Penguin Modern Classics

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Seicho Matsumoto,
Suspicion

Penguin Modern Classics

A taut psychological thriller from 'a master crime writer' (Financial Times) -- now available in English for the first time Onizuka Kumako is a fierce woman: tall, beautiful, and not afraid to speak her m…

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Seicho Matsumoto,
Suspicion

Penguin Modern Classics

'A master class in motive and character' Alafair Burke A taut psychological novel about trial by public opinion and how we shape the truth -- now available in English for the first time Is she a victim or…

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Gertrude Stein
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

Penguin Modern Classics

Sie brachte Gertrude Stein im Alter von fast sechzig Jahren zwar endlich den ersehnten Erfolg als Autorin, trug ihr aber zugleich die Feindschaft vieler ihrer früheren Freunde ein: die Autobiographie von …

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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 The…

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Georges Simenon,
The Cat

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'Remarkable' New York Times ' No one is better than Simenon at showing how banal domestic conflict can lead to murderous catastrophe' Financial TimesAn acerbic tale of marital warfare and emotional estran…

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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 ' Thomas Piketty 'The twentieth century's most prophetic critic of capitalism' Prospect 'Polanyi's revolutionary work is a must-read' Ma…

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Georges Simenon,
The Green Shutters

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Sin and green shutters: both entailed lots of unexpected consequences that weren't easy to see at first glance . . .In the autumn years of his illustrious career, 'The Great' Emile Maugin, a celebrated ac…

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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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John le Carré
The Honourable Schoolboy

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John le Carr/b>was born in 1931 and attended the universities of Bern and Oxford. He taught at Eton and served briefly in British Intelligence during the Cold War. For more than fifty years he has live…

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Len Deighton
The IPCRESS File

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'A stone-cold Cold War classic' Toby Litt, GuardianA 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 the …

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Czeslaw Milosz,
The Issa Valley

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'An idyll of immense charm ... a masterpiece' John Bayley,The New York Review of Books'Thomas was born in the village of Gine at that time of year when a ripe apple thumps to the ground during an afternoo…

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Ágota Kristóf,
The Notebook Trilogy

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Sent to a remote village to live with their grandmother, twins Claus and Lucas devise physical and mental exercises to render themselves invulnerable to the ongoing horrors of war and living under a total…

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Albert Camus
The Outsider

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Meursault, his anti-hero, will not lie. When his mother dies, he refuses to show his emotions simply to satisfy the expectations of others. And when he commits a random act of violence on a sun-drenched b…

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Richard Hofstadter
The Paranoid Style in American Politics

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The classic and very funny account of the dark side of American politics 'Calm, clear, dispassionate and devastating - and a joy to read' Harper's 'Brilliant and influential ... his evisceration of populi…

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George Orwell
The Road to Wigan Pier

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Presents an account of the author's observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s. It provides descriptions of social injustice, cramped sl…

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John le Carré
The Russia House

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Barley Blair is not a Service man: he is a small-time publisher, a self-destructive soul. But it was Barley who, one drunken night at a dacha in Peredelkino during the Moscow Book Fair, was befriended by …

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Paul Bowles
The Sheltering Sky

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Port and Kit Moresbury, a sophisticated American couple, are finding it more than a little difficult to live with each other. Endeavouring to escape this predicament, they set off for North Africa intendi…

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William S. Burroughs
The Soft Machine

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A terrifying, surreal space-age odyssey, The Soft Machine initiated Burroughs' Cut-Up Trilogy that includesNova Express and The Ticket That Exploded . The book draws the reader into an unmappable textual …

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John le Carré
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

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Alex Leamas is tired. It's the 1960s, he's been out in the cold for years, spying in Berlin for his British masters, and has seen too many good agents murdered for their troubles. Now Control wants to bri…

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Svetlana Alexievich,
The Unwomanly Face of War

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'A must read' - Margaret Atwood'It would be hard to find a book that feels more important or original' - Viv Groskop, ObserverExtraordinary stories from Soviet women who fought in the Second World War - f…

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