Vintage Publishing

A painter’s memoir of obsession, loss and creation during a trip to Venice Alone in Venice for an artist’s residency, Celia Paul records her daily painting practice. Her days are both charged with and interrupted by the turmoil she feels over the death of her husband, and her more recent obsession with a younger man.Inspired by the art, literature and atmosphere of the light-filled city around her, Paul’s meditations on love, creation, ageing and belonging are interwoven with fascinating explorations of artists and writers connected to Venice.An act of profound and deeply personal observation, Objects of Desire reveals more with each reading. This is a window into a life devoted to art, a self-portrait of an artist who longs to look unflinchingly at herself – and invites us to do the same.

THE BRAND NEW HARRY HOLE THRILLER - Harry's most explosive case yet - from the Sunday Times Bestseller. **HARRY HOLE IS NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX TV SERIES DETECTIVE HOLE** *OVER 60 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE* A serial killer is terrifying Oslo, staging shocking murders inspired by iconic movie scenes. The city's biggest film set is suddenly in the spotlight, and only one man has the expertise to catch the murderer. But Harry Hole is out of the police force and trying to find a new way to live. Oleg, Harry's stepson, is investigating the murders, and Harry knows he should keep his distance. Though it's not always easy to stay out of the frame . . . As Harry is drawn back into helping his old team, the lines between his professional instincts and his personal life begin to blur. With the body count rising, and the killer one step ahead, Harry and Oleg are under pressure to crack the case. But the killer is saving the best scene for last. Set against the backdrop of Oslo's film industry, Kill Shot is the heart-racing new Detective Hole thriller with a final twist that will leave readers reeling.

Recipes to lift your energy, balance your mood, and feed your brain – the feel-good cookbook from the nation’s favourite gut-health scientist, as seen on Channel 4's What Not to EatThe science is now clear: the secret to better brain health and mental wellbeing starts with what we eat.With these delicious, plant-rich, satisfying recipes, Tim Spector shows how nourishing the trillions of microbes in our gut can support our mood, energy levels and long-term brain health.Packed with flavourful, budget-friendly recipes and practical ideas – from energy-boosting breakfasts and lunches on the go to soothing suppers and weekend batch-cooking – Good Mood Food is your shortcut to eating better and feeling better every day.

A moving reflection on the author's father - plus a cat! - this is a beautiful short work of family history from one of our most beloved, iconic writers. Originally published in the New Yorker in 2019, and now presented in a full, unabridged form, Abandoning a Cat is a poignant, self-reflective work by Haruki Murakami. Here he writes about his father, the son of a priest who might have become a priest himself had a clerical error not sent him into the second world war.Murakami's father wrote accomplished haiku and eventually became a teacher. As Haruki grew older and became an adult and then a writer, he and his father found they had little in common. They were later estranged for twenty years, only reconciling on his father's deathbed.This haunting personal essay is a reflection on what it means to be a father and what it means to be a son - on what it means to be loved and to be abandoned - and also on a particular moment of Japanese history, through the aftermath of the second world war on into the present. Murakami fans may find common themes from beloved novels such as Kafka on the Shore and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - but will also be surprised by the raw honesty of this beautiful autobiographical piece. 'Haunting' New York Times

A SPECIAL COLLECTOR'S EDITION OF ONE OF THE GREAT MODERN LOVE STORIES Henry and Clare meet, fall in love, and build a life together. Just not in that order.Henry is a dashing, adventurous librarian who travels helplessly through time, pulled to moments of emotional gravity from his own past and future. Clare is an artist whose life moves forwards like the rest of us, one day to the next.As they try to anchor their passionate affair in the here and now, Henry’s constant disappearances and sudden arrivals leave Clare realising there can be nothing normal about their relationship. But what they build instead is one of the most intensely moving and enduring love stories of our time.PRAISE FOR The Time Traveler's Wife, the international bestselling novel of a time-altering love.‘An old-fashioned love story. A terrific book’ Observer‘An elegy to love and loss’ Independent ‘One of those books that makes you want to eat it up from start to finish’ Guardian‘Moving but worth the heartbreak’ Daily Express‘Truly original’ Vogue‘Magical - memorable...poignant’ Mail on Sunday

'Q is one of those rare books that hands you back a capability you didn't realise you'd lost' DANIEL H. PINKOur lives are shaped by questions: they are how we connect, persuade and flourish. But we live in a world that wants answers.Questions are engines of learning, catalysts for connection, and drivers of change. They direct our attention and make us feel closer to loved ones and strangers alike. In fact, we are the only species that truly asks questions of one another.But school trains us to answer, not ask. Workplaces reinforce that, and technology feeds us solutions before we’ve described the problem. The result is that we live in an answer-rich, question-poor world. Yet, from doctors’ surgeries to courtrooms to dating, the ability to ask questions determines our experiences. In a world obsessed by answers, asking better questions is powerful.Q takes us on a transformative journey into the art and science of questioning and will shift your perspective on the world. In a captivating narrative from the death of Socrates to the age of AI, Lani Watson draws on research in psychology, philosophy and neuroscience to show how questions play a vital role in our individual lives and in our shared human story.Q will make you think about the questions you ask and the ones you don’t. It is a life-enhancing invitation to harness the hidden power of our most underappreciated human skill.'Excellent. Q will alter how you interact with the world' DAVID EDMONDS'An exhilarating and wise book. This is what philosophy should be – fizzing, sparkling and catalytic' CHARLES FOSTER'By giving us back a simple tool we've had all along, Q empowers us all. This is a book that could change lives' INDIA RAKUSEN

What if life on Earth evolved not once – but twice?And what if we're now facing a third phase of evolution?Life on Earth has evolved not once, but twice. First as organic life – from single cells to the astonishing diversity of the natural world. Then as human culture – from hunter-gatherers to cities, empires and global civilisations.In this sweeping and original work, Jonathan Loh reveals a radical idea: culture as a form of life. Unfolding across deep time – from the earliest organisms to the rise of Homo sapiens, from foragers to farmers, from the Bronze Age to the Industrial Revolution – it uncovers the hidden patterns linking genetics and language, organisms and states, ecosystems and economies, mass extinctions and civilisational collapse.One species has come to dominate the Earth. Yet as machine intelligence gathers pace, Loh asks whether that supremacy is only a phase in life’s longer story.What can we learn from our past? And what does this mean for our future?

Life can’t go on like this – can it?This book is for everyone who has ever wanted more: more time, more meaning, more connection.A sexy and hilarious Spanish bestseller, where a young woman's office persona threatens to crack when she’s forced to attend her company’s annual retreat.'Tremendously entertaining' Guardian'Hilarious' Daily Mail'A wild ride' Express'An impressive new comic talent' Daily Telegraph'Wry and incisive... very funny' New York TimesOn the surface, Marisa’s life looks enviable. She lives in a nice apartment in the heart of Madrid, her friendly neighbour and lover Pablo lives downstairs, and she’s risen quickly through the ranks at a successful advertising agency.And yet Marisa hates her job and everything about it. Over one hot summer she finds herself in danger of being exposed when she’s forced to deliver a talk on creativity at a horrendous team-building retreat. Surrounded by psychopathic bosses, flirty facilitators, and an excess of drugs, Marisa is pushed to the brink of a complete spiral.Discontent is a bold, biting novel about acting on our wilder impulses to reclaim our lives from work.'Serrano writes with a caustic flair for detail, with charm and utter hilarity. Absolutely brilliant' Danya Kukafka, author of Notes on an Execution‘I adored our heroine... A razor-sharp debut’ Anna Dorn, author of Perfume and Pain'A love song to the listless and lonely of the LinkedIn age' Ariel Courage, author of Bad Nature

Antibiotics. Invented by microbes. Mined by humans. And now running out. ‘This history of scientific discovery and corporate greed chronicles arguably the most significant technological advance of the 20th century … A lively history and a stark warning’ Sunday Times, Best Books of the Year 2025‘Combines the passion of Robert Macfarlane with the incisiveness of Patrick Radden Keefe … Brilliant’ Rachel Clarke, SpectatorThe discovery of antibiotics is one of humanity’s greatest achievements, saving millions of lives and changing the world forever.But, unlike other drugs, each time we take antibiotics we use up a finite resource. And now we are running out.This is the spellbinding story of how we learned to harness the fossil fuels of medicine – and an urgent call to adapt, so they can hold a place in our future.‘Excellent … highly readable’ Henry Marsh‘Brilliant’ Tim Spector‘Wonderful … thrilling’ Venki Ramakrishnan‘An enjoyable and absolutely essential read’ Kate Bingham‘A fascinating deep dive’ Sarah Gilbert‘Eye-opening … a vital call to arms’ Matthew Cobb‘This book is a triumph’ Science

A first-hand account of art, survival and resistance in wartime Ukraine‘The most beautifully written, moving book I can ever remember reading’ PHILIPPA PERRY‘A book for our times’ PHILIPPE SANDS'A brilliant and unforgettable book' EDMUND DE WAALCharlotte Higgins never imagined she would report on a war. But in the autumn of 2022, seven months into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, she travelled there to find out how artists and writers were reflecting the devastating events in their work. The experience would change her life.In a war fuelled by the attempted erasure of Ukrainian culture – a war that has killed countless artists and created countless more – art has become a matter of life and death. In times of war, art and literature are where difficulty and complexity survive: where the most painful, unspeakable truths can still be faced.Drawing on two decades of cultural journalism, three years of reporting trips to Ukraine and her training as a classicist, Ukrainian Lessons explores the profound connections between war, art and life. It is a searing, urgent and unforgettable book about what artists are prepared to risk – and why culture is worth fighting for.'An excellent book' HENRY MARSH‘A survival manual for our blood-stricken times’ JACQUELINE ROSE'Beautiful, erudite, heart-breaking’ LINDSEY HILSUM

A majestic, visionary and life-spanning collection of poetry from the first great classic writer of the 21stcentury, Roberto Bolano. Though he reached international literary stardom for his novels, Roberto Bolano always considered himself, first and foremost, a poet. This volume unites more than three hundred poems, written from his youth to his final years, that probe the animating themes at the core of his oeuvre: literature, politics, exile, love, death. Audacious and unique, this collection reveals Bolano’s full, extraordinary life in verse.‘An epic artistic journey . . . filled with sorrows and joys and discoveries’ Los Angeles Times‘Bolano was a game changer: his field was politics, poetry and melancholia . . . and his writing was always unparalleled’ Mariana Enríquez

‘Poignant and extremely funny. This is comic writing at its best’ THE TIMESWelcome to the sad, mad world of Saul Karoo - an alcoholic who can't get drunk, a loving father who can't bear to be alone with his son, a fixer of film scripts who admits that he ruins every one of them.Calamity and comedy accompany Karoo on his odyssey through sex, death and show-business as he seeks to save both a master director's greatest film and his own broken life at the same time.‘Utterly wonderful... confronts the most unbearable sadness with a comic exhilaration that makes you almost pleased that life is tragic’ HOWARD JACOBSON ‘Mordantly funny, unexpectedly moving and brutally honest’ RICHARD E GRANT 'Scathing, hilarious and glorious' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

'A mother-daughter guide to navigating a teenage mental-health crisis' THE TIMES'It made me cry, laugh and hug my daughter extra tightly' BRYONY GORDONHow can we communicate better across the generational divide?When Rowan was sixteen, she experienced a mental-health breakdown. She and her mother, Christie, were barely speaking but they finally began to talk. Their conversations not only revealed the chasm between their generations, but also enabled Christie to really get to know her daughter – and in doing so, understand how she could help Rowan recover.In an age of polarisation, this is a book about how a mother and daughter find humour in the things that divide them and with it a way to connect. Its bare honesty will have you laughing – and possibly crying – out loud as it shows that you are not alone.'I loved this book and I know it will help many families during difficult times' JULIA SAMUEL'Full of heart that will help parents and their teenagers' DEREK OWUSU'Incredibly brave, generous and important' CLOVER STROUD

'Exquisite short stories. They disturb, delight and linger long after finishing' LOUISE KENNEDY'To read Emily Ruskovich it to unwrap a gift' PAULA HAWKINSFrom the critically acclaimed, prizewinning author of Idaho comes a stunning collection of stories that explore the rural landscape of the far Northwestern US, and how unexpected intuitions forever alter the lives of ordinary people. Four years after moving into the isolated house in rural Oregon where her husband lived as a child, the protagonist of 'Victor’s Room' begins to doubt her husband’s account of his family’s past. In 'Round Lake', a young woman’s plans to meet a lover in Tokyo are upended when she learns a startling truth about her mother’s death. In 'Owl', a fur trapper reckons with the dreadful origins of his marriage after his wife is brutally injured by four adolescent boys.Haunting and psychologically provocative, and set against the vivid backdrop of the rural Northwestern US, Nightjarilluminates the secret, instinctive knowledge that lies just under the surface of our awareness.Praise for Idaho'Writing that has the cool sharpness of lemonade . . . Unflinching, unfrilly, multi-layered storytelling that is both beautiful and devastating' Rachel Joyce'You're in masterly hands here... will remind many of the great Idaho novel, Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping . . . wrenching and beautiful' New York Times Book Review'From the first page it is clear that Ruskovich's poetic, spare writing would be enough to compel on its own, but this extraordinary story of a violent event that decimates a young family in northern Idaho is the true engine here . . . enthrals from the outset' Lucy Clark, Guardian

If the word flâneur conjures up visions of Baudelaire, boulevards and bohemia – then what exactly is a flâneuse?In this gloriously provocative and celebratory book, Lauren Elkin defines her as ‘a determined resourceful woman keenly attuned to the creative potential of the city, and the liberating possibilities of a good walk’.Part cultural meander, part memoir, Flâneuse traces the relationship between the city and creativity through a journey that begins in New York and moves us to Paris, via Venice, Tokyo and London, exploring along the way the paths taken by the flâneuses who have lived and walked in those cities.From nineteenth-century novelist George Sand to artist Sophie Calle, from war correspondent Martha Gellhorn to film-maker Agnes Varda, Flâneuse considers what is at stake when a certain kind of light-footed woman encounters the city and changes her life, one step at a time.

'Utterly enthralling' JESSICA J. LEE, author of Two Trees Make A Forest'Lush, magnetic, elegiac and absorbing' MEGHA MOHAN, author of Herlands'Skilfully crafted and beguilingly immersive' SANTANU BHATTACHARYA, author of DeviantsMeet the matriarchs of Filipino myth – defiant goddesses, powerful witches, terrifying shapeshifters – and their real-life counterparts, as Carla Montemayor journeys to discover her own ancestry and the stories of her people. When Carla Montemayor discovers that her great-great grandmother was a binukot – a girl sequestered from her family and community, trained to memorise and sing the myths of her people – this sets her on her own epic journey to uncover her ancestry. Why was she raised on European fairytales and Greek myths when the stories of her own people are so rich? And why did no one in her family speak of their illustrious binukot foremother anymor? ravelling to the Philippines to trace the lives of her female relatives, Carla discovers that, officially, her people have no history. Like many indigenous groups, their stories have been erased by colonists. It becomes her work to reconstruct and reimagine them. Weaving together the tales of her family members, who survived war, oppression, violence, displacement and more, with the myths of her people, Carla finds similarities: women with courage, resourcefulness and ambition, who fight and love with equal ferocity. Islands of Forgotten Daughters celebrates these women and tells their tales, offering a fresh perspective on Filipino history and culture. It is a rallying cry for the power of storytelling: to resist erasure, preserve identity and resonate for generations to come. '[A] beautiful book' JULIET NICOLSON, author of Frostquake'An important and tender act of recovery' ROMALYN ANTE, author of The Left-Behind Child'A beautiful tale of diaspora, love and loss' MIRIAM GOLD, author of Elena: A Handmade Life