Vintage books A Fool's Alphabet Фолкс Себастьян

Discover the moving powerful prequel to Snow Country • 'An extraordinary novel of magnificent scope' Evening Standard • As young boys both Jacques Rebiere and Thomas Midwinter become fascinated with trying to understand the human mind. As psychiatrists, their quest takes them from the squalor of the Victorian lunatic asylum to the crowded lecture halls of the renowned Professor Charcot in Paris; from the heights of the Sierra Madre in California to the plains of unexplored Africa • As the concerns of the old century fade and the First World War divides Europe, the two men's volatile relationship develops and changes, but is always tempered by one exceptional woman; Thomas's sister Sonia

American academic Hannah and runaway Moroccan teenager Tariq have little in common, yet both find themselves haunted by the ghosts of Paris • Hannah listens to the extraordinary witness of women living under the German Occupation and finds a city bursting with clues, connections and past love affairs, while in the migrant suburbs Tariq is searching for a mother he barely knew. Urgent and deeply moving, Paris Echo asks how much we really need to know in order to live a valuable life

The epic new novel from the bestselling author of Birdsong • 'Wistful, yearning and wise' Elizabeth Day • 1914: Aspiring journalist Anton arrives in Vienna where he meets Delphine, a woman of deep secrets. Anton is entranced by the light of first love, until his country declares war on hers • 1927: For Lena, life in a small town has been cosseted and cold. When her love affair with a young lawyer crumbles, she leaves to take a post at the snow-capped sanatorium, the Schloss Seeblick • 1933: Anton is sent to write about the mysterious Schloss Seeblick. In this place, on the banks of a silvery lake where the roots of human suffering are laid bare, two people will see each other as if for the first time

Reissued in new series style to match Faulks's most recent novel Where My Heart Used to Beat, which was a major Sunday Times bestseller in 2016 • A remarkable story of a Scottish woman in Occupied France pursuing a perilous mission of her own • FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER BIRDSONG • In 1942, Charlotte Gray, a young Scottish woman, heads for Occupied France on a dual mission - officially, to run an apparently simple errand for a British special operations group and unofficially, to search for her lover, an English airman missing in action. She travels to the village of Lavaurette, dyeing her hair and changing her name to conceal her identity. As the people in the small town prepare to meet their terrible destiny, Charlotte must come face-to-face with the harrowing truth of what took place in Europe’s darkest years, and confront a terrifying secret that threatens to cast its shadow over the remainder of her days

Любовь, общество и политика эдвардианской эпохи исследуются в романе Виты Саквилл-уэст "Эдвардианцы", идеальной книге для поклонников аббатства Даунтон • Себастьян молод, красив и романтичен, наследник огромного и красивого английского загородного поместья. Он - неизменная фигура в вечном круговороте роскошных вечеринок, интриг и традиций в холодном, декадентском сердце эдвардианского высшего общества. Все знают, какую роль он должен сыграть, но Себастьян не уверен, что хочет эту роль. У него будут положение, привилегии и богатство, - если, конечно, он сможет устоять перед соблазном дивного нового мира • Книга на английском языке • Edwardian era love, society and politics explored in this perfect read for Downton Abbey fans • Sebastian is young, handsome and romantic, the heir to a vast and beautiful English country estate

'She was a fool and he knew it and because he loved her it had made no difference' • Kitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow wife of Walter, a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong. Unsatisfied by her marriage, she starts an affair with charming, attractive and exciting Charles Townsend. But when Walter discovers her deception, he exacts a strange and terrible vengeance: Kitty must accompany him to his new posting in remote mainland China, where a cholera epidemic rages • VINTAGE DECO: Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on

Бывает, что человек, с которым никогда не встречался, или место, где никогда не был, странно кажутся нам знакомыми. Умом мы понимаем, что это невозможно. А сердце настаивает на своем... Порой, когда мы почти верим, что наша жизнь не лишена смысла, глупая случайность смешивает карты и обрывает сюжет. А иногда та же случайность заставляет нас ощутить присутствие чуда и осознать свое предназначение. Об этом — новая книга британского писателя Себастьяна Фолкса, автора мирового бестселлера «И пели птицы...». Пять новелл, соединенных в подобие симфонии, повествуют о пяти разных судьбах. Персонажи романа живут в разные эпохи и принадлежат к разным кругам общества. Присоединяясь к бойцам французского Сопротивления, английский филолог Джефф Тальбот не знает, что его ждет ад немецкого концлагеря

«И пели птицы...» — наиболее известный роман Себастьяна Фолкса, ставший классикой современной английской литературы. С момента выхода в 1993 году он не покидает списков самых любимых британцами литературных произведений всех времен. Он включен в курсы литературы и английского языка большинства университетов. Тираж книги в одной только Великобритании составил около двух с половиной миллионов экземпляров • Это история молодого англичанина Стивена Рейсфорда, который в 1910 году приезжает в небольшой французский город Амьен, где влюбляется в Изабель Азер. Молодая женщина несчастлива в неравном браке и отвечает Стивену взаимностью. Невозможность справиться с безумной страстью заставляет их бежать из Амьена • Начинается война, Стивен уходит добровольцем на фронт, где в кровавом месиве вселенского масштаба отчаянно пытается сохранить рассудок и волю к жизни

Georgy is young, gregarious and fun - she is also large, self-confessedly ugly and desperate for love. Georgy bears her fate bravely as she alternates between playing the fool and humbling herself before Meredith, her pretty, callous flatmate, although when James, middle-aged socialite and self-imposed 'Uncle', asks Georgy to become his mistress, she is tempted to accept. Then Meredith announces that she is pregnant and Jos, the expectant father, decides he is in love with Georgy

The pre-eminent study of the six wives of Henry VIII by a master historian • Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived • CATHERINE OF ARAGON: the pious Spanish Catholic who suffered years of miscarriages and failed to produce a male heir • ANNE BOLEYN: the pretty, clever, French-educated Protestant whose marriage to Henry changed England forever • JANE SEYMOUR: the demure and submissive contrast to Anne Boleyn's radical and vampish style • ANNE OF CLEVES: 'the mare of Flanders' whose short marriage to the overweight Henry followed a farcical 'beauty contest' • CATHERINE HOWARD: the flirtatious teenager whose adulteries made a fool of the ageing king... CATHERINE PARR: the shrewd, religiously radical bluestocking who outlived him

Philip Roth's entire oeuvre - 31 books - to be reissued in electric new Vintage jackets for October 2016 • As a student in college, David Kepesh styles himself as 'a rake among scholars, a scholar among rakes' - an identity that will cling to him for a lifetime. As Philip Roth follows Kapesh from the domesticity of childhood out into the vast wilderness of erotic possibility, from a menage a trois in London to the depths of loneliness in New York, Kapesh confronts the central dilemma of pleasure: how to make a truce between dignity and desire; and how to survive the ordeal of an unhallowed existence

Creepy. Peculiar. Fairy. Goblin. Liar. Weirdo. Crank. Genius • No one knows what to make of Juliet Slater, not even her mother. And clothes, boys, school, friends, the changing seasons and what other people think - none of these things seem to matter to Juliet. She spends hours in her room with incomprehensible mathematical text books, her mind voyaging in strange seas of thought, alone. Is she a genius? It might take the rest of her life to find out • While Stella Gibbons was celebrated for her beloved bestseller Cold Comfort Farm, the manuscript for Pure Juliet lay unseen and forgotten until it was brought to light by her family in 2014, and is published here for the first time in Vintage Classics. A tale that travels from an eco-millionaire's British country idyll to an Arabian Nights-style fantasy of the Middle East, this is a treat for fans of this witty, curious and always surprising author