The classic book that inspired Kes, the famous film, now published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Barry Hines's A Kestrel for a Knave was published in 1968, and was made into one of the ke
With prose that is every bit as raw, intense and bitingly honest as the world it depicts, Barry Hines's A Kestrel for a Knave contains a new afterword by the author in Penguin Modern Classics. Life is
Penguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published, some were bestsellers, some were considered scandalous, and others were simply misunderstood. All repre
He has nowhere to go and nothing to say... Troubled teenager Billy Casper lives in a Yorkshire mining town. He is treated as a failure at school and his family and friends don't give a damn. His hope
Conceived as a reflection on the ethics of responsibility within the academy, Achieng-Evensen, et al., highlight and discuss some of the tensions that they experienced within the academy, within their
The Critical Graduate Experience is a collection of scholarly reflections on the possibilities of a new vision for critical studies. It is a remarkable book that provides daring analyses from the vant
