Winston Smith works for the Ministry of truth in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster, the Thought Police uncover every act of betrayal. When Winston...
As ferociously fresh as it was more than a half century ago, this remarkable allegory of a downtrodden society of overworked, mistreated animals, and their quest to create a paradise of...
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERIlja Leonard Pfeijffer's moving and addictive masterpiece of European identity, nostaligia and the end of an era.'A masterpiece: grandiose style, brilliant and...
Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world...
I was supposed to be having the time of my life.When Esther Greenwood wins an internship on a New York fashion magazine in 1953, she is elated, believing she will finally realise her dream...
Reissues of two of the 20th century's most important novels, by George Orwell. World renowned urban artist Shepard Fairey has been specially commissioned to do the cover art w
Could psychedelic drugs change our worldview? One of America's most revered writers takes us on a mind-altering journey to the frontiers of human consciousness. Michael Pollan has written a...
Hailed as a masterpiece from its first publication, Revolutionary Road is the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a bright young couple who are bored by the banalities of suburban life and...
To be poor and destitute in 1920s Paris and London was to experience life at its lowest ebb. George Orwell, penniless and with nowhere to go, found himself experiencing just this as he...
Read the works discussed in the Netflix documentary Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold.Includes seven books in one volume: the full texts of Slouching Towards Bethlehem; The White...
Pulitzer prize-winner Margo Jefferson takes on the legend and legacy of the king of pop. Michael Jackson: provocateur, icon, enigma. Who was he, really? And how does his spectacular rise,...
John Grady Cole and Billy Parham, two cowboys of the old school, are poised on the edge of a world about to change forever. Their journeys across the border into Mexico, each an adventure...
A personal and urgent examination of Fascism in the twentieth century and how its legacy shapes today's world, written by one of America's most admired public servants, the first woman to...
The explosive sequel to Trainspotting ten years down the line. Still scheming, still scamming it's ten years later and the boys fromTrainspottingare still trying to fight for the first-class...
Hemingway's memories of his life as an unknown writer living in Paris in the twenties are deeply personal, warmly affectionate and full of wit. Looking back not only at his own much younger...
Having got rid of their human master, the animals in this political fable look forward to a life of freedom and plenty. But as a clever, ruthless elite takes control, the other animals find...
All animals are equal - but some are more equal than others When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is...
Michel is a civil-servant, an account manager at the Ministry of Culture. When his father is murdered and he comes into some money, Michel takes leave of absence to go on a package tour to...
To learn about yourself, explore the world around you.Drawing on the rich experience of his own life, bestselling author Paulo Coelho takes us back in time to relive the dreams of a...
'After all what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?'In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing...
'THE VOICE OF PUNK, GROWN UP, GROWN WISER AND GROWN ELOQUENT' Sunday Times AS CLEVER AS ALASDAIR GRAY, AS ELEGANT AS JEFF TORRINGTON, AS PASSIONATE AS JAMES KELMAN, WELSH HAS GOT IT ALL'...
When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equalit
A beautiful hardback commemorative edition to celebrate the 50th year of publication of Sylvia Plath's bestselling modern classic which has sold millions of copies worldwide
'THE VOICE OF PUNK, GROWN UP, GROWN WISER AND GROWN ELOQUENT' Sunday Times AS CLEVER AS ALASDAIR GRAY, AS ELEGANT AS JEFF TORRINGTON, AS PASSIONATE AS JAMES KELMAN, WELSH HAS GOT IT ALL'...
One of the launch titles in a new series of classic works from Penguin, with a brand new cover design from a commissioned artist to bring in new readers
First published in 1977 and still regarded as one of the most groundbreaking books on the subject. 6 essays, examining the way we use images to manufacture a sense of reality
The highly anticipated follow-up to the sensational bestseller QUIET, empowering introverted children, teens and young adults. Focusing on the strengths and challenges of being introverted,...
The 2004 Pulitzer Prize winning novelA "New York Times "Top-Ten Book of 2004Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction Nearly 25 years after "Housekeeping," Marilynne...
This is a series of wonderful essays On Photography. It makes great reading and will provide experienced and new photographers with some great history and thoughts on photography.
Deals with Flaubert, parrots, bears and railways; with our sense of the past and our sense of abroad; with France and England, life and art, sex and death, George Sand and Lou
Tells the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a bright, beautiful, and talented couple whose empty suburban life is held together by the dream that greatness is only just round
'Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism as I under
After hitchhiking from Brazil to nearly halfway around the world, Paulo stumbles across Karla, a young Dutch woman and like-minded soul, in Amsterdam's famous Dam Square. Drawing on the...
A personal and panoramic new history of Germany in the 20th century by the author of HANNS AND RUDOLF. In 1993, Thomas Harding travelled to Berlin with his grandmother to visit a house by a...
This is a series of wonderful essays On Photography. It makes great reading and will provide experienced and new photographers with some great history and thoughts on photography.
