Books published by Vintage Publishing

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.

*A Sunday Times Book of the Year 2018* *The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller*Rose Tremain grew up in post-war London, a city of grey austerity, still partly in ruins, where both food and affection were fiercely rationed.

THE SUNDAY TIMES LITERATURE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017Over a career spanning nearly fifty years Edward Garnett - editor, critic and publisher's reader - would become one of the most influential men in twentieth-century British literature.

Join renowned naturalist Peter Marren on an exciting quest to see every species of wild plant native to Britain. While the Ghost Orchid offers the toughest challenge of any wild plant, there were fifty more British species Peter had yet to see, having ticked off the first 1,400 rummaging in hedges, slipping down gullies and peering in peat bogs.

Practical and resourceful where Stu is not, Pete has become a shoulder to lean on. And all at once Pete and Stu have to reevaluate their fraternal dynamic. Pete's a dick.Don't Be A Dick, Pete is Stuart Heritage's unconventional and laugh-out-loud biography of his brother.

of opening the doors of the National Theatre to a broader audience than ever before, and changing the public's perception of what theatre is for. Intimate, candid and insightful, Balancing Acts is a passionate exploration of the art and alchemy of making theatre.

*** A Sunday Times Bestseller ***In Queer City Peter Ackroyd looks at London in a whole new way - through the history and experiences of its gay population.Ackroyd takes us right into the hidden history of the city; Ackroyd tells us the hidden story of how it got there, celebrating its diversity, thrills and energy on the one hand;

**Selected as a 2017 Book of the Year in the Financial Times** 'A very smart, soulful, compelling, elegantly written domestic novel' Nick HornbyIn a Victorian terraced house, in north-west London, two families unite in imperfect harmony. After five years of widowhood, Julia is deeply, unexpectedly in love.

timely and essential reading' Kathy Willis, Director of Science, Kew GardensIt is rare to find a landscape untouched by our lines - the hedges, walls, ditches and dykes built to enclose and separate; for while nature does not tend to straight lines and discrete borders, our lines can and do contain a real potential for wildness and for wildlife.

Why do road cyclists go to the mountains? Blending adventure and travel writing with the rich narrative of pro racing, Max Leonard takes the reader from the battles that created the Alpine roads to the shepherds tending their flocks on the peaks, and to a Grand Tour climax on the `highest road in Europe'.

What drove him and Eva apart may just bring them back together, as they search for the truth behind FullLife's closed doors, and face a truth of their own. A beautiful story about family, loss and what our future might hold, The Growing Season is an original and powerful novel by a rising talent.

'The Danish author is back on form in this literary thriller'Selected as a Book of the Year in 2017 in the Mail on SundaySUSAN SVENDSEN HAS AN UNUSUAL TALENT.

Shows how the British created a global network of commerce and trade in foodstuffs that moved people and plants from one continent to another, re-shaping landscapes and culinary tastes. This book charts the rise of sugar to its dominant position in our diets and locates the origins of the food industry in the imperial trade in provisions.

Who is the real victim here? Who is the perpetrator? And who, ultimately, is the fall guy? It is summer, 2012. Charlie, a wealthy banker with an uneasy conscience, invites his troubled cousin Matthew to visit him and his wife in their idyllic mountain-top house.

People flock to see the latest head and gossip about the state of the empire: the province of Albania is demanding independence again, and the niche awaits a new trophy...Tundj Hata, the imperial courier, is charged with transporting heads to the capital - a task he relishes and performs with fervour.

Sam Miller (author of Strange Kind of Paradise: India through Foreign Eyes) has loving translated these wild, funny, unabashedly romantic adventures from the French for the first time so that the Captain and his charming Louison can be embraced by a new generation of readers, young and old.

'I was wowed and moved' Tracy Chevalier Anne Bronte is the forgotten Bronte sister, overshadowed by her older siblings -- virtuous, successful Charlotte, free-spirited Emily and dissolute Branwell. The less talented Bronte, the other Bronte.

Xiaolu Guo meets her parents for the first time when she is almost seven. This book takes Xiaolu from a run-down shack to film school in a rapidly changing Beijing. In 2002 she leaves Beijing on a scholarship to study in Britain. This memoir is a handbook of life lessons.

Yet over the following thirteen years the British military paid a heavy price for their presence in Helmand province; In this magisterial study, Theo Farrell explains the origins and causes of the war, providing fascinating insight into the British government's reaction to 9/11 and the steps that led the British Army to Helmand.

Selected as a book of the year 2017 by The Times and Sunday TimesHumans cannot live without stories. and we decide if the Fall is the unvarnished truth or fictional allegory. Ultimately, The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve allows us a new understanding of ourselves.

As she struggles to adapt to her new life, and put her own troubled past behind her, Mhairi begins to unearth the astonishing secret history of the poet regarded by many as the custodian of Fascaray's - and Scotland's - soul.

The Islamic Enlightenment: a contradiction in terms? The Muslim world has often been accused of a failure to modernise, reform and adapt. Beginning with the collision of East and West following Napoleon's arrival in Egypt, and taking us through 200 years of Middle Eastern history, this book tells the forgotten story of the Islamic Enlightenment.

Who to marry and have children - or not - with. But then you make a mistake - the kind any one of us could make - and face an impossible choice. this short book will live long in the memory' Independent on Sunday'A novel of great structural and stylistic control' Guardian

** Selected by Sarah Moss as a Book of the Year 2017 in The Big Issue ** Ten years old and irrepressibly curious, Ellie lives with her fisherman father, Peter, on the wild North Yorkshire coast.

Someone is watching. At each abandoned crime scene there's a hidden clue: a tiny metal cog, almost invisible to the naked eye. Someone is sending Detective Sam Berger a message. Someone knows. When another teenaged girl disappears without trace, Sam must convince his superiors that they're dealing with a serial killer.

Sansom`This vivid murder mystery moves at breakneck speeds' Sunday Times`A Rising Man is a whodunit set in the social and political tinderbox of 1919 Calcutta - a thought-provoking rollercoaster' Ian Rankin, Observer`One of the most exciting debut novels I've read in years' Val McDermid

Next there's Mina, her sister, who is mentally ill, and it might be Ottila's fault. And then there's Thales, the Greek guy who works in the hospital cafeteria. The result is an infectious one-off of a novel that makes you wince and laugh in equal measure, and which asks the question: what does it take to be so happy it hurts?

Is it better to burn out than to fade away? In this sinuous meditation on passion, youth and guilt, a man looks back over twenty years to his relationship with his first love, Valeria. They both had tickets to Nirvana in 1993, the only gig the band ever played in Brazil. But he was on military service and failed to join her.

As London shimmers in a heat haze and swoons to the sound of Sergeant Pepper, a mystery film - Eureka - is being shot by German wunderkind Reiner Werther Kloss. Fledgling actress Billie Cantrip is hoping for her big break but can't find a way out of her troubled relationship with an older man.