Vintage books Enbury Heath Гиббонс Стелла

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

Brother and sister, Constance and Kenneth Fielding live in calm respectability, just out of reach of London and the Blitz. But when a series of uninvited guests converge upon them – from a Balkan exile to Ken’s old flame and the siblings’ own raffish father – the household struggles to preserve its precious peace. In this full house, in a quiet corner of suburbia, no one expects to find romance

Uprooted from war-torn London, Alda Lucie-Brown and her three daughters start a new life at Pine Cottage in rural Sussex. Unsuited to a quiet life, Alda attempts to orchestrate - with varying degrees of success - the love affairs of her neighbours. Her unwilling subjects include an Italian POW, a Communist field-hand, a battery-chicken farmer and her intelligent friend Jean

'Stella Gibbons is the Jane Austen of the twentieth century' The Times • Set in wartime London, Westwood tells the story of Margaret Steggles, a plain bookish girl whose mother has told her that she is not the type that attracts men. Her schoolfriend Hilda has a sunny temperament and keeps her service boys 'ever so cheery'. When Margaret finds a ration book on Hampstead Heath the pompous writer Gerard Challis enters both their lives. Margaret slavishly adores Challis and his artistic circle; Challis idolises Hilda for her hair and her eyes and Hilda finds Gerard's romantic overtures a bit of a bind. This is a delightfully comic and wistful tale of love and longing

"Здесь водятся драконы" - роман Стеллы Гиббонс • Когда Нелл Сил переезжает из сонного Дорсета в Хэмпстед, она оставляет позади детство с унылыми чаепитиями и деспотичными правилами ради свободы большого города. Наивная и всего девятнадцатилетняя, она связывается со своенравным Джоном Гонтом и попадает в лондонскую богемную тусовку. В этом городе соблазнительных, изменчивых нравов, прокуренных джаз-клубов и гламурных эспрессо-баров Нелл должна овладеть своей вновь обретенной независимостью и научиться идти своим собственным курсом • Книга на английском языке • When Nell Sely moves from sleepy Dorset to Hampstead she leaves behind a childhood of dull teas and oppressive rules for the freedom of the big city. Naive and only nineteen, she becomes embroiled with the wayward John Gaunt and falls in with London's bohemian crowd

"Дневная жара" - напряженный триллер Элизабет Боуэн о подозрениях, предательстве и шпионаже, действие которого разворачивается в Лондоне военного времени • Это Лондон военного времени, и в вечернем воздухе витает беспечность людей, у которых нет будущего. Стелла обнаруживает, что ее возлюбленный Роберт подозревается в продаже информации врагу. Харрисон, агент британской разведки, идущий по его следу, хочет поторговаться, и ценой за его молчание будет сама Стелла. Оказавшись между двумя мужчинами и не зная, кому она может доверять, хрупкие структуры жизни Стеллы начинают рушиться • Книга на английском языке • A tense thriller of suspicion, betrayal and espionage set in wartime London • It is wartime London, and the carelessness of people with no future flows through the evening air

London, 1985. Joe, father to eleven-year-old Matty, has disappeared, and nobody will explain where he's gone, or why • In the long, hot summer that follows, Matty's hunt for Joe leads to the ponds at Hampstead Heath. Beneath the water, there is a new kind of freedom. Above the water, a welcoming community of men offer refuge from an increasingly rocky home life • Fourteen years later, a new revelation sees Matty set off alone in a campervan, driving westwards through Ireland, swimming its wild loughs and following the scant clues left behind about Joe. The trip takes a dangerous turn, and Matty is forced to rely on the kindness of strangers. But safety comes at a price, and with desire and fear running high, the journey turns into an explosive, heart-rending reckoning with the past

A sensational short story collection from Britain's master of the genre • Charting tantrums, funerals, pregnancy and love affairs, these stories unroll with piercing wit and compassion. One woman finds grief for her lost lover is assuaged when she invests in a new front door. Another grows increasingly frustrated as the grim reaper scythes through her circle, with farcical and tragic results • Elsewhere, a chain-smoker's brush with death appears to help him reassess his priorities, a south London builder avenges the duping of his adored mother, and a phlebotomist's relationship is pushed to it limits by her preoccupation with war. And in the title story, a teacher's circular walk on Hampstead Heath leads to revelations about mourning, ageing, and new life

"Каникулы в середине зимы" - роман Бернарда Маклаверти • Супружеская пара на пенсии, Джерри и Стелла Гилмор, летят в Амстердам на каникулы в середине зимы. Отпуск, чтобы освежить чувства, осмотреть достопримечательности и в целом подвести итоги того, что осталось от их жизни. Но среди зимних улиц и обледенелых каналов мы видим, как их отношения разрушаются под поверхностью. И когда вновь всплывают воспоминания о смутном времени в их родной Ирландии, все начинает разваливаться на части. Когда их зимние каникулы подходят к концу, мы понимаем, насколько они далеки друг от друга - и можем только наблюдать, как они борются за свое спасение • Книга на английском языке • A retired couple, Gerry and Stella Gilmore, fly to Amsterdam for a midwinter break

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

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