Non-Secondhand Books

Ambler's electrifying Istanbul-set thriller from 1962, and the basis for the classic film Topkapi Arthur Abdel Simpson is a failed journalist and soon-to-be failed thief, embittered by memories of his...

Do you want to laugh your pants off? Of course you do. In which case - come on into the world of the O.D.D. Squad - a team of (sort...

The exhilarating follow-up to Pat Barker's The Women of Troy and The Silence of the Girls After ten blood-filled years, the war is over. Troy lies in smoking ruins as...

The gripping true story of one man's ten-year expedition from a village in West Africa to the Arctic Circle - a rare gem of travel writing which has inspired a...

In his most exhilarating novel yet, Britain's greatest storyteller transports you from the vibrant streets of sixties London, as an accidental spy is drawn into the shadows of espionage and...

Play and learn with Spot and his friends in this BIG first concepts lift-the-flap book, full of fun! Play and learn with Spot and his friends in this BIG first...

A chilling alternative history of the Second World War, in which the Nazis have conquered Britain It is 1941 and Germany has won the war. Britain is occupied, Churchill executed...

The second novel in the Game, Set and Match trilogy is a gripping study in the art of spy enrolment World-weary agent Bernard Samson is losing control of his personal...

Len Deighton's best-selling first spy novel which revolutionised the genre, now published in Penguin Classics for the first time A high-ranking scientist has been kidnapped. A secret British intelligence agency...

A short, practical and accessible guide to the perimenopause and menopause So much is still misunderstood about the menopause and how to manage it successfully - GP and menopause specialist,...

An old sanatorium. A terrifying murder. Six suspects and a case that never closed . . . Discover the new locked-room mystery by the Sunday Times bestselling author Once a...

The long-awaited autobiography from the man who's been at the heart of the entertainment establishment for 50 years In Odd Boy Out Gyles Brandreth provides an extraordinarily revealing account of...

One of the seminal texts on child development, which continues to influence contemporary ideas on parenting D. W. Winnicott was one of the most influential figures in child psychiatry. In...

A reissue of the successful PMC edition of Woolf's landmark feminist polemic A Room of One's Own, based on a lecture given at Girton College Cambridge, is one of the...

A stunning clothbound edition of Wells' science-fiction classic Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in...

A leading therapist shares memorable patient stories to explore the key crises in life and what we can learn from them. In this Sunday Times bestseller, acclaimed psychotherapist Julia Samuel...

A stunning clothbound edition of The Mayor of Casterbridge, a haunting study of guilt and lost love Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie...

Twenty new titles in the much-loved and hugely successful Penguin English Library series 'The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander...

The Soul is a history of the human mind, from the earliest expression of self-consciousness to its unshakeable belief in the great religions and political systems. 'Wonderfully entertaining' - Michael...

A picture book series about the extraordinary men and women who have shaped Australia's history, including opera star Dame Nellie Melba. A picture book series about the extraordinary men and...

Beautifully illustrated by award-winning Lucia Masciullo, this bold and affirming picture book shouts from the rooftops that you should be you. A is for Attitude. May you have bucketloads of...

The diaries of the last British Governor, five weeks on the Sunday Times best-seller list In June 1992 Chris Patten went to Hong Kong as the last British governor, to...

A joyful, rule-breaking experiment in biography, which celebrates 'country life' as a state of mind 1917. Virginia Woolf arrives at Asheham, on the Sussex Downs, immobilized by nervous exhaustion and...

Travel back to the trenches with the fourth book in the thrilling children's history series 'The whistles blew, the cheers went up, and thousands of men were scrambling up into...

Hacking, espionage, war and cybercrime as you've never read about them before Fancy Bear was hungry. Looking for embarrassing information about Hillary Clinton, the elite hacking unit within Russian military...

A heartbreaking, hilarious coming-of-age story from the voice of a generation, hailed as a new literary classic Thirteen-year-old Byron needs to get away, and doesn't care how. Sick of being...

The untold story of Robert Cecil, the ultimate Tudor spy-master Robert Cecil, statesman and spymaster, lived through an astonishingly threatening period in English history. Queen Elizabeth had no clear successor...

A pioneer of artificial intelligence shows how the study of causality revolutionized science and the world 'Correlation does not imply causation.' This mantra was invoked by scientists for decades in...

The revolutionary account of working-class culture and ideals, reissued as a Penguin Modern Classic to mark the 50th anniversary of its publication This brilliant account of working-class society in its...

This is the story of one woman's descent into an insanity. In Brain on Fire she pieces together the terrifying lost month of her life, asking what happens when your...

Henry James's masterpiece, now available in a delightful new clothbound edition When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy Aunt Touchett, it is expected...

An unforgettable portrait of a woman bravely confronting loneliness and despair in her quest for self-determination, from the author of Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys was a talent before her...

A reissue of the stunning epic spanning continents and generations, from the Number One international bestseller As a child Julia Forrester spent many idyllic hours in the hothouse of Wharton...

Britain's favourite 21st-century literary author returns to her roots - London Zadie Smith's brilliant tragi-comic NW follows four Londoners - Leah, Natalie, Felix and Nathan - after they've left their...

First paperback publication of this much-loved anthology of poems to take you from birth to death, and a little beyond ... Taking its inspiration from Shakespeare's idea of the \"seven...

The final revision of this classic bestseller, the 7th edition defines the common thread linking the world's greatest economic thinkers and explores the philosophies that motivate them. Hailed by Galbraith...

Two little girls are taken by their mother to Morocco on a 1960s pilgrimage of self-discovery. For Mum it is not just an escape from the grinding conventions of English...

The best of Jeanette Winterson's remarkable, radical and genre-expanding novels, reissued in a bold new look ahead of the publication of her new book, 12 BYTES 'This book is a...

'Like most people I lived for a long time with my mother and father. My father liked to watch the wrestling, my mother liked to wrestle; it didn't matter what'...

In a remote corner of Norway - a mountain town so far north the sun never sets - a man is running for his life in the thrilling sequel to...

The President's children have been kidnapped. The water supply for Washington DC has been poisoned. Alex Cross is on both cases. The eighteenth novel in the bestselling Alex Cross series...

How do French women do it? This is the book that unlocks the simple secrets of 'the French paradox' - how to enjoy food and stay slim and healthy. With...

Meg treasures every moment that she gets to spend riding, and she has always longed for a pony of her own. She knows Mum and Dad can't afford a pony...

Copy colour, complete part-coloured pictures and fun posters featuring the characters and locations from Disney Pixar's Luca

Two of comics' most celebrated creators, Brian Azzarello and Alex Maleev, team up to pit Task Force X against their deadliest target yet-The Joker! Two of comics' most celebrated creators,...

If you thought you knew everything about Slade Wilson, you were dead wrong! If you thought you knew everything about Slade Wilson, you were dead wrong! His blood-drenched past and...

The dawn of a brave new mechanized DCU is here from the rising star creative team of Kenny Porter (The Flash- The Fastest Man Alive, Fearless) and Baldemar Rivas (Robins,...

Uniting the critically acclaimed writer Mark Russell (One-Star Squadron and The Flintstones) and Eisner-winner Mike Allred (Silver Surfer and Bowie- Stardust, Rayguns & Moonage Daydreams) for the first time, this...