In Joe and Kate Keller's family garden, an apple tree - a memorial to their son Larry, lost in the Second World War - has been...

Quentin is a successful lawyer in New York, but inside his head he is struggling with his own sense of guilt and the shadows of...

Advertisements for Myself is a comprehensive collection of the best of Norman Mailer's essays, stories, interviews and journalism...

'To love, to sacrifice oneself, and to submit! Was this what all women were destined for?'

When her carefree, aspirational...

The incredible memoir of Elaine Brown - the first woman leader of the Black Panthers

'Here I was, a woman, proclaiming supreme...

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

As Minister for Culture, the Honourable M. A. Nanga is 'a man of the people', as cynical as he is charming, and a roguish...

'Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.' Waugh begins his story...

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

The third volume of Steven Runciman's classic, hugely influential trilogy on the history of the Crusades
'The whole tale is one...

The second volume of Steven Runciman's classic, hugely influential trilogy on the history of the Crusades

'There was magic...

The first volume of Steven Runciman's classic, hugely influential trilogy on the history of the Crusades

'On a February day in...

As Martin Luther King, Jr. prepared for the Birmingham campaign in early 1963, he drafted the final sermons for Strength to Love,...

'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...

The Benefactor is Susan Sontag's first book and first novel. It was originally published in 1963, and introduced a unique writer...

Albert Camus was born in a 'world of poverty and sunshine' in Algeria, which would infuse all of his work. This new collection...

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...

The concluding part in Javier Marias' spy trilogy masterwork

Jacques Deza is back in London and once again working for the...

An omnibus comprising Raymond Chandler's three Philip Marlowe novels, The Lady in the Lake, The High Window and The Little Sister.

An unforgettable collection of stories from the author of The Copenhagen Trilogy
'The most important thing is probably always...

In the third volume of his acclaimed examination of sexuality in modern Western society, Foucault investigates the Golden Age of...

The second volume of Michel Foucault's pioneering analysis of the changing nature of desire explores how sexuality was perceived...

With such varied correspondents as T. S. Eliot, Stephen Spender and Anthony Powell, for nearly forty years George Orwell wrote...

The final major work by one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century

In the fourth and final volume of his...

This is the first anthology capacious enough to celebrate the full diversity and energy of its writers, subjects and tones. The...