'I knew he was imagining a really lovely girl - all curves, curls, heart and hidden claws'
In stories that span the course of a lifetime - from childhood in the Caribbean to adolescent modelling i
One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'
'Rhys took one of the works of genius of the 19th Century and turned it inside-out to create one of the works of genius of the 20th Century' Mic
'A wonderful bitter-sweet book, written with disarming simplicity' Esther Freud
'It was as if a curtain had fallen, hiding everything I had ever known,' says Anna Morgan, eighteen years old and ca
Twenty titles are being beautifully packaged for a new generation coming to these classics for the first time. Each of the jackets has been designed by artists commissioned from all over the globe.
Saved, rescued, fished-up, half-drowned, out of the deep, dark river, dry clothes, hair shampooed and set...
Set in a 1930s Paris of shabby hotel rooms, seedy bars and drunken encounters, Jean Rhy
New to Penguin Classics, the remarkable, devastating collected stories by the author of Wide Sargasso Sea. Some of Jean Rhys’s most powerful writing is to be found in this rich, dark collection of he