Books published by Vintage Publishing

*BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week* 'I needed to get to the stopping places, so I needed to get on the road. Through winter frosts and summer dawns, from horse fairs to Gypsy churches, neon-lit lay-bys to fern-covered banks, Damian lives on the road, somewhere between the romanticised Gypsies of old, and their much-maligned descendants of today.

*A Sunday Times and Daily Mail Book of the Year 2018*The dazzling story of Tommy Nutter, the Savile Row tailor who reshaped the silhouette of men's fashion - and his rock photographer brother, David, who captured it all on filmFrom an early age, there was something different about Tommy and David Nutter.

We judge others - and whether we trust them - not just by their words but by the way they talk: their intonation, their pitch, their accent. Trevor Cox talks to vocal coaches who help people to develop their new voice after a gender change; and to computer scientists who replicate the human voice in their development of artificial intelligence.

We meet key characters who shaped the story of the British countryside - Victorian visionaries like Octavia Hill, founder of the National Trust, as well as brilliant naturalists such as Max Nicholson or Derek Ratcliffe, who helped build the very framework for all environmental effort.

'The best lives leave a mark.' 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. 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.

Donald Maclean was a star diplomat, an establishment insider and a keeper of some of the West's greatest secrets. Taking us back to the golden age of espionage, A Spy Named Orphan reveals the impact of one of the most dangerous and enigmatic Soviet agents of the twentieth century, whose actions heightened the tensions of the Cold War.

A collection of stories from some of our best-loved writers, inspired by ideas found in Henry James's notebooks. When Henry James died he left behind a series of notebooks filled with ideas for novels and stories that he never wrote.

What matters most: marriage or friendship? Rob had invited Matt to become his literary executor at their annual boozy lunch, pointing out that, at 60, he was likely to be around for some time yet. As Jill gets to work in the back garden, Matt is forced to weigh up the merits of art and truth.

'Extraordinary' Rachel Cusk'Exquisite and tender' Sarah Perry'Unexpectedly joyous' Julie MyersonThis is a singular memoir: an excavation of mother love, a candid account of the agonies, and absurdities, of the cancer experience, and a doggedly optimistic paean to life.

Helen Macdonald, in her remarkable piece on growing up in a 50-acre walled estate, reflects on our failed stewardship of the planet: `I take stock.' she says, `During this sixth extinction, we who may not have time to do anything else must write now what we can, to take stock.' This is an important, necessary book.

'This is the book I wish I could have written but am very glad I've read' Jim Al-Khalili`I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.'Richard Feynman wrote this in 1965 - the year he was awarded the Nobel prize in physics for his work on quantum mechanics.

Beautiful, smart, raw, sad, poetic and humane... It's the best thing I've read for ages', James Rebanks, author of THE SHEPHERD'S LIFEHow does a line in the sand become a barrier that people will risk everything to cross?

But will he be able to unravel what happened to the victim, Thomas Newman, the wealthiest, most capable and industrious man in the village?Moving back in time towards the moment of Thomas Newman's death, the story is related by Reve - an extraordinary creation, a patient shepherd to his wayward flock, and a man with secrets of his own to keep.

David Lodge's frank and illuminating memoir about the years where he found great success as a novelist and critic. Anyone who is interested in learning about the creative process, about the dual nature of the novel as both work of art and commodity, will find Writer's Luck a candid and entertaining guide.

The Largesse of the Sea Maiden is the long-awaited new story collection from Denis Johnson, author of the groundbreaking, highly acclaimed Jesus' Son.

Each morning when he wakes, Stephen Bernard must literally reconstruct his self: every night he writes himself a letter to be read the next day. The fractured, intensely personal narrative of Paper Cuts follows a single day in his life as he navigates a course through the effects of mania, medication and memories.

Deep in a wood in a valley in the Marches of Wales, by an abandoned railway line, there lives an old man called Bob Rowberry. His home is an ancient school bus whose engine has died and whose wheels have fallen off. This is the story of how he ended up in this broken-down bus, in this forgotten part of the world.

Age 15 and living in LA, Michael Allen was arrested for a botched carjacking. Falling victim to the recently conceived three-strikes law, he was tried as an adult and sentenced to thirteen years behind bars. After growing up in prison Michael was released age 26, only to be murdered 3 years later by his ex-convict transsexual lover.

**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less, and suffer the less?First love has lifelong consequences, but Paul doesn't know anything about that at nineteen.As he grows older, the demands placed on Paul by love become far greater than he could possibly have foreseen.

But when a young Frenchwoman arrives to work as a companion to the aged 'Monsieur Ka' he begins to tell his story... Lonely, yet eager to work, she begins to write Monsieur Ka's life story a as a secret gift to him, and even learns his mother tongue.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*A Guardian, Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, The Times, New Statesman Netgalley and Reading Agency Book of the Year 2018*An astonishing memoir about nursing and an urgent call for compassion and kindness `It made me cry.

Dora Carrington was considered an outsider to Bloomsbury. For over a decade she was the companion of gay writer Lytton Strachey, and killed herself, when he died in 1932. She was friends with the greatest minds of the day and her correspondence stars a roster of fascinating characters. This book deals with Carrington's letters.

In this stunningly assured, immersive and vividly atmospheric first novel, a young woman comes face-to-face with the volatile, haunted wilderness of the Scottish Highlands.

A love letter to the joys of childhood reading from Wonderland to Narnia.Lucy brings the favourite characters of our collective childhoods back to life - prompting endless re-readings, rediscoveries, and, inevitably, fierce debate - and brilliantly uses them to tell her own story, that of a born, and unrepentant, bookworm.

And why is the singing of others so essential to human life? In ten discrete but cohering essays Coleman tackles the arc of that history as if it were an emotional experience with real psychological consequences - as chaotic, random, challenging and unpredictable as life itself.

Selected by The Times as a History Book of the Year 2017 and The Tablet as a Book of the Year 2017The voyage of the Mayflower and the founding of Plymouth Colony is one of the seminal events in world history.

When a travelling salesman is found murdered in a basement flat, killed by a bullet from a Colt .45, the police initially suspect a member of the Allied occupation force.