Revolution in the Head: the Beatles records and the Sixties (3rd edition 2008)

Ian MacDonald

As dazzling as the decade they dominated, The Beatles almost single-handedly created pop music as we know it. Today, their songs are cited as seminal influences by stars like Oasis, Blur and Kula Shaker. Eloquently giving voice to their time, The Beatles quite simply changed the world. Fully updated to ...

The Complete Poems

Walt Whitman

From Leaves of Grass to "Song of Myself," all of Whitman's poetry in one volume   In 1855 Walt Whitman published Leaves of Grass, the work that defined him as one of America's most influential voices and that he added to throughout his life. A collection of astonishing originality and intensity, it sp...

We Have Always Lived in the Castle: Popular Penguins

Shirley Jackson

Shirley Jackson's beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family's dark secret   Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle th...

The Brothers Quibble

Aaron Blabey

Spalding Quibble ruled the roost. He shared it with no other. But then his parents introduced a brand new baby brother. Uh oh. A book about love (and war) from the award-winning author of Pearl Barley and Charlie Parsley, The Dreadful Fluff, and Noah Dreary.  ...

The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop: A Novel

Fannie Flagg

Bud Threadgoode grew up in the bustling little railroad town of Whistle Stop with his mother, Ruth, church-going and proper, and his Aunt Idgie, the fun-loving hell-raiser. Together they ran the town’s popular Whistle Stop Cafe, known far and wide for its fun and famous fried green tomatoes. And as Bud ...

Lapvona

Ottessa Moshfegh

Brace yourself for Lapvona - a rollercoaster ride of depravation and perversion in the singular new novel from Ottessa Moshfegh, author of My Year of Rest and Relaxation In the land of Lapvona, the lord of the land Villiam is cheating the local villagers of their food, their water, their livelihoods. G...

The Night of the Hunter (Green Crime Modern Classics)

Davis Grubb

A rediscovered diabolical slice of great American noir'What kind of a man would have his fingers tattooed that way? ... What kind of a man? What kind of a preacher?'One of the great chase novels, The Night of the Hunter centres on the ferocious, unforgettable figure of Preacher, a psychopath who relentl...