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The Periodic Table
In these haunting reflections, Primo Levi, a chemist by training takes the elements of the periodic table as his inspiration. He ranges from young love to political savagery; 'Iron' honours...
On Natural Selection
No one has done more to shape our view of what makes us human than Charles Darwin, whose seismic theory of evolution turned the Victorian world upside down, utterly rewrote...
One Hundred Great Books in Haiku
In the sixteenth century, Zen monks in Japan developed the haiku, an unrhymed poetic form consisting of 17 syllables arranged in three lines. Now, in One Hundred Great Books in...
The Inheritance of Loss: Popular Penguins
High in the Himalayas sits a dilapidated mansion, home to three people, each dreaming of another time. The judge, broken by a world too messy for justice, is haunted by...
The Lady in the Lake: Popular Penguins
A woman has been reported missing to detective Marlowe and a corpse is found in the lake. Yet it is not the body of the missing person, but that of...
Macbeth
Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery Promised a golden future as ruler of Scotland by three sinister witches, Macbeth...
The Very Hungry Caterpillar: Little Learning Library
A brand new mini library format in celebration of The Very Hungry Caterpillar's 40th anniversary! Introducing first concepts, this wonderful board book collection makes a perfect first library. Each book...
Matilda (Colour Edition)
Phizzwhizzing new cover look and branding for the World's NUMBER ONE Storyteller! Matilda Wormwood's father thinks she's a little scab. Matilda's mother spends all afternoon playing bingo. And Matilda's headmistress...
I Love Mum with The Very Hungry Caterpillar
This beautiful little gift book from The Very Hungry Caterpillar is the perfect way to say 'I love you, Mum!' Mum . . . you lift me up . ....
A Wizard of Earthsea
The first in one of the greatest fantasy sequences of our time. The first book of Earthsea is a tale of wizards, dragons and terrifying shadows. The island of Gont...
The Diary of Anne Frank (Abridged for young readers)
One of the world's most inspirational books, sensitively abridged for younger readers Sensitively edited and with a connecting commentary by editor, Mirjam Pressler, the abridged edition of The Diary of...
Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters: The Graphic Novel (Book 2)
The second book in the bestselling Percy Jackson and the Olympians series - now as a graphic novel! Discover the story behind the Disney+ series. The second book in the...
Peepo!
The much-loved picture book classic by award-winning Janet and Allan Ahlberg. PEEPO! has become a classic for babies and toddlers. It follows a baby through the day in a style...
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief - The Graphic Novel (Book 1 of
SEE Percy Jackson in action for the first time - in this explosive graphic novel retelling of The Lightning Thief The first book in the bestselling Percy Jackson and the...
The Jungle Book: Popular Penguins
Mowgli, the man-cub who is brought up by wolves in the jungles of Central India, is one of the greatest literary myths ever created. As he embarks on a series...
Charlotte's Web
This beautiful full-colour edition is the perfect choice for every family's bookshelf. E. B. White's Charlotte's Web in full colour makes a perfect gift. 'No child should be without a...
Hairy Maclary and Zachary Quack
Hairy Maclary' and Zachary Quack is a hilarious rhyming story by Lynley Dodd. Zachary Quack, a small and determined duckling, sets out to play with a rather reluctant Hairy Maclary....
Percy Jackson: The Demigod Files (Percy Jackson and the Olympians)
The perfect companion to this megaselling series - essential reading for all young demigods! The perfect companion to this megaselling series - essential reading for all young demigods! In these...
Deadly, Unna?
This gutsy novel, set in a small coastal town in South Australia is a rites-of-passage story about two boys confronting the depth of racism that exists all around them. 'Deadly,...
Jane Eyre
Launching a major new paperback series- Penguin English Library The Penguin English Library Edition of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 'The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I...
The Slave
A richly compelling tale of folklore and witchcraft from this modern master, new to Penguin Modern Classics Jacob, a Jewish slave held in a mountain village after escaping a massacre...
Last Exit to Brooklyn
Selby Jr's controversial cult classic, new to Penguin Modern Classics Few novels have caused as much controversy as Hubert Selby Jr.'s notorious masterpiece. Described by various reviewers as hellish and...
Eroticism
An influential exploration of sex and its surrounding taboos A philosopher, essayist, novelist, pornographer and fervent Catholic who came to regard the brothels of Paris as his true 'churches', Georges...
Howl, Kaddish & Other Poems: Popular Penguins
Beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotechnic verse. This volume brings together the poems that made his name as a defining figure of...
The Hound of the Baskervilles: Popular Penguins
When the services of famed detective Sherlock Holmes are engaged to ensure the safety of Baskerville heir Sir Henry - recently arrived from America - Dr Watson is surprised to...
Hedda Gabler and Other Plays: Popular Penguins
In these three unforgettably intense plays, Henrick Ibsen explores the problems of personal and social morality that he perceived in the world around him and, in particular, the complex nature...
Hard Times: Popular Penguins
Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr Thomas Gradgrind, school headmaster and model of Utilitarian success. Feeding both his pupils and his family with facts, he bans fancy and...
The Happy Prince and Other Stories: Popular Penguins
In this haunting, magical fairy-tale collection, Oscar Wilde beautifully evokes (among others) the Happy Prince who was not so happy after all, the Selfish Giant who learned to love little...
Hamlet: Popular Penguins
Arguably William Shakespeare's most influential play, Hamlet portrays a young Prince's dilemma in choosing between moral integrity and the need for revenge following the murder of his father. Dealing with...
Gulliver's Travels: Popular Penguins
Gulliver sees life from many different perspectives during the course of his exciting voyages around the world. In Lilliput he is a giant among a race of little people only...
The Go-Between: Popular Penguins
When one long, hot summer, young Leo is staying with a school-friend at Brandham Hall, he beings to act as a messenger between Ted, the farmer, and Marian, the beautiful...
Scoop: Popular Penguins
One of Waugh's most exuberant comedies,Scoopis a brilliantly irreverent satire of Fleet Street and its hectic pursuit of hot news. Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of the Daily Beast,...
Robinson Crusoe: Popular Penguins
The sole survivor of a shipwreck, Robinson Crusoe is stranded on an uninhabited island far from any shipping routes. At first he is in despair, but slowly, with patience and...
Pygmalion: Popular Penguins
A barbed attack on the British class system, Pygmalion both delighted and scandalized its first audiences in 1914. Henry Higgins is the Pygmalion figure who believes he can transform Eliza...
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: Popular Penguins
Romantic, heroic, comic and tragic, unconventional schoolmistress Jean Brodie has become and iconic figure in post-war fiction. Her glamour, freethinking ideas and manipulative charm hold dangerous sway over her girls...
The Pit and the Pendulum: Popular Penguins
Edgar Allan Poe is not only the finest, most terrifying writer of Gothic horror tales ever to have lived, he also wrote extraordinary poems. Here, Poe writes of the torments...
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: Popular Penguins
Dorothy thinks she's lost forever when a tornado whirls her and her dog, Toto, into a magical world. To get home, she must find the wonderful wizard in the Emerald...
The Beautiful and Damned: Popular Penguins
Anthony and Gloria are the essence of Jazz Age glamour. A brilliant and magnetic couple, they fling themselves at life with an energy that is thrilling. New York is a...
Civilization and Its Discontents: Popular Penguins
In his final years, Freud devoted most of his energies to a series of highly ambitious works on the broadest issues of religion and society. Here, he argues that civilized...
Treasure Island: Popular Penguins
Originally designed as a story for boys, Stevenson's novel is narrated by the teenage Jim Hawkins, who outwits a gang of murderous pirates led by that unforgettable avatar of amorality,...
Poems of John Keats: Popular Penguins
Over the course of his short life, John Keats (1795-1821) honed a raw talent into a brilliant poetic maturity. This wide-ranging selection of Keats's poetry contains youthful verse, such as...
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater: Popular Penguins
Describing the surreal hallucinations, insomnia and nightmarish visions he experienced while consuming daily large amounts of laudanum, Thomas De Quincey's legendary account of the pleasures and pains of opium forged...
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: Popular Penguins
On the banks of the Mississippi, Tom Sawyer and his friends seek out adventure at every turn. Then one fateful night they witness a murder. The boys swear never to...
The Invisible Man: Popular Penguins
With his face swaddled in bandages, his eyes hidden behind dark glasses and his hands covered even indoors, Griffin, the new guest at The Coach and Horses, is at first...
The Communist Manifesto: Popular Penguins
The Communist Manifesto changed the face of the twentieth century beyond recognition, inspiring millions to revolution, forming the basis of political systems that still dominate countless lives and continuing to...
The Call of the Wild: Popular Penguins
Life is good for Buck in Santa Clara Valley, where he spends his days eating and sleeping in the golden sunshine. But one day a treacherous act of betrayal leads...
Beowulf: Popular Penguins
Beowulf tells the story of the heroic Beowulf and of his battles, first with the monster Grendel, then with Grendel's avenging mother, and finally with a dragon that threatens to...
Northanger Abbey: Popular Penguins
During an eventful season at Bath, young, naive Catherine Morland experiences fashionable society for the first time. She is delighted with her new acquaintances- flirtatious Isabella, who introduces Catherine to...