A memoir by the Egytian woman who set up an independent book shop with a friend and her sister in 2002 - ten years later it had grown to include ten shops and 150 employees. Full of the nois... read more
A feminist polemic that looks at women's resistance to male domination, both historically and now, and the consequences of independence, education, knowledge and power.
As well as a bestselling novelist, Hustvedt has lectured on neuroscience, psychoanalysis and philosophy at scientific conferences across the world. This new essay collection draws both on he... read more
A wide ranging collection of essays and memoir from the US novelist exploring everything from her late blooming friendship with Tom Hanks, the inspiration she finds in Snoopy, and the joy of... read more
While MG's early short stories have recently found acclaim as modern classics, she is less well known as a brilliantly perspicacious critic and essayist. This new selection of her non-fictio... read more
This two-volume masterpiece by the author of The Master and His Emissary is a long conversation between neuropsychology and philosophy, science and poetry, the two sides of our brains. Truly... read more
Davdison's feel for dusk first came our way with his wonderfully evocative book The Last of the Light: About Twilight. Here he produces a series of nocturnes about cities at night-fall, wint... read more
The companion volume to Eliot's 2018 The Penguin Classics Book. A complete illustrated guide to every book - from Achebe to Zweig - published in Penguin's Modern Classics imprint.
A new anthology from the most cerebral of Scottish bishops. RH brings together a thoughtful selection of work from various writers and poets reflecting on faith, hope, forgiveness, sin and m... read more
The last book by the late Italian Titan among writers and publishers is a typically idiosyncratic and compelling exploration of the Bible and its influence on Western civilisation. His broad... read more
The first translation by a woman, using Arabic and French sources, with detailed notes and commentary. Beautifully illustrated with Arab and Persian works of art as well as many drawn from p... read more
BHL reports from some of the world's most desperate humanitarian crises - from Syria to Iraqi Kurdistan; Nigeria to Lybia; Afghanistan to Lesbos - and argues, with a unique mix of philosoph... read more
Admirably and endlessly discursive, the essayist explores Orwell's ideas of happiness and joy - 'the right to live, not just to exist' - that permeate his writing and which are exemplified b... read more
Perhaps the most high-profile political prisoner in the Arab world, Alaa has spent most of the last seven years in prison in Egypt. These essays were smuggled, compiled by friends and relati... read more
A facsimile, with facing transcriptions, of Eliot's early notebook containing poems up to 1917. Includes an early version of 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock'. The notebook has been lurk... read more