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A Good Enough Mother
Author: Bev Thomas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The most dangerous lies are the ones we tell ourselves. 'Taut, absorbing and psychologically astute, in A Good Enough...
Deep River
Author: Karl Marlantes (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 736 'An unforgettable novel.' - Washington Post At the turn of the twentieth century, as the oppression of Russia's...
I Give It To You
Author: Valerie Martin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Jan Vidor seems like the ideal houseguest for a long summer holiday in a Tuscan villa. Unobtrusive but not antisocial, the...
Gathering Evidence
Author: Martin MacInnes (Author) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The world is heating up, species are dying out, and data collection is thriving. Shel Murray, a primate researcher, is...
The Beatles: The Illustrated Lyrics
Author: Welbeck Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 The lyrics to the songs of the Beatles read like poetry. This book treats them as such, and deals with them artistically,...
Reality, and Other Stories
Author: John Lanchester Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Selfie-sticks with demonic powers. Cold calls from the dead. And that creeping suspicion, as you sit there with your flat white,...
Mr Cadmus
Author: Peter Ackroyd Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 The arrival of an enigmatic stranger wreaks havoc on the denizens of the idyllic English village of Little Camborne; most notably...
Lost Illusions
Author: Herbert Hunt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 720 Handsome would-be poet Lucien Chardon is poor and naive, but highly ambitious. Failing to make his name in his...
Germinal
Author: Roger Pearson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 New translation by Roger Pearson of the novel considered to be Zola's masterpiece Considered by Andre Gide to be...
Nana
Author: Emile Zola Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Born to drunken parents in the slums of Paris, Nana lives in squalor until she is discovered at the...
The Drinking Den
Author: Emile Zola Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 One of the great works of 19th century Realism, and one of Zola's best-known novels Set in the taverns...
The Beast Within
Author: Emile Zola Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 La Bete humaine (1890), the seventeenth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series, is one of Zola's most violent and explicit...
Therese Raquin
Author: Emile Zola Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 In a dingy apartment on the Passage du Pont-Neuf in Paris, Therese Raquin is trapped in a loveless marriage...
Conversations of Socrates
Author: Xenophon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 After the execution of Socrates in 399 BC, a number of his followers wrote dialogues featuring him as the protagonist...
The Years
Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 A savage indictment of British society at the turn of the century, from the author of Mrs Dalloway. The...
Night and Day
Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 An immaculately-observed social comedy that explores the boundaries between personal freedom and the demands of love, the Penguin Classics...
A Room of One's Own/Three Guineas
Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Two of Virginia's Woolf most striking essays published together in a new Black Classics edition A Room of One's...
Orlando
Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 A playful mock 'biography' of a chameleonic historical figure, written for Virginia Woolf's intimate friend Vita Sackville-West. Orlando has...
The Waves
Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Woolf's innovative modernist novel, in a new Black Classics edition. Tracing the lives of a group of friends, this...
Between the Acts
Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Virginia Woolf's final novel, now in Penguin Black Classics. Outwardly a novel about life in a country-house in whose...
Mrs Dalloway
Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 An enthralling exploration of the human experience, from the author of To The Lighthouse On a June morning in...
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France,...
The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose
Author: Oscar Wilde Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Selection includes The Portrait of Mr W.H., Wilde's defence of Dorian Gray, reviews, and the writings from 'Intentions' (1891)-...
De Profundis and Other Prison Writings
Author: Oscar Wilde Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A new selection of the powerful and moving letters and poems Wilde wrote in prison, edited with an introduction...
The Complete Short Fiction
Author: Oscar Wilde Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Fairy tales, ghost stories, detective fiction and comedies of manners - the stories collected in this volume made Oscar...
The Shape of Things to Come
Author: H. G. Wells Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 When Dr Philip Raven, an intellectual working for the League of Nations, dies in 1930 he leaves behind...
The First Men in the Moon
Author: H. G. Wells Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 When penniless businessman Mr Bedford retreats to the Kent coast to write a play, he meets by chance...
The Island of Doctor Moreau
Author: H. G. Wells Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Adrift in a dinghy, Edward Prendick, the single survivor from the good ship Lady Vain, is rescued by...
The Invisible Man
Author: H. G. Wells Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Depicting one man's transformation and descent into brutality, H.G. Wells's The Invisible Man is a riveting exploration of...
Maxims and Reflections
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Throughout his long, hectic and astonishingly varied life, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) would jot down his...
Italian Journey 1786-1788
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 In 1786, when he was already the acknowledged leader of the Sturm und Drang literary movement, Goethe...
Around the World in Eighty Days
Author: Jules Verne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 One night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the globe in...
A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court
Author: Dan Beard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 When Connecticut mechanic and foreman Hank Morgan is knocked unconscious, he wakes not to the familiar scenes of nineteenth-century...
Sketches from a Hunter's Album
Author: Ivan Turgenev Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Turgenev s first major prose work is a series of twenty-five Sketches- the observations and anecdotes of the author...
Fathers and Sons
Author: Ivan Turgenev & Tatyana Tolstaya (Afterword) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons explores the ageless conflict between generations through a period in...
Framley Parsonage
Author: Anthony Trollope Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 Mark Robarts is a clergyman with ambitions beyond his small country parish of Framley. In a naive attempt to...
The Warden
Author: Anthony Trollope Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Anthony Trollope's The Warden is the first of his well-loved Chronicles of Barsetshire, edited with an introduction and notes...
Phineas Redux
Author: Anthony Trollope Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 Completes the set of six 'Palliser' novels available in Penguin Classics. In the fourth of the 'Palliser' stories, Trollope...
The Last Chronicle of Barset
Author: Anthony Trollope Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 928 When Reverend Josiah Crawley, the impoverished curate of Hogglestock, is accused of theft it causes a public scandal, sending...
The Way We Live Now
Author: Anthony Trollope Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 816 The Way We Live Now is Anthony Trollope's radical exploration of the dangers associated with speculative capitalism, edited with...
Resurrection
Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 'You want to use me to save your soul . . . You disgust me' Serving on the jury...
How Much Land Does a Man Need? & Other Stories
Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 These short works, ranging from Tolstoy's earliest tales to the brilliant title story, are rich in the insights and...
Master and Man and Other Stories
Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The ten stories collected in this volume demonstrate Tolstoy's artistic prowess displayed over five decades experimenting with prose styles...
The Cossacks and Other Stories
Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 In 1851, at the age of twenty-two, Tolstoy joined the Russian army and travelled to the Caucasus as a...
What is Art?
Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 During his decades of world fame as a novelist, Tolstoy also wrote prolifically in a series of essays and...
Childhood, Boyhood, Youth
Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 'Despite the tangle of ideas in my mind . . . I was young, innocent, free, and therefore almost...
The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories
Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 "Each phase of life has its own love" In these four stories, Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910) depicts desire...
Vanity Fair
Author: William Thackeray Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 912 No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky...