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The story of the title deals with a little boy named Larry and his feelings towards his father. When his father returns home from...

Set on the eve of the Sino-Japanese war, Fortress Besieged recounts the exuberant misadventures of the hapless hero Fang...

The first book in his award-winning 'Rabbit' series, John Updike's Rabbit, Run contains an afterword by the author in Penguin...

Exploring the decadence of Jazz Age New York through a fictionalised version of his own marriage to Zelda Fitzgerald, F. Scott...

'Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past'

Hidden away in the Record Department...

Robert Tressell's spirited attack on selfish capitalism is a masterpiece of wit and political passion and one of the most...

Subtly brilliant comedy of social rivalry between the wars. Emmeline Lucas (known universally to her friends as Lucia) is an...

Audacious, controversial and hilarious, The Monkey Wrench Gang is Edward Abbey's masterpiece - a big, boisterous and...

Romantics, adventurers, sensualists, melancholics and dreamers inhabit the bizarre and exotic world conjured up in these seven...

The key literary figure in the pubs of post-war Fitzrovia, Maclaren-Ross pulled together his dispersed energies to write two...

A masterly story of myth, rebellion, love, friendship and betrayal from one of Africa's great writers, Ngugi wa Thiong'o's A...

Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century: a man who survived one of the ugliest...

Presenting the desperate conflict of the First World War through the eyes of an ordinary German soldier, Ernst Junger's Storm of...

Guy Crouchback has lost his Halberdier idealism. A desk job in London gives him the chance of reconciliation with his former...

Gandhi's non-violent struggles against racism, violence, and colonialism in South Africa and India had brought him to such a...

In this final volume of The Forsyte Saga Galsworthy writes about the lives and loves of the Cherrell family, cousins of the...

In this second part of John Galworthy's trilogy of love, power, money and family feuding, a new generation has arrived to divide...

Is it possible to die a happy death?This is the central question of Camus's astonishing early novel, published posthumously and...

June 1940 was the summer of defeat for the French soldiers, deserted by their officers, utterly demoralized, awaiting the...

Perhaps the funniest travel book ever written, Remote People begins with a vivid account of the coronation of Emperor Ras Tafari...

Steinbeck's first posthumously published work, The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights is a reinterpretation of tales from...

The Wayward Bus travels through the backroads of the lush California countryside, transporting the lost and the lonely to new...

Each of these delightful interconnected tales is devoted to a family living in a fertile valley on the outskirts of Monterey,...

If you can't prove something, it is literally senseless - so argues Ayer in this irreverent and electrifying book. Statements are...

Both a fast-paced story of social unrest and strike, and the tale of one young man's struggle for identity, IN DUBIOUS BATTLE is...

School is 'wet and weedy', according to Nigel Molesworth, the 'goriller of 3B', 'curse of St Custard's' and superb chronicler of...

If one theme unifies the 11 tales collected here, it is that of longing. Written after her return from Kenya and during the dark...

A poignant coming-of-age novel set in a Welsh mining town, Richard Llewellyn's How Green Was My Valley is a paean to a more...

Spain's greatest and most well-loved modern poet, Lorca has long been admired for the emotional intensity and dark brilliance of...

'There has been no more terribly acute critic of America than this steel-conscious and death-conscious Spaniard, with his curious...