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James Baldwin
No Name in the Street

'Baldwin wrote in arias of feeling and thought... [He] proved that if he wrote it down, it could have power beyond the moment.' - Hilton AlsIn this deeply personal book, Baldwin reflects on the experience…

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Torborg Nedreaas,
Nothing Grows by Moonlight

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'It's fantastic, it's incredible' Pedro Almodóvar A hauntingly beautiful, unforgettable Norwegian classic, ripe for discovery In the blue dusk of a spring evening, a man is drawn to a lonely, beautiful …

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John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men

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Streetwise George and his big, childlike friend Lennie are drifters, searching for work in the fields and valleys of California. They have nothing except the clothes on their back, and a hope that one day…

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John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men

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Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck is remembered as one of the greatest and best-loved American writers of the twentieth century. His complete works will be available in Penguin Modern Classics.

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez,
One Hundred Years of Solitude

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Equally tragic, joyful and comical, Gabriel García Márquez's masterpiece of magical realism, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a seamless blend of fantasy and reality, translated from the Spanish by Gregor…

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Edward W. Said
Orientalism

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Edward W. Said was a university professor at Columbia University. He was born in Jerusalem in 1935 and educated in Egypt and the United States. His other books include The Question of Palestine, Culture a…

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James Joyce
Poems

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It is only James Joyce's towering genius as a novelist that has led to his comparative neglect as a poet. And yet his poems not only occupy a pivotal position in Joyce's career, they are also magnificentl…

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William S. Burroughs
Queer. 25th Anniversary Edition

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Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, Queer is an enigma - both an unflinching autobiographical self-portrait and a coruscatingly political novel, Burroughs' only realist love story and …

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Aimé Césaire,
Return to My Native Land

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'We shall speak. We shall sing. We shall shout.' This blazing autobiographical poem by the founder of the négritude movement became a rallying cry for decolonisation when it appeared in 1939. Following on…

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Audre Lorde
Sister Outsider

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Audre Lorde was a writer, feminist and civil rights activist - or, as she famously put it, 'Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet'. Born in New York in 1934, she had her first poem published while she was…

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Seicho Matsumoto,
Suspicion

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Onizuka Kumako is a fierce woman: tall, beautiful, and not afraid to speak her mind. In Tokyo bars, she seduces customers and commits petty crime, using her connections to the local yakuza to get by. When…

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C. L. R. James
The Black Jacobins

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'James is a titan of twentieth-century politics and culture' Sunday Times 'The Black Jacobins is not only a groundbreaking historical work; it is a masterpiece in storytelling and analysis' Gary Younge …

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Audre Lorde
The Black Unicorn

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Audre Lorde was a writer, feminist and civil rights activist - or, as she famously put it, 'Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet'. Born in New York in 1934, she had her first poem published while she was…

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Simone de Beauvoir
The Blood of Others

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Potent and vividly emotional, Simone de Beauvoir's captivating novel questions freedom and individual responsibility in the face of brutality'These carefree faces, on which we allowed our smiles to spread…

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Allen Ginsberg,
The Essential Ginsberg

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Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) was an American poet, best known for his iconic Howl, one of the most widely read and translated poems of the century, for celebrating his friends of the Beat Generation and for…

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James Baldwin
The Fire Next Time

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Sounds a clarion warning to the world.

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Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead

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Ayn Rand was born Alissa Rosenbaum on February 2, 1905 in St. Petersburg, Russia. She left Russia and her family in January 1926, never to return. Her novel The Fountainhead was published in 1943 and even…

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Karl Polanyi
The Great Transformation

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'One of the most powerful books in the social sciences ever written. ... A must-read' Thomas Piketty'The twentieth century's most prophetic critic of capitalism' Prospect'Polanyi's revolutionary work is a…

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Carson McCullers
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

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"The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" was Carson McCullers' first novel, written in 1940. Set in a small town in the American South, it is the story of a group of people who have little in common except that the…

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Len Deighton
The IPCRESS File

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'A stone-cold Cold War classic' Toby Litt, Guardian A high-ranking scientist has been kidnapped. A secret British intelligence agency must find out why. But as the quarry is pursued from grimy Soho to th…

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