Vintage

Brilliant and disturbing' Yuval Noah HarariThe past is another country, the old saying goes. The same might be said of the future. But which country? For Europeans and Americans today, the answer is Russia.In this visionary work of contemporary history, Timothy Snyder shows how Russia works within the West to destroy the West; by supporting the far...

Halfway through life, you find yourself lost, unsure of the right path. Greed, deception and pride have led you away from the ideals and dreams you cherished in younger days. How do you go on?This is the starting point of one of the most extraordinary and important journeys in western literature, a stunningly ambitious flight of imagination and...

Isabel Raine had it all - a successful career, a supportive family, and a happy marriage. Then one ordinary morning, her husband, Marcus, leaves for work and never comes back. She spends the day frantically calling his cell phone and his office, but receives calling his cell phone and his office, but receives no answer. After a dramatic raid at his...

Mankell's latest stand-alone novel to be published here has been translated by Steven T. Murray, and follows the success of "The Eye Of The Leopard" and "Depths", as well as the "Wallander" series, of course. Set in both Africa and Sweden at the end of the 19th century, it is a compelling story of a child driven to violence....

1945: a lost German bomber crashes on the Vatnajökull glacier in Iceland. Inexplicably, in the midst of World War Two, there are both German and American officers on board. One of the senior German officers claims that their best chance of survival is to try to walk to the nearest farm and sets off, a briefcase handcuffed to his wrist.1999,...

Arthur Kipps, a junior solicitor, is summoned to attend the funeral of Mrs Alice Drablow, the sole inhabitant of Eel Marsh House. Unaware of the tragic secrets which lie there, wreathed in fog and mystery, it is not until he glimpses a wasted young woman, dressed all in black, at the funeral that a creeping sense of unease begins to take hold....