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The Shepherd's Life: A Tale of the Lake District
Author: James Rebanks Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 In evocative and lucid prose, James Rebanks takes us through a shepherd's year, offering a unique account of rural...
From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia
Author: Pankaj Mishra Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Viewed in the West as a time of self-confident progress, the Victorian period was experienced by Asians as a...
The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future
Author: David Wallace-Wells Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'If you read just one work of non-fiction this year, it should probably be this' - David Sexton, The...
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Author: Daniel Kahneman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 The acclaimed bestseller that will change the way you make decisions In Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman takes us...
How the Mind Works
Author: Steven Pinker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 Why do we laugh? What makes memories fade? Why do people believe in ghosts? Why do fools fall in...
India in the Persianate Age: 1000-1765
Author: Richard M. Eaton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 A magisterial history of the Indian subcontinent The Indian subcontinent might seem a self-contained world. Protected by vast...
The Master and Margarita
Author: Mikhail Bulgakov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 A masterpiece - a classic of twentieth-century fiction - New York Times The devil makes a personal appearance in...
The House of the Spirits
Author: Isabel Allende Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 Allende's magical realist epic is an international classic - 'thick with plot and bristling with characters. A novel to...
Gathering Dark
Author: Candice Fox Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A convicted killer. A gifted thief. A vicious crime boss. A disillusioned cop. Together they're a missing girl's only...
Ranger's Apprentice 2: The Burning Bridge
Author: John Flanagan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 One man may be deceit. Two can be conspiracy. Three is the number I trust. One man may be...
Because We Say So
Author: Noam Chomsky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Essays on American hegemony from the West's most prominent critic of US imperialism For over fifty years, one fact...
Twin
Author: Natasha Preston Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 In this twisty psychological thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of THE CELLAR, Ivy finds out...
Unseen Academicals: (Discworld Novel 37)
Author: Terry Pratchett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 Football comes to Ankh-Morpork in the thirty-seventh Discworld novel. 'This isn't just football, it's Discworld football. Or, to borrow...
Shame and the Captives
Author: Tom Keneally Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Will keeping the Japanese, Korean and Italian POWs of the Second World War alive in Australia keep Australian POWs...
One World
Author: Peter Singer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 365 Known for his originality and courageous thinking on matters ranging from the treatment of animals to genetic screening, Peter...
Segu
Author: Maryse Conde Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 The bestselling epic novel of family, treachery, rivalry, religious fervour and the turbulent fate of a people The year...
If Beale Street Could Talk
Author: James Baldwin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 We are in Harlem, the black soul of New York City, in the era of Aretha Franklin and Ray...
A Wild Sheep Chase: Special 3D Edition
Author: Haruki Murakami Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Haruki Murakami's third novel, A Wild Sheep Chase is the mystery hybrid which completes the odyssey begun in Hear...
How Language Works
Author: David Crystal Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 David Crystal's How Language Works is a fascinating tour through the world of language from one of today's most...
And the Ass Saw the Angel: Popular Penguins
Author: Nick Cave Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 324 Outcast and mute, Euchrid Eucrow of Ukulore inhabits a nightmarish Southern valley of preachers, incest and ignorance. When the...
The Consolations of Philosophy
Author: Alain de Botton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Alain de Botton's The Consolations of Philosophy takes the discipline of logic and the mind back to its...
Guns, Germs and Steel: (Patterns of Life)
Author: Jared Diamond Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 A series of special editions of the best popular science books to explore the patterns of our planet. Designed...
Maigret's Dead Man: Inspector Maigret #29
Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 A series of strange phone calls leads Inspector Maigret through the Paris streets towards a man out of his...
The Plague
Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Albert Camus's world-renowned fable of fear and courage The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly...
Maigret and Monsieur Charles: Inspector Maigret #75
Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 The last novel in Simenon's celebrated series When an elegant but nervous woman appears in Inspector Maigret's office and...
Maigret is Afraid: Inspector Maigret #42
Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 An impromptu visit to an old school friend in the Vendee draws Maigret into a disturbing local investigation. The...
Three Lives
Author: Gertrude Stein Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Gertrude Stein, as a college student at Radcliffe and a medical student at Johns Hopkins Medical School, was a...
A History of the Crusades II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Frankish East 1100-1187
Author: Steven Runciman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Runciman's great Crusades trilogy reissued in Penguin Modern Classics 'The whole tale is one of faith and folly, courage...
Maigret in Court: Inspector Maigret #55
Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Maigret is called to testify in court and reveals his doubts on the guilt of the accused Maigret receives...
Madame Maigret's Friend: Inspector Maigret #34
Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Inspector Maigret's wife turns sleuth after a strange encounter in a Paris square leads her on the trail of...
Maigret's Memoirs: Inspector Maigret #35
Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Maigret sets the record straight and tells the story of his own life, giving a rare glimpse into the...
Maigret Takes a Room: Inspector Maigret #37
Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 When one of his best inspectors is shot, Maigret decides to book himself into Mademoiselle Clement's well-kept Paris boarding...
Perfume
Author: Patrick Suskind Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, reissued with a new PMC jacket Survivor, genius, perfumer, killer- this is Jean-Baptiste...
Chess: A Novel
Author: Stefan Zweig Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 Stefan Zweig's classic novella of obsession, madness and chess In 1941 a cruise ship is heading to Buenos Aires,...
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Author: Michel Foucault Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Foucault's seminal work on torture, punishment, discipline and the prison system, now reissued in Penguin Modern Classics for the...
Shooting an Elephant
Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 A landmark collection of Orwell's writings, with a new Introduction by Jeremy Paxman 'Shooting an Elephant' is Orwell's searing...
K.
Author: Roberto Calasso Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 A singular journey through the visionary world of Kafka and its captivating mysteries, now in Penguin Modern Classics What...
Seize the Day
Author: Saul Bellow Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Published to coincide with the publication of other Bellow novels. Fading charmer Tommy Wilhelm has reached his day of...
Weights and Measures
Author: Joseph Roth Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 A short, brilliantly evocative novel set in the bleak eastern European borderlands before the First World War. 'Every man...
Homage to Catalonia
Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 'Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism...
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Author: Paulo Freire Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A groundbreaking text of educational philosophy and social reform, now in Penguin Modern Classics. This text argues that the...
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
Author: Simone de Beauvoir Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Memoirs of a Dutiful...
Because They Wanted To
Author: Mary Gaitskill Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 A bestselling collection of short stories from the American master storyteller Mary Gaitskill, author of Bad Behavior First published...
Foucault's Pendulum
Author: Umberto Eco Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 "As brilliant and quirky as THE NAME OF THE ROSE, as mischievous and wide-raning....A virtuoso performance" Three book editors,...
Atonement
Author: Ian McEwan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 'The best thing he has ever written' Observer Discover the modern classic that has sold over two million copies....
Four Tales
Author: Philip Pullman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 From the author of His Dark Materials come four tales of myth, magic and adventure. The Firework Maker's Daughter...
Down Under: Travels in a Sunburned Country
Author: Bill Bryson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Bill Bryson's travels in a sunburned country- Australia will never look the same again. It is the driest, flattest,...
The Elephant Vanishes
Author: Haruki Murakami Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'A remarkable writer-he captures the common ache of contemporary heart and head' Jay McInerney When a man's favourite elephant...