Regeneration

Pat Barker

Regeneration by Pat Barker is a classic exploration of how the traumas of war brutalised a generation of young - published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.'I just don't think our war aims -whatever they may be- and we don't know - justify this level of slaughter.'The poets and soldiers Siegfri...

Kant and the Platypus

Umberto Eco

An attempt to answer the question, how much do our perceptions of things depend on our cognitive ability and how much on our linguistic resources? Eco undertakes a series of idiosyncratic explorations, starting from the perceived data of common sense, to expound a clear critique of Kant....

Madness

Roald Dahl

A woman obsessed with punctuality makes a fateful decision, a wronged woman takes revenge on her dead husband, a cat's curious behaviour comes between a husband and his wife. . . "Madness" highlights a domestic familiarity always on the edge of something much, much darker. Collected together for the fir...

Tokyo Revengers (Omnibus) Vol. 5-6

Ken Wakui

The critically acclaimed manga series about a man time-traveling back to his youth to save his girlfriend from a street gang-which inspired the wildly popular anime and live-action film!   Watching the news, Hanagaki Takemichi learns his junior-high girlfriend Tachibana Hinata has died. A sudden shove...