Breakfast at Tiffany's

'What I've found does the most good is just to get into a taxi and go to Tiffany's. It calms me down right away, the quietness and the proud look of it; nothing very bad could happen to you there, not with those kind men in their nice suits...' Meet Holly Golightly - a free spirited, lop-sided romantic girl about town. With her tousled blond hair and upturned nose, dark glasses and chic black dresses, Holly is a style sensation wherever she goes. Her apartment rocks to Martini-soaked parties and she plays hostess to millionaires and gangsters alike. Yet Holly never loses sight of her ultimate dream - to find a real life place like Tiffany's that makes her feel at home. Full of sharp wit and exuberant, larger-than-life characters which vividly capture the restless, madcap era of 1940s New York, Breakfast at Tiffany's will make you fall in love, perhaps for the first time, with a book.

Truman Capote was a prominent writer of mid 20th Century American Literature. Among his works are Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1958), featuring the iconic character of Holy Golightly, (later made in to a film starring Audrey Hepburn) and In Cold Blood (1965), which immediately became the centre of a storm of controversy upon its publication. In Cold Blood is the reconstruction of the murder of a Kansas farmer and his family in 1959 in which Capote’s combination of journalistic and narrative skill leads to the creation of, what he called, the first ‘non-fiction novel’. Truman Capote was born in New Orleans in 1925 and was raised in various parts of the South, his family spending winters in New Orleans and summers in Alabama and New Georgia. By the age of fourteen he had already started writing short stories, some of which were published. He left school when he was fifteen and subsequently worked for the New Yorker which provided his first - and last - regular job. Many of Capote’s short stories were published in Mademoiselle and Harper’s Bazaar and received literary acclaim. Following his spell with the New Yorker, Capote spent two years on a Louisiana farm where he wrote his first novel Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948). Flamboyant and socially ambitious, Capote is often remembered for hosting the extravagant ‘Black and White Ball’ for the social elite of New York. He lived, at one time or another, in Greece, Italy, Africa and the West Indies, and travelled in Russia and the Orient. He is the author of many highly praised books, including A Tree of Night and Other Stories (1949), The Grass Harp (1951), Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958), In Cold Blood (1965), which immediately became the centre of a storm of controversy on its publication, Music for Chameleons (1980) and Answered Prayers (1986), all of which are published by Penguin. Truman Capote died in August 1984.