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'There are occasions where it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all'

Both a...

Three times a day in a Parisian square, a curious modern-day crier announces the news items that are left in his box. Over the...

Jim Francis has finally found the perfect life – and is now unrecognisable, even to himself. A successful painter and sculptor,...

On the outskirts of Paris, two men have been found with their throats cut. In Normandy, two stags have been killed and their...

Discover this amazing adventure story set in the Second World War

'If you meet Ruth or Edek or Bronia, you must tell them I'm...

A little boy is snatched at the gate of his home while he waits for his lift to school.

An ex-con struggling to go straight...

1945: a lost German bomber crashes on the Vatnajцkull glacier in Iceland.

Inexplicably, in the midst of World War Two, there...

A searing and magnificent picture of Australia at the moment of its foundation, with early settlers staking out their small patch...

Agatha Christie called her ‘a shining light’. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder...

Children are vanishing. The village of Lafferton is shattered.

There are no witnesses and no leads - just a kidnapper at...

The opera singer Sophia Simeonidis wakes up one morning to discover that a tree has appeared overnight in the garden of her Paris...

In the Caribbean, at the beginning of the last century, a poor rice-growing family struggle to exist. Four siblings pass their...

Agatha Christie called her 'a shining light'. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder...

Agatha Christie called her ‘a shining light’. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder...

Japanese fairy tales - enchanting, enigmatic stories of animals, human beings and the great natural world.

Dark and innocent,...

An English comic novel about a World War II expedition to a Himalayan peak.

An outrageously funny spoof about the ascent of a...

Igor is confident his old Soviet policeman’s uniform will be the best costume at the party. But he hasn’t gone far before he...

Agatha Christie called her 'a shining light'. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder...

People are going missing. Only one thing links their cases.

They all disappear on the hill.

A woman vanishes in the fog up...

Rediscover Gladys Mitchell – one of the 'Big Three' female crime fiction writers alongside Agatha Christie and Dorothy L....

Tom Wolfe's genre-defining magical mystery tour through the 1960s published in Vintage Classics for the first time to mark its...

When you betray the Fisherman...

Jon is on the run. He has crossed Oslo's biggest crime lord. Fleeing to an isolated corner of...

When you betray the Fisherman...

Jon is on the run. He has crossed Oslo's biggest crime lord. Fleeing to an isolated corner of...

Sonny's on the run.

Sonny is a model prisoner. He listens to the confessions of other inmates and absolves them of their sins....

Paris in the twenties: Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with...

Tim Moore completes his epic (and ill-advised) trilogy of cycling's Grand Tours.

Julian Berrendero's victory in the 1941...

Abandoned as a baby, Alfgrimur is content to spend his days as a fisherman living in the turf cottage outside Reykjavik with the...

Elizabeth Morison is an ordinary woman.

Yet, to eight-year-old Bunny, his mother is the centre of his universe. To Robert, her...

A proofreader tinkering with a historical text opens up a world of ambiguity and invention

What happens when the facts of...

A majestic tale, rich in allegory, wit and philosophy; another masterpiece from the Nobel prize-winning novelist Jose...