Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps

Anne Applebaum

The Gulag is Russia's forgotten holocaust. The largest network of concentration camps ever created, it murdered millions and haunted all those who came out alive. Here, for the first time, is the full, moving story of its countless victims- how they lived, laboured, suffered - and survived to bear witne...

Steppenwolf: Popular Penguins

Hesse Hermann

'The unhappiness that I need and long for . . . is of the kind that will let me suffer with eagerness and die with lust. That is the unhappiness, or happiness, that I am waiting for.' Alienated from society, Harry Haller is the Steppenwolf, wild, strange and shy. His despair and desire for death draw hi...