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CLAIRE NORTH BRINGS A POWERFUL, FRESH AND UNFLINCHING VOICE TO ANCIENT MYTH — Jennifer Saint, author of Sunday Times bestseller Ariadne Following the critically acclaimed Ithaca and House of Odysseus comes the final novel in Claire North's Songs of Penelope trilogy — an exquisite, gripping tale that breathes life into ancient myth. This is the story of Penelope of Ithaca,...

A brilliant and dramatic close reading of the first book of the Bible focussing on the complex relationship with humankind 'A work of exceptional wisdom and imagination' — DR ROWAN WILLIAMS, DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Rich and provoking... Robinson has masterfully traced a sense of wonder back to its ancient, remarkable source' — JULIAN COMAN, OBSERVER Reading Genesis is alive with questions...

Of all John Fowles' novels, The French Lieutenant's Woman received the most universal acclaim and today holds a very special place in the canon of post-war English literature. From the god-like stance of the nineteenth-century novelist that he both assumes and gently mocks, to the last detail of dress, idiom and manners, his book is an immaculate recreation of Victorian...

Vintage Minis bring you the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us human – from birth to death and everything in between. "The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility." Is lying simply an uncomfortable truth about life or something to be...

VINTAGE DECO - Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on. What's the world for you if you can't make it up the way you want it? Joe Trace - in his fifties, door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, erstwhile devoted husband - shoots dead his lover of three months, the impetuous, eighteen-year-old Dorcas. At the...

From YouTube sensation Chris Broad comes the hilarious and insightful memoir of a Brit trying to assimilate into life in Japan as he unravels the wonders and eccentricities of one of the world's most mysterious cultures. When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan, he wondered if he'd made a huge mistake. With no knowledge of...

Charles Dickens' stunning novel, which includes some of his most famous and memorable characters—Estella, Miss Havisham and the inimitable Pip. Great Expectations follows Pip's life as an ordinary country boy, whose path seems destined to be unexceptional until a chain of mysterious events leads him away from his humble origins and up the social ladder. His efforts to become a...

Based on the hit ABC KIDS TV show! It's the weekend! What games will Bluey and Bingo play? And will everyone get to meet Bingo's new friend? A gorgeous board book for kids of all ages. Bluey is an award-winning preschool show about Bluey, a blue heeler pup, and her family. Airing on ABC KIDS, the show has amassed legions...

Haruki Murakami's third novel, A Wild Sheep Chase, is the mystery hybrid that completes the odyssey begun in Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973. This stunning new edition features a 3D cover and 3D glasses. The man was leading an aimless life, time passing, one big blank. His girlfriend has perfectly formed ears, ears with the power to bewitch,...

The gut-wrenching story of how one of Australia’s finest surfers overcame a brain injury and despair to win an Olympic medal. On the morning of 10 December 2015, Owen Wright entered the water at Pipeline, Hawaii, determined to become a world champion. But after being pounded by a set of monstrous waves, he ended up fighting for life and facing...

A deluxe 10th anniversary edition of the bestselling poetry collection milk and honey, including an exclusive new chapter of poetry, a new introduction by Rupi, a collage of behind-the-scenes photos and memorabilia illustrating the book’s decade-long journey, handwritten diary entries, and heartfelt annotations from Rupi and some of today’s most respected voices in a selection of fan-favourite poems. Since debuting...

Snake and Lizard features characters who are distinct and captivating in their own ways. Snake is elegant, calm, and a bit self-centred, while Lizard is exuberant and irrepressible. With its wisdom, acceptance, and good humour, Snake and Lizard beautifully captures the essence of friendship. The stories are enriched by Gavin Bishop's illustrations, rendered in the warm and clear colours of...

A heart-warming cookbook of comforting aromatic Indian flavours, from Asma Khan of Darjeeling Express and Netflix fame. The Times Cookbook of the Year 2022 'Asma Khan... is one of the most articulate, powerful voices in the world of food, and this book is her masterpiece... More than a cookbook, this is a meditation on the power of food to nourish...

A playful lift-the-flap guide to how we keep ourselves clean and why it matters. From eating jam to jumping in muddy puddles, there are lots of ways for a little child to get mucky. But there's also a cosy pleasure in feeling clean again. This delightful book talks little children through everything from baths and showers to handwashing and hairwashing,...

From renowned cardiac surgeon Steven R. Gundry, MD, the New York Times bestselling The Plant Paradox is a revolutionary look at the hidden compounds in "healthy" foods like fruit, vegetables, and whole grains that are causing us to gain weight and develop chronic disease. Most of us have heard of gluten—a protein found in wheat that causes widespread inflammation in...

Move the sliders in this delightful novelty book to see dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures come to life. Babies will love moving the sliders and following the finger trails in this engaging board book. See three baby dinosaurs hatching from their eggs, pterosaurs flying high in the sky and a hungry T. rex snapping at his supper. Brilliant for developing...

Twenty of the finest science fiction short stories from one of the genre’s greatest writers, Isaac Asimov. Isaac Asimov was the Grand Master of the Science Fiction Writers of America, the founder of robot ethics, and one of the world’s most prolific authors of fiction and non-fiction. Asimov’s short fiction has been enjoyed by millions for more than half a...

Humanity’s greatest heroes battle the gods for the survival of the human race! Once every millennium, the gods assemble to decide if humanity is worthy of its continued existence or if it should be destroyed! When the verdict is destruction, the final battle between the gods and mortal heroes will decide the survival or extinction of the human race—a battle...

On 6 June 1944 when the allied armies landed on D-Day, the Second World War had already lasted almost five years. Yet many of the British and American troops who invaded Normandy were virgin soldiers, never before committed to battle. They quit summer England to face within hours a storm of machine-gun and mortar fire. They witnessed scenes, above all...

The epic sequel to Taran Matharu’s instant Sunday Times bestseller, Dragon Rider, in which empires fall and dragons soar… ‘A dazzlingly epic and richly complex world of dragons, magic, and rebellion’ — Amélie Wen Zhao on Dragon Rider Jai dreams of being a dragon rider. He dreams of freedom from the Sabine Empire and a world in which he can...

Move over, Charlotte Brontë. The authors of the New York Times bestselling My Lady Jane are back with an irreverent spin on Jane Eyre—a tale of mischief, romance, and supernatural mayhem perfect for fans of The Princess Bride or A Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue. You may think you know the story. Penniless orphan Jane Eyre begins a new...

It’s aliiiiiiiive! The New York Times bestselling authors of My Lady Jane present an electric, poetic, and (almost) historical tale of the one and only Mary Shelley—perfect for YA fantasy and romance readers. Mary may have inherited the brilliant mind of her late mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, but she lives a drab life above her father’s bookstore, waiting for an extraordinary...

Long live the queen: The authors who brought you the New York Times bestselling My Lady Jane kick off an all-new historical trilogy with the classy, courtly tale of Mary, Queen of Scots—perfect for YA fantasy and romance readers. Welcome to Renaissance France, a place of poison and plots, of beauties and beasts, of mice and... queens. Mary is the...

Hold on to your hats: The authors who brought you the New York Times bestseller My Plain Jane, which Booklist praised as “delightfully deadpan” (starred review) and Publishers Weekly called “a clever, romantic farce” (starred review), are back with another irreverent historical adventure. Welcome to 1876 America, a place bursting with gunslingers, outlaws, and garou—better known as werewolves. And where...

Pre-order the first in a brand new murder mystery series now! There's a killer on the airwaves … and they're calling for you. Darkness looms over sunny Sidmouth, when an unsolved murder comes to the attention of late-night radio talk show host Edward Temmis. Recently sacked from his beloved job after a devastating tragedy, Edward is cast adrift – until...

Preorder Mhairi's new novel COVER STORY – coming soon! Mad about You is a story about two strangers, one big coincidence, and the beginning of driving each other crazy. Harriet Hatley is running away from everything: Getting married. Her boyfriend’s family. Her past. A dream house-share seems like the perfect place to hide, but her unlikely housemate, Cal, is no...

In this groundbreaking addition to his New York Times bestselling Plant Paradox series, Steven R. Gundry, MD, offers a definitive guide to the gut biome and its control over its home—us!—revealing the unimaginably complex and intelligent ecosystem controlling our health and teaching us how to heal our guts to prevent and reverse every type of disease. We may believe that...

Frog, a term of endearment for intensive care paramedics, derives from the notion that everything they touch croaks. Sally Gould delivers a gripping and heartfelt memoir that dives into the unpredictable, often absurd, and sometimes heartbreaking reality of life as a paramedic. Life as a paramedic, writes Sally Gould in this candid, witty memoir, can be traumatic, gross, dull, hilarious,...

Explore various ocean habitats and discover some of the amazing creatures that live under the sea. From the wide-open ocean to a bright and bustling coral reef, explore all sorts of ocean habitats and discover the amazing creatures that inhabit them. Children will love discovering some amazing marine facts while they add over 100 stickers to the various underwater scenes....

Farm Fun by Fiona Watt offers simple but satisfying arts and crafts for young children. This delightful activity book is full of easy yet fun ideas for things to draw, paint, and craft. It also includes some simple picture puzzles. Perfect for sharing with preschoolers, it will entertain while helping to develop hand control, coordination, and concentration.

When Daphne Green discovers her father has hired a bodyguard to protect her, her life is upended. Although Milosh Petrov is nothing like what she expected from a bodyguard—he’s 18, incredibly handsome, and determined to protect her whether she likes it or not. But bodyguards aren’t exactly a coveted accessory, and the pair agree that in social settings Milosh will...

From a pioneering Black feminist and MacArthur “Genius” Fellow, an urgent and exhilarating memoir-manifesto-handbook about how to rein in the excesses of cancel culture so we can truly communicate and solve problems together. In 1979, Loretta Ross was a single mother who had to drop out of Howard University. She was working at Washington, DC’s Rape Crisis Center when she...

In this moving narrative of resilience and pure love, three mothers share their experiences and learnings about life alongside autism. Kate Swenson, Adrian Wood, and Carrie Cariello are from different parts of the country and backgrounds, but they were brought together by a singular experience: they are each a mother to a child with autism. Together they have shared laughter,...

The #1 Sunday Times Bestseller A sparkling debut fantasy with Celtic tones set on the magical isle of Cadence, where two childhood enemies must team up to discover why girls are going missing from their clan. Enchantments run deep on the magical Isle of Cadence. The capricious spirits that live there find mirth in the lives of the humans who...

An exciting sticker book full of awesome monsters and mythical beasts for you to complete. Build a menagerie of terrifying monsters, as well as some of the world's most awe-inspiring mythical beasts, in this thrilling activity book. Children will have hours of fun adding over 300 stickers of claws, teeth, weapons, and armour to a fierce two-headed dragon, a howling...

Lift the soft flaps in this adorable book to find lots of little bears getting ready for a surprise party! It's Bella Bear's birthday, and all the other bears are getting ready to give her a big surprise party. Behind each lovely soft flap in this delightfully illustrated book you'll find a bear cub hiding. From wrapping presents to hanging...

Very First Questions and Answers: Why do I (sometimes) worry? is the perfect prompt for talking about any worries, big or small. Monsters under the bed, leaping dogs, noisy hand dryers, going to a party, being alone... We all feel worried sometimes, but where do our worries come from? Are they ever useful? And what can we do about them?...

See Inside the Future is a lift-the-flap book that invites you to imagine what the world will be like by the end of the 21st century. Join futurologist Tom Cheesewright on a tour of our world, decades into the future. Eight scenes await, revealing what wonders will unfold in our cities, landscapes, inside our own bodies, and in the vast...

The Prince Without Sorrow, the fantasy debut sensation of 2025, transports you to a world unlike any other. WELCOME TO THE RAN EMPIRE. Where winged serpents fly through the skies. Giant leopards prowl the earth. And witches burn blue as they die. A prince born into violence Prince Ashoka is considered an outcast for opposing his father Emperor Adil Maurya’s...

From the master of epic fiction comes the deeply human story of one of the world's greatest mysteries: the building of Stonehenge. A FLINT MINER WITH A GIFT Seft, a talented flint miner, walks the Great Plain in the high summer heat, to witness the rituals that signal the start of a new year. He is there to trade his...

The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark by Jill Tomlinson tells the story of Plop, the Baby Barn Owl, who is like every Barn Owl there ever was, except for one thing - he is afraid of the dark. "Dark is nasty," he says, and so he won't go hunting with his parents. Mrs Barn Owl sends Plop down...

This is the story of how I became my sister… A spine-tingling mystery set in a creepily atmospheric boarding school. Ivy must uncover the secrets behind her twin sister Scarlet’s disappearance before it’s too late. When troublesome Scarlet mysteriously disappears from Rookwood School, the terrifying Miss Fox invites her quiet twin sister Ivy to ‘take her place’. Ivy reluctantly agrees...

A delightful new title in the best-selling touchy-feely series, with eye-catching illustrations and tactile textures to explore. Meet five appealing sharks swimming through this exciting addition to the much-loved That's not my... series. With their bright, bold, eye-catching illustrations and fuzzy, furry, smooth and soft tactile patches on each page, babies and toddlers love the best-selling That's not my... books....

Create outfits to dress up best friends ready for their dream jobs. Best friends Leyla, Katy, and Becca are dreaming about the careers they might have when they grow up. Use the stickers to dress the dolls for different jobs, from vets in Africa to forensic scientists studying crime scenes. With over 300 stickers of clothes and accessories, this fun...

From street dance to samba, ballroom to ballet, dress the dolls for a variety of dances in this lively sticker book. Perfect for young lovers of dance, there are over 300 stickers of clothes, costumes and accessories to get the dolls ready for different kinds of dancing. Sticker Dolly Dressing Dancers offers a delightful experience for children, allowing them to...

Learn how to design, build, and customise 20 mini-projects in Minecraft, from firefighter planes and deep-sea submarines to hidden bunkers and mini arcade games. There's even a superhero flying school! With detailed instructions, block hacks, and build tips, this book will encourage you to polish old skills and learn new tricks as you create a wide range of fun, bite-sized...

The Adventures of Augie March follows the life of Augie, a poor boy growing up in Chicago during the Great Depression. Described as a 'born recruit', he becomes entangled in a series of wild occupations, only to reject each one as too confining for his ambitions. His independence faces its greatest challenge when he meets the glamorous Thea, a huntress...

A powerfully tender portrait of a single mother in 1970s Tokyo. Wonderfully poetic ... extraordinary freshness ... a Virginia Woolf quality — Margaret Drabble Territory of Light is the radiant story of a young woman, living alone in Tokyo with her two-year-old daughter. Its twelve chapters follow the first year of the narrator's separation from her husband. The novel is...

Summer Will Show by Sylvia Townsend Warner is an extraordinary re-imagining of historical fiction. The novel explores the tale of a Victorian woman's love for her husband's mistress. The story follows a young English aristocrat who, cut adrift by tragedy, is led by her husband's former mistress deep into the fervour, chaos, and bloodshed of the French revolution. Summer Will...

Styles of Radical Will is Susan Sontag's second collection of groundbreaking essays, now available in Penguin Modern Classics. This collection features some of the most significant pieces of criticism from the twentieth century. Among them are the classics "The Aesthetics of Silence," offering a brilliant account of language, thought, and consciousness, and "Trip to Hanoi," penned during the Vietnam War....

The incredible eyewitness account of wartime resistance, now in paperback. Insistently asks the question—What would you do? Would you fight, or acquiesce, or collaborate? ... Karski was deeply patriotic and ludicrously brave ... an astonishing testament of survival - Ben Macintyre, author of Operation Mincemeat It is 1939. Jan Karski, a brilliant young Polish student, enjoys a life of parties...

A new translation of this counterculture classic by David Horrocks. At first sight, Harry Haller seems like a respectable, educated man. In reality, he is the Steppenwolf—wild, strange, alienated from society, and repulsed by the modern age. But as he is drawn into a series of dreamlike and sometimes savage encounters—accompanied by, among others, Mozart, Goethe, and the bewitching Hermione—the...

A tale of wasted love, and beauty, by Japan's literary master. Shimamura is tired of the bustling city. He takes the train through the snow to the mountains of the west coast of Japan, to meet with a geisha he believes he loves. Beautiful and innocent, Komako is tightly bound by the rules of a rural geisha, and lives a...

A new translation of Calvino's influential last work Italo Calvino was due to deliver the Charles Eliot Norton lectures at Harvard in 1985-86, but they were left unfinished at his death. The surviving drafts explore the concepts of Lightness, Quickness, Multiplicity, Exactitude, and Visibility (Constancy was to be the sixth) in serious yet playful essays that reveal Calvino's debt to...

A complex, psychological novel about familial loyalty, new to Penguin Modern Classics. A corporate lawyer from the House of Single & Single is shot dead in cold blood on a Turkish hillside. A children's entertainer in Devon is hauled to his local bank late at night to explain a monumental influx of cash. A Russian freighter is arrested in the...

This collection brings together Orwell's longer, major essays and a selection of shorter pieces that include Shooting an Elephant, "My Country Right or Left", "Decline of an English Murder" and "A Hanging". Orwell unfolds his views on subjects ranging from a revaluation of Charles Dickens to a defence of English cooking, displaying a mastery of English plain prose style and...

With a new introduction by Christopher de Bellaigue Shah of Shahs depicts the final years of the Shah in Iran and is a compelling meditation on the nature of revolution and the devastating results of fear. Here, Kapuscinski describes the tyrannical monarch who, despite his cruel oppression of the Iranian people, sees himself as the father of a nation, capable...

Bellow is one of the giants of the twentieth-century novel. Read Seize the Day and see why San Francisco Examiner Fading charmer Tommy Wilhelm has reached his day of reckoning and is scared. In his forties, he still retains a boyish impetuousness that has brought him to the brink of chaos. He is separated from his wife and children, at...

An enlightening anthology of George Orwell's journalism and non-fiction writing. Famous for his novels and essays, Orwell remains one of our very best journalists and commentators. Confronting social, political and moral dilemmas head-on, he was fearless in his writing — a champion of free speech, a defender against social injustice and a sharp-eyed chronicler of the age. But his work...

A startling, densely poetic portrait of 1970s Ghana as it emerges from colonial rule. Search Sweet Country follows the lives of an eclectic, interconnected group of Ghanaians living in and around the sprawling, chaotic city of Accra in the mid-1970s. Bringing the city to life in dizzying, lyrical prose, Laing weaves a story filled with bizarre and often melancholy characters:...

A fruity, foxy masterpiece, defender of our wilting faith in mankind - Sunday Times Horace Rumpole, the rascally, Wordsworth-quoting Old Bailey hack, should be enjoying his retirement. Soaking unhappily in the Florida sun with his wife, Hilda (She Who Must Be Obeyed), it is safely assumed by all that Rumpole's wig has been hung up for good. But when a...

A portrait of one of the greatest artists of the nineteenth century, from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth. Rossetti, Evelyn Waugh's first book, is an intimate account of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's tragic and mysterious life—the story behind some of the greatest poetry and painting of the nineteenth century. Shot through with Waugh's charm and dry wit, and...

A private meeting, chance encounters and a mysterious tour of Lisbon, in this brilliant homage to Tabucchi's country, culture and people. In the city of Lisbon, Requiem's narrator has an appointment to meet someone on a quay by the Tagus at twelve. Misunderstanding twelve to mean noon as opposed to midnight, he is left to wait. As the day unfolds...

New to PMC Ravelstein features Abe Ravelstein, a brilliant professor at a prominent midwestern university and a man who revels in training the movers and shakers of the political world. He has lived grandly and ferociously—and much beyond his means. His close friend Chick suggests he put forth a book expressing his convictions about the ideas which sustain humankind, or...

A collection that includes three of Camus's most personal and lyrical books- The Right Side and the Wrong Side, Nuptials, and Summer. This volume contains some of Camus' most intimate writing, as he reflects on his identity and childhood in Algeria and celebrates the beauty of the Mediterranean. The Wrong Side and the Right Side, Camus' first book and most...

First in a brand-new fantasy series from acclaimed author Anna James, filled with seasonal magic and irresistible adventure. ‘A magical world full of wonder!’ — Katie Tsang ‘A triumph of imagination and storytelling’ — A. F. Steadman ‘Crackling with enchanting magic’ — Kieran Larwood In Whetherwhy, everyone has magic inside them – grown from the changing seasons of spring, summer,...

The much-loved masterpiece from one of the key figures of twentieth-century Italian literature. In the sweltering summer of 1938, with Lisbon in the grip of Portugal's dictatorship of António Salazar, a journalist is coming to terms with the rise of fascism around him and its insidious impact on his work. Consumed by the passing of his wife and the child...

'There is a depth and clarity to his writing that captivates the reader' - Sunday Times When Joel Knox's mother dies, he is sent into the exotic unknown of the Deep South to live with a father he has never seen. But once he gets there, everyone is curiously evasive when Joel asks to see his father. Truman Capote's first...

Introduction by Amit Chaudhuri; translated by J.A. Underwood Walter Benjamin - philosopher, essayist, literary and cultural theorist - was one of the most original writers and thinkers of the twentieth century. This new selection brings together Benjamin's major works, including One-Way Street, his dreamlike, aphoristic observations of urban life in Weimar Germany; Unpacking My Library, a delightful meditation on book-collecting;...

A mesmerizing novel about the magical and gritty world of Bucharest in the 1980s by a celebrated Eastern European writer. 'Gripping, impassioned, unexpected' - Los Angeles Times A dreamlike novel of memory and magic, Nostalgia turns the dark world of Communist Bucharest into a place of strange enchantments. Here, a man plays increasingly death-defying games of Russian Roulette, a child...

An omnibus of all four of the greatest science-fiction novels of H. G. Wells. In the space of less than four years, H. G. Wells (1866-1946) published four of the most influential, original, and hair-raising works of science-fiction. In a life of tireless experiment, travelling, and intellectual engagement, Wells was both a leading public figure and one of the great...

The second novel in the Great Plains trilogy, The Song of the Lark is a passionate portrait of the artist as a young woman. Thea Kronberg, a young girl from a small town in Colorado, has a great gift—her beautiful singing voice. Her talent takes her to the great opera houses of Europe, and through ambition and hard work, she...

A new translation of a twisting detective novel from the celebrated author of the Maigret series. The Strangers in the House follows Hector Loursat, a lawyer in the small town of Moulins, who has lived as a drunken recluse since his wife left him eighteen years ago. Unmoored from society and estranged from his daughter, he shuts himself away, numbed...

Your Face Tomorrow, Volume 3 is the concluding part of Javier Marías's acclaimed and evocative 'novel in parts'. Jacques Deza is back in London and once again working for the secret intelligence agency run by Bertram Tupra. Deza finds himself forced to watch Tupra's collection of incriminating videotapes of important public figures. The recordings document unconventional private lives—and horrific acts....

The Cold War plays out in the shadow of the Second World War as old loyalties collide. Sinister rumours link clandestine Arab arms dealing with a hero of the French resistance. Time to re-open the master file on Yesterday's Spy...

New to Penguin Modern Classics Why Read the Classics? is an elegant defence of the value of great literature by one of the finest authors of the last century. Beginning with an essay on the attributes that define a classic (number one - classics are those books that people always say they are 'rereading', not 'reading'), this is an absorbing...

Why Are We Artists? is a new anthology encompassing 100 years of manifestos by artists, filmmakers, and architects from across the globe. "Art is not a luxury. Art is a basic social need to which everyone has a right." This extraordinary collection features 100 artists' manifestos from around the world, spanning the past century. It brings together political activists, anti-colonialists,...

The True Heart is a love story set in Victorian England by one of the most original writers of the twentieth century. Leaving her orphanage at sixteen, Sukey Bond finds employment as a servant in the remote New Easter Farm, deep within the Essex Marshes. There she falls in love with simple, gentle Eric, the son of the rector's wife....

Another collection of stories about the irrepressible barrister Horace Rumpole comes to Penguin Modern Classics. The Trials of Rumpole sees Horace Rumpole, the irrepressible barrister fuelled by cigars, Tennyson, steak-and-kidney pud and the cooking claret from Pommeroy's wine bar, returning for further misadventures. Amid an unfortunate and temporary downturn in London crime, the Old Bailey hack sits in Chambers (he...

One of Kerouac's most enduring and touching works. The Subterraneans haunt the bars and clubs of San Francisco, surviving on a diet of booze and benzedrine, Proust and Verlaine. Living amongst them is Leo, an aspiring writer, and Mardou, half-Indian, half-Negro, beautiful and neurotic. Their bittersweet and ill-starred love affair sees Kerouac at his most evocative. Many regard this as...