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The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read (and Your Children Will Be
The #1 Sunday Times bestselling guide to healthier, happier relationships by a leading psychotherapist How can we have better relationships? In this Sunday Times bestseller, leading psychotherapist Philippa Perry reveals...
The Wonderful Adventure of Nils Holgersson
Scandinavia's best-loved children's classic from the first female writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature Nils Holgersson is a naughty boy who tortures animals and never listens to his...
Who Rules the World?
The most influential political writer alive today presents a state-of-the-world look at America's global power and politics 'As long as the general population is diverted to consumerism or hatred of...
How to Make Gravy
A memoir in a hundred songs - classy storytelling from Australia's most prodigious singer-songwriter. Paul Kelly is a uniquely gifted storyteller. For thirty years he has written songs of uncommon...
Funny Stories: And Other Funny Stories
A bumper book of funny stories from a favourite Australian author - THREE BOOKS IN ONE plus a BONUS new story! 'A brilliantly funny writer' Sunday Telegraph Swap a bomb...
Gallipoli: from the author of The Opera House, Batavia and Mutiny on
THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Fascinatingly imaginative popular history.' Sydney Morning Herald On 25 April 1915, Allied forces landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula in present-day Turkey to secure the sea route between...
Fromelles and Pozieres: In the Trenches of Hell
In the Trenches of Hell. The story of the first major action of the AIF on the Western Front. THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER On 19 July 1916, 7000 Australian soldiers -...
The Boy Behind the Curtain
This highly acclaimed collection of memoirs is Winton's most intimate and revealing work yet. Along with Island Home and Land's Edge (both also first published in paperback in 2017), it...
Cousins
One of Patricia Grace's most popular novels. Now a feature film, this is the unforgettable story of three women's intersecting lives. Makareta is the chosen one - carrying her family's...
Island Home
'This country leans in on you. Like family. To my way of thinking, it is family.' The natural world, in Tim Winton's novels, is as much a living presence as...
Girl Stuff 8-12: from the number one go-to advisor for Australian
The essential younger girl's guide to puberty and the pre-teen years. Fully revised and updated. Kaz Cooke, best-selling author of Girl Stuff for teens, expertly adapts her advice for younger...
The People Smuggler: The True Story of Ali Al Jenabi
Robin de Crespigny's The People Smuggler is the gripping, inspiring story of one man's escape from Saddam's Iraq to become 'the Oskar Schindler of Asia'. Robin de Crespigny's The People...
Once And Then
The bestselling Once and its sequel Then, now published in the one edition for the first time. My name is Felix Once I saved a girl called Zelda from a...
Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Thief
The inspiration for the new Netflix series, Lupin, starring Omar Sy. The inspiration for the Netflix series, Lupin, starring Omar Sy A curated collection of the very best adventures of...
The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version Of The Indian Epic
With an introduction by Pankaj Mishra The Ramayana is, quite simply, the greatest of Indian epics - and one of the world's supreme masterpieces of storytelling 'Almost every individual living...
The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island
The Tall Man is the story of Palm Island, the tropical paradise where one morning Cameron Doomadgee swore at a policeman and forty minutes later lay dead in a watch-house...
Poverty, by America
A searing study of American poverty from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evicted The United States is the richest country on earth, yet has more poverty than any other advanced...
The Practice of Not Thinking: A Guide to Mindful Living
Bestselling author and Zen priest Ryunosuke Koike teaches us how to reconnect with our five senses and move towards enlightenment What would happen if we learnt to look instead of...
The Roads to Sata: A 2000-mile walk through Japan
A classic of modern travel writing- the story of one man's epic trek across Japan, from north to south One sunny spring morning in the 1970s, an unlikely Englishman set...
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the
A graceful, illuminating study of the wisdom of the natural world, from a world-renowned indigenous scientist As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature...
Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women
A vital exploration of gender politics from a highly influential philosopher who has been described as 'the Simone de Beauvoir of the 21st century' Male entitlement takes many forms. To...
Bending Adversity: Japan and the Art of Survival
A both definitive and highly enjoyable book on how modern Japan works - now fully updated to 2020 and the new 'Reiwa' Era Despite years of stagnation, Japan remains one...
God's Englishman: Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution
The classic life of Cromwell by one of Britain's great radical historians A nuanced biography of Oliver Cromwell, breaking down Cromwell's life into different parts- fenland farmer and humble backbencher;...
The Light Ages: A Medieval Journey of Discovery
A spellbinding journey through the life of an English monk, an age of discovery and the mysteries of the medieval mind The Middle Ages were a time of wonder. They...
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't
The No.1 international bestselling author back with a powerful and provocative exploration of why we so often misread other people The routine traffic stop that ends in tragedy. The spy...
The Unnamable Present
A concise, yet wide-ranging inquiry into the roots of modernity and the turmoil of the present day. Tourists, terrorists, secularists, hackers, fundamentalists, transhumanists, algorithmicians- in this book Roberto Calasso considers...
Civilization: The West and the Rest
How the West's six 'killer apps' transformed the history of the world Winner of the Estoril Global Issues Distinguished Book Prize 2013 If in the year 1411 you had been...
On Grand Strategy
'A timely historical overview of the constituents of leadership from the classical era to the present' New Statesman John Lewis Gaddis, the distinguished historian of the Cold War, has for...
The Russia Anxiety: And How History Can Resolve It
We can all treat history with more respect. If we do, we might find that the cure for the Russia Anxiety is within reach ... Russia is an exceptional country,...
Goodbye, Things: On Minimalist Living
The best-selling phenomenon from Japan that shows how living with the bare minimum leads to a happier life 'Throw it away now. It'll be your start of everything...' Fumio Sasaki...
The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel,
The #1 bestselling author of The Future of the Mind brings us a stunning vision of our future in space Human civilization is on the verge of spreading beyond Earth....
A History of the Crusades I: The First Crusade and the Foundation of
Runciman's great Crusades trilogy reissued in Penguin Modern Classics ''The whole tale is one of faith and folly, courage and greed, hope and delusion.' The Christian and Muslim empires of...
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and
A former Wall Street data scientist sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern life - and threaten to rip apart our social fabric We live in the...
Japan Story: In Search of a Nation, 1850 to the Present
A magical cultural history of modern Japan Japan Story is a fascinating, surprising account of Japan's culture, from the 'opening up' of the country in the mid 19th century to...
How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
Could psychedelic drugs change our worldview? One of America's most revered writers takes us on a mind-altering journey to the frontiers of human consciousness 'It's as if we made entering...
Tudor Church Militant: Edward VI and the Protestant Reformation
The leading book on the short, radically Protestant reign of Edward VI, reissued for the 500th anniversary of the Reformation Although the young Edward VI's death in 1553 led to...
The Unsettling of Europe: The Great Migration, 1945 to the Present
'Peter Gatrell has produced a tour de force ... This important and timely work on one of the most challenging issues in modern Europe deserves to be widely read' Ian...
The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem: From Baudelaire to Anne Carson
The 'invigorating', 'stupendous' and 'exhilarating' guide (Observer) to the beguiling form which has attracted many of our most beloved writers 'It is hard to know how it could possibly be...
Britain's Europe: A Thousand Years of Conflict and Cooperation
The essential book for understanding the history of Britain's place in Europe, from the Middle Ages to the present day Britain has always had a tangled, complex, paradoxical role in...
The Dream of Reason: A History of Western Philosophy from the Greeks
A fully revised and updated edition of the most approachable introduction to the beginnings of philosophy Already a classic, this landmark account of early Western thought now appears in a...
Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams
The phenomenal bestseller that's starting a sleep revolution, now in paperback Sleep is one of the most important aspects of our life, health and longevity and yet it is increasingly...
Bullshit Jobs: The Rise of Pointless Work, and What We Can Do About It
Huge swathes of people spend their days performing tasks they secretly believe are not really necessary. This book shows why, and what we can do about it Back in 1930,...
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
This searing, heartbreaking book tells the story of poverty today, and the people who live it Arleen spends nearly all her money on rent but is kicked out with her...
Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity
'The physicist transforming how we see the universe' (Financial Times) What are time and space made of? Where does matter come from? And what exactly is reality? Scientist Carlo Rovelli...
The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed the World
From the No. 1 bestselling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the surprising and profound story of Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky- the two men whose ideas changed...
Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
\"A great iconoclast. . . Taleb, a Wall Street trader turned essayist, is a thinker touched by genius\" Matthew Syed, author of Black Box Thinking Why should we never listen...
An Economic History of the English Garden
The first and only in-depth economic history of England's gardens, from 1660 to today At least since the seventeenth century, most of the English population have been unable to stop...
Seven Types of Atheism
A meditation on the importance of atheism in the modern world - and its inadequacies and contradictions - by one of Britain's leading philosophers 'When you explore older atheisms, you...