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  • The Idiot

    Translated by David McDuff ...
    Dostoyevsky's great novel of suffering and sickness, innocence and greedReturning to St Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and naïve epileptic Prince Myshkin - the titular 'idiot' - pays a visit to his distant relative General Yepanchin and proceeds to charm the General, his wife, and his three daughters. But his life is thrown into turmoil when he chances on a photograph of the ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

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  • What in Me Is Dark

    The Revolutionary Afterlife of Paradise Lost

    by Orlando Reade ...
    A highly original hybrid of literary criticism and political history, telling of the enduring, surprising and ever-evolving relevance of Milton’s epic poem through the scandalous life of its creator and the revolutionary lives that were influenced by it.What in Me Is Dark tells the unlikely story of how Milton’s epic poem came to haunt political struggles over the past four centuries, including ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Backlight

    by Pirkko Saisio ...
    Translated by Mia Spangenberg ...
    Pirkko Saisio, now a teenager, can’t decide which she hates most: God, her father, or her growing breasts. Grandpa has moved into the room long promised to her, and Mother, overworked and distant, tries to keep the peace between her headstrong daughter and husband. When she’s not escaping into her books, Pirkko has fun getting into trouble. That is until her Finnish teacher suggests she might have ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • As If

    A Novel

    “A surreal existential caper exploring identity and performance, midlife purpose and regret, and the difficulty of finding—and escaping—yourself. Sly, absurd and poignant, it is a triumph of narrative voice.” —The Spectator (UK)Two men meet in an apartment in London. They are strangers to one another, and yet they look remarkably alike. Lewis is grieving his dead wife; Korine is hiding from his ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Making Americans

    Plyler v. Doe and Opening the School Door

    **A vital history of Plyler v. Doe, the landmark case that affirmed every child's right to a public education in the US—no matter their immigration statusFor educators, advocates, and parents, with commentary from Congressman Jamie Raskin and from Gaby Pacheco, TheDream.US president and a proud Plyler student**Every child, no matter their background or immigration status, deserves an education. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Cleopatra

    Histories, Dreams and Distortions

    'Brilliant and discursive' Antonia Fraser, Sunday Times'Hughes-Hallett's exemplary reappraisal … throws a searching light on two thousand years of male erotic fantasy' Joan Smith, New StatesmanWinner of the FAWCETT PRIZE and EMILY TOTH AWARDIn the 2,000 years since her death, Cleopatra has been recreated over and over again by poets, artists and filmmakers, each time in a form that... ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Made in America

    The dark history that led to Donald Trump, from the award-winning political broadcaster

    The riveting new exploration of American history – and how it has led to the era of Donald Trump – from the award-winning political broadcaster.'A well argued and elegant answer to the question, How did America get to this place?' Justin Webb, presenter of Americast'Pithy, entertaining and informative’ GuardianTrump’s second term, even more than his first, is often called ‘unprecedented’. But h... ... Read more

    $22.09 USD

  • The Good Eye

    by Jess Gibson ...
    **“The stories in this bewitching collection begin in the known world before tilting towards mystery and rebellion—a book full of pleasure and surprise.” —Aysegül Savas, author of The Anthropologists and Long Distance: StoriesStartling, spellbinding stories, in which appearances and intentions are rarely what they seem from an exciting new voice in fiction.**A psychic harnesses her talent for ... Read more

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  • The Trial

    by Franz Kafka ...
    Translated by Idris Parry ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    Kafka's gripping work of psychological horror, with a new introduction and notes by Carolin DuttlingerA terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K., an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a crime he did not commit, a crime whose nature is never revealed to him. Once arrested, he is released, but must report to court on a regular basis--an event that proves ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • Self-Help from the Middle Ages

    What the Seven Deadly Sins Can Teach Us About Living

    by Peter Jones ...
    **In this charming journey into the past, a historian reveals medieval wisdom that can still guide us today"One of the most compelling medieval history books I have ever read."–Ian Mortimer, author of The Time Traveler’s Guide to Medieval England**Peter Jones was teaching medieval history at a university in Siberia when his third icy winter there plunged him into a dark place. Luckily, he knew ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Silver Book

    A Novel

    by Olivia Laing ...
    Art, power, desire, and illusion collide in a hypnotic new novel from Olivia Laing, set in the months leading up to the murder of Pier Paolo Pasolini in 1975.It is September 1974. Two men meet in Venice. One is a young English artist, in panicked flight from London. The other is Danilo Donati, the magician of Italian cinema, the designer responsible for realizing the spectacular visions of Fellini ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Elemental: The New Geography of Climate Change and How We Survive It

    The first comprehensive account of the geopolitics of climate change

    by Arthur Snell ...
    'An extraordinary mastery of geopolitics, combining years on the ground in the most challenging places, a raw instinct for politics and a deep ethical concern for the world in the face of climate catastrophe. A masterpiece.' - RORY STEWART'A powerful, passionate and utterly convincing book.' - LORD PETER RICKETTSFrom the water-stressed mountains of the Arabian Peninsula to ... ... Read more

    $13.99 USD