Category Archives: Caribbean
Scarcity: The True Cost of Not Having Enough
Sendhil Mullainathan, the `most interesting young economist in the world`, and Eldar Shafir, the `most brilliant psychologist` of his generation, explain the hidden problem behind everything with Scarcity. Why can we never seem to keep on top of our workload, social diary or chores? Why does poverty persist around the world? Why do successful people
The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts
Arthur Miller`s classic parable of mass hysteria draws a chilling parallel between the Salem witch-hunt of 1692 – one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history – and the McCarthyism which gripped America in the 1950s. The story of how the small community of Salem is stirred into madness by superstition, paranoia
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
From hustling, drug addiction and armed violence in America`s black ghettos Malcolm X turned, in a dramatic prison conversion, to the puritanical fervour of the Black Muslims. As their spokesman he became identified in the white press as a terrifying teacher of race hatred; but to his direct audience, the oppressed American blacks, he brought
U.S.A.
โ€The Penguin Modern Classicsโ€ edition of John Dos Passos` โ€U.S.A.โ€ is a groundbreaking work of experimental fiction which, with its unique melange of fact and fiction, creates a compelling, tragic vision of America at the dawn of the twentieth century. In this experimental trilogy, Dos Passos uses `camera eye` and `newsreel` sections to create a
Ragtime
Set in turn-of-the-century New York, E.L. Doctorow`s โ€Ragtimeโ€ seamlessly blends fictional characters and realistic depictions of historical figures to bring to life the events that defined American history in the years before the First World War. This โ€Penguin Modern Classicsโ€ edition includes an introduction by Al Alvarez. Welcome to America at the turn of the
The Book of Daniel
It is based on the trial and execution of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, convicted of delivering information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union E.L. Doctorow`s โ€The Book of Danielโ€ includes a new introduction by Jonathan Freedland in โ€Penguin Modern Classicsโ€. As Cold War hysteria inflames America, FBI agents pay a surprise visit to
Cat`s Cradle
Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut`s cult tale of global destruction preys on our deepest fears of witnessing Armageddon and, worse still, surviving it …Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding `fathers` of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the world. For he is the inventor of `ice-nine`, a
Junky: The Definitive Text of `Junk`
Burroughs` first novel, a largely autobiographical account of the constant cycle of drug dependency, cures and relapses, remains the most unflinching, unsentimental account of addiction ever written. Through junk neighbourhoods in New York, New Orleans and Mexico City, through time spent kicking, time spent dealing and time rolling drunks for money, through junk sickness and
The Swiss Family Robinson
Following a wild and raging storm, the Swiss family Robinson are stranded at sea. But the thundering waves have swept them off to a tropical island, where a new life awaits them. Their ship is laden with supplies and the island is packed with treasures, so they soon adapt and discover new dangers and delights
The New Penguin Book of American Short Stories, from Washington Irving to Lydia Davis
The short story is one of the most varied and exciting genres in American literature. This collection brings together many of its finest examples from the early nineteenth century to the present. It contains a richly diverse cast of characters, including convicts, artists, farm labourers, slaves, soldiers and salesmen, witches and ghosts, families and lovers.
The Phoenix and the Carpet
Puffin Classics bring together the very best children`s stories for a whole new generation. In this sequel to FIVE CHILDREN AND IT, the magical adventures of siblings Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane and their baby brother continue. It`s startling enough to have a phoenix hatch in your house, but even more startling when it talks and
Mother Land
`Downright hilarious… Like watching a slow-motion car crash. Theroux possesses a fabulously nasty sense of humour` Stephen KingA riotously dysfunctional portrait of one all-American family and its diabolical matriarch – by one of America`s most acclaimed writersEveryone in Cape Cod thinks that Mother is a wonderful woman: pious, hard-working, frugal. Everyone except her husband and
Young Bond: Hurricane Gold
Young Bond: Hurricane gold is the fourth book in the iconic Young Bond action series by Charlie Higson. James Bond is staring death in the face…As the sun blazes over the Caribbean island of Lagrimas Negras, its bloodthirsty ruler is watching and waiting. Criminals come here to hide, with blood on their hands and escape
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
Holding Up the Universe
Gorgeously written and oh-so-deeply felt – Nicola Yoon, author of Everything Everything and The Sun is Also a StarFrom the author of the New York Times bestseller All the Bright Places comes a heart-wrenching story about what it means to see (and love) someone for who they truly are. Everyone thinks they know Libby Strout.I
Golden Parasol: A Daughter`s Memoir of Burma
At the time of Burma`s military coup in 1962, Wendy Law-Yone was fifteen. A year later, her father Ed Law-Yone, daredevil proprietor of The Nation newspaper, was arrested and his newspaper shut down. Eventually, Wendy was herself briefly imprisoned before managing to escape the country. Ed would spend five years as a political prisoner. But
The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas
Some thing`s are just sitting there, minding their own business and waiting to be discovered. Like America. And other things are probably better off left alone`. Nine-year-old Bruno has a lot of things on his mind. Who is the `Fury`? Why did he make them leave their nice home in Berlin to go to `Out-With`
Live and Let Die: James Bond 007
`You start to die the moment you are born` Live and Let Die, Ian Fleming`s second 007 novel, takes Bond from Harlem to Jamaica in a frenzied hunt for the brilliant deadly gangster Mr Big and his macabre network of associates.
