Burroughs's eagerly awaited final novel in the trilogy begun with Cities of the Red Night and The Place of Dead Roads is a profound, revealing, and often astonishing meditation on mortality,...
Pre-order the chilling and heart-pounding new novel from Norwegian superstar Jørn Lier Horst.THE INSPIRATION FOR THE HIT BBC FOUR SHOW WISTINGA chilling letter. A wrong conviction. One last chance...
When the Department - faded since the war and busy only with bureaucratic battles - hears rumours of a missile base near the West German border, it seems the perfect opportunity to regain some...
"The Original of Laura" is Vladimir Nabokov's final, incredible unfinished novel in fragments. Dr Philip Wild, a man of brilliance, wit, fortune and tremendous bulk, is used to...
In an adventure filled with highway bandits, unscrupulous politicians, and renegade monks, this volume introduces readers to the lively world of 11th century Japan and an irrepressible hero....
'I fail to see - because I do not happen to be a "Somebody" - why my diary should not be interesting'. Mr. Pooter is a man of modest ambition, content with his clerkly lot. So why...
In "My Secret History", award-winning writer Paul Theroux offers the reader an exciting insight into the double-life of Andre Parent in six compelling snapshots. "Written with a rare...
The "Pursuit of Italy" traces the whole history of the Italian peninsula in a wonderfully readable style, full of well-chosen stories and observations from personal experience, and peopled...
While Geoffrey Chaucer composed several magnificent works of poetry, his reputation as "the father of English literature" rests mainly on The Canterbury Tales, a group of stories told aby...
A lyrical, heart-warming new tale from the award-winning designer and creator of The Fox and the Star Bird loves to sing in the towering tree at the heart of the jungle. It feels like home. When...
Two sets of identical twins - Dromio and Antipholus of Syracuse, and their brothers Dromio and Antipholus of Ephesus - having been separated at sea as children, find themselves in the same city for...
At the Same Time contains sixteen illuminating essays by Susan Sontag. With a preface aby David Rieff. The sixteen essays gathered here represent the last pieces written by Susan Sontag in the...
Exploring issues of colonialism, faith and the limits of comprehension, E.M. Forster's A Passage to India is published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. When Adela Quested and her...
June 1940 was the summer of defeat for the French soldiers, deserted żeby their officers, utterly demoralized, awaiting the Armistice. Day żeby day, hour by hour, "Iron in the Soul" unfolds...
The world is awash in bullshit, and we're drowning in it. Politicians are unconstrained by facts. Science is conducted aby press release. Start-up culture elevates hype to high art. These days,...
30 years ago you believed you were telling the truth about a missing friend. But now the body's been found - and it's murder. Maybe it's time to stop believing your own lies... Because...
Central Europe is not just a space on a map but also a region of shared experience - of mutual borrowings, impositions and misapprehensions. From the Roman Empire onwards, it has been the target of...
What do we really need in order to live a happy life? An Epicurean antidote to anxietyOver two thousand years ago the Greek philosopher Epicurus offered a seemingly simple answer: all we really...
'One of the most influential economists in the world' WiredEven before the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, capitalism was stuck. It had no answers to a host of problems, including disease,...
The sole survivor of a shipwreck, Robinson Crusoe is stranded on an uninhabited island. With patience and ingenuity, he transforms his island into a tropical paradise. For 24 years he has no human...
As relevant and influential now as it was when first published in 1963, "Tomorrow Is Now" is Eleanor Roosevelt's manifesto and her final effort to move America toward the community she...
Freud's religious unbeliefs are too easily dismissed as the standard scientific rationalism of the twentieth-century intellectual, yet he scorned the high-minded humanism of his contemporaries....
You want to go freelance. You want to make your career work for you, on your terms and determined aby your own definition of success. You want autonomy, flexibility and variety. But where do you...