History is swamped by patriotic myths about the aerial combat fought between the RAF and the Luftwaffe over the summer of 1940....

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...

The third and final volume of the Essential Works of Foucault series, Power brings together his writings on the issues that he...

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...

Anais Nin's Little Birds is published in Penguin Modern Classics.

Anais Nin's second volume of erotic short stories after...

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...

A man, dispirited by ageing, endeavours to steal a younger man’s face; a doctor yearns for a virus that might eliminate his...

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...

The brilliant tale of Anais Nin's true love affair with Henry Miller, and her ambiguous, charged relationship with his wife,...

'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...

Freud's religious unbeliefs are too easily dismissed as the standard scientific rationalism of the twentieth-century...

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,...

From the peerless author of The Lottery and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, this is a treasure trove of deliciously dark and...

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

Taking us into a 1930s London of grimy back streets, smoky cafes and shabby rooms, Plain Murder, C. S. Forester's second crime...

'I want to be considered a jazz poet blowing a long blues in an afternoon jam session on Sunday'

Freewheeling and spontaneous,...

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

Jean Rhys's masterpiece tells the story of Jane Eyre's 'madwoman in the attic', Bertha Rochester.

Born into the oppressive,...

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,...

'Art is not a luxury. Art is a basic social need to which everyone has a right'.

This extraordinary collection of 100 artists'...

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...