A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities" portrays a world on fire, split between Paris and London during the brutal and bloody events of the French Revolution. This "Penguin Classics" edition of is edited with an introduction and notes by Richard Maxwell. 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of ti...

On Being Different: What It Means to Be a Homosexual

Merle Miller; Charles Kaiser (Afterword by); Dan Savage (Foreword by)

Originally published in 1971, Merle Miller's On Being Differentis a pioneering and thought-provoking book about being homosexual in the United States. Just two years after the Stonewall riots, Miller wrote a poignant essay for the New York Times Magazineentitled "What It Means To Be a Homosexual" in res...

You and Me on Vacation

Emily Henry

Two Friends Ten Summer Trips Their Last Chance to Fall in Love 12 Summers ago: Poppy and Alex meet. They hate each other, and are pretty confident they'll never speak again. 11 Summers ago: They're forced to share a ride home from college and by the end of it a friendship is formed. And a pact: every ye...

Love in a Cold Climate and the Pursuit of Love

Nancy Mitford; Laura Thompson (Introduction by)

Nancy Mitford modelled the characters in her best-known novels on her own unconventional (and at the time of writing, notorious) family. We are introduced to the Radletts through the eyes of their cousin, Fanny ('the Bolter's girl'), on one of her frequent visits to their country estate: Uncle Matthew t...

Lead Us Not

Abbey Lay

An emotionally charged novel of female friendship, for readers of Elena Ferrante and Diana Reid. 'When we spoke, I never knew what Olive would reveal to me. There were nights where she would lie next to me and pour herself out into the darkness, and others where it seemed she was hardly there at all.' ...