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It is 1948 and a young American couple arrive in France for a holiday, full of anticipation and enthusiasm. But the countryside and people are war-battered, and their reception at the Chateau Beaumesnil is not all the open-hearted Americans could wish for.

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In the Backstory you can find out more about the Second World War and hear from Deborah Moggach, the author's daughter, what inspired this wartime tale!

Vintage Childrens Classics is a twenty-first century classics list aimed at 8-12 year olds and the adults in their lives.

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Famous author Olive Wellwood writes a special private book, bound in different colours, for each of her children.

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In addition, his own illustrious adopted family has a sinister secret of its own - involving a murderous nineteenth-century governess - that must also be brought to light by Campion's investigations.

As urbane as Lord Wimseyas ingenious as Poirot Meet one of crime fictions Great Detectives, Mr Albert Campion.

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He finds himself in a subterranean world where reading books can be genuinely dangerous, where ruthless Bookhunters fight to the death for literary gems and the mysterious Shadow King rules a murky realm populated by Booklings, one-eyed beings whose vast library includes live books equipped with teeth and claws.

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'Her brilliance in capturing the ripples on the surface of family life gives her a claim to be the Jane Austen of our age' Daily Mail

Having sacked her handyman, newly-widowed Mrs Emerson finds a replacement in Elizabeth, a lanky, awkward girl.

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Kafka meets The Thick Of It in a bitingly funny new political satire from Ian McEwan

That morning, Jim Sams, clever but by no means profound, woke from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed into a gigantic creature.

Jim Sams has undergone a metamorphosis.

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Whether addressing the smothered desire of suburban housewives, the white-collar despair of Manhattan office workers or the heartbreak of a single mother with artistic pretensions, Yates ruthlessly examines the hopes and disappointments of ordinary people with empathy and humour.

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Joseph and Harriet Blackstone emigrate from Norfolk to New Zealand in search of new beginnings and prosperity. Abandoning his farm and family, he sets off alone for the new gold-fields over the Southern Alps, a moral wilderness where many others, under the seductive dreams of 'the colour', are violently rushing to their destinies.

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PAUL THEROUX

Three men meet on a ship bound for Haiti, a world in the grip of the corrupt 'Papa Doc' and the Tontons Macoute, his sinister secret police. And, to begin with, they are men afraid of love, afraid of pain, afraid of fear itself...

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While Risn grew up in a tiny village in Ireland, ablaze with a passion for science and the skies, Franois was raised by his restless young mother, who dreamt of new worlds but was unable to turn her back on her past.

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As their holiday unfolds, Colin and Maria are locked into their own intimacy. They groom themselves meticulously, as though there waits someone who cares deeply about how they appear. Then they meet a man with a disturbing story to tell and become drawn into a fantasy of violence and obsession.

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A deadly new threat awaits Simon Serrailler in this compulsive thriller from Susan Hill, the bestselling author of The Woman in Black

DC Simon Serraillers devastating last case was nearly the death of him.

Recovering on a remote Scottish island, his peace doesnt last long.

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Ably managed by Jimmy Rabbitte, brilliantly coached by Joey 'The Lips' Fagan, their twin assault on Motown and Barrytown takes them by leaps and bounds from the parish hall to the steps of the studio door.

But can The Commitments live up to their name

The bestselling book behind the long-running West End stage show.

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Discover Virginia Woolfs informative and erudite critical essays on some of the key novelists and dramatists of the canon from the ancient Greeks to Jane Austen and beyond.

Virginia Woolf read, and wrote, as an outsider, denied the educational privileges of her male contemporaries.

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'He reads for his own pleasure rather than to impart knowledge or correct the opinions of others'.
So Virginia Woolf described the 'common reader' for whom she wrote her second series of essays. This is an informal, informative and witty celebration of our literary and social heritage by a writer of genius.

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Whether he is pursuing revenge and inspiration in Morocco, expounding on his notorious sex film on a TV chat show, or writing a hit musical based on the life and work of Shakespeare, Enderby emerges triumphant.

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PRE-PSYCHO-ANALYTIC PUBLICATIONSandUNPUBLISHED DRAFTSTranslated from the German under the General Editorship of JAMES STRACHEYIn collaboration withANNA FREUD Assisted byALIX STRACHEY and ALAN TYSONEditorial Assistant- Angela RichardsVintage and the Institute of Psycho-Analysis

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INDEXES AND BIBLIOGRAPHIESTranslated from the German under the General Editorship of JAMES STRACHEYIn collaboration withANNA FREUD Assisted byALIX STRACHEY and ALAN TYSONVintage and the Institute of Psycho

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His efforts to uncover the truth take him all over the world and into conflict with all manner of devious criminals and dangerous villains, but thankfully his legendary powers of deduction, and his faithful companion Dr Watson, are more than up to the challenge.

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The buttoned-up world of the British upper classes is exploded by the brilliance, wit and audacity of Saki's bomb-like stories. In 'The Unrest Cure' the ordered home of a respectable country gent is rocked to its core. For punchlines, twists, satire and pure mirth, Saki's stories are second-to-none.

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The Complete Stories gathers together Anita Desai's short story collections Diamond Dust and Games at Twilight and the novellas of The Artist of Disappearance, with a new preface from the author.

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