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James Baldwin
Giovanni's Room

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One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'Baldwin's ground-breaking second novel , which established him as one of the great American writers of his time'Audacious... remarkable... elegant and co…

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James Baldwin
Go Tell it on the Mountain

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"Nothing but the darkness, and all around them destruction, and before them nothing but the fire - -a bastard people, far from God, singing and crying in the wilderness!"First published in 1953,…

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Shirley Jackson
Hangsaman

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Natalie Waite, daughter of a mediocre writer and a neurotic housewife, is increasingly unsure of her place in the world. In the midst of adolescence she senses a creeping darkness in her life, which will …

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Shirley Jackson
Haunting of Hill House

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Vier unterschiedliche Charaktere treffen sich im abweisenden Hill House, um seinem Spuk auf die Spur zu kommen: Dr. Montague, ein okkulter Gelehrter und Theodora, seine fröhliche Assistentin; die Polterge…

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George Orwell
Homage to Catalonia

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Describes the hopes and cynical betrayals of the author's experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil War. 'Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or ind…

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Seicho Matsumoto,
Inspector Imanishi Investigates

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'An absolute classic, and a whole new world to explore ... irresistible' Lee Child'Beautiful and melancholic, Inspector Imanishi Investigatesis not just an ingenious and elegant mystery, but a fascinating…

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Ralph Ellison
Invisible Man

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Ellison's blistering and impassioned first novel, winner of the prestigious American National Book Award, tells the extraordinary story of a man who is invisible 'simply because people refuse to see me'. …

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Göran Rosenberg
Israel

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Close, close beneath the land I had once rooted myself in and loved, lay a land filled with violence, injustice and hatredOn 22 April 1962 what remains of Göran Rosenberg's family embark from his native S…

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Angélica Gorodischer
Kalpa Imperial

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In city squares and golden palaces, a series of storytellers recount the history of the greatest Empire that never was: a history in which orphans rise from the underworld to the throne, mad emperors raze…

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Aharon Appelfeld,
Katerina

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'Read this book . . . what a gift of lyric language and style, of emotion purified by pain this is' Los Angeles TimesFleeing an abusive home, Katerina, a teenager in 1880s Ukraine, is taken in by a Jewish…

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Georges Simenon,
Letter to My Judge

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My dear Judge, I would like one man, just one, to understand me. And I really hope that man can be you.In a small town in western France, Dr Charles Alavoine seems to lead the perfect life: his own medica…

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Elsa Morante,
Lies and Sorcery

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'Thrillingly addictive, magnificent, luxurious . . . as staggering and absorbing as a great 19th-century novel' Telegraph'I loved it and it had been a long time since I had read anything that gave me such…

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Len Deighton
London Match

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'Spying at its most captivating and intricate' The Times 'Deighton has woven an intricate and satisfying plot, peopled it with convincing characters and even given a new twist to the spy story. But then h…

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Alexander Lernet-Holenia,
Mars in Aries

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Vienna, 1939. Count Wallmoden, an officer and veteran of the First World War, is preparing to take part in a mysterious 'military exercise'. One evening, while off duty, he meets the austere and beautiful…

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Hélène Cixous
Medusa's Laugh

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Write! Writing is for you, you are for you, your body is for you, take it.First published in 1975, Medusa's Laugh represented a defining moment for French feminism. In this landmark essay, feminist theori…

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Len Deighton
Mexico Set

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'Deighton is a marvel ... a tale told by an author at the height of his power' Chicago TribuneWorld-weary agent Bernard Samson is losing control of his personal and professional life. Sent to Mexico to ai…

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Saul Bellow
More Die of Heartbreak

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Kenneth Trachtenberg has left his native Paris for the Midwest. He has come to be near his beloved uncle, the world-renowned botanist Benn Crader, self-described 'plant visionary.' While his studies take …

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William S. Burroughs
Naked Lunch

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At long last William S. Burroughs's cult classic and undoubted masterpiece enters Penguin Modern Classics Nightmarish and fiercely funny, William Burroughs' virtuoso, taboo-breaking masterpiece Naked Lunc…

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Henry Miller
Nexus

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The scandalous autobiographical trilogy, which was banned for 30 years in the US and the UK, published for the first time in "Penguin Modern Classics", with innovative covers.

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Terry Pratchett
Night Watch

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A definitive annotated edition of one of the greatest of Terry Pratchett's multi-million-bestselling Discworld novels'A master storyteller' A.S. Byatt'Both comic and dark, blending high fantasy, twisted s…

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