Vintage Books

Beguiling and ambitious new novel from the author of 'Balzac The Little Chinese Seamstress', covering a century of Chinese history and about a search for a text and an identity. The final Buddhist moral about acceptance and letting go has great resonance today....

To a small flat in South London comes a Sumerian bowl, but the bowl is the Collector Collector, clay with something to say, an object d'art who will offer Rosa, its owner, vast swathes of unrecorded history from the last 5000 years....

The Carver-esque sentences, that, like the characters, seldom defer gratification add to the immediacy of the story....

This text tells how German politicians set out to reunite Germany by overcoming the East-West division of Europe, and how they succeeded, just when they had almost given up hope. It looks at German Ostpolitik in the context of all European and American efforts to overcome the "Yalta" division. ...

The acclaimed Science of Discworld centred around an original Pratchett story about the Wizards of Discworld. In it they accidentally witnessed the creation and evolution of our universe, a plot which was interleaved with a Cohen and Stewart non-fiction narrative about Big Science. In The Science of Discworld II our authors join forces again to see...

The supple voice and deft narrative skills of Frank Muller are an excellent match for this tremendously popular courtroom thriller. With subtle vocal changes, accents, and thoughtful interpretation, Muller helps elevate the drama and suspense of this fascinating tale, which pits a small-time rookie lawyer against the power and influence of a...