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Moral allegory and spiritual autobiography, The Little Prince is the most translated book in the French language. With a timeless charm it tells the story of a little boy who...

Jean Rhys's late, literary masterpiece Wide Sargasso Sea was inspired by Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, and is set in the lush, beguiling landscape of Jamaica in the 1830s. Born into...

The fourth book in the dark romance series from USA today, international, and Amazon #1 bestselling author. Discover the standalone dark mafia romance from the New York Times bestselling author...

From bestselling author R.A. Spratt comes this savagely silly collection of Greek myths. Featuring sword-happy heroes, badly behaved Gods, a monstrous minotaur, a narcoleptic dragon and more nymphs than you...

An edition to mark Slinky Malinki's 30th anniversary! Slinky Malinki steals anything from a clothes peg, to a slipper, to a string of sausages, to a clock! Our hero is...

Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved, Toni Morrison is one of the finest novelists of our times. 'Extravagantly beautiful... Enormously, achingly alive... A howl of love and rage, playful and funny...

A compelling account of Australia's bloodiest and most significant battle of the Vietnam War, in time for the battle's 50th anniversary, by critically-acclaimed war writer David Cameron. On the afternoon...

A selection of the most inspiring and influential writings from groundbreaking Norwegian environmentalist Arne Naess, in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time Philosopher, mountaineer and visionary Arne Naess was...

The fourth book in the bestselling Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. Now with a new cover look! Discover the story behind the Disney+ series. The fourth book in the...

China's past is key to the modern world. This nimble history of rogues, revolutions and rebellions can be read in a day, but will transform your view for a lifetime....

The definitive, dramatic untold story of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, based on original reporting and new archival research. ** Challenger- A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on...

With an introduction and notes by Terence Brown Joyce's first major work, written when he was only twenty-five, brought his city to the world for the first time. His stories...

Man's Search For Meaning is undoubtedly one of the seminal pieces of literature to emerge from World War 2- a moving account of Viktor Frankl's experiences in Auschwitz and what...

The uplifting true story. A Sunday Times bestseller, shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize The story of the couple who lost everything and embarked on a journey, not of escape, but...

A prodigiously brilliant thinker who sharply challenged the beliefs of his age, the political and social radical John Stuart Mill was the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century....

Launching the runaway bestseller with ambitions to be the biggest non-fiction paperback of the year IT'S NOT YOU. IT'S THE FOOD. 'If you only read one diet or nutrition book...

'The greatest history of an event I know' - C.L.R. James Regarded by many as among the most powerful works of history ever written, The History of the Russian Revolution...

An astonishing, essential book on what was for ten centuries Europe's largest state - the Holy Roman Empire A great, sprawling, ancient and unique entity, the Holy Roman Empire, from...

In the din and stink that is Cannery Row a colourful blend of misfits - gamblers, whores, drunks, bums, and artists - survive side by side in a jumble of...

'We, the black and the white, deeply need each other here if we are really to become a nation' James Baldwin's impassioned plea to 'end the racial nightmare' in America...

Bawdy and moving, hilarious and reflective - these stories offer the very best of Boccaccio's Decameron in a brilliant, playful new translation This hugely enjoyable volume collects the best stories...

A new model for leadership, by a former Navy captain who transformed his submarine Captain David Marquet was used to giving orders. In the high-stress environment of USS Santa Fe,...

Penguin Classics Relaunch In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature, a masterly collection of chivalric romances, moral allegories and low farce. A story-telling...

A thrilling crime classic, from the bestselling author of Tokyo Express Tokyo, 1960. As the first rays of morning light hit the rails at Kamata Station, a man's body is...

The first Discworld novel, revamped for a new generation of readers... 'His spectacular inventiveness makes the Discworld series one of the perennial joys of modern fiction' Mail on Sunday NAMED...

The second Discworld novel, revamped for new generation of readers. 'Incredibly funny, compulsively readable' The Times The Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to...

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...

A fast-paced, action-packed story that will have readers on the edge of their seats, from the award-winning author of Two Wolves. In the middle of the night, Sam is woken...

Is mathematics a discovery or an invention? Do numbers truly exist? What sort of reality do formulas describe? The complexity of mathematics - its abstract rules and obscure symbols -...

'An extraordinarily vivid yet authentic account of the birthpangs of a nation. A work of real distinction' Philip Ziegler An award-winning epic on the birth of Australia In 1787, the...

A panoramic social history chronicling the lives of hundreds of British people of all classes in the most important territory of the British Empire The British in this book lived...

Set in the volatile Paris summer of 1938, The Age of Reason follows two days in the life of Mathieu Delarue, a philosophy teacher, and his circle in the cafes...

Herman Melville's masterpiece, one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history.Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read Overa century and a half...

Orlando, deciding not to grow old, pursues his quest for passion, adventure, fulfilment and protracted youth. Chasing a dream through the centuries, he bounds from Elizabethan England and imperial Turkey...

The Summer I Turned Pretty is now a major new TV series on Amazon Prime! If you loved The Kissing Booth and Jenny Han's smash-hit Netflix movie series To All...

Five students walk into detention. Only four come out alive. For fans of Gossip Girl and Riverdale, One Of Us Is Lying is the international bestselling YA thriller by acclaimed...

From the leading talent in fantasy, a magical coming-of-age trilogy with a female anti-hero - for fans of Dark Academia and Harry Potter. 'For all fans of Harry Potter, Wednesday...

Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's is a brilliant glimmer of the excitement of 40's New York. Holly Golightly - brashly beautiful with a slim black dress, a mysterious past and...

Twenty new titles in the much-loved and hugely successful Penguin English Library series 'It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you...

A gripping, vivid account of Italy's disastrous experience of the Second World War While staying closely aligned with Hitler, Mussolini remained carefully neutral until the summer of 1940. Then, with...

The third instalment of diaries from the inimitable Helen Garner covers four eventful years in the life of one of Australia's most treasured writers. Helen Garner's third volume of diaries...

Penguin Classics relaunch. As the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate group of people- Ada and Richard...

The wildly funny Sunday Times bestseller about growing up and navigating all kinds of love along the way When it comes to the trials and triumphs of becoming a grown...

This series of war novels from Vintage Classics presents eight powerful stories about the horror and waste of war - each a passionate plea to prevent its repetition. Read Kurt...

The acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, reissued with a new PMC jacket Survivor, genius, perfumer, killer- this is Jean-Baptiste Grenouille. He is abandoned on the filthy streets as a child,...

The second volume of Foucault's pioneering analysis of sexuality and power relations, now reissued in Penguin Modern Classics The second volume of Michel Foucault's pioneering analysis of the changing nature...

A captivating and deeply personal novel from one of Australia's most respected authors. Athena and Dexter live a happy but insular life, bound by routine and the care of their...

From Walkley Award-winning writer, Gary Linnell comes the greatest Australian story never told - until now. 'Always compelling, very entertaining.' Daily Telegraph 'A fabulous yarn. Highly recommended.' Better Reading He...