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From the New York Times bestselling author of Rules of Civility - a transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a...

Author: Pam WeaverFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 260g, 384 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2023Three sisters torn apart by war. Can fighting for peace bring them together again? December 1941:...

A gorgeous hardback of Katherine Mansfield's best stories, selected by her biographer Claire Harman A beautiful new hardback edition of Katherine Mansfield's most vivid and distinctive stories. Katherine Mansfield was...

The story of the early athletes and Olympic bureaucrats who lit the flame for today's culture wars. In December 1935, Zdenek Koubek, one of the most famous sprinters in European...

Ernest Hemingway's most decadent novel- Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans loose-living on money from home. Discover Ernest Hemingway's most decadent novel 'He's so damned nice and he's so awful. He's...

'I SEEK A KIND PERSON WHO WILL EDUCATE MY INTELLIGENT BOY, AGED 11.' In 1938, Jewish families are scrambling to flee Vienna. Desperate, they take out adverts offering their children...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books What would happen if a doctor implanted the pituitary gland and testicles of a man into the body of a stray...

The gripping adventure story that invented Shangri-La, one of our most enduring literary mysteries. The gripping adventure that invented the mystery of Shangri-La. Flying out of India, a light aircraft...

A gripping, vivid account of Italy's disastrous experience of the Second World War While staying closely aligned with Hitler, Mussolini remained carefully neutral until the summer of 1940. Then, with...

Baillie Gifford-shortlisted author Harald J hner (Aftermath- Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich) presents a staggering new assessment of the short life of the Weimar Republic between the...

'Real escapism...for me the book was an absolute win' A gorgeous Greek islandA stranger in a veilAnd a fatal fall from the cliffs... Miss Atalanta Ashford is sightseeing near Venice...

A joyful, rule-breaking experiment in biography, which celebrates 'country life' as a state of mind 1917. Virginia Woolf arrives at Asheham, on the Sussex Downs, immobilized by nervous exhaustion and...

From hustling, drug addiction and armed violence in America's black ghettos Malcolm X turned, in a dramatic prison conversion, to the puritanical fervour of the Black Muslims. As their spokesman...

From the internationally acclaimed author of Hitler's Private Library , a dramatic recounting of the six critical months before Adolf Hitler assumed power, when the Nazi leader teetered between triumph...

THE AGE OF EXTREMES is eminent historian Eric Hobsbawm's personal vision of the twentieth century. Remarkable in its scope, and breathtaking in its depth of knowledge, this immensely rewarding book...

'Exuberantly entertaining' NYT Book Review 'M ark Braude's writing and subject make this book irresistible, as was Kiki herself.' Jim Jarmusch 'A delightful, marvelously readable, meticulously-researched romp of a book,...

My Left Foot is Christy Brown's inspirational story of his early life, his battle against the restraints of cerebral palsy and his determination to learn to read, write, and paint,...

From the internationally acclaimed author of Hitler's Private Library , a dramatic recounting of the six critical months before Adolf Hitler assumed power, when the Nazi leader teetered between triumph...

'Holds up a mirror to a pioneering explorer of the deep seas' Financial Times 'Exquisite . . . full of fascinating technology, novel marine discoveries - and unusual scientists' New...

Since the 1920s, an endless flow of studies has analyzed the political systems of fascism, theseizure of power, the nature of the regimes, the atrocities committed, and, finally, the wars...

The much-loved masterpiece from one of the key figures of twentieth-century Italian literature In the sweltering summer of 1938, with Lisbon in the grip of Portugal's dictatorship of Ant nio...

Waugh's great novel of the lost golden age before the Second World War, new to the Penguin English Library The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited...

'An intoxicating blend of romance, mystery, and magic' 1919 May Day Kit Arton-Price should be celebrating. It's his engagement party and, unlike many young men of his generation, he survived...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Arrested in Cologne for remarking that the Fuhrer looked sweaty, nineteen-year-old Sanna has fled to Frankfurt. But her troubles are far...

The world's greatest detective, Hercule Poirot - legendary star of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile - puts his little grey cells to work...

Murder stalks a touring stage production of A Christmas Carol in this 1930s-set festive mystery. It's Christmas at London's Theatre Royale and journalist Daphne King is determined to solve an...

A TELEGRAPH BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023 'A highly imaginative and thought-provoking way of exploring the personality of a man who, like him or loathe him, left an indelible mark...

Cast aside by his family at an early age, abandoned and left to fend for himself in the woods of Washington State, young Joe Rantz turns to rowing as a...

REVISED EDITION 'Magisterial, terrifyingly relevant and yet also a celebration of Weimar's delicious decadence' - Simon Sebag Montefiore A DAILY MAIL BOOK OF THE WEEK A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE...

'Elegant, erudite and entertaining ... a superbly detailed picture of an architectural era' The Times'A magnificent monument in itself to a fine architectural writer' Simon Heffer, TelegraphBritish architecture between the...

One of 'the best artistic jokes of the century', this is both madcap cookbook and Futurist manifesto Part manifesto, part artistic joke, Fillippo Marinetti's Futurist Cookbook is a provocative work...

The fourth novel in Anne Perry's breathtakingly tense and exciting spy thriller series, featuring young British photographer and secret agent Elena Standish, who will need every ounce of her strength...

From the author of Cider With Rosie, this is a moving, lyrical portrait of the landscape of Laurie Lee's world 'Living in our valley was like broad beans in a...

* LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA HISTORICAL DAGGER AWARD * 'Perfection ... this is a story about family, friendship, love, and sacrifice ... with a big dose of jazz! I loved...

'E asily my favourite read of this year . . . an unputdownable, bittersweet tale' Allison Saft, New York Times bestselling author of A Far Wilder Magic All they needed...

A devastating novel set in wartime Italy from the great twentieth-century writer, in a new translation by Tim Parks Shortlisted for The Society of Authors Translation Award 2022 June, 1943....

'A little bit Margery Allingham with hints of Mitford, definite tones of Eva Ibbotson and as delightful as I Capture the Castle , D is for Death is an instant...

In this text, Dorothy Rowe demonstrates how the sexualized image of Berlin in Weimar Germany arose at the same time as radical social changes in the history and position of...

In late 1927, at the age of twenty-four, George Orwell relocated to a tiny flat on London's Portobello Road, and from there embarked on a series of exploratory "tramping" expeditions...

In this account of the origins and development of the RAF, the author offers evidence of its organization, strategy and preparedness for the Battle of Britain. Drawing on the facts...