Category Archives: Caribbean
On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal
โ€Naomi Klein`s work has always moved and guided me. She is the great chronicler of our age of climate emergency, an inspirer of generationsโ€ Greta Thunberg For more than twenty years Naomi Klein`s books have defined our era, chronicling the exploitation of people and the planet and demanding justice. `On Fire` gathers for the first
White Girls
`I defy you to read this book and come away with a mind unchanged` John Jeremiah Sullivan`Als has a serious claim to be regarded as the next James Baldwin` Observer`I see how we are all the same, that none of us are white women or black men; rather, we`re a series of mouths, and that
The Tyrant`s Tomb (The Trials of Apollo Book 4)
The fourth book in Rick Riordan`s The Trial of Apollo series. The bestselling top 10 hardback, now available in paperback!Things are getting very bad, very fast, for Apollo . . .The former God Apollo is having a pretty rough time of it. Well, for one thing, he`s been turned into a human and banished from
140 Artists` Ideas for Planet Earth
Through 140 drawings, thought experiments, recipes, activist instructions, gardening ideas, insurgences and personal revolutions, artists who spend their lives thinking outside the box guide you to a new worldview; where you and the planet are one.We invite you to rip out pages; to hang them up at home, to draw and scribble, to cook, to
A Thief in the Village
Gustas is nearly killed in the hurricane, trying to save his banana tree; Nenna and her brother Man-Man patrol the cocnut plantation in the dead of night, ready to catch interlopers; Becky longs for a bicycle and Fanso longs to find his father who walked out thirteen years ago. This is a wonderfully atmospheric collection
Pietr the Latvian
This is the first novel which appeared in Georges Simenon`s famous Maigret series, in a gripping new translation by David Bellos. Inevitably Maigret was a hostile presence in the Majestic. He constituted a kind of foreign body that the hotel`s atmosphere could not assimilate. Not that he looked like a cartoon policeman. He didn`t have
The Night Manager
In The Night Manager, John le Carre`s first post-Cold War novel, an ex-soldier helps British Intelligence penetrate the secret world of ruthless arms dealers. โ€Le Carre is the equal of any novelist now writing in Englishโ€. (Guardian). โ€A marvellously observed relentless taleโ€. (Observer). At the start of it all, Jonathan Pine is merely the night
The Thin Red Line
โ€Moves so intensely and inexorably that it almost seems like the war it is describingโ€. (The New York Times Book Review). `Is it really worth it to die, to be dead, just to prove to everybody that you`re not a coward?` On Guadalcanal in the south Pacific, the soldiers of C Company are about to
The Incredulity of Father Brown
The third volume of stories featuring the cunning clerical sleuth Father Brown. Ahead of a new series of the popular BBC adaptation starring Mark Williams, all five of Chesterton`s original Father Brown books have been republished with charming and collectible Penguin covers. `That sort of thing may be very well for crypts and cloisters and
Letter from America: 1946-2004
When Alistair Cooke retired in March 2004 and then died a few weeks later, he was acclaimed by many as one of the greatest broadcasters of all time. His Letters from America, which began in 1946 and continued uninterrupted every week until early 2004, kept the world in touch with what was happening in Cooke`s
The Carter of `La Providence`
Georges Simenon`s tragic tale of lost identity, translated by David Coward as part of the new Penguin Maigret series. What was the woman doing here? In a stable, wearing pearl earrings, her stylish bracelet and white buckskin shoes! She must have been alive when she got there because the crime had been committed after ten
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings
โ€The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writingsโ€ is a collection that displays the full force of Edgar Allen Poe`s mastery of both Gothic horror and the short story form. This โ€Penguin Classicsโ€ edition is edited with an introduction and notes by David Galloway. This selection of Poe`s critical writings, short fiction and
Greek and Roman Political Ideas: A Pelican Introduction
Where do our ideas about politics come from? What can we learn from the Greeks and Romans? How should we exercise power? Melissa Lane teaches politics at Princeton University, and previously taught political thought at the University of Cambridge, where she was a Fellow of King`s College. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship in the
The Making of the English Working Class
Fifty years since first publication, E. P. Thompson`s revolutionary account of working-class culture and ideals is published in Penguin Modern Classics, with a new introduction by historian Michael Kenny. This classic and imaginative account of working-class society in its formative years, 1780 to 1832, revolutionized our understanding of English social history. E. P. Thompson shows
The Great Divide
Why has inequality increased in the Western world – and what can we do about it? In The Great Divide, Joseph E. Stiglitz argues that inequality is a choice – the cumulative result of unjust policies and misguided priorities. In these essays, articles and reflections, Stiglitz fully exposes the inequality that is afflicting America and
Just an Ordinary Day
A remarkable collection of dark, funny and haunting short stories from the inimitable author of `The Lottery`.An anxious devil, an elderly writer of poison pen letters and a mid-century Jack the Ripper; a pursuit though a nightmarish city, a small boy`s thrilling train ride with a female thief, and a town where the possibility of
Familiar Stranger: A Life between Two Islands
`This is a miracle of a book` George Lamming`Compelling. Stuart Hall`s story is the story of an age` Owen Jones `Sometimes I feel I was the last colonial`This is the story, in his own words, of the extraordinary life of Stuart Hall: writer, thinker and one of the leading intellectual lights of his age. Growing
Democracy in America: And Two Essays on America
In 1831 Tocqueville set out from post-revolutionary France on a journey across America that would take him 9 months and cover 7,000 miles. The result was โ€Democracy in Americaโ€: a subtle and prescient analysis of the life and institutions of 19th-century America. Tocqueville`s study of the strengths and weaknesses of an evolving democratic society has
Will Grayson, Will Grayson
One cold night, in a most unlikely corner of Chicago, teenager Will Grayson crosses paths with…โ€Will Graysonโ€! Two teens with the same name who run in two very different circles suddenly find their lives going in new and unexpected directions. Culminating in epic turns-of-heart on both of their parts, they team up to produce the
Candide, or Optimism
Brought up in the household of a powerful Baron, Candide is an open-minded young man, whose tutor, Pangloss, has instilled in him the belief that `all is for the best`. But when his love for the Baron`s rosy-cheeked daughter is discovered, Candide is cast out to make his own way in the world. And so
