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From the bestselling author of Purple Cow and This is Marketing comes an elegant little book that will inspire artists, writers, and entrepreneurs...

'I didn't want you to come here.' So says the note that the boy Edmund Hooper passes to Charles Kingshaw upon his arrival at Warings. But,...

Gordon Comstock loathes dull, middle-class respectability and worship of money. He gives up a good job to work part-time in a bookshop,...

Over three years ago, a civil servant vanished after returning from a work trip to Africa. Missing, presumed dead, the man's family still...

This newly revised and updated "Italian Phrase Book" contains a wealth of useful words and phrases for travellers. The book includes basic...

Recognising his perspective on life was slipping following his mother's untimely death, Charlie turned to the rhythms of the natural world...

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

"Books XXXI to XLV" cover the years from 201 B.C. To 167 B.C., when Rome emerged as ruler of the Mediterranean.

Brought together for the first time, here are 100 pieces of 'Oulipo' writing, celebrating the literary group who revelled in maths problems,...

A heartaching portrayal of a woman faced żeby an impossible choice in the pursuit of happiness, Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the D'Urbervilles"...

Anthony Trollope's heartwarming tales of Christmas, presented in a beautiful hardcover edition perfect for giving as a gift. Christmas at...

From the author of the phenomenal multi-million copy bestseller The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down"Hearing the words 'be good...

The autobiography of an American icon 'I never think that people die. They just go to department stores'Andy Warhol - American painter,...

Everything Is Illuminated is Jonathan Safran Foer's bestselling novel of a search for truth, published as a Penguin Essential for the first...

Winner of the Guardian First Book Award. National press advertising campaign on publication. Author will be in the UK in the Spring for...

Jim Simons is the greatest moneymaker in modern financial history. His record bests those of legendary investors, including Warren Buffett,...

When Joel Knox's mother dies, he is sent into the exotic unknown of the Deep South to live with a father he has never seen. But once he...

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

Following the international No 1 bestsellers Mercy and Disgrace, Guilt is the fourth heart-stopping Department Q novel from Jussi Adler-Olsen,...

Invaluable first-hand accounts, providing insights into the characters and beliefs of the crusaders, translated from the Old French by Caroline...

The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition was perhaps the most ambitious, elaborate and confident of all the British attempts to master the...

Nat, a veteran of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, thinks his years as an agent runner are over. But MI6 have other plans. To tackle...

The latest >Penguin Clasics.

Hawking edits the great works of physics and astronomy and explains how the likes of Galileo, Newton and Einstein built on the discoveries...

This is a new novel from the author of Billy and Me about love and the unbreakable bonds of friendship. Maddy, dressed in white, stands...

This classic work from the influential 18th century economist is new to }Penguin Classics{. Introduction by Amartya Sen.

"Radical and inspiring... Yanagi's vision puts the connection between heart and hand before the transient and commercial" - Edmund de Waal...

Here is the perfect introduction to contemporary Japanese fiction. Featuring many stories appearing in English for the first time, this...

Subtitled, }The Amazing Rise & Scandalous Fall Of Enron{. Drawn from a wide range of private documents and resources.

With a new introduction from renowned Egyptologist, John Romer.

Four seekers have arrived at the rambling old pile known as Hill House: Dr Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of psychic...

Through his writing and his own personal philosophy, Ralph Waldo Emerson unburdened his young country of Europe's traditional sense of history...

We are in Harlem, the black soul of New York City, in the era of Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles. The narrator of Baldwin's novel is Tish...

"Le Morte D'Arthur" is Sir Thomas Malory's richly evocative and enthralling version of the Arthurian legend. Recounting Arthur's birth,...

I'm the King of the Castle aby Susan Hill is a chilling novel that explores the extremes of childhood cruelty, now published as a Penguin...

In this portrait of life in Ancient Rome, the author begins żeby painting a backcloth on which the social, political, cultural and religious...

In 1851, at the age of twenty-two, Tolstoy joined the Russian army and travelled to the Caucasus as a soldier. The four years that followed...

Maigret is called to the home of Armand de Saint-Hilaire, a highly respected official who has been found shot dead in his study by his housekeeper....

Sylvain Tesson, found a radical solution to his need for freedom, one as ancient as the experiences of the hermits of old Russia: he decided...

Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek scholar. When he became involved in a...

'Lolita is comedy, subversive yet divine... You read Lolita sprawling limply in your chair, ravished, overcome, nodding scandalized assent'...

"The Eat Right 4 Your Type" is a portable and personal blood type guide to staying healthy and achieving your ideal weight. It's science!...

An essential primer on capitalism, politics and how the world works, based on the hugely popular undergraduate lecture series 'What is Politics?'Is...

This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Where Angels Fear to Tread" żeby E. M. Forster. 'I had got an idea that everyone here...

A journey to the frontiers of science and beyond, offering an insight into what we can realistically hope to achieve in the future. From...

Enthralling account of King Arthur. Introduction by John Lawlor.

A fascinating journey into the physical and spiritual heart of archery and the enlightenment it bestows.

This newly revised and updated Spanish Phrase Book contains a wealth of useful words and phrases for travellers. The book includes basic...

Muriel Spark's classic "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" features a schoolmistress you'll never forget, in this beautifully repackaged "Penguin...

First new edition since 1966.

Part of a new six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected żeby Academy Award-winning director of The Shape of Water Guillermo...

"The Eat Right 4 Your Type" is a portable and personal blood type guide to staying healthy and achieving your ideal weight. It's science!...

Alexandre Dumas' epic tale of suffering and revenge inspired by a real-life case of wrongful imprisonment, the "Penguin Classics" edition...

Gordon Comstock loathes dull, middle-class respectability and worship of money. He gives up a 'good job' in advertising to work part-time...

From the bestselling author of A Million Kisses In Your Lifetime, Monica Murphy delivers an addictive story of second chances and star-crossed...

By the author of the best-selling, prize-winning Stuff Matters 'A truly delightful read' Jim Al-Khalili, author of Paradox 'Exciting, anarchic...

Two sworn enemies. One unfinished manuscript. The love story of a lifetime... When Georgia Stanton discovers that her late grandmother,...

This chronicle of the Byzantine Empire, beginning in 1025, shows a profound understanding of the power politics that characterized the empire...

Leo Tolstoy began his trilogy, "Childhood, Boyhood, Youth", in his early twenties. Although he would in his old age famously dismiss it...

How can co-operation emerge in a world of self-seeking egoists - whether superpowers, businesses, or individuals - when there is no central...

Written in Berlin in 1934, "Invitation to a Beheading" contains all the surprise, excitement and magical intensity of a work created in...

In these four stories, written between 1900 and 1902, Joseph Conrad bid gradual farewell to his adventurous life at sea and began to confront...

This delightful book is the latest in the series of Ladybird books which have been specially planned to help grown-ups with the world about...

Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent runner are over. He is back in London...

Most of our everyday decision-making tends to be confrontational. Whether in large meetings, one-to-one or even in our own heads, opposite...

Pin is a bawdy, adolescent cobbler's assistant, both arrogant and insecure who - while the Second World War rages - sings songs and tells...

This is beautifully packaged reissue of Muriel Spark's best loved novel, "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie". 'You girls are my vocation...I...

"The Eat Right 4 Your Type" is a portable and personal blood type guide to staying healthy and achieving your ideal weight. It's science!...

A haunting compendium of ghostly visitations through the ages, spanning Hebrew scriptures, Roman writings, Scandinavian sagas and the Renaissance.

Rapunzel gets a rodent twist in book three of the critically acclaimed and uproariously funny series that's perfect for fans of Princess...

Collecting legendary lectures from freewheeling scientific genius Richard P. Feynman, "The Character of Physical Law" is the perfect example...

This beautifully written, informative study is a portrait, a history and a superb guide book, capturing fully the seductive beauty and the...

Auf unheimliche Weise kriecht dem Leser die Spannung in den Nacken, ohne das er weiß, warum. Schließlich ist dies nur eine Stadt voll Menschen,...

'January 22nd - Robert startles me at breakfast aby asking if my cold - which he has hitherto ignored - is better. I reply that it has gone....

Many of us respond to the pressures of life by turning inwards and ignoring problems, sometimes resulting in anxiety or depression. Others...

In 1940 Steinbeck sailed in a sardine boat with his great friend the marine biologist, Ed Ricketts, to collect marine invertebrates from...

Enthralled żeby his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry...

Though Sherlock Holmes and his sidekick Dr Watson solve what will become some of their extraordinary cases - the disappearance of the race...

In Pepper Street, an attractive suburban neighbourhood filled with bullies and egotistical bigots, the feelings of the inhabitants are shallow...

New edition.

The first part of John le Carre's acclaimed Karla Trilogy, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy sees the beginning of the stealthy Cold War cat-and-mouse...

An enigmatic, humorous and controversial account of the later Caesars, an important text for students of Ancient History or Classics.

In Our Mathematical Universe, Max Tegmark, one of the most original physicists at work today, leads us on an astonishing journey to explore...

An exploration into the rise of modern thought from the great thinkers who made their mark, in what became known as the Enlightenment.

Jean-Paul Sartre's first published novel, "Nausea" is both an extended essay on existentialist ideals, and a profound fictional exploration...

"The Penguin Book of Card Games" is the authoritative up-to-date compendium, describing an abundance of games to be played both for fun...

The international bestseller on memory and how to master it

The definitive history of the Middle East, now updated in its fifth edition \'The best overall survey of the politics, regional rivalries...

'Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of my tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate...

In this landmark work, four of the world's leading scholar-activists set out a vital, urgent manifesto for a truly intersectional, internationalist,...

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, fastidious college professor. He also likes little girls. And none more so than Lolita, who he'll do anything...

This is a mesmerising, chilling close-up portrayal of Stalin from Milovan Djilas, a Communist insider - with an introduction from Anne Applebaum,...

And the Ass Saw the Angel - Nick Cave's classic Gothic novel, in its full and original form. Outcast, mute, a lone twin cut from a drunk...

This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" aby Thomas Hardy. "I would be content, ay, glad, to live with...

'The foremost work on the key democratic task: helping people to identify and challenge the sources of their oppression... A transformative...

Richard J. Evans' "The Coming of the Third Reich: How the Nazis Destroyed Democracy and Seized Power in Germany" explores how the First...

The world comes to us in colour. But colour lives as much in our imaginations as it does in our surroundings, as this scintillating book...

This book introduces the reader to the niceties of samples (random or stratified random), averages (mean, median or modal), errors (probable,...

'Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound'. The death, quite suddenly, of Sir Charles Baskerville in mysterious circumstances...

Burroughs’ first novel, a largely autobiographical account of the constant cycle of drug dependency, cures and relapses, remains the most...

At least 5000 years old, the "I Ching" is a book of oracles containing the whole of human experience. Used for divination, it is a method...

Ferrazzi is breaking new ground in defining what leadership can mean in the emerging world of work' -Arianna Huffington, founder and CEO...

The myth: If you get into a good college, study hard, and graduate with excellent grades, you will be pretty much set for a successful career....

THE GREATEST LOVE STORY IS THE ONE YOU LEAST EXPECT... Alice Wright doesn't love her new American husband. Nor her domineering father-in-law...

For decades, the British and Irish had 'got used to' a situation without parallel in Europe: a cold, ferocious, persistent campaign of bombing...

Ein grauenhafter Fluch lastet auf "Baskerville Hall", denn viele ungeklärte Todesfälle überschatten die Familienchronik. Kräfte des Bösen...

'Tiptree's narratives of alien worlds and alienation make up one of science fiction's most vivid and influential bodies of work' The New...

A fascinating and practical guide from two New York Times bestselling authors, backed by state-of-the-art scientific researchDrawing on...

In "Deceit and Self Deception Robert Trivers", whose work has been acclaimed aby figures such as Richard Dawkins and Steven Pinker, looks...

"The Gambler and Other Stories" is Fyodor Dostoyevsky's collection of one novella and six short stories reflecting his own life - indeed,...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'A constant role model in my life, Billie Jean King is a leading example of integrity in the face of adversity....

This is a book about awareness - it's about being 'awake' and in touch with what is going on here and now. Practical and down-to-earth,...

'A must read' - Margaret Atwood'It would be hard to find a book that feels more important or original' - Viv Groskop, ObserverExtraordinary...

PRE-ORDER THE LATEST ELECTRIC THRILLER IN TOM CLANCY'S NO. 1 BESTSELLING JACK RYAN SERIESJack Ryan - out to avenge the murder of an old...

Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita" is one of the best-known novels of the 20th century: the controversial story of Humbert Humbert who falls in...

Easy, beautiful and show-stopping recipes for every day from Nadiya's BBC TV series Fans of Nadiya's easy and delicious recipes will love...

 The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition of the World's Most Famous Diary - Anne Frank Paperback: 368 pages Pub Date: 2015 Language:...

An enthralling work of grand historical narrative, Steven Runciman's A History of the Crusades overturned the traditional view of the Crusades...

What is happening in the brain when we drink too much alcohol, get high on ecstasy or experience road rage? Emotion, says internationally...

International bestselling authors of The element As a parent, what should you look for in your children\'s education$634 How can you tell...