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The Painted Veil
Author: W. Somerset Maugham Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Stunningly rejacketed as part of a major reinvention of this neglected 20th century master Kitty Fane is the...
The Faces
Author: Tove Ditlevsen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 New to Penguin Modern Classics- a searing novel from Tove Ditlevsen, author of the wildly acclaimed Copenhagen Trilogy Copenhagen,...
The Jerilderie Letter
Author: Ned Kelly Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Introduced by Alex McDermott 'I have been wronged and my mother and four or five men lagged innocent and...
Of The Social Contract and Other Political Writings
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Since its first publication in 1762, Of the Social Contract has shaped political thinking. Viewed by some as a...
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 Bat: Harry Hole 1
Author: Jo Nesbo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 The thrilling first book in the bestselling Harry Hole series, never before published in English Discover the addictive first...
Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One is
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 In late 1888, only weeks before his final collapse into madness, Nietzsche (1844-1900) set out to compose his autobiography,...
The Light Ages: A Medieval Journey of Discovery
Author: Seb Falk Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 A spellbinding journey through the life of an English monk, an age of discovery and the mysteries of the...
La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One: From the world of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials - now a major BBC series
Author: Philip Pullman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 Malcolm Polstead's Oxford life has been one of routine, ordinary even. He is happiest playing with his daemon, Asta,...
The Gene: An Intimate History
Author: Siddhartha Mukherjee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 The Gene is the story of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in our history. ** NEW...
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Author: Anne Bronte Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 The Penguin Classics edition of Anne Bronte's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, her groundbreaking study of a woman's valiant...
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...
There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, And He Hanged Himself: Love Stories
Author: Ludmilla Petrushevskaya Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 In these dark, dreamlike love stories with a twist, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya tells of strange encounters in claustrophobic communal apartments,...
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...
The Catcher in the Rye
Author: J. D. Salinger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Salinger's style creates an effect of conversation, it is as though Holden is speaking to you personally, as...
The Penguin Book of English Song: Seven Centuries of Poetry from Chaucer to Auden
Author: Richard Stokes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 976 An anthology of some of the greatest poetry in the English language Poetry and music have been associated with...
The History of Sexuality: 3: The Care of the Self
Author: Michel Foucault Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The third volume of Foucault's pioneering analysis of sexuality and power relations, now reissued in Penguin Modern Classics In...
The Story of the Stone
Author: Cao Xueqin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 The Story of the Stone (c.1760) is one of the greatest novels of Chinese literature. The first part of...
The Egyptians: A Radical Story
Author: Jack Shenker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 The essential book about Egypt and radical politics. Egypt is a nation in turmoil, caught in a cycle of...
The Story of Doctor Dolittle
Author: Hugh Lofting Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Why do the animals love Dolittle so? Its because he can speak their language, and because he's the best...
The Fry Chronicles
Author: Stephen Fry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 National Treasure- noun - someone or something regarded as emblematic of a nation's cultural heritage, such as Stephen Fry...
Pollyanna
Author: Eleanor H. Porter Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Pollyanna might just be a poor orphan but she knows something that lots of grown-ups don't - how...
Roller-Coaster: Europe, 1950-2017
Author: Ian Kershaw Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 The definitive history of a divided Europe, from the aftermath of the Second World War to the present. After...
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...
Islam: The Essentials
Author: Tariq Ramadan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The essential introduction to Islam by a leading expert. The essential introduction to Islam by a leading expert Hardly...
Maigret's Mistake: Inspector Maigret #43
Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 A well-to-do Paris surgeon and his down-at-heel neighbour become the focus of Maigret's investigation Maigret had questioned thousands, tens...
The Beach at Night
Author: Elena Ferrante Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 40 A fully illustrated, dark, profound and beautiful picture book from the extraordinary Elena Ferrante. Inspired by one of Elena...
The Bush
Author: Don Watson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 A milestone work of memoir, travel writing and history, The Bush by Don Watson takes us on a profoundly...
London's Triumph: Merchant Adventurers and the Tudor City
Author: Stephen Alford Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The story of the individuals whose ambition and recklessness transformed London, England and the world. Life in Europe was...
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk And Other Stories
Author: Nikolai Leskov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 This volume contains five of his greatest short stories, including the matchless masterpiece Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, the tale...
On Writing History from Herodotus to Herodian
Author: John Marincola Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 What is history and how should it be written? This important new anthology contains all the seminal texts that...
Gilgi, One of Us
Author: Irmgard Keun Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 A brilliant feminist novel from Weimar Germany, from the author of Child of All Nations. Gilgi knows where she's...
Everywhere I Look
Author: Helen Garner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Everywhere I Look is a collection of essays, diary entries and true stories spanning more than fifteen years of...
Artemis Fowl: The Graphic Novel
Author: Andrew Donkin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 This adaptation of his genre-busting, award-winning novel Artemis Fowl has been a labour of love for lifelong graphic novel...
Explaining Humans: Winner of the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2020
Author: Camilla Pang Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 How proteins, machine learning and molecular chemistry can teach us about human behaviour WINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY INSIGHT...
Bad Behavior
Author: Mary Gaitskill Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 The bestselling 1988 collection of short stories exploring the inner lives of men and women, ambiguity and unease in...
Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories
Author: Jeff Kinney Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Scare yourself silly with Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories by Jeff Kinney, the #1 international bestselling author of...
The Boy from the Woods: From the #1 bestselling creator of the hit Netflix series The Stranger
Author: Harlan Coben Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The brilliant new thriller from the international bestselling author, described by Dan Brown as 'the modern master of the...
Armadale
Author: Wilkie Collins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 752 An innovative novel featuring an astonishingly wicked female villain, Wilkie Collins's Armadale was regarded by T.S. Eliot as 'the...
The Moonstone
Author: Wilkie Collins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 The Moonstone is one of the first true works of detective fiction, in which Wilkie Collins established the groundwork...
Berlin: The Downfall 1945: The Number One Bestseller
Author: Antony Beevor Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 A classic work from the international mega-seller, Antony Beevor, on the terrifying end to the Second World War The...
Selected Poems and Prose
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 944 Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly; Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance...
Maigret Enjoys Himself: Inspector Maigret #50
Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 During a much-needed holiday Maigret pulls a prank on colleague Janvier When Maigret's holiday plans go awry he and...
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
Author: Raymond Carver Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 The American Chekhov' Sunday Times With this, his first collection, Carver breathed new life into the short story. In...
Where's Spot?
Author: Eric Hill Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 24 A special 40th anniversary edition of the very first lift-the-flap book featuring everyone's favourite puppy - the lovable Spot. Eric Hill's...
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Author: F Scott Fitzgerald Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 When Benjamin Button's father arrives at hospital he is surprised and ashamed to find his new baby boy...
The Dharma Bums
Author: Jack Kerouac Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Following the explosive energy of On the Road comes The Dharma Bums in which Kerouac charts the spiritual quest...
Utopia
Author: Thomas More Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 A major new translation by Dominic Baker-Smith of More's perenially popular Latin text 'Even if you can't eradicate harmful...