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'God, when will you create a woman who will be fulfilled in herself, a full human being, not anybody's appendage?... When will I be free?'There...

Tristao Raposo, a nineteen-year old black child of the Rio slums, spies Isabel Leme, an eighteen-year-old upper-class white girl, across...

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An authoritative exploration of Christ that takes a fresh approach to his life and gives equal voice to both the New Testament and early...

Reissued to coincide with the 20th anniversary of Diana's death, it includes a new afterword.

'There is no poetry or romance in war, it is brutal and ugly and terrifying and it turns men into animals - shrieking, screaming and running...

THE MUST-READ PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF GIRL UNKNOWN & YOUR CLOSEST FRIEND 'An intense drama. A clever novel...

*PRE-ORDER NOW! THE HILARIOUS, HEARTWARMING NEW NOVEL FROM INTERNATIONAL NO. 1 BESTSELLER MARIAN KEYES*Anna has just lost her taste for...

The Gothic novel, which flourished from about 1765 until 1825, revels in the horrible and the supernatural, in suspense and exotic settings....

Combining frontline investigation with startling new data, Tristram Stuart's "Waste" shows how the way we live now has created a global...

USA Today's top 100 books to read while stuck at home social distancing The iconic #1 bestseller aby Helen Fielding; Bridget Jones is now...

'One of the most valuable books I've ever read' Adwoa Aboah______________________________________________________________________________________If...

One rainy afternoon in Istanbul, a woman walks into a doctor's surgery. 'I need to have an abortion', she announces. She is nineteen years...

Mr Polly is an ordinary middle-aged man who is tired of his wife's nagging and his dreary job as the owner of a regional gentleman's outfitters....

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers,...

Signifying Rappers is a fun and quirky discovery for any fan of David Foster Wallace or Hip-hop. Signifying Rappers is an old-school classic...

The first new Penguin Classics translation of the Argonautica since the 1950s Now in a riveting new verse translation, Jason and the Argonauts...

THE SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR'A beautiful and thoughtful exploration of the role of the horse in creating our world' James Rebanks'Scintillating,...

A young theoretical physicist's guide to how the radical new science of counterfactuals can reveal the full scope of our universeThere is...

Does the thought of delivering a presentation make your heart skip a beat? Do your pitches fall flat no matter how much preparation you...

In "Stretch Your Dog Healthy," holistic health specialist Wynn offers dog owners the latest information on stretching, massage, acupressure,...

Finding the theatre of the 1920s lacking in bite and conviction, Thornton Wilder set out to bring back realism and to celebrate the innocent,...

A superb new translation by Michael Hofmann of some of Kafka's most frightening and visionary short fiction Strange beasts, night terrors,...

The classic adventure story from the author of }She{, first published in 1885, and made into a memorable film in 1950. With a new introduction...

A superb new translation of one of the greatest nineteenth century poems: the libretto to Wagner's Ring cycleThe scale and grandeur of Wagner's...

Number one best-seller Jane Green - author of "The Love Verb" and "Spellbound" - examines the dynamics of family life and relationships...

This is the book everyone has been waiting for: national heroes Ant and Dec, Britain's most successful television duo, have invited their...

This major collection demonstrates the extent to which Thomas Paine (1737-1809) was an inspiration to the Americans in their struggle for...

A novel following the fate of Arbella Stuart, niece to Mary, Queen of Scots and presumed successor to Elizabeth I. Can she escape Hardwick...

If you've never known what a wildebeest is, you'll find out now in this latest Where? Is title about the Serengeti. Each year, over 1.5...

Rachel Khoo follows: The Little Paris Kitchen with The Little French Kitchen, bringing her modern twists to classic recipes from around...

Russell Norman returns to Venice - the city that inspired POLPO - to immerse himself in the authentic flavours of the Veneto and the culinary...

A portrayal of the sensitive, sexually confused and socially awkward writer based on information gained from the original Danish sources....

"The Spark describes in glowing terms the profound intensity with which a mother can love her child". (Andrew Solomon, author of Far from...

The New York Times bestselling authors of The Night Voice present the penultimate chapter in the Noble Dead Saga. Waylaid in their quest...

Fat Phil can't lose at dice, even when his friends turn nasty and he's trying his hardest; a salesman finds success comes from fortune cookie...

On the evening of 26th November 1703, a cyclone from the north Atlantic hammered into southern Britain at over seventy miles an hour, claiming...

The plays of Euripides have stimulated audiences since the fifth century BC. This volume, containing "Phoenician Women", "Bacchae", "Iphigenia...

A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. A luxury superyacht. And a killer picking you off, one by one...Pre-order now! A twist-filled summer thriller,...

Pre-order Katie Lumsden's mysterious and atmospheric debut novel NOW, for fans of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, Stacey Halls and Bridget...

Dieser Roman, der für den Man Booker Prize 2002 nominiert war, beschreibt das ländliche Irland der 20er Jahre und die dort herrschenden...

'Fascinating, full of original material and shrewd insights... A masterful historian of air power' Leo McKinstry, Literary ReviewThe RAF...

A brilliantly realised account of the most famous archeological dig in British history, now a major motion picture starring Ralph Fiennes,...

A frank and frequently shocking French romp, featuring an idealistic cavalier, a charming mistress, and an adventurous cross-dressing young...

Nathan is being held captive and is in agony. His saving grace is the voice of an angel who eases his pain and helps him regain enough strength...

'Grayling brings satisfying order to daunting subjects' Steven Pinker_________________________In very recent times humanity has learnt a...

Runner is a pulse-pounding, A-grade adventure thriller from acclaimed author Patrick Lee. Sam Dryden was done being a hero. But when, acting...

Edited aby the bestselling author of Liar's Poker, Michael Lewis, "Panic! The Story of Modern Financial Insanity" gives us a completely...

Two revealingly different accounts of the life of the most important figure of the Roman Empire Charlemage, known as the father of Europe,...

From Wall Street Journal columnist Spencer Jakab, the real story of the GameStop squeeze - and the surprising winners of a rigged game....

Mark Forsyth, author of the no.1 "Sunday Times" bestseller "The Etymologicon" unwraps the fundamentally funny gallimaufry of traditions...

"The Other Crowd," "The Good People," "The Wee Folk," and "Them" are a few of the names given to the fairies aby the people of Ireland....

One day, while browsing an antique store in Helena, Montana, photographer Tyler Knott Gregson stumbled upon a vintage Remington typewriter...

This unflinching portrayal of the squalor and brutality of New York life produced a scandal when it was published in 1893. Crane's novel...

A thrilling illustrated journey through the history of video games and what they really mean to us Pac-Man. Mario. Minecraft. Doom. Ever...

'Exhilarating... A work of scholarship, but also inspiration... Go and read Jablonka and change the world' Christina Patterson, Sunday Times'An...

Why do we know so much more about the cosmos than our own consciousness? Are there limits to the scientific method? Why do we assume that...

Includes both the original text and a verse translation żeby the editor, plus a new introduction.

Jockey Kit Fielding's patron, Princess Casilia, is in trouble. Her invalid husband is being threatened by a ruthless business partner who...

On December 7, 1941, Japanese war planes appeared out of nowhere to bomb the American base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. Four battleships sunk,...

They're slimy, they're small, and they're slow. Some call them pests, and some call them a delicacy. What are they? Snails! Kids will learn...

In "The Picture of Dorian Gray," Wilde's full-length novel, a fashionable young man sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Also included...

In a distant universe, since the beginning of time, workers have spent their lives weaving intricate carpets from the hair of women and...

Paul Theroux invites us to join him on one of his most exotic and tantalizing adventures exploring the coasts and blue lagoons of the Pacific...

This is a story of self-obsession narrated by the point of view of a psychiatrist, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time....

Four of the bestselling names in romance and fantasy--Ilona Andrews, Yasmine Galenorn, Allyson James, and Jeanne C. Stein--come together...

All you need to explore science is a kitchen, this cookbook - and a dash of curiosityThe Kitchen Science Cookbook is a beautifully crafted...

In den letzten 50 Jahren haben die fortschrittlichsten Nationen des Westens ihre ökonomische Vormachtstellung in der Welt durch katastrophale...

Subtitled }The Real Story Of Montgomery & The Allied Campaign{. 12pp b/w illus.

The modern era saw the emergence of individuals who had command over a terrifying array of instruments of control, persuasion and death....

G.K. Chesterton's "The Man Who Was Thursday" is a thrilling novel of deception, subterfuge, double-crossing and secret identities, and this...

Paris is the city of light and the city of darkness - a place of ceaseless revolution and reinvention that for two thousand years has drawn...

Traveling in a motor home, Adrian Monk is determined to show his agoraphobic brother Ambrose the outside world. But as little crimes pop...

When critics attacked Andy Warhol's Marilyn paintings as shallow, the Pop artist was happy to present himself as shallower still: He claimed...

You may think you know this carol, but the breathtaking talent of Laurel Long brings it to life as never before. Readers will pore over...

Innovative free verse of small-town life and hypocrisy, first published in 1915.

'Gripping... Revelatory... Unrivalled' Tom Holland, New Statesman'From Mosul to Melbourne, from Cairo to Tokyo, from London to Oslo, from...

Welcome to the series of original mysteries starring Adrian Monk, the brilliant investigator who always knows when something's out of place.......

"Connie McCabe longs for the summer where she spends the days leading tours across the continent. But it's on the glamourous shores of Lake...

Includes }The Miser, The School For Wives, The School For Wives Critisied, Don Juan{ and }The Hypochondriac{.

Fully revised edition of this essential crisis-management sourcebook for chief executives, finance directors and management consultants....

Introduces the period approximately 20,000 years ago when global temperatures were much colder and ice covered much of the planet, and describes...

George Smiley, now acting head of the Circus, must rebuild its shattered reputation after one of the biggest betrayals in its history. Using...

Oliver Bullough's "Let Our Fame be Great: Journeys Among the Defiant Peoples of the Caucasus" is the extraordinary untold story of the inhabitants...

With consistent modern spelling and clear punctuation, it retains the character and style of the original translation, allowing the Bible...

As Laurie Cass continues the national bestselling Bookmobile Cat mystery series, librarian Minnie Hamilton is happy to take her bookmobile...

Virginia Woolf said of The Egoist: 'Meredith pays us a supreme compliment to which as novel-readers we are little accustomed...He imagines...

Subtitled, }The Untold Story Of Operation Anaconda{. Based on extensive first hand accounts.

A gripping debut from Alex Grecian, "The Yard" evokes London in the wake of Jack the Ripper. Victorian London is in the grip of a wave of...

Waiting For Wednesday by Nicci French is the thrilling third novel in the highly acclaimed Frieda Klein series. Ruth Lennox, beloved mother...

"Paris is the World, the rest of the Earth is nothing but its suburbs" - Marivaux. In this intelligently-written and supremely entertaining...

When the three witches - now old, remarried and widowed - decide to go back to Eastwick to spend a summer together, many things have changed....

One of the greatest works of the romantic era: a rich exploration of love, conflict, and the inescapable force of fate.

From the internationally best-selling author of "Brunelleschi's Dome" and "Ex-Libris, Domino" is a Rabelaisian journey into the hurly-burly...

Charlie Chaplin sang on a London stage for the first time at the age of five. Performing proved to be his salvation, providing a way out...

This book introduces the most gallant and redoubtable figure in naval history - Horatio Hornblower. The seventeen year old Hornblower became...

Roberto Calasso is one of the most original and acclaimed of writers on literature, art, culture and mythology. In Baudelaire's Folly, Calasso...

A deeply moving tale, uniquely told, of a young immigrant girl exiled in language and struggling to flourish and belong in New York City.

Codified by Justinian I and published under his aegis in A.D. 533, this celebrated work of legal history forms a fascinating picture of...

Formulated in 1904, the Conjecture promised to describe the shape of the universe, but remained unproven until a huge prize was offered...

Based on a series of lectures given in 1983 aby Dr. Leonard Peikoff, Understanding Objectivism offers a deeper and more profound study of...

Five plays written in the period 426 to 415 BC and haunted by the horrors of the fierce war between Athens and Sparta. Includes }Trojan...

The intellectual wellspring of modern political convervatism, Edmund Burke is also considered a significant figure in aesthetic theory and...

From the Number 1 bestselling author of Our Little Cruelties and Skin DeepSally Diamond cannot understand why what she did was so strange....

FBI Special Agent Patrick Bowers has matched wits with some of the most violent serial killers in history--and one of them has never forgiven...

Neffy is a young woman running away from grief and guilt and the one big mistake that has cost her her career. When she answers the call...

Ambitious and witty book explaining the big questions of contemporary economics and globalisation. A topical and crucial subject which sold...

The nuns who enter a medieval Norfolk convent are told to renounce the world, but the world still finds ways to trouble them, whether it...

A new Penguin edition of Ibsen's two great verse plays, in masterful versions by one of our greatest living poets, Geoffrey Hill. These...

The "tale as old as time," in versions from across the centuries and around the world--published to coincide with Disney's live-action 3D...

In 2014, Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba raised $25 billion in the world's biggest ever initial public offering. Since then, investors...

'Brilliant observations on the anthropology of power. You will laugh aloud and you won't put it down' Daniel Kahneman In this eye-opening...

A musician found dead on the highway. It's no surprise when white detectives arrest a black man for the murder. What is a surprise is that...

In the third in a new series of short, provoking books of original philosophy, acclaimed thinker Barry Dainton takes us through the nature...

A brilliantly varied new selection of D. H. Lawrence's essays, chosen and introduced aby Geoff DyerFor D. H. Lawrence the novel was the...

This book contains 'The Table, the Donkey and the Stick', 'The Princeand the Servants,''The Glass Box,''The Fisherman and the Giant,' and'The...

N. J. Dawood's masterful translation of the Koran, with parallel Arabic text. "Across the language barrier Dawood captures the thunder and...

For more than 100 years, people have been captivated żeby the disastrous sinking of the Titanic that claimed over 1,500 lives. Now young...

Mesmerising, mythic and timeless - the most unmissable debut novel of 2022 - for fans of Arundhati Roy, Toni Morrison and Monique Roffey'Exceptional'...

This work presents a selection of Mozart's letters, translated into English, complete with notes, linking commentary and chronology.