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Rome and Italy: The History of Rome from its Foundation
Books VI - X of Livy's monumental History of Rome Books VI-X of Livy's monumental work trace Rome's fortunes from its near collapse after defeat by the Gauls in 386...
Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the
The epic history of consumption, and the goods that have transformed our lives over the past 600 years In this monumental study, acclaimed historian Frank Trentmann unfolds the extraordinary history...
On Writing History from Herodotus to Herodian
What is history and how should it be written? This important new anthology contains all the seminal texts that relate to the writing of history in the ancient world The...
Jabberwocky and Other Nonsense: Collected Poems
The first collected and annotated edition of Carroll's brilliant, witty poems, edited by Gillian Beer 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wabe...' wrote...
Neither Here, Nor There: Travels in Europe
Bill Bryson's second, achingly funny travel book, retracing his own steps as a student backpacking through Europe, twenty years later. Bill Bryson's first travel book, The Lost Continent, was unanimously...
We Need To Talk About Kevin
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From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
One of the world's most original and provocative thinkers offers a major new account of the origins of the conscious mind What is human consciousness and how is it possible?...
Notre-Dame de Paris
Hugo's Gothic tale of Quasimodo In the vaulted Gothic towers of Notre-Dame lives Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bellringer. Mocked and shunned for his appearance, he is pitied only by Esmerelda, a...
Four Tragedies and Octavia
A selection of Seneca's most powerful and macabre plays Based on the legends used in Greek drama, Seneca's plays are notable for the exuberant ruthlessness with which disastrous events are...
Night Watch: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2024
THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE WINNER IN FICTION'Breathtaking in both its scope and intensity' TAYARI JONES'Shatteringly particular and audaciously universal' ALICE RANDALLA mesmerising story about a mother and daughter seeking refuge...
Under the Sign of Saturn: Essays
New to Penguin Modern Classics for Sontag's exploration of the most important artists of our time Susan Sontag's third essay collection brings together her most important critical writing from 1972...
Exile and the Kingdom: Stories
First new translation since publication of Albert Camus's story collection The stories of Exile and the Kingdom explore the dilemma of being an outsider - even in one's own country...
Parable of the Sower: the New York Times bestseller
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Maigret Enjoys Himself: Inspector Maigret #50
During a much-needed holiday Maigret pulls a prank on colleague Janvier When Maigret's holiday plans go awry he and his wife spend their vacation in Paris, on the condition that...
Down Under: Travels in a Sunburned Country
Bill Bryson's travels in a sunburned country- Australia will never look the same again. It is the driest, flattest, hottest, most desiccated, infertile and climatically aggressive of all the inhabited...
Let's Read Animal Words
A creative and fun picture book about the world's most beloved animals!Meet four-legged, two-finned, and webbed-toe friends in this word-as-image introduction to the animal world, chock-full of interesting facts. In...
Mine for a Moment: A Billionaire Romance with the Brother's Best
A brand-new spicy, high-angst romance from Catharina Maura, this is the highly anticipated and reader-asked-for standalone spin-off of her popular Windsors series. When the man she's always been in love...
The Bush
A milestone work of memoir, travel writing and history, The Bush by Don Watson takes us on a profoundly revelatory and entertaining journey through the Australian landscape and character. While...
In the Winter Dark
Tim Winton's classic novella about the insidious grip of fear. In the Winter Dark is spellbinding. Tim Winton's classic novella about the insidious grip of fear. In the Winter Dark...
Much Ado About Nothing
Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery A vivacious woman and a high-spirited man both claim that they are determined...
The Duchess: From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Governess
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White Hot Kiss
One kiss could be enough to kill in the first book in the fan-favourite Dark Elements trilogy, from the No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of the Blood and...
Selected Poems
W.B. Yeats's Selected Poems is edited with an introduction and notes by Timothy Webb in Penguin Modern Classics. Few have lived their ideas so passionately and nobly as W.B. Yeats...
The Mammoth Book of Codeword Puzzles: Crack the code and solve the
THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF CODEWORD PUZZLES is a truly bumper collection of these hugely popular puzzles - also known as codewords, cipher crosswords and cipher word puzzles. There are also...
Sarum: 30th anniversary edition of the bestselling novel of England
The towering story of five families through 100 centuries of turmoil, tyranny, passion and prosperity. __________________________ THE BESTSELLING HISTORICAL NOVEL ***now with a new introduction from Edward Rutherfurd*** The towering...
Ten Little Goblins: A Counting Storybook (A Sensory Math Learning
Count along with Ten Little Goblins and watch as they disappear!Ten little goblins among the pumpkin vines, along came a ghoul and then there were...nine!Learning to count has never been...
Strangers at the Port: Longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary
A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023'Enchanting and haunting'RACHEL RODDY'A fable for our times'SPECTATOR'This novel amazed me. It is the work of a true original'LUCIE ELVEN'A seaside Gothic tale teeming...
A Modest Proposal and Other Writings
A new selection of Swift's witty, acerbic and polemical prose The political dilemma of Ireland; the state of faith in England; the charms of the Beggar's Opera; the importance of...
Pokemon: Super Extra Deluxe Essential Handbook
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My Fair Lord
A Gilded Age Retelling of My Fair Lady Arriving into English society from the drawing rooms of New York, Miss Florence Wakechild desires nothing less than the marriage her father...
Just Some Stupid Love Story: A sparkling opposites-attract rom-com!
'The second chance romance of my dreams - funny, sexy, and tender all at once' Ashley Herring BlakeThe perfect will-they-won't-they romcom for fans of Emily Henry and When Harry Met...
Nightmare Alley: now a major feature film starring Bradley Cooper
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I Am Not Your Negro
Baldwin's last, unrealized project comes to life, using his original words to create a radical, powerful and poetic work on race in the United States To compose his stunning documentary...
Romeo and Juliet
Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery A young man and woman meet by chance and fall instantly in love....
The Persians and Other Plays: The Persians / Prometheus Bound / Seven
A new translation by Alan H. Sommerstein of four of Aeschylus' most celebrated plays Aeschylus (525-456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens,...
An Emerald Sky
Khadija's sister, Talia, has been kidnapped and stolen into the magical realm of Al-Ghaib. Khadija embarks on a quest to rescue her. But Al-Ghaib, where the sky is emerald green,...
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Charles Dickens's final, unfinished novel, and one that has puzzled readers and inspired writers since its publication, The Mystery of Edwin Drood is edited with an introduction by David Paroissien...
The Gameshouse
Everyone has heard of the Gameshouse. But few know all its secrets . . . It is the place where fortunes can be made and lost though chess, backgammon -...
Bird Minds: Cognition and Behaviour of Australian Native Birds
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Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
The Guardian's Michael Sandel spearheads a pre-election campaign to inject ethical debate into politics Considering the role of justice in our society and our lives, Michael Sandel reveals how an...
Portrait of a Murder
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Join this accidental sleuth, Nick Morris, in his first mystery in The Art of Murder series.Nick Morris is your classic struggling artist. He paints pet portraits to pay the bills...
The Complete Poems
The complete collection of the poetry of Walt Whitman, one of the most influential American voices In 1855 Walt Whitman published Leaves of Grass, the work which defined him as...
J.K. Rowling's Wizarding World: Movie Magic Volume One: Extraordinary People and Fascinating Places
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Green Hills of Africa
Hemingway's journal of a month on safari in East Africa. This is Hemingway's East African safari journal. 'All I wanted to do was get back to Africa' Green Hills of...
The Satyricon
An updated translation of this risque and comic account of three travellers The Satyricon is one of the most outrageous and strikingly modern works to have survived from the ancient...
Go Set a Watchman: Harper Lee's sensational lost novel
From Harper Lee comes a landmark new novel set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, To Kill a Mockingbird. _________________ A landmark new novel from Harper Lee, set...
A Dog's Heart
New translation and new to Penguin Classics This is Bulgakov's surreal tale of a Moscow doctor who befriends a stray dog and performs on it a human transplant - with...
Ten Minutes to Bed: Where's Little Unicorn?: A magical lift-the-flap
Settle down for bedtime with this brand new lift-the-flap adventure in the no.1 bestselling Ten Minutes to Bed series! It's almost time for bed . . . but where's Twinkle?...