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Pub Date 01 Mar 2018
15th century Oakham, in Somerset; a tiny village cut off by a big river with no bridge. When a man is swept away by the river in the early hours of Shrove Saturday, an explanation has to be found: accident, suicide or murder? The village priest, John Reve, is privy to many secrets in his role as confessor. But will he be able to unravel what happened to the...
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The Western Wind
Samantha Harvey
Pub Date 01 Mar 2018
15th century Oakham, in Somerset; a tiny village cut off by a big river with no bridge. When a man is swept away by the river in the early hours of Shrove Saturday, an explanation has to be found: accident, suicide or murder? The village priest, John Reve, is privy to many secrets in his role as confessor. But will he be able to unravel what happened to the...
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Pub Date 03 May 2018
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
*A Guardian, Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, The Times, New Statesman Netgalley and Reading Agency Book of the Year 2018*
An astonishing memoir about nursing and an urgent call for compassion and kindness
‘It made me cry. It made me think. It made me laugh. It encouraged me to appreciate this most underappreciated of professions...
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The Language of Kindness
Christie Watson
Pub Date 03 May 2018
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
*A Guardian, Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, The Times, New Statesman Netgalley and Reading Agency Book of the Year 2018*
An astonishing memoir about nursing and an urgent call for compassion and kindness
‘It made me cry. It made me think. It made me laugh. It encouraged me to appreciate this most underappreciated of professions...
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The #2 Sunday Times bestseller, 40 million books sold worldwide
He’s the best cop they’ve got.
When a drug bust turns into a bloodbath it’s up to Inspector Macbeth and his team to clean up the mess.
He’s also an ex-drug addict with a troubled past.
He’s rewarded for his success. Power. Money. Respect. They’re all within reach.
But a man like him won’t get...
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Macbeth
Jo Nesbo
The #2 Sunday Times bestseller, 40 million books sold worldwide
He’s the best cop they’ve got.
When a drug bust turns into a bloodbath it’s up to Inspector Macbeth and his team to clean up the mess.
He’s also an ex-drug addict with a troubled past.
He’s rewarded for his success. Power. Money. Respect. They’re all within reach.
But a man like him won’t get...
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LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER 2018
Shortlisted for the Petrona Award 2018 for the Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of the Year
The last novel from international crime bestseller Henning Mankell. A brilliant and moving mystery set in the Swedish archipelago.
Fredrik Welin is a seventy-year-old retired doctor. Years ago he retreated to the Swedish...
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After the Fire
Henning Mankell
LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER 2018
Shortlisted for the Petrona Award 2018 for the Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of the Year
The last novel from international crime bestseller Henning Mankell. A brilliant and moving mystery set in the Swedish archipelago.
Fredrik Welin is a seventy-year-old retired doctor. Years ago he retreated to the Swedish...
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Tom has always known exactly the person he is going to be. A successful footballer. A man others look up to. Now, though, the bright future he imagined for himself is threatened.
The Premier League academy of his boyhood has let him go. At nineteen, Tom finds himself playing for a tiny club in a town he has never heard of. But as he navigates his isolation...
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A Natural
Ross Raisin
Tom has always known exactly the person he is going to be. A successful footballer. A man others look up to. Now, though, the bright future he imagined for himself is threatened.
The Premier League academy of his boyhood has let him go. At nineteen, Tom finds himself playing for a tiny club in a town he has never heard of. But as he navigates his isolation...
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A Guardian / Sunday Times Book of the Year
A spirited, restless fourteen-year-old, Fay, goes missing from a Lincoln council estate. Is she a runaway, or a victim – another face on a poster gradually fading with time? The story of her last few days before she vanishes is interwoven with the varied lives of six locals – whether aware or unaware of her presence...
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Missing Fay
Adam Thorpe
A Guardian / Sunday Times Book of the Year
A spirited, restless fourteen-year-old, Fay, goes missing from a Lincoln council estate. Is she a runaway, or a victim – another face on a poster gradually fading with time? The story of her last few days before she vanishes is interwoven with the varied lives of six locals – whether aware or unaware of her presence...
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‘It’s a million times nicer to be Anne of Green Gables than Anne of nowhere in particular, isn’t it?’
My dislikes: Being an orphan, having red hair, being called ‘carrots’ by Gilbert Blythe.
My likes: Living at the Green Gables with Marilla and Matthew, my bosom-friend Diana, dresses with puff sleeves.
My regrets: Dying my hair green. Smashing a slate over...
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Anne of Green Gables
L. M. Montgomery
‘It’s a million times nicer to be Anne of Green Gables than Anne of nowhere in particular, isn’t it?’
My dislikes: Being an orphan, having red hair, being called ‘carrots’ by Gilbert Blythe.
My likes: Living at the Green Gables with Marilla and Matthew, my bosom-friend Diana, dresses with puff sleeves.
My regrets: Dying my hair green. Smashing a slate over...
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'I write this sitting in the kitchen sink...’
This is the diary of Cassandra Mortmain, which tells of her extraordinary family and their crumbling castle home. Cassandra's father was once a famous writer, but now he mainly reads detective novels while his family slide into genteel poverty. Her sister Rose is bored and beautiful, and desperate to marry...
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I Capture the Castle
Dodie Smith
'I write this sitting in the kitchen sink...’
This is the diary of Cassandra Mortmain, which tells of her extraordinary family and their crumbling castle home. Cassandra's father was once a famous writer, but now he mainly reads detective novels while his family slide into genteel poverty. Her sister Rose is bored and beautiful, and desperate to marry...
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Pub Date 02 Aug 2012
Can you go a little faster? Can you run?
Long ago, at a time in history that never happened, England was overrun with wolves. But as Bonnie and her cousin Sylvia discover, real danger often lies closer to home. Their new governess, Miss Slighcarp, doesn't seem at all nice. She shuts Bonnie in a cupboard, fires the faithful servants and sends the cousins far...
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The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
Joan Aiken

Pub Date 02 Aug 2012
Can you go a little faster? Can you run?
Long ago, at a time in history that never happened, England was overrun with wolves. But as Bonnie and her cousin Sylvia discover, real danger often lies closer to home. Their new governess, Miss Slighcarp, doesn't seem at all nice. She shuts Bonnie in a cupboard, fires the faithful servants and sends the cousins far...
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'There comes a time in every boy's life when when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure'
Impish, daring young Tom Sawyer is a hero to his friends and a torment to his relations. For wherever there is mischief or adventure, Tom is at the heart of it. During one hot summer, Tom witnesses a murder, runs away to be a pirate, attends...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
'There comes a time in every boy's life when when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure'
Impish, daring young Tom Sawyer is a hero to his friends and a torment to his relations. For wherever there is mischief or adventure, Tom is at the heart of it. During one hot summer, Tom witnesses a murder, runs away to be a pirate, attends...
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'I mean to do something grand. I don't know what, yet; but when I'm grown up I shall find out'
Katy Carr is the longest girl that was ever seen. She is all legs and elbows, and angles and joints. She tears her dress every day, hates sewing and doesn't care a button about being called 'good'. Her head is full of schemes and one day she plans to do something...
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What Katy Did
Susan Coolidge
'I mean to do something grand. I don't know what, yet; but when I'm grown up I shall find out'
Katy Carr is the longest girl that was ever seen. She is all legs and elbows, and angles and joints. She tears her dress every day, hates sewing and doesn't care a button about being called 'good'. Her head is full of schemes and one day she plans to do something...
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"The Railway Children was one of the first children's classics I ever read. I wasn't sure I was going to enjoy it. I started reading the story and was immediately gripped. E. Nesbit remembered exactly what it felt like to be a child." --Jacqueline Wilson
'"Stand firm,'" said Peter, "and wave like mad!"'
They were not railway children to begin with...
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The Railway Children
Edith Nesbit
"The Railway Children was one of the first children's classics I ever read. I wasn't sure I was going to enjoy it. I started reading the story and was immediately gripped. E. Nesbit remembered exactly what it felt like to be a child." --Jacqueline Wilson
'"Stand firm,'" said Peter, "and wave like mad!"'
They were not railway children to begin with...
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Pub Date 15 May 2018
The Cat in the Hat? Barbar? The Very Hungry Caterpillar? Whoever it was for you, it’s very hard to forget the vivid intensity of your first encounter with a book.
As a bespectacled young bookworm, Lucy Mangan devoured books: from early picture books, to Swallows and Amazons, Enid Blyton to Little Women, and from trashy teen romances to her first proper...
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Bookworm
Lucy Mangan

Pub Date 15 May 2018
The Cat in the Hat? Barbar? The Very Hungry Caterpillar? Whoever it was for you, it’s very hard to forget the vivid intensity of your first encounter with a book.
As a bespectacled young bookworm, Lucy Mangan devoured books: from early picture books, to Swallows and Amazons, Enid Blyton to Little Women, and from trashy teen romances to her first proper...
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*Winner of the 2017 Strega Prize, the Strega Giovani Prize and the Prix Médicis étranger*
The international sensation about two young Italian boys from different backgrounds who meet in the mountains every summer, and the men they grow to become.
Pietro, a lonely city boy, spends his childhood summers in a secluded valley in the Alps. Bruno, the cowherd son...
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The Eight Mountains
Paolo Cognetti
*Winner of the 2017 Strega Prize, the Strega Giovani Prize and the Prix Médicis étranger*
The international sensation about two young Italian boys from different backgrounds who meet in the mountains every summer, and the men they grow to become.
Pietro, a lonely city boy, spends his childhood summers in a secluded valley in the Alps. Bruno, the cowherd son...
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Reykjavík, 1941. A city under the shadow of war. In the darkness lies the truth.
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.
The British are in the process of handing over to the Americans and the streets are crawling with...
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The Shadow Killer
Arnaldur Indridason
Reykjavík, 1941. A city under the shadow of war. In the darkness lies the truth.
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.
The British are in the process of handing over to the Americans and the streets are crawling with...
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Alan Querry, a successful property developer from the north of England, has two daughters: Vanessa, a philosopher who lives and teaches in Saratoga Springs, NY, and Helen, a record company executive based in London. The sisters never quite recovered from their parents’ bitter divorce and the early death of their mother, with Vanessa particularly affected...
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Upstate
James Wood
Alan Querry, a successful property developer from the north of England, has two daughters: Vanessa, a philosopher who lives and teaches in Saratoga Springs, NY, and Helen, a record company executive based in London. The sisters never quite recovered from their parents’ bitter divorce and the early death of their mother, with Vanessa particularly affected...
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RATED 5* BY REAL READERS:
'UNIQUE'
'THRILLING...FULL OF TENSION'
'BEAUTIFUL, HEART-WRENCHING'
HOW DO YOU SOLVE YOUR OWN MURDER?
Everyone believes Alex is in a coma, unlikely to ever wake up. As his family debate withdrawing life support, and his friends talk about how his girlfriend Bea needs to move on, he can only listen.
But Alex soon begins to suspect that...
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If I Die Before I Wake
Emily Koch
RATED 5* BY REAL READERS:
'UNIQUE'
'THRILLING...FULL OF TENSION'
'BEAUTIFUL, HEART-WRENCHING'
HOW DO YOU SOLVE YOUR OWN MURDER?
Everyone believes Alex is in a coma, unlikely to ever wake up. As his family debate withdrawing life support, and his friends talk about how his girlfriend Bea needs to move on, he can only listen.
But Alex soon begins to suspect that...
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Random House UK, Vintage Publishing

Vintage is the story of the greatest writers from around the globe and across the ages, inventing new worlds and exploring our own – from Philip Roth, Haruki Murakami and Alice Munro to Ian McEwan, Simon Schama, Jeanette Winterson, J. M. Coetzee and Salman Rushdie. It's the story of imaginations being captured and prizes being won, from the Nobel to the Pulitzer and beyond. It's the story of beautiful, stylish design and brave innovation to bring you the must-reads of tomorrow.





























































