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'There is no novelist writing today who catches the feeling of the moment more surely than Amos Oz' Scotsman • 'In a world full of hype, noise, and confusion, the simple lucidity of The Same Sea is totally unexpected' New York Times • An intimate, everyday tale of unrequited love and grief • Nadia is dead. Her widower, Albert, comforted by his old friend Bettine, is trying to put his life back together. His son, Enrico, has gone to find himself in Tibet. Enrico's girlfriend, Dita, is being friendly and daughterly to Albert - but his responses are less platonic. Meanwhile, Dita has another lover, and a slightly repellent film producer lusts after her too • Through these intersecting triangles of desire and loss comes a novel that is surprising, heart-breaking, funny, poetic and simply unmissable

'Prophetic... a novelist of stature and wisdom' - Daily Telegraph • 'Evocative and penetrating. Oz handles his narrative with great agility' Sunday Times • One day a man may just pick up and walk out. What he leaves behind stays behind. What's left behind has nothing to stare at but his back • In the winter of 1965, Yonaton Lifshitz decided to leave the kibbutz on which he was born, and his sterile marriage, to start a new life. But as he engineers his escape, the arrival of Azariah Gitlin, a keen new recruit, brings about a painful reconciliation of their different destinies in a society struggling with changing realities

The fourth novel by Elizabeth Bowen, described by the Guardian as 'One of the last century's greatest woman writers' • Cecilia, capricious and unable to love, inches reluctantly towards a second marriage to the kind, passionless Julian Tower. Meanwhile, her sister-in-law, Emmeline, is surprised to find the calm tenor of her life disturbed by her attraction to the predatory Mark Linkwater. Markie's appearance disrupts the lives of both women, but in the pain of misunderstanding, it is Emmeline who reveals her vulnerability in a violent and tragic act

Джон Фаулз - один из наиболее выдающихся и заслуженно популярных британских писателей ХХ века, современный классик главного калибра • "Женщина французского лейтенанта" - один из главных романов Фаулза. Завлекая читателя пикантной любовной фабулой, сочетая реалистическую традицию с элементами детектива и мистики, Фаулз играет не с выдуманными персонажами, а с реальными читателями • Книга на английском языке • Charles Smithson, a respectable engaged man, meets Sarah Woodruff as she stands on the Cobb at Lyme Regis, staring out to sea. Charles falls in love, but Sarah is a digraced woman, and their romance will defy all the stifling conventions of the Victorian age

Four nuns and a fifth woman are killed in a savage night-time attack in Africa. A year later, Inspector Kurt Wallander investigates the disappearance of an elderly birdwatcher and discovers a gruesome and meticulously planned murder - a body impaled in a trap of sharpened bamboo poles. Then, another man is reported missing • Once again Wallander's life is put on hold as he and his team work tirelessly to find a link between the series of vicious murders

Ora, a middle-aged Israeli mother, is about to celebrate her son Ofer's release from army service when he returns to the front for a major offensive. Instead of waiting at home for the 'notifiers' who could arrive at any moment to tell her of her son's fate, she sets off for a hike in Galilee, leaving no forwarding address. If a mother is not there to receive the news, a son cannot die, can he? • Recently estranged from her husband, Ora drags along an unlikely companion: their former best friend and her former lover Avram, the man who in fact turns out to be her son's biological father. As they sleep out in the hills, ford rivers and cross valleys, Ora recounts, step by step and word by word, the story of her son's birth, life and possible death, in one mother's magical, passionate and heartbreaking attempt to keep her son safe from harm

Серия Vintage Voyages представляет: мир приключений – от горных вершин до глубин человеческого сознания • Каждое лето мистер и миссис Рамзи проводили в своем летнем домике на острове Скай в окружении детей и близких друзей. Но время идет. Начинается война, смерть следует за ней по пятам. Летний домик заброшен. Спустя несколько лет семейство Рамзи возвращается на остров, чтобы совершить давно запланированную поездку на маяк • В своем романе «На маяк» Вирджиния Вулф предлагает нам заглянуть в сознание каждого из персонажей и вместе с ними отправиться в путешествие длиною в десять лет • По мотивам произведения был снят фильм «На маяке» • Книга на английском языке • Woolf's textured prose invites us into each of the characters' minds as we follow them on a winding, decade-long journey to the lighthouse

In 1945, Rick Braithwaite, a smart, highly educated ex-RAF pilot, looks for a job in British engineering. He is deeply shocked to realise that, as a black man from British Guiana, no one will employ him because of the colour of his skin. In desperation he turns to teaching, taking a job in a tough East End school, and left to govern a class of unruly teenagers. With no experience or guidance, Braithwaite attempts to instill discipline, confound prejudice and ultimately, to teach

Mount Kailas is the most sacred of the world's mountains - holy to one fifth of humanity. Isolated beyond the central Himalayas, its summit has never been scaled, but for centuries the mountain has been ritually circled by Hindu and Buddhist pilgrims • Colin Thubron joins these pilgrims, after an arduous trek from Nepal, through the high passes of Tibet, to the magical lakes beneath the slopes of Kailas itself. He talks to secluded villagers and to monks in their decaying monasteries; he tells the stories of exiles and of eccentric explorers from the West • Yet he is also walking on a pilgrimage of his own. Having recently witnessed the death of the last of his family, his trek around the great mountain awakes an inner landscape of love and grief, restoring precious fragments of his own past

Мистер и миссис Рэмзи вместе со своими детьми и близкими друзьями отдыхают на острове Скай. Они планируют посетить маяк, который виден из окна их летнего домика, но визит постоянно откладывается. Ничем не примечательные на первый взгляд события позволяют читателям узнать о сложных семейных взаимоотношениях в доме Рэмзи • «На маяк» считается самым популярным романом Вирджинии Вулф • Произведения Вулф для серии Vintage Classics были отобраны писательницей Джанет Уинтерсон. В издании используется оригинальный текст романа, опубликованного Вирджинией и Леонардом в Hogarth Press • По мотивам произведения был снят фильм «На маяке» • Книга на английском языке • The serene and maternal Mrs Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr Ramsay, together with their children and assorted guests, are holidaying on the Isle of Skye

"Убить пересмешника" - захватывающая история от Харпер Ли • История маленького сонного городка на юге Америки, поведанная маленькой девочкой. История ее брата Джима, друга Дилла и ее отца - честного, принципиального адвоката Аттикуса Финча, одного из последних и лучших представителей старой "южной аристократии". История судебного процесса по делу чернокожего парня, обвиненного в насилии над белой девушкой. Но прежде всего - история переломной эпохи, когда ксенофобия, расизм, нетерпимость и ханжество, присущие американскому югу, постепенно уходят в прошлое. "Ветер перемен" только-только повеял над Америкой. Что он принесет? • Книга на английском языке • 'Shoot all the Bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a Mockingbird

Эрнест Хемингуэй: Иметь и не иметь • Если вам понравился сериал "Хемингуэй" на канале BBC4, прочтите приключенческий роман Эрнеста Хемингуэя "На краю тропиков" • Гарри Морган - крутой парень, зарабатывающий на жизнь во время депрессии со своей моторной лодки в Ки-Уэсте, штат Флорида. Хотя обычно он устраивает рыбацкие вечеринки, иногда его лодку можно использовать и по-другому. Если предложенные деньги того стоят, Гарри будет возить оружие, ром и людей на Кубу и обратно. Но он играет в кости. Самый суровый герой Хемингуэя рискует не просто своим существованием, но и своей жизнью • Книга на английском языке • If you loved BBC4's Hemingway, read Ernest Hemingway's adventure novel set on the verge of the tropics • Harry Morgan is a tough guy making his living during the Depression from his motor boat in Key West, Florida