21st Century History

A DISAPPEARANCE. A SMALL TOWN. A QUESTION THAT NEEDS ANSWERING... Cal Hooper thought a fixer-upper in a remote Irish village would be the perfect escape. After twenty-five years in the...

TWO WRITERS, ONE HOLIDAY. A ROMCOM WAITING TO HAPPEN... He doesn't believe in happy endings. She's lost her faith that they exist. But could they find one together? January is...

The bestselling razor-sharp debut novel by the author of Everything I Know About Love He said 'I love you'. And then he disappeared. Things that are going right for Nina...

The greatest chronicler of the age turns his incisive gaze to the tumultuous present in this superb new thriller. Nat, a veteran of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, thinks his years...

From Obama to Trump, from black lives matter to the rise of the alt-right - THE definitive state-of-the-nation analysis of modern America From 2008-2016, the leader of the free world...

A comprehensive account of the simmering discontents that threaten the future of humankind - from world-leading public intellectual Noam Chomsky What kind of world are we leaving to our grandchildren?...

From San Francisco to Yemen, the gripping true story of a young American immigrant and his quest to resurrect the ancient art of Yemeni coffee - while escaping a terrifying...

TRUMP LOST. BRITAIN REMAINED. WAKE UP TO ANOTHER REALITY. They call Verity 'the app-whisperer', and she's just been hired by a shadowy start-up to evaluate a pair-of-glasses-cum-digital-assistant called Eunice. Only...

The dazzling, unforgettable conclusion to Ali Smith's tour de force, Man Booker-shortlisted Seasonal quartet In the present, Sacha knows the world's in trouble. Her brother Robert just is trouble. Their...

The gripping new novel from the author of the Sunday Times number 1 bestseller The Girls Who Disappeared Emilia Ward is just an ordinary mum living happily in suburban London...

One of our most scintillating public intellectuals explores the political paradoxes of the pandemic and helps us think our way through it 'We are able to imagine anything because we...

A novel of tremendous political relevance - adapted into a critically-acclaimed film starring Philip Seymour Hoffman - and new to Penguin Modern Classics A half-starved young Russian man in a...

The story of two friends whose dubious relationship spans West Berlin in the 1960s through the Cold War to the age of present day terrorism is new to Penguin Modern...

One of the world's leading philosophers on how we can restore social solidarity and overcome our rancorous politics These are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of...

The Nobel Prize-winning economists show how, when done right, economics can help us solve the thorniest social and political problems of our day In this ambitious, provocative book Abhijit V....

The definitive history of a divided Europe, from the aftermath of the Second World War to the present After the overwhelming horrors of the first half of the 20th century,...

Re-jacketed in a stunning new series style for 2023, Saturday is a gripping novel centering around the London anti-war protest in 2003 from the Booker prize-winning Sunday Times-bestselling Ian McEwan....

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024 A mesmerising reversal of the east-west immigrant narrative set against China's economic boom, River East, River West is a deeply moving exploration...

From the towering pines of Shasta Trinity National Forest, to the chaparral scrub of San Diego's Mexican border, to Yosemite and the Western Sierras, trained wildland firefighter and photojournalist Stuart...

The show must go on. It's back to show business as usual at Duke's Academy of Performing Arts. Things are finally working out for Nettie, with her voice restored, her...

My mother was a prostitute. My grandmother and great-grandmother were prostitutes.Maybe I should have given the family business a chance...BBC RADIO 4 PICK OF THE WEEK, Katie Puckrik'Eliska's story is...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLERIn this spectacular, newsmaking expose that has the entertainment industry abuzz and on its heels, Vanity Fair's Maureen Ryan blows the lid...

The first book of the smash-hit Wayward Pines trilogy, from the New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter, Recursion, and Upgrade Secret Service agent Ethan Burke arrives in Wayward...

The follow-up to the sensational #1 Sunday Times bestseller Her Majesty's Royal CovenAll is not as it seems within the halls of Her Majesty's Royal Coven... Despite thinking they've thwarted...

A TikTok sensation! This is an epic and emotional romance about the risks we take for love and the endings we don't see coming When Georgia Stanton discovers that her...

The thrilling retelling of a real-life hostage rescue mission, by SAS hero and million-selling author, Andy McNab.It is 2012 and in Northern Afghanistan, an international crisis has erupted.A group of...

Kadija is the music-loving daughter of a guardian of the sacred manuscripts of the ancient city of Timbuktu, Mali.Ali is a former shepherd boy, trained as a warrior for Allah.Tonight,...

'A brilliant, original read' - Daily Mail 'Totally absorbing, this is a story that will keep you gripped' - Janice Hadlow, author of The Other Bennet Sister The case is...

"I am a work in progress. There are times when I feel in control and like I know what I'm doing...and there are times (quite a few)(actually lots) when I've...

*** SHORTLISTED IN THE SPORTS WRITING CATEGORY AT THE 2024 SPORTS BOOK AWARDS ****** LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 ****** ONE OF THE DAILY...

Andy Murray: tennis player, sports icon, Olympian. Get the inside track on one of history's most spectacular athletes! A Life Story: this thrilling series throws readers directly into the lives...

'Enthralling' GUARDIAN     'Incredibly absorbing ... astonishingly candid' Bill Bryson     Winner of the PEN Ackerley Prize and the South Bank Sky Arts Award for Literature    ...

Honey Fontaine has spent much of her adult life dodging her mother's attempts to marry her off, and has had enough. Her mother, having changed her own life by marrying...

The clock is ticking for DCI Slider when a woman goes missing. Can he find her - and does she even want to be found?"[Slider is] one of Britain's most...

DCI David Vogel investigates a sudden death at a local book festival in this gripping police procedural: Agatha Christie with an edge!When Delia Day, the world's most successful living romantic...

Killer secrets. Killer crimes - the unmissable new DS McAvoy thriller from the Sunday Times best-selling, Kindle chart-topping author."McAvoy is a true original" Mick HerronDS Aector McAvoy is on a...

THE FOURTH VOLUME OF MICHAEL PALIN'S BESTSELLING DIARIESA new millennium, and a new chapter for Michael Palin unfolds. With a Hemingway travel project testing his confidence, doubts creeping in about...

Dark secrets are revealed when investigative journalist and horse expert Ben Copperfield is hired to find the long-lost heir of a dying millionaire in this gripping murder mystery.When freelance journalist...

'Another outstanding geopolitical thriller in Hawksley's excellent Rake Ozenna series . . . carefully researched, action-packed, and suspenseful' -Booklist Starred ReviewMajor Rake Ozenna faces dangerous choices and deadly consequences in...

  Don't miss the third adrenaline-filled, action-adventure in the Joe Mason series! When Joe Mason agrees to transport a priceless gold basin to its new owner, the ex-MI5 operative arrives...

A summer that changed everything. A second chance to put things right.~~~'Heart-warming, funny, and completely brilliant!' Jaimie Admans Four years ago, Elodie Parker left the village of Little Heaton where...

A lift-the-flap book to imagine what the world will be like by the end of the 21st century Join futurologist Tom Cheesewright on a tour of our world, decades into...

A storm lies ahead of her. Freedom lies beyond it ... 'Such a brilliant writer and this was another 5 star book for me' Reader Review 'Hugely immersive and emotional'...

A lift-the-flap book to imagine what the world will be like by the end of the 21st century Join futurologist Tom Cheesewright on a tour of our world, decades into...

An unmissable new thriller from the master of the genre An unsolved historical mystery. A brutal bomb attack.Only one man can track down the killers that link them both.It's 2005:...

  'A tense and twisty thriller that had me gnawing my fingernails one minute and laughing out loud the next.' Marion Todd A CASE GONE COLD Six years ago, Beata...

The brand new psychological thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of It's Always The Husband'We were drawn in from the first page' Bella A young Harvard law student falls...

'I hope the lights are on when we finally have sex so he can see how young I am compared to his wife.' Readers are loving Everyone I Know is...