Carti Vintage Publishing

Byatt A. S.

The Matisse Stories

Editura: Vintage Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 1994

Each story is in some way inspired by a painting of Henri Matisse, each is also about the intimate connection between seeing and feeling - about the ways in which a glance we meant to be casual may suddenly call forth the deepest reserves of our being. This book includes stories which are all about human beings. Page dim. 198 x 129 x 10 Weight: 120 grams

King John

Headhunters

Editura: Vintage Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 1998

Following on from his bestselling study of violence, The Football Factory, John King considers Britain's other obsession - sex. Formed in the chemical mists of New Year's Eve, The Sex Division sees the once sacred act of procreation at its most material, as five men devise a system based on the sexual act. Page dim. 196 x 131 x 21 Series: The Football Factory Trilogy Weight: 228 grams

Mabey Richard

Flora Britannica

Editura: Vintage Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 1996

Indeed, Flora Britannica is the definitive contemporary flora, an encyclopaedia of living folklore, a register - a sort of Domesday Book. It is unique in that it is not a botanical flora but a cultural one - an account of the role of wild plants in social life, arts, custom and landscape. Page dim. 229 x 290 x 38 Weight: 2162 grams

Hyman Peter

1 Out Of 10 From Downing Street Vision to Classroom Reality

Editura: Vintage Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 2005

Why has Peter Hyman, the Prime Minister's chief speechwriter, swapped the corridors of power for the corridors of a tough inner-city comprehensive? This book presents an insider's account of leadership - a Prime Minister and a Head Teacher. It is also an exploration of change, whether it's a political party, a school, an individual or a country. Page dim. Weight: 272 grams

Lee Hermione

Virginia Woolf

Editura: Vintage Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 1997

Hermione Lee sees Virginia Woolf afresh, in her historical setting and as a vital figure for our times. It is a writer's life, illustrating how the concerns of her work arise and develop, and a political life, which establishes Woolf as a radically sceptical, subversive, courageous feminist. Page dim. 199 x 129 x 43 Weight: 978 grams

Ackroyd Peter

Clerkenwell Tales

Editura: Vintage Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 2004

The scene is London, in 1399. The streets of London are rife with rumour, heresy, espionage and murder and at the centre of the confusion is the nun, Sister Clarice, who has been vouchsafed visions of the future. As one critic has put it, 'he is our age's greatest London imagination'. Page dim. 197 x 130 x 15 Weight: 164 grams

Hoeg Peter

The History Of Danish Dreams

Editura: Vintage Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 1997

The story of the birth of the 20th century and how it develops in Denmark is told through the histories of four families and the young that grow up in them. Peter Hoeg is the author of "Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow", "Borderliners" and "The Woman and the Ape". Page dim. 130 x 197 x 20 Weight: 250 grams

Hoeg Peter

The Woman And The Ape

Editura: Vintage Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 1997

The woman is Madelene, rich, beautiful and alcoholic; the ape, intelligent and illegally imported to London by Madelene's husband Burden. Burden has plans, so does Madelene, and so, as it happens, does the ape. Page dim. 198 x 130 x 14 Weight: 176 grams

Lomax Eric

The Railway Man

Editura: Vintage Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 1996

During the second world war Eric Lomax was forced to work on the notorious Burma-Siam Railway and was tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio. Left emotionally scarred and unable to form normal relationships Lomax suffered for years until, with the help of his wife Patti and the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture. Page dim. 197 x 129 x 18 Weight: 192 grams

Marks Howard

Mr Nice

Editura: Vintage Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 1997

The incredible story of an unconventional life During the mid 1980s Howard Marks had forty three aliases, eighty nine phone lines and owned twenty five companies throughout the world. Page dim. 200 x 128 x 36 Weight: 408 grams

Doyle Roddy

Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

Editura: Vintage Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 1994

Roddy Doyle's Booker Prize-winning novel describes the world of ten-year-old Paddy Clarke, growing up in Barrytown, north Dublin. From fun and adventure on the streets, boredom in the classroom to increasing isolation at home, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha is the story of a boy who sees everything but understands less and less. Page dim. 197 x 129 x 18 Weight: 174 grams

Doyle Roddy

The Van

Editura: Vintage Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 1992

That is, until Bimbo finds a dilapidated 'chipper van' and the pair decide to go into business...By the bestselling author of The Commitments and The Snapper, The Van is a tender tale of male friendship, swimming in grease and stained with ketchup. Page dim. 196 x 129 x 20 Weight: 224 grams

Hughes Shirley

Dixie O'Day on his Bike

Editura: Vintage Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 2016

How will Dixie and Percy cope with the whizzing world of bicycles? And with a new friend coming between them, could there be trouble in store for our two heroes? This title deals with these questions. Page dim. 187 x 136 x 18 Series: Dixie O'Day Weight: 284 grams

Starkey David

Six Wives The Queens of Henry VIII

Editura: Vintage Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 2004

ANNE BOLEYN: the pretty, clever, French-educated Protestant whose marriage to Henry changed England forever... JANE SEYMOUR: the demure and submissive contrast to Anne Boleyn's radical and vampish style... Page dim. 197 x 133 x 57 Weight: 720 grams

Forster Margaret

Diary Of An Ordinary Woman

Editura: Vintage Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 2004

Margaret Forster presents the 'edited' diary of a woman, born in 1901, whose life spans the twentieth century. On the eve of the Great War, Millicent King begins to keep her journal and vividly records the dramas of everyday life in a family touched by war, tragedy, and money troubles. Page dim. 195 x 131 x 28 Weight: 290 grams

Welsh Irvine

Ecstasy Three Tales of Chemical Romance

Editura: Vintage Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 1997

Rebecca Navarro, best-selling authoress of Regency romances, suffers a paralysing stroke. Assisted by her nurse, Rebecca plans her revenge on her unfaithful husband. Together they go in search of the man who marketed the drug that crippled her - in order to cripple him. Together they explore the true nature of house music and chemical romance. Page dim. 196 x 129 x 45 Weight: 208 grams

Pears Iain

An Instance of the Fingerpost

Editura: Vintage Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 1998

Set in Oxford in the 1660s - a time and place of great intellectual, religious, scientific and political ferment - this remarkable novel centres around a young woman, Sarah Blundy, who stands accused of the murder of Robert Grove, a fellow of New College. Page dim. 195 x 130 x 37 Weight: 510 grams

Ackroyd Peter

Life Of Thomas More Book Club Edition

Editura: Vintage Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 1999

Ackroyd investigates the paradox of this 'man for all seasons': the man of the world who travelled across Europe to negotiate on behalf of his king, and the unworldly man who's careful silence on the matter of Henry's marriage to Anne Boleyn would lead to his disgrace and execution. Page dim. 198 x 133 x 37 Weight: 336 grams

Welsh Irvine

4 Play Trainspotting, Ecstasy, Filth and Marabou Stork Nightmares

Editura: Vintage Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 2001

From Irvine Welsh's bestselling books come four brilliant plays: Trainspotting, Filth and Marabou Stork Nightmares (all adapted by Harry Gibson) and Ecstasy (adapted by Keith Wyatt). Page dim. 198 x 110 x 17 Weight: 196 grams

Kerr Philip

Gridiron

Editura: Vintage Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 1996

Los Angeles, 1988Ray Richardson, a brilliant architechnologist, has created a dazzling new building: 'The Gridiron', in the heart of L. It is only when they discover how bizarre these deaths are that they realise the building - through its computer - is controlling them, and is set to destroy its creators. Page dim. 200 x 129 x 25 Weight: 274 grams