http://www.vintage-books.co.uk//books/ en-GB Thu, 23 Feb 2012 04:37:16 GMT Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:06:55 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss vintagetrade@randomhouse.co.uk Amber 2 CMS http://www.vintage-books.co.uk//books/1846550866/matthew-pearl/the-technologists/ http://www.vintage-books.co.uk/books/1846550866/
Nothing in nature can do this: these are man-made disasters. Someone has unleashed the destructive potential of science on an innocent population.

The city's fate relies on four young students of the recently founded Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Marcus Mansfield, a Civil War veteran determined to repay MIT's founder for taking a chance on him, brash Bob Richards, meticulous Edwin Hoyt and the eccentric but brilliant Ellen Swallow, the first woman at MIT, who experiments secretly in a basement laboratory. Together, they are The Technologists.

In a climate of rising hysteria, these four courageous individuals must unite against the forces of darkness to uncover the mastermind before he can stage his greatest outrage.]]> Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.vintage-books.co.uk//books/0701186674/etgar-keret/suddenly-a-knock-on-the-door/ http://www.vintage-books.co.uk/books/0701186674/ New York Times, Keret brings all of his prodigious talent to bear in this, his sixth bestselling collection.

Long a household name in Israel, where he has been declared the voice of his generation, Keret has been acknowledged as one of the country's most radical and extraordinary writers. Exuding a rare combination of depth and accessibility, Keret's tales overflow with absurdity, humour, longing and compassion, and though their circumstances are often strange and surreal, his characters are defined by a familiar and fierce humanity. A man barges into a writer's house and, holding a gun to his head, demands that he tell him a story, something to take him away from the real world. A pathological liar discovers one day that all the lies he tells come true. A young woman finds a zip in her boyfriend's mouth, and when she opens it he unfolds to reveal a completely different man inside. Suddenly, a Knock on the Door is at once Keret's most mature and most playful work yet, and establishes him as one of the great international writers of our time.]]> Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.vintage-books.co.uk//books/1448103746/matthew-pearl/the-technologists/ http://www.vintage-books.co.uk/books/1448103746/
Nothing in nature can do this: these are man-made disasters. Someone has unleashed the destructive potential of science on an innocent population.

The city's fate relies on four young students of the recently founded Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Marcus Mansfield, a Civil War veteran determined to repay MIT's founder for taking a chance on him, brash Bob Richards, meticulous Edwin Hoyt and the eccentric but brilliant Ellen Swallow, the first woman at MIT, who experiments secretly in a basement laboratory. Together, they are The Technologists.

In a climate of rising hysteria, these four courageous individuals must unite against the forces of darkness to uncover the mastermind before he can stage his greatest outrage.]]> Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.vintage-books.co.uk//books/1446448533/etgar-keret/suddenly-a-knock-on-the-door/ http://www.vintage-books.co.uk/books/1446448533/ New York Times, Keret brings all of his prodigious talent to bear in this, his sixth bestselling collection.

Long a household name in Israel, where he has been declared the voice of his generation, Keret has been acknowledged as one of the country's most radical and extraordinary writers. Exuding a rare combination of depth and accessibility, Keret's tales overflow with absurdity, humour, longing and compassion, and though their circumstances are often strange and surreal, his characters are defined by a familiar and fierce humanity. A man barges into a writer's house and, holding a gun to his head, demands that he tell him a story, something to take him away from the real world. A pathological liar discovers one day that all the lies he tells come true. A young woman finds a zip in her boyfriend's mouth, and when she opens it he unfolds to reveal a completely different man inside. Suddenly, a Knock on the Door is at once Keret's most mature and most playful work yet, and establishes him as one of the great international writers of our time.]]> Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.vintage-books.co.uk//books/0701169907/peter-ackroyd/wilkie-collins/ http://www.vintage-books.co.uk/books/0701169907/ Ackroyd at his best -- a gripping short life of the extraordinary Wilkie Collins, author of The Moonstone and The Woman in White.]]>
Ackroyd follows his hero, 'the sweetest-tempered of all the Victorian novelists', from his childhood as the son of a well-known artist to his struggling beginnings as a writer, his years of fame and his life-long friendship with the other great London chronicler, Charles Dickens. A true Londoner, Collins, like Dickens, was fascinated by the secrets and crimes -- the fraud, blackmail and poisonings -- that lay hidden behind the city's respectable facade. He was a fighter, never afraid to point out injustices and shams , or to tackle the establishment head on. As well as his enduring masterpieces, The Moonstone -- often called the first true detective novel -- and the sensational The Woman in White, he produced an intriguing array of lesser known works.

Collins had his own secrets: he never married, but lived for thirty years with the widowed Caroline Graves, and also had a second liaison, as 'Mr and Mrs Dawson', with a younger mistress, Martha Rudd, with whom he had three children. Both women remained devoted as illness and opium-taking took their toll: he died in 1889, in the middle of writing his last novel, Blind Love. Told with Peter Ackroyd's inimitable verve this is a ravishingly entertaining life of a great story-teller, full of surprises, rich in humour and sympathetic understanding.]]> Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.vintage-books.co.uk//books/0224090119/tim-moore/you-are-awful-but-i-like-you-travels-around-unloved-britain/ http://www.vintage-books.co.uk/books/0224090119/
Yet as the soggy, decrepit quest unfolds, so it evolves into something much more stirring: a nostalgic celebration of our magnificent mercantile pomp, and an angry requiem for a golden age of cheerily homespun crap culture being swept aside by the faceless, soul-stripping forces of Tesco-town globalisation.]]> Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.vintage-books.co.uk//books/0099572028/deborah-moggach/the-best-exotic-marigold-hotel/ http://www.vintage-books.co.uk/books/0099572028/
First published with the title These Foolish Things]]> Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.vintage-books.co.uk//books/0099548402/henning-mankell/the-troubled-man-a-kurt-wallander-mystery/ http://www.vintage-books.co.uk/books/0099548402/
Detective Kurt Wallander is not officially involved but Håkan's son is engaged to his daughter Linda. A few months earlier, at Håkan's 75th birthday party, he was eager to talk to Kurt about a controversial incident from his past. Could this be connected to his disappearance? When Håkan's wife Louise also goes missing, Wallander is determined to uncover the truth but the investigation will force him to look back over his own past, as he comes to the unsettling realisation that even those we love the most can remain strangers to us.

And then an even darker cloud appears on the horizon...The return of Kurt Wallander, for his final case, has already caused a sensation around the globe. The Troubled Man confirms Henning Mankell's position as the king of crime writing.]]> Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.vintage-books.co.uk//books/1409041115/tim-moore/you-are-awful-but-i-like-you-travels-around-unloved-britain/ http://www.vintage-books.co.uk/books/1409041115/
Yet as the soggy, decrepit quest unfolds, so it evolves into something much more stirring: a nostalgic celebration of our magnificent mercantile pomp, and an angry requiem for a golden age of cheerily homespun crap culture being swept aside by the faceless, soul-stripping forces of Tesco-town globalisation.]]> Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.vintage-books.co.uk//books/1446485773/deborah-moggach/these-foolish-things/ http://www.vintage-books.co.uk/books/1446485773/ Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT