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Seeing Things as They Are: Selected Journalism and Other Writings
Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 An enlightening anthology of George Orwell's journalism and non-fiction writing Famous for his novels and essays, Orwell remains one...
Stephen Hawking: A Memoir of Friendship and Physics
Author: Leonard Mlodinow Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 An intimate portrait of Stephen Hawking -- the man, the friend, and the physicist An icon of the last...
The Origins of Totalitarianism
Author: Hannah Arendt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 752 Arendt's definitive work on totalitarianism, a surprise bestseller in 2017. 'How could such a book speak so powerfully to...
Maigret's Anger: Inspector Maigret #61
Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Maigret loses his composure when a suspect plots to tarnish his reputation During a quiet spell in June Maigret...
Essays
Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 These essays, reviews and articles illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this...
Vile Bodies
Author: Evelyn Waugh Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Evelyn Waugh's acidly funny and formally daring satire, Vile Bodies reveals the darkness and vulnerability that lurks beneath the...
Heart of Darkness: And Youth
Author: Joseph Conrad Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 He cried in a whisper at some image, at some vision - he cried out twice, a cry that...
The Honourable Schoolboy
Author: John le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 The second book in le Carre's 'Karla Trilogy', The Honourable Schoolboy is a new addition to Penguin Modern...
The Origin of Species and the Voyage of the Beagle
Author: Charles Darwin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 992 The most important work of modern science now available in Vintage Classics WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DARWIN'S GREAT-GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER, RUTH...
Rumpole of the Bailey
Author: John Mortimer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 New to Penguin Modern Classics, the very first selection of stories featuring the irrepressible Rumpole. Horace Rumpole, the old...
Plain Murder
Author: C.S. Forester Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Taking us into a 1930s London of grimy back streets, smoky cafes and shabby rooms, Plain Murder, C. S....
The Unwomanly Face of War
Author: Svetlana Alexievich Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The unforgettable oral history of Soviet women's experiences in the Second World War from the winner of the Nobel...
Call for the Dead
Author: John Le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A gripping tale of espionage and deceit from the master of the spy novel, new to Penguin Modern...
A Streetcar Named Desire
Author: Tennessee Williams Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire is the tale of a catastrophic confrontation between...
The Big Sleep and Other Novels
Author: Raymond Chandler Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 Raymond Chandler was America's preeminent writer of detective fiction, and this Penguin Modern Classics edition of The Big Sleep...
Maigret Travels: Inspector Maigret #51
Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Maigret investigates the circumstances surrounding the attempted suicide of a countess and the death of a multi millionaire, both...
The Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story
Author: Philip Hensher Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A spectacular treasury of the best British short stories published in the last twenty years. We are living in...
Goodbye To Berlin
Author: Christopher Isherwood Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 'The best prose writer in English' Gore Vidal Christopher Isherwood introduces Sally Bowles in this pre-war Berlin novel. Set...
Pale Fire
Author: Vladimir Nabokov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire, with its wildly original narrative structure, is a postmodern masterpiece from the author of Lolita,...
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Author: Truman Capote Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Immortalised by Audrey Hepburn's sparkling performance in the 1961 film of the same name, Breakfast at Tiffany's is Truman...
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas
Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Woolf exposes the prejudices and constraints against which women writers struggled for centuries, and argues for a more equal...
The History of Mischief
Author: Rebecca Higgie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 376 In her award-winning debut novel for young adults, Rebecca Higgie takes us into the secret lives of history's mischief-makers...
Talkin' Up to the White Woman: Indigenous Women and Feminism (20th Anniversary Edition)
Author: Aileen Moreton-Robinson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 280 This 20th anniversary edition celebrates this important, ground-breaking book, which remains as relevant as ever. In this ground-breaking and...
Surrounded by Psychopaths: or, How to Stop Being Exploited by Others
Author: Thomas Erikson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 How to handle life's manipulators and avoid being exploited by them, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Surrounded...
Bluey: Big Backyard: A Colouring Book
Author: Bluey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 64 Based on the hit ABC KIDS TV show! Colour Bluey's backyard, the creek, the playground and more in this fun-filled...
Hiroshima
Author: John Hersey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A landmark work of nonfiction and the definitive account of nuclear devastation The explosion over Hiroshima of the first...
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Author: Haruki Murakami Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 A narrative particle accelerator that zooms between Wild Turkey Whiskey and Bob Dylan, unicorn skulls and voracious librarians, John...
The Prophet
Author: Kahlil Gibran Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 A hugely influential philosophical work of prose poetry, Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet is an inspirational, allegorical guide to living,...
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 This brutal, shattering glimpse of the fate of millions of Russians under Stalin shook Russia and shocked the world...
Complete Stories
Author: Clarice Lispector Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 The publication of Clarice Lispector's Collected Stories, eighty-five in all, is a major literary event. Now, for the first...
The Magus
Author: John Fowles Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 Read John Fowles's feisty, clever, cunning and compelling novel with an unusual twist. On a remote Greek island, Nicholas...
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 Politics
Author: Aristotle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Raising questions that are as relevant to modern society as they were to the ancient world, Aristotle's The Politics remains...
The Outsider
Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 'The sky seemed to rip apart from end to end to pour fire down upon me' Meursault will not...
A Clockwork Orange
Author: Anthony Burgess Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 In this nightmare vision of a not-too-distant future, fifteen-year-old Alex and his three friends rob, rape, torture and murder...
The Iliad
Author: Homer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 Homer's Iliad is the greatest and most influential epic poem ever written, telling of the tragic and bloody climax to...
The Outsiders
Author: S.E. Hinton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Adapted into an award-winning film by Francis Ford Coppola, and starring Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe and Tom Cruise, S.E....
Ice
Author: Anna Kavan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 The world is threatened by encroaching ice, creeping down day by day from the polar ice caps. The imminent...
An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings
Author: Thomas Malthus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The provocative historical work on social economy, demography and population control Malthus' life's work on human population and its...
The Naive and Sentimental Lover
Author: John le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Aldo Cassidy is the naive and sentimental lover. A successful, judicious man, he is wrenched away from the...
The Ice Palace
Author: Tarjei Vesaas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 A tale of intense friendship and almost overwhelming grief amongst the frozen fjords of rural Norway. In winter, the...
Your Face Tomorrow, Volume 1: Fever and Spear
Author: Javier Marias Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Volume one of Javier Marias's acclaimed and evocative 'novel in parts'. Translated by Margaret Jull Costa 'I am myself...
The Honourable Schoolboy: The Smiley Collection
Author: John Le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 George Smiley, now chief of the battered British Secret Service, seeks revenge for the betrayals of a Soviet...
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: The Smiley Collection
Author: John Le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 In his fifth outing George Smiley is facing a remarkable challenge- a mole who has burrowed his way...
Fictions
Author: Jorge Luis Borges Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Jorge Luis Borges's Fictions introduced an entirely new voice into world literature. It is here that we find...
Ada or Ardor
Author: Vladimir Nabokov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 A great work of art, radiant and rapturous, affirming the power of love and imagination' The New York Times...
A Heart so White
Author: Javier Marias Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Haunting and unsettling,A Heart So Whiteis a breathtaking portrayal of two generations, two marriages, the relentless power of the...
Bastard Out of Carolina
Author: Dorothy Allison Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Bastard out of Carolinais a raw, poignant tale of fury, power, love and family. Twentieth Anniversary Edition - with...