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...

Seven Pillars of Wisdom is an unusual and rich work. It encompasses an account of the Arab Revolt against the Turks during the...

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...

This is the story of Sam and Sadie. It's not a romance, but it is about love.

When Sam catches sight of Sadie at a crowded...

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...

Love sonnets are for romantics, starry-eyed lovers and ardent hearts. And Shakespeare`s sonnets are the best ever written. But...

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....

The twentieth anniversary edition of Allison Pearson's first novel that became a global sensation, now with a new introduction...

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...

A subtle and insightful story about boredom, passion, curiosity and memory from the Nobel Prize-winner Jose Saramago

A subtle...

Saramago's ingenious fictionalised account of the life of Jesus

Saramago's Jesus is the son not of God but of Joseph. Mary...

A visit from relatives sparks an implosion in the life of a good-natured family man

The decision to invite his Southern...

'One of the great books about Spain' - Tristan Garel-Jones, Observer

A many-tangented pilgrimage through ten centuries of...

Carrington's beguiling letters take us beyond the Bloomsbury group to discuss sexual mores, how to be an artist, and what it is...

'There he was, his trunk wrapped in hers. Whatever hurt or sorrow befell him was not really happening to him. He was on the other...