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City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp
Author: Ben Rawlence Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 To the charity workers, Dadaab refugee camp is a humanitarian crisis; to the Kenyan government, it is a 'nursery...
The Rise And Fall Of The Third Chimpanzee: how our animal heritage affects the way we live
Author: Jared Diamond Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 How our animal heritage affects the way we live From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Guns, Germs and...
The Bad Boy of Athens: Classics from the Greeks to Game of Thrones
Author: Daniel Mendelsohn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 'Mendelsohn takes the classical costumes off figures like Virgil and Sappho, Homer and Horace ... He writes about things so clearly...
Out of the Woods
Author: Luke Turner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 WAINWRIGHT BOOK PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 POLARI FIRST BOOK AWARD 'This is a book...
How to Argue With a Racist: History, Science, Race and Reality
Author: Adam Rutherford Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK --- THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Seriously important' BILL BRYSON 'A book...
Early Irish Myths and Sagas
Author: Jeffrey Gantz Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 These early Irish stories, probably first written down around the eighth century A.D., represent the oral tradition of the...
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
Author: Friedrich Engels Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Penguin Classics brings this seminal work by Engels back in to print, with a new introduction by historian Tristram...
Popism
Author: Andy Warhol & Pat Hackett Format:Paperback Number of Pages: A cultural storm swept through the 1960s - Pop Art, Bob Dylan, psychedelia, underground movies - and at its centre...
Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition
Author: Cedric J. Robinson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 A foundational work of Black Radical critical theory, now to be widely available here for the first time...
The Unnamable Present
Author: Roberto Calasso Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A concise, yet wide-ranging inquiry into the roots of modernity and the turmoil of the present day. Tourists, terrorists,...
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Author: Daniel Kahneman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 The acclaimed bestseller that will change the way you make decisions In Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman takes us...
One World
Author: Peter Singer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 365 Known for his originality and courageous thinking on matters ranging from the treatment of animals to genetic screening, Peter...
Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women
Author: Kate Manne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A vital exploration of gender politics from a highly influential philosopher who has been described as 'the Simone de...
Think, Write, Speak: Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews and Letters to the Editor
Author: Vladimir Nabokov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 An extraordinary collection of Nabokov's little-known published material from across his life - from student essays to his last...
Growing Up Disabled in Australia
Author: Carly Findlay Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A rich collection of writing from those negotiating disability in their lives - a group whose voices are not...
Six Thinking Hats: Popular Penguins
Author: Edward de Bono Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Edward de Bono's Six Thinking Hats is the groundbreaking psychology manual that has inspired organisations and individuals all...
Jack Charles: Born-again Blakfella
Author: Jack Charles Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Jack Charles has worn many hats throughout his life- actor, cat burglar, musician, heroin addict, activist, even Senior Victorian...
I Am Not Your Negro
Author: James Baldwin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Baldwin's last, unrealized project comes to life, using his original words to create a radical, powerful and poetic work...
Heroes: The myths of the Ancient Greek heroes retold
Author: Stephen Fry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 The dazzling companion volume to the bestselling MYTHOS. There are heroes - and then there are Greek heroes Few...
Toxic: The Rotting Underbelly of the Tasmanian Salmon Industry
Author: Richard Flanagan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Is Tasmanian salmon one big lie? In a triumph of marketing, the Tasmanian salmon industry has for decades succeeded...
The History of Sexuality: 2: The Use of Pleasure
Author: Michel Foucault Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The second volume of Foucault's pioneering analysis of sexuality and power relations, now reissued in Penguin Modern Classics. Michel...
Status Anxiety
Author: Alain de Botton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Do you worry about how well you're doing? Are you envious of your friends' success? Are you suffering...
My Story
Author: Julia Gillard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 'I was prime minister for three years and three days.Three years and three days of resilience.Three years and three...
Orwell's England
Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 All of Orwell's brilliant writing on England and Englishness collected in a single volume Much of George Orwell's best...
A Matter of Death and Life
Author: Irvin D. Yalom Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 A year-long journey by the renowned psychiatrist and his writer wife after her fatal diagnosis, as they reflect...
The Origins of Psychic Phenomena: Poltergeists Incubi Succubi and the Unconscious Mind
Author: Stan Gooch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Examines unexplained phenomena in psychiatric and psychological terms rather than occult terms * Explores how the unconscious mind manifests...
Tibet: Turning the Wheel of Life
Author: Francoise Pommaret Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Tibet has come to be synonymous with spirituality. It seems that the many hardships endured by the Tibetans -...
The Will Kit: Create Your Own Legally Effective Will
Author: Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 20 If you don't have a Will, the law decides who gets your estate. Ensuring that you have an up-to-date Will is...
Together: Loneliness, Health and What Happens When We Find Connection
Author: Vivek H Murthy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 When Vivek Murthy accepted the role of Surgeon General under Obama, he thought his main focus would be...
Between Light and Storm: How We Live With Other Species
Author: Esther Woolfson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Beginning with the very origins of life on Earth, Woolfson considers pre-historic human-animal interaction and traces the millennia-long evolution of conceptions...
On Suicide
Author: Emile Durkheim Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 New translation, and new to Classics Emile Durkheim's On Suicide (1897) was a groundbreaking book in the field of...
A Room of One's Own/Three Guineas
Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Two of Virginia's Woolf most striking essays published together in a new Black Classics edition A Room of One's...
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France,...
The Book of Tea
Author: Kakuzo Okakura Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 First time in Penguin Classics for this Japanese work dedicated to the art of drinking tea - and much...
The Stonewall Reader
Author: Jason Baumann Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 For the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fight for LGBTQ rights in the...
Russian Magic Tales from Pushkin to Platonov
Author: Robert Chandler Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 A unique and enchanting collection of Russian folk tales collected over the last two centuries In these tales, young...
The Tain
Author: Ciaran Carson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The kingdoms of Connacht and Ulster are preparing to do battle with each other. Medb, the sly and envious...
Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968
Author: Norman Mailer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Mailer's masterful account of the 1968 presidential conventions, a snapshot of sixties turbulence. Miami, Summer 1968. The Vietnam War...
The History of Sexuality: 1: The Will to Knowledge
Author: Michel Foucault Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 The first volume of Foucault's pioneering analysis of sexuality and power relations, now reissued in Penguin Modern Classics. We...
The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead
Author: Ralph Metzner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 The Psychedelic Experience, created by the prophetic shaman-professors Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzer and Richard Alpert, is a foundational text...
The Unsettling of Europe: The Great Migration, 1945 to the Present
Author: Peter Gatrell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 The extraordinary story of modern Europe on the move. A striking characteristic of modern Europe has been the extreme fluidity of...
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
Author: Susan Sontag Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Susan Sontag presents the true significance of disease as it has affected cultures throughout the centuries. In l978 Sontag...
Head Hand Heart: The Struggle for Dignity and Status in the 21st Century
Author: David Goodhart Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A profound investigation into the deeper reason for our political alienation The coronavirus pandemic taught us something we ought already to...
Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women
Author: Kate Manne Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 A vital exploration of gender politics from a highly influential philosopher who has been described as 'the Simone de Beauvoir of...
The Second Sex
Author: Simone de Beauvoir Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 864 Required reading for anyone who believes in the equality of the sexes, The Second Sex is the crowning...
Seeing Things as They Are: Selected Journalism and Other Writings
Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 An enlightening anthology of George Orwell's journalism and non-fiction writing Famous for his novels and essays, Orwell remains one...
Song from the Forest: My Life among the Pygmies
Author: Louis Sarno Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 As a young man, American Louis Sarno heard a song on the radio that gripped his imagination. With some...
Media, Masculinities, and the Machine: F1, Transformers, and Fantasizing Technology at its Limits
Author: Professor, PhD Dan Fleming Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 248 Media, Masculinities, and the Machine identifies a distinctive phenomenon in today's media culture - the contemporary male...