Books in the Vintage Editions series

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE ADVERSARYLittle Nicolas is a delicate, timid schoolboy, with an excitable, if morbid imagination - the child of an overbearing father.

Set in war-torn, brutalised Barcelona, this novel is about Andrea, who comes to the city to study literature at the university. She makes her way to the home of relatives. Tension between her grandmother, her two uncles, an aunt, and the housekeeper is present from the moment of her arrival and it grows as the story develops.

Discover the haunting, heartbreaking post-apocalyptic tale of female friendship and intimacy set in a deserted world. Deep underground, thirty-nine women are kept in isolation in a cage.

Emerence is a domestic servant - strong, fierce, eccentric, and with a reputation for being a first-rate housekeeper.

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.

Familiar with his students' hostile attitude towards both his lectures and himself, a senior school teacher reaches a decision that forces an assessment of his choice of life, of his marriage and ultimately of his values and worth in modern society. This is a story of a man lost in a world that no longer recognises either him or his talent.

An unnamed narrator attempts to piece together the life and works of an enigmatic would-be poet turned military assassin during Pinochet's regime in Chile.