Vintage Books

The sixth novel featuring Marcus Didius Falco. Falco and his girlfriend Helena find themselves attached to a travelling comedy troupe who are touring through Syria. Falco finds himself entangled in another murder case - a second-rate playwright is murdered, leaving the comedy troupe without a bard....

Andrzej Stasiuk is a restless and indefatigable traveller. His journeys - by car, train, bus, ferry - take him from his native Poland to small towns and villages with unfamiliar yet evocative names in Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Slovenia, Albania, Moldova and Ukraine. 'The heart of my Europe', he writes 'beats in Sokolow, Podlaskie and in Husi, not...

A duel to death between an SAS soldier and the man who taught him everything he knows.SAS Captain Alex Temple is on an urgent mission. Someone has been murdering M15 officers and it looks as if the killer is an insider, one of the Regiment#8217;s own. Alex#8217;s task is to track down and eliminate the killer, and to assist him he is assigned an...

The Oscar-winning screenplay of "The Crying Game", a thriller which expands an initially simple suspense story into an exploration of sex, loyalty, betrayal and unexpected love. The author wrote the short-story collection "Night in Tunisia", and the novels "The Past" and "The Dream of a Beast"....

Ida Joner gets on her brand-new bike and sets off to buy sweets. A good-natured, happy girl, she is looking forward to her tenth birthday. Thirty-five minutes after Ida should have come home, Helga Joner, her mother, starts to worry. She phones the shop and various friends, but no one has seen her daughter. As the family goes out looking for Ida,...

In this vivid portrait of one day in a woman`s life, Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of a party she is to give that evening, while in her mind she is much more than a perfect society hostess. As she readies her house she is flooded with memories and, met with the realities of the present, Clarissa re-examines the...