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A wonderful new collection of Henry James's short stories about Americans in Europe§§Daisy Miller is one of Henry James's great heroines:...

Perhaps the single most influential work of English drama, William Shakespeares Hamlet is a timeless tragedy of the conflicted loyalties,...

Leblanc's creation, "Gentleman Thief Arsene Lupin", is everything you would expect from a French aristocrat - witty, charming, brilliant,...

A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, "Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter" offers an intimate...

Alex Leamas is tired. It's the 1960s, he's been out in the cold for years, spying in Berlin for his British masters, and has seen too many...

Rejecting the traditional values of political theory, Machiavelli drew upon his own experiences of office in the turbulent Florentine republic...

Have good intentions, over-parenting and the decline in unsupervised play led to the emergence of modern identity politics and hypersensitivity?...

Re-issues and Re-jacketing of this bestseller aby Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A Horatio Hornblower Tale of the Sea 1815, the Napoleonic Wars are over. Yet peace continues to elude Horatio Hornblower overseas... As...

Helps grown-ups with the world about them. With large clear script, the careful choice of words, the frequent repetition and the thoughtful...

Inspired by Jules Verne's hero Phileas Fogg, David Damrosch, chair of Harvard's department of Comparative Literature and founder of Harvard's...

Re-issues and Re-jacketing of this bestseller by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

"David Solomons's zany, inimitable wit makes for a series of capers that are thrilling and satisfying."- The Guardian on The Secret in Vault...

One of fifty new books at 1.00 pound each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays...

Effective and clear guide to the uses and abuses of punctuation and how to avoid common pitfalls and less obvious mistakes. New title.

We are on the brink of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Characterized aby new technologies fusing the physical, digital and biological...

This is the exhilarating, life-affirming call to spiritual arms from world-renowned spiritual teacher G. I. Gurdjieff. 'Gurdjieff's voice...

An introduction and notes accompany this classic epic poem about a spiritual pilgrim being led aby Virgil through the nine circles of hell.

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

Regarding the Pain of Others is Susan Sontag's searing analysis of our numbed response to images of horror. From Goya's Disasters of War...

The complete adventures of the well-loved clerical sleuth, collected in one brilliant volume. Shabby and lumbering, with a face like a Norfolk...

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness takes us on a journey of many years-the story spooling outwards from the cramped neighbourhoods of Old...

"[A] joyously peculiar book." -- The New York Times Bjarnason s intriguing book might be about a cold place, but it s tailor-made to be...

This collection illuminates this fascinating era of French poetry when poetic forms evolved at an astonishing pace.

Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry 'A new approach to mental disorder. Randolph Nesse's insightful book suggests that...

A collectible new Penguin Classics series: stunning, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets, which present each poet's most famous book...

A comic history of humankind's love affair with booze, from the Sunday Times No. 1 bestselling author of The Etymologicon'Haha!... Highly...

'It was the start of my second new life, in a city that had a spin of its own - a wilder orbit inside the earth's calm blue-green whirl....

A prominent lawyer and administrator, Pliny (c. AD 61-113) was also a prolific letter-writer, who numbered among his correspondents such...

Los mejores libros jamás escritos Edición de Manuel Fernández Nieto, catedrático de Literatura Española en la Universidad Complutense de...

`A unique teller of tales... What interested Simenon was the average man losing control of his own fate` Observer `She was beautiful, full...

'Furnish for how you would like to live, not for what you want people to think.'When interior designer Frida Ramstedt moved from a characterful...

Translated from the French original, this is a fascinating reference work to symbols from around the world, past and present. Drawn from...

"The New Yorker" was launched in 1925, and offers reporting, criticism, essays, fiction, poetry, humour, and cartoons. From the very outset,...

An irresistible and bittersweet coming-of-age story in the vein of Stranger Things and Stand żeby Me about a group of misfit kids who spend...

This title examines the beginning of the Christian movement during the first centuries AD, and the explosive force of its expansion throughout...

The greatest gift we can give our children is the ability to think for themselves. The author shows how any parent can develop the thinking...

One pinch of adventure, a dash of friendship, a sprinkle of mystery and a HUGE spoonful of magic... Jamie Oliver, bestselling author and...

Title: Walden; or Life in the Woods.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of...

This is one of the best novels ever written, in a chic new deluxe edition. Orphaned Jane Eyre endures an unhappy childhood, hated by her...

COMPLETELY REVISED AND UPDATED EDITION Making Sense of the Troubles is David McKittrick and David McVea's classic history of the Troubles,...

Subtitled, }From Elizabeth Gaskell To Ambrose Bierce{. Features a huge collection of ghost stories, from the mid 19th century to the early...

"The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole" is the second book in Sue Townsend's brilliantly funny "Adrian Mole" series. Sunday July 18th. My father...

You've seen the TV series, now read the book. A NOOSE IS TIGHTENING AROUND PRESIDENT JACK RYAN'S AMERICA... A container ship from Shanghai...

These are unique stories of timeless wisdom and understanding from the Zen Masters. With rich and fascinating tales of swords, tigers, tea,...

THE SUNDAY TIMES AND IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER'A must-read...accessible and yet so full of scholarship' Owen JonesWe need to talk about racial...

The first-person chronicle of a legendary journalist at the flashpoint of the Russian Revolution.

Throughout his life Isaac Babel was torn by opposing forces, żeby the desire both to remain faithful to his Jewish roots and yet to be free...

The writings of William James represent one of America's most original contributions to the history of ideas. Ranging from philosophy and...

'It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth'. Sherlock...

'If you want to succeed, indeed, to survive, among the British you must be able to handle this curious and dangerous phenomenon, the English...

This is an indispensable, fully up-to-date phrasebook for travellers in both Portugal and Brazil, in a pocket-size format and beautiful...

"The Penguin Book of Irish Poetry" features the work of the greatest Irish poets, from the monks of the ancient monasteries to the Nobel...

An introduction to the science of neuroplasticity recounts the case stories of patients with mental limitations or brain damage whose seemingly...

Don't Point That Thing At Me żeby Kyril Bonfiglioli - Book 1 of the Mortdecai Trilogy, now a major motion picture starring Johnny Depp Introducing...

Equally tragic, joyful and comical, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's masterpiece of magical realism, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a seamless...

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

In this tender, beautiful letter to his daughters, former President Barack Obama has written a moving tribute to thirteen groundbreaking...

To overcome a crisis of melancholy after the death of his father, Montaigne withdrew to his country estates and began to write, and in the...

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves and each other. They have inspired...

In this culmination of five decades of acclaimed studies in presidential history, Doris Kearns Goodwin offers an illuminating exploration...

Greg Heffley finds himself thrust into a new year and a new school where undersize weaklings share the corridors with kids who are taller,...

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves and each other. They have inspired...

When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved, then there...

Relax and find happiness amid the swirl of the modern world with this internationally bestselling guide to simplifying your life aby a Japanese...

Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most unfathomable composers in the history of music. How can such sublime work have been produced by...

An Atlas and Gazetteer of 120 Centres of Ancient Civilization From Alexandria to York, this unique illustrated guide shows us the great...

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. In The Dragonfly Will Be the Messiah, the celebrated...

Spurred on aby admiration for his novelist half-brother and irritation at the biography written about him aby Mr Goodman ('his slapdash...

Written by the author of Our Iceberg is Melting That's Not How We Do It, this book tells the story of a clan of meerkats who live in the...

"Don't You Have Time to Think?" collects the witty, eccentric and moving letters of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard P. Feynman. Richard...

THE THIRD GEORGE SMILEY NOVEL Alec Leamas is tired. It's the 1960s, he's been out in the cold for years, spying in the shadow of the Berlin...

Asimov tells the stories behind the science: the men and women who made the important discoveries and how they did it. Ranging from Galilei,...

FROM THE WINNERS OF THE 2019 NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMICS'Wonderfully refreshing... A must read' Thomas PikettyIn this revolutionary book, prize-winning...

A host of the sharpest young adult authors come together in this collection of terrifying tales and psychological thrillers. Clever readers...

I have relinquished all that ties me to the world, but the one thing that still haunts me is the beauty of the sky' These simple, inspiring...

The third book in an original series of novels set in the world of Netflix's The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance. Tides of the Dark Crystal...

This new collection brings together "First Love", "The Calamative", "The End" and "The Expelled"; these four novellas are among the first...

Packed with over a hundred and fifty recipes and ideas for juices, smoothies, breakfasts, soups, salads, lunch-boxes, main meals, quick...

'Your Face Tomorrow is already being compared with Proust and rightly so' Observer'One of contemporary literature's major works... You have...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'I've been wondering who might fill the intellectual void after James Baldwin died. Clearly it is Ta-Nehisi...

Heroin's father is the greatest of all storytellers. His magical stories bring laughter to the sad city of Alifbay. But one day something...

Disdainful of America's booming commercialism and industrialism, Henry David Thoreau left Concord, Massachusetts, in 1845 to live in solitude...

Combining military theory and raw accounts of its practice, Carl von Clausewitz's treatise "On War" has had a profound influence on subsequent...

This is a haunting, elegiac novel which captures the mood and atmosphere of Italy (and in particular Ferrara) in the last summers of the...

Things have started to get quite... Peculiar... Having defeated the monstrous threat that nearly destroyed the peculiar world, Jacob Portman...

Contemporary / American EnglishOne of the most famous American books of the century.Love, jazz, and excitement! These are all part of Sal...

The classic Cold War thriller, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Alec Leamas is tired. It's the 1960s, he's been out...

'A landmark in social thought. Henrich may go down as the most influential social scientist of the first half of the twenty-first century'...

A HILARIOUS, BRAND NEW BOOK IN THE PHENOMENAL LADYBIRDS FOR GROWN UPS SERIES FOR AUTUMN 2017The Ladybird Book of the New You - a nugget...

The most eloquent and expressive statesman of his time - phrases such as 'iron curtain', 'business as usual', 'the few', and 'summit meeting'...

What to Do When Someone Dies is another ingenious thriller from the best-loved, bestselling author, Nicci French. Ellie Faulkner's world...

Gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables,...

This book is about sweet shops, school days and summer holidays! It is the story of the famous writer Roald Dahl when he was a boy. These...

From the prize-winning author and teacher, Engelke presents a fresh take on why anthropology matters, discussing subjects from child-rearing...

One of our best-known living philosophers Guardian How do we respond to the refugee crisis - by opening our doors, or pulling up the drawbridge?...

Re-issues and Re-jacketing of this bestseller żeby Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Featuring dozens of new activities as well as some of the most popular prompts from the original, Wreck This Journal Everywhere will have...

"Reading Brodsky's essays is like a conversation with an immensely erudite, hugely entertaining and witty (and often very funny) interlocutor"....

Across the Land and the Water is a stunningly beautiful selection of poetry żeby W. G. Sebald. Across the Land and the Water brings together...

What are time and space made of? Where does matter come from? And what exactly is reality? Scientist Carlo Rovelli has spent his life exploring...

A classic of late 18th Century fiction. Part of the }Penguin Classics{ fiftieth anniversary promotion.

ECPA BESTSELLER - A compelling emotional and spiritual case against hurry and in favor of a slower, simpler way of life "As someone all...

A collectible new Penguin Classics series: stunning, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets, which present each poet's most famous book...

'Utterly, agonisingly compulsive... A masterpiece' Liz Jensen, GuardianFollowing one woman's journey from a troubled girlhood in working-class...

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. In this personal and wide-ranging exploration of how...

The BBC's lavish adaptation of "Pride and Prejudice", starring Colin Firth, was eighteen months in the making and continues to captivate...

The Architecture of Happiness is Alain de Botton's exploration of the hidden links between buildings and our well being. In The Architecture...

An introduction to the science of neuroplasticity recounts the case stories of patients with mental limitations or brain damage whose seemingly...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez has been one of the undisputed literary giants of the past century; his stories are vivid, energetic, tender and...

'Unquestionably the most significant Spanish writer of his generation... Your Face Tomorrow is rich, haunting, intriguing' Observer'This...

Beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotechnic verse. This new collection brings...

Twenty of the best stories of the irrepressible pillar of the British legal system, Horace Rumpole.

Two experts tackle one of the most formidable and pervasive developmental issues facing children today: Sensory Integration (SI) Dysfunction....

Shining examples of American literature at its best, these four novels explore timeless themes through compelling narratives. Includes the...

A collection of some of Freud's most famous essays, including "On The Introduction of Narcissism", "Remembering, Repeating and Working Through",...

'Here is the English sovereign as a crusader, battling on the fringes of the known world; the warrior-king... Imbued with the heart of a...

This is a book about feminism, capitalism, sex, punk, youth, the city, the literary giants, anger, infatuation and the USA. A teenage coming-of-age...

Your Face Tomorrow is already being compared with Proust and rightly so' Observer'One of contemporary literature's major works... You have...

"The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work" is Alain de Botton's lucid exploration of a subject key to most of our lives. Why do so many of us love...