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Scholarly work placing Christians and pagans in the context of civil life and contrasting their religious experiences, visions, cults and...

This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson. 'All human beings, as we meet them,...

Frantz Fanon's seminal work on the trauma of colonization, "The Wretched of the Earth" made him the leading anti-colonialist thinker of...

Ellery's never been to Echo Ridge, but she's heard all about it. It's where her aunt went missing at age sixteen, never to return. Where...

Offers a study of 16th and 17th century Europe and the fundamental changes which led to the collapse of Christendom and established the...

DISCOVER THE EXHILARATING TRUE STORY BEHIND THE ACTION-PACKED CLASSIC FILM'GOOSE AND MAVERICK MOVE OVER...' Admiral James StavridisMarch...

Jeremy Clarkson is once more "Driven to Distraction". Brace yourself. Clarkson's back. And he'd like to tell you what he thinks about some...

Exodus is an insightful, expert foray into the explosive issue of immigration, from Paul Collier, award-winning economist and author of...

The first time in }Classics{ for this timely new translation of the medieval account from the 12th century.

The trial and condemnation of Socrates on charges of heresy and corrupting young minds is a defining moment in the history of Classical...

A deluxe edition of the journals of this figure synonymous with the New York art scene of the 1980s.

New translation by Terry Hale.

Paying attention to workplace mental health has never been more important. With one in four people experiencing poor mental health right...

The story of philosophy is an epic tale: an exploration of the ideas, views and teachings of some of the most creative minds known to humanity....

Written in 1962, this is one of a range of novels which Penguin are publishing as }Central European Classics{.

As Europe's borderlands emerged from Soviet rule, the author travelled from the Baltic to the Black Sea, through Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine...

The Penguin Knitting Book aby James Norbury is a charming how-to-knit classic packed with delightfully vintage advice. Knitting fills a...

The Number One bestselling author is back with the tale of Belle, the girl from the brothel who battled her way to freedom

The adorable story of Felix, the Huddersfield Train Station cat. From the moment Felix arrives at the station as an 8-week-old kitten, through...

'David Marquet is the kind of leader who comes around only once in a generation... His ideas and lessons are invaluable' Simon Sinek, author...

A stunning clothbound edition of John Kennedy Toole's savagely funny, satirical masterpiece.

Praised as a groundbreaking work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human emissary's mission to Winter,...

In a dazzling fusion of Quentin Fiore\'s bold and inventive graphic design and Marshall McLuhan\'s unique insight into technology, advertising...

From internationally bestselling author Benedict Wells, a sweeping novel of love and loss, and of the lives we never get to live "[D]azzling...

The Sunday Times bestseller that explains the new science behind weight loss and how we can get in shape without counting calories. 'A compelling...

Written when Camus was at the height of his powers as the youngest French writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Paperback edition of this widely acclaimed and posthumously published novel from one of the most highly regarded Hungarian novelists of...

The great novel of 1920s Berlin life, in a superb new translation aby Michael Hofmann Franz Biberkopf is back on the streets of Berlin....

New to the }PMC{ series, featuring accessible works of growing up and sci-fi.

The gripping story of a husband's personal odyssey to find justice - adapted into an award-winning film in 2005 starring in Ralph Fiennes...

'An intellectual hero... A superb celebrator of science in all its manifestations' Ian McEwan'Darwin's great successor' Jeffrey SachsThe...

THE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'This book might just change your life' Sunday Times'Wise, wonderful, moving and brilliant... Will leave...

Ogata Shingo is growing old, and his memory is failing him. At night he hears only the sound of death in the distant rumble from the mountain....

Have you seen Bluey and Bingo?Join Bluey on the beach, in the backyard and at the park in this jam-packed search-and-find activity book.With...

The bestselling Turkish classic of love and loss in a changing world, with a new introduction żeby David Selim Sayers 'A heart-breaker......

'There is in this world a kind of desire like stinging pain'A Japanese teenager is overcome with longing for his male classmate. He imagines...

How to be a Victorian - a time traveller's guide to Victorian Britain aby the BBC's Ruth Goodman. We know what life was like for Victoria...

'Consider just this, and give your minds to this alone: whether or not what I say is just'. Plato's account of Socrates' trial and death...

Latest additions to the series.

'A groundbreaking work... Federici has become a crucial figure for... A new generation of feminists' Rachel Kushner, author of The Mars...

The Plague by Albert Camus is an extraordinary odyssey into the darkness and absurdity of human existence. 'On the morning of April 16,...

"Well-being for all is not a dream."In this brilliantly enjoyable rallying-cry of a book, Kropotkin lays out the heart of his anarchist...

When Vahram Muratyan began his online travel journal, "Paris versus New York", he had no idea how quickly it would become one of the most...

Hannah Arendt's authoritative and stunning report on the trial of German Nazi SS leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of articles...

Unlike the rest of her family, Maggie Walsh has always done everything right. In the City of Angels, Maggie gets to do things she's never...

First Penguin volume§Of best Japanese haiku§Vivid translations§§A Japanese poetry form that flourished from the sixteenth to nineteenth...

Reborn is the compelling and frank early diary of Susan Sontag. "Vivid, exhilarating, often moving...charts the development of a good writer...

Sudhir Venkatesh the young sociologist who became famous in "Freakonomics" (Why do drug dealers still live with their moms?) describes his...

From the bestselling author of "The God Delusion", Richard Dawkins' "Unweaving the Rainbow" explores the most important and compelling topics...

A beautiful new clothbound edition of Alexandre Dumas' classic novel of wrongful imprisonment, adventure and revenge. Thrown in prison for...

This is a classic mystery from Dick Francis, the champion of English storytellers. Jockey and amateur photographer Philip Nore knows all...

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'I'll never understand the fucking Army.' Prew won't conform. He could have been the best boxer and the best bugler in his division, but...

PRE-ORDER CLAIRE DOUGLAS', BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE COUPLE AT NO 9, NEW GRIPPING NOVEL NOWThree missing girls. A twenty year mystery. A...

The man behind the paintings: the extraordinary life of J. M. W Turner, one of Britain's most admired, misunderstood and celebrated artists...

'Few, it seems to me, have driven their words with such passion' - "Guardian". How our earliest experiences can shape our destiny is the...

'Barnes is a master of puzzles and plot twists' E. Lockhart, author of We Were Liars An addictive and twisty thriller, full of dark family...

The second volume of The Rosy Crucifixion, Plexus is the core of the trilogy, the audacious story of a man looking for freedom and the true...

New to Modern Classics, this play about the mental decay of modern man.

Previously published as "Alcestis and Other Plays", the "Penguin Classics" edition of Euripides' "Medea and Other Plays" is translated aby...

In our search for truth, how far have we advanced? This uniquely human quest for good explanations has driven amazing improvements in everything...

Fascism and Democracy collects five brilliant examples of Orwell's writing during the darkest days of World War Two. Grappling with the...

From the bestselling author of Alone in Berlin, his acclaimed novel of a young couple trying to survive life in 1930s Germany'Nothing so...

From the Ballon d'Or winner and twice-voted World Football Player of the Year, this is an articulate and informative masterclass on how...

Written between the mid-fourth and late sixth centuries to commemorate and glorify the achievements of early Christian saints, these six...

A FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020'The most important non-fiction book of the year' David HareIn the years...

A new addition to the }Penguin Classics{ series.

Five masterful dramatic works from one of the world's best-loved playwrights, Anton Chekhov's "Plays" is translated with notes żeby Peter...

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. Provocative and playful, All Art is Ecological explores...

Philosopher, dramatist, rhetorician, Stoic and pragmatist, Seneca was one of the most contradictory figures in ancient Rome, embracing a...

The extraordinary spiritual journey of Carlos Castaneda and his association with a Yaqui Indian.

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

New translation.

McPherson recounts the momentous episodes that preceded the Civil War including the Dred Scott decision, the Lincoln-Douglas debates, John...

Steve Toltz's A Fraction of the Whole is a riotously funny explosion of a novel shortlisted for the man booker prize 2008. From his prison...

These sumptuous new hardback editions mark the 70th anniversary of Fitzgerald's death. Increasingly disillusioned by the rejection slips...

'Monumental and utterly convincing - crystal clear in its understanding of how the world should be' Judith Butler'This book feels like a...

Frankie ist die Geschichte eines Reifeprozesses und einer großen Sehnsucht, der Sehnsucht, dabeizusein: beim Leben der Erwachsenen, hier...

The Nobel-laureate author tells the life story of a passionate and headstrong woman in the 14th century. She paints a richly detailed backdrop...

This is a new breakthrough idea about how to win customer loyalty from Matthew Dixon, the bestselling author of The Challenger Sale. Everyone...

The Keeper of Lost Causes (originally published in the UK as Mercy) is the nail-biting first book in the internationally bestselling Department...

A haunting study of guilt and lost love in "Penguin Classics", Thomas Hardy's "The Mayor of Casterbridge" is edited with an introduction...

John Locke was one of the greatest figures of the Enlightenment, whose assertion that reason is the key to knowledge changed the face of...

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. In this lyrical meditation on America's wildlands,...

Across six decades, Sir Tom Jones has maintained a vital career in the music industry. How did a boy from a Welsh coal-mining family attain...

One of George Eliot

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA Guardian book of the yearA Times book of the yearA Daily Mail book of the yearFrom award-winning actor and...

"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" sees a baby born in 1860 begin life as an old man and then age backwards. F. Scott Fitzgerald hinted...

One of the most famous accounts of living under the Nazi regime of World War II comes from the diary of a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl,...

Part love story, part historical novel, part satire, and an evocative tale youthful passion, Gustave Flaubert's A "Sentimental Education"...

Assassin's Creed: Unity is the seventh title in Oliver Bowden's phenomenally successful Assassin's Creed videogame tie-in series. 1789:...

Wer nach Phantasien kommt, erhält von der kindlichen Kaiserin ein Medaillon als Zeichen der unbeschränkten Macht. "Tu was du willst" lautet...

A myth-busting tour of the body's hidden foundations from a pioneering evolutionary biologistWhy do so many diets lead to more weight gain?...

This book is short-listed for both the Man Booker Prize and the Guardian First Book Award, and published here as a Penguin Essential for...

From the world-renowned physicist and bestselling author of The Elegant Universe and The Fabric of the Cosmos, a captivating exploration...

The definitive guide to using the power of colour to improve your happiness, wellbeing and confidence. What if I told you that all around...

Features animals and parables subverted. This title includes fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.

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

Monkey depicts the adventures of Prince Tripitaka, a young Buddhist priest on a dangerous pilgrimage to India to retrieve sacred scriptures...

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

Excellent reading in either Spanish or English, the eight short stories in this collection by authors including Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel...

It is difficult to say where disaster begins, to point towards one particular happening as the first definite step towards distant cataclysm....

Over the course of his short life, John Keats (1795-1821) honed a raw talent into a brilliant poetic maturity. Aby the end of his brief...

Claude Monet is considered one of the most influential artists of all time. He is a founder of the French Impressionist art movement, and...

'You must be Odysseus, man of twists and turns...' The tales of Odysseus' struggle with a man-eating Cyclops and Circe, the beautiful enchantress...

Profound and humane, Amartya Sen's "Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny" examines some of the most explosive problems of our...

THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'This unique and fascinating history explains why the blame now being piled upon meritocracy for many social ills...

This title features four plays which exemplify his interest in flawed, characters who defy the expectations of Greek society, Euripides'...

Eileen Chang is one of the great writers of twentieth-century China, where she enjoys a passionate following both on the mainland and in...

Franklin D. Roosevelt is a towering figure in twentieth-century history. A masterful politician who would win an unprecedented four presidential...

The story of the eventful and controversial life of Margery Kempe is the earliest surviving autobiography in English.

Noam Chomsky delivers his latest thoughts on the Occupy movement in this urgent, red-hot despatch on a global political phenomenon

Chris Stringer's bestselling "The Origin of our Species" tackles the big questions in the ongoing debate about the beginnings of human life...

This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Sense and Sensibility" by Jane Austen. "The more I know of the world, the more am I convinced...

A new addition to the }Penguin Classics{ range.

Michio Kaku's "Physics of the Future: The Inventions that will Transform our Lives" is a hypothetical journey through the next 100 years...

Previously published: New York, N.Y.: Avon, c1988.

As a five-year old in India, I got lost on a train. Twenty-five years later, I crossed the world to find my way back home. Five-year-old...

The Empress Helena, mother of Constantine the Great, made the historic pilgrimage to Palestine, found pieces of wood from the true Cross,...

The year is 1919. Walter Benjamin flees his overbearing father to scrape a living as a critic. Ludwig Wittgenstein, scion of one of Europe's...