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On Liberty
Author: John Stuart Mill Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 'Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.' To this 'one very simple principle'...
Selected Poems
Author: Rudyard Kipling Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) is often regarded as the unofficial Laureate of the British Empire. Yet his writing reveals a...
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,...
Too Good to Leave, Too Bad to Stay: A Step by Step Guide to Help You Decide Whether to Stay in or Get Out of Your Relationship
Author: Mira Kirshenbaum Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'Your relationship is either too goog to leave or too bad to stay in. But it can't be both.'...
Where Are You, Magoo?
Author: Briony Stewart Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 Pre-schoolers will love to play hide-and-seek with Magoo, the fun and loveable red dog from We Love You Magoo! Find Magoo...
Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First
Author: Frank Trentmann Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 880 The epic history of consumption, and the goods that have transformed our lives over the past 600 years. We...
Victory at Villers-Bretonneux
Author: Peter FitzSimons Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 784 On Anzac Day 1918, when the town of Villers-Bretonneux falls to the British defenders, it is the Australians who are called...
The Diary of Samuel Pepys: A Selection
Author: Samuel Pepys Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1152 Published to co-incide with the pbk of Claire Tomalin's Whitbread Prize-winning biography The 1660s represent a turning point in...
The Long Prospect
Author: Elizabeth Harrower Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 292 Introduced by Fiona McGregor Sharply observed, bitter and humorous, The Long Prospect is a story of life in an...
Ancien Regime and the Revolution
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 With this book, Alexis de Tocqueville envisioned a multi-volume philosophic study of the origins of modern France that...
Sketches by Boz
Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 Charles Dickens's Sketches by Boz foreshadows his novels in its profusion of characters, its glimpses of surreal modernity and...
How to be More Interesting: Change how you see yourself and how the world sees you
Author: Edward de Bono Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 In How to be More Interesting, lateral-thinking guru Edward de Bono reveals how playing with ideas, making connections,...
The Laws
Author: Plato Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 In the Laws, Plato describes in fascinating detail a comprehensive system of legislation in a small agricultural utopia he named...
Corporal Hitlers Pistol
Author: Tom Keneally Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 How did Corporal Hitler's Luger from the First World War end up being the weapon that killed an IRA...
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Author: Mark Haddon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A truly remarkable novel about an autistic boy. 'The dog was lying on the grass in the middle of...
Three Gothic Novels
Author: Horace Walpole Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 The Gothic novel, which flourished from about 1765 until 1825, revels in the horrible and the supernatural, in suspense...
The Opal Deception: The Graphic Novel
Author: Eoin Colfer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 Artemis Fowl's greatest enemy, the evil pixie Opal Koboi, has escaped - and she's out for revenge. The adaptation...
On Tangled Paths
Author: Theodor Fontane Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Lene is a beautiful, orphaned young seamstress, and Botho is a handsome, aristocratic cavalry officer. They are in love,...
The World Beyond Your Head: How to Flourish in an Age of Distraction
Author: Matthew Crawford Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Drawing on moral philosophy, cognitive science, the work lessons of craftsmen and his own life lessons as an academic...
The Darkness Knows
Author: Arnaldur Indridason Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A spin-off from international bestseller Indridason's critically acclaimed Reykjavic-set novel, The Shadow District. 'Arnaldur Indridason is the grand old...
The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe
Author: Arthur Koestler Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 Passionate, provocative and lyrically told, The Sleepwalkers is the remarkable story of how man grew to understand the universe....
The Shape of Night
Author: Tess Gerritsen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The haunting new standalone thriller from Tess Gerritsen, bestselling author of the Rizzoli & Isles series. 'This will haunt...
Books That Saved My Life: Reading for Wisdom, Solace and Pleasure
Author: Michael McGirr Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 A profound, funny and uplifting collection of reminiscences about a life in books Here are forty texts to read at some...
Guide to Greece: Central Greece
Author: Pausanias Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 Written in the second century AD by a Greek traveller for a predominantly Roman audience, Pausanias' Guide to Greece is...
The Marsh Arabs
Author: Wilfred Thesiger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 During the years he spent among the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq Wilfred Thesiger came to understand, admire and...
The Catherine Wheel
Author: Elizabeth Harrower Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 340 The wind from Siberia as announced by the BBC came down Bayswater Road from the direction of Marble Arch.........
Orwell and the Dispossessed
Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 An expansive collection of George Orwell's writing on the down and out The vivid, impassioned writings collected together in...
Trans-Europe Express: Tours of a Lost Continent
Author: Owen Hatherley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 A searching, timely account of the condition of contemporary Europe, told through the landscapes of its cities. Over the past twenty...
Fulfillment: winning and losing in one-click America
Author: Alec MacGillis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 An award-winning journalist investigates Amazon's impact on the wealth and poverty of towns and cities across the United States....
Sold Down the River: How Robber Barons and Wall Street Traders Cornered Australia's Water Market
Author: Scott Hamilton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Two insiders expose the shocking and shameful betrayal of Australia's regional heartland so international bankers and traders could make...
The Honourable Schoolboy: The Smiley Collection
Author: John Le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 George Smiley, now chief of the battered British Secret Service, seeks revenge for the betrayals of a Soviet...
Augustine: Conversions and Confessions
Author: Robin Lane Fox Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 'Give me chastity, but not yet', Augustine famously prayed. His intimate spiritual masterpiece, The Confessions, has inspired millions...
We Love You, Magoo
Author: Briony Stewart Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 Magoo has his own ideas about what a dog should do - in the kitchen, in the car, at dinnertime and...
Njal's Saga
Author: Leifur Eiricksson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 New edition of one of the most powerful of the Icelandic prose sagas Written in the thirteenth century, Njal's...
The Damned
Author: Joris-Karl Huysmans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Huysmans' gaudy, shocking and largely autobiographical novel La-Bas was described by one critic as 'even more disquieting' than his...
Scaredy Bath
Author: Zoe Foster Blake Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 A gorgeous bubble-filled ode to bath-time chaos, as seen from the bath's point of view. From the inimitable Zoe Foster...
What Katy Did
Author: Susan Coolidge Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Rediscover Puffin Classics. An entirely new package bringing the best-loved stories to a new generation. Katy Carr intends to...
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
Author: Carson McCullers Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Few writers have expressed loneliness, the need for human understanding and the search for love with such power and...
Lost Horizon
Author: James Hilton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 The gripping adventure story that invented Shangri-La, one of our most enduring literary mysteries. The gripping adventure that invented...
The Leopard: Harry Hole 8
Author: Jo Nesbo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 752 A heart-stopping thriller from the international crime fiction star Love twist-filled crime? The Leopard is your next perfect read....
Silas Marner
Author: George Eliot Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Penguin Classics Relaunch. Wrongly accused of theft and exiled from a religious community many years before, the embittered weaver...
Smiley's People: The Smiley Collection
Author: John Le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 As we publish all of le Carre's work for the first time, a special look for the books...
Passchendaele: Requiem for Doomed Youth
Author: Paul Ham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 592 Passchendaele epitomises everything that was most terrible about the Western Front. The photographs never sleep of this four-month battle, fought from...
LA Confidential: Classic Noir
Author: James Ellroy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 Ellroy's back with the third of his LA Quartet! Ellroy's back with the third of his LA Quartet! Christmas...
Chronicles
Author: Jean Froissart Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 The Chronicles of Froissart (1337-1410) are one of the greatest contemporary records of fourteenth-century England and France. Depicting the...
The Tain
Author: Ciaran Carson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The kingdoms of Connacht and Ulster are preparing to do battle with each other. Medb, the sly and envious...
Showtime!
Author: Judy Nunn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Judy Nunn's latest bestselling novel will take you from the cotton mills of England to the magnificent theatres of...
Selected Poems
Author: Charles-Pierre Baudelaire Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 The poems of Charles Baudelaire, collected as Les Fleurs du Mal, are filled with unsettling imagery, depicting with intensity...