Vintage books A Gun for Sale Грин Грэм

Bright, photographic, evocative new covers for Greene's backlist, to celebrate one of the keystone writers of the Vintage Classics list • ‘Graham Greene's beautiful and disturbing novel is filled with tenderness, humour, excitement and doubt’ The Times • A leak is traced to a small sub-section of the secret service, sparking off the inevitable security checks, tensions and suspicions. The sort of atmosphere, perhaps, where mistakes could be made? For Maurice Castle, it is the end of the line anyway, and time for him to retire to live peacefully with his wife and child. But no-one escapes so easily from the lonely, isolated, neurotic world of the SIS

"Тихий американец" был написан Грином под воздействием личных впечатлений, полученных во время работы корреспондентом в Индокитае. События романа разворачиваются в Сайгоне в начале 1950-х годов. Политические игры здесь соседствуют с детективной интригой, а любовная линия придает этой истории особое напряжение • Книга на английском языке • Into the intrigue and violence of Indo-China comes Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through a mysterious 'Third Force'. As his naive optimism starts to cause bloodshed, his friend Fowler, a cynical foreign correspondent, finds it hard to stand aside and watch. But even as he intervenes he wonders why: for the sake of politics, or for love…

Bright, photographic, evocative new covers for Greene's backlist, to celebrate one of the keystone writers of the Vintage Classics list • WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY IAN RANKIN • 'In a class by himself...the ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man's consciousness and anxiety' William Golding • In a small continental country civil war is raging. Once a lecturer in medieval French, now a government agent, D is a scarred stranger in England, sent on a mission to buy coal at any price. Initially, this seems to be a matter of straightforward negotiation, but soon, implicated in murder, accused of possessing false documents and theft, held responsible for the death of a young woman, D becomes a hunted man, tormented by allegiances, doubts and love

Роман Грэма Грина "Англия создала меня" - это мощная и необычная история любви, действие которой разворачивается в мире, утратившем национальную идентичность и индивидуализм • Энтони Фаррант вернулся домой после того, как лгал и мошенничал, работая на Дальнем Востоке. Когда его сестра Кейт находит для него работу: стать телохранителем ее босса. Кажется, что Энтони встает на путь искупления. Но когда он получает приказы от Крога, которые идут вразрез с его принципами, Энтони начинает сливать информацию журналисту. И это решение обойдется ему гораздо дороже, чем потеря работы • Книга на английском языке • A powerful and unusual love story set in a world that has lost the comfort of national identity and individualism, told by one of the 20th century's greatest writers

"Двадцать одна история" • Знаменитый сборник рассказов одного из самых выдающихся британских писателей двадцатого века. В нем представлен самый известный рассказ Грина "Разрушители" • Написанная между 1929 и 1954 годами, каждая из этих историй несет в себе характерные темы, характерные для великих романов Грина: предательство и месть, любовь и ненависть, жалость и насилие • Начиная с культового рассказа "Разрушители", в котором банда школьников разрушает дом, переживший бомбежку, Грин предлагает нам восхитительно захватывающий взгляд на двадцать один мир, причем каждое произведение написано так же мастерски, как и его романы. От леденящей душу кульминации детского дня рождения до человека, чьи юношеские опрометчивости возвращаются, чтобы преследовать его, - это безошибочно узнаваемая работа одного из величайших и наиболее обожаемых рассказчиков двадцатого века

A gripping tragicomedy of a bungled kidnapping in a provincial Argentinean town, considered to be one of Greene's finest novels • Charley Fortnum is the 'Honorary Consul', a whisky-sodden figure of dubious authority taken by a group of rebels. As Eduardo Plarr, a local doctor, negotiates with revolutionaries and the authorities for Fortnum's release, the corruption of both becomes evident. In this spare, tense novel, Graham Greene explores the morality of a political system that turns priests into killers

'A masterpiece - tapped out in the lean, sharp prose that film work taught Greene to perfect' - Sunday Times • WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR • In a prison in Occupied France during the Second World War, the order is given that every tenth inmate is to be executed. Louis Chavel, a rich lawyer, draws the short straw and barters everything he owns to exchange places with another man and survive. Destitute but free, Chavel later returns to the house that he sold for his life, where he must face the consequences of his cowardice and seek redemption

Действие "Человека внутри" происходит в начале 19 века и является единственным историческим романом Грина, а также его первым опубликованным романом • Это история Фрэнсиса Эндрюса, молодого человека, чье предательство по отношению к своим коллегам-контрабандистам привело к смерти человека. Опасаясь мести, он бежит и находит убежище в доме молодой одинокой женщины, которая убеждает его дать показания против своих сообщников в суде. Но ни она, ни Эндрюс не знают, что как для преступников, так и для властей, предательство является таким же тяжким преступлением, как и контрабанда • Книга на английском языке • Set in the early 19th Century, The Man Within is Greene’s only historical novel, as well his first published novel • This is the story of Francis Andrews, a young man whose betrayal of his fellow smugglers has left a man dead

Gun Love is a hypnotic story of family, community and violence. Told from the perspective of a sharp-eyed teenager, it exposes America's love affair with firearms and its painful consequences • 'My mother called anyone or anything that seemed alone, or ended up in the wrong place, a stray. There were stray people, stray dogs, stray bullets, and stray butterflies.' • Fourteen-year-old Pearl France lives in the front seat of a broken down car and her mother Margot lives in the back. Together they survive on a diet of powdered milk and bug spray, love songs and stolen cigarettes • Life on the edge of a Florida trailer park is strange enough, but when Pastor Rex's 'Guns for God' programme brings Eli Redmond to town Pearl's world is upended. Eli pays regular visits to Margot in the back seat, forcing Pearl to find a world beyond the car

Too often we take for granted and neglect our libraries, parks, markets, schools, playgrounds, gardens and communal spaces, but decades of research now shows that these places can have an extraordinary effect on our personal and collective wellbeing. Why? Because wherever people cross paths and linger, wherever we gather informally, strike up a conversation and get to know one another, relationships blossom and communities emerge – and where communities are strong, people are safer and healthier, crime drops and commerce thrives, and peace, tolerance and stability take root • Through uplifting human stories and an illuminating tour through the science of social connection, Palaces for the People shows that properly designing and maintaining this ‘social infrastructure’ might be our single best strategy for a more equal and united society

Enter Alms for Oblivion, Simon Raven's dazzling cycle of ten novels, all telling separate stories but at the same time linked together by the characters they have in common: schoolboys and businessmen, writers and soldiers, prostitutes and patient wives, actresses and models. In the first four novels Raven's wayward band of upper-class anti-heroes lurch from debauched parties to rehearsals for nuclear war; from blackmail to murder; from marriage to adultery and back again • Volume 1: The Rich Pay Late, Friends in Low Places, The Sabre Squadron and Fielding Gray