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No Longer Human (1948, Ningen Shikkaku / A Shameful Life / Confessions of a Faulty Man) was an attack on the traditions of Japan, capturing the postwar crisis of Japanese cultural identity. Framed by an epilogue and prologue, the story is told in the form three notebooks left by Ōba Yōzō, whose calm exterior hides his tormented soul. Osamu Dazai was a Japanese author who is considered one of the foremost fiction writers of 20th century Japan. A number of his most popular works, such as Shayō (The Setting Sun) and Ningen Shikkaku (No Longer Human), are considered modern-day classics in Japan.

Brought to you by Penguin. No sex. No kids. No future? When Tom Feiling moved to Tokyo as a student in the early nineties, Japan was a beacon of the future: a rising superpower, a technology giant, and a global symbol of prosperity, civility and success. When he returned twenty-four years later...

In 1931 Molly led her two sisters on an extraordinary 1600-kilometre walk across remote Western Australia. Aged eight, eleven and fourteen, they escaped the confinement of a government institution for Aboriginal children removed from their families. Barefoot, without provisions or maps, tracked by Native Police and search planes, the girls followed the rabbit-proof fence, knowing it would lead them home. Their journey – longer than many of the celebrated treks of recognised explorers – reveals a past more cruel than we could ever imagine.

Brandon Smith built the kind of life most people aspire to—seven-figure income, career success, family, status, and access. He was the guy who could handle pressure, read the room, close the deal, and keep everything moving. From the outside, nothing looked broken. In Nothing Was Broken, Smith shares the story of a high-performing man who never hit rock bottom, never lost everything, and never fit the traditional narrative of addiction or recovery.

A lockdown society dedication and tribute to the late Nipsey Hussle the Great. To reflect the life of Nipsey Hussle, works, music, and art form. From him being prolific, visionary, influencer, community activist, humanitarian, revolutionary, philanthropist, radical entrepreneur, youth funding developer, and a reintegrating advocate, along with so much more of his innovation businesses and movements. The Marathon history and continuance. Nipsey's legacy, principles, and elements, along with his epic All Money In slogan and concept behind the brand.

İki Darbe Arasında Bir Ömür – Mustafa Yılmaz 12 Eylül sabahı bir otel odasında başlayan serüven, Türkiye’nin darbe dolu siyasi tarihinden bir bireyin içsel yolculuğuna uzanıyor. Mustafa Yılmaz’ın kaleminden çıkan İki Darbe Arasında Bir Ömür, askerî disiplinin...

Part memoir, part philosophical reflection, part mentoring conversation, Reflections on a Golden Ball invites us not to chase perfection, but to better understand the forces already at work in our own lives.

Dreams Survived Despite Years Of Silence And Hardship tells a deeply human story of resilience, sacrifice, and the quiet determination that survives even in life’s darkest seasons. Through moments of heartbreak, loneliness, and uncertainty, this powerful biography follows an individual who refused to surrender the dreams once buried beneath fear and hardship. Every chapter reveals the emotional cost of perseverance and the courage required to keep moving forward.

He grew up without a father. Lost his mother at thirteen. Went in and out of jail. Sold drugs. Bounced at strip clubs. And ended up building churches in the mountains of Guatemala, rescuing orphans, and running a thriving business.

Everything you wanted to know about France but were too afraid to ask... At eighteen Lucy Wadham abandoned England and fell into the arms of a Frenchman. Twenty-five years later, having married, had children, and divorced in France, Lucy is perfectly placed to explore the differences between our...

Part memoir, part travelogue, this is the story of one woman's six years as an outsider in a reindeer-herding village in the Arctic Tundra, forging a life on her own in one of the most unknowable cultures on earth. An ancestry test suggesting she shared some DNA with the Sámi people, the...

Have you ever dreamed of starting a new life in a tropical paradise far from home? The Bali Paradigm chronicles such a leap through the prose, poetry and illustrations of author Michael M Clements, who sold his business, his house and all his possessions and moved with his partner and son to start a new life in Bali, and in the process, created this raw and inspiring account of what it feels like to jump from one life paradigm into the next.

Comment je suis devenu turcophone retrace le parcours singulier d'un auteur francoalgérien qui décide un jour d'apprendre le turc. Ce choix inattendu devient le point de départ d'une exploration sensible des liens historiques, culturels et linguistiques qui relient l'Algérie, la France et la Turquie. Entre récit personnel, réflexion identitaire et éclairages historiques, Hakim Madi interroge les héritages ottomans, les circulations méditerranéennes et la manière dont les langues façonnent nos appartenances.

What happens when a man slows down long enough to notice his own life? In The Cowboy in the Park, Gregg Patten brings together humor, observation, and reflection in a warm and thoughtful collection drawn from ordinary moments on a park bench. With the voice of a man who has lived, lost, learned, and kept going, these pieces explore identity, healing, relationships, aging, regret, faith, and the quiet courage it takes to remain yourself in a noisy world. Part memoir, part meditation, and part gentle conversation, this book offers the kind of wisdom that does not shout. It sits beside you.

He was never meant to rise—yet he did. From the riverbanks of Aguascalientes to the turbulence of the Texas foster care system, Anthony Gonzalez Harris’ journey is a raw, unflinching testament to survival, faith, and transformation. Orphaned, misdiagnosed, and nearly forgotten, he found an unshakable strength in silence, the unlikeliest of families, and the relentless whisper of God’s presence. The Many Me isn’t just a memoir—it’s a rallying cry for anyone who has ever felt invisible. In these pages, brokenness becomes blueprint, and pain is repurposed into purpose.

Nearly a century after his wrenching death, the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) remains one of our most enigmatic writers. Believing he could do "more in dreams than Napoleon," yet haunted by the specter of hereditary madness, Pessoa invented dozens of alter egos, or "heteronyms," under whose names he wrote in Portuguese, English, and French. Unsurprisingly, this "most multifarious of writers" (Guardian) has long eluded a definitive biographer—but in renowned translator and Pessoa scholar Richard Zenith, he has met his match.

In Roy Wilkins: The Quiet Revolutionary and the NAACP, Yvonne Ryan offers the first biography of this influential activist, as well as an analysis of his significant contributions to civil rights in America. While activists in Alabama were treading the highways between Selma and Montgomery, Wilkins was walking the corridors of power in Washington, D.C., working tirelessly in the background to ensure that the rights they fought for were protected through legislation and court rulings.

Whatever Jenn Ashworth turns her hand to, I'm there to read it' BENJAMIN MYERS, author of The Offing 'With honesty, humour and determination, Ashworth's journey takes the reader from coast to coast in search of freedom' JESSICA ANDREWS, author of Milk Teeth 'A miracle of a book . . . One of our...

Being a nerd is hard. Being Black is harder. Being a Black nerd can make you want to give up. But if I can get through it, so can you. This is for anyone who feels, or ever felt, like an outsider- even among the outsiders. There isn't a right or wrong way to cope really, this is just how I did it. All it took was a little patience, a lot of perseverance, and a near lifelong obsession with a long-running, British show, about the adventures of a time-traveling alien.

Unexpectedly denied a visa to remain in the United States, Qanta Ahmed, a young British Muslim doctor, becomes an outcast in motion. On a whim, she accepts an exciting position in Saudi Arabia. This is not just a new job; this is a chance at adventure in an exotic land she thinks she understands, a place she hopes she will belong. What she discovers is vastly different. The Kingdom is a world apart, a land of unparalleled contrast. She finds rejection and scorn in the places she believed would most embrace her.