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Winner of the 2007 Costa Biography Award
'Young Stalin is a gripping read... Montefiore's research... is brilliant. The book provides a wealth of serious and scurrilous detail, creating a memorable portrait of one of the 20th century's greatest monsters'.
Antony Beevor, Daily Telegraph

Jose Saramago
WINNER OF THE 1998 NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE
'Dark, baroque and powerfully affecting... Beneath the savagery, the desperate emotions and ineffable cruelties, this dystopian satire has enough black humour to make it bearable'.
Financial Times

Introduction in English - Play text in FRENCH
Huis Clos was first performed in 1944, a year later than Les Mouches, and presents many of the main ideas of Existentialism.
Both plays include direct reference to two major preoccupations of contemporary France: the quest for liberty, and the problem of having to live in the stifling atmosphere of a Hell created by others.

"The first introspective account ever published of what it's like to be a field worker among a primitive people."
MARGARET MEAD

In this controversial yet compelling book, Koch and Smith identify six key pillars of Western civilisation: Christianity, optimism, science, economic growth, liberalism and individualism. They show how these ideas have suffered a century of sustained attack from within and no longer inspire or unite the West, making a drift towards collective suicide appear inevitable.

While writing his first novel East of Eden, John Steinbeck kept a note-book addressed to his friend and editor, Pascal Covici. Concerned with his everyday joys and fears, from his minor obsessions to his deepest convictions, and of course with the novel he felt to be the epitome of his art, this journal - never intended for publication - gives a truly fascinating insight into Steinbeck the author and Steinbeck the man.

(Sixteen pages of rare and original black & white photos)
With access to Williams' complete archive, including 43 volumes of diaries and hundreds of unseen letters - Stevens draws on exclusive interviews with his closest friends such as Barbara Windsor, Stanley Baxter, Michael Parkinson, Nicholas Parsons and many more.
The first full portrait of a star who was born brilliant.