The New Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs

Julia Bishop

The definitive collection of folk music - one of the great English popular art forms. One of the great English popular art forms, the folk song can be painful, satirical, erotic, dramatic, rueful or funny. This magical new collection brings together all the classic folk songs as well as many lesser-know...

Karl Marx : Grandeur and Illusion; a Historical Biography

Gareth Stedman Jones

As the nineteenth century unfolded, its inhabitants debated an unparalleled range of economic, political, religious and intellectual challenges.One of the most distinctive and arresting contributions to this debate was made by Karl Marx, the son of a Jewish convert in the Rhineland and a man whose entir...

Funny Boy: A Novel in Six Stories

Shyam Selvadurai

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NEEL MUKHERJEE 'An extraordinarily powerful, deeply moving novel' Amitav Ghosh In the world of his large family - affluent Tamils living in Colombo - Arjie is an oddity, a 'funny boy' who prefers dressing as a girl to playing cricket with his brother. But as Arjie comes to terms ...