'Fear is the greatest force that exists, as long as you can adapt to it'

Jacques Deza has been recruited into an undercover...

Where the Stress Falls is divided into three sections: the first, 'Reading', includes ardent pieces on writers from Sontag's own...

The American Deep South, in the 1970s. Velma Henry, once a formidable political activist, has grown weary and disillusioned with...

A car wreck on the slopes of Mount Morgan puts insurance tycoon Lyman Felt in the hospital. While Lyman recovers, two women meet...

Detectives Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones have lost two criminals. Pinky ran off - but it shouldn't be hard to track down a...

The pieces here span reflections on personal and collective identity, on home and family, on literature, language and politics,...

Arthur Miller's penultimate play, Resurrection Blues, is a darkly comic satirical allegory that poses the question: What would...

'I can feel the passage of time, as though it were coursing through my veins, along with my blood...'
One June day in 1955...

After The Second World War, Czeslaw Milosz was exiled for many years from his home country of Poland. In Native Realm, he evokes...

Agee James, Evans...

In the summer of 1936, Agee and Evans set out on assignement for Fortune magazine to explore the daily lives of sharecroppers in...

Hayes's masterpiece is an exquisite depiction of a doomed love affair set in noirish, 1950s New York.

In a Manhattan bar, a...

A reticent personnel manager living with his mother, Mr Newman shares the prejudices of his times and of his neighbours - and...

Self-consciously staging itself in the psychotherapy sessions of a disturbed young man, Peter Shaffer's Equus is a shocking...

'People say that on the first night Francis Sancher spent in Riviere au Sel the wind in its temper screamed down from the...

A classic of postwar literature, a small masterpiece of humour, humanity and heroism from one of the best Czech writers

For...

An opium addict is lost in the jungle; young men wage war against an empire of mutants; a handsome young pirate faces his...

Set against the backdrop of Europe's slide into Fascism, Blue of Noon is a blackly compelling account of depravity and violence....

Chris, Ikem and Beatrice are like-minded friends working under the military regime of His Excellency, the Sandhurst-educated...

'This is a very personal book, about being alone and lost'. In 1975 Kapuscinski's employers sent him to Angola to cover the civil...

Growing up in the world of the 'five towns' of industrial England, with their furnaces and chimneys, huddled red-brown streets,...

A golden Cadillac big enough to cross the ocean has been seen sailing along the streets of Harlem. A hit-and-run victim's been...

A Moment of War is the powerful and harrowing final book in Laurie Lee's acclaimed trilogy that began with Cider with Rosie...

The last time anyone saw Lucia Bernardi, she was driving at top speed away from a Swiss villa - leaving the body of her murdered...

'It was a puzzle with no solution. But he did not lose heart.'

In a rocky cove in the bay of Hakata, the bodies of a young and...

'For personal reasons, or for reasons I don't know myself, I began feeling old, and I began keeping notebooks. I was nearing the...

Italo Calvino once said that he preferred to give false details about his biography since he felt that even the genuine data of a...

A brilliant companion piece to Wide Sargasso Sea, this is Jean Rhys's beautifully written, bitter-sweet autobiography, covering...

The cult classic from one of France's most stylish writers

'Don't give a damn,' says Zazie, 'what I wanted was to go in the...

My Happy Days in Hell (1962) is Gyorgy Faludy's grimly beautiful autobiography of his battle to survive tyranny and oppression....

Part manifesto, part artistic joke, Fillippo Marinetti's Futurist Cookbook is a provocative work about art disguised as an...