Truman Capote`s dazzling New York novel Breakfast at Tiffany`s that inspired the classic 1961 film starring Audrey Hepburn is beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range. ` What I`ve found does the most good is just to get into a taxi & go to Tiffany`s. It calms me down right away, the quietness & the proud look of it; nothing very bad could happen to you there, not with those kind men in their nice suits...` Meet Holly Golightly
- a free spirited, lop-sided romantic girl about town. With her tousled blond hair & upturned nose, dark glasses & chic black dresses, Holly is a style sensation wherever she goes. Her apartment rocks to Martini-soaked parties & she plays hostess to millionaires & gangsters alike. Yet Holly never loses sight of her ultimate dream
- to find a real life place like Tiffany`s that makes her feel at home. Full of sharp wit & exuberant, larger-than-life characters which vividly capture the restless, madcap era of 1940s New York, Breakfast at Tiffany`s will make you fall in love, perhaps for the first time, with a book.

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For ten years Geordie Greig was among a very small group of friends who regularly met Lucian Freud for breakfast at Clarke`s restaurant on Kensington Church Street. Over tea & the morning papers, Freud would recount stories of his past & discuss art. It was, in effect, Freud`s private salon. In this kaleidoscopic memoir, Greig remembers Freud`s stories: of death threats; escaping from Nazi Germany; falling out with his brother Clement; loathing his mother; painting David Hockney; sleeping with horses; escaping the Krays; painting the Queen; his controversial role as a father; & why Velazquez was the greatest painter. It is revelatory about his art, his lovers, his children, his enemies & his love of gambling. Freud dared never to do dull, speaking candidly of dancing with Garbo as well as painting Kate Moss naked. Those closest to him, after decades of silence & secrecy, have spoken frankly about what life was like living, loving or sitting for the greatest figurative portraitist of the twentieth century. Partly based on hours of taped conversations with the artist & his circle, & drawing on interviews with those who knew Freud intimately
- including many girlfriends, models, dealers & bookmakers
- Breakfast with Lucian is an intimate portrait of the artist as a young & old man. Illustrated with many unseen photographs of Freud, it is a uniquely fascinating, personal & authoritative account of one of the greatest British painters of this century & the last, & a profile of a man who makes everyone else`s life seem less lived.

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` Hell is other people.` This is a chilling, page-turning Hammer novella by the Booker-Prize-winning author of Vernon God Little. The setting: a faded, lonely guesthouse on the Essex coast. Outside, it`s dark, & very foggy. Inside there`s no phone or internet reception, no connection with the outside world. Enter Ariel Panek, a promising young academic en route from the USA to an important convention in Amsterdam. With his plane grounded by fog at Stanstead, he has been booked in for the night at the guesthouse. Discombobulated & jetlagged, he falls in with a family who appear to be commemorating an event. But this is no ordinary celebration. & this is no ordinary family. As evening becomes night, Panek realises that he has become caught in an insidious web of other people`s secrets & lies, a Sartrian hell from which for him there may be no escape. ...

For Emily Pool, India is a magical place where she has the freedom to escape her mother`s suffocating influence. Her days are spent exploring the canals & gardens of East Bengal, & admiringly observing her glamorous, dignified neighbours, the Nikolides. But just as the cracks in Emily`s family home are papered over, so do the Pools strive to maintain an outward impression of respectability, & it is through the Nikolides that Emily is exposed to a world of adult deceit & attrition. & when her beloved dog dies, the event forces a confrontation & reveals to Emily that nothing in the town is quite as it seems.. . ...

I hadn't even sat down yet, one buttock still hovering, my hand on the car door, & already my sister-in-law was on the attack: At last! Didn't you hear the horn? We've been waiting here for ten minutes! Good morning, I replied. On the car journey to a family wedding, Garance reflects on how adult life, with its disappointments & responsibilities, has not always gone to plan for herself or her three siblings. But just around the corner lies the chance for them to revisit their younger, carefree selves in a delightfully unplanned escapade. ...

Featuring 20 different postcards depicting scenes & locations from Breaking Bad. Send a postcard from the DEA Office in Albuquerque, New Mexico, from a Los Pollos Hermanos restaurant or the candlelit shrine to Santa Muerte in Mexico. Wish you were here! ...

Israeli baking encompasses the influences of so many regions
- Morocco, Yemen, Germany, & Georgia, to name a few & master baker
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A LIZ CARLYLE INVESTIGATION` Rimington tells her story with the crisp authority one would expect of James Bond`s M` New York Times Book Review Recovering from a gruelling terrorist investigation, Liz Carlyle has been posted to MI5`s counter-espionage desk. Her bosses hope the change of scene will give her some breathing space, but they haven`t counted on Putin`s increased aggression towards the West. Soon Liz is on the hunt for a Russian spy who threatens to plunge Britain back into the fraught days of the Cold War. Meanwhile, MI6 has hired Jasminder Kapoor, a controversial young civil rights lawyer, to explain issues of privacy & security to the public. But in this world of shadowy motives & secret identities, Jasminder must be extra-careful about whom she can trust.. . ...

Twilight tempted the imagination.. . New Moon made readers thirsty for more.. . Eclipse turned the saga into a worldwide phenomenon.. . And now
- the book that everyone has been waiting for.. . Breaking Dawn. In the much anticipated fourth book in Stephenie Meyer`s love story, questions will be answered & the fate of Bella & Edward will be revealed.
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Discover an astonishing collection of extraordinary characters in this brand new compilation of women`s travel writing. Spanning three centuries, this assortment of writings reveals a rich treasure trove of anecdotes & adventures from incredible women worth celebrating & remembering. Celia Fiennes travelled the length & breadth of Engl&, riding side-saddle, at the dawn of the eighteenth century. Discover the multiple journeys around the world undertaken in the 1840s by the Austrian Ida Pfeiffer. Dora d` Istria, a mountain-climbing duchess & polymath, travelled widely through Europe but her account of ascending Mont Blanc in 1860 is perhaps the most striking. Read about Isabel Burton`s adventures as a government employee`s wife stationed all over the world. Explore the writing of Isabella Bird who travelled around the world on doctor`s orders
- until finally retraining as a doctor & missionary in her sixties for a trip to India & its surrounding countries. Find out what motivated Marie Kingsley to travel solo to the deepest parts of West Africa & how her journeys shaped not only her own way of thinking but that of Europe as whole. Learn how May Kellogg Sullivan undertook her journey to Alaska & the Yukon to seek her fortune in the gold-mining world. Astonish yourself by finding out that, on a trip to Burma, India, Ceylon & Indonesia with her husb&, Fanny Bullock Workman cycled 15, 000 miles (as a welcome break from glacier-climbing in the Himalayas). Follow investigative journalist Nellie Bly as she takes up Jules Verne`s gauntlet to travel around the world in eighty days. Or find out how Ella Sykes once rode on horseback from the Caspian Sea all the way to India.
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