Vintage

The third volume of Alison Weir's magisterial history of the queens of medieval England. 'Weir's history books are as gripping as novels' The Times Medieval queens were seen as mere dynastic trophies …

*Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize* In late eighteenth-century London, a group of extraordinary people gathered around a dining table once a week. The host was Joseph Johnson, publisher and boo…

Karl Ove Knausgård is sitting at home in Skåne with his wife, four small children and a dog. He is watching football on TV and falls asleep in front of the set. He likes 0-0 draws, cigarettes, coffee …

London - Dublin, 1741-42. An actress mired in scandal plans her escape from an abusive husband. A penniless sea captain sets out to rescue the city's abandoned infants. An African Muslim and former ca…

The story begins with the arrival of twenty Ndongo people on the shores of the first British colony in mainland America in 1619, the year before the arrival of the Mayflower. In eighty chronological c…

Wonderfully engaging, expansive and ambitious, Sound Tracks tells the history of our relationship with music in sixty detective stories, each focusing on the discovery of a musical instrument - or its…

It is strange that you exist, but you don't know anything about what the world looks like. It's strange that there is a first time to see the sky, a first time to see the sun, a first time to feel the…

'As a writer, Carrère is straight berserk' Junot Díaz In this non-fiction novel - road trip, confession, and erotic tour de force - Emmanuel Carrère pursues two consuming obsessions: the disappearance…

"An electric, warm, comforting and funny handbook on panic and how to cope and live alongside it. Accessible, reassuring, practical and relieving." Laura Dockrill "I wish I had this book when I was 18…

Senhor José is determined to find out more about a woman he only knows from the birth certificate he discovered at his job as a clerk in the Central Registry.

**WINNER OF THE PUSHKIN HOUSE BOOK PRIZE 2024** To be a journalist is to tell the truth. Here is Russia as it really is. 'Important ... this is the Russia we need to understand' TIMOTHY SNYDER 'A haun…

"Returning home from a visit to a client late one summer's evening, antiquarian bookseller Adam Snow takes a wrong turning and stumbles across the derelict old White House. Compelled by curiosity, he …

** LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 **Meet Jamie and his community on the west coast of Ireland in the most uplifting and tender book of the year'A gorgeous gift of a novel'Douglas Stuart, no.1 be…

**Finalist for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2022 ** From the Costa Award winner, a highly inventive and and humane novel about our relationship with technology and our addiction to innovatio…

A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE A myth-busting biography of Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I, which retells the dramatic story of the civil war from her perspec…

In this trilogy of novellas, Jonas Karlsson explores the quirkier side of human nature, helping us to see the world anew via three eccentric narrators. Firstly, jobsworth Bjorn starts a new career and…

*THE SUNDAY TIMES & NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, SOON TO BE A NETFLIX FILM STARRING KEIRA KNIGHTLEY* 'Reads like Agatha Christie got together with Paula Hawkins to crowdsource a really fun thriller' Sty…

'Magical and disturbing' Adam Thirlwell An astonishing, mind-bending novel about a woman discovering a community of swan-people from one of Iceland's greatest writers. *SHORTLISTED FOR THE ICELANDIC W…

Legendary record producer-turned-brain scientist explains why you fall in love with music. 'Extraordinary insights about music, emotion and the brain...An instant classic' Daniel Levitin, author of Th…

No poet is more emblematically American than Robert Frost. This is a comprehensive volume of his verse, comprising all eleven volumes of his poems, meticulously edited by Edward Connery Lathem.

A young boy wakes to find his mother missing. Their house is empty but outside in the garden he sees his mother's favourite scarf wrapped around the neck of a snowman. As Harry Hole and his team begin…

A darkly comic and moving reflection on what it means to be human in a world where nothing is certain, from the award-winning Oxford professor We all have trapdoors in our lives. Sometimes we jump off…

'Gripping! With a college campus setting, charming psychopaths, and a bitingly clever voice, Never Saw Me Coming is a dazzling debut from a bold new talent' Tess Gerritsen Here is what we know about C…

This first biography of the Kettle's Yard artists reveals the life of a visionary who helped shape twentieth-century British art and explores a thrilling moment in the history of modernism 'The beauti…