The Russian artist Sonia Delaunay, developed her own distinctive career as an artist after World War I. Gloria Swanson and various French film stars were dressed by her. She also designed interiors and fabrics. This work offers a record of her contribution to design.[...]
Maigret's past comes to life in this vivid new translation of this evocative novel, set in the Inspector's home town. Book thirteen in the new Penguin Maigret series. Maigret savoured the sensations of his youth again: the cold, stinging eyes, frozen fingertips, an aftertaste of coffee. Then, steppi[...]
This is a new translation of Georges Simenon's devastating novel set on the French Riviera, book seventeen in the new Penguin Maigret series. It had a smell of holidays. The previous evening, in Cannes harbour, with the setting sun, had also had the smell of holidays, especially the Ardena, whose ow[...]
At a bleak, isolated military school on the fringes of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, four young cadets - Torless, Beineberg, Reiting and their victim Basini - drift even further away from their school-fellows into a private world of ritual, secrecy and torture. This title is first published in 1906.[...]
"What might have been, in less talented hands, an amusing literary thriller is, in Mercier's prose . . . something far more complex." --Alberto Manguel, "The Guardian" (UK)
"Night Train to Lisbon," a tremendous international best seller, established Pascal Mercier as one of the most striking Eur[...]
A bloody historical epic of exodus and return, torn loyalties and desperate battles, "Manituana" spans the Atlantic, from the forests of America's northeast to the underworld of eighteenth-century London. The authors' collective Wu Ming have created a genre-breaking reimagining of the American Civil[...]