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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...
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...
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...
Maigret's Mistake: Inspector Maigret #43
Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 A well-to-do Paris surgeon and his down-at-heel neighbour become the focus of Maigret's investigation Maigret had questioned thousands, tens...
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...
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,...
The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition
Author: Anne Frank Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 A major new BBC TV drama brings Anne Frank's extraordinary diary to a whole new generation. In July 1942,...
Ranger's Apprentice 1: The Ruins Of Gorlan
Author: John Flanagan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The New York Times and Australian mega-bestselling series about Will and his friends from Castle Redmont starts here! The...
Down and Out in Paris and London
Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Originally published in 1933 George Orwell's first work is a memoir of working in grimy restaurant kitchens in Paris,...
Neither Here, Nor There: Travels in Europe
Author: Bill Bryson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Bill Bryson's second, achingly funny travel book, retracing his own steps as a student backpacking through Europe, twenty years...
Thud!: (Discworld Novel 34)
Author: Terry Pratchett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 The thirty-fourth Discworld novel. 'Imaginative, witty and consistent' SFX The Discworld is very much like our own - if...
Under The Cold Bright Lights
Author: Garry Disher Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 The gripping new standalone mystery from one of Australia's most celebrated crime writers, longlisted for the 2018 Ned Kelly...
Crimes of the Father
Author: Tom Keneally Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 A courageous and powerful novel about faith, the church, conscience and celibacy. A timely, courageous and powerful novel about...
Grit: (Vermilion Life Essentials)
Author: Angela Duckworth Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 This eye-catching Vermilion Life Essentials edition of Angela Duckworth's seminal work on resilience will bring this fascinating bestseller to...
Ranger's Apprentice 7: Erak's Ransom
Author: John Flanagan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 There is one adventure from Will's time as a Ranger's Apprentice that is yet to be told... There is...
Ranger's Apprentice 10: The Emperor Of Nihon-Ja
Author: John Flanagan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 Horace isn't meant to take sides, but he can't stand back and let an oath-breaker claim the throne. Horace...
Lady Of Quality: Gossip, scandal and an unforgettable Regency romance
Author: Georgette Heyer (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A wonderful, thrilling tale of Regency romance by one of the most successful and beloved historical novelist of...
Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing
Author: Robert A Caro Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 'One of the great reporters of our time and probably the greatest biographer' (Sunday Times) offers a riveting...
The Housekeeper and the Professor: Vintage Classics Japanese Series
Author: Yoko Ogawa Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 VINTAGE JAPANESE CLASSICS - following on from the success of Vintage Russian Classics and European Classics, these are covetable...
Now
Author: Morris Gleitzman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Another compelling chapter in the life of Felix, hero of the award-winning series of books that includes Once, Then,...
The Essential Ginsberg
Author: Allen Ginsberg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 'Everybody's serious but me. It occurs to me that I am America. I am talking to myself again.' Bringing...
Pattern Recognition
Author: William Gibson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 'A big novel, full of bold ideas. Races along like an expert thriller' GQ One of the most influential...
Tiepolo Pink
Author: Roberto Calasso Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 New to Penguin Modern Classics- a captivating exploration of the work of one of Italy's most influential - and...
Orwell and Politics
Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 The definitive collection of George Orwell's timeless political writing This comprehensive collection brings together the best of George Orwell's...
Floodtide
Author: Judy Nunn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 Four men. One unbreakable friendship. Forged in the mighty Iron Ore State. Four men. One unbreakable friendship. Forged in...
The Looking Glass War
Author: John le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Le Carre shows espionage at its best and worst in this novel, new to Penguin Modern Classics When...
Three Dollars
Author: Elliot Perlman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The groundbreaking classic about economic rationalism and its effect on good, honest people. The groundbreaking novel about economic rationalism...
In the Heart of the Country
Author: J. M. Coetzee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 As Text continues the re-release of J. M. Coetzee's revered works, this second instalment of four titles-with introductions...
Waiting for the Barbarians
Author: J. M. Coetzee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Four modern classics by the great South African writer, J. M. Coetzee, re-released with stylish new covers and...
Maigret at Picratt's: Inspector Maigret #36
Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 A young cabaret dancer in a black silk dress leads Inspector Maigret into a seamy world of nightclubs, drug...
Spring-Heeled Jack
Author: Philip Pullman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 A fun, thriller of an adventure told in words and pictures from master storyteller, Philip Pullman. Illustrated by Peter...
The Scarecrow and His Servant
Author: Philip Pullman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A brilliantly funny and moving tale of friendship from the multi-award winning, highly acclaimed Philip Pullman. 'What would you...
American Scoundrel
Author: Tom Keneally Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Murder, Love and politics in Civil War America. Murder, Love and politics in Civil War America. On the last,...
The Quantum Universe: Everything that can happen does happen
Author: Brian Cox Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 The world we live in is stranger than we can possibly imagine. The closest we've got to understanding it...
Seven Types of Ambiguity
Author: Elliot Perlman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 'One of the best novels of recent years, a complete success'-Le Monde (France) 'One of the best novels of...
The Merchant of Prato: Daily Life in a Medieval Italian City
Author: Iris Origo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Iris Origo's most famous book, her classic study of the life and times of a medieval Italian merchant. In...
The Tyrant's Novel
Author: Tom Keneally Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 "A gripping thriller and a chilling glimpse of an imaginary world that seems all too real." "A gripping thriller...
Boyhood
Author: J. M. Coetzee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Continuing Text's re-release of J. M. Coetzee's revered works with stylish new covers, Boyhood is a modern classic...
Maigret and the Tall Woman: Inspector Maigret #38
Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 An old acquaintance of Maigret's reappears on the streets of Paris and the inspector finds himself caught up in...
The Jam Queens
Author: Josephine Moon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The heartwarming new family drama from the bestselling author of The Cake Maker's Wish Award-winning jam maker Aggie is...
Narcissus and Goldmund
Author: Hermann Hesse Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A gripping, vivid novel which brings to life Europe in the Middle Ages, in all its beauty and horror...