Modern Classics
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Eat My Heart Out
Zoe Pilger
Read more ▸ Order ▸Ann-Marie’s life has collapsed, and she’s blaming everyone but herself. Twenty-three, heartbroken, skint and furious,...
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Justine
Lawrence Durrell
Read more ▸ Order ▸Rediscover one of the twentieth century’s greatest romances: a seductive tale of four tangled lovers...
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Exterminate All The Brutes
Sven Lindqvist
Read more ▸ Order ▸Over twenty years ago, Sven Lindqvist, one of the great pioneers of a new kind...
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The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath And Ted Hughes
Janet Malcolm
Read more ▸ Order ▸Is it ever possible to know ‘the truth’ about Sylvia Plath and her marriage to...
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If This Isn’t Nice, What Is?
Kurt Vonnegut
Read more ▸ Order ▸Best known as one of our most astonishing and enduring contemporary novelists, Kurt Vonnegut was...
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Misadventures
Sylvia Smith
Read more ▸ Order ▸Misadventures is a unique ensemble of mishaps and anecdotes revealing the ups and downs of one...
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The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws
Margaret Drabble
Read more ▸ Order ▸In The Pattern in the Carpet the award-winning and beloved writer Margaret Drabble explores her own family...
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Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer
Read more ▸ Order ▸Penguin Modern 50
‘Do I wish to keep up with the times? No. My wish simply...
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The Survivor
Read more ▸ Order ▸Penguin Modern 48
‘Back, away from here, drowned people, go. I haven’t stolen anyone’s place’ A...
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Fame
Read more ▸ Order ▸Penguin Modern 47′
Good b.o means good “box office.” You can smell it from a mile...
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The Garden of Forking Paths
Read more ▸ Order ▸Penguin Modern 46
‘Summer was drawing to a close, and I realized that the book was...
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The Haunted Boy
Read more ▸ Order ▸Penguin Modern 45
His hand sought the adjacent flesh and sorrow paralleled desire in the immense...