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The Magicians: Great Minds and the Central Miracle of Science
Author: Marcus Chown Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'Marcus Chown rocks!' - Brian May How does it feel to know something about the universe that no one...
The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread - and Why They Stop
Author: Adam Kucharski Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 'It is hard to imagine a more timely book...much of the modern world will make more sense having read...
Mr Cadmus
Author: Peter Ackroyd Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 The arrival of an enigmatic stranger wreaks havoc on the denizens of the idyllic English village of Little Camborne; most notably...
Lost Illusions
Author: Herbert Hunt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 720 Handsome would-be poet Lucien Chardon is poor and naive, but highly ambitious. Failing to make his name in his...
On Writing History from Herodotus to Herodian
Author: John Marincola Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 What is history and how should it be written? This important new anthology contains all the seminal texts that...
In Defence of the Republic
Author: Cicero Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 'Why is it my fate that everyone who was an enemy of the Republic at the same time declared war...
The Descent of Man: Selection in Relation to Sex
Author: Adrian Desmond Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 864 Applying his controversial theory of evolution to the origins of the human species, Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man...
Annals
Author: Tacitus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 This edition also contains a chronology, maps, a genealogy, suggested further reading and notes. A compelling new translation of Tacitus'...
City of God
Author: Saint Augustine Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1184 One of the greatest theological works, and is one of the most influential Christian documents. St Augustine, bishop of...
Maurice
Author: E.M. Forster Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Maurice Hall is a young man who grows up confident in his privileged status and well aware of his...
Hadrian the Seventh
Author: Frederick Rolfe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 One of the strangest novels ever written - part daydream, part diatribe and part autobiography - by one of...
Human, All Too Human
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Written after Nietzsche had ended his friendship with Richard Wagner and had been forced to leave academic life through...
The Conquest of New Spain
Author: Bernal Diaz del Castillo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Vivid, powerful and absorbing, this is a first-person account of one of the most startling military episodes...
Selected Poems
Author: Robert Browning Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Robert Browning was one of the greatest of English poets, whose intense and original imagination enabled him to transform...
On Suicide
Author: Emile Durkheim Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 New translation, and new to Classics Emile Durkheim's On Suicide (1897) was a groundbreaking book in the field of...
The Poems
Author: Caius Valerius Catullus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 One of the most versatile of Roman poets, Catullus wrote verse of an almost unparalleled diversity and stylistic...
The Complete Fairy Tales
Author: Hans Christian Andersen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1184 Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) was born in Odense, the son of a shoemaker. His early life was wretched,...
The Incredible Dadventure 2: The Mumbelievable Challenge
Author: Dave Lowe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Holly's second 'dadventure' is a screen-free challenge - Mum has packed her and Dad off to a log cabin...
Spot the Mistake: Lands of Long Ago
Author: AJ Wood Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 48 A fantastic introduction to the Stone Age, Medieval Europe, Ancient China, the Romans, the Vikings, the Mongols, the Aztecs and Incas...
Brilliant Ideas From Wonderful Women: 15 incredible inventions from inspiring women!
Author: Aitziber Lopez Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 Car heaters... Monopoly...Disposable diapers...The dishwasher...Kevlar...Maritime flares... Anti-reflective glass...Wifi...Syringes...Submarine periscopes...Diagnostic tests...Lifeboats... Windshield wipers...Ebooks... What do each of these revolutionary inventions have in...
Urban Arboreal: A Modern Glossary of City Trees
Author: Michael Jordan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Trees are an important part of the life of many cities. Whether in avenues or parks they provide shade, a green...
Passing for White
Author: Tanya Landman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 120 It's 1848 in the Deep South of America. Fair-skinned Rosa is a slave but can 'pass for white'. With...
How Could We Harness a Hurricane?
Author: Vicki Cobb Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 48 Have you ever wondered how hurricanes become powerful enough to lift cars and level cities? In How Could We Harness a...
The Hanging Girl
Author: Eileen Cook Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Amy's dad has been MIA since she was born and she lives with her mum in a run down...
Aurabel
Author: Laura Dockrill Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Laura Dockrill makes a dramatic return to the sea set in the same world as the sparkling and magnetic...
A Sprinkle of Sorcery
Author: Michelle Harrison Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Adventure with a Pinch of Magic in the bestselling series from Michelle Harrison and discover a place that exists...
The Thin Green Line: The Money Secrets of the Super Wealthy
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Author: Paul Sullivan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 "Wealth Matters" columnist for The New York Times reveals the decisions, behaviors, and worldviews that lead to true wealth....
Herbal Adventures: Backyard Excursions and Kitchen Creations for Kids and Their Families
Author: Rachel Jepson Wolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 In Herbal Adventures, you'll pull on your boots and discover the magical plants that are growing just beyond...
Portrait of an Artist: Georgia O'Keeffe
Author: Alice Wietzel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 Georgia O'Keeffe is known as the Mother of American Modernism, discover why in this first story book about Georgia O'Keeffe. From...
Reading Gems Phonics: Pem's Little Brother (Book 5)
Author: QED Publishing Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 32 Reading Gems Phonics is for children who are learning their letters and sounds. Simple, engaging stories provide gentle phonics...
Angel and Bavar
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Author: Amy Wilson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Taking inspiration from "Beauty and the Beast," Amy Wilson's second middle grade novel is a stunning modern fairy tale of magic,...
Germinal
Author: Roger Pearson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 New translation by Roger Pearson of the novel considered to be Zola's masterpiece Considered by Andre Gide to be...
Nana
Author: Emile Zola Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Born to drunken parents in the slums of Paris, Nana lives in squalor until she is discovered at the...
The Drinking Den
Author: Emile Zola Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 One of the great works of 19th century Realism, and one of Zola's best-known novels Set in the taverns...
The Beast Within
Author: Emile Zola Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 La Bete humaine (1890), the seventeenth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series, is one of Zola's most violent and explicit...
Therese Raquin
Author: Emile Zola Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 In a dingy apartment on the Passage du Pont-Neuf in Paris, Therese Raquin is trapped in a loveless marriage...
The Book of Master Mo
Author: Mo Zi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 The Book of Master Mo represents a groundbreaking shift in Chinese philosophy. A key work of ancient Chinese philosophy...
The Story of the Stone
Author: Cao Xueqin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 The Story of the Stone (c. 1760), also known by the title of The Dream of the Red Chamber,...
Conversations of Socrates
Author: Xenophon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 After the execution of Socrates in 399 BC, a number of his followers wrote dialogues featuring him as the protagonist...
A History of My Times
Author: Xenophon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Xenophon's History recounts nearly fifty turbulent years of warfare in Greece between 411 and 362 BC. Continuing the story of...
Selected Poems
Author: William Wordsworth Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 One of the major poets of Romanticism, Wordsworth epitomized the spirit of his age with his celebration of the...
The Years
Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 A savage indictment of British society at the turn of the century, from the author of Mrs Dalloway. The...
Night and Day
Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 An immaculately-observed social comedy that explores the boundaries between personal freedom and the demands of love, the Penguin Classics...
A Room of One's Own/Three Guineas
Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Two of Virginia's Woolf most striking essays published together in a new Black Classics edition A Room of One's...
Orlando
Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 A playful mock 'biography' of a chameleonic historical figure, written for Virginia Woolf's intimate friend Vita Sackville-West. Orlando has...
The Waves
Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Woolf's innovative modernist novel, in a new Black Classics edition. Tracing the lives of a group of friends, this...
To the Lighthouse
Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Woolf's most autobiographical novel, now in Penguin Black Classics To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionistic depiction...
Between the Acts
Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Virginia Woolf's final novel, now in Penguin Black Classics. Outwardly a novel about life in a country-house in whose...