The Room

Author: Jr Hubert Selby

'Selby's best book'
The Times Literary Supplement

'It is quite an experience to be locked up all by yourself in any size room,' says the anonymous narrator of Hubert Selby Jr.'s second novel. What follows is a startling series of recollections and fantasies that illuminate the workings of a prisoner's unhinged mind. He yearns for his violent childhood, rages against obscure authorities, and imagines enacting horrible revenge on those who imprisoned him. The prisoner's remand cell becomes the scene of a surreal mental torture.

Disorienting, nightmarish and structurally inventive, The Room Selby Jr's sequel to Last Exit to Brooklyn, is a shocking examination of the suffering humans can inflict on each other.

'To understand his work is to understand the anguish of America'
The New York Times Book Review

Also by Jr Hubert Selby

Book Cover:  Requiem for a Dream
By Jr Hubert Selby

'Selby brings a scorching light to a limited area of human existence, which most people know of but do not know'
Newsweek

'Selby brings a scorching light to a limited area of human existence, which most people know of but do not know'
Newsweek

Published: 23/05/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141195667
RRP: $22.95
Book Cover:  Waiting Period
By Jr Hubert Selby

'When Selby decides to attack, it is with the shock of a practised mugger and with the speed and economy of a poet'
The Los Angeles Times

'When Selby decides to attack, it is with the shock of a practised mugger and with the speed and economy of a poet'
The Los Angeles Times

Published: 23/05/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141195681
RRP: $22.95
Book Cover: The Willow Tree
By Jr Hubert Selby

'Selby's work has the power, the intimacy with suffering and morality, the honesty and moral urgency of Dostoevsky's'
The New York Times Book Review

'Selby's work has the power, the intimacy with suffering and morality, the honesty and moral urgency of Dostoevsky's'
The New York Times Book Review

Published: 23/05/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141195698
RRP: $22.95
Book Cover:  Song of the Silent Snow
By Jr Hubert Selby

'We believe Selby's characters and will never forget them. Selby has written from the gut with great compassion'
The Nation

Fat Phil can't lose at dice, even when his friends turn nasty and he's trying his hardest; a salesman finds success comes from fortune cookie mottoes, but panics when these mottoes turn against him; a date goes so perfectly a man talks himself out of ever seeing the woman again;...

'We believe Selby's characters and will never forget them. Selby has written from the gut with great compassion'
The Nation

Fat Phil can't lose at dice, even when his friends turn nasty and he's trying...

Published: 23/05/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780241951248
RRP: $22.95
Book Cover: The Demon
By Jr Hubert Selby

'Selby's place is in the front rank of American novelists' 
The New York Times

Harry White is the man other men want to be: admired by his peers, talented, rich, and desired by countless women. His steady rise to a position of unprecedented influence in a New York investment firm seems inevitable to those who know him, and on the way he acquires a beautiful wife and children. But with every achievement...

'Selby's place is in the front rank of American novelists' 
The New York Times

Harry White is the man other men want to be: admired by his peers, talented, rich, and desired by countless women. His...

Published: 06/10/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141195643
RRP: $22.95
Book Cover:  Last Exit to Brooklyn
By Jr Hubert Selby

With a new Introduction by
Irvine Welsh

' Last Exit to Brooklyn will explode like a rusty hellish bombshell over America, and still be eagerly read in 100 years'
Allen Ginsberg

With a new Introduction by
Irvine Welsh

' Last Exit to Brooklyn will explode like a rusty hellish bombshell over America, and still be eagerly read in 100 years'
Allen Ginsberg

Published: 06/10/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141195650
RRP: $22.95
Published:06/10/2011
Format:Paperback, 232 pages
RRP:$22.95
ISBN-13:9780141195674
ISBN-10:0141195673
Publisher:Penguin UK

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21 May 2012
2012 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) - winners

The Australian Book Industry Awards were held in Sydney on Friday night. It was a great night for Penguin with our books taking the top honors in four book categories including the prestigious Book of the Year. Congratulations also to Peg McColl, Kate McCormack and the rights team who won the International (Rights) Award for the second year running for Paul French's book Midnight in Peking. United Book Distributors were again named Distributor of the Year.

Illustrated Book of the Year

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