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The Thirty-Nine Steps
Author: John Buchan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Twenty new titles in the much-loved and hugely successful Penguin English Library series 'My guest was lying sprawled on...
The Ring of the Nibelung
Author: Richard Wagner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 816 A superb translation of one of the greatest nineteenth century poems- the libretto to Wagner's Ring cycle The scale...
Too Good to Leave, Too Bad to Stay: A Step by Step Guide to Help You Decide Whether to Stay in or Get Out of Your Relationship
Author: Mira Kirshenbaum Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'Your relationship is either too goog to leave or too bad to stay in. But it can't be both.'...
The Small House at Allington
Author: Anthony Trollope Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 752 Engaged to the ambitious and self-serving Adolphus Crosbie, Lily Dale is devastated when he jilts her for the aristocratic...
Kipps
Author: H. G. Wells Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Orphaned at an early age, raised by his aunt and uncle, and apprenticed for seven years to a...
Childhood, Youth, Dependency: The Copenhagen Trilogy
Author: Tove Ditlevsen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The classic Danish trilogy hailed as a masterpiece on publication in English last year - now in a single...
Somme: Into the Breach
Author: Hugh Sebag-Montefiore Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 The Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller on the greatest battle of World War One - with groundbreaking new material...
Lives of the Artists
Author: Giorgio Vasari Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Penguin Classics relaunch Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto in the thirteenth century, Vasari traces the development of Italian art...
The Birth of the RAF, 1918: The World's First Air Force
Author: Richard Overy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A short, brilliant account of the birth of the RAF for the centenary of its founding The dizzying pace...
Semut: The Untold Story of a Secret Australian Operation in WWII Borneo
Author: Christine Helliwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 A remarkable new book about Operation Semut, an Australian secret military operation launched by the organisation popularly known as...
Winds of Change: Britain in the Early Sixties
Author: Peter Hennessy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 The third volume of Peter Hennessy's landmark postwar history of Britain Harold Macmillan - the presiding figure in Peter...
Dresden: The Fire and the Darkness
Author: Sinclair McKay Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The bestselling historian's gripping account of the Allied bombing of Dresden for the 75th anniversary In February 1945 the...
Cod
Author: Mark Kurlansky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The Cod. Wars have been fought over it, revolutions have been triggered by it, national diets have been based...
1914: The Year the World Ended
Author: Paul Ham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 736 Few years can justly be said to have transformed the earth- 1914 did. Few years can justly be said to have...
Victory at Villers-Bretonneux
Author: Peter FitzSimons Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 784 On Anzac Day 1918, when the town of Villers-Bretonneux falls to the British defenders, it is the Australians who...
Jamie's Friday Night Feast Cookbook
Author: Jamie Oliver Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Cook up an epic feast for friends and family with Jamie Oliver's new cookbook, featuring the best of the...
Nightingale
Author: Fiona McIntosh Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 A breathtaking novel of heartbreak and heroism, love and longing by a powerhouse Australian storyteller. 'Love comes out of...
The Collected Dorothy Parker
Author: Dorothy Parker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 Dorothy Parker, more than any of her contemporaries, captured the spirit of the Jazz Age in her poetry and...
What's it Like to be Chased by a Cassowary?
Author: Felicity Lewis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Fascinating Answers to Perplexing Questions. The Most Informative and Entertaining Explainers from The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald...
The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler
Author: Laurence Rees Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 A fascinating exploration of the character of Adolf Hitler- the most powerful and destructive man in history. Accompanies the...
Faust, Part I
Author: Goethe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Goethe's Faust reworks the late medieval myth of Dr Faust, a brilliant scholar so disillusioned he resolves to make a...
Victory at Villers-Bretonneux
Author: Peter FitzSimons Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 784 On Anzac Day 1918, when the town of Villers-Bretonneux falls to the British defenders, it is the Australians who are called...
Passchendaele: Requiem for Doomed Youth
Author: Paul Ham Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 Passchendaele epitomises everything that was most terrible about the Western Front. The photographs never sleep of this four-month battle,...
The Map That Changed the World: A Tale of Rocks, Ruin and Redemption
Author: Simon Winchester Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Following the hugely successful hardback, this extraordinary tale of the father of modern geology looks set to be the...
A Modern Utopia
Author: H. G. Wells Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A compelling blend of philosophical discussion and imaginative narrative While walking in the Swiss Alps, two English travellers...
The Great Crash 1929
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 John Kenneth Galbraith, one of America's foremost economists, follows the incredible economic rise and fall that lead to...
The War Poems Of Wilfred Owen
Author: Wilfred Owen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 Wilfred Owen was the greatest poet of the First World War - his best work is collected here, published in a...
Falling Leaves Return to Their Roots: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter
Author: Adeline Yen Mah Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The story of an unwanted Chinese daughter growing up during the Communist Revolution, blamed for her mother's death,...
Autobiography of Malcolm X
Author: X Malcolm Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Compelling, controversial, angry, startling - one of the fundamental books of the Twentieth Century Civil Rights Movement They called...
Goliath: Why the West Isn't Winning. And What We Must Do About It.
Author: Sean McFate Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 We are living in an age overshadowed by war. We can't stop it, but we can survive it. Here's...
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 At the age of forty-one, Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) underwent a profound spiritual crisis, from which he emerged believing that...
The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908-1923
Author: Sean McMeekin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 An exciting, iconoclastic history of the final years of the Ottoman Empire, published for the centenaries of many significant...
Eating Animals
Author: Jonathan Safran Foer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A passionate expose that serves up the truth about the meat on our plate - and where it's...
The World We Once Lived In
Author: Wangari Maathai Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 80 In 21 short books, Penguin Classics brings you the new canon of great environmental works Over the past 75...
Chocky
Author: John Wyndham Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 New to Penguin Modern Classics, to tie in with the release of the Steven Spielberg film, and with a...
Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida
Author: Robert Chandler Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 A unique collection bringing together acknowledged masterpieces from classic authors such as Chekhov and Gogol and a rich selection...
The Penguin Book of Romantic Poetry
Author: Jonathan Wordsworth Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1056 The Romanticism that emerged after the American and French revolutions of 1776 and 1789 represented a new flowering of...
Stealth Raiders
Author: Lucas Jordan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A vivid exploration of the audacious, unauthorised stealth attacks of Australian infantrymen on the German front line in 1918...
Electra and Other Plays
Author: Euripides Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Of all the ancient Greek tragedians, Euripides was the most sensitive to the lives of women and other outcasts in...
The Six Wives of Henry VIII
Author: Alison Weir Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 Thoroughly researched and with a real understanding of the times these six fascinating women lived through, Alison Weir's book...
Sicily '43: A Times Book of the Year
Author: James Holland Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 784 From the bestselling author of Normandy '44, containing new and unpublished research, this is the largely untold story of...
Agent Sonya: From the bestselling author of The Spy and The Traitor
Author: Ben MacIntyre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The incredible story behind the greatest female spy in history from one of Britain's best historians, now in paperback...
The Drover's Wife
Author: Leah Purcell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The Drover's Wife is utterly authentic, brilliantly plotted, thoroughly harrowing and entirely of our times exploring race, gender, violence...
Auggie & Me: Three Wonder Stories
Author: R. J. Palacio Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 A collection of three new chapters from the internationally bestselling, award-winning WONDER story. The multi-million-copy bestseller WONDER showed...
The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Oxford English Dictionary
Author: Simon Winchester Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 The making of the Oxford English Dictionary was a monumental 50 year task requiring thousands of volunteers. One of...
Born to Run: My Story
Author: Cathy Freeman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Hi guys, ever since I was little I only had one dream - to win a gold medal at...
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Author: Tom Wolfe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Tom Wolfe's genre-defining ride through the 1960s published in Vintage Classics for the first time to mark its fiftieth...
The Consolations of Philosophy
Author: Alain de Botton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Alain de Botton, best-selling author of How Proust can Change Your Life, has set six of the finest...