Empire Of Illusion

Jonathan Webber

A powerful new anthology that redefines ourunderstanding of existentialism and argues for itscontemporary relevanceA Penguin ClassicIn the aftermath of the Second World War, a group of intellectuals gathered to discuss urgent questions of existence, commitment, racism, colonialism and feminism. Their ideas would continue to shape debates throughout the twentieth and twenty-firs...

Ali Hazelwood

*This edition includes exclusive four-colour interior artwork by Lilithsaur ft a very steamy scene, plus a brand-new bonus chapter* An enemies-to-lovers spicy novella set in the world of video gaming from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Deep End and Mate - now in print and ebook! Viola Bowen has the chance of a lifetime: to design a video game based on her all-time fav...

Julian Zabalbeascoa

In late 1936, eighteen-year-old Isidro Elejalde leaves his Basque village in northern Spain, spurred by the rousing words of a political essayist to join the fight to preserve his country's democracy from insurrectionists. Months earlier, Spanish generals had launched a military coup to overthrow Spain's newly elected left-wing government. The generals assumed the population wo...

Shannon J. Spann

Riven Hesper is running out of time. Cursed by a Player-a godlike performer -she must infiltrate the Playhouse and find a way to break the curse before it kills her. But inside survival comes at a price. Mortals must compete for a chance to kill a Player and steal their power. Riven wants nothing to do with this until Jude-charismatic and cruel -makes her an offer. Win the com...

Laurence Rees

How could the Nazis have committed the crimes they did? Why did they willingly - often enthusiastically - oversee mass murder? How did ordinary Germans tolerate the removal of Jewish people? And how do we ensure it never happens again? Bestselling author Laurence Rees combines history and the latest psychological research to help answer the most perplexing questions surroundi...

Julian Barnes

Departure(s) is a work of fiction - but that doesn't mean it's not true. It is the story of a man called Stephen and a woman called Jean, who fall in love when they are young and again when they are old. It is the story of an elderly Jack Russell called Jimmy, enviably oblivious to his own mortality. It is also the story of how the body fails us, whether through age, illness,...

Chris Hedges

Now with a new preface for the paperback edition by the author, an unflinching indictment of the horror and obscenity of war by one of our finest war correspondents.Drawn from experience and interviews by Pulitzer-prize-winner Chris Hedges, a devastating look the hidden costs of war, what it does to individuals, families, communities and nations."A remarkable record of reportin...

Chris Hedges

Chris Hedges's profound and unsettling examination of America in crisis is "an exceedingly...provocative book, certain to arouse controversy, but offering a point of view that needs to be heard" (Booklist), about how bitter hopelessness and malaise have resulted in a culture of sadism and hate.America, says Pulitzer Prize?-winning reporter Chris Hedges, is convulsed by an array...

Chris Hedges

Acclaimed journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges is one of the great moral voices of our age. He has the rare combination of decades of experience reporting from conflict zones in Central America, the Middle East, Africa, and the Balkans, and the erudition one would expect from a student of Christian ethics and the classics at Harvard University. He prizes the truth ...

Chris Hedges

The liberal class is facing an untimely demise of its own making. In this provocative new work Chris Hedges explains how liberals sold us out, bankrupted the country and now face a crisis of their own. ...

Chris Hedges

From the "New York Times" bestselling author of "American Fascists" and the NBCC finalist for "War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning" comes this timely and compelling work about new atheists: those who attack religion to advance the worst of global capitalism, intolerance and imperial projects.Chris Hedges, who graduated from seminary at Harvard Divinity School, has long been a ...

Chris Hedges