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East meets West in this powerfully-written fiction about a Sudanese student returning home from his life in London. Salih is regarded as...

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

Social class has re-emerged as a topic of enormous scholarly and public attention. This book looks beyond labels to explore how and why...

For Esmé - with Love and Squalor includes two of Salinger's most famous and critically acclaimed stories, and helped to establish him as...

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...

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...

In space the sun rises and sets 16 times a day. You fly over every sea, every mountain and desert, every city and every port. The most ordinary...

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,...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, "Queer" is an enigma - both an unflinching autobiographical self-portrait and a...

Now fully updated to 2009, this acclaimed history of Latin America tells its turbulent story from Columbus to Chavez. Beginning with the...

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

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

This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "The Five Orange Pips and Other Cases" by Arthur Conan Doyle. 'He is the Napoleon of crime,...

"On the Road" bronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of...

A new translation of the influential teachings of the great Stoic philosopherDespite being born into slavery, Greco-Roman philosopher Epictetus...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

Written in the decade before Freud s death, Civilization and Its Discontents may be his most famous and most brilliant work. It has been...

Unkontrollierbaren Wutanfällen Die aufregenden Detektivabenteuer des wohl berühmtesten Bewohners der Baker Street, Sherlock Holmes, und...

"This book sparkles with wit and at the same time comes across as so transparent and genuine-Awad knows how to talk about the raw struggles...

One of the world's greatest fantasy novels and a rollicking classic of Chinese literature, in a sparkling new translation and published...

A new translation of this classic text, first published in 1856, which examines the implications of French history on the nature and development...

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

'Packed with vitamins, bursting with flavour: irresistible new recipes from Jamie Oliver' Sunday TimesJamie's Everyday Super Food makes...

John and Laura have come to Venice to try and escape the pain of their young daughter's death. But when they encounter two old women who...

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

A prize-winning translation of the most widely known and popular collection of Japanese poetryHyakunin Isshu is the most famous and popular...

'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)...

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...

Sie brachte Gertrude Stein im Alter von fast sechzig Jahren zwar endlich den ersehnten Erfolg als Autorin, trug ihr aber zugleich die Feindschaft...

'Quantum mechanics is perhaps the most successful theory ever formulated. The only problem with it, argues Lee Smolin, is that it is wrong......

This collection of writings is famous for giving us the phrase 'Freudian slip'. It also builds up a strong social history of Vienna and...

A new edition of the 41st novel in the classic French mystery series featuring Parisian detective Inspector Jules Maigret, from the Belgian...

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

A revelatory new translation of the playful, incomparable masterpiece of one of the greatest black authors in the Americas A Penguin Classic...

'Splendid... Le Carre shows how endowed he is with the gift of storytelling' - The Times Aldo Cassidy is a cautious man. He has a pleasant...

Why are books so very powerful? What do the books we've read over our lives make of us? The stories in Ali Smith's new collection are about...

'Junk is not, like alcohol or weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life' William Burroughs,...

Robert Penn cut down an ash tree to see how many things could be made from it. After all, ash is the tree we have made the greatest and...

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

Sue Townsend, the bestselling author of the "Adrian Mole series", returns with "The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year", a funny and touching...

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...

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....

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

Fantastic new jacket treatment to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the first publication of Adrian Mole

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

There is an Orwell anniversary to mark this year: 60 years since the publication of }1984{, and 25 years since 1984. Penguin are publishing...

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

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...

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

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...

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

'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 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...

'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....

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

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

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

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

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

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

A much-awaited collection of prose and poetry from one of the great cosmic masters of the supernatural Not just any fantasy, horror, and...

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

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

Benjamin Franklin's writings represent a long career of literary, scientific and political efforts over a lifetime which extended nearly...

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

Part of a new series of Wilde titles published this month, this is a collection of his brilliant essays. On a wide-range of subjects, from...

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

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

In what remains one of his most seminal papers, Freud considers the incompatibility of civilisation and individual happiness, and the tensions...

There's no need for fairy dust, as little girls will be transformed into artists with this new Flower Fairies giant art activity book. Over...

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

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

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

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

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,...

'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...

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

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

Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the long life-and-death struggle between Athens...

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

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

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....

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...

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

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...

Extraordinary story tracing the experiences of Salim who, in 1971 took part in a failed coup attempt to oust King Hassan II of Morocco....

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

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...

'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...

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...

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