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The Bolivian Diary
The last diary of Che Guevara, with entries going up until two days before his death- the final, blazing record of a true revolutionary In 1967 Che Guevara left Cuba...
Open Water: Winner of the Costa First Novel Award 2021
A stunning, shattering debut novel about two Black British artists falling in and out of love Two young people meet at a pub in South East London. Both are Black...
Missing Person
One of the great novels of Paris, from the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature 'I am nothing. Nothing but a pale shape, silhouetted that evening against the...
Speaking Out: Lectures and Speeches 1937-58
A new collection of Albert Camus' most brilliant speeches and lectures 'Truth is mysterious, fleeting, always to be won. Freedom is dangerous, as hard to live as it is exalting'...
The Birds
New to Penguin Modern Classics, a moving portrayal of the fragility of the human mind and an acclaimed Norwegian masterpiece This is the story of Mattis, a mentally handicapped man...
Promise at Dawn
A romantic, thrilling memoir that has become a French classic 'You will be a great hero, a general, Gabriele d'Annunzio, Ambassador of France!' For his whole life, Romain Gary's fierce,...
The Western Front: A History of the First World War
\"The best modern single-volume history of the war on the Western Front\" (The Spectator), by the acclaimed author of the bestselling Passchendaele In the annals of military history, the Western...
The Day of the Locust
Twenty new titles in the much-loved and hugely successful Penguin English Library series 'He began to wonder if he himself didn't suffer from the ingrained, morbid apathy he liked to...
The Mission Song
The British Secret Service turn their attentions to a linguistic prodigy in the Congo in this espionage thriller, new to Penguin Modern Classics At a top-secret meeting between Western financiers...
Tyger, Tyger
46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946 'How can the bird that is born for joy / Sit...
Anything is Possible
A stunning novel by the No. 1 New York Times bestselling, Times Top 10 bestseller and Man Booker long-listed author of Olive Kitteridge and My Name is Lucy Barton Anything...
How the World Works
The essential introduction to Chomsky's political ideas With exceptional clarity and power of argument, Noam Chomsky lays bare as no one else can the realities of contemporary geopolitics. Divided into...
Ranger's Apprentice The Royal Ranger 3: Duel at Araluen
Castle Araluen is well protected against attackers - but what if the enemy is already inside? King Duncan and Princess Cassandra are trapped high in the south tower of Castle...
A Bag and a Bird
Celebrated author-illustrator Pamela Allen retells a true story and celebrates some of Australian most famous icons in a series of delightful pictures for the very young. This is a story...
Once There Were Wolves
**A Journey into the Wild and the Human Heart** From the author of the international bestseller Migrations comes a pulse-pounding new novel set in the wild Scottish Highlands INDIE FICTION...
The Empty Honour Board
A prison diary, a story of brotherly love, a journey of redemption, Martin Flanagan's compelling book about his boarding school days goes inside an experience many have had but few...
Flesh in Armour: War Popular Penguins
In the fates of his protagonists in his acclaimed Flesh in Armour - one dies valiantly, one dies in an abject and mentally unhinged state, one survives - Mann pays...
ANZAC to Amiens: War Popular Penguins
An acknowledged classic of military history, Anzac to Amiens is compelling and compulsory reading for every Australian interested in the nation's bloody coming of age. The First World War was...
The ANZACS: War Popular Penguins
The Anzacs remains unrivalled as the classic account of Australia's involvement in the First World War. Gallipoli was the final resting place for thousands of young Australians. Death struck so...
The Man Who Was Thursday: Green Popular Penguins
G.K. Chesterton's 1908 masterpiece, The Man Who Was Thursday, is a metaphysical thriller, and a detective story filled with poetry and politics. G.K. Chesterton's 1908 masterpiece, The Man Who Was...
A Spy In The House Of Love: Popular Penguins
In A Spy in the House of Love, Anais Nin's vision of feminine sexuality is expressed with a ferocious dramatic force. Sabrina is a firebird blazing through 1950s New York-...
Vile Bodies: Popular Penguins
In the years following the First World War a new generation emerges, wistful and vulnerable beneath the glitter. The Bright Young Things of twenties Mayfair, with their paradoxical mix of...
Ragtime: Popular Penguins
In America at the turn of the twentieth century, when society abounds with movers and shakers such as Houdini, J.P Morgan, Henry Ford and Emma Goldman, and the sultry rhythms...
Our Island
Much-loved children's picture-book creators authors Alison Lester and Elizabeth Honey collaborate on this lyrical celebration of place, where the children of Mornington Island explore their home in words and pictures....
There's a Hippopotamus on Our Roof Eating Cake
The imaginary Hippo can do what he likes on the roof. In fact, he does all the things a little girl wishes she could, but is not allowed. When she...
Uno's Garden
Enter the World of Graeme Base's Magical Forest Enter the world of Graeme Base's forest, filled with wild and wonderful animals, Uno's unique family and friends - and the elusive...
Runner
It's 1919, Richmond football club is on top of the ladder, cream buns are threepence each and four boys are gunning for the best job in town. Charlie is lucky...
Sons For The Return Home: Popular Penguins
First published fifty years ago, this classic novel was Albert Wendt's first published book. This classic has been released in the Popular Penguin format to mark 50 years of publishing...
I Can Jump Puddles: Popular Penguins
I Can Jump Puddles is Alan Marshall's story of his childhood - a happy world in which, despite his crippling poliomyelitis, he plays, climbs, fights, swims, rides and laughs. His...
The Shiralee: Popular Penguins
Everyone has their cross to bear - their swag, their shiralee - and for Macauley, walking across New South Wales in search of work, it is his young daughter who...
Blueback
Blueback is an achingly beautiful story about family, belonging, and living a life in tune with the environment, from Tim Winton, one of Australia's best-loved authors. Blueback is an achingly...
The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea: Popular Penguins
The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea allows us a precious glimpse into a simpler kind of childhood in a country that no longer exists. In 1941, Rob Coram is six. The...
Shallows
Tim Winton's first Miles Franklin-winner, Shallows revolves around the ruthless commerce of whaling, and Queenie Cookson, who joins the fight to end it. Angelus is a frontier town with a...
The Whale Rider
A classic novel that became a classic film. An international bestseller that was made into a multiple award-winning film. Eight-year-old Kahu craves her great-grandfather's love and attention. But he is...
Wild Grass: China's Revolution from Below
A compelling history of Chinese resistance to state oppression, told through the stories of three remarkable individuals In Wild Grass, Pulitzer Prize-winning Ian Johnson describes a China caught between the...
Finding the Heart Sutra: Guided by a Magician, an Art Collector and
An illuminating - and deeply personal - exploration of the essence of Buddhist thought, from the author of Lost Japan Powerful, mystical and concise, the Heart Sutra is believed to...
Stephen Hawking: Friendship and Physics
An intimate, powerful account of Stephen Hawking and his universe An icon of the last fifty years, Stephen Hawking seems to encapsulate genius- not since Albert Einstein has a scientific...
Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
A user's guide to rationality during an epidemic of unreason In the twenty-first century, humanity is reaching new heights of scientific understanding - and at the same time appears to...
The Periodic Table
In these haunting reflections, Primo Levi, a chemist by training takes the elements of the periodic table as his inspiration. He ranges from young love to political savagery; 'Iron' honours...
A Wizard of Earthsea
The first in one of the greatest fantasy sequences of our time. The first book of Earthsea is a tale of wizards, dragons and terrifying shadows. The island of Gont...
Peepo!
The much-loved picture book classic by award-winning Janet and Allan Ahlberg. PEEPO! has become a classic for babies and toddlers. It follows a baby through the day in a style...
Hairy Maclary and Zachary Quack
Hairy Maclary' and Zachary Quack is a hilarious rhyming story by Lynley Dodd. Zachary Quack, a small and determined duckling, sets out to play with a rather reluctant Hairy Maclary....
The Happy Prince and Other Stories: Popular Penguins
In this haunting, magical fairy-tale collection, Oscar Wilde beautifully evokes (among others) the Happy Prince who was not so happy after all, the Selfish Giant who learned to love little...
Gulliver's Travels: Popular Penguins
Gulliver sees life from many different perspectives during the course of his exciting voyages around the world. In Lilliput he is a giant among a race of little people only...
Scoop: Popular Penguins
One of Waugh's most exuberant comedies,Scoopis a brilliantly irreverent satire of Fleet Street and its hectic pursuit of hot news. Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of the Daily Beast,...
Treasure Island: Popular Penguins
Originally designed as a story for boys, Stevenson's novel is narrated by the teenage Jim Hawkins, who outwits a gang of murderous pirates led by that unforgettable avatar of amorality,...
A Christmas Carol: Popular Penguins
Dickens's story of solitary miser Ebenezer Scrooge, who is taught the true meaning of Christmas by a series of ghostly visitors, has proved one of his most well-loved works. Ever...
The Prophet: Popular Penguins
First published in the 1920's, The Prophet, Gibran's hugely popular guide to living, has sold millions of copies worldwide and is the most famous work of religious fiction of the...