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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...
The Push: A Climber's Journey of Endurance, Risk and Going Beyond Limits to Climb the Dawn Wall
Author: Tommy Caldwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 A climber's journey of endurance, risk and going beyond limits A dramatic, inspiring memoir by legendary rock climber Tommy...
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 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...
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...
The Faerie Queene
Author: Edmund Spenser Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1248 Penguin Classics relaunch. The Faerie Queene was the first epic in English and one of the most influential poems...
Power: The Essential Works of Michel Foucault 1954-1984
Author: Michel Foucault Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 The Essential Works of Michel Foucault offer the definitive collection of Foucault's articles, interviews and seminars The third and...
Passchendaele: Requiem for Doomed Youth
Author: Paul Ham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 592 Passchendaele epitomises everything that was most terrible about the Western Front. The photographs never sleep of this four-month battle, fought from...
Books That Saved My Life: Reading for Wisdom, Solace and Pleasure
Author: Michael McGirr Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 A profound, funny and uplifting collection of reminiscences about a life in books Here are forty texts to read at some...
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Author: Edward Gibbon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1232 Edward Gibbon's six-volume History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-88) is among the most magnificent...
Against Interpretation and Other Essays
Author: Susan Sontag Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 A series of provocative discussions on everything from individual authors to contemporary religious thinking, Against Interpretation and Other Essays...
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
Author: Laurie Lee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 The beautiful and moving follow-up to the acclaimed Cider with Rosie 'The stooping figure of my mother, waist-deep in...
The Confessions
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 Rousseau's autobiography, giving a unique insight into the mind and life of one of the greatest thinkers of the...
Soldier Spy
Author: Tom Marcus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Soldier Spy is to the war against the enemy at home what Bravo Two Zero was to Gulf War...
The Apocryphal Gospels
Author: Simon Gathercole Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 A new translation of the oldest non-canonical Christian gospels, including the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Mary and...
Essays
Author: Michel Montaigne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Reflections by the creator of the essay form display the humane, skeptical, humorous, and honest views of Montaigne, revealing...
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
Author: Barbara Tuchman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 784 A classic history of fourteenth-century Europe, from the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Guns of August The fourteenth century...
Mussolini's War: Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse, 1935-1943
Author: John Gooch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 A gripping, vivid account of Italy's disastrous experience of the Second World War While staying closely aligned with Hitler,...
The Civil War
Author: Julius Caesar Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Caesar's own account of his struggle with Pompey over leadership of Republican Rome A military leader of legendary genius,...
The Complete Poems
Author: Walt Whitman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 912 In 1855 Walt Whitman published Leaves of Grass, the work which defined him as one of America's most influential...
London: A Travel Guide Through Time
Author: Dr Matthew Green Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Step back in time and discover the sights, sounds and smells of London through the ages in this...
The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory
Author: Jorge Luis Borges Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 One of the most remarkable artists of our age.' MARIO VARGAS LLOSA THE BOOK OF SAND was the...
The Wisdom of Wolves: How Wolves Can Teach Us To Be More Human
Author: Elli H. Radinger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 What wolves can teach us about being human Love your family, care for your those around you, never...