Vintage books Turbulence Солой Дэвид

James and Katherine meet at a wedding in London in 2006, towards the end of the money for nothing years. James is a man with a varied past now living alone in a flat in Bloomsbury; Katherine is separated from her husband and working in an interim job in a luxury hotel. They exchange phone numbers at the wedding, but from then on not much goes according to the script

Calcutta, 1967. Unnoticed by his family, Supratik has become dangerously involved in extremist political activism. Compelled by an idealistic desire to change his life and the world around him, all he leaves behind before disappearing is a note • At home, his family slowly begins to unravel. Poisonous rivalries grow, the once-thriving family business implodes and destructive secrets are unearthed. And all around them the sands are shifting as society fractures, for this is a moment of turbulence, of inevitable and unstoppable change

Read the first biography of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, whose music and career illuminate the journey and legacy of 1960s counterculture • Between 1969 and 1974, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young were the most successful, influential and politically potent rock band in America. More than any of their peers, they channelled and broadcast all the radical anger, romantic idealism and generational angst of their era. The vast emotional range of their music, from delicate acoustic confessionals to raucous counter-culture anthems, was mirrored in the turbulence of their personal lives • Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young is the first major biography of a band whose first two albums are undisputed rock classics, and which continues to attract a large and loyal following to their sporadic reunions

A bewitching tale of first love, shattering grief, and the dangerous magic that draws us home • Mara's island is one of stories and magic, but every story ends in the same way. She will finish her days on the cliff, turned to stone and gazing out at the horizon like all the islanders before her • Mara's parents - a boxer and a ballerina - chose this enchanted place as a refuge from the turbulence of their previous lives; they wanted to bring up their children somewhere special and safe. But the island and the sea don't care what people want, and when they claim a price from her family, Mara's world unravels • It takes the arrival of Pearl, mysterious and irresistible, to light a spark in Mara again, and allow her to consider a different story for herself

This book of dark secrets opens with a blaze. On the morning of her daughter’s wedding, June Reid’s house goes up in flames, destroying her entire family – her present, her past and her future. Fleeing from the carnage, stricken and alone, June finds herself in a motel room by the ocean, hundreds of miles from her Connecticut home, held captive by memories and the mistakes she has made with her only child, Lolly, and her partner, Luke • In the turbulence of grief and gossip left in June’s wake we slowly make sense of the unimaginable. The novel is a gathering of voices, and each testimony has a new revelation about what led to the catastrophe – Luke’s alienated mother Lydia, the watchful motel owners, their cleaner Cissy, the teenage pothead who lives nearby – everyone touched by the tragedy finds themselves caught in the undertow, as their secret histories finally come to light

During the course of a single night, Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest, who is a member of Opus Dei, a literary critic and a mediocre poet, relives some of the crucial events of his life. He believes he is dying and in his feverish delirium various characters, both real and imaginary, appear to him as icy monsters, as if in sequences from a horror film • Thus we are given glimpses of the great poet Pablo Neruda, the German writer Ernst Junger, General Pinochet, whom Father Lacroix instructs in Marxist doctrine, as well as various members of the Chilean intelligentsia whose lives, during a period of political turbulence, have touched upon his

Гомер называл ее божественной субстанцией. Платон описывал ее как особенно дорогую богам. Как блестяще описывает здесь Марк Курлански, соль с самого начала формировала цивилизацию, и ее история является яркой, часто удивительной частью истории человечества. Из-за соли велись войны, и, хотя налоги на соль обеспечили безопасность империй по всей Европе и Азии, они также вдохновили революцию - соляной марш Ганди в 1930 году положил начало свержению британского правления в Индии • От сельской провинции Сычуань, где производят последний домашний соевый соус, до чеширских соляных источников, которые поставляли соль по всему миру, в книге "Соль" Марк Курлански создал калейдоскоп мировой истории, многослойный шедевр, в котором политические, коммерческие, научные, религиозные и кулинарные записи сочетаются в богатой и запоминающейся истории

Книга Дэвида Лоджа "Перемена мест" берет начало в Рэдбриджском университете Раммиджа и повествует о комических приключениях ученых, которые выходят за пределы знакомой территории. Начиная с конца 60-х годов "Перемена мест" следует за ничем не примечательным преподавателем английского языка Филипом Своллоу и выдающимся американским профессором Моррисом Цаппом, когда они обмениваются работой, местами обитания и, в конечном счете, женами • Книга на английском языке • When Philip Swallow and Professor Morris Zapp participate in their universities' Anglo-American exchange scheme, the Fates play a hand, and each academic finds himself enmeshed in the life of his counterpart on the opposite side of the Atlantic. Nobody is immune to the exchange: students, colleagues, even wives are swapped as events spiral out of control

Сюжетные линии "Кампусной трилогии" Дэвида Лоджа, берущие начало в Рэдбриджском университете Раммиджа, повествуют о комических приключениях ученых, которые выходят за пределы знакомой территории. Начиная с конца 60-х годов "Смена мест" следует за ничем не примечательным преподавателем английского языка Филипом Своллоу и выдающимся американским профессором Моррисом Цаппом, когда они обмениваются работой, местами обитания и, в конечном счете, женами. В "Маленьком мире" Своллоу, Зепп, Перс Макгарригл и прекрасная Анжелика Пабст снимаются на международной конференции, сочетая академические разборки и туризм, эзотерические беседы и романтику. И, наконец, лектор-феминистка Робин Пенроуз меняет промышленный роман на каску в "Хорошей работе", когда она становится тенью босса фабрики Виктора Уилкокса

"Книга и братство" - выдвинутый на Букеровскую премию роман Айрис Мердок, занимающий особое место в её творчестве • Лето. В Оксфорде проходит балл, и группа друзей, сошедшихся ещё в студенческие годы, вспоминает былые времена. Один из них - Дэвид Краймонд, гений и убежденный марксист. Когда-то товарищи убедили его написать философский и политический трактат от их имени. Но за прошедшее время воззрения и круг общения собравшихся успели измениться. И этим летним вечером призраки прошлого, которых долгое время никто не тревожил, ворвутся в их жизнь • Книга на английском языке • A highlight amongst Murdoch's novels, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize • It's the midsummer ball at Oxford, and a group of men and women - friends since university days - have gathered under the stars

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