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From the acclaimed writer and critic Geoff Dyer, an extremely funny scene-by-scene analysis of Where Eagles Dare - published as the film...

*FULLY REVISED AND UPDATED*Whether it was Churchill rousing the British to take up arms or the dream of Martin Luther King, Fidel Castro...

One night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the globe in just eighty days. Breaking the well-established...

From provincial Sophie being swept off of her feet in the glamour of belle époque Paris to Beth's unexpected confrontation with an old lover...

Ever since its first publication in 1992, the New York Times bestselling The End of History and the Last Man has provoked controversy and...

To be poor and destitute in 1920s Paris and London was to experience life at its lowest ebb. George Orwell, penniless and with nowhere to...

This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he himself thought worthy of publication....

An instant New York Times Bestseller! Longlisted for the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction, the Carnegie Medal in Fiction, the 2019 Aspen...

Raymond Chandler was America's preeminent writer of detective fiction, and this "Penguin Modern Classics" edition of "The Big Sleep and...

This almost Poe-like short story about a baby who lives his life in reverse is the basis of a new Hollywood blockbuster starring Brad Pitt...

Account of a 46,000-mile solo sea journey, first published in 1900.

Four of Ibsen's most important plays in superb modern translations, part of the new Penguin Ibsen series. With her assertion that she is...

Mark Twain's great American masterpiece, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition designed żeby the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These...

In recent years, techno-scientific progress has started to utterly transform our world - changing it almost beyond recognition. In this...

Can the digital age fix everything? Should it? aby quantifying our behaviour, Evgeny Morozov argues, we are profoundly reshaping society...

Los mejores libros jamás escritosEl presente volumen recoge las dosprimeras colecciones de relatos del canon holmesiano: Las aventuras de...

Discover Claudia Roden's classic recipes in "The New Book of Middle Eastern Food". In 1968, Claudia Roden wrote her "Book of Middle Eastern...

Jamie Oliver's Food Tube presents The BBQ Book, a collection of 50 incredible recipes that'll change the way you barbecue, from Food Tube's...

Something Nasty in the Woodshed - the third Charlie Mortdecai novel. "Splendidly enjoyable. The jokes are excellent, but the most horrible...

Lucy Sullivan's been told she is getting married... But to who? She doesn't even have a boyfriend yet... 'I was still at that stage in my...

A new selection of foundational works from the influential philosopher who developed the theory of mimetic desireRené Girard eludes easy...

"Where Have All the Bullets Gone?" is volume five of Spike Milligan's outrageous, hilarious, legendary War Memoirs. 'Back to those haunting...

It's time to rethink our attitudes to work. For too long we have convinced ourselves that the only jobs worth doing involve sitting at a...

Before Bill Gates became an expert on climate science, he was known as one of the few who studied pandemics - how they start, how they spread,...

George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time living among the desperately poor and destitute, "Down and Out in Paris and London" is a moving...

Extensive coverage of the Western tradition in logic, metaphysics, ethics and epistemology from 600 BC to the present day.

Presents what you need to know about modern physics, the universe and our place in the world in seven lessons. In this introduction to modern...

Mont Saint Michel and Chartres is a record not of a literal jouney but of a meditative journey across time and space into the medieval imagination....

Julian Green was born to American parents in Paris in 1900, and spent most of his life in the French capital. Paris is an extraordinary,...

Classic collection of Japanese verse from the earliest period through to the modern, translated and with an introduction aby Geoffrey Bownas...

Money, marriage, property and government are facts, yet they exist only because we believe they exist. The author reveals the character...

'Required reading for anyone remotely curious about how they came to be remotely curious' Observer'Enthralling' SpectatorWhat is human consciousness...

One of the most important nineteenth-century schools of thought, Utilitarianism propounds the view that the value or rightness of an action...

'An utterly gorgeous novel. It will forever hold my heart in its pages' Pandora Sykes, co-host of The High-Low podcastGrace loves a woman....

The Romanticism that emerged after the American and French revolutions of 1776 and 1789 represented a new flowering of the imagination and...

Maxwell Sim seems to have hit rock bottom: separated from his wife and daughter, estranged from his father, and with no one to confide in...

Though primarily known as a novelist, over thirty years William Gibson has also built up a reputation as one of our most entertaining and...

'In two I'll slice the hair-seat / of Helga's kiss-gulper.' In this epic tale from the Viking Age that ranges across Scandinavia and Viking...

Liberal democracy is in recession and authoritarianism is on the rise. The ties that ought to bind open markets to free and fair elections...

All the myths and legends that shaped our culture retold aby a leading classicist, illustrated in colour and b/w, with maps of ancient Greece...

The USA Today bestseller aby the star sales speaker and author of The Sales Blog that reveals how all salespeople can attain huge sales...

A collection of recipes from the Basque Country, żeby the Michelin-starred Barrafina chef. Features the food she grew up with and that she...

Since the original prewar translation there has been no completely new rendering of the French original into English. This translation brings...

One night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the globe in just eighty days. Breaking the well-established...

150th Anniversary Edition Praised by Tolstoy as an "incomparable artist," Chekov is considered one of the masters of the short story. This...

This title includes: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, and, Love and Freindship....

'A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction' Ranging from the silent fate of Shakespeare's gifted (imaginary)...

'O day so ardently desired! O time of times the most memorable! O deed before all other deeds!' The fall of Jerusalem in the summer of 1099...

The First Person and Other Stories is the fourth collection of short stories aby Ali Smith. The First Person and Other Stories effortlessly...

"As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams" is a unique autobiography in which the anonymous writer known as Lady Sarashina intersperses personal...

It is Warsaw in the 1930s. Aaron Greidinger is an aspiring young writer and the son of a rabbi, who struggles to be true to his art when...

A Discovery of Witches, Shadow of Night, and The Book of Life, now available in a beautiful boxed setWith more than two million copies sold...

Medieval book of etiquette, translated from the French by Sarah Lawson. Introduction covers the life and work of de Pizan.

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback "Clothbound Classics" series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable...

Born on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall, as a child Judith Schalansky could travel only through the pages of an atlas. Now she has created...

Walter Mitty is an ordinary man living an ordinary life. But he has dreams - vivid, extraordinary day dreams - in which the life he leads...

Tucker Max drinks to excess at inappropriate times, disregards social norms, indulges every whim, takes no responsibility for his actions,...

In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical - and accessible - plan for how the world can get to zero...

From the Author of WOMEN, RACE AND CLASS, this is a timely provocation that examines the concept of attaining freedom in light of our current...

UWAGA! Sprzedawane książki są OUTLETEM czyli posiadają delikatne uszkodzenia mechaniczne albo drukarskie. Książka jest sprzedawana jako...

Los mejores libros jamás escritosEl presente volumen recoge las trescolecciones de relatos que completan en canon holmesiano: El regresode...

The Fall and Rise of a Great Power, 1850 to the Present, Third Edition In 1850, China was the 'sick man of Asia'. Now it is set to become...

'It's coming - the postponeless Creature'Electrifying poems of isolation, beauty, death and eternity from a reclusive genius and one of...

A.J.P. Taylor's bestselling "The Origins of the Second World War" overturns popular myths about the outbreak of war. One of the most popular...

Six Records of a Floating Life (1809) is an extraordinary blend of autobiography, love story and social document written żeby a man who...

Nadiya Hussain, winner of 2015's Great British Bake Off. Her new series launches in July 2017 with six episodes and will follow Nadiya as...

Completed in 1136, "The History of the Kings of Britain" traces the story of the realm from its supposed foundation aby Brutus to the coming...

Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey's 1962 novel has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time. Now, in...

Wren Beaumont is a model student. Kind, clever and beautiful, she is loved żeby everyone at Lancaster Prep. Everyone but brooding campus...

Jules Verne's most famous adventure, now in a beautiful clothbound editionOne night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions...

A lucid and detailed history that looks at the social, political, cultural, religious and military changes of the era. 16pp b/w illus.

This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Treasure Island" and "The Ebb-Tide" by Robert Louis Stevenson. '"One more step, Mr Hands,"...

David Christian, creator of Big History (\'My favourite course of all time\' Bill Gates), brings us the epic story of the universe and our...

A compelling collection of new Kafka translations in a deluxe edition.

A charming introduction to the President of the United States, the important jobs he has to do, and the friends he's made all over the world....

We are unprepared for the greatest discovery of modern science. Scientists are confident that there is alien life across the universe yet...

A three-thousand year history of the world that examines the causes of war and the search for peace In three thousand years of history,...

What caused the Russian Revolution? Did it succeed or fail? Do we still live with its consequences? Orlando Figes teaches history at Birkbeck,...

Composed during the fourteenth century in the English Midlands, "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" describes the events that follow when...

Pitching an extraordinary battle between cruel authority and a rebellious free spirit, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a...

A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making-from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy. In...

Return to "The Great Railway Bazaar" in "Ghost Train to the Eastern Star" as Paul Theroux experiences the journey that launched his travel...

In this Georges Simenon classic, a Dutch clerk flees to Paris with his crooked boss's money and meets the woman behind the man."A certain...

"No, no, I've got your word for it, I've got to die...you promised me...you told me..." Turgenev's accounts of hunting in rural Russia,...

What is Buddhism? In "Buddhism is Not What You Think" Steve Hagen, bestselling author of "Buddhism Plain and Simple" and a Zen priest, cuts...

A rich and often fantastical travel narrative from the 14th century, combining geography and natural history with romance and marvels.

A world-renowned neuroscientist illuminates the science of consciousness aby exploring a single day in the life of the brainEach of us has...

A fascinating and wide-ranging introduction to the myths and legends of the peoples who inhabited the north-western fringes of Europe, from...

What Could Possibly Go Wrong...is the sixth book in Jeremy Clarkson's bestselling The World According to Clarkson series. No one writes...

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wabe...' wrote Lewis Carroll, author of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"...

A profoundly beautiful and uniquely insightful description of the universe, Benedict de Spinoza's "Ethics" is one of the masterpieces of...

This title explains the moral problems of abortion, infanticide, suicide, euthanasia, capital punishment, war and other life-or-death choices.

A general and systematic account of the role of knowledge in society aimed to stimulate both critical discussion and empirical investigations....

Completely revised edition of a respected translation of this classic love tragedy.

65,000 tons. 280 metres long. A flight deck the size of sixty tennis courts. A giant piece of Sovereign British territory that's home to...

'After my death', George V said of his eldest son and heir, 'the boy will ruin himself in 12 months'. From the death of his father in 1936...

"Oh, my dear, relations are like drugs, - useful sometimes, and even pleasant, if taken in small quantities and seldom, but dreadfully pernicious...

The original Great American Novel, an incomparable adventure story and a classic of unruly humour, Twain's masterpiece sees Huckleberry...

'Although he feared death, he could not stop. 'If I stopped now, after coming all this way - well, they'd call me an idiot!' A pair of short...

Who doesn't love a great mystery? This book presents the eerie accidents and unexplained disappearances that have occurred in the region...

'It will be read and re-read not as a treatise but as a story: one of the most extraordinary that has ever been written of the origins of...

This unique anthology offers a more comprehensive look at the poems of Christopher Marlowe, England's first great poet and playwright.

Reissue of this collection of 15 short stories, with an introduction by Lorna Sage.

Since the original prewar translation there has been no completely new rendering of the French original into English. This translation brings...

This is an enchanting collection of the very best of Russian poetry, edited aby acclaimed translator Robert Chandler. In the late eighteenth...

This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he himself thought worthy of publication....

Mark Twain's witty, satirical tale of childhood rebellion against hypocritical adult authority, the "Penguin Classics" edition of "The Adventures...

Edición conmemorativa de los 125 a?os de la primera publicación, conlas ilustraciones originales de Sidney Paget.«No se fíe nunca de lasimpresiones...

Turgenev's first major prose work is a series of twenty-five Sketches: the observations and anecdotes of the author during his travels through...

'This generous, useful and important book is a delight to read and will fundamentally change the way you interact with people' - Mikael...

}Penguin Modern Classic{ edition of "perhaps the finest novel of the war... a fine, lovely book which makes the heart beat with pride" }Daily...

Part of the new Ladybird Expert series, Bubbles is a clear, surprising and entertaining introduction to the science of bubbles. Bubbles...

'The experience of insecurity, it turned out, would shape one of the most remarkable monarchs in England's history' In the popular imagination,...

A revised and expanded second edition including 52 new poems.

Part of the Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers in a collectible format

The entireNew York Timesbestselling Magicians trilogy, includingThe Magicians,The Magician King, andThe Magician's Land, now available in...

Another tranche of titles bringing favourite and less well known authors and their works to a new readership.

They are an unlikely pair: George is "small and quick and dark of face"; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child....

Arendt's classic work explores totalitarianism through an extended analysis of the Nazi and Soviet regimes. In a series of dazzling insights,...

Nikola Tesla's life is as interesting for his idiosyncrasy as it is for his brilliance. The inventor's mind knew no limits and his incredible...