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Malcolm Gladwell's dazzling and provocative exploration of why everything we think we know about power is wrong What if everything we thought about power was wrong? What if, in the...

The world's most famous curator shows how we can use the process of curation outside the art world Drawing on his own experiences and inspirations - from staging his first...

Inspector Maigret investigates a case of deception in an isolated community Maigret has been interrogating Carl Andersen for seventeen hours without a confession. He's either innocent or a very good...

Stefan Zweig's most famous novel, reissued with a new jacket and title 'I can't take any more of your revolting merciful kindness!' Who would have thought that the great military...

A comprehensive, accessible and practical look at how memory works, what can go wrong and what steps we can take to avoid memory loss. In this book, renowned neurologist and...

Arendt's influential essay examining the relationship between violence, power, war and politics now in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time Written in 1970, with the Holocaust and Hiroshima still...

Renew and revive your relationship in one week How can you revive and renew your relationship in just seven days? For the past fifty years, Drs. John and Julie Gottman...

One of the greatest and most controversial feats of twentieth-century journalism Hannah Arendt's authoritative and stunning report on the trial of German Nazi SS leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as...

The paradigm-shifting classic that connected the dots between transatlantic slavery, capitalism and racism 'If one criterion of a classic is its ability to reorient our most basic way of viewing...

One of the great works of twentieth century sociology, new to Penguin Modern Classics Acclaimed on first publication and today considered one of the defining works of the sociology, The...

A masterful tale of murder and intrigue in a small French town, from the celebrated author of the Maigret series Nobody mentioned the victims, or the terror that had gripped...

An extraordinary tale of betrayal from the celebrated author of the Maigret series On the shore of the Black Sea, on the edge of the Soviet Union, a little city...

A new translation of a twisting detective novel from the celebrated author of the Maigret series Hector Loursat, a lawyer in the small town of Moulins, has lived as a...

A new selection of stories featuring the celebrated literary detective, Inspector Maigret An ageing boxer caught in a love triangle. A wealthy Parisian family on the brink of collapse. A...

The definitive expose of the rise and fall of Boeing and the death of the aviation industry Boeing's story is the corporate scandal that's transfixed the world like none since...

A witty introduction to the mind of Goethe, a classic in a new translation for the first time in 150 years Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was the world's most celebrated...

Bestselling author and comedian, Ruby Wax, uses her trademark wit and expertise to equip readers with a positive roadmap for a kinder, brighter world and better mental health Bestselling author...

This is a deeply practical and readable book, which will take you on an expedition through the anatomy of the most fascinating - and mysterious - of organs. World-leading neuroscientist...

A warm, moving and practical guide to grief from one of the UK's leading bereavement counsellors Death is the last taboo in our society, and grief is still profoundly misunderstood....

Can you not like sport and be Australian? When it comes to sport, Australians are mad. Completely, irrationally insane. It's the closest thing we have to a culture. From Don...

Robert Dessaix's guide to work and play in the 21st century. 'Almost everybody I know has done it at least once. Some of my friends indulge on a regular basis....

The latest volume in The New York Times bestselling physics series explains Einstein's masterpiece- the general theory of relativity He taught us classical mechanics, quantum mechanics and special relativity. Now,...

An immersive and mesmerizing narrative that reimagines the Mesopotamian myth of the Great Flood A long time ago, the gods grew tired of humans and decided to send a flood...

An urgent investigation of the most underreported, seismic consequence of climate change- how it will force us to change where - and how - we live We are facing a...

A witty, illustrated tour of the structures and patterns of mathematics from a math prodigy The only numbers in this book are the page numbers. Math Without Numbers is a...

The bestselling physicist returns with a thrilling account of the search for the 'God Equation' This is the story of a quest- to find a Theory of Everything. Einstein dedicated...

Join Alexander the Great on a journey to the end of the world, in the third book in a thrilling new children's history series 'His mind was clear. It was...

Journey back to the world of the Tudors, with the celebrated children's history series 'Winter has come; and in a far distant land, a warrior queen is expecting a child...'...

The instant Sunday Times bestseller -- a dazzling story of rebellion and science In June 1925, twenty-three-year-old Werner Heisenberg, suffering from hay fever, had retreated to the treeless, wind-battered island...

One of the great contemporary historians of France on one of the most controversial periods of twentieth-century French history Few images more shocked the French population during the Occupation than...

A breath-taking first glimpse of a new future for food and for humanity For the first time since the Neolithic, we have the opportunity to transform not only our food...

An essential work outlining the origin and ongoing reality of global racism, from Britain's leading authority on Black Studies. The New Age of Empire destroys the self-congratulatory myth that the...

The bestselling, no-holds-barred expose of the people who are wrecking our democracy, by the master storyteller of our times The morning after Trump was elected president, the people who ran...

We've been told we need to master our emotions and think rationally to succeed. But cutting-edge science shows that feelings are every bit as important to our success as thinking...

A reissue of Niall Ferguson's bestselling book with a major new chapter on the first ten years of the Financial Crisis Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot. Call it what you...

The definitive history of the dynasty that dominated Europe for centuries In The Habsburgs, Martyn Rady tells the epic story of a dynasty and the world it built - and...

The hilarious and universally lauded memoir of life as the daughter of a gun-toting, all-American Catholic priest When the expense of a medical procedure forces the 30-year-old Patricia to move...

From The New York Times bestselling author, the gripping story of Winston Churchill's exploits in the Boer War At age twenty-four, Winston Churchill believed that to achieve his ambition of...

This rich history of Antwerp in the sixteenth century was a Times Book of the Year and R4 Book of the Week A rich history of Antwerp from the author...

The Master of the Big Story is back If you thought Wall Street was about alpha males standing in trading pits hollering at each other, think again. That world is...

A unique and moving memoir from the maverick former Canon of St Paul's Cathedral It was one of the most startling moments in the history of the City of London....

How to design your life for happiness - by thinking less and doing more As a Professor of Behavioural Science at the London School of Economics, Dolan conducts original research...

A spellbinding exploration of the emergence of the digital age and an unsettling vision of what comes next In a world where humans coexist with technologies they no longer control...

Niall Ferguson's pithy, digestible polemic on the decline of the West The Great Degeneration is a powerful - and in places polemical - indictment of an era of negligence and...

A new translation of one of the best-loved and most important books of Christianity, by the Very Revd. Robert Jeffery One of the most influential and well-loved books of Christianity,...

The science of self-control, and how everyone can master it Can you resist everything except temptation? In a hedonistic age full of distractions, it's hard to possess willpower - or...

Penguin Classics relaunch The plays in this volume all contain Aristophanes' trademark bawdy comedy and dazzling verbal agility. In THE BIRDS, two frustrated Athenians join the birds to build the...

A fascinating study of Athenian political machinery, containing invaluable insights into Athenian democracy Probably written by a student of Aristotle, The Athenian Constitution is both a history and an analysis...