Vintage

This is Tokyo as you have never seen it before. A masterpiece of tension from the author of the cult classic VillainFour twenty-somethings share an apartment in Tokyo. In Parade each tells their story: their lives, their hopes and fears, their loves, their secrets.Kotomi waits by the phone for a boyfriend who never calls. Ryosuke wants someone that...

Moving, ribald and semi-autobiographical, Lives of Girls and Women is the only novel from Alice Munro, winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureThe only novel from bestselling author Alice Munro, winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureCatching frogs, grazing knees, singing songs to save England from Hitler - that was childhood for Del Jordan, and now...

As a child, Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer, learning the arcane terminology and reading all the classic books. Years later, when her father died and she was struck deeply by grief, she became obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk....

A mesmerising mystery story about friendship from the internationally bestselling author of Norwegian WoodA mesmerising mystery story about friendship from the internationally bestselling author of Norwegian Wood and 1Q84Tsukuru Tazaki had four best friends at school. By chance all of their names contained a colour. The two boys were called...

From the bestselling author of the Harry Hole series, comes a short, sharp shock of a thriller. Blood on Snow: Drugs. Death. Murder. Revenge - and a hitman with two big problemsOlav lives the lonely life of a fixer.When you 'fix' people for a living - terminally - it's hard to get close to anyone.Now he's finally met the woman of his dreams.But...

How did our species succeed in the battle for dominance? Why did our foraging ancestors come together to create cities and kingdoms? How did we come to believe in gods, nations and human rights; to trust money, books and laws; and to be enslaved by bureaucracy, timetables and consumerism? And what will our world be like in the millennia to come?...