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A new addition to the }Penguin Classics{ series.

Part manifesto, part artistic joke, Fillippo Marinetti's Futurist Cookbook is a provocative work about art disguised as an easy-to-read...

From film stars to politicians, tycoons to writers, dissidents to lifestyle gurus, Lunch with the FT is a selection of classic interviews...

Until alarmingly recently, the Catholic Church, acting with the Irish state, operated a network of institutions for the concealment, punishment...

Jordan B. Peterson, clinical psychologist and 'the world's most influential public intellectual' (New York Times), has improved the lives...

A fresh take on living more fully and embracing difficult emotions, based on more than two decades of academic research, consulting, and...

On the day of his wedding, Conrad, heir to the house of Otranto, is killed in mysterious circumstances. His calculating father Manfred fears...

,,A training manual for our troubled times... It makes sense of our world, but is also capable of beautifully crafted pithy historical judgements.......

After a routine security check żeby George Smiley, civil servant Samuel Fennan apparently kills himself. When Smiley finds Circus head Maston...

A cylinder from space lands in south-west London, and naive locals approach it armed with a white flag - only to be instantly incinerated...

Dazzling modern lyrical poems from Catullus - aby turns smutty, abusive, romantic and deeply moving. Introducing Little Black Classics:...

Richard Wagner's 'Ring of the Nibelung' is one of the greatest works of art created in modern times and has fascinated both critics and...

'Late into the night we talked of love, of its complications. In my father's eyes they were imaginary...This conception of rapid, violent...

The KGB in Europe and the West 'One of the biggest intelligence coups in recent years' - The Times For years KGB operative Vasili Mitrokhin...

'It is the sum of myself, as far as the written word can go' - Kerouac on "The Town and the City". Kerouac's debut novel is a great coming...

If Antoinette Cosway, a spirited Creole heiress, could have foreseen the terrible future that awaited her, she would not have married the...

Okonowo is the greatest warrior alive. His fame has spread like a bushfire in West Africa and he is one of the most powerful men of his...

The #1 Sunday Times and International Bestseller from 'the most influential public intellectual in the Western world right now' (New York...

A complete history of the Holy Roman Empire, which spans ten centuries, from its founding by Charlemagne to its destruction żeby Napoleon....

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The New York Times-bestselling author of Start With Why, Leaders Eat Last, and Together Is Better offers a bold...

Flann O'Brien's first novel is a brilliant impressionistic jumble of ideas, mythology and nonsense. Operating on many levels it incorporates...

'My new favourite book of all time' Bill Gates TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Is modernity really failing? Or have we failed to appreciate...

A new edition of the classic allegory, with an introduction żeby Roger Pooley.

The definitive account in English of the events that, over centuries, led to the founding of Prussia and created a medieval Christian eastern...

'Life, from being made up of little separate incidents which one lived one by one, became curled and whole like a wave which bore one up...

Award winning writer Paul Theroux embarks on a journey that, though closer to home than most of his expeditions, uncovers some surprising...

"Desolation Angels" is the wild and soulful story of the legendary road trip that Jack Kerouac took before the publication of "On the Road",...

This is a graphic deluxe edition to mark the 150th anniversary of Dickens' most well-loved novel. A terrifying encounter with an escaped...

A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A crucial new guide to one of the most urgent political phenomena of our time: the rise of national populism...

Renowned historian, and author of "A Short History of Byzantium", John Julius Norwich's classic history of Venice "A History of Venice"...

The Six Hats method is a devastatingly simple technique based on the brain's different modes of thinking. The intelligence, experience and...

"Jon Swift + Witches of Eastwick + Kelly 'Get In Trouble' Link + Mean Girls + Creative Writing Degree Hell! No punches pulled, no hilarities...

The night after a shooting star is seen streaking through the sky from Mars, a cylinder is discovered on Horsell Common in London. At first,...

Composed during a critical time in the evolution of European intellectual life, the works of Meister Eckhart (c. 1260-1327) are some of...

The Tower was W. B. Yeats's first major collection of poetry as Nobel Laureate after the receiving the Nobel Prize in 1923. It is considered...

A novel that fearlessly explores the line between principled defiance and blind fanaticism, John Steinbeck's "In Dubious Battle" contains...

*Winner of the 2020 Lionel Gelber Prize* FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST, PROSPECT and EVENING kanon BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK A landmark book that...

The second edition of the definitive book on how modern Japan works, now fully updated up to include the new 'Reiwa' Era and the year of...

A new translation of the classic French novel set in Restoration france.

Including new chapters and covering events, tis book deals Roy Keane's life and work.

"Tristes Tropiques" begins with the line 'I hate travelling and explorers', yet during his life Claude Levi-Strauss travelled from wartime...

HER HUSBAND IS IMPRISONED. WHAT WILL SHE RISK TO SAVE HIM?'Do not walk to pick up this book. Run' Jennifer L.Armentrout, bestselling author...

THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics takes us on an enchanting, consoling journey to...

Born to a mother already six months widowed, the young David Copperfield suffers at the hands of a tyrannical stepfather and at the hard...

As he roams the US, Mexico, Morocco, Paris and London, Kerouac records life on the road in prose of pure poetry. Standing on the engine...

Three seasonal stories set in Paris at Christmas, from the celebrated creator of Inspector Maigret. It is Christmas in Paris, but beneath...

'This marvellous book will transform your relationship with the numbers that swirl all around us' - TIM HARFORD, author of The Undercover...

One of the greatest essayists of the Graeco-Roman world, Plutarch (c. AD 46 -120) used an encyclopedic knowledge of the Roman Empire to...

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2020'Weird science, explained beautifully' - John ScalziFrom one of the most dynamic rising stars in astrophysics,...

This biography charts the musician's extraordinary career and personal life while painting a cultural history of 18th-century Europe. Black-and-white...

In The War with Hannibal, Livy (59 BC AD 17) bronicles the events of the Second Punic War between Rome and Carthage, until the Battle of...

Based on Jack Kerouac's memories of the beloved older brother who died when he was a boy, it is unique among his novels for its dreamlike...

Why has a secret from 1914 caused a century of heartache? Troubled żeby recent loss, Grania Ryan has returned to Ireland and the arms of...

The deeply moving story of the Virgin Mary told by one of our greatest living novelists

A definitive account of how language works, how we learn it and how it evolves, from an award-winning cognitive scientist and public intellectual....

Elsa Schiaparelli was an integral figure in the artistic movement of the times. Her collaborations with artists such as Man Ray, Salvador...

Alice ist 29 und liebt Schlafen, Schokolade, ihr marodes Haus - und ihren Ehemann Nick. Obendrein freut sie sich auf "Sultana" - ihr erstes...

What are the most valuable things that everyone should know? Acclaimed clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson has influenced the modern understanding...

"The Turn of the Screw" tells the story of a young governess sent to a country house to take charge of two orphans. Unsettled żeby a sense...

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

Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, is the world's oldest...

Gideon calls me his angel, but he's the miracle in my life. My gorgeous, wounded warrior, so determined to slay my demons while refusing...

'The color is hideous enough, and unreliable enough, and infuriating enough, but the pattern is torturing.' Written with barely controlled...

A condensed guide to life, Nassim Nicholas Taleb's The Bed of Procrustes is an invaluable collection of aphorisms to help you navigate the...

A new translation of Sade's most notorious, shocking, and influential novel§§This distressing but hugely important text, which the Marquis...

Christopher Clark's "Kaiser Wilhelm II: A Life in Power" is a short, fascinating and accessible biography of one of the 20th century's most...

James Baldwin first wrote about homosexuality in his famous early novel, "Giovanni's Room". Here, he brings homosexuality and race together...

In "And Another Thing"...the outspoken and outrageous presenter Jeremy Clarkson, shares his opinions on just about everything. Jeremy Clarkson...

"You'll read this. Then you'll hope your competition isn't reading this. It's that good". (Stephen P. Anderson, Author of Seductive Interaction...

Born to drunken parents in the slums of Paris, Nana lives in squalor until she is discovered at the Theatre des Varietes. She soon rises...

"Every page bursts with humor, squee-inducing romance, and an abiding sense of the deep love and joy of its two writers... Always Never...

An idealistic young man educated in Britain, Obi returns home to Nigeria for a job in the civil service, but finds himself seduced by backhanders...

"Jupiter's Travels" - Ted Simon's astonishing 4 year motorbike journey around the world. It is the book that inspired Ewan McGregor's "Long...

Meera Lee Patel\'s first guided journal, Start Where You Are, inspired thousands of readers through a rare combination of stunning watercolour...

'It was the discovery of the essays celebrating his childhood and youth that altered my perception of Camus, from a thinker to a writer...

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

A marvel of psychological insight from one of the most important Italian literary figures of the twentieth century When vain, obsessive...

Written at a time when furious arguments were raging about the best way to govern America, "The Federalist Papers" had the immediate practical...

Margaret Thatcher was the longest-serving Prime Minister of the twentieth century and one of the most influential figures of the postwar...

Biography of the diplomat Sergio Vieira de Mello, who was killed in a terrorist attack in Iraq in 2003. Written by a Pulitzer Prize-winning...

John Ruskin overturned Victorian society's ideas about art and architecture, arguing that ancient buildings must be conserved for their...

The third novel of the NY Times Bestseller Crossfire Trilogy, after Bared to you and "Reflected in you"

A superbly insightful and moving exploration of Wagner's last opera, aby one of Britain's leading intellectuals Wagner's last music-drama...

Classic masterpiece of 20th century Japanese literature, dealing with love, youth and death.

'When I play with my cat, how do I know she is not passing time with me rather than I with her?' MontaigneThere is no real evidence that...

The Tudor era encompasses some of the greatest changes in our history. But while we know about the historical dramas of the times - most...

Yvonne, Frau von Geoffrey Firmin, britischer Ex-Konsul in einer mexikanischen Kleinstadt am Fuße des Popocatepetl, hat sich von ihrem Mann...

From their earliest meetings, activist David Graeber knew that the Occupy Wall Street movement was something different. From small beginnings...

"Not since Darwin has an author so lifted the science of ecology with insight and delightful imagery" - Richard Dawkins. In this book a...

What is the difference between mean and median, blatant and flagrant, flout and flaunt? Is it whodunnit or whodunit? Do you know? Are you...

Provides straightforward, practical tools for creating work environments that bring out the best in a team, whether two people or 200,000...

This literary landmark about the male supremacy and female subordination at Oxford University shines a brave, searing light on the obstacles...

Collection of major writings including sermons, philosophical commentaries and extracts from the }Summae{, chronologically arranged.

This indispensable anthology collects the short novels of Henry James, offering readers the full range of his skill and vision. Includes...

Wariinga, a young woman who moves from a Kenyan town to the capital, Nairobi, only to be exploited żeby her boss and later a corrupt businessman....

Fictionalised account of the time Dostoyevsky spent in a Siberian prison camp. Translated aby David McDuff.

'I'll stop doing it as soon as I understand what I'm doing.' Somewhere between a historical account and work of philosophy, Socrates' Defence...

Italo Calvino in Collection of Sand claimed that 'the brain begins in the eye'. The essays collected here display his fascination with the...

Bill Gates, born in Seattle, Washington, in 1955, is an American business magnate, investor, philanthropist, and author. In this Who Was-?...

'Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me...' After the death of his wife Emma, a grief-stricken Hardy wrote some of the best verse...

The sequel to the international bestseller One of Us is Lying Welcome back to Bayview High... It's been a year since the events of One Of...

'In this painting of Leonardo's there was a smile so pleasing that it seemed divine rather than human.' Often called "the first art historian",...

We all play games. The nature of these games depends on both the situation and on who we meet.This book is about the games we play: those...

Here are the first two novels of the cult series "Red Dwarf" in one volume - "Red Dwarf" and "Better Than Life" - plus the first draft of...

Antoine de Saint-Exupery first published The Little Prince in 1943, only a year before his plane vanished over the Mediterranean during...

"There is no danger that Titanic will sink. The boat is unsinkable and nothing but inconvenience will be suffered by the passengers." (Phillip...

A unique and somewhat daunting synthesis of ideas which unites Quantum Theory, and theories of computation, knowledge and evolution, and...

Im Dschungel Venezuelas trifft eine junge Amerikanerin auf die Yequana-Indianer. Fasziniert vom offenkundigen Glück dieser "Wilden", bleibt...

Calling on this unique perspective as playwright, screenwriter, and director of his own critically acclaimed movies, House Of Games and...

Everything we think, do and refrain from doing is determined aby our brain. From religion to sexuality, it shapes our potential, our desires...

Most of us live our lives in our clothes without realizing their power. But in the hands of artists, garments reveal themselves. They are...

"Herz der Finsternis" beschreibt die letzte Reise Joseph Conrads, die er ins Innere Afrikas unternahm, ein Abenteuer, das ums Haar tödlich...

How proteins, machine learning and molecular chemistry can teach us about the complexities of human behaviour and the world around us How...

The New Age of Empire destroys the self-congratulatory myth that the West was founded on the three great revolutions of science, industry...

In the early nineteenth century China remained almost untouched aby British and European powers - but as new technology started to change...

'The smaller we come to feel ourselves compared with the mountain, the nearer we come to participating in its greatness.'Philosopher, mountaineer,...

We live in a Big Me culture: universities and businesses alike reward goal-oriented superstars and those who self-promote are most likely...

Taking us from the French Revolution to the Cold War and the Falklands, celebrated historian Andrew Roberts presents us with a bracingly...

From Norman Davies, the acclaimed author of "Europe: A History", comes the magical history of Europe's lost realms, selected as a Book of...

The CIA memoir that inspired the forthcoming Ben Affleck film - a true spy adventure with a twist of 1970s Hollywood