Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

Catch 22 by Joseph HellerExplosive, subversive, wild and funny, 50 years on the novel's strength is undiminished. Reading Joseph Heller's classic satire is nothing less than a rite of passage. Set in the closing months of World War II, this is the story of a bombardier named Yossarian who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him. His real problem is not the enemy it is his own army which keeps increasing the number of missions

He never managed to do this himself

'The power and precision of his best poems are a delight

embarrassing and full of love and insight

At the centre of his study are the amoral young killers Perry Smith and Dick Hickcock

food and fun

working as a freelance writer

encoded in a book

We Are Displaced introduces readers to some of the incredible girls Malala has met on her many journeys and lets each tell her story - girls who have lost their community

and where not only personal thought

And so begins one man's desperate search to find his place in the world

professional and philosophical concerns that challenge and sometimes torment an author

These new versions show the adventures at their most lucid and engaging yet