All God'S Chillun Got Pride90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Best known for his hardboiled Harlem Detective series, Chester Himes was also a superb literary writer, beginning his creative life by writing short stories in the 1930s while serving jail time for armed robbery. Selected here are some of his best stories from a satirical tale about a student bet that purportedly disproves the existence of racism in Los Angeles to a chilling drama in which a

Sometimes going home is the only way to go forward

But murder and extreme weather isn't all Olga has to deal with

Then he meets Abra Stone

to finding time to work (or not

' Jonathan Franzen

Bitesize chunks of information mean this book is full of stuff you've never even thought of on everything that is unique or impressive about the human body

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But when her boyfriend of fifteen years drops a bombshell

Not only that: his cheque has bounced

Menou and her allies succeed in executing Manon Libelle

He has to find a soft and fluffy filling for the royal pillow and stop the little princess making that terrible noise

scientist and author of Films from the Future and Future Rising