Книги Vintage Books

Eureka | Summer, 1967. As London shimmers in a heat haze and swoons to the sound of Sergeant Pepper, a mystery film – Eureka – is being shot by German wunderkind Reiner Werther Kloss. The screenwriter...

Summertime | A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee. He plans to focus on a period in the seventies when, the biographer senses, Coetzee was 'finding his f...

The Long Drop | Glasgow, 1957. It is a December night and William Watt is desperate. His family has been murdered and he needs to find out who killed them. He arrives at a bar to meet Peter Manuel, wh...

The Interestings | Discover the generation-defining American novel from the author of The Wife Whatever became of the most talented people you once knew? On a warm summer night in 1974, six teenagers ...

Italian Shoes | Once a successful surgeon, Frederick Welin now lives in self-imposed exile on an island in the Swedish archipelago. Nearly twelve years have passed since he was disgraced for attemptin...

The American Lover | A seductive collection of stories from the 'magnificent story-teller' (Independent on Sunday). Rose Tremain has sold over one million copies of her books. Trapped in a London flat...

Alms For Oblivion. Volume II | Simon Raven's sequence of colourful and funny novels about the English upper-class misbehaving continues against a backdrop of intrigue in Athens, radicalism in Cambridg...

The Last Stand. Custer, Sitting Bull and the Battle of the Little Big Horn | This is the archetypal story of the American West. Whether it is cast as a tale of unmatched bravery in the face of impossi...

Soumchi | A young boy coming of age in British-occupied Jerusalem trades away one possession after another, only to find something much more wonderful – his first love When Soumchi, an eleven-year-old...

Pollyanna | 'Most generally there is something about everything that you can be glad about, if you keep hunting long enough to find it' When her father dies, Pollyanna is sent to live with her stern A...

The Risk of Darkness | Children are vanishing. The village of Lafferton is shattered. There are no witnesses and no leads - just a kidnapper at large. Then Detective Chief Inspector Simon Serrailler r...

The Mind Readers | Agatha Christie called her 'a shining light'. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder mystery? Fact catches up with fiction when the secret of ...

The Enchanted April | 'Now she had taken off her goodness and left it behind her like a heap of rain-sodden clothes, and she only felt joy' Mrs Wilkins and Mrs Arbuthnot, cowed and neglected by their ...

Jacobs Room | Jacob's Room is Virginia Woolf's first truly experimental novel. It is a portrait of a young man, tracing his life from childhood, to Cambridge University, and to his early adult life in...

The Fifth Woman | Four nuns and a fifth woman are killed in a savage night-time attack in Africa. A year later, Inspector Kurt Wallander investigates the disappearance of an elderly birdwatcher and di...

The Shadow District | The first instalment in the thrilling new crime series from worldwide bestseller Arnaldur Indridason The Past In wartime Reykjavik, a young woman is found strangled in a dangerou...

Reunion | Reunion is a little-known novel. But it is also a universal story of friendship. It is a book of great power, waiting to be discovered. On a grey afternoon in 1932, a Stuttgart classroom is ...

Life Without Children | Love and marriage, children and family, death and grief. Life touches everyone the same, but living under lockdown? It changes us alone. A man abroad wanders the stag-and-hen-s...

A Kind Man | A transfixing parable of greed, goodness and an extraordinary miracle from the author of The Woman in Black. Tommy Carr was a kind man; Eve had been able to tell that after half an hour o...

Sabbath's Theater | At sixty-four Mickey Sabbath is still defiantly antagonistic and exceedingly libidinous; sex is an obsession and a principle, an instrument of perpetual misrule in his daily existe...

The Viceroy Of Ouidah | In 1812, Francisco Manoel da Silva, escaping a life of poverty in Brazil, sailed to the African kingdom of Dahomey, determined to make his fortune in the slave trade. Armed wit...

Macbeth | He's the best cop they've got. When a drug bust turns into a bloodbath it's up to Inspector Macbeth and his team to clean up the mess. He's also an ex-drug addict with a troubled past. He's ...

In the Heart of the Country | Stifled by the torpor of colonial South Africa and trapped in a web of reciprocal oppression, a lonely sheep farmer seeks comfort in the arms of a black concubine. But wh...

Nada | Eighteen-year old orphan Andrea moves to battle-scarred Barcelona to take up a scholarship at the university. But staying with relatives in their crumbling apartment, her dreams of independence...

From the Heart | A devastating coming-of-age story about a woman caught in the wrong era, from the bestselling author of The Woman in Black. Everyone likes Olive Piper. A happy, open-hearted child gro...

The Old Wives' Tale | Discover this powerful novel about the ordinary lives of the Baines sisters. The perfect next step for fans of Little Women. In The Old Wives' Tale, Arnold Bennett tells the stor...

The Clock Winder | 'Her brilliance in capturing the ripples on the surface of family life gives her a claim to be the Jane Austen of our age' Daily Mail Having sacked her handyman, newly-widowed Mrs E...

Wonderful Life | A controversial enquiry into the fundamental principles of evolutionary theory from an award-winning writer High in the Canadian Rockies is a small limestone quarry formed 530 million...

Diaboliad | The five, irreverant, satirical and imaginative stories contained in Diaboliad caused an uproar upon the book's first publication in 1925. Full of invention, they display Bulgakov's breath...

Little Women | One hundred and fifty years ago, at the request of her publisher, Louisa May Alcott sat down reluctantly to write 'a girls' book'. Knowing that, contrary to society’s expectations, girl...

Voss | Set in nineteenth-century Australia, Voss is the story of the secret passion between an explorer and a naive young woman. Although they have met only a few times, Voss and Laura are joined by o...

Sweet Danger | Nestled along the Adriatic coastline, the kingdom of Averna has suddenly - and suspiciously - become the hottest property in Europe, and Albert Campion is given the task of recovering t...

Seed to Dust | Beautifully illustrated, Seed to Dust is a reflective and restorative account of a life lived in harmony with nature. Marc Hamer has nurtured the same twelve acres of garden for decades...

Albion. The Origins of the English Imagination | Highly original and magnificent in scope, Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination discovers the roots of English cultural history in the Anglo-S...

No Highway | Read this classic uplifting, moving and heartwarming story about life in the face of the cold war. Theodore Honey is a shy, inconspicuous aircraft engineer whose eccentric interests in qu...

Cold Water | 'A beautiful debut novel... A real achievement... This is a wise and incisive first novel from a real talent' - Scotsman Winner of the Betty Trask Award. Carmel McKisco is wry, volatile a...

Headhunters. The Pioneers of Neuroscience | How did the human brain evolve? Why did it evolve as it did? What is man’s place in evolution? In the final decades of the nineteenth century, these questio...

The 7th Function of Language | Roland Barthes is knocked down in a Paris street by a laundry van. It’s February 1980 and he has just come from lunch with Francois Mitterrand. Barthes dies soon afterwa...

Voodoo Histories. How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History | Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon? Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September attacks? Should we...

Nightshade | Could the creative urge be the most destructive - even the deadliest - impulse of all? Could it end in death? Eve Laing, once the muse of an infamous painter, is now - forty years later -...

Home | A stirring exploration of war, race and belonging from the Nobel-prize winning author of Beloved. An angry and self-loathing veteran of the Korean War, Frank Money finds himself back in racist ...

Sonnets | ‘Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom’ Sonnets are for romantics, starry-eyed lovers and ardent hearts. And Shakespeare’s sonnets are the...

A Spy Named Orphan. The Enigma of Donald Maclean | Codenamed 'Orphan' by his Russian recruiter, Maclean was Britain's most gifted traitor. But as he leaked huge amounts of top-secret intelligence, an ...

Dear Life | Alice Munro captures the essence of life in her brilliant collection of short stories. Moments of change, chance encounters, the twist of fate that leads a person to a new way of thinking ...

The French Lieutenant's Woman | Charles Smithson, a respectable engaged man, meets Sarah Woodruff as she stands on the Cobb at Lyme Regis, staring out to sea. Charles falls in love, but Sarah is a dig...

Frankenstein | A beautiful new edition of Mary Shelley's Gothic horror classic, Frankenstein Includes A Cultural History of Frankenstein's Monster by Jeanette Winterson Navigating the Arctic, the capt...

The American Civil War | This major and long-awaited work is the definitive history of the American Civil War by our greatest military historian. The American Civil War was one of the longest and bloo...

The Mill on the Floss | Maggie and Tom Tulliver are both wilful, passionate children, and their relationship has always been tempestuous. As they grow up together on the banks of the River Floss, Tom'...

Telex from Cuba | Fidel and Raul Castro are in the hills, descending only to burn sugarcane plantations and recruit rebels. Rachel K is in Havana's Cabaret Tokio, entangled with a French agitator tryi...

A Word Child | Iris Murdoch conjures a murky London setting for a story of a brilliant and flawed man hoping for redemption Saved from a delinquent childhood by education, cheated out of Oxford by a t...

If Morning Ever Comes | Ben Joe is the only boy in a family of six sisters, Mama and Gram. He is studying for a law degree in New York when he hears his eldest sister Joanne has left her husband and r...

One River. Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest | From the author of Into The Silence, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction In 1941, Richard Evans Schultes took a leave...

An Old Captivity | Young pilot Donald Ross has little in common with the Oxford don who has employed him on an expedition to the Arctic - and still less with his beautiful but stubborn daughter, Alix....

The Rub of Time. Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump and Other Pieses, 1994-2016 | Of all the great novelists writing today, none shows the same gift as Martin Amis for writing non-fiction - hi...

The Sun King | This gossipy account of Louis XIV is a clear and fascinating historical biography from Nancy Mitford. During his reign Louis XIV was the most powerful king in Europe. He presided over a...

The Communist Manifesto | The Communist Manifesto is a timeless classic providing intelligent insight into socialism, communism and today’s group identity politics. This pocket edition includes a new ...

The Great Gatsby | Read F Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel of love, money, revenge and betrayal set in Jazz Age America. Jay Gatsby is a self-made man, famed for his decadent champagne-drenched partie...

The Cockroach | Kafka meets The Thick Of It in a bitingly funny new political satire from Ian McEwan That morning, Jim Sams, clever but by no means profound, woke from uneasy dreams to find himself tr...

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...

Constitutional | A sensational short story collection from Britain's master of the genre. Charting tantrums, funerals, pregnancy and love affairs, these stories unroll with piercing wit and compassion...

New Boy | The bestselling author of Girl with a Pearl Earring and The Last Runaway returns with a tale of jealousy, bullying and revenge. Arriving at his fourth school in six years, diplomat’s son Ose...

The Swallows Of Kabul | Since the ascendancy of the Taliban the lives of Mosheen and his beautiful wife, Zunaira, have been gradually destroyed. Mosheen's dream of becoming a diplomat has been shatter...

The Master and Margarita | The original and best translation by Michael Glenny 50th Anniversary Edition Afterwards, when it was frankly too late, descriptions were issued of the man: expensive grey su...

The View from Castle Rock | The world's finest living short story writer turns to her family for inspiration; and what follows is a fictionalised, brilliantly imagined version of the past. From her an...