The Most Dammed Country in the World

Dai Qing

The courageous, unflinching speeches and writings collected here detail the devastating human and environmental cost of China's economic rise....

Hotel du Lac

Anita Brookner

Anita Brookner's best-known and bestselling Man Booker Prize-winning novel - now a Penguin Essential The Hotel du Lac was a dignified building, a house of repute, a traditional establishment, used to welcoming the prudent, the well-to-do, the retired, the self-effacing, the respected patrons of an earl...