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Author: Bohumil Hrabal Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 A classic of postwar literature, a small masterpiece of humour, humanity and heroism from one of the best Czech...
Hour of the Star
Author: Clarice Lispector Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 Clarice Lispector's audacious and haunting last novel, new to Penguin Modern Classics Living in the slums of Rio and...
Conversations With Stalin
Author: Milovan Djilas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Written in 1961, after Djilas had served time in prison for his views, and featuring portraits of the leading...
Ka
Author: Roberto Calasso Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A remarkable retelling of Hindu mythology, from one of Europe's greatest literary figures. In Ka, Roberto Calasso delves into...
Amadeus
Author: Peter Shaffer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is a genius, the most brilliant musician the world will ever see. But the court of...
Maigret Enjoys Himself: Inspector Maigret #50
Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 During a much-needed holiday Maigret pulls a prank on colleague Janvier When Maigret's holiday plans go awry he and...
Maigret Hesitates: Inspector Maigret #67
Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 A series of letters set Maigret up for a peculiar case. Inspector Maigret receives a series of letters warning...
Maigret's Madwoman: Inspector Maigret #72
Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 An old woman's cries for help are left unanswered in this gripping story. A kind but seemingly paranoid old...
Bound for Glory
Author: Woody Guthrie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Chronicling some from the point of view of one of the twentieth century's most influential musicians, Woody Guthrie's Bound...
Maigret's Failure: Inspector Maigret #49
Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Maigret's integrity is called into question when a childhood grudge conflicts with a new case Charged with the protection...
Maigret and the Lazy Burglar: Inspector Maigret #57
Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Maigret is determined to track down the murderer of a burglar who he had known for thirty years Set...
Maigret's Pickpocket: Inspector Maigret #66
Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Inspector Maigret falls victim to a pickpocket and is drawn into a peculiar incident. A pickpocket steals Maigret's wallet...
Maigret and the Ghost: Inspector Maigret #62
Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 When a colleague is injured in an undercover operation Maigret takes over and becomes embroiled in the dark underbelly...
Maigret and the Reluctant Witnesses: Inspector Maigret #53
Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Maigret struggles to crack a victim's uncooperative family to uncover the truth behind his murder in book fifty-three of...
Maigret's Childhood Friend: Inspector Maigret #69
Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 A visit from an old school-friend leads Maigret to a murderous affair When a long lost friend pays a...
Just an Ordinary Day
Author: Shirley Jackson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 A remarkable collection of dark, funny and haunting short stories from the inimitable author of 'The Lottery'. An anxious...
Maigret and the Wine Merchant: Inspector Maigret #71
Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 In this cautionary tale a ruthless businessman finally gets his comeuppance When a wealthy wine merchant is shot and...
Americana
Author: Don DeLillo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 His first novel, Don DeLillo's Americana passionately articulates the neurotic landscape of contemporary American life through a disintegrating embodiment...
Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson
Author: Hunter S. Thompson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 This is the king of gonzo journalism's most scorching, original and inspired work for Rolling Stone, showing a...
Maigret and the Headless Corpse: Inspector Maigret #47
Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 The discovery of a dismembered body leads Maigret into one of his strangest cases yet. 'There was no lack...
If Not Now, When?
Author: Primo Levi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 In this gripping novel, based on a true story, Primo Levi reveals the extraordinary lives of the Russian, Polish...
Maigret and the Man on the Bench: Inspector Maigret #41
Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Maigret is drawn into the sorry tale of a man unable to escape from the dullness of daily life....
Maigret and the Killer: Inspector Maigret #70
Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Maigret is called to investigate the stabbing of a young man When a tape recorder is found on a...
Maigret and the Good People of Montparnasse: Inspector Maigret #58
Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 When a man is found dead at home Maigret must look past the seemingly good intentions of the victim's...
Love in a Cold Climate
Author: Nancy Mitford Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Nancy Mitford's Love in a Cold Climate and Other Novels casts a finely gauged net to capture perfectly the...
Brave New World: Special 3D Edition
Author: Aldous Huxley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Extra-special futuristic 3D edition! Each book comes with 3D glasses!'One of the most important books to have been published...
Breakfast of Champions
Author: Kurt Vonnegut Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Another iconic title from the brilliant space-wanderer Kurt Vonnegut - rejacketed in a new, witty series style Discover Vonnegurt's...
Life and Fate
Author: Vasily Grossman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 912 This sweeping account of the siege of Stalingrad aims to give as panoramic a view of Soviet society during...
A Streetcar Named Desire
Author: Tennessee Williams Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire is the tale of a catastrophic confrontation between...
Maigret Travels: Inspector Maigret #51
Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Maigret investigates the circumstances surrounding the attempted suicide of a countess and the death of a multi millionaire, both...
Bluey: Big Backyard: A Colouring Book
Author: Bluey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 64 Based on the hit ABC KIDS TV show! Colour Bluey's backyard, the creek, the playground and more in this fun-filled...
Hiroshima
Author: John Hersey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A landmark work of nonfiction and the definitive account of nuclear devastation The explosion over Hiroshima of the first...
Bina
Author: Anakana Schofield Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 My name is Bina and I'm a very busy woman. That's Bye-na, not Beena. I don't know who Beena...
Complete Stories
Author: Clarice Lispector Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 The publication of Clarice Lispector's Collected Stories, eighty-five in all, is a major literary event. Now, for the first...
A Clockwork Orange
Author: Anthony Burgess Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 In this nightmare vision of a not-too-distant future, fifteen-year-old Alex and his three friends rob, rape, torture and murder...
Fictions
Author: Jorge Luis Borges Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Jorge Luis Borges's Fictions introduced an entirely new voice into world literature. It is here that we find...
A Heart so White
Author: Javier Marias Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Haunting and unsettling,A Heart So Whiteis a breathtaking portrayal of two generations, two marriages, the relentless power of the...
Bastard Out of Carolina
Author: Dorothy Allison Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Bastard out of Carolinais a raw, poignant tale of fury, power, love and family. Twentieth Anniversary Edition - with...
Civilization and Its Discontents
Author: Sigmund Freud Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 In what remains one of his most seminal papers, Freud considers the incompatibility of civilisation and individual happiness, and...
Beyond the Pleasure Principle
Author: Sigmund Freud Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A collection of some of Freud's most famous essays, including ON THE INTRODUCTION OF NARCISSISM; REMEMBERING, REPEATING AND WORKING...
In Love
Author: Alfred Hayes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Hayes's masterpiece is an exquisite depiction of a doomed love affair set in noirish, 1950s New York. Hayes's masterpiece...
All Quiet on the Western Front
Author: Erich Maria Remarque Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Discover the most famous anti-war novel ever written. One by one the boys begin to fall... In 1914...
The Wallcreeper
Author: Nell Zink Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 'Heady and rambunctious ... Wake up, this book says: in its plot lines, in its humour, in its philosophical...
Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
Author: Evelyn Waugh Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Brideshead Revisited is Evelyn Waugh's stunning novel of duty and desire set amongst the decadent, faded glory of the...
Inferno The Divine Comedy I
Author: Dante Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 Describing Dante's descent into Hell midway through his life with Virgil as a guide, Inferno depicts a cruel underworld in...
Brighton Rock
Author: Graham Greene Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a...
Eichmann in Jerusalem
Author: Hannah Arendt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Hannah Arendt's authoritative and controversial report on the trial of German Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a...