'A characteristically radical re-reading of history that places the social and political experiments of pirates at the heart of the European Enlightenment. A brilliant companion volume to the best-...
The House of Fortune is the sequel to Jessie Burton’s million-copy bestseller The Miniaturist. Set in the golden city of Amsterdam in 1705, it is a story of fate and ambition, secrets and dre...
Selected from across Capote's writing life, the stories range from nostalgic portraits of childhood to more unsettling works that reveal the darkness beneath the festive glitter. In the Deep South ...
A fresh cultural analysis of female monsters from Greek mythology, and an invitation for all women to reclaim these stories as inspiration for a more wild, more “monstrous” version of f...
In a classroom in Seoul, a young woman watches her Greek language teacher at the blackboard. She tries to speak but has lost her voice. Her teacher finds himself drawn to the silent woman, for day ...
An astonishingly moving novel about the connection to be found in family, art and shared resistance'A moving and important novel' Namwali SerpellAfter years away from her fa...
'The most innovative and influential French thinker of the contemporary era' GuardianThis is the ideal introduction to one of the most significant and radical philosophers of the past c...
Dmitry Andreich Olenin, in the hope of escaping the hollowness of his privilege, joins the army and heads to the Caucasus. There among the foothills, he will meet the Cossacks: a people he consider...
A radical new account of how the idea of the West has shaped our history, told through the stories of fourteen fascinating lives.We tend to imagine Western Civilisation as a golden thre...
Tom’s iconic images of hypermasculine military menWhen we think Tom of Finland we first picture muscular, macho young men in military gear. Tom’s vision of masculine perfection wa...
Japanese fairy tales - enchanting, enigmatic stories of animals, human beings and the great natural world. Dark and innocent, sublime and whimsical, Miyazawa's stories have the ageless...
Carol Bolt is a professional artist and lives in Seattle. The Book of Answers is her first book and The Book of Love Answers is her second book in this hugely popular series.
Recent years have seen rapid advances in 'artificial' intelligence, which increasingly appears to be something stranger than we ever imagined. At the same time, we are becoming more aware of the ot...
Maya Angelou’s seven volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a Black woman she ha...
Dwudziestotrzyletni Hans Castorp jedzie do Szwajcarii, by odwiedzić kuzyna, który przebywa na leczeniu w sanatorium "Berghof", położonym wysoko w górach. Pobyt zaplanowany n...
Cracovie, 1893. Zofia Turbotynska, sans enfants, mariée à un professeur d'université, s'efforce de gagner sa place dans la haute société cracovienne. Dans ce but,...
Przygotowywany przez PIW tom to wznowienie opublikowanych na przełomie lat 80. i 90. trzech powieści Bronisława Wildsteina - "Jak woda", "Brat" oraz "O zdradzie i śmierci&q...
Dżuma to nie jedyny zabójca… Minger, fikcyjna osmańska wyspa we wschodniej części Morza Śródziemnego. Słynie z marmuru, rzadkiej odmiany róży i zamku pamiętającego czasy...
Poruszająca saga bestsellerowej autorki! Wielki głód na Ukrainie, tygiel narodowościowy we Lwowie i skomplikowane relacje polsko-ukraińskie to pejzaż, w którym swoje miejsce mus...
Léo, 17 ans, passe sa dernière journée de vacances dans un camping des Landes. Sur la plage, il enterre le corps d’Oscar, qu’il a passivement regardé mourir,...