Books published by publisher Vintage Sci-Fi Classics

Winter holidays can be just as fun as summer with the Swallows and Amazons! 'You know what it's like. Dark at teatime and sleeping indoors: nothing ever happens in the winter holidays.' Or so Nancy thinks. Then the lake ices over completely and the Swallows and Amazons, along with Dick and Dorothea -- 'the D's' -- plan a race to find the North Pole. How will they reach it if they can't sail? By sledges of course! But when a blizzard blows up and there is a mix up about signals, the D's disappear into the Arctic night. Disaster looms. Can the Swallows and Amazons save their friends?

Noble and devout, Ambrosio is the abbot of a Spanish monastery who spends his days in prayer. However, his monastery is harboring a malevolent force in the form of a young monk called Rosario. Rosario attaches himself to the abbot and one fateful night reveals that he is in fact a beautiful woman in disguise. From this moment on Ambrosio finds himself seduced into a lurid maelstrom of sin and vice he finds impossible to resist.

Review "Murakami writes of contemporary Japan, urban alienation and journey's of self-discovery, and in this book he combines recollections of the war with metaphysics, dreams and hallucinations into a powerful and impressionistic work" (Independent)"Murakami weaves these textured layers of reality into a shot-silk garment of deceptive beauty" (Independent on Sunday)"Critics have variously likened him to Raymond Carver, Ra

While mortals sleep is a smart, clear-eyed collection of stories from one of the most original writers in american fiction set in trailers, bars and factories, vonnegut conjures up a world where men and machines, art and artifice, fame and fortune become curiously twisted and characters pit their dreams and fears against a cruel and comically indifferent world written early in his career, and never published before, these tightly plotted stories are infused with vonneguts distinctive blend of observation, imagination and scabrous humour this collection features an introduction by dave eggers

A moving account of two friends’ difficult, terrifying and heartbreaking journey in the Peruvian Andes. Touching the Void is the heart-stopping account of Joe Simpson's terrifying adventure in the Peruvian Andes. He and his climbing partner, Simon, reached the summit of the remote Siula Grande in June 1995. A few days later, Simon staggered into Base Camp, exhausted and frost-bitten, with news that that Joe was dead. What happened to Joe, and how the pair dealt with the psychological traumas that resulted when Simon was forced into the appalling decision to cut the rope, makes not only an epic of survival but a compelling testament of friendship.VINTAGE VOYAGES: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind

‘One day in April 1957 I had just answered a letter from an expert in unarmed combat writing from a cover address in Mexico City, and I was thanking a fan in Chile, when my telephone rang…’The Diamond Smugglers is the true story of an operation responsible for smuggling millions of pounds worth of precious gems out of Africa. Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond, drew on interviews with the reluctant hero of the diamond companies’ counter-attack to explore the world of the real master criminals of his time.The result rivals Fleming’s greatest spy novels.