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Prudence Green is a troubled woman. Stifled by her existence as an RAF wife, she's dying for a bit of excitement. When one of the other women on the base...
Life's Vital Link: The astonishing role of the placenta
The development of the placenta was a pivotal event in evolution. Without it, we would still be laying eggs instead of giving birth to live offspring. It represents the critical...
The Essential Adam Smith
In this volume one of the most eminent economists of the day provides a selection from the entire body of Smith's work, ranging from his observations on the psychological nature...
The Handicap Principle
The handicap principle, first proposed by Zahavi about 17 years ago, has in the past several years become widely accepted as a central unifying theory explaining many previously baffling aspects...
Living within Limits
We fail to mandate economic sanity, " writes Garrett Hardin, "because our brains are addled by...compassion." With such startling assertions, Hardin has cut a swathe through the field of ecology...
The Lives of the Caesars
A masterful translation of Suetonius' renowned biographies of the twelve Caesars, by the award-winning historian and The Rest Is History podcaster Tom Holland The ancient Roman empire was the supreme...
Just So Stories
A new edition of Kipling's well-loved fables, edited by Judith Plotz The Camel gets his Hump, the Whale his Throat and the Leopard his Spots in these bewitching stories which...
Jane Austen: The Complete Works
The complete works of Jane Austen in clothbound classics, together for the first time in a Coralie Bickford-Smith-designed box set Sense and Sensibility | Pride and Prejudice | Mansfield Park...
Robinson Crusoe
Who has not dreamed of life on an exotic isle, far away from civilization? Here is the novel which has inspired countless imitations by lesser writers, none of which equal...
The House of Mirth
Launching a major new paperback series- Penguin English Library The Penguin English Library Edition of The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton 'It was characteristic of her that she always...
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Launching a major new paperback series- Penguin English Library The Penguin English Library Edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 'I'm unfavorable to killin' a man as...
The Travels
A sparkling new translation of the most famous travel book ever written, in a collectable clothbound edition Marco Polo's voyages began in 1271 with a visit to China, after which...
Pale Horse, Pale Rider: The Selected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
One of America's most influential and admired short story writers, new to Penguin Modern Classics From the gothic Old South to revolutionary Mexico, few writers have evoked such a multitude...
Hedda Gabler and Other Plays
The final volume in the new Penguin Ibsen series- superb modern translations of four of Ibsen's greatest plays In these four unforgettably intense plays, Henrik Ibsen explores the complex nature...
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Beautifully designed, clothbound edition Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth...
The Smell of Hay
A new translation of this haunting collection of short stories that evoke 1930s Ferrara, with an introduction by Ali Smith Isolated lives and a lost world are evoked in these...
Tales from 1,001 Nights
First paperback publication of the essential tales drawn from the acclaimed new translation This is the essential one-volume edition of Tales from 1,001 Nights, drawn from the acclaimed landmark translation...
The Original of Laura: (Dying Is Fun) A Novel in Fragments
The final masterwork that was nearly destroyed, from one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century Dr Philip Wild, a man of brilliance, wit, fortune and tremendous bulk, is...
Call it Sleep
A masterpiece of American literature, Call It Sleep is a glorious ode to the migrant experience David Schearl arrives in America in his mother's arms. Waiting for them is a...
Selected Poems
Spain's greatest and most well-loved modern poet, Lorca has long been admired for the emotional intensity and dark brilliance of his work, which drew on music, drama, mythology and the...
The House of Bernarda Alba and Other Plays
In The House of Bernarda Alba, a tyrannical matriarch rules over her house and five daughters, cruelly crushing their hopes and needs. The other plays here also portray female characters...
The Selected Poems of Cavafy
C. P. Cavafy is one of the most singular and poignant voices of twentieth-century European poetry, conjuring a magical interior world through lyrical evocations of remembered passions, imagined monologues and...
The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights: Volume 1
The paperback publication of the first volume of the new, substantially complete translation of one of the best-known and most influential classics of world literature Every night for three years...
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands
First time in Penguin Classics for the remarkable autobiography of 'the black Florence Nightingale' Written in 1857, this is the autobiography of a Jamaican woman whose fame rivalled Florence Nightingale's...
Guy Mannering
Based on the authoritative Edinburgh text which returns to the first edition of 1815 and manuscript Guy Mannering is an astrologer who only half-believes in his art. Instead he places...
The Elder Edda: A Book of Viking Lore
A new translation of one of the literary wonders of the medieval world and the greatest source of knowledge of Viking lore in existence Compiled by an unknown scribe in...
Penguin's Poems for Love
First paperback publication of Laura Barber's new selection Here are poems to take you on a journey from the 'suddenly' of love at first sight to the 'truly, madly, deeply'...
Lyrical Ballads
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A collection of poems exemplifying Romantic aesthetic ideals, whose unique beauty lies in their revolutionary exploration of the 'overflow of powerful emotions recollected in tranquility', Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William...
Lyrical Ballads
A collection of poems exemplifying Romantic aesthetic ideals, whose unique beauty lies in their revolutionary exploration of the 'overflow of powerful emotions recollected in tranquility', Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William...
Walden and Civil Disobedience
Henry David Thoreau's masterworkWaldenis a collection of his reflections on life and society. In 1845, he moved to a cabin that he built with his own hands along the shores...
We
The exhilarating dystopian novel that inspired George Orwell's 1984 andforeshadowed the worst excesses of Soviet Russia,featuring a foreword by the National Book Award-winning New Yorker journalist Masha Gessen Yevgeny Zamyatin's...
Travels on My Elephant
This book tells the story of one man's adventures with an elephant. There is no better way to see India than on the back of an elephant, which is exactly...
The Elephant's Journey
Solomon the elephant s life is about to be upturned. For two years he has been in Lisbon, brought from the Portuguese colonies in India. Now King Dom Jo o...
The Honorary Consul
A gripping tragicomedy of a bungled kidnapping in a provincial Argentinean town, considered to be one of Greene's finest novels. A gripping tragicomedy of a bungled kidnapping in a provincial...
Ladies' Own Erotica
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The book titled Ladies' Own Erotica by the author Kensington Ladies' Erotica Society. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Ellie Has a Secret
"Gentle and magical. A story that purrs with a full heart and a Secret." -Hanna Cha, Caldecott Honor artist of The Truth About Dragons "A slyly told modern fable about...
Seven Ways Through the Woods
An Indie Next Pick "Brimming with magic." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Are you brave Are you curious Are you ready for an adventure Then you are invited on the...
The Simpsons: A Complete Guide to Your Favourite Family
It's hard to believe that the Simpsons have been around for a whole decade. When America was first introduced to this nuclear family, they were only featured in 30-second shorts...
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
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In hisNew York Times bestseller, National Magazine Award-winning journalist Eric Schlosser charts the fast food industry's enormous impact on our health, landscape, economy, politics and culture as he transforms the...
Simpsons Comics Royale
This text contains the entire 50th and the bestof the previous 49 issues of the Simpsons fan, including Simpsons family stories, an itchy and scratchy story, and a Krusty the...
You've GOT to Read This Book!: 55 People Tell the Story of the Book
There's nothing better than a book you can't put down—or better yet, a book you'll never forget. This book puts the power of transformational reading into your hands. Jack Canfield,...
I Hate You More
A feel-good high school YA rom com from the queen of heartstopping low spice romance, perfect for fans of Jenny Han, Lynn Painter and My Life with the Walter Boys....
The Women in the Shadows
Included in THE TIMES Best Historical Fiction Books of 2025: 'A lively new perspective on a grimly familiar tale' The world's most famous unsolved serial killer mystery, told from the...
The Island Retreat
The number one Irish Times bestseller! Rose Talisman is pinning it all on a fresh start. Five years after her career as a therapist ended in one catastrophic instant, she...
Wild Darling (The Darling Devils, Book 3)
Perfect for fans of Lynn Painter, The Summer I Turned Pretty and Powerless, the charmingly romantic sequel to the bestselling Grumpy Darling and Rival Darling Alexandra Moody's BookTok sensation DARLING...
The Devouring Light
IT'S BEEN WAITING FOR THEM. Clown in a Cornfield meets The Cabin in this twisty, blood-curdling delight from acclaimed author Kat Ellis about a group of rivals stranded in an...
Kiln Me Softly
*FROM THE #2 BESTSELLING ROMANCE AUTHOR* Love is a delicate craft. 🤍 🤍 When Juniper arrives at the prestigious Royal Academy of Ceramics, she's shocked to find Aiden in her...
Dandelion is Dead
Jake has fallen head over heels for Dandelion. The only problem? Dandelion is dead. ------------------------------------------------ PICKED AS A BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2026 BY ELLE , VOGUE, COSMOPOLITAN,...