We are the dreamers of dreams’this new edition of charlie and the chocolate factory celebrates fifty years of the bestselling and beloved classic.

The Island of Missing Trees is a rich, magical tale of belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature and renewal.

A philosophical exploration of the idea of ‘rebellion’ by one of the leading existentialist thinkers, Albert Camus’ The Rebel looks at artistic and political rebels throughout history, from Epicurus to the Marquis de Sade. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is translated by Anthony Bower with an introduction by Oliver Todd.

A novel constructed around the last great poem of a fictional American poet, John Shade, and an account of his death. The poem appears in full and the narrative develops through the lengthy, and increasingly eccentric, notes by his posthumous editor.

In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit. 

A philosophical novel described by fellow existentialist Sartre as ‘perhaps the most beautiful and the least understood’ of his novels, Albert Camus’ The Fall is translated by Robin Buss in Penguin Modern Classics.

It is the fifteenth century and war looms.

It’s the 1970s and cracks are starting to appear in the alliance between China and its Communist cohort Albania.