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'Engaging, honest and funny...Stacey could write about Farrow & Ball paint drying - not to mention the breakdown of a marriage and a lifetime's dreams - and make it funny....

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER Heart Life Music is a love letter to the journey: all the places I've gone and how we got...

Two-star Michelin chef Bart De Pooter - a pioneer of Flemish gastronomy at his elegant restaurant, Pastorale - pays homage to the adventures and discoveries that have shaped his culinary...

Cassie Lane had a quintessentially Australian, dysfunctional, single-parent upbringing. She and her mother loved each other, but in a stealing-Christmas-trees-together kind of way. For as long as she remembers she...

From Sir Ernest Shackleton on South Georgia Island to currency trader Ron DiFrancesco in the South Tower of the World Trade Center, to diver Stephanie Schwabe in the Mermaid's Lair...

What does Jenny Diski know about animals? She's really not sure. There is, however, one thing of which she is certain: our relationships with and attitudes to animals are really...

16 recipes testifying to the sisterhood and solidarity forged in the most notorious prisons in Iran THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A remarkable testimony to women's bravery, compassion and solidarity in...

Gaia Calls compiles memoirs and descriptions of Wade Doak's life as a young man in the Solomon Islands living among the islanders, to years of dolphin research, diving adventures, and...

Girls Aloud 'wildchild' Sarah Harding finally sets the record straight in her powerful and moving memoir 'I can't rewrite history; all I can do is be honest and wear my...

'Feeling stuck? You need to read this book. Let Bobbi's powerful story be your reminder that you don't need permission and you don't have to feel ready. You just have...

'Feeling stuck? You need to read this book. Let Bobbi's powerful story be your reminder that you don't need permission and you don't have to feel ready. You just have...

An instant Sunday Times bestseller 'A sexy, frank and delectable memoir' The New York Times 'An instant, hedonistic culinary classic' The London Standard 'It's the two best things in the...

'A timely and moving pilgrimage through Japan's spiritual traditions' RUTH OZEKI, Women's Prize-winning and Booker Prize-shortlisted author 'A fascinating dive through hidden layers of the Japanese worldview' KATHERINE MAY, author...

' An instant classic' NIGELLA LAWSON 'Sweeping, intimate, defiant and brimming with love' LOUISE KENNEDY 'It is the roots that keep the trees from falling during a storm. Olia Hercules...

'An unflinching examination of contemporary culture's quest for the quick fix to emotional pain' LAURA DELANO Why do so many of us need drugs to make it through the day?...

**THE SEQUEL I WANT TO DIE BUT I STILL WANT TO EAT TTEOKBOKKI OUT NOW ** THE PHENOMENAL SUNDAY TIMES AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER | TRANSLATED BY INTERNATIONAL BOOKER SHORTLISTEE ANTON...

A TIME MUST-READ FOR 2024 'A moving story of how easily a life can be submerged by work, and what it takes to regain one's soul' Oliver Burkeman, bestselling author...

'She's experienced wealth, cultural alienation, homelessness, brushes with fame, prison, rehab, record deals, a million blown second chances, a dozen broken hearts and one bloody-knuckled ultimate spiritual redemption. She even...

The much-loved, irresistibly funny memoir of literary New York which was an international bestseller and enchanted readers around the world - now a major film starring Sigourney Weaver and Margaret...

A braided memoir that interweaves the author's personal journey through grief with a guide on how to write about it, this book is both Sam Meekings' raw account of the...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER New York Times bestselling author and Duke University professor Kate Bowler offers a profound, funny and deeply human case for joy that doesn't depend on everything getting...

'There are good publishers and there are great publishers. And then there's Anthony Cheetham.' Richard Dawkins In November 1966, by way of Mexico City, Eton College, Balliol College, Oxford, and...

It's every parent's nightmare. One ordinary evening, Helen's 22-year-old daughter Jayne is involved in a catastrophic car accident. Lying in a coma, her young life in the balance, Helen composes...

When Jimmy O'Connell took a job as chauffeur for 007 producers Eon Productions, it would not just be Cubby Broccoli, Roger Moore and Sean Connery he would drive to James...

For the first time, Kenneth Bae tells the full story surrounding his arrest and imprisonment in North Korea. Not Forgotten is a modern story of intrigue, suspense, and heart. Driven...

Sydney's leafy northern suburbs were a bastion of Christian conservatism in the 1970s, but the Roberts family was always a little different. If having lots of children, pets and parties...

Read David Axe's blogs and other content on the Penguin Community. The war memoir as graphic novel-an utterly unforgettable and highly original look at war in the 21st century. Street...

First edition in Penguin Classics for two powerful prose sagas, and part of a new series of eight Icelandic Sagas These sagas recount fierce feuds in which honour is fought...

A fascinating mix of participatory journalism and history, Getting Into Guinness is the never-before-told story of the bestselling copyrighted book of all time. Veteran reporter Larry Olmsted began a personal...

Am I a writer? Where should I get ideas? Is my writing any good? How did my favorite authors make it big? The act of writing is a daunting task...

Award-winning illustrated biography of Hal Foster, in which author Brian M. Kane examines the 70-year career of one of the greatest illustrators of the 20th century. Superman was modelled after...

'This compilation shows he was so much more than the sum of his television work' Spectator THE MAN BEHIND THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, TONY , STARRING DOMINIC SESSA & EMILIA...

***A TIMES / SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025*** 'All the no-holds-barred candour you'd expect . . . A hoot, and surprisingly touching' THE TIMES , BOOKS OF THE...

'A timely and moving pilgrimage through Japan's spiritual traditions' RUTH OZEKI, Women's Prize-winning and Booker Prize-shortlisted author 'A fascinating dive through hidden layers of the Japanese worldview' KATHERINE MAY, author...

AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025 AN OPRAH WINFREY AND FEARNE COTTON BOOK CLUB PICK ' No one who reads this book will ever forget it ' Meg Mason...

'Smith's eye for life's everyday transcendence rarely fails her' Sunday Times , 'Books of the Year' 'A triumph' Joseph O'Connor, Irish Times , 'Books of the Year' 'Quietly sacred, utterly...

'Smith's eye for life's everyday transcendence rarely fails her' Sunday Times , 'Books of the Year' 'A triumph' Joseph O'Connor, Irish Times , 'Books of the Year' 'Quietly sacred, utterly...

She Died Young is the literary work of an astonishing mind in which intellect, madness, art and raw honesty unite. It is as far from a 'celebrity memoir' as you...

At the age of thirty-one, John Nash, mathematical genius, suffered a devastating breakdown and was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Yet after decades of leading a ghost-like existence, he was to re-emerge...

There is a war on truth. And the liars are winning. There is an increasingly large number of weapons in the arsenal of the rich, the powerful and the elected...

16 recipes testifying to the sisterhood and solidarity forged in the most notorious prisons in Iran THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A remarkable testimony to women's bravery, compassion and solidarity in...

"This is my last column, after a year that has scared and inspired me." With these words, Elena Ferrante, the bestselling author of My Brilliant Friend, bid farewell to her...

"A story of searing clarity from Ukraine's frontlines of an unfathomably resilient, freedom loving people who refuse to bend to Putin's assault on truth and human life." - Nicole Perlroth...

"An intellectually vivid and curious collection that refuses to find simple answers to its complex questions."-NPR Books We Love "T his book is a rare comfort, a companion . ....

The classic bestseller from the star of Parts Unknown and No Reservations : 25th Anniversary edition, with a new introduction by Irvine Welsh. BEFORE THERE WAS THE BEAR , THERE...

The sequel to the Sunday Times and international-bestselling South Korean therapy memoir, translated by International Booker Prize-shortlisted Anton Hur *AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES & INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER* 'Starkly raw and vulnerable'...