Stylish reissue of a classic first published in the 1970s: Hunter S Thompson's ether-fuelled, savage journey to the heart of the American Dream.

Alice is 15 years old and appears a perfectly normal teenager; she diets, goes out with boys, and gets good marks at school. Without her parents being properly aware, she tries drugs and falls into addiction. The difference between Alice and a lot of other kids on drugs is that Alice keeps a diary.

Trainspotting

The anarchic, phenomenally strong-selling classic from the godfather of the Beats, featuring for the first time the restored text, all the accompanying essays, and newly discovered material from the original manuscript. Revitalised with a new jacket and an anecdote filled P.S. section.

One of Philip K. Dicks greatest novels

In 1953, in the presence of an investigator, Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gramme of mescalin, sat down and waited to see what would happen. When he opened his eyes everything was transformed. Huxley described his experience in this book and its sequel Heaven and Hell .

A novel that offers an account of the constant cycle of drug dependency, cures and relapses.

James Frey wakes up on a plane, with no memory of the preceding two weeks. His face is cut and his body is covered with bruises. He has abused alcohol and every drug he can lay his hands on for a decade - and he is aged only twenty-three. This work presents an account of a life destroyed and a life reconstructed.

Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free.

Features the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs, with Sal Paradise and his hero Dean Moriarty, traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat.

Explores three prominent and little understood features of globalisation: drugs, pornography and migrant labour. This work traces the history of the contemporary war on drugs from its origins in Reagan's social conservatism to its profound impact on civil society. It features tales such as An Empire of the Obscene and In the Strawberry Fields .

Clay comes home to LA for Christmas vacation and re-enters a landscape of limitless privilege and moral entropy. His holiday turns into a dizzying spiral of desperation that takes him through the relentless parties in glitzy mansions, seedy bars, and underground rock clubs. This is a novel about the casual nihilism that comes with youth and money.

A powerful and perceptive coming-of-age story, in the tradition of The Catcher in the Rye, from a talented young filmmaker, screenwriter and novelist.

The characters in this collection by the author of Trainspotting are often - on the surface - depraved, vicious, cowardly and manipulative, but their essential humanity is never undermined. Stereotypes are at once celebrated and destroyed, as the protagonists find themselves on unfamiliar ground.

The exploits and excesses of three pill-popping showbiz heroines: Anne, the smalltown girl who captivates a millionaire, but falls for a cad; Jennifer, the Marilyn Monroe clone who possesses everything - except immortality; and Neely, ruthless Judy Garlandesque understudy-turned-superstar.

A modern day fable set in New York. Lonely widow Sara Goldfarb nurtures fanstasies about appearing on prime-time television, while her son Harry, along with his girlfriend plans his break into big-time drug dealing. Their eyes fixed on an impossible future, they move blindly onwards, contorting their lives into coils of self-deception as they struggle to keep their dreams alive.

A teenage novel that tells the true-to-life story of two teenagers drawn into the dangerous and destructive world of heroin addiction.

Llewlyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, stumbles upon a transaction gone horribly wrong. Finding bullet-ridden bodies, several kilos of heroin, and a caseload of cash, he faces a choice leave the scene as he found it, or cut the money and run. Choosing the latter, he knows, will change everything.

First book in the Don Juan series. The author meets Don Juan and is introduced to his magical world and philosophy by means of hallucinogenic plants and special exercises.