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When Redmond O'Hanlon set out to discover the lost rhinoceros of Borneo, accompanied by the poet James Fenton, it was in the best tradition of nineteenth-century exploration. They proceeded to have an adventure that neither O'Hanlon, his poet fr[...]
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Beevor takes us back to December 1942, when the German 6th Army was surrounded by the Russians and facing annihilation. Only thoughts of Christmas kept the soldiers' hopes alive.
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Eric Schlosser's inimitable brand of hard-hitting yet always entertaining writing looks beneath the surface of American life to examine issues ranging from the black market to burgers. When penguin published his exposé Fast Food Nation in 2001, [...]
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Death in the bunker offers a compelling account of the final hours of Germany's Third Reich: the oaths and betrayals of the Führer's henchmen, ans his ultimate suicide in an underground chamber alongside his new wife, Eva Braun.
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It's a selection of five characteristically mordant, finger-on-the-pulse pieces from the book All Points North.
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Converning himself with the complicated interactions of modern life, Kunzru speaks to us all, and in Noise he brings together several haunting and strikingly relevant shorter pieces of fiction.
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In this book, Boyd turns to his own biography for inspiration by exploring his childhood in West Africa and his schooling in Scotland.
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The author describes the decisive victory of the crusaders over Arab forces in Jerusalem, an episode that perhaps more than any other was responsible for generating a Christian-Moslem enmity still felt today.
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William Trevor's novels and short stories have been published in Penguin for the last forty years. The Dressmaker's Child contains two stories chosen by the author from recent collections together with a story appearing in book form for the firs[...]
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Whether in the guise of a 13 3/4-year old adolescent, a transvestite PM or the Queen reduced to living on a council estate, Sue Townsend has been brilliantly satirizing British life for more than twenty years. Penguin publish all of Townsend's h[...]
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The Scales of Justice contains one of Rumpole's finest cases and also an extract from the author's autobiography in which he describes how he grew 'into a way of life as a barrister who wrote or, as I wanted to think of it, as a writer who did b[...]
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The author reveals how even a jaded professional can be left speech-less by straight-talking children.
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In this piece, Jane tell us about her relationship with a man who will never use her name.
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Tomalin tells the story of the formative years of the poet Shelley and brings the young radical and his world vividly to life.
