Vintage Books

War Trash is a novel by the Chinese author Ha Jin, who has long lived in the USA and who writes in English. It takes the form of a memoir written by the fictional character Yu Yuan, a man who eventually becomes a soldier in the Chinese People Volunteer Army and who is sent to Korea to fight on the Communist side in the Korean War. The majority of...

Middle-aged history professor George, and his wife Martha, are joined for a social evening by another faculty couple at a New England college. The result is an all-night drinking session that erupts into a nightmare of revelations....

A Dance to the Music of Time chronicles the lives of over three hundred characters, and is a unique evocation of life in twentieth-century England. It is unrivalled for its scope, its humour and the enormous pleasure it has given to generations. The Acceptance World follows Nicholas Jenkins, Kenneth Widmerpool and others, as they negotiate the...

Five men, one robbery: A deadly game of greed, revenge and betrayal is about to begin.Fresh out of the SAS, Matt Browning is down on his luck. He owes #163;500,000. If he doesn#8217;t get the money soon, he dies. From nowhere he is offered a lifeline. A hit on Al-Queda, sanctioned and helped by MI5. Matt gathers a small team of former SAS men to...

Książka w języku angielskim. Ray Atlee is a professor of law at the university of Virginia who is forty-three and newly single. He has a father, a very sick old man who lives alone, in the ancestral home in Clanton, Mississippi, a beloved and powerful official who has towered over local law and politics for many years and is now a recluse. With...

This groundbreaking book charts the changes in British politics, society and culture since 1975 by the unusual route of addressing the reaction to change through themes such as lust, greed, fear and charity....