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Author: Italo Calvino Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Numbers in the Dark is a collection of short stories covering the length of Italo Calvino's extraordinary writing career,...

Author: Yukio Mishima Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A Japenese masterpiece, reissued in Modern Classics Written when Mishima was only twentysix, Forbidden Colors is a depiction of...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 When a toy salesman confides in Maigret he quickly becomes caught up in a poisonous feud between husband and...

Author: Philip Hensher Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 784 This is the first anthology capacious enough to celebrate the full diversity and energy of its writers, subjects and...

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...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Maigret investigates the murder of a criminal he had known for twenty years. Maigret finds himself back on the...

Author: Ivan Krastev Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 96 One of our most scintillating public intellectuals explores the political paradoxes of the pandemic and helps us think our way through...

Author: Billie Holiday Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 The bluesy, gutsy, no-holds-barred memoir of jazz legend Billie Holiday. 'I've been told that no one sings the word...

Author: Jack Kerouac Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Following the explosive energy of On the Road comes The Dharma Bums in which Kerouac charts the spiritual quest...

Author: Arthur Miller Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 The Crucible is a powerful indictment of McCarthyism and the 'frontier mentality' of Cold War America, published in Penguin...

Author: Azar Nafisi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 'That room, for all of us, became a place of transgression. What a wonderland it was!' Every Thursday morning...

Author: Ana Maria Matute Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 A searing coming-of-age tale by one of the greatest Spanish writers of the 20th century, set on the...

Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 This novel is an extraordinarily poignant evocation of a lost happiness that lives on in the memory. For years...

Author: R. C. Sherriff Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 New to Penguin Classics, this is the funny and deeply moving story of the apocalypse - as seen...

Author: John Le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 In his first post-glasnost novel, le Carre captures the effect of a slow and uncertain thaw on ordinary...

Author: Owen Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 #1 Bestselling author of Chavs and The Establishment returns with an urgent analysis of where the Left - and Britain -...

Author: Peter Gatrell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 The extraordinary story of modern Europe on the move. A striking characteristic of modern Europe has been the extreme fluidity of...

Author: George Dyson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A spellbinding exploration of the emergence of the digital age and an unsettling vision of what comes next In a world...

Author: Susan Sontag Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 'One of the most interesting and valuable critics we possess' New Republic Susan Sontag's second collection of groundbreaking essays...

Author: John le Carre Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A hardback series for le Carre collectors West Germany in the 1960s is a simmering cauldron of radical protests. Amid...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Maigret struggles to accept an old case whose conclusion still haunts him At a dinner party, Maigret recounts an...

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...

Author: Ruth Park Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 'Ruth Park . . . that steady glow at the heart of Australian literature.' Ruth Cracknell Three of Ruth...

Author: James Rebanks Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The moving story of how, in just three generations, an ancient way of life was lost - as witnessed...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 When a professional gambler is shot dead all except Maigret suspect his mistress is to blame. Maigret is called...

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...

Author: Walter Benjamin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Walter Benjamin - philosopher, essayist, literary and cultural theorist - was one of the most original writers and thinkers...

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...

Author: Georges Bataille Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 'Literature is not innocent,' stated Georges Bataille in this extraordinary 1957 collection of essays, arguing that only by acknowledging...

Author: John le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 The final novel featuring Smiley, Le Carre's most enduring character, and a gripping feat of narrative brilliance The...

Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Both a gripping tale of adventure and a poetic meditation, Antoine de Saint Exupery's Wind, Sand and Stars...

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...

Author: Ludmilla Petrushevskaya Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 In these dark, dreamlike love stories with a twist, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya tells of strange encounters in claustrophobic communal apartments,...

Author: Morrissey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Steven Patrick Morrissey was born in Manchester on May 22nd 1959. Singer-songwriter and co-founder of the Smiths (1982-1987), Morrissey has...

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...

Author: Michael Strevens Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Rich with tales of discovery from Galileo to general relativity, a stimulating and timely analysis of how science works and why...

Author: Allen Ginsberg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 William Burroughs closed his classic debut novel, Junky, by saying he had determined to search out a drug he...

Author: Italo Calvino Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 A new translation of Calvino's influential last work Italo Calvino was due to deliver the Charles Eliot Norton lectures...

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....

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Maigret goes to London on the trail of a young man on the run. When Maigret's prized gun goes...

Author: Arne Naess Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Drawing on his years spent in an isolated hut high in the Norwegian mountains, and on influences as diverse...

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...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 A new translation of this devastating tale of a young woman whose new life in Paris is tragically cut...

Author: Sigmund Freud Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 One of Freud's central achievements was to demonstrate how unacceptable thoughts and feelings are repressed into the unconscious, from...

Author: David Malouf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Dante and Johnno are unlikely childhood friends, growing up in the bustle of steamy, wartime Brisbane. Later, as teenagers,...

Author: Leonard Mlodinow Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 An intimate portrait of Stephen Hawking -- the man, the friend, and the physicist An icon of the last fifty years,...

Author: Owen Hatherley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 A searching, timely account of the condition of contemporary Europe, told through the landscapes of its cities. Over the past twenty...

Author: Michio Kaku Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 The best-selling physicist returns with a thrilling account of the search for the 'god equation' This is the story of a...