'England is a family in which the young are generally thwarted and most of the power is in the hands of irresponsible uncles and...

Fifty new books, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking...

Fifty new books, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking...

Fifty new books, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking...

'Ring for your maid, and when she comes in we'll pounce upon her and tear off her face. I'll wear her face tonight instead of...

'The general uncertainty as to what is really happening makes it easier to cling to lunatic beliefs'
Biting and timeless...

'"You talk as if a god had made the Machine," cried the other. "I believe that you pray to it when you are unhappy. Men made it,...

When Kino, a poor Indian pearl-diver, finds 'the Pearl of the world' he believes that his life will be magically transformed. He...

George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time living among the desperately poor and destitute, Down and Out in Paris and London is a...

Arthur Miller's play A View from the Bridge is a tragic masterpiece of the inexorable unravelling of a man, set in a close-knit...

When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is...

One evening Marianne, a suburban housewife living in an identikit bungalow, is struck by the realization that her husband will...

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

Hidden away in the Record Department...

But, my dear friend, what lie are you living?' 'Why, of course, the lie that we're here to uplift our poor black brothers instead...

A gorgeous clothbound edition of Jean Rhys's great masterpiece of desire and madness in the Caribbean

Jean Rhys's late,...

During the Second World War Roald Dahl served in the RAF and suffered horrific injuries in an air crash. In these tales that draw...

How do you solve a mystery when you can't remember the clues?
Maud is forgetful. She makes a cup of tea and doesn't remember to...

'New York is an aquarium ... where there are nothing but hellbenders and lungfish and slimy, snag-toothed groupers and sharks'...

Hailed by George Bernard Shaw as 'useful [corrective] to the romantic conception of war', R.C. Sherriff's Journey's End is an...

Watermark is Joseph Brodsky's witty, intelligent, moving and elegant portrait of Venice. Looking at every aspect of the city,...

Ezeulu, headstrong chief priest of the god Ulu, is worshipped by the six villages of Umuaro. But he is beginning to find his...

Never before published in Kerouac's lifetime, Jack Kerouac's Wake Up is a clear and powerful study of the life and works of...

Tim Lott's parents, Jack and Jean, met at the Empire Snooker Hall, Ealing, in 1951, in a world that to him now seems 'as strange...

The Catcher in Rye is the ultimate novel for disaffected youth, but it's relevant to all ages. The story is told by Holden...

As an interpreter of African languages, Bruno Salvador is much in demand. He makes it a principle to remain neutral - no matter...

'I loves it here ... We gets whipped with a velvet whip, and there's free dentalcare'

Three slaves are on the run in the deep...

A moving story of a Maori community's fight for survival, from one of New Zealand's most prominent and celebrated authors

On...

The first novel in the Great Plains trilogy, this is an ode to the American Midwest and the immigrants who transformed it

To...

A Cold War thriller from the master of spy fiction, John le Carre's The Looking Glass War is a gripping novel of double-crosses,...

Stella Rode has twice disturbed the ancient cloisters of Carne School: firstly by being the wrong sort, with her doilies and...