Category Archives: Travel Guides
The Red Pyramid
The Red Pyramid: the first book in Rick Riordan`s The Kane Chronicles. Percy Jackson fought Greek Gods. Now the Gods of Egypt are waking in the modern world…`I guess it started the night our dad blew up the British museum…` Carter and Sadie Kane`s dad is a brilliant Egyptologist with a secret plan that goes
The Pursued
Described as a `riveting read` by Sarah Waters and acclaimed by crime writers such as Andrew Taylor, “The Pursued” is a dark, gripping 1930s psychological thriller by C. S. Forester, the author of “Hornblower”. The story begins when Marjorie, a young woman, arrives home one summer evening and finds her sister, dead, with her head
Payment Deferred
Mr Marble is in serious debt, desperate for money to pay his family`s bills, until the combination of a wealthy relative, a bottle of Cyanide and a shovel offer him the perfect solution. In fact, his troubles are only just beginning. Slowly the Marble family becomes poisoned by guilt, and caught in an increasingly dangerous
Plain Murder
At the Universal Advertising Agency on the Strand, London, a murder is being planned. Three men have been discovered taking bribes and face the grim prospect of the dole queue, unless they can get rid of the person who caught them. Their ringleader, thick-set and vicious Mr Morris, soon discovers that killing is far easier
Satori in Paris
This semi-autobiographical tale of Kerouac`s own trip to France, to trace his ancestors and explore his own understanding of the Buddhism that came to define his beliefs, contains some of Kerouac`s most lyrical descriptions. From his reports of the strangers he meets and the all-night conversations he enjoys in seedy bars in Paris and Brittany,
Doctor Sax
Jack Kerouac called Doctor Sax, the enigmatic figure who haunted his boyhood imagination, `my ghost, personal angel, private shadow, secret lover`. In this extraordinary autobiographical account of growing up in Lowell, Massachusetts, told through his fictional alter ego Jack Duluoz, he mingles real people and events with fantastical figures to capture the accents, scents, sights
The Art of Joy
Goliarda Sapienza`s The Art of Joy was written over a nine year span, from 1967 to 1976. At the time of her death in 1996, Sapienza had published nothing in a decade, having been unable to find a publisher for what was to become her most celebrated work, due to its perceived immorality. One publisher`s
Bonjour Tristesse and a Certain Smile
Published when she was only nineteen, Francoise Sagan`s astonishing first novel Bonjour Tristesse became an instant bestseller. It tells the story of Cecile, who leads a carefree life with her widowed father and his young mistresses until, one hot summer on the Riviera, he decides to remarry – with devastating consequences. In A Certain Smile,
The Five Orange Pips and Other Cases
The Penguin English Library Edition of The Five Orange Pips and Other Cases by Arthur Conan Doyle`He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson … He sits motionless, like a spider in the centre of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them`Sherlock Holmes, scourge
The Man Who Was Thursday
This is the “Penguin English Library Edition” of “The Man Who Was Thursday” by G. K. Chesterton. `”A man`s brain is a bomb,” he cried out, loosening suddenly his strange passion and striking his own skull with violence. “My brain feels like a bomb, night and day. It must expand! It must expand! A man`s
Mansfield Park
The Penguin English Library Edition of Mansfield Park by Jane Austen`We have all been more or less to blame … every one of us, excepting Fanny`Taken from the poverty of her parents` home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins at Mansfield Park, acutely aware of her humble rank and with
Dark Back of Time
“Dark Back of Time” is a compelling story of the way in which reality blurs into fiction by Javier Marias, whose highly-anticipated new novel “The Infatuations” is published in 2013. It is translated by Esther Allen in “Penguin Modern Classics”. `We lose everything because everything remains except us`, says the mysterious narrator of this extraordinary
A Heart So White
`A Heart So White` is the breathtaking international bestseller and IMPAC Award-winning masterpiece by Javier Marias. This Penguin Modern Classics edition features a new Introduction by Jonathan Coe. In the middle of a family lunch Teresa, just married, goes to the bathroom, unbuttons her blouse and shoots herself in the heart. What made her kill
Tomorrow in the Battle Think On Me
“Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me” is a gripping and moving meditation on the hold that the dead have over the living, by Javier Marias, whose highly-anticipated new novel “The Infatuations” is published in 2013. Victor, a ghostwriter, is just about to have an affair with Marta, a married woman, when – in the
How I Live Now
How I Live Now is an original and poignant book by Meg Rosoff. How I Live Now is the powerful and engaging story of Daisy, the precocious New Yorker and her English cousin Edmond, torn apart as war breaks out in London, from the multi award-winning Meg Rosoff. How I Live Now has been adapted
Tristes Tropiques
“Tristes Tropiques” begins with the line `I hate travelling and explorers`, yet during his life Claude Levi-Strauss travelled from wartime France to the Amazon basin and the dense upland jungles of Brazil, where he found `human society reduced to its most basic expression`. His account of the people he encountered changed the field of anthropology,
Shosha
It is Warsaw in the 1930s. Aaron Greidinger is an aspiring young writer and the son of a rabbi, who struggles to be true to his art when he is faced with the chance of riches and a passport to America. But as the Nazis threaten to invade Poland, Aaron rediscovers Shosha, his childhood sweetheart
Last Exit to Brooklyn
Few novels have caused as much controversy as Hubert Selby Jr.`s notorious masterpiece. Described by various reviewers as hellish and obscene, it tells the stories of New Yorkers who at every turn confront the worst excesses in human nature. Yet there are moments of exquisite tenderness in these troubled lives. Georgette, the transvestite who falls
The Time Regulation Institute
One of the greatest and most overlooked novels of the twentieth century, by an author championed by Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk, The Time Regulation Institute appears here in English for the first time-more than fifty years after its original publication in Turkish. This is the story of the misadventures of Hayri Irdals, an unforgettable
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings
Part of “Penguin`s” beautiful hardback “Clothbound Classics” series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. After reading “Christmas Carol”, the notoriously reculsive Thomas Carlyle was “seized with a perfect convulsion of hospitality” and threw not one but two
