Keith Lowe’s Savage Continent is an awe-inspiring portrait of how Europe emerged from the ashes of WWII. The end of the Second World War saw a terrible explosion of violence across Europe. Prisoners murdered jailers….
Keith Lowe’s Savage Continent is an awe-inspiring portrait of how Europe emerged from the ashes of WWII. The end of the Second World War saw a terrible explosion of violence across Europe. Prisoners murdered jailers….
What really makes a relationship work? How can we stay interested in our partner for ever? How can we be happier in our marriage? Doctors John and Julie Gottman have spent over three decades studying…
The Complete Short Stories of Roald Dahl in the second of two unsettling and sinister volumes. ‘Dahl finds the child in the adult and the adult in the child and, with a little smile, he…
An art expert instantly spots a fake. A cop decides whether to shoot. A psychologist accurately predicts a couple’s future in minutes. This book is about those moments when we ‘know’ something without knowing why….
‘Wonderful … Illuminating … Fun to read’ Daniel Kahneman, author of Thinking, Fast and Slow A pioneer of artificial intelligence shows how the study of causality revolutionized science and the world ‘Correlation does not imply…
Nancy Mitford’s The Pursuit of Love is one of the funniest, sharpest novels about love and growing up ever written. ‘Obsessed with sex!’ said Jassy, ‘there’s nobody so obsessed as you, Linda. Why if I…
Asher Lev is a gifted loner, the artist who painted the sensational Brooklyn Crucifixion. Into it he poured all the anguish and torment a Jew can feel when torn between the faith of his fathers…
Bringing into harsh focus the daily struggle for existence in a Soviet gulag, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is translated by Ralph Parker in Penguin Modern Classics. This brutal, shattering…
John Berger broke new ground with his penetrating writings on life, art and how we see the world around us. Here he explores how the ancient relationship between man and nature has been broken in…
Former US Marine Jack Morgan runs Private, an international detective agency. Jack and his team of investigators use the world’s most advanced forensic tools to solve cases, and they’re never afraid to break the rules….
Alexa Chung’s IT: the Top Ten Bestseller from the international fashion muse and Vogue contributing editor Now a Penguin paperback, this one-off collection of Alexa Chung’s writing, doodles and photographs combines stories of early style…
‘Wonderfully poetic … extraordinary freshness … a Virginia Woolf quality’ Margaret Drabble Territory of Light is the radiant story of a young woman, living alone in Tokyo with her two-year-old daughter. Its twelve chapters follow…
Based on a true story, Arthur Miller’s play All My Sons was his first major success, a moving exploration of denial, guilt, social responsibility and the falsehood of the American Dream. This Penguin Modern Classics…
‘Kerouac’s grittiest novel … sensual and uninhibited’ The New York Times Driven mad by three years of endless telegrams, phonecalls, mail, reporters and snoopers in the wake of his hugely successful novel On the Road,…
Her first major literary success, Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead is an exalted view of her Objectivist philosophy, portraying a visionary artist struggling against the dull, conformist dogma of his peers; a book of ambition, power,…
Beautiful, bored and bourgeoise, Sabina leads a double life inspired by her relentless desire for brief encounters with near-strangers. Fired into faithlessness by a desperate longing for sexual fulfilment, she weaves a sensual web of…
In Agua Viva Clarice Lispector aims to ‘capture the present’. Her direct, confessional and unfiltered meditations on everything from life and time to perfume and sleep are strange and hypnotic in their emotional power and…
‘Subtle and self-reflexive. . . an excellent overview of the debates and issues that have shaped this hugely influential social science’ – Guardian How does anthropology help us understand who we are? What can it…
‘A magnificent opus … extraordinary, spellbinding … this book does what no other on autism has done’ Ann Bauer, Washington Post *Pulitzer finalist 2017* The stunning history of autism as it has been discovered and…
Clarice Lispector’s sensational, prize-winning debut novel Near to the Wild Heart was published when she was just twenty-three and earned her the name ‘Hurricane Clarice’. It tells the story of Joana, from her wild, creative…
