Vintage books Birdsong Фолкс Себастьян

Mike Engleby has a secret • This is the story of Mike Engleby, a working-class boy in the seventies who wins a place at an esteemed English university. A man devoid of scruple or self-pity, Engleby provides a disarmingly frank account of English education • Yet beneath the disturbing surface of his observations lies an unfolding mystery of gripping power. When Jennifer, the fellow student he admires from a afar, disappears the reader has to ask: is Engleby capable of telling the whole truth? • 'Engleby himself is the most vivid personality Faulks has yet devised... engagingly lucid and disarmingly funny...' Guardian

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 vividly evocative novel set in Cold War and New Frontier era America, from the bestselling author of Birdsong and Charlotte Gray • America, 1959. With two young children she adores, loving parents back in London, and an admired husband, Charlie, working at the British embassy in Washington, the world seems an effervescent place of parties, jazz and family happiness to Mary van der Linden. But the Eisenhower years are ending, and 1960 brings the presidential battle between two ambitious senators: John Kennedy and Richard Nixon. But when Frank, an American newspaper reporter, enters their lives Mary embarks on a passionate affair, all the while knowing that in the end she must confront an impossible decision

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

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

A lieutenant writes of digging through bodies that have the consistency of Camembert cheese; a mother sends flower seeds to her son at the Front, hoping that one day someone may see them grow; a nurse tends a man back to health knowing he will be court-martialled and shot as soon as he is fit. Edited by the bestselling author of Birdsong and Dr Hope Wolf, this is an original and illuminating non-fiction anthology of writing on the First World War • Diaries, letters and memories, testaments from ordinary people whose lives were transformed, are set alongside extracts from names that have become synonymous with the war, such as Siegfried Sassoon and T.E. Lawrence. A Broken World is an original collection of personal and defining moments that offer an unprecedented insight into the Great War as it was experienced and as it was remembered

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

Что, если незнакомец, похожий на вас, украл ваше имя, подделал вашу биографию и отправился по миру, выдавая себя за вас? • Поразительно, но Филип Рот встречает в Иерусалиме человека по имени Филип Рот, который путешествует по Израилю, проповедуя странный обратный исход евреев, призывая их вернуться в дома своих предков в Европе. Рот решает остановить его, даже если для этого придется выдать себя за самозванца • Операция "Шейлок" Филипа Рота - это одновременно шпионская история, политический триллер, размышление об идентичности и непостижимое путешествие по нестабильному, пугающему Ближнему Востоку • Книга на английском языке • Philip Roth's entire oeuvre - 31 books - to be reissued in electric new Vintage jackets for October 2016 • 'Subtle, funny and furious' Observer • What if a lookalike stranger stole your name, hijacked your biography, and went about the world pretending to be you? • Startlingly, Philip Roth meets a man in Jerusalem called Philip Roth who has been touring Israel - riding high on the author's reputation - preaching a bizarre reverse-exodus of the Jews, encouraging them to return to their ancestral homes in Europe

The great Icelandic novel by the Nobel Prize-winning novelist Halldor Laxness • 'There are good books and there are great books and there may be a book that is something still more: it is the book of your life' New York Review of Books • First published in 1946, this is a humane, epic novel set in rural Iceland. Bjartus is a sheep farmer determined to eke a living from a blighted patch of land. Nothing, not merciless weather, nor his family, will come between him and his goal of financial independence. Only Asta Solillja, the child he brings up as his daughter, can pierce his stubborn heart. As she grows up, keen to make her own way in the world, Bjartus's obstinacy threatens to estrange them forever • Written by the Nobel prize-winner dubbed the 'Tolstoy of the North', this is a magnificent portrait of the eerie Icelandic landscape and one man's dogged struggle for independence