Books published by Vintage Publishing

The brilliant new short story sequence from the Man Booker-shortlisted author of All That Man Is*Shortlisted for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize 2019* Twelve people on the move around planet Earth, twelve individual lives, each in turmoil, and each in some way touching the next.

Their mission: to crush - yet again - the "subhuman Slavs". In the background are forces - sexism, class hatred, nationalism - whose shadows darken today's world too. In the foreground are eccentric aristocrats, socialite spies, daredevil jockeys - and a race so brutal that some consider merely taking part in it a sign of insanity.

*An Observer Hottest-Tipped Debut Novelist of 2019 and Elle One To Watch* 'A deeply necessary book, elegant and assured even as it burns at the centre with cool, clear-eyed rage' Sophie Mackintosh, author of The Water Cure 'Kate Quaile,' he said.

'If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.'John von NeumannMathematics can tell you things about the world that can't be learned in any other way.

'You know you want to read this collection by the author of the viral short story Cat Person -One story in particular, The Good Guy, is chillingly accurate' ELLE

But there are also moments of joy, like the rare bright spots of lucidity for a dementia patient, or when the ward unexpectedly breaks into song.Dr Aoife Abbey shows us what a doctor sees of humanity as it comes through the revolving door of the hospital and takes us beyond a purely medical perspective.

Freefall is exactly what a great thriller should be' Renee Knight'Opens at full throttle and never lets up' Karin Slaughter'A scintillating thriller' Independent'A tense, gripping thriller' Daily Mirror'I couldn't turn the pages fast enough!' Good Housekeeping'Jessica Barry deploys her story and its twists with infectious brio' Sunday Express

What happens when your only son becomes The King of Rock 'n' Roll?From the moment she first holds him, after his twin brother is stillborn, Gladys Presley loves her son Elvis ferociously.

Sea Monsters is an intoxicating evocation of past selves and buried histories, the pull of fantasy colliding with the stark light of reality - a dreamlike yet vivid novel about the moments and mysteries that shape us.'A mesmerizing novel .

** BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK **`It has always seemed to me that what I write about is humanity in extremis, pushed to the unendurable, and that it is important to tell people what really happens in wars.' Marie Colvin, 2001Marie Colvin was glamorous, hard-drinking, braver than the boys, with a troubled and rackety personal life.

**Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction 2019****Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction 2018***Finalist for the Kirkus Prize 2018**Longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize 2019*In this crackling debut collection Nafissa Thompson-Spires interrogates our supposedly post-racial era.

The remarkable story of Bess of Hardwick, her ascent through Elizabethan society and the houses she built that shaped British architectural history. Born in 1521, Bess of Hardwick, businesswoman, money-lender and property tycoon, lived an astonishing eighty-seven years.

When this second volume of The Life of Saul Bellow opens, Bellow, at forty-nine, is at the pinnacle of American letters - rich, famous, critically acclaimed. In this volume, his life away from the desk, including his love life, is if anything more dramatic than in volume 1.

While their younger brothers - W.H Auden and Stephen Spender - achieved literary fame, they vied for a place on an expedition that would finally conquer Everest, a quest that had become a metaphor for Britain's efforts to maintain power over India.

For the first time, Peter Moore tells Endeavour's complete story, exploring the different lives of this remarkable ship -- from the oak that made her to her rich and complex legacy. Peter Moore has brought us an acute insight into the ship that carried some of the most successful explorers across the world.

We learn how abundant and valued these fish were centuries before our current crisis of over-fishing: we learn how eels built our monasteries, how cod sank the Spanish Armada, how fish and chips helped us through two World Wars.

A sweeping, heartbreaking novel following Daniel in his troubled marriage with Rosie as they navigate the unsettled time between the World Wars.

`The best spy novel set in wartime London. Jack Hoste has become entangled in this treachery, but he also has a particular mission: to locate the most dangerous Nazi agent in the country. Her life is a world away from the machinations of Nazi sympathisers, yet when Hoste pays a visit to Amy's office, everything changes in a heartbeat.

People pass the word only to those they trust most: Adjustment Day is coming. When it arrives, Adjustment Day inaugurates a new Disunited States of America. In this mind-blowing novel, Palahniuk fearlessly makes real the logical conclusion of every separatist fantasy, alternative fact, and conspiracy theory lurking in the American psyche.

'A revenge thriller to make you punch the air in solidarity' Eva Dolan, author of This Is How It Ends`A gripping story, sensitively told' Laura Marshall, author of Friend Request`Deliciously dark and gripping' Emily Koch, author of If I Die Before I WakeImogen's husband is a bad man.

This volume can be used both as a chronological history of the development of Britain and as a work of reference. Each entry describes the subject under discussion and also sets it in the context of the developing pattern of Britain's history.

Private Investigator Philip Marlowe - now in his seventy-second year - has been living out his retirement in the terrace bar of the La Fonda hotel.Discover the rest of the inimitable Philip Marlowe series - nine classic Chandler adventures, from The Big Sleep to The Long Goodbye, available now in paperback and ebook from Penguin Books.

**A Guardian and Evening Standard Book of the Year**'An interdisciplinary masterpiece' New York TimesWhy do we no longer trust experts, facts and statistics? In the murky new space between mind and body, between war and peace, lie nervous states: with all of us relying increasingly on feeling rather than fact.