Looking for the Stranger

Looking for the StrangerThe Stranger is a rite of passage for readers around the world. Since its publication in France in 1942, Camuss novel has been translated into sixty languages and sold more than six million copies. Its the rare novel thats as at likely to be found in a teens backpack as in a graduate philosophy seminar. If the twentieth century produced a novel that could be called ubiquitous, The Stranger is it.

A masterpiece meeting of musical minds

most of whose names remain largely unknown outside of Cuba but have long been favourite club tracks and secret-weapons in Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker's record boxes

It's particularly evident in the euphoric 'In Degrees' which imagines a future where your ability to talk to each other has been reduced to nothing

Oscar Wilde's only novel: dark

it would have reached the world together with Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago and before Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag

our ancestors' long quest to establish freedom of thought and freedom of religion

and dispassionate sexual encounters

garden expert and historian Toby Musgrave explores the creative art of garden-making through more than 200 elements and features

Just Can't Get Enough

and was hugely influence on acts like The Eagles and Dan Fogelberg

" which Pitchfork hailed as "cathartic pop song about empathy and unity

This beautifully designed book includes a comprehensive survey of Caro's work over a period of more than half a century ranging from his time as Henry Moore's assistant in the early 1950s right up until his death in 2013