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The Magic Mountain
This European masterpiece from the Nobel prizewinner explores the lure and degeneracy of ideas in an introverted community on the eve of World War I As Seen on BBC Between...
Lust
Roald Dahl takes on Lust . . . Two husbands secretly agree to a night of passion - with each other's wives, a slighted old man takes an elaborate and...
The Giver of Stars
The latest bestselling novel from household name Jojo Moyes is back with a new look summer jacket - this is the escapist blockbuster that everyone must read England, late 1930s,...
The Charisma Myth: How to Engage, Influence and Motivate People
How to engage, influence, motivate and succeed with people What if charisma could be taught? What you'll find here is practical magic- unique knowledge, drawn from a variety of sciences,...
61 Hours: (Jack Reacher 14)
Get ready for the most exciting count-down of your life! Winner of the prestigious Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year prize, and chosen by the Sunday Times as...
The Grand Design
New answers to the ultimate questions of life from the world's most famous living scientist. When and how did the universe begin? Why are we here? Is the apparent 'grand...
Behind The Scenes At The Museum
To celebrate the 25th anniversary since first publication, a new edition of Kate Atkinson's brilliant and unforgettable first novel with an introduction by the author. The unforgettable, award-winning debut novel...
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
Britain's greatest science writer comprehensively rebuts the creationists by pulling together the incontrovertible evidence for evolution Charles Darwin's masterpiece, On the Origin of Species, shook society to its core on...
The First Casualty
Ben Elton's first historical thriller Flanders, June 1917- a British officer and celebrated poet, is shot dead, killed not by German fire, but while recuperating from shell shock well behind...
Big Week: The Biggest Air Battle of World War Two
Perfectly timed for the anniversary, this is the new single-battle epic from bestselling author, James Holland - the only book of its kind on this battle. 'James Holland is a...
Wyrd Sisters: Introduction by Joanne Harris
One of the new PB editions of three classic Discworld titles introducing new readers to the wonderful world of Terry Pratchett. 'Pratchett uses his other world to hold up a...
Enchanters' End Game: Book Five Of The Belgariad
BOOK 5 OF THE BELGARIAD, the original bestselling fantasy series by the famed master storyteller. In the same tradition as Terry Goodkind, Raymond Feist and David Gemmell. BOOK 5 OF...
Castle Of Wizardry: Book Four Of The Belgariad
BOOK 4 OF THE BELGARIAD, the original bestselling fantasy series by the famed master storyteller. In the same tradition as Terry Goodkind, Raymond Feist and David Gemmell. BOOK 4 OF...
Unseen Academicals: (Discworld Novel 37)
Football comes to Ankh-Morpork in the thirty-seventh Discworld novel. 'This isn't just football, it's Discworld football. Or, to borrow another phrase, it's about life, the Universe and everything' The Times...
Thud!: (Discworld Novel 34)
The thirty-fourth Discworld novel. Seventh book of the original and best CITY WATCH series, now reinterpreted in BBC's The Watch 'Imaginative, witty and consistent' SFX The Discworld is very much...
Monstrous Regiment: (Discworld Novel 31)
In the thirty-first Discworld novel the Discworld goes to war 'You ride along on his tide of outlandish invention, realising that you are in the presence of a true original'...
Thief Of Time: (Discworld Novel 26)
The twenty-sixth Discworld novel. 'This is the best Pratchett I've read' Sunday Telegraph The Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a...
The Truth: (Discworld Novel 25)
The twenty-fifth Discworld novel. 'An unmitigated delight . . . very, very funny' The Times The Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist...
Carpe Jugulum: (Discworld Novel 23)
The twenty-third Discworld novel. 'Terry Pratchett will remain an enduring, endearing presence in comic literature' Guardian The Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to...
Jingo: (Discworld Novel 21)
The twenty-first Discworld novel. 'Generous, amusing and the ideal boarding point for those who have never visited Discworld' Sunday Telegraph The Discworld is very much like our own - if...
Feet Of Clay: (Discworld Novel 19)
The nineteenth Discworld novel. 'The work of a prolific humorist at his best' Observer The Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of...
Maskerade: (Discworld Novel 18)
The eighteenth Discworld novel. 'Cracking dialogue, compelling illogic and unchained whimsy . . .' Sunday Times The Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to...
Men At Arms: (Discworld Novel 15)
The fifteenth Discworld novel. 'Funny, wise and mock heroic . . . The funniest and best crafted book I have read all year' Sunday Express The Discworld is very much...
Wyrd Sisters: (Discworld Novel 6)
The sixth Discworld novel. 'Pratchett uses his other world to hold up a distorting mirror to our own . . . he is a satirist of enormous talent' The Times...
Equal Rites: (Discworld Novel 3)
The third Discworld novel, revamped for a new generation of readers... 'Persistently amusing, good-hearted and shrewd' The Sunday Times The Discworld is very much like our own - if our...
The Long Earth: (Long Earth 1)
The Long Earth is the first novel in an astonishing, mind-bending new series by the combined talents of the UK's bestselling novelist and a giant of British science fiction. THE...
I Am Pilgrim: The bestselling Richard & Judy Book Club pick
The Day of the Jackal meets Homeland with a dash of Bourne - the ground-breaking, internationally bestselling thriller that captivated millions of readers worldwide. 'A big, breathless tale of nonstop...
The Emperor's Babe: From the Booker prize-winning author of Girl,
The smart, sassy coming-of-age story from the Booker prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other - now a Penguin Essential Meet Zuleika- sassy girl about town, former child bride, A-list Roman...
Beethoven: A Life in Nine Pieces
An authoritative and refreshing account of Beethoven's life and music Ludwig van Beethoven- to some, simply the greatest ever composer of Western classical music. Yet his life remains shrouded in...
Agent Running in the Field: A BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick
The greatest chronicler of the age turns his incisive gaze to the tumultuous present in this superb new thriller. Nat, a veteran of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, thinks his years...
Ancient Light
A story of obsessive young love and overwhelming grief from the Booker Prize-winning author - now a Penguin Essential 'Billy Gray was my best friend and I fell in love...
The Parade
From the best-selling author of The Circle, a powerful modern fable on the legacy of colonialism, the dark power of global corporations, and the challenge of truly 'doing good' Two...
Girl, Woman, Other: WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019
Teeming with energy, humour and heart, a love song to black Britain told by twelve very different people Grace is a Victorian orphan dreaming of the mysterious African father she...
Austerlitz
Sebald's heartbreaking and profound masterpiece of a man's journey through European history, published as an Essential for the first time In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on...
The Bee Sting
Irresistibly funny, wise and thought-provoking, The Bee Sting is a tour de force about family, fortune, and the struggle to be a good person when the world is falling apart...
Berta Isla
A marriage built on lies, a man with many faces, an unpaid debt to the secret service - rich drama from the author of The Infatuations 'For a while, she...
Grand Union
The first ever collection of stories from the bestselling and beloved author of Swing Time and White Teeth In the summer of 1959, an Antiguan immigrant in north-west London lives...
Things I Don't Want to Know: Living Autobiography 1
First instalment of Levy's essential 'living autobiography' trilogy - reissued to match the beautiful COST OF LIVING hardback Taking George Orwell's famous essay, 'Why I Write', as a jumping-off point,...
We Were Eight Years in Power: 'One of the foremost essayists on race
From Obama to Trump, from black lives matter to the rise of the alt-right - THE definitive state-of-the-nation analysis of modern America From 2008-2016, the leader of the free world...
One Day in December: The uplifting, feel-good, Sunday Times
Two people. Ten chances. One perfect love story. Laurie is pretty sure love at first sight doesn't exist. After all, life isn't a scene from the movies, is it? But...
Global Discontents: Conversations on the Rising Threats to Democracy
A comprehensive account of the simmering discontents that threaten the future of humankind - from world-leading public intellectual Noam Chomsky What kind of world are we leaving to our grandchildren?...
A Legacy of Spies
For the first time in over 30 years, John le Carre returns to the Cold War in this thrilling masterpiece Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of...
Three Daughters of Eve
A powerful, sweeping tale of faith, love and friendship set across Istanbul and Oxford Peri, a wealthy Turkish housewife, is on her way to a dinner party at a seaside...
Our Little Cruelties
'Liz Nugent has a gift for filling us with a terrible fascination for truly horrible people' Val McDermid Three brothers are at the funeral. One lies in the coffin. Will,...
Heroes of the Frontier
Heart-warming and riotously funny, a dysfunctional family adventure from the bestselling author of The Circle Josie's life is falling apart - lawsuits raining down, her business down the drain and...
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
The classic Cold War thriller, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time The Cold War is at its most chill. Alec Leamas, a seasoned British Intelligence officer whose...
Autumn: SHORTLISTED for the Man Booker Prize 2017
'The novel of the year is obviously Ali Smith's Autumn... Expansive, shape-shifting, at once more stringent and more consoling than anything I've read this year' Olivia Laing, Observer Autumn 2016-...
Because We Say So
Essays on American hegemony from the West's most prominent critic of US imperialism For over fifty years, one fact has dominated global politics- the United States can respond to any...