Books published by Vintage Publishing

Shortlisted for the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize 2018The heartbreaking story of an innocent man in a Soviet gulag, told for the first time in English, and beautifully illustrated with the original drawings he sent to his family from the camp.

By the time she eventually caught the train back to Penzance two days later they had fallen in love and Eric had declared that he was determined to marry her...'Before her death in 2002, Mary Wesley told her biographer Patrick Marnham: `after I met Eric I never looked at anyone else again.

Swimming is just one of the daily coping strategies as the author fights to preserve the strong but now silent connection with her husband. In this book, she tells the story of their marriage, she also charts her passion for sea swimming - culminating in a midnight swim under the full moon on her wedding anniversary.

What happens when we attempt to exchange the life we are given for something better? Can we transform the possibilities we are born into? Set in contemporary India and moving between the reality of this world and the shadow of another, this novel delivers a devastating exploration of the unquenchable human urge to strive for a different life.

One hot August day a family drives to a mountain clearing to collect birch wood. The two daughters, June and May, aged nine and six, drink lemonade, swat away horseflies, bicker, sing snatches of songs as they while away the time.

In this book, two contemporary poets undertake a series of journeys - across Britain, America and Europe - to the death places of poets of the past, in part as pilgrims, honouring inspirational writers, but also as investigators, interrogating the myth.

A profound, mysterious, deeply moving novel - a meeting of love and grief, like water on arid soil - Ashland & Vine is the story of an unlikely friendship that transcends time, age and the limits of narrative to reveal the unexpected grace that comes of listening to another's history, while telling, as carefully as we can, what we know of our own.

** The new Bridget Jones novel **8.45 P.M.In this gloriously funny, touching story of baby-deadline panic, maternal bliss, and social, professional, technological, culinary and childbirth chaos, Bridget Jones - global phenomenon and the world's favourite Singleton - is back with a bump.

It will change everything...One September evening in 1785, the merchant Jonah Hancock hears urgent knocking on his front door. This meeting will steer both their lives onto a dangerous new course, on which they will learn that priceless things come at the greatest cost.

Reflecting on the personal and ideological tensions within Labour and its achievements - the minimum wage, tax credits, Bank of England independence and the refinancing of the National Health Service - he describes how to meet the challenge of pursuing a radical agenda within a credible party of government.

Already we have found ways to harness these natural defences to create break-through drugs and therapies that help us fight cancer, diabetes, arthritis and many age-related diseases, and we are starting to understand whether or not activities such as mindfulness might play a role in enhancing our physical resilience.

London, early May 1940: Britain is on the brink of war and Neville Chamberlain's government is about to fall. It is hard for us to imagine the Second World War without Winston Churchill taking over at the helm, but in SIX MINUTES IN MAY Nicholas Shakespeare shows how easily events could have gone in a different direction.

In this blistering story of a ghostwriter haunted by his demonic subject, the Man Booker Prize winner turns to lies, crime and literature with devastating effectKif Kehlmann, a young penniless writer, is rung in the middle of the night by the notorious con man and corporate criminal, Siegfried Heidl.

Set in a dark, rainy northern town, Nesbo's Macbeth pits the ambitions of a corrupt policeman against loyal colleagues, a drug-depraved underworld and the pull of childhood friendships. Get ready to helter-skelter through the darkest tunnels of human experience.

Drawing on lost royal letters from a closed archive, White King introduces us to Charles I as the monarch at the heart of a story for our times: a tale of populist politicians and the fall of the mighty, of religious hatreds and civil war, of the power of a new media and a maligned queen.

BOOK OF THE YEAR OBSERVER, MAIL ON SUNDAY'Let's not mince words. This is a great book' Lionel Shriver'An heir to Graham Greene' New York Times Book Review During a white-hot summer on the idyllic Greek island of Hydra, two girls fall into one another's lives to devastating effect.

Tells the story of Ingmar Bergman's father and mother from their first meeting one spring day in 1909 until Ingmar was about to be born, in 1918. The basic facts of the story are all true. Henrik and Anna fall in love and, despite her domineering mother's opposition, eventurally marry.

Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 by the Spectator'It began with a spark.'A house is burning. At times he shares their preoccupations and memories. Ranging from an African refugee camp to the cremation-grounds of India, their memories mutate and criss-cross in a novel of lingering beauty and mystery.

It was the day I put the tennis balls into the tumble dryer that I realised I thought about tennis a little bit differently.

In Extremis is one of the most implacable, but also one of the funniest, novels about death and family you will ever read. Should he try to solve his friend's family crisis?In his most exhilarating book to date, Tim Parks explores how profoundly our present identity is rooted in our family past.

Moving again, as her husband is transferred from club to club, she is lost, disillusioned with where life has taken her.

When two Parisian women are shockingly murdered in their homes, the police suspect young accordionist Clement Vauquer, who was seen outside both of the apartments in question. But what Louis uncovers is anything but straightforward, and he must call on some unconventional friends to help him solve his most complex case yet.

Throughout the three hundred years that followed the Act of Supremacy - which, by making Henry VIII head of the Church, confirmed in law the breach with Rome - English Catholics were prosecuted, persecuted and penalised for the public expression of their faith. This book tells the story of the Catholics in Britain.

and Cheng Qing, who starts out as a secretary and goes on to become a powerful political and business figure in her own right, transform their hometown into a Babylon of modern times -- an unrivalled urban superpower built on lies, sex and thievery.

This urge to gamble with his comfortable existence becomes irresistible, taking Bjorn to Vilnius, Lithuania, with Dr Schiotz his fellow conspirator, where he cannot tell whether he's tangled up in a game or an absurd new reality.

Fifa was founded in 1904 to unite the football-playing world, its first congress stating that 'no person should be allowed to arrange matches for personal profit'.

But when she is asked to hide more than just secrets, Johanne must decide whether to take the risk...Lisa Stromme brings alive the tumultuous love affair that inspired one of the most famous paintings of all time, in a vivid and bewitching story of innocence, creativity and desire.

Until now Kate Dowd has led a sheltered life on Amiens, her family's sprawling sheep station in northern New South Wales. But with her father succumbing to wounds he's borne since the Great War, the management of the farm is increasingly falling on Kate's shoulders.