David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling Giants

Malcolm Gladwell

Malcolm Gladwell's provocative new #1 bestseller -- now in paperback.   Three thousand years ago on a battlefield in ancient Palestine, a shepherd boy felled a mighty warrior with nothing more than a pebble and a sling-and ever since, the names of David and Goliath have stood for battles between underdo...

Orlando (Penguin Modern Classics)

Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully constructs the figure of Orlando as the fictional embodiment of Woolf's close friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West. Spanning three centuries, the novel opens as Orlando, a young nobleman in Elizabeth's England...