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...

The bestselling epic novel of family, treachery, rivalry, religious fervour and the turbulent fate of a royal African...

The explosion over Hiroshima of the first nuclear bomb reduced, in an instant, an entire city to rubble and killed over 100,000...

Published after Ellison's death, this follow-up to Invisible Man is a thunderous epic of memory, faith, loss and...

Set in Italy in the summer of 1940, this trio of stories explores the relationships between the different generations caught up...

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

Le Carre's post-Cold War masterpiece, filled with suspense, betrayal, desire and drama

The Cold War is over and retired secret...

One of fiction's greatest chancers - the story of Denry Machin and his unceasing, ingenious efforts to become a great man

Set...

One man hunts obsessively for his lost identity, in this intoxicating noir masterpiece from the winner of the Nobel Prize in...

A highly entertaining and moving journal chronicling J. R. Ackerley's time in India

In the 1920s, the young J. R. Ackerley...

'Perhaps that moment had been exceptional, but still, I felt alive. That pressure on my chest means being alive.'

Forty-nine,...

A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K., an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a...

The Castle is the story of K., the unwanted Land Surveyor who is never to be admitted to the Castle nor accepted in the village,...

The Penguin Modern Classics edition of Ryszard Kapuscinski's The Emperor is translated by William R. Brand and Katarzyna...

'They are memorials to times and countries whose best is probably past and gone . . . I was lucky to have known them when I did,...

Rainy night on Union Square, full moon. Want more poems? Wait till I'm dead.
Allen Ginsberg, August 8, 1990, 3:30 A.M.

Allen...

Hailed as the greatest modern lyrical poet of Germany, Rainer Maria Rilke’s genius lies in his passion for perfection, artistic...

Selected Poems brings together some two hundred poems - the largest collection of Borges' poetry ever assembled in English,...

Georges Simenon's chilling portrayal of tragic love, persecution and betrayal.

'One sensed in him neither flesh nor bone,...

In Vichy France, 1942, a group of men sit outside an office, waiting to be interviewed. The reason they have been pulled off the...

John Healy's The Grass Arena describes with unflinching honesty his experiences of addiction, his escape through learning to play...

'To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom' - Andre Gide

Michel had...

An Indian clerk, Girija Krishnan, sees the opportunity of his lifetime when he stumbles on an abandoned cache of arms hidden in...

The greatest expression of his talent for witty, observant explorations of what it means to 'live well', Henry James's The...

'Every man had not only a weak spot but also a criminal one'

At his wife's insistence, upstanding citizen and artillery...

Obi Okonkwo is an idealistic young man who, thanks to the privileges of an education in Britain, has now returned to Nigeria for...

From the bestselling author of Alone in Berlin, his acclaimed novel of a young couple trying to survive life in 1930s...