Vintage

A Royal Thai Detective Novel (2)Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep of the Royal Thai Police returns in his riveting and smokily atmospheric new thriller.A faranga foreignerhas been murdered, his body horribly mutilated, at the Bangkok brothel co-owned by Sonchais mother and his boss. The dead man was a CIA agent. To make matters worse, the apparent...

William Boyds masterful new novel tells, in a series of intimate journals, the story of Logan Mountstuartwriter, lover, art dealer, spyas he makes his often precarious way through the twentieth century.From the Trade Paperback edition....

EssaysIn the speech he gave upon accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957, Albert Camus said that a writer "e;cannot serve today those who make history; he must serve those who are subject to it."e; And in these twenty-three political essays, he demonstrates his commitment to history&'s victims, from the fallen maquis of the French...

Malcolm Stevenson, a wealthy ex-naval officer haunted by his memories of the war, finds his lonely life turned upside down one night when he runs into trouble on a road near the coast. What at first appears to be an accident leads him to discover an international conspiracy against his countryand to fall in love with a dance hostess who seems to...

A story of love and memory.On a train journey from Paris to Madrid a young opera singer becomes fascinated by those in his compartment: a middle-aged businessman, his alluring wife and their male traveling companion. Soon his life of constant travel, luxury hotels, rehearsal and performance will become entangled with these three people, and the...

A NovelHanky-panky on the international art scene is the source of the hilarity and fizz in Peter Mayle's new novel. He flies us back to the south of France (a region some readers of his irresistible best-sellers believe him to have invented), on a wild chase through galleries, homes of prominent collectors, and wickedly delectable...