The Man Who Planted Trees
Jean Giono

Illustrated by Michael McCurdy

With an Afterword by Norma L. Goodrich

In his wonderful story of Elzéard Bouffier, an imaginary yet wholly believable shepherd, Jean Giono perhaps hoped to inspire a reafforestation programme that would renew the whole earth. Recently described by War Horse author, Michael Morpurgo as 'the most compelling book I know and maybe the most important.'

Born Gay: The Psychobiology of Sex Orientation

Glenn Wilson & Qazi Rahman

Are people born gay, or does upbringing or even conscious personal choice play a part? The acrimonious row between gay rights activists and God-fearing conservatives over this burning question has now raged for over a decade. But the science they employ in their arguments is not merely outmoded but often fallacious.

Since the ground-breaking work of Simon LeVay and Dean Hamer in the early ’90s, a tremendous amount of new research has been carried out by scientists who now understand a great deal more about the biology of sexual attraction. How much does the non-scientific community really know about this research or understand the far-reaching implications of it?

Agatha Christie and The Eleven Missing Days

Jared Cade

In December 1926, Agatha Christie became front-page news when she vanished in bizarre circumstances from her home in Berkshire, England. The crime writer was found eleven days later in a hotel in Harrogate, Yorkshire, claiming to be the victim of amnesia. Up till now none of her biographers has come up with conclusive evidence as to what Agatha Christie did in the first twenty-four hours after she disappeared or whether her memory loss was genuine. COMING SOON – the fully Revised and Updated edition.

Wheel of Fortune
The official autobiography

Edith Piaf

Released to coincide with the forthcoming film of Piaf's tempestuous life, this is her story told in her own words.

Hidden Faces: His Only Novel

Salvador Dali

‘As far back as 1922 the great poet Garcia Lorca had predicted that I was destined for a literary career and had suggested that my future precisely in the “pure novel”.’ In this book, the only novel by Salvador Dalí and now in it's sixth Peter Owen paperback edition, the reader enters the bizarre world already familiar to us from his paintings.

Kokoro

Natsume Soseki

A landmark work in Soseki's oeuvre – and the bestselling book in Japan ever. A haunting tale of a young man's unique relationship with a mentor with a tragic secret.

Narcissus and Goldmund

Translated from the German by Leila Vennewitz
Herman Hesse

The authoritative translation of Hesse's classic novel, with a new foreword by Graham Coxon.

The Year of the Hare

A picaresque novel with an ecological theme
Arto Paasilinna

A best-seller in Finland and in France, The Year of the Hare has gained an outstanding reputation throughout Europe for it's wit, imagination and conscience.