Vintage

In one of her most delicate and suspenseful novels to date, Anita Brookner brings us an exquisite story of friendship and duty. Rachel Kennedy and Oscar Livingston were not precisely friends or family. Rachel had been acquanted with Oscar for some time, first as her fathers accountant, and then as her own. Part owner of a London bookshop, Rachel is...

A man is severely injured in a mysterious accident, receives an outrageous sum in legal compensation, and has no idea what to do with it.Then, one night, an ordinary sight sets off a series of bizarre visions he cant quite place.How he goes about bringing his visions to lifeand what happens afterwardmakes for one of the most riveting, complex, and...

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZEIN LITERATURE 2013Ten superb new stories by one of our most beloved and admired writersthe winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize. With clarity and ease, Alice Munro once again renders complex, difficult events and emotions into stories about the unpredictable ways in which men and women accommodate and often...

Parrot and Olivier in America has been shortlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize.From the two-time Booker Prizewinning author comes an irrepressibly funny new novel set in early nineteenth-century America.Olivieran improvisation on the life of Alexis de Tocquevilleis the traumatized child of aristocratic survivors of the French Revolution. Parrot...

From Per Wahlco-author with his wife, Maj Sjwall,of the internationally bestselling Martin Beck series of mysteriescomes a suspense novel about a former German soldier wanted for questioning about a murder in Spain.Willi Mohr--former German soldier, starving artist, enigmatic drifter--is arrested by the police and subjected to a lengthy and...

An eBook short.The author of such towering novels as The Handmaid's Tale, The Blind Assassin, and Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood creates worlds just as vividly in her short fiction. In the title story from her acclaimed collection of linked stories Moral Disorder, Margaret Atwood takes us to the farm.Newly arrived city slickers, like Nell and...