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Brought to you by Penguin. **SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021** **LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022** I WAS BORN TO BE A WANDERER From the night she is rescued as a baby out of the flames of a sinking ship; to the day she joins a pair of daredevil pilots looping and diving...

‘Oh! How adorable! I didn’t know you had a cat!’ she exclaimed. I am always surprised how many people make this observation. Why should His Holiness not have a cat? ‘If only she could speak,’ continued the actress. ‘I’m sure she’d have such wisdom to share.’ And so the seed was...

Brought to you by Penguin. SELIN IS THE LUCKIEST PERSON IN HER FAMILY: the only one who was born in America and got to go to Harvard. Now it's her second year, 1996, and Selin knows she has to make it count. The first order of business: to figure out the meaning of everything that happened over...

I, Claudius is Robert Graves' riveting account of Ancient Rome in all its madness and debauchery. First published in 1934, and written in the form of Claudius' autobiography, it endures as one of literature's most celebrated and compelling historical novels. Abhorred by his weakness and viewed...

Lorsque George Mallory disparaît en 1924 lors de son ascension de l'Everest avec l'alpiniste Andrew Irvine, personne ne sait s'ils ont atteint le plus haut sommet du monde. C'est la plus grande énigme de l'histoire de l'alpinisme et le point de départ de Baku Yumemakura pour Le Sommet des dieux. Quand on retrouve le corps de Mallory, en 1999, deux objets manquent parmi ses effets personnels : son appareil photo, qui aurait permis d'attester de son exploit, et le portrait de son épouse qu'il avait promis de déposer au sommet.

Marco cultural dos anos 1950, Junky descreve o périplo de um viciado em drogas pesadas. O livro entra agora para o time de clássicos malditos da coleção Má Companhia. Cotidiano modorrento, um atestado de dispensa do serviço militar e alguns trambiques. Assim o narrador de Junky descreve...

A satori, in Kerouac’s own words, is “the Japanese word for ‘sudden illumination,’ ‘sudden awakening,’ or simply ‘kick in the eye.’” This is a story of philosophy, identity, and the powerful grip of travel, written by an iconic American author at the height of his fame, after...

From the most famous of the Beat writers and the author of On the Road and The Dharma Bums, Kerouac’s intoxicating love story of two young bohemians Written over the course of three days and three nights, The Subterraneans was generated out of the same kind of ecstatic flash of inspiration...

Written in 1967 from the vantage point of the psychedelic sixties, Vanity of Duluoz is a fascinating portrait of the artist as a young man. This book presents the formative years in the life of Jack Duluoz—Kerouac’s alter ego—beginning with his high school experiences as a sporting jock in...

The first book in Kerouac’s Duluoz Legend, a novella detailing the writer’s early life as refracted through the prism of the untimely loss of his brother Unique among Jack Kerouac’s novels, Visions of Gerard captures the scenes and sensations of earliest childhood, the first four years in...

Originally published in 1965, this autobiographical novel covers a key year in Jack Kerouac’s life—the period that led up to the publication of On the Road in September of 1957. After spending two months in the summer of 1956 as a fire lookout on Desolation Peak in the North Cascade...

A tour de force in the tradition of Hawksmoor and Chatterton, Peter Ackroyd’s new novel of deceit and betrayal is a witty reimagining of a great nineteenth-century Shakespeare forgery. Charles and Mary Lamb, who will achieve lasting fame as the authors of Tales from Shakespeare for children...

This literary thriller set at Oxford University puts talented mathematics student G at the center of a murder mystery sparked by the discovery of hidden secrets in the life of famed author Lewis Carroll. Mathematics student G is trying to resurrect his studies, which is proving difficult as he...

Paleontologist Howard Beamish is flying to Nairobi on a professional mission when his plane is forced to land in the imaginary country of Callimbia. Journalist Lucy Faulkner, on assignment to write a travel piece for a Sunday magazine, is on the same flight. What happens to Howard and Lucy in...

From renowned translators Richard Pevear and Lindsay Volokhonsky comes a new translation—certain to become the definitive version—of the first great prison memoir, a fictionalized account of Fyodor Dostoevsky's life-changing penal servitude in Siberia. Sentenced to death for advocating...

Brought to you by Penguin. Jack Kerouac's classic novel about friendship, the search for meaning, and the allure of nature A witty, moving philosophical novel, Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums is a journey of self-discovery through the lens of Zen Buddhist thought. This Penguin Modern Classics...

George Eliot's first full-length novel Adam Bede is a profound rendering of 19th century English pastoral life. This timeless story of seduction and betrayal follows the virtuous carpenter Adam Bede, whose world is soon disrupted when the all-too-beautiful Hetty betrays him for another villager. Her actions precipitate a turmoil of tragic events that shake the very foundations of their serene rural community.

Under sin opvækst i Belfast, gør Sean alt, hvad er forventes af ham. Han arbejder hårdt, han studerer, og han holder sig - for det meste - ude af problemer, men da Sean vender hjem fra universitetet, har intet ændret sig. Det er de samme venner, som tager de samme stoffer på de samme...

Madrid, 1889. La capital es una ciudad de contrastes vibrantes. En ese mundo en ebullición, una joven de catorce años se enfrenta a la prematura muerte de su madre. Su nombre es Julia Loewe. Inteligente, audaz y con una visión prodigiosa, Julia comprende que ha nacido una «nueva mujer», que recorre el mundo, que trabaja, que monta en bicicleta y que, para conquistar su independencia, necesita algo revolucionario: una nueva moda.

Wenn Onkel Warfsmann Geschichten erzählte, von denen seine Frau Mia sagte, das sei doch alles Seemannsgarn, so enthielten sie doch Weisheiten und Wahrheiten, die für den jungen Klaus-Peter Wolf wichtig waren und bis heute sein Schreiben beeinflussen. Immer wieder hat ihn sein Onkel darin bestärkt, sich nicht von seinen Träumen abbringen zu lassen und mutig den eigenen Weg zu gehen. Die über 100 Kolumnen erzählen von Onkel Warfsmann, der aus Liebe zu seiner Frau vom ostfriesischen Seefahrer zum Bergmann im Ruhrgebiet wurde.