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In this deeply personal book, Baldwin reflects on the experiences that shaped him as a writer and activist: from his childhood in Harlem to the deaths

Ten tales of loss and longing, from one one Japan's greatest writers It was the height of summer, and there was anger in the rays of the sun A s

Beautiful Star is a 1962 tale of family, love, nuclear war and UFOs, and was considered by Mishima to be one of his very best books.

In these brief, acid-sharp stories of love, marriage and family from one of Denmark's most celebrated writers, the ordinary events of everyday life -

Illuminating reflections on painting and drawing from one of the most revered artists of the twentieth century. 'Thank God for yellow ochre, cadmiu

A gripping account of one man's ten year expedition from a village in West Africa to the Arctic Circle. Scorching heat, rich, fertile soil, and tre

First published in 1961, following the successful Cuban Revolution, this is Che Guevara's handbook for guerrilla war. It covers strategy, tactics,

We were an army of shadows, of ghosts, walking as if to the beat of some dark psychic mechanism' The Cuban Revolution changed the course of the twe

'The best book I've read this year ... darkly comedic and full of tension and surprise' Marina Abramovic 'Life for sale. Use me as you wish. I am

The intense, caustically funny first novel from the bestselling author of Bad Behaviour 'Dark, menacing and original' Joanna Briscoe, Guardian Dorothy

'But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction - what has that got to do with a room of one's own?' A Room of One's Own grew out

'Witty, stylish and ferociously absorbing' Observer Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is abandoned on the filthy streets of eighteenth-century Paris as a ba

Search Sweet Country follows the lives of an eclectic, interconnected group of Ghanaians living in and around the sprawling, chaotic city of Accra in

Her name means sadness, yet Tristessa, a prostitute and morphine addict, lives without cares in her shabby room with a menagerie of pets and an altar

Pic, or Pictorial Review Jackson, is a ten-year-old boy from North Carolina. When his grandfather dies and he is sent to live with another relative, h

Freewheeling and spontaneous, Mexico City Blues is Jack Kerouac's most significant and emblematic poem. Consisting of 242 loosely linked 'choruses', i

A woman in Vienna walks a tightrope between the two men in her life. There is her lover Ivan, beautiful and unavailable, who obsesses her. And there i

'Wonderfully poetic ... extraordinary freshness ... a Virginia Woolf quality' Margaret Drabble At once tender and lacerating, luminous and unsettli

The daily lives of ordinary people are replete with objects, common things used in commonplace settings. These objects are our constant companions in

Set in the tragic arena of the Middle East conflict, this compelling story of love and torn loyalties plays out against the backdrop of an unwinnable

Set in the tragic arena of the Middle East conflict, this compelling story of love and torn loyalties plays out against the backdrop of an unwinnable

Set in the tragic arena of the Middle East conflict, this compelling story of love and torn loyalties plays out against the backdrop of an unwinnable

In the second part of John le Carré's Karla Trilogy, the battle of wits between spymaster George Smiley and his Russian adversary takes on an even mo

'An adventure that takes us to the ends of the earth via the rich but often barren landscape of the human heart' -The Times Why was an English lawy

'The book breathes life, anger and excitement' -Observer Tessa Quayle, a brilliant and beautiful young social activist, has been found brutally mur

'Splendid ... le Carré shows how endowed he is with the gift of storytelling' -The Times Aldo Cassidy is a cautious man. He has a pleasant family,

'One of his most enthralling creations' -Daily Telegraph Broke and working as a tour guide in Germany, rootless Englishman Ted Mundy catches a glim

The concluding part of John le Carré's celebrated Karla Trilogy, Smiley's People sees the last confrontation between the indefatigable spymaster Geor

'One of his most enthralling creations' -Daily Telegraph Broke and working as a tour guide in Germany, rootless Englishman Ted Mundy catches a glim

The first part of John le Carré's acclaimed Karla Trilogy, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy sees the beginning of the stealthy Cold War cat-and-mouse game b

A major literary event: a collection of never-before-published short stories from one of America's most beloved writers. In a small Southern town,

'Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past' Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Minis

Based on the BBC television series, John Berger's Ways of Seeing is a unique look at the way we view art, published as part of the Penguin on Desig

George Orwell wrote, in his words, from 'a desire to see things as they are'. This new collection of his journalism and other writings, including arti

In this classic of art criticism, one of our foremost cultural historians grapples with the life and work of one of the twentieth century's most mercu

John Berger's writings on photography are some of the most original of the twentieth century. This selection contains many groundbreaking essays and p

How do we see the world around us? The Penguin on Design series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media ha

One of the last surviving members of the futurist generation, Bruno Munari's Design as Art is an illustrated journey into the artistic possibilities o