Master and Margarita, The

Author: Andrzej Klimowski & Danusia Schejbal

Banned for 27 years and initially published in a heavily censored edition, The Master and Margarita is probably the most important Russian novel of the 20th century. Written as a satire of Stalin's suffocating bureaucracy, the book has inspired Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, The Rolling Stones' song Sympathy for the Devil and the work of many other international artists, writers and musicians. The latest in SelfMadeHero's highly successful Eye Classics series, whose previous volumes include Romeo and Juliet and Nevermore.

Dirty White Boy

Author: Clayton Littlewood

This rip-roaring trawl through Soho takes readers from brothels to celebrity hang-outs, taking in plenty of old queens along the way. Littlewood's book poses the questions: What is the correct etiquette for visiting a brothel? How should one react when a transsexual wants to show off her latest surgery? And is it appropriate to speak to TV personalities when they're buying underwear? From his designer clothing shop Dirty White Boy, Clayton Littlewood provides a fascinating snapshot of modern London, amid which a strange and touching love story emerges.

Skins & Punks

Author: Gavin Watson

What started off as a small collection of photographs 14-year-old Gavin Watson took of his family and friends in Wycombe, middle England, has grown into one of the most important and influential photographic books of the last 20 years. Skins & Punks is a singular retrospective complete with commentaries and oral histories. The stories behind the images are shocking, hilarious, brutal and heartbreaking and truly get behind the truth of growing up in the working classes in the 1980s.

Via Delle Oche

Author: Carlo Lucarelli

There has been a murder in a brothel on a notorious street in the centre of Bologna in the run-up to elections that will decide a nation's fate. Is there a connection between the two? Perhaps! It's enough to put Commissario De Luca off his food again anyway, in this dramatic conclusion to the popular De Luca trilogy. Lucarelli never loses his perspective on human nature and its frailties. - The Guardian