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The Pandemic Century: A History of Global Contagion from the Spanish
A timely and critically acclaimed 100-year history of pandemics, by medical historian and viral TED talk presenter - with a new chapter on COVID-19. A Financial Times Best Book of...
Too Good to Leave, Too Bad to Stay: A Step by Step Guide to Help You
A book that deals with that most crucial of decisions - should you stay with your present partner or should you go? Brilliantly incisive, witty and extremely informative.Mira Kirshenbaum is...
The Sorrow Stone: The gripping historical novel from the co-author of
An epic and compelling novel that reimagines the fate of one of Iceland's famous women of history. UQP is offering a money-back guarantee that The Sorrow Stone is a great...
The War in the West - A New History: Volume 1: Germany Ascendant
The first part of an astonishing and revelatory new history of the Second World War from one of the UK's most exciting and expert young historians From the top ten...
The War in the West: A New History: Volume 2: The Allies Fight Back
The second instalment in a revealing and forceful new multi-volume history of the Second World War from one of the UK's most exciting and expert young historians From Hitler's invasion...
The Blue Guitar
From one of the world's greatest writers comes a story of theft and adultery Adultery is always put in terms of thieving. But we were happy together, simply happy. Oliver...
Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance
An essential primer on capitalism, politics and how the world works, based on the hugely popular undergraduate lecture series 'What is Politics?' Is there an alternative to capitalism? In this...
The Practice
For any artist, entrepreneur, or visionary who feels stuck, Seth Godin has a simple answer- commit to the practice. For any artist, entrepreneur, or visionary who feels stuck, Seth Godin...
Sharks in the Time of Saviours
A powerful debut novel that delicately blends Hawaiian myth with the broken American dream. 'The next time I went for air you were at the surface, sideways, prone and ragdolling...
The Jam Queens
The heartwarming new family drama from the bestselling author of The Cake Maker's Wish Award-winning jam maker Aggie is determined to take her Barossa Valley cafe to new heights. She...
Captain Cook's Apprentice
A fictional recreation of one of the greatest voyages of discovery ever made, by award-winning author Anthony Hill. The enthralling story of Captain Cook's voyage to Australia, as seen through...
Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe
Two terrifying modern classics by cult horror favorite Thomas Ligotti, in time for their 30th and 25th anniversaries Two terrifying classics by "the best kept secret in contemporary horror fiction"...
The Poetics of Space
The beloved multidisciplinary classic on the spaces we inhabit and the dreams and memories that fill them A beloved multidisciplinary treatise comes to Penguin Classics Since its initial publication in...
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories (Penguin Classics Deluxe
A definitive collection of stories from the unrivaled master of twentieth-century horror in a Penguin Classics Deluxe edition with cover art by Travis Louie Frequently imitated and widely influential, Howard...
The Aeneid
From the award-winning translator ofThe IliadandThe Odysseycomes a brilliant new translation of Virgil's great epic Fleeing the ashes of Troy, Aeneas, Achilles' mighty foe in theIliad, begins an incredible journey...
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
The epic story of how millions of black Americans fled the Jim Crow south, told through the journeys of three remarkable individuals From 1915 to 1970, an exodus of almost...
A Day in the Life of the Brain: The Neuroscience of Consciousness from
A world-renowned neuroscientist illuminates the science of consciousness by exploring a single day in the life of the brain. Each of us has a unique, subjective inner world, one that...
Kipps
Rediscover H.G. Wells - what does he mean to you? Orphaned at an early age, raised by his aunt and uncle, and apprenticed for seven years to a draper, Artie...
Latin Literature: An Anthology
A classic introduction to Latin literature, with translations of the best passages from Virgil, Livy, Ovid, Seneca and many others This classic anthology traces the development of Latin literature from...
Selected Prose
Searing, haunting and timeless prose from one of England's greatest poets This selection of John Donne's most powerful prose shows that the man remembered predominantly for his poetry was also...
The Penguin Book of the British Short Story: 1: From Daniel Defoe to
An extraordinarily ambitious, surprising and enjoyable book, the first of two volumes, celebrating the British short story This is the first anthology capacious enough to celebrate the full diversity and...
The Arctic Incident: The Graphic Novel
A stunning graphic-novel adaptation of the megaselling Artemis Fowl and The Arctic Incident. Someone has been supplying Class-A illegal human power sources to the goblins. Captain Holly Short of the...
Complete Stories
Major new collection of Clarice Lispector's short stories for the first time in English The publication of Clarice Lispector's Complete Stories, eighty-five in all, is a major literary event. Now,...
Flappers and Philosophers: The Collected Short Stories of F. Scott
Reissue of the collected stories, now including 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button', the extraordinary fable of a man who lives his life backwards Encompassing the very best of F....
Styles of Radical Will
Susan Sontag's second collection of groundbreaking essays, new to Penguin Modern Classics This collection of essays contains some of the most important pieces of criticism of the twentieth century, including...
The Yage Letters: Redux
A collection of letters by Burroughs detailing his experiments with the 'Yage' drug, and Ginsberg's responses as he follows in Burroughs' footsteps William Burroughs closed his classic debut novel, Junky,...
A Capote Reader
Truman Capote began writing when he was eight and became one of America's most versatile and gifted authors.A Capote Readercontains much of his published work- his dazzling fiction, includingBreakfast at...
Essays
These essays, reviews and articles illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this century - a man who created a unique literary manner from...
The Holy Roman Empire: A Thousand Years of Europe's History
An astonishing, essential book on what was for ten centuries Europe's largest state - the Holy Roman Empire A great, sprawling, ancient and unique entity, the Holy Roman Empire, from...
The Coming of the Third Reich: How the Nazis Destroyed Democracy and
'Impressive . . . perceptive . . . humane . . . the most comprehensive history in any language of the disastrous epoch of the Third Reich' IAN KERSHAW AUTHOR...
The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China: The Complete Fiction
New to Penguin Classics for this important work of modern Chinese fiction Lu Xun (Lu Hsun) is arguably the greatest writer of modern China, and is considered by many to...
City of God
One of the greatest theological works, and is one of the most influential Christian documents. St Augustine, bishop of Hippo, was one of the central figures in the history of...
Critique of Pure Reason
New translation for the greatest masterpiece of the man many regard as the most important modern philosopher Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (1781) is the central text of modern philosophy....
The Mahabharata
New selection and translation of the great epic story of ancient India, revealing a mythic world of bloody conflict, magic and beauty The Mahabharata is one of the two major...
Complete Plays, Lenz and Other Writings
Also included are selections from B chner's letters and philosophical writings. Collected in this volume are powerful dramas and psychological fiction by the nineteenth-century iconoclast now recognized as a major...
The Enneads
Regarded as the founder of Neo-Platonism, Plotinus (AD 204-70) was the last great philosopher of antiquity, producing 0works that proved in many ways a precursor to Renaissance thought. Plotinus was...
The Story of the Stone
The Story of the Stone (c. 1760), also known by the title of The Dream of the Red Chamber, is the great novel of manners in Chinese literature. The Story...
Lost Illusions
Handsome would-be poet Lucien Chardon is poor and naive, but highly ambitious. Failing to make his name in his dull provincial hometown, he is taken up by a patroness, the...
Guide to Greece: Central Greece
Still used as a guide to classical Greece even today this remains one of the most influential travel books ever written. Written in the second century AD by a Greek...
The Conquest of New Spain
Vivid, powerful and absorbing, this is a first-person account of one of the most startling military episodes in history- the overthrow of Montezuma's doomed Aztec Empire by the ruthless Hernan...
Four Tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth
The theme of the great Shakespearean tragedies is the fall from grace of a great man due to a flaw in his nature. Whether it is the ruthless ambition of...
Personal Writings
St Ignatius' thoughts and work on Christian spirituality One of the key figures in Christian history, St. Ignatius of Loyola (c. 1491-1556) was a passionate and unique spiritual thinker and...
A Treatise of Human Nature
Hume's masterpiece on human nature, attacking traditional religious thought One of the most significant works of Western philosophy, Hume's Treatise was published in 1739-40, before he was thirty years old....
The Complete Poems
The complete collection of the poetry of Walt Whitman, one of the most influential American voices In 1855 Walt Whitman published Leaves of Grass, the work which defined him as...
The Complete Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
One of the great figures of English Romanticism, Coleridge's poems show diversity and imaginative genius One of the major figures of English Romanticism, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) created works of...
The White Road: A Journey Into Obsession
The gripping story of the lure of porcelain, or 'white gold', from the Number One bestselling author of The Hare with Amber Eyes The gripping story of the lure of...
Hanns and Rudolf: The German Jew and the Hunt for the Kommandant of
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The extraordinary true story of the Jewish investigator who pursued and captured one of Nazi Germany's most notorious war criminals. _____________________________________ THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER...
Elizabeth of York: The First Tudor Queen
Britain's foremost female historian reveals the true story of this key figure in the Wars of the Roses and the Tudor dynasty who began life a princess, spent her youth...