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Ethelred Tressider is a crime writer with problems. His latest novel is going nowhere, mid-life crisis is looming and he's burdened by the literary agent he probably deserves: Elsie Thirkettle,...

This volume provides an unequaled introduction to the thought of chief contributors to the Western tradition of political philosophy from classical Greek antiquity to the twentieth century. Written by specialists...

A wonderful exploration of sporting obsession, as well as a vivid portrait of an extraordinary tennis personality and the era that shaped him. Read a fan's eye view of one...

there are worlds where fields of dry, baked earth are side by side with enchanted gardens, and places where the strangest creatures are the truest friends. these are the places...

This volume is a memoir of a visit made by Andrew Riemer to his country of origin in 1991. He migrated to Australia from Hungary with his family when he...

In this narrative tour de force, gifted scientist and author John L. Casti contemplates an imaginary evening of intellectual inquiry--a sort of "My Dinner with" not Andre, but five of...

This anthology contains 8 original one-act plays, suitable for GCSE and Standard Grade English, English Literature and Drama courses. All plays have been specially commissioned for the series, and written...

The Northern home-front during the Civil War was far from tranquil. Fierce political debates set communities on edge, spurred secret plots against the Union, and triggered widespread violence. At the...

Do a little armchair time-travel, rub elbows with a four-dimensional intelligent life form, or stretch your mind to the furthest corner of an uncharted universe. With this astonishing guidebook, Surfing...

This work recreates the solutions to the five greatest mathematical problems of all time: The Four-Colour Map Problem, Fermat's Last Theorem, The Continuum Hypothesis, Kepler's Conjecture, and Hilbert's Tenth Problem....

"Bucky Fuller thought big," Wired magazine recently noted, "Arthur C. Clarke thinks big, but Cliff Pickover outdoes them both." In his newest book, Cliff Pickover outdoes even himself, probing a...

Almayer's Folly was Conrad's first novel, set in a remote Bornean outpost at the end of the last century. Conrad draws on his own experience to present the strains of...

This freshly edited anthology includes all but one of the longer poems, from "Queen Mab" onwards, in their entirety. Only "Laon and Cythna" is excerpted, in a generous selection. As...

Imagine a giant snowflake in 196,884 dimensions... This is the story of a mathematical quest that began two hundred years ago in revolutionary France, led to the biggest collaboration ever...

Nathaniel Gull dreams in his classroom about pirates and faraway places, while in the same room sits Tamo White - the son of a real pirate. When Nathan's father dies,...

When schoolgirls begin to disappear on the West African coast, "troubleshooter" Bruce Medway tries to remain detached. Meanwhile, he reluctantly acquires a new job from former nemesis and mafia capo...

Slave narratives, some of the most powerful records of our past, are extremely rare, with only fifty-five post-Civil War narratives surviving. A mere handful are first-person accounts by slaves who...

Will Alex win the battle for life? A moving novel about learning to find happiness in the face of uncertainty and discovering a love that transcends the boundary between life...

From the author of the international best-selling thrillers The Cleaner, The Killing Hour, Cemetery Lake, Blood Men and Collecting Cooper. Theodore Tate never forgot his first crime scene - ten-year-old...

From the moment he hears her voice over the fence, Matt Sherman knows he has to meet the twins' cousin, Monica Bloom. She's just flown in from Dublin ready for...

No one thought the Japanese army would come this way, but there they are, thousands of them. On the Kokoda track, in the damp, disease-filled jungles of Papua New Guinea,...

Theatrical agent Letty Summers wants a baby. The catch? Her partner has dumped her. The single scene is leaving her cold, too many badly cut suits and scuffed shoes. But,...

An urgent wake-up call, exposing the alarming rise of anti-Semitism and showing what we can do about it On 27 October 2018 the synagogue where Bari Weiss became a bat...

Penguin Classics relaunch During an eventful season at Bath, young, naive Catherine Morland experiences the joys of fashionable society for the first time. She is delighted with her new acquaintances-...

Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery A young man and woman meet by chance and fall instantly in love....

A new standalone novel by the bestselling new adult author of the Breathing series. What if you had a second chance to meet someone for the first time? Cal Logan...

In the beginning we were a group of nine. Nine aliens who left our home planet of Lorien when it fell under attack from the deadly Mogodorians. We scattered on...

The fourth novel in the extraordinary Artemis Fowl series, now with a brand-new cover look! *Soon to be a major film!* CHILD GENIUS ARTEMIS FOWL IS IN TERRIBLE DANGER HE...

The third instalment in the hilariously funny life of young Spud Milton. Warning- may cause frequent bouts of hysterical laughter...! Spud Milton (practically a man in most areas) is hoping...

HE DOESN'T KNOW IT, BUT DOGNUT IS ABOUT TO SET OFF A CHAIN OF EVENTS THAT WILL AFFECT EVERY KID IN THE CITY. The sickness struck everyone over the age...

Rediscover the Puffin Classics - bringing the best-loved classics to a new generation. Puffin Classics- the definitive collection of timeless stories, for every child Join Puffin in celebrating 120 years...

New to PMC Expecting to be inducted into the army, Joseph has given up his job and carefully prepared for his departure to the battlefront. When a series of mix-ups...

They killed Number One in Malaysia. Number Two in England. And Number Three in Kenya. John Smith is not your average teenager. He regularly moves from small town to small...

You're a whirlwind. A success. You're living life on the edge. But who'll catch you when you fall? Holly Krauss is a city girl burning the candle at both ends....

One of the great derisive monuments to the imbecilities of the tourist experience, Mark Twain's (1835-1910) account of his tour with a group of fellow Americans around the sights of...

An astonishing novel of endurance and survival that won the 2004 IMPAC Award. In this extraordinary non-fiction novel, based on a true story, Tahar Ben Jelloun traces the experiences of...

The Harrisons are a large, extremely close family, but beneath the apparently idyllic surface lie tensions and undercurrents in each of the three generations. Grandmother, Pamela, is struggling to cope...

In exile. In danger. On the run. For six years Alec Milius has been trying to escape his past. But his past refuses to release him. Abandoned by MI6 after...

In January 1836, two sisters, Eleanor and Harriet, set sail for India, leaving their home in England to accompany their brother, Henry, on his posting as Governor-General. Told through the...

A book to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the solution to one of the world's most puzzling mathematical problems. The four-colour theorem states that every map in the world can...