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This is the book that led to Hans Fallada’s downfall with the Nazis. The story of a young couple struggling to survive the German economic collapse was a worldwide sensation and was made into an acclaimed Hollywood movie, produced by Jews, leading Hitler to ban Fallada’s work from being translated.
Laurie Lee left his childhood home in the Cotswolds when he was 19, but it remained with him throughout his life until, many years later, he returned for good. This collection brings to life the sights, sounds, landscapes and traditions of his home – from centuries-old May Day rituals to his own patch of garden, and from carol singing in crunching snow to pub conversations and songs. Here too he writes about the mysteries of love, living in wartime Chelsea, Winston Churchill’s wintry funeral and his battle, in old age, to save his beloved Slad Valley from developers. Told with a warm sense of humour and a powerful sense of history, this work brings us a picture of a vanished world.
The narrator of this novel wakes up in hospital to find that, by missing a freak cosmic event which has blinded most of the population, he has survived to witness a new world. The new world that awaits him however is fantastic, horrific and inhabited by carnivorous walking plants!
A new translation in the Penguin Maigret series. Madame Maigret takes the lead in this disturbing investigation.
The moon must have risen about the mist, which was now faintly incandescent, and, when Arlette stopped, he saw the pale shape of her face, with the wide line of her mouth. Then, still standing there in front of him, she said in a changed voice, which was painful to hear: ‘And – don’t you want to take advantage of me, like the others?’
While his old furniture rots in storage, Malte Laurids Brigge lives in a cheap room in Paris, with little but a library reader’s card to distinguish him from the city’s untouchables. Every person he sees seems to carry their death with them, and he thinks of the deaths, and ghosts, of his aristocratic family, of which only he remains.
Maigret’s first, and unofficial, investigation takes him into a bourgeois Paris household and a police cover-up.
Inspector Maigret plunges into the murky Parisian underworld in book 29 of Penguin’s new ‘Maigret’ series.
Here in notebooks that were never intended for publication, Simenon reflects on his life in some of the most candid revelations ever written. He reflects on his past – his childhood in Liege, the wild parties in Paris and travels around the world – and also examines his motivations and his attitude to work.
At what point in the day could the note have been slipped into his pocket, his left breast pocket? It was an ordinary sheet of glazed squared paper, probably torn out of an exercise book. The words were written in pencil, in a regular handwriting that looked to him like a woman’s. For pity’s sake, ask to see the patient in room 15. When Inspector Maigret’s wife falls ill on their seaside holiday, a visit to the hospital leads him on an unexpected quest to find justice for a young girl.
Although many more of Holmes’ cases were recorded in short stories, these were his only novels. Each is faithfully reproduced in this volume, providing an ideal introduction to Sherlock Holmes for the uninitiated as well as a nostalgically familiar collection for long-established Holmes fans.
Tim Cranmer, retired secret servant, and Larry Pettifer, 20 years Tim’s mercurial double agent against the now vanished Communist threat, have an unresolved rivalry that dates back decades. They follow each other into the wilds of Moscow and then Southern Russia until a small, unheard-of nation becomes their proving ground.
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