War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy

This beautiful Penguin Classics clothbound edition of Tolstoy's great novel is translated with an introduction and notes by Anthony Briggs, and with an afterword by Orlando Figes.At a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly en...

Broken Song: T.G.H. Strehlow and Aboriginal Possession

Hill, Barry

The biography of T. G. H. Strehlow and Aboriginal possession. ‘A group of men… chanting with the enthusiasm that made them forget age & weakness & becoming young again in spirit…the rising and falling of the chant melody, like the breathing that gives us life – what an unforgettable scene!’ Th...