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'One of his masterpieces...without doubt a great novel' Guardian One of Hermann Hesse's greatest novels, Narcissus and Goldmund is an extraordinary...

'Tonight he noticed how the women's eyes Passed from him to the strong men that were whole.' The true horror of the trenches is brought...

Subtitled, }The Emerging Science Of Spontaneous Order{, this explores and explains synchronicity.

'I saw him taking a different shape before my eyes. His loose draperies all fell off him, and, as they were in the very act of falling,...

A book about Italy's unexpected history, told through its citrus fruits. Combining travel writing with history, recipes, horticulture and...

The dead wreak revenge on the living, paintings come alive, spectral brides possess mortal men and a priest devours human flesh in these...

'There must be another life, here and now, she repeated. This is too short, too broken. We know nothing, even about ourselves'The Years...

The Faces EAN: 9780241391914

A dazzling speculative novel of 'counterfactual history' from one of America's most highly-regarded science fiction authors, Philip K. Dick's...

This book offers a ground-breaking argument for better treatment of mental health from Richard Layard (author of Happiness) and David M....

For avid readers and the uninitiated alike, this is a chance to reengage with classic literature and to stay inspired and entertained. The...

'A gorgeous warm hug of a novel!' Beth O'Leary 'Both the perfect romance and the story of self-empowerment every woman deserves' Jodi Picoult...

Robert Penn's "It's All About the Bike: The Pursuit of Happiness on Two Wheels" is a paean to the humble bike; it's the story of why we...

'An erudite and charming book...both a primer and a paean to one of the central texts of Buddhism, known as the Heart Sutra...Alex Kerr...

New to }Penguin Classics{, a selection of poetry from the early Islamic era.

Hart s argument that we need to drastically revise our current view of illegal drugs is both powerful and timely... When it comes to the...

This is an all new version of the popular "Parallel Texts" series, containing eight pieces of contemporary fiction in the original French...

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR CRITICISM 2019 From the MAN BOOKER PRIZE- and WOMEN'S PRIZE-SHORTLISTED author of Changing...

In "Zero Degrees of Empathy: A New Theory of Human Cruelty and Kindness" Simon Baron-Cohen takes fascinating and challenging new look at...

A collection of poems and drawings that feature a boy who turns into a TV set, and a girl who eats a whale, a place where you wash your...

The Nobel Prize winning economist and author of "Globalization & Its Discontents" explains why saving Europe may mean abandoning the Euro....

'Drunk or sober, king or soldier, none will be excluded.' Sensual, profound, delighted, wise, Hafez's poems have enchanted their readers...

"Happy memories are essential to our mental health. They strengthen our identity, sense of purpose and relationships. Meik's new book will...

This is the twentieth Anniversary Edition - with a new introduction by the author. "About as close to flawless as any reader could ask for"....

Destroy the land and sea, we destroy ourselves' On the remote coast of New Zealand, at the curve that binds land and sea, a small Maori...

'A joy to behold' - Yotam Ottolenghi Learn how to cook the Swedish way with this beautiful book of over 100 delicious recipes. From spring...

Offers a horrifying glimpse of an alternative world - one where the Allies have lost the Second World War. In this nightmare dystopia, the...

This is Mark Twain's description of life on the Mississippi River, with observations and anecdotes about the culture and society along the...

"The Gift" is the phantasmal autobiography of Fyodor Godunov-Cherdynstev, a writer living in the closed world of Russian intellectuals in...

Consisting of a group of stories bound together aby a pilgrimage, this great twelfth-century poem is an allegorical rendering of the Way...

or avid readers and the uninitiated alike, this is a chance to reengage with classic literature and to stay inspired and entertained. The...

Susan Sontag was our last great literary star. Her brilliant mind, political activism and striking image made her an emblem of the seductions...

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

From 'A giant of twentieth-century science fiction' (Guardian), the adventures of Pirx, a hapless everyman in outer space'By now he fancied...

Sugar. It is killing us. Why do we eat so much of it? What are its hidden dangers? Using everyday language and a range of scientific evidence,...

Puskin's masterpieces in prose, in sparkling new translations aby the award-winning Pevear and Volokhonsky. The father of Russian literature,...

'We're not Christians, Christ stopped short of here, at Eboli.' Exiled to a remote and barren corner of Italy for his opposition to Mussolini,...

For avid readers and the uninitiated alike, this is a chance to reengage with classic literature and to stay inspired and entertained.

In 1964, renowned psychotherapist Virginia M. Axline visited a New York school. There she encountered a little boy apart from teachers and...

Includes the stories "Hornblower and the Atropos", "The Happy Return", and "A Ship of the Line".

A darkly funny account of family life from the author of The Haunting of Hill House and The Lottery 'Sometimes, in my capacity as a mother,...

Adrift in a dinghy, Edward Prendick, the single survivor from the good ship Lady Vain, is rescued żeby a vessel carrying a profoundly unusual...

A classic work that has charmed generations of readers, this collection assembles Carson McCullers' best stories, including her beloved...

The maverick philosopher returns to explore today's idealogical, political and economic battles, and asks whether radical change is possible...

Although Hannah Arendt is considered one of the major contributors to social and political thought in the twentieth century, this is the...

This is a simple, effective way to transform your finances and your life, from the author of The Behaviour Gap. Creating a financial plan...

The first short narrative history of the continent, from the author of the bestselling A Short History of England Europe is an astonishingly...

In her most provocative book yet, Naomi Klein, author of the global bestsellers The Shock Doctrine and No Logo, tackles the most profound...

"Why Read the Classics?" is an elegant defence of the value of great literature by one of the finest authors of the last century. Beginning...

Holly Golightly is a free spirited, lop-sided romantic girl about town. Her apartment rocks to Martini-soaked parties and she plays hostess...

Complete, fully annotated new edition - the most correct edition ever published as it is the first to have returned to the manuscript and...

LEONATO. I learn in this letter that Don Pedro of Arragon comes this night to Messina. MESSENGER. He is very near żeby this. He was not...

Winner of the British Cartographic Society Award 2021Winner of the John C Bartholomew Award for Thematic Mapping 2021Winner of the Stanfords...

'Urgent, powerful and generous, this book gives you a chance to pick yourself. Cara spares us empty reassurance and offers something much...

Theroux contributes new prefaces to these new editions of his travel writing classics.

'With these vivid, wistful memoirs, he joins the great broniclers of Europe - the Prousts, Zweigs, Lampedusas, Leigh-Fermors and Bassanis...

Originally published anonymously, "Nature" was the first modern essay to recommend the appreciation of the outdoors as an all-encompassing...

Meeting cooks from all over the world, who share their wisdom and stories, Pollan shows how cooking is at the heart of our culture and that...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Insightful, thought-provoking and profound. I can't recommend highly enough' Sunny Singh'A revolutionary...

'That black figure, with its eyes of fire, struck down through all my adult thoughts and feelings, and for a moment the forgotten horrors...

THE TIMES, ECONOMIST AND GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017It is accepted wisdom today that human beings have irrevocably damaged the natural...

In Shiang, the young king rules without dissent. Swordsmen stand watch on every corner, looking for the first sign of rebellion. Yet in...

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

Don't know if it's, like, okay to say 'like'$797 Are your apostrophe's in the wrong place$798 Should it be 'past' or 'passed'$799 Want to...

'Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find.' America, fifteen years after the end of the Second World War. The winning...

'I once travelled back from Africa on a ship with an Irish captain who did not like animals. This was unfortunate, because most of my luggage...

A Short History of Decay (1949) is E. M. Cioran's nihilistic and witty collection of aphoristic essays concerning the nature of civilization...

A magical memoir of a childhood in Czechoslovakia, which Penguin are publishing in their }Central European Classics{ series.

On 1 July, 1916, a continuous line of British soldiers climbed out from the trenches of the Somme into No Man's Land and began to walk slowly...

Poetic and nostalgic, one of the best loved novels of the twentieth century, first published in 1939.

The Diary recorded by Lady Murasaki (c. 973 c. 1020), author of The Tale of Genji, is an intimate picture of her life as tutor and companion...

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

The News is Alain de Botton's witty and insightful exploration of our twenty-first century obsession with media. Why do we keep checking...

Engineering genius, technical innovator and one of the greatest figures of the Industrial Revolution, Isambard Kingdom Brunel changed the...

It is an ordinary Thursday, and things should finally be returning to normal. Except trouble is never far away where the Thursday Murder...

A thrilling dystopian novel imagining a world where Trump lost the election, from the master of science fictionSan Francisco, 2017. In an...

A classic of postwar literature, a small masterpiece of humour, humanity and heroism from one of the best Czech writers For twenty-two-year-old...

From the daring and critically acclaimed master of historical fiction Conn Iggulden, DARIEN is the first book of Empire of Salt, an epic...

1987. An isolated farm house in the east of Iceland.The snowstorm should have shut everybody out. But it didn't.The couple should never...

Jojo, a high-flying literary agent on the up, has just made a bad career move... Jojo's sweet-natured client Lily's first novel is a success....

The works collected in this volume form the true foundation of Western philosophy - the base upon which Plato and Aristotle and their successors...

International bestselling author Marian Keyes is back with another masterfully told story full of wit and charm. 'Name: Stella Sweeney....

Groomed for the perfect marriage żeby her mother, fearsome Lady Montdore, Polly instead scandalises society aby declaring her love for her...

Part of the new Ladybird Expert series, Artificial Intelligence is a clear, simple and entertaining introduction tointelligent machines...

New-cover edition with introduction aby Linda Wagner-Martin.

The intense, caustically funny first novel from the bestselling author of Bad Behaviour'Dark, menacing and original' Joanna Briscoe, GuardianDorothy...

Personal, provocative and powerfully persuasive - an essential guide to what white feminism is, why it matters, and how we can put an end...

Our happiness and success depend on clear thinking. But too many of us are compromised żeby confusion, trying to do too much at once, and...

For the Pre-Socratic philosophers the soul was the source of movement and sensation, while for Plato it was the seat of being, metaphysically...

Nobel Prize winner Werner Heisenberg's classic account explains the central ideas of the quantum revolution, and his celebrated Uncertainty...

CAN YOU STOP A MURDER WHEN IT'S ALREADY HAPPENED?'Perfection, every word, every moment. One of the best books I've ever read' LISA JEWELL'Ingenious....

Clarice Lispector's sensational, prize-winning debut novel "Near to the Wild Heart" was published when she was just twenty-three and earned...

Sasha has returned to Paris, the city of both her happiest and most desperate moments. Her past lies in wait for her in cafes and bars,...

Diana Bishop, a young historian (and a witch), discovers an enchanted manuscript at the Bodleian Library at Oxford. The text, known as Ashmole...

A controversial cult classic, Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber is the extraordinary story of a woman who suffered from multiple personality...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky's powerful meditation on faith, meaning and morality, "The Brothers Karamazov" is translated with an introduction and...

A new addition to the series. The first complete translation into English of the }Maximem und Reflexionen{.

'It's often said that books are compulsory reading, but this book really is compulsory. You cannot understand slavery, or British Empire,...

Explores the advances in the discovery of neuroplasticity, showing that the brain has its own unique way of healing. This book discusses...

Advice on how to master the art of writing good English, for essays, letters, speeches and CVs.

Set in Hardy\'s fictional realm of Wessex, these four charming novels have been brought together in a stunning clothbound set, designed...

Reveals the history of twentieth-century communist Europe told through its buildings. This is a book about power, and what power does in...

Set in futuristic Tokyo, rebuilt after an earthquake, this is the story of a rock star who decides to marry a non-existent, virtual reality...

Contains essays, reviews and articles which illuminate the life and work of a man who created a literary manner from the process of thinking...

Combined edition including }Lark Rise, Over To Candleford{ and }Candleford Green{.

An epic novel of love, war and revolution from one of the greatest 20th century Russian authors, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017'Yrsa's work is like holding the truth in your hands. A glorious living thing' Florence Welch'One of the must-reads...

'Gorgeous' - Brit Bennett'Pure genius' - Jacqueline Woodson'One of the most dynamic books I have ever read' - Clint Smith At the March on...

PRE-ORDER 2021'S MOST JOYOUS AND HEARTWARMING LOVE STORY'If you only read one Christmas book, make it this one' 5***** READER REVIEW'Just...

A new selection of the best science fiction stories of the last 60 years, edited and introduced by acclaimed author Brian Aldiss. Earlier...

Fading southern belle Blanche Dubois depends on the kindness of strangers and is adrift in the modern world. When she arrives to stay with...

Forty-nine, with a kind face, no serious ailments, a good salary and three moody children, widowed accountant Martin Santome is about to...

Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary and subversive thinkers in Western philosophy, and "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" remains his most...

A unique collection of stories that spans the centuries and ranges across the entire continent, from Ancient Egypt and Ethiopis through...

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From the international bestselling expert on dealing with assholes'With cutting-edge research and real-life examples that are thought-provoking...

I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, then all at once. Despite the tumour-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few...

ECONOMIST, SUNDAY TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES AND GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017 'Comprehensive and compelling... A nuanced, landmark study...

'Let us pretend that we can make out a plain and logical story, so that when one matter is despatched - love for instance - we go on, in...

Most of us give little thought to the back of the book - it's just where you go to look things up. But here, hiding in plain sight, is an...