\"Fear is the greatest force that exists, as long as you can adapt to it\" Jacques Deza has been recruited into an undercover spy network by the inscrutable Bertram Tupra....

\"Lightning makes no sound until it strikes\" This is the momentous story of the Civil Rights movement, told by one of its most powerful and eloquent voices. Here Martin Luther King, Jr....

A car wreck on the slopes of Mount Morgan puts insurance tycoon Lyman Felt in the hospital. While Lyman recovers, two women meet in the hospital waiting room only to discover that they are both married to him....

The American Deep South, in the 1970s. Velma Henry, once a formidable political activist, has grown weary and disillusioned with the fight for civil rights. She wants to end it all. But then she finds herself in the hands of a Black faith community, and the fabled healer Minnie Ransom....

\"Peter, Peter, Pumpkin eater Had a wife and couldn\"t keep her...\" In this extraordinary, semi-autobiographical novel, Penelope Mortimer depicts a married woman\"s breakdown in 1960s London. With three husbands in her past, one in her present and a numberless army of children, Mrs Armitage is astonished to find herself collapsing one day in Harrods....

George Orwell\"s moving reflections on the English character and his passionate belief in the need for political change. The Lion and the Unicorn was written in London during the worst period of the blitz. It is vintage Orwell, a dynamic outline of his belief in socialism, patriotism and an English revolution....

Small-time hustler Arthur Abdel Simpson ekes out a living in Athens by robbing gullible tourists. But when an attempted theft backfires, he finds himself out-smarted and blackmailed into driving a highly suspicious car across the border to Istanbul....

Detectives Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones have lost two criminals. Pinky ran off - but it shouldn\"t be hard to track down a giant albino in Harlem. Jake the drug dealer, though, isn\"t coming back - he died after Grave Digger punched him in the stomach. And his death might cost them both their badges....

John Kenneth Galbraith\"s now-classic account of the 1929 stock market collapse remains the definitive book on the most disastrous cycle of boom and bust in modern times....

\"Musa Dagh stood beyond the world. No storm would reach it, even if one should break\" It is 1915 and Gabriel has returned to his childhood home, an Armenian village on the slopes of Musa Dagh....

The pieces here span reflections on personal and collective identity, on home and family, on literature, language and politics, and on Achebe\"s lifelong attempt to reclaim the definition of \"Africa\" for its own authorship....

Based on the trial and execution of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, convicted of delivering information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union E.L. Doctorow\"s The Book of Daniel includes a new introduction by Jonathan Freedland in Penguin Modern Classics....

The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition was perhaps the most ambitious, elaborate and confident of all the British attempts to master the South Pole. Like the others it ended in disaster, with the Endeavour first trapped and then crushed to pieces in the ice and its crew trapped in the Antarctic, seemingly doomed to a slow and horrible death....

These letters cover the activities of Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac in the years that gave birth to the Beat Generation....

Arthur Miller\"s penultimate play, Resurrection Blues, is a darkly comic satirical allegory that poses the question: What would happen if Christ were to appear in the world today? In an unidentified Latin American country, General Felix Barriaux has captured an elusive revolutionary leader....