http://www.vintage-books.co.uk//books/ en-GB Mon, 20 May 2013 23:38:48 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/0099584077/timothy-o-grady/light/ http://www.vintage-books.co.uk/books/0099584077/ Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://www.vintage-books.co.uk//books/0099583283/iris-murdoch/the-message-to-the-planet/ http://www.vintage-books.co.uk/books/0099583283/
Luden's friends are more sceptical. Jack Sheerwater, painter, thinks Marcus is crazy. Gildas herne, ex-preist, thinks he is evil. Patrick Fenman, poet, is dying because he thinks Marcus has cursed him. Marcus has disappeared and must be found.

But is he a genius, a hero struggling at the bounds of human knowledge? Is he seeking God, or is he just another victim of the Holocaust, which casts its shadow upon him and upon Ludens, both of them Jewish?

Can human thinking discover the foundations of human consciousness?

Iris Murdoch's endlessly inventive imagination has touched a fundamental question of our time.]]> Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://www.vintage-books.co.uk//books/1845952073/mihail-sebastian/journal-1935-44/ http://www.vintage-books.co.uk/books/1845952073/ Diary and to find as huge a readership' - Philip Roth]]>
Sebastian's Journal offers not only a chronicle of the darkest years of European anti-Semitism but a lucid and finely shaded analysis of erotic and social life, a reader's notebook, and a music lover's journal. Above all, it is a measured but blistering account of the major Romanian intellectuals, Sebastian's friends, writers and thinkers who were mesmerised by the Nazi-fascist delirium of Europe's 'reactionary revolution'. In poignant and memorable sequences, Sebastian touches on the progression of the machinery of brutalisation and on the historical context that lay behind it.

One of the most remarkable literary achievements of the Nazi period, Sebastian's journal vividly captures the now-vanished world of pre-war Bucharest. Under the pressure of hatred and horror in the 'huge anti-Semitic factory' that was Romania in the years of World War II, his writing maintains the grace of its intelligence, standing as one of the most important human and literary documents to survive from a singular era of terror and despair.]]> Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://www.vintage-books.co.uk//books/0099587386/andrew-parkinson-and-jonathon-green/cutting-it-fine/ http://www.vintage-books.co.uk/books/0099587386/
What happens if everyone orders the sea bass?

What happens if no one orders the sea bass?

How do you deal with a complaint about food poisoning?

How indeed can five people in a small hot kitchen produce great food for hundreds of people at twenty minutes' notice?

Leading chef Andrew Parkinson answers all the questions we have ever pondered, and reveals in telling detail each bit of the everyday magic involved in running a successful restaurant.]]> Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://www.vintage-books.co.uk//books/0099587262/georgina-born/uncertain-vision-birt-dyke-and-the-reinvention-of-the-bbc/ http://www.vintage-books.co.uk/books/0099587262/ Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://www.vintage-books.co.uk//books/1448139716/mave-fellowes/chaplin-and-company/ http://www.vintage-books.co.uk/books/1448139716/ When God Was a Rabbit.]]>
A young lady with an obsession – you can guess what it is by the way she dresses: white collarless shirt, a waistcoat and billowing black trousers, the bowler hat.

She’s on her way to London, to make her name as a great mime artist.

She hopes.

And typical Odeline, she’s arriving prepared. With the small inheritance left her by her mother, she’s bought herself a home, an old canal boat.

What she doesn’t know yet is that for some the city’s canals have an appeal of their own. They are below the eyeline, a sort of halfworld, a good place to hide for a community of curious outsiders, all with their own stories to tell, stories which might help a certain young lady to think differently about life.

Because there’s a lot Odeline doesn’t know. Not least, that her new home has a history of its own.]]> Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://www.vintage-books.co.uk//books/0224097350/mave-fellowes/chaplin-and-company/ http://www.vintage-books.co.uk/books/0224097350/ When God Was a Rabbit.]]>
A young lady with an obsession – you can guess what it is by the way she dresses: white collarless shirt, a waistcoat and billowing black trousers, the bowler hat.

She’s on her way to London, to make her name as a great mime artist.

She hopes.

And typical Odeline, she’s arriving prepared. With the small inheritance left her by her mother, she’s bought herself a home, an old canal boat.

What she doesn’t know yet is that for some the city’s canals have an appeal of their own. They are below the eyeline, a sort of halfworld, a good place to hide for a community of curious outsiders, all with their own stories to tell, stories which might help a certain young lady to think differently about life.

Because there’s a lot Odeline doesn’t know. Not least, that her new home has a history of its own.]]> Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://www.vintage-books.co.uk//books/0224096281/stephen-collins/the-gigantic-beard-that-was-evil/ http://www.vintage-books.co.uk/books/0224096281/ The job of the skin is to keep things in…

On the buttoned-down island of Here, all is well. By which we mean: orderly, neat, contained and, moreover, beardless.

Or at least it is until one famous day, when Dave, bald but for a single hair, finds himself assailed by a terrifying, unstoppable…monster*!

Where did it come from? How should the islanders deal with it? And what, most importantly, are they going to do with Dave?

The first book from a new leading light of UK comics, The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil is an off-beat fable worthy of Roald Dahl. It is about life, death and the meaning of beards.

(*We mean a gigantic beard, basically.)]]> Thu, 09 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://www.vintage-books.co.uk//books/0099555840/enrique-vila-matas/dublinesque/ http://www.vintage-books.co.uk/books/0099555840/ From one of Spain's greatest writers, a witty, moving novel about art, life, death and James Joyce.]]> SHORTLISTED FOR THE INDEPENDENT FOREIGN FICTION PRIZE

'A writer who has no equal in the contemporary landscape of the Spanish novel.' Roberto Bolaño

Samuel Riba is about to turn 60. A successful publisher in Barcelona, he is increasingly prone to attacks of anxiety and, looking for distraction, he concocts a spur-of-the-moment trip to Dublin, a city he has never visited but once dreamed about.

He sets off for Dublin on the pretext of honouring James Joyce’s Ulysses on Bloomsday. But as he and his friends gather in the cemetery to give their orations, a mysterious figure in a mackintosh resembling Joyce’s protégé Samuel Beckett hovers in the background. Is it Beckett, or is it the writer of genius that Riba has spent his whole career trying, and failing, to find?]]> Thu, 09 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://www.vintage-books.co.uk//books/0099578786/ian-mcewan/sweet-tooth/ http://www.vintage-books.co.uk/books/0099578786/ Atonement and Enduring Love: Sweet Tooth is a story of love and espionage in 1970s Britain]]> Atonement and Enduring Love comes ‘A web of spying, subterfuge, deceit and betrayal... Acute, witty...winningly cunning’ Sunday Times

The year is 1972. The Cold War is far from over. Britain is being torn apart by industrial unrest and terrorism. Serena Frome, in her final year at Cambridge, is being groomed for MI5.

Serena is sent on a secret mission – Operation Sweet Tooth – which brings her into the world of Tom Haley, a promising young writer. First she loves his stories, then she begins to love the man. Can she maintain the fiction of her undercover life? And who is inventing whom? To answer these questions, Serena must abandon the first rule of espionage – trust no one.]]> Thu, 09 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT