever sel...

An Immense World. How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us | Discover the world as you've never seen it before - through the eyes of animals The Earth teems with sights and textures, sound...

A History Of The World In 10 1/2 Chapters | Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011 Beginning with an unlikely stowaway's account of life on board Noah's Ark, A History of the World in 10? Cha...

Indignation | Now a major motion picture starring Sarah Gadon, Logan Lerman and Ben Rosenfield, and adapted for the screen by James Schamus During the second year of the Korean War in 1951, studious, ...

The Three Musketeers | The young D’Artagnan and the legendary musketeers Athos, Porthos and Aramis are 'the inseparables' - ready to sacrifice everything in a duel or game of dice in order to defend t...

The Woman in Black | 'Heartstoppingly chilling' Daily Express 'Heartstoppingly chilling' Daily Express Read the truly terrifying classic English ghost story behind the play. Arthur Kipps, a junior sol...

The Hemlock Cup. Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life | We think the way we do because Socrates thought the way he did. His aphorism 'The unexamined life is not worth living' may have ori...