Category Archives: Accessories
Growing Out: Black Hair and Black Pride in the Swinging 60s
`A gorgeously exuberant account. . . writing that is natural and vivacious . . . a fascinating and hugely enjoyable read.` Bernardine Evaristo, from the IntroductionTravelling over from Jamaica as a teenager, Barbara`s journey is remarkable. She finds her footing in TV, and blossoms. Covering incredible celebrity stories, travelling around the world and rubbing shoulders
Mayhem: A Memoir
A Sunday Times Book of the Year`Riveting, clear-sighted and exceptionally articulate… Her literary and psychoanalytic fluency gives the book an impact that feels arrestingly honest… Heartbreaking` Daily Telegraph `An unsparing account of a family destroyed by drugs. Unique and haunting` Sunday Times`What gives this book its astonishing power is not the guilt, but the intelligence
I`m the King of the Castle
I`m the King of the Castle by Susan Hill is a chilling novel that explores the extremes of childhood cruelty, now published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. `Some people are coming here today, now you will have a companion.` But young Edmund Hooper doesn`t want anyone else in Warings, the large and
Feel Free: Essays
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR CRITICISM 2019From the MAN BOOKER PRIZE- and WOMEN`S PRIZE-SHORTLISTED author of Changing My Mind and Swing Time – discover a second unmissable collection of essays from Zadie Smith`Generous, courageous, and tough-minded… [A] classic English essayist in the vein of Orwell, Woolf and Angela Carter` Financial Times`Engrossing,
The Idea in You: How to Find it, Build it, and Change Your Life
Take your passion and make it happen with The Idea In You by Martin Amor and Alex Pellew. Do you have an idea in you? A hobby, a project, a product …something that could change your life? The Idea in You is a bulletproof system for finding the right idea and shaping it in to
Memoirs of a Dipper
“A reading experience that hums with an electric energy that never gets boring and feels shockingly, painfully real.” (The Times). `There`s different ways to do it: I can slowly move closer step by step, or I can do it in one movement and bump into them. Easiest is in a pub then I can put
A Mindfulness Guide for the Frazzled
`We are all frazzled, all of us…` Five hundred years ago no one died of stress: we invented this concept and now we let it rule us. Ruby Wax shows us how to de-frazzle for good by making simple changes that give us time to breathe, reflect and live in the moment. Let Ruby be
Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man
This is a special 75th Anniversary Edition. Hugh Sebag-Montefiore`s Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man tells the story of the rescue in May 1940 of British soldiers fleeing capture and defeat by the Nazis at Dunkirk. Dunkirk was not just about what happened at sea and on the beaches. The evacuation would never have succeeded
Invisible Man
New Penguin Essentials edition of Ralph Ellison`s blistering, impassioned novel of African-American lives in 1940s America, Invisible Man.`I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.`Defeated and embittered by a country which treats him as a non-being, the `invisible man` retreats into an underground cell, where he smokes, drinks, listens to jazz and
Because We Say So
Because We Say So is Noam Chomsky`s essential counter punch to American hegemony In 1962, the eminent statesman Dean Acheson enunciated a principle that has dominated global politics ever since: that no legal issue arises when the United States responds to a challenge to its `power, position, and prestige`. In short, whatever the world may
Thus Bad Begins
Award-winning author Javier Marias weaves a darkly thrilling tale of love, betrayal and lives played out in the unhappy shadow of history As a young man, Juan de Vere takes a job that will haunt him for the rest of his life. Hi employer is Eduardo Muriel: a famous film director, sophisticated and discreet. Muriel`s
My Dining Hell: Twenty Ways to Have a Lousy Night Out
I have been a restaurant critic for over a decade, written reviews of well over 700 establishments, and if there is one thing I have learnt it is that people like reviews of bad restaurants. No, scratch that. They adore them, feast upon them like starving vultures who have spotted fly-blown carrion out in the
Summer
Discover the unforgettable finale to Ali Smith`s dazzling literary tour-de-forceIn the present, Sacha knows the world`s in trouble. Her brother Robert just is trouble. Their mother and father are having trouble. Meanwhile the world`s in meltdown – and the real meltdown hasn`t even started yet. In the past, a lovely summer. A different brother and
A Very English Scandal: Sex, Lies and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment: Now a Major BBC Series Starring Hugh Grant
The shocking true story of the first British politician to stand trial for murder Behind oak-panelled doors in the House of Commons, men with cut-glass accents and gold signet rings are conspiring to murder. It`s the late 1960s and homosexuality has only just been legalised, and Jeremy Thorpe, the leader of the Liberal party, has
Public Library and Other Stories
This is a richly inventive new collection of stories from Ali Smith, author of How to be both, winner of the Baileys Women`s Prize and the Costa Novel Award and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Why are books so very powerful? What do the books we`ve read over our lives – our own personal
Of Love and Other Demons
Nobel Prize winner and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez blends the natural with supernatural in Of Love and Other Demons – a novel which explores community, superstition and collective hysteria. `An ash-grey dog with a white blaze on its forehead burst on to
Sleep: The Myth of 8 Hours, the Power of Naps… and the New Plan to Recharge Your Body and Mind
`Nick Littlehales wants to redefine the very meaning of the word sleep` – Daily Telegraph `Nick Littlehales has reconfigured the bedrooms of a legion of international sporting stars …He has a unique and encyclopaedic knowledge` – Guardian `Sleep guru Nick Littlehales trains elite athletes to get the best possible rest` – Daily Mail Proven solutions
