Vintage books Don't Call It Night Оз Амос

A teenage son shoots himself under his parents' bed. They sleep that night unaware he is lying dead beneath them • A stranger turns up at a man's door to persude him that they must get rid of his ageing mother in order to sell the house • An old man grumbles to his daughter about the unexplained digging and banging he hears under the house at night • As each story unfolds, Amos Oz, builds a portrait of a village in Israel. It is a surreal and unsettling place. Each villager is searching for something, and behind each episode is another, hidden story. In this powerful, hynotic work Amos Oz peers into the darkness of our lives and gives us a glimpse of what goes on beneath the surface of everyday existence • By the winner of the 2013 Franz Kafka Prize, previous winners of which include Philip Roth, Ivan Klima, Elfriede Jelinek, Harold Pinter and John Banville

An unnamed author waits in a bar in Tel Aviv on a stifling hot night. He is there to give a reading of his work but as he sits, bored, he begins to conjure up the life stories of the people he meets. Later, when the reading is done he asks a woman for a drink. She declines and the author walks away, only to climb the steps to her flat, later that night. Or does he? • In Amos Oz's beguiling, intriguing story the reader never really knows where reality ends and invention begins

Where the Jackals Howl is prize-winning author Amos Oz's first collection of stories. On publication it received immediate critical acclaim and revealed Oz to be a master craftsman probing the emotional depths of his characters • The lives of ordinary Israelis are set against the backdrop of community life in a Kibbutz. The fate of these individuals, their drives, ambitions and idiosyncrasies, are grounded by the physical and social structure of their community as Oz portrays their world as a microcosm of the wider world

Following the bizarre accidental death of his wife, Israeli secret service agent Yoel Ravid retires to the suburbs with his daughter, mother and mother-in-law • After a lifetime of uncovering other people's secrets he is forced to look back at the lies he has told himself; at the desolate enigma of his wife's life and death; his years of service to the state and the riddle of his daughter's behaviour

In the last years of British rule in Jerusalem, a lonely, bookish Israeli boy befriends a British soldier in this tale of friendship in the face of enmity • Jerusalem 1947 • British soldiers patrol the streets, and bullets and bombs are a nightly occurrence • Caught up in the fervour and unrest against the occupying forces,12-year old Proffy dreams of being an underground fighter. But some of his dreams are less heroic • Temptation lurks everywhere for the youth who wants to be a man – and betrayal not far behind

It is the French Riviera in the 1920s. Nicole and Dick Diver are a wealthy, elegant, magnetic couple. A coterie of admirers are drawn to them, none more so than the blooming young starlet Rosemary Hoyt. When Rosemary falls for Dick, the Diver's calculated perfection begins to crack. As dark truths emerge, Fitzgerald shows both the disintegration of a marriage and the failure of idealism. Tender is the Night is as sad as it is beautiful

On a sultry afternoon in the summer of 1936 a young woman is witness to an attempted murder in a London hotel room • Nina, a West End actress, faces a dilemma: she shouldn't have been at the hotel in the first place, and certainly not with a married man. But once it becomes apparent that she has seen the face of the man the newspapers have dubbed ‘the Tie-Pin Killer’ she realises that unless she acts quickly, more women will die • From the glittering murk of Soho’s underworld, to the grease paint and ghost-lights of theatreland, Curtain Call is a poignant and gripping story about love and death in a society dancing towards the abyss

Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, and one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant Don Quixote de La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they travel through sixteenth-century Spain

Sammy's had a bad week • Most of it's just a blank space in his mind, and the bits that he can remember, he'd rather not. His wallet's gone, along with his new shoes, he's been arrested then beaten up by the police and thrown out on the street - and he's just gone blind. He remembers a row with his girlfriend, but she seems to have disappeared; and he might have been trying to fix a bit of business up with an old mate, he's not too sure • Things aren't looking too good for Sammy and his problems have hardly begun

"Не читай эту книгу, если ты глуп" • - великолепная коллекция короткометражной художественной литературы от Тибора Фишера. Новелла "Мне нравится, когда меня убивают" приоткрывает завесу над комедийной сценой Лондона, исследует, откуда берутся шутки и как можно рассмешить людей с помощью всего лишь одной зубочистки и крайней плоти. Другие истории посещают Брикстонскую тюрьму и немецкие книжные магазины, созерцают загар русских задниц на Лазурном берегу, дают советы по вождению во время румынских революций, объясняют, что делать с пятьюдесятью бесполезностями, дают советы по успешному и безболезненному серийному убийству и убедительно демонстрируют, что никто не должен жить в Южном Лондоне • Книга на английском языке • A dazzling collection of short fiction, containing stories published in New Writing and the Times Literary Supplement, as well as several new stories

Джон Эдвард Уильямс родился 29 августа 1922 года в Кларксвилле, штат Техас, в семье фермеров. Несмотря на актерский талант и пристрастие к литературе, молодого человека отчислили из местного колледжа после первого года обучения. Не получив желаемого образования, он работал на радио и в газетах, пока в начале 1942 года не поступил на службу в военно-воздушные силы США. Во время службы Джон начал работу над своим первым романом «Ничто кроме ночи» • Однажды Артур Моксли получает письмо от своего отца, с которым давно не общался. Страх и отвращение Артура к этому человеку сильны, но его желание увидеть своего отца непреодолимо. Ночью после их встречи Артур пьет и вступает в связь с красивой молодой женщиной. Но по мере того, как воспоминания о детских травмах всплывают на поверхность, ночная прогулка Артура становится настоящей катастрофой

We need to rethink the conversation around mental health - psychologist Lucy Foulkes explores how and why • How do mental health problems arise? • How do we distinguish between the 'normal' challenges of modern life and actual illness? • Is society really experiencing a new mental health crisis? • In this urgently needed book, psychologist Lucy Foulkes investigates what we know about mental illness - and shines a light on what we don't. It offers a profound new approach to how we think, talk and help when it comes to mental health