Best Sellers - Individual titles

This book is already praised as an exceptionally accessible, entertaining, and informed account of one of the great mysteries of mathematics. Ian Stewart, author of "Does God Play Dice?", says:...

"The Closed World" offers an alternative to the canonical histories of computers and cognitive science. Arguing that we can make sense of computers as tools only when we simultaneously grasp...

An authoritative, self-contained introduction to the subject for students who have had no prior coursework in syntactic theory.English Syntax is an authoritative, self-contained introduction to the subject for students who...

The captivating new historical mystery from the Sunday Times bestselling author of THE WITCHFINDER'S SISTER The Great War is ending, but it has taken Ivy's son. Ivy is consumed by...

Fabulous new reissue of the seriously entertaining third novel from the number one bestselling author of A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian and Two Caravans Georgie Sinclair's life is...

The Last Four Things is the second in Paul Hoffman's remarkable series. Death, Judgement, Heaven and Hell These are the Last Four Things Now there are Five Meet Thomas Cale...

The Race is a nerve-shredding historical thriller, set at the dawn of flight 1910, and America's first ever cross-country flying race has been sabotaged . . . Newspaper magnate Preston...

A visceral reimagining of 1780s London, showcasing the untold stories of African-American soldiers grappling with their freedom after the American revolution In the years just after the American revolution, London...

'It is impossible to live the pleasant life without also living sensibly, nobly and justly' Being Happy contains all of the extant writing by Epicurus - one of the most...

Two sisters went missing. Only one of them came back...an intensely gripping new thriller from the R&J bestselling author Detective Jonah Sheens is enjoying a moment of peace and quiet,...

You wake up next to a man who's not your husband - and he isn't breathing... The gripping new thriller from the R&J bestselling author Louise wakes up. Her head...

In the modern world, we have become addicted to positivity. We try to eradicate pain through medication and by insulating ourselves from risk and offence, even though we are the...

The dazzling new book from one of Britain's best-selling novelists A philandering art dealer tries to give up casual love affairs - seeking only stolen kisses as a substitute. A...

The practical guide that gives you the skills to succeed as a leader DK's Essential Managers series contains the know-how you need to be a more effective manager and hone...

The definitive portrait of one of the twentieth century's most towering figures- her writing and her radical thought, her public activism and her private face. Susan Sontag was our last...

Ethelred Tressider is a crime writer with problems. His latest novel is going nowhere, mid-life crisis is looming and he's burdened by the literary agent he probably deserves: Elsie Thirkettle,...

This volume provides an unequaled introduction to the thought of chief contributors to the Western tradition of political philosophy from classical Greek antiquity to the twentieth century. Written by specialists...

A wonderful exploration of sporting obsession, as well as a vivid portrait of an extraordinary tennis personality and the era that shaped him. Read a fan's eye view of one...

there are worlds where fields of dry, baked earth are side by side with enchanted gardens, and places where the strangest creatures are the truest friends. these are the places...

This volume is a memoir of a visit made by Andrew Riemer to his country of origin in 1991. He migrated to Australia from Hungary with his family when he...

In this narrative tour de force, gifted scientist and author John L. Casti contemplates an imaginary evening of intellectual inquiry--a sort of "My Dinner with" not Andre, but five of...

This anthology contains 8 original one-act plays, suitable for GCSE and Standard Grade English, English Literature and Drama courses. All plays have been specially commissioned for the series, and written...

The Northern home-front during the Civil War was far from tranquil. Fierce political debates set communities on edge, spurred secret plots against the Union, and triggered widespread violence. At the...

Do a little armchair time-travel, rub elbows with a four-dimensional intelligent life form, or stretch your mind to the furthest corner of an uncharted universe. With this astonishing guidebook, Surfing...

This work recreates the solutions to the five greatest mathematical problems of all time: The Four-Colour Map Problem, Fermat's Last Theorem, The Continuum Hypothesis, Kepler's Conjecture, and Hilbert's Tenth Problem....

"Bucky Fuller thought big," Wired magazine recently noted, "Arthur C. Clarke thinks big, but Cliff Pickover outdoes them both." In his newest book, Cliff Pickover outdoes even himself, probing a...

Almayer's Folly was Conrad's first novel, set in a remote Bornean outpost at the end of the last century. Conrad draws on his own experience to present the strains of...

This freshly edited anthology includes all but one of the longer poems, from "Queen Mab" onwards, in their entirety. Only "Laon and Cythna" is excerpted, in a generous selection. As...

Imagine a giant snowflake in 196,884 dimensions... This is the story of a mathematical quest that began two hundred years ago in revolutionary France, led to the biggest collaboration ever...

Nathaniel Gull dreams in his classroom about pirates and faraway places, while in the same room sits Tamo White - the son of a real pirate. When Nathan's father dies,...

When schoolgirls begin to disappear on the West African coast, "troubleshooter" Bruce Medway tries to remain detached. Meanwhile, he reluctantly acquires a new job from former nemesis and mafia capo...

Slave narratives, some of the most powerful records of our past, are extremely rare, with only fifty-five post-Civil War narratives surviving. A mere handful are first-person accounts by slaves who...

Will Alex win the battle for life? A moving novel about learning to find happiness in the face of uncertainty and discovering a love that transcends the boundary between life...

From the author of the international best-selling thrillers The Cleaner, The Killing Hour, Cemetery Lake, Blood Men and Collecting Cooper. Theodore Tate never forgot his first crime scene - ten-year-old...

From the moment he hears her voice over the fence, Matt Sherman knows he has to meet the twins' cousin, Monica Bloom. She's just flown in from Dublin ready for...

No one thought the Japanese army would come this way, but there they are, thousands of them. On the Kokoda track, in the damp, disease-filled jungles of Papua New Guinea,...

Theatrical agent Letty Summers wants a baby. The catch? Her partner has dumped her. The single scene is leaving her cold, too many badly cut suits and scuffed shoes. But,...

An urgent wake-up call, exposing the alarming rise of anti-Semitism and showing what we can do about it On 27 October 2018 the synagogue where Bari Weiss became a bat...

Penguin Classics relaunch During an eventful season at Bath, young, naive Catherine Morland experiences the joys of fashionable society for the first time. She is delighted with her new acquaintances-...