Vintage

Toru Okada's cat has disappeared and this has unsettled his wife, who is herself growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has started receiving. The tidy suburban realities of Okada's vague, blameless life are turned inside out, and he embarks on a bizarre journey, guided by a succession of...

It is 1941 and Captain Antonio Corelli, a young Italian officer, is posted to the Greek island of Cephallonia as part of the occupying forces. Ostracised at first, he proves in time to be peace-loving and a consummate musician. A burgeoning love with the local doctor's daughter, whose letters to her fiance go unanswered, seems inevitable....

Anne Tyler's latest novel is finally out in PB, and it's as funny and quietly moving as the rest of her vast oeuvre. This novel follows Liam, a sixty-ish schoolteacher who is downsized from his job and experiencing disturbing gaps in his memory. Tyler's previous two novels were shortlisted for the Orange Prize and together have sold almost half a...

A mesmerising debut set in the not-too-distant future, in a landscape at once utterly fantastic and strangely familiar. Darkly comic, this is said to read like a less relentlessly bleak Cormac McCarthy and Philip K. Dick....

From one of the world's most acclaimed writers comes a novel of extraordinary power about family life - the greatest human drama - and the cost of war. Ora, a middle-aged mother, is on the verge of celebrating her son Ofer's release from Israeli army service when he returns to the front for a major offensive. In a fit of preemptive grief and...

A dazzling new novel from a modern master of the form. It is 1951 in America, the second year of the Korean War. A studious, law-abiding, intense youngster from Newark, New Jersey, Marcus Messner is beginning his sophomore year on the pastoral, conservative campus of Ohio's Winesburg College. INDIGNATION is the story of a young man's education in...