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Puffin Classics- the definitive collection of timeless stories, for every child Rediscover the Puffin Classics collection and bring the best-loved classics to a new generation - including this epic edition...

Now available in a stunning new edition, Elaine Forrestal's goldrush fever historical novel will capture the imagination of readers with Clara Saunders' story. It's 1892, and 14-year-old Clara Saunders is...

An addictive fantasy-romance set in modern-day Seoul. An addictive fantasy-romance set in modern-day Seoul. Eighteen-year-old Gu Miyoung has a secret--she's a gumiho, a nine-tailed fox who must devour the energy...

A boy and his beloved budgie are thrust into an epic adventure that could change everything. Absolutely everything. Birds. Lots of birds. The people of the world are puzzled. Their...

A fast-paced, action-packed story that will have readers on the edge of their seats, from the award-winning author of Two Wolves. In the middle of the night, Sam is woken...

The sixth and final book in the New York Times bestselling Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series. The two that are one must become the one that is all....

The fifth book of the enormously successful Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series- Sophie and Josh, the twins of prophecy, have been divided, and the end has begun. Winner...

Dark magic and fast-paced adventure in this second book in the New York Times bestselling series The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel. Now published with an exciting new cover...

The first book on the New York Times bestselling series The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel - breathless action, pin-sharp plotting and a hero and heroine to root for!...

The fourth book in the New York Times bestselling series sees the dark magic of the Elders pose an even greater threat to Sophie and Josh Newman, who must enter...

Puffin Classics- the definitive collection of timeless stories, for every child Rediscover the Puffin Classics collection and bring the best-loved classics to a new generation - including this charming edition...

Rediscover Puffin Classics, bringing the best-loved stories to a new generation. When young D'Artagnan comes to Paris to seek his fortune, he is challenged to a duel with not one,...

A superb translation by Michael Hofmann of some of Kafka's most frightening, strange and visionary short fiction After Franz Kafka's death, in perhaps the most important of all acts of...

A selection of ground-breaking short stories, from the author of Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf tested the boundaries of fiction in these short stories, developing a new language of sensation, feeling...

Virginia Woolf's final novel, now in Penguin Black Classics Outwardly a novel about life in a country-house in whose grounds there is to be a pageant, Between the Acts is...

Rediscover Puffin Classics. An entirely new package bringing the best-loved stories to a new generation. Katy Carr intends to be beautiful and beloved and as sweet as an angel one...

Woolf's innovative modernist novel, in a new Black Classics edition Tracing the lives of a group of friends, this novel follows their development from childhood to middle age. While social...

A playful mock 'biography' of a chameleonic historical figure, written for Virginia Woolf's intimate friend Vita Sackville-West. Orlando has always been an outsider . . . His longing for passion,...

Woolf's most autobiographical novel, now in Penguin Black Classics To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionistic depiction of a family holiday, and a meditation on marriage, on parenthood...

An enthralling exploration of the human experience, from the author of To The Lighthouse On a June morning in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway is preparing for a party and remembering her...

Key reading for 2018- Orwell's moving reflections on the English character and his passionate belief in the need for political change The Lion and the Unicorn was written in London...

An achingly beautiful story about family, belonging and living a life in tune with the environment, from one of Australia's best-loved authors, Tim Winton. Abel Jackson has lived by the...

Hi guys, ever since I was little I only had one dream - to win a gold medal at the Olympics. When I was twenty-seven years old, my dream came...

Kate Chopin's groundbreaking depiction of a woman who dares to defy the expectations of society in the pursuit of her desire When The Awakening was first published in 1899, charges...

A new translation by Richard Pevear Young D'Artagnan arrives in Paris to join the King's elite guards, but almost immediately finds he is duelling with some of the very men...

A major new translation by Dominic Baker-Smith of More's perenially popular Latin text 'Even if you can't eradicate harmful ideas or remedy established evils, that's no reason to turn your...

Jules Verne's pioneering science fiction classic tells the story of the distinguished but eccentric Professor Lidenbrock, who finds a scrap of parchment in an old manuscript. A cipher written in...

A classics tale of romance in urban Nineteenth-century America When timid and plain Catherine Sloper acquires a dashing and determined suitor, her father, convinced that the young man is nothing...

A new edition of James's chilling novella, edited by David Bromwich 'The apparition had reached the landing half-way up and was therefore on the spot nearest the window where, at...

Part of a series of new editions of Henry James most famous novels and short stories Travelling in Europe with her family, Daisy Miller, an exquisitely beautiful young American woman,...

A new edition of Henry James's great masterpiece about a spirited young American in Europe, edited by Philip Horne When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe...

A comic masterpiece that has never been out of print since it was first published in 1889, Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat includes an introduction and notes...

A gripping tale of adventure that has enthralled readers since it was first published, John Buchan's The Thirty-Nine Steps is edited with an introduction and notes by Sir John Keegan...

Rediscover H.G. Wells - what does he mean to you? The night after a shooting star is seen streaking through the sky from Mars, a cylinder is discovered on Horsell...

Rediscover H.G. Wells - what does he mean to you? Adrift in a dinghy, Edward Prendick, the single survivor from the good ship Lady Vain, is rescued by a vessel...

Rediscover H.G. Wells - what does he mean to you? With his face swaddled in bandages, his eyes hidden behind dark glasses and his hands covered even indoors, Griffin -...

Rediscover H.G. Wells - what does he mean to you? When a Victorian scientist propels himself into the year 802,701 AD, he is initially delighted to find that suffering has...

Penguin Classics Relaunch When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he takes a kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother's seamstress, and in the affairs of Amy's...

A new edition of Gaskell's witty and poignant comedy of country town life Gaskell's best known work is set in a small rural town, inhabited largely by women. This is...

Penguin Classics relaunch. With Robinson Crusoe, Defoe wrote what is regarded as the first English novel, and created one of the most popular and enduring myths in literature. Written in...

Penguin Classics relaunch. This selection of Poe's critical writings, short fiction and poetry demonstrates an intense interest in aesthetic issues and the astonishing power and imagination with which he probed...

Penguin Classics relaunch. Bored on a hot afternoon, Alice follows a White Rabbit down a rabbit-hole - without giving a thought about how she might get out. And so she...

Penguin Classics Relaunch. Wrongly accused of theft and exiled from a religious community many years before, the embittered weaver Silas Marner lives alone in Raveloe, living only for work and...

Fairy tales, ghost stories, detective fiction and comedies of manners - the stories collected in this volume made Oscar Wilde's name as a writer of fiction, showing breathtaking dexterity in...

Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr Thomas Gradgrind, school headmaster and model of Utilitarian success. Feeding both his pupils and family with facts, he bans fancy and wonder...

Penguin Classics relaunch The Woman in White famously opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter on a moonlit London road. Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie, Walter...

George Eliot's most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community. Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search...

Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery A young woman flees Athens with her lover, only to be pursued by...