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Author: Kate Kennedy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A group of notable writers - including UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, Margaret MacMillan, and Jenny Uglow - celebrate...

Acerbic, wisecracking and hilarious, this is the definitive essay collection from New York legend and satirist, Fran Lebowitz, star of Martin Scorsese's hit Netflix series, Pretend It's a City. 'The...

Author: Jia Tolentino Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A Times book of the year A Guardian book of the year 'Magnificent'The Times 'Dazzling' New Statesman 'It filled...

'Unforgettable' SUNDAY TIMES 'Courageous' OBSERVER 'One of the most important books to be published in years' SARA COLLINS 'There are few writers with Li's power' DOUGLAS STUART The best book...

Author: Zora Neale Hurston Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 'One of the greatest writers of our time.' Toni Morrison 'You Don't Know Us Negroes adds immeasurably to...

Basho's beautifully-written and closely observed descriptions of his travels in Japan In his perfectly crafted haiku poems, Basho described the natural world with great simplicity and delicacy of feeling. When...

Author: Mario Vargas Llosa Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Spanning thirty years of writing, Making Waves traces the development of...

Author: Christopher Prendergast Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'A work buzzing with appetite and curiosity...no Proustian should be without it.' - Andrew Marr, author and broadcaster 'Literate, lively, and...

Author: Various Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 This Woman's Work: Essays on Music is edited by Kim Gordon and Sinead Gleeson and features contributors Anne Enright, Fatima Bhutto, Jenn...

Author: Mario Vargas Llosa Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 In The Call of the Tribe, Mario Vargas Llosa surveys the readings that haveshaped the way he thinks and has...

Author: Virginia WoolfFormat: Paperback, 111mm x 178mm, 160g, 320 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2024HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. The only advice, indeed,...

Author: Matthew McNaught Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 248 In Immanuel, winner of the inaugural Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize Matthew McNaught explores his upbringing in an evangelical Christian community in...

One of the masterpieces of classical literature, the Histories describes how a small and quarrelsome band of Greek city states united to repel the might of the Persian empire. But...

'Danticat offers an invaluable primer to the Haitian American experience in all its inherited trauma. Arguably she does for the Haitian diaspora what Junot Diaz has done for Dominican Americans'...

Sartre paid tribute to him in his obituary notice- 'Camus could never cease to be one of the principal forces in our cultural domain, nor to represent, in his own...

A memoir about belonging and motherhood, told through the author's lifelong passion for wild food When Helen Lehndorf moves to the city after a childhood living off the land in...

Offering ancient wisdom on how to use skill, cunning, tactics and discipline to outwit your opponent, this bestselling 2000-year-old military manual is still worshipped by soldiers on the battlefield and...

Author: Steve Baltin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 "Anthems We Love is not just a tale of artistic adventure, it's also a manual for artists and fans alike. There...

The top 10 Sunday Times bestseller - a celebration of love in all its forms After years of feeling that love was always out of reach, journalist Natasha Lunn set...

'Some smuggle cigarettes, others alcohol - or weapons.Our contraband, being invisible, is more dangerous.Our contraband is undetectable by scanners.What we carry as concealed excess baggage is stories.'In this exquisite literary...

Author: Andrew Blauner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 From twenty-seven of today's leading writers, an anthology of original pieces on the author of Walden Features essays by Jennifer Finney...

Author: Sigrid Rausing Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 264 Featuring non-fiction by Lydia Davis, Brian Dillon, Peter Englund (tr. Sigrid Rausing) Diana Evans, Wiam El-Tamami, Tabitha Lasley, Adele Rosenfeld (tr....

A brave, beautiful book that could double as a handbook to accompany anyone on their journey through cancer Jackie Kay, New Statesman I would never have chosen this path, but...

The essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde The woman's place of power within each of us is neither white nor surface; it is dark, it...

Dorothy Parker, more than any of her contemporaries, captured the spirit of her age in her writing. The decadent 1920S and 1930s in New York were a time of great...

Praise for Jenny Slate and Little Weirds 'Magical' Mindy Kaling 'Delicious' Amy Sedaris 'This book is something new and wonderful. It made me remember I was alive' George Saunders From...

A brilliant and addictive collection of brand-new essays on modern culture - from 'the pre-eminent and most widely read critic of her generation' The Times Included as a 2024 highlight...

Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 80 From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists comes a powerful new statement about feminism today...

Spinoza's greatest philosophical work. Published shortly after his death, the Ethics is undoubtedly Spinoza's greatest work - an elegant, fully cohesive philosophical system that strives to provide a coherent picture...

In his timely new book, Mikhail Shishkin, argues that Russia is not a 'riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma': we just don't know enough about it. So what...

A richly enthralling and evocative account of King Arthur Le Morte D'Arthur is Sir Thomas Malory's richly evocative and enthralling version of the Arthurian legend. Recounting Arthur's birth, his ascendancy...

Packed with wit, wisdom and comfort, this is a whopping celebration of the late, great Nora Ephron, the iconic writer whose work continues to entertain and inspire millions. A revised...

A controversial, timely intervention in world affairs from one of the most acclaimed historians of the twentieth century **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** 'A sort of survival book, a sort of...

New to Penguin Classics, these two Japanese texts are timeless reflections on Buddhism, nature and the value of being idle These two works on life's fleeting pleasures are by Buddhist...

Dazzling, essential, unlike anything else published today - a memoir on modern womanhood, smashing through social expectations and making the case for thrilling, transformative freedom What does it mean to...

Penguin Classics relaunch Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary and subversive thinkers in Western philosophy, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra remains his most famous and influential work. It describes how...

A fascinating account of the time of the Vikings and the feuds of the Orkney Isles Written around AD 1200 by an unnamed Icelandic author, the Orkneyinga Saga is an...

Award-winning writer, columnist, and journalists Carl Zimmer selects twenty science and nature essays that represent the best examples of the form published in 2022. "What's most compelling about a scientific...

A richly enthralling and evocative account of King Arthur Volume two of Le Morte D'Arthur, Sir Thomas Malory's powerful and elegaic version of the Arthurian legend, recounts the adventures of...

A collection that includes some of Camus' most brilliant political writing This volume contains some of Camus' most powerful political writing as he reflects on moral responsibility and the role...

'Required reading.' - Cosmopolitan'This should be read as a sacred text. Here, you will bear witness to a perpetual salvation song.' - Jason ReynoldsRemember that moment when you first encountered...

The woman warrior who is armed with wit and courage will be among the first to celebrate victory' says Maya Angelou, bestselling author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD...

Burke's seminal work on the French Revolution, and a fine example of conservative political thought Burke's seminal work was written during the early months of the French Revolution, and it...

Penguin Classics relaunch Aesop was probably a prisoner of war, sold into slavery in the early sixth century BC, who represented his masters in court and negotiations, and relied on...

A completely revised edition of a respected & much-loved translation by Betty Radice The story of Abelard and Heloise remains one of the world's most celebrated and tragic love affairs....

The Use of Photographyrecounts a passionate love affair between Annie Ernaux and the journalist and author Marc Marie, after the two met in January 2003. Ernaux had been receiving intensive...

'One of the greatest writers of our time.' Toni Morrison'You Don't Know Us Negroes adds immeasurably to our understanding of Hurston ... her words make it impossible for readers to...

Rebel Musix, Scribe on a Vibe collects the extraordinary output of Vivien Goldman from 1975 onwards; spanning a time when punk burnt its scalding flame to scorch our musical earth...