The chilling true crime non-fiction novel that made Truman Capotes name, In Cold Blood is a seminal work of modern prose, a remarkable synthesis of journalistic skill & powerfully evocative narrative published in Penguin Modern Classics.

Controversial & compelling, In Cold Blood reconstructs the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife & both their children. Truman Capotes comprehensive study of the killings & subsequent investigation explores the circumstances surrounding this terrible crime & the effect it had on those involved. At the centre of his study are the amoral young killers Perry Smith & Dick Hickcock, who, vividly drawn by Capote, are shown to be reprehensible yet entirely & frighteningly human.

Truman Capote (1924-84) was born in New Orleans. He left school when he was fifteen & subsequently worked for The New Yorker, which provided his first
- & last
- regular job. He wrote both fiction & non-fiction
- short stories, novels & novellas, travel writing, profiles, reportage, memoirs, plays & films; his other works include In Cold Blood (1965), Music for Chameleons (1980) & Answered Prayers (1986), all of which are published in Penguin Modern Classics.






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Forces us to reconsider much received wisdom about the war & illuminates an unjustly neglected period of his life the Second Wilderness Years of 1945-51, when Churchill, now over seventy, wrote himself into history, politicked himself back into Downing Street & delivered some of the most important speeches of his career. ...

A pack that contains the Student's Book & webcode access to online components. It allows students to practise language online & on the move & see their progress. It also gives access to additional material such as audio, video, answer key, glossary, phrase banks & worksheets. ...

Anti-American sentiments have swept the globe. But there is another side to the story. This book shows how critics of America take the best of it for granted & exaggerate the worst. It reveals a world in danger of fighting to keep the giant at bay, when the harder task is to give America good reason to keep engaged. ...

Inviting you to junk the science, ditch the diet & instead rediscover the joys of eating well, this title features a few pieces of advice (Eat at a table
- a desk doesn't count. Don't buy food where you'd buy your petrol!) that means that you can enrich your life & your palate, & enlarge your sense of what it means to be healthy & happy.
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Suitable for the Drake scholar & the armchair traveller alike, this pictorial, topographical text is laced with research techniques, discoveries & adventures in reaching all the Drake places. It is written on location by an intrepid adventurer with a Drake's-eye view. ...

The author spent the year 1999 criss-crossing the continent. This book offers an account of that journey, full of diaries, newspaper reports & memoirs, & the voices of prominent figures & unknown players; from the grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II to Adriana Warno in Pol&, with her holiday job at the gates of the camp at Birkenau. ...

** BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK **` It has always seemed to me that what I write about is humanity in extremis, pushed to the unendurable, & that it is important to tell people what really happens in wars.' Marie Colvin, 2001 Marie Colvin was glamorous, hard-drinking, braver than the boys, with a troubled & rackety personal life. ...

Iris is getting old. A widow, her days are spent living quietly & worrying about her granddaughter, Grace, a headstrong young doctor. It's a small sort of life. But one day Iris receives something unexpected in the post
- an invitation to a WWI reunion in France. Determined to go, Iris is overcome by memories of the past & of her journey to France in 1914, where she followed her young brother Tom, intending to bring him home to safety. But on her way to find Tom, Iris discovers the old abbey of Royaumont, where a group of women work to set up a field hospital. Putting her fears aside, Iris decides to stay & help. It is at Royaumont that she truly comes of age, finding her capability & her strength, discovering her passion for medicine, making friends with the vivacious violet & falling in love. But war is a brutal thing, & there is a terrible price that Iris has to pay
- a price that will echo down the generations.

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After a London pub brawl, in which her beloved father is injured, thirteen-year-old Sally Stangate & her family must flee to begin a new life in the Essex village where he was born. But when they arrive, Sally has an uncanny feeling that her future in Wyford will be ill-starred. Her premonition proves to be well-founded; six years later, just after the outbreak of World War I, an old family secret destroys her hopes of marriage to Tim, the man she loves, & estranges her from her family. Determined to put the past behind her, Sally goes to work in her Aunt Becca's antiques shop. When she falls in love with a young shipwright, Sam Bridges, she believes the chance of happiness is hers once more
- but Sam's mother opposes the match & Sally is forced to watch her lover go off to war at the very moment when she needs him most. After a London pub brawl, in which her beloved father is injured, thirteen-year-old Sally Stangate & her family must flee to begin a new life in the Essex village where he was born. But when they arrive, Sally has an uncanny feeling that her future in Wyford will be ill-starred. Her premonition proves to be well-founded; six years later, just after the outbreak of World War I, an old family secret destroys her hopes of marriage to Tim, the man she loves, & estranges her from her family. Determined to put the past behind her, Sally goes to work in her Aunt Becca's antiques shop. When she falls in love with a young shipwright, Sam Bridges, she believes the chance of happiness is hers once more
- but Sam's mother opposes the match & Sally is forced to watch her lover go off to war at the very moment when she needs him most. 17.6 x 11 x 2.7 cm, pages 409

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