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The chilling and heart-pounding new novel from Norwegian superstar Jørn Lier Horst. THE INSPIRATION FOR THE HIT BBC FOUR SHOW WISTING After...

Lily Bart is beautiful and charming, living among the wealthy families of New York City, but reluctant to finally commit herself to one....

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The discovery of a long-lost airliner... A modern-day kidnapping... And the return of the most terrifying evil the world has ever seen....

On 15 August 778, Charlemagne's army was returning from a successful expedition against Saracen Spain when its rearguard was ambushed in...

"The Top Gear Years" brings together Jeremy Clarkson's collected magazine columns for the first time. Clarkson at his pithy, provocative,...

Susan Sontag's On Photography is a seminal and groundbreaking work on the subject. Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography...

One of the major poets of Romanticism, Wordsworth epitomized the spirit of his age with his celebration of the natural world and the spontanous...

DON'T MISS THE STANDALONE NEW NOVEL FROM JOJO MOYES, THE NO. 1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ME BEFORE YOU, AFTER YOU AND STILL ME 'A wonderful...

Wie funktioniert man die Bürotoilette zu einem geeigneten Platz für den Mittagsschlaf um? Und muss man sich schuldig fühlen, wenn man sich...

'The most important book about our economy and society to be published in my lifetime' Irvine WelshFrom Paul Mason, the award-winning Channel...

In the middle of a family lunch Teresa, just married, goes to the bathroom, unbuttons her blouse and shoots herself in the heart. What made...

How to be Good is Nick Hornby's hilarious bestselling novel on life, love and charity. 'I am in a car park in Leeds when I tell my husband...

From growing your own vegetables to learning the ukelele to reading Jean Paul Satre, Tom Hodgkinson provides umpteen positive suggestions...

As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, the scholar Suetonius had access to the imperial archives and used them (along with eyewitness...

This book gathers all seven of the dramas of Christopher Marlowe, in which the lure of dark forces drives the shifting balances between...

Follows a man's thoughts and dreams during a single night. It is also a book that participates in the re-reading of Irish history that was...

A completely new selection of poems from the daring and lyrical writer, chosen aby James Fenton.

Chosen żeby Ginsberg himself, this selection, in his words, "summarizes what I deem most honest, most penetrant of my writing". Ranging...

'He gave orders that they were not to get any hot glum pudding in flames, for fear the spirits in their innards might catch fire.' The Steel...

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'Hilarious, subversive, sharp without being lethal, and loving without an ounce of sentiment, Shirley Jackson's more-or-less autobiographical...

Best remembered as a member of the Algonquin Round Table, the fabled Jazz Age literay coterie, Dorothy Parker built a reputations as one...

Penguin modern classic of one of the greatest works to emerge from the First World War. A memoir of power and savagery illuminating the...

Dr Mahto cuts through all the nonsense that we read online or in magazines, e.g. Chia seeds are not going to give you the glow, homemade...

In January 1928 Stalin, the ruler of the largest country in the world, boarded a train bound for Siberia where he would embark upon the...

Treachery, cannibalism and civil war are among the evils at work in Azania. Against them are the forces of progress and the New Age, represented...

The funny, touching and unpredictable No. 1 New York Times bestseller, now a major Netflix TV series'A brilliant and comforting read' MATT...

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

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

The country is changing and, up and down the land, cracks are appearing - within families and between generations. In the Midlands Benjamin...

This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Mansfield Park" żeby Jane Austen. 'We have all been more or less to blame...every one...

This is an Icelandic saga which mixes realism with wild gothic imagination and history with eerie tales of hauntings. It dramatizes a 13th...

A groundbreaking exploration of the neuroscience of spirituality and a bold new paradigm for health, healing, and resilience'Lisa Miller...

One of the major twentieth-century European poets, Paul Celan wrote poetry of exceptional linguistic brilliance and intensity drawn from...

One of the major novels aby Vladimir Nabokov, originally entitled "The Defense". The novel features a chess-playing genius Luzhin who discovers...

The Mosquito Coast - winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize - is a breathtaking novel about fanaticism and a futile search for utopia...

For more than two thousand years, Sun-tzu's "The Art of War" has provided leaders with essential advice on battlefield tactics and management...

Do you want to reinvent the second half of your career?'Learn how to cultivate a beginner's mind...and be the sage counselor' - from the...

Deadly forces are about to be awakened...In the degenerate, unliked backwater of Dunwich, Wilbur Whately, a most unusual child, is born....

This title is winner of the FT Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2011. Why would a man in Morocco who doesn't have enough to...

How to Succeed in a World that Values Sameness. Fascinating, engaging, and practical... Dispels the myth that our success can be divined...

'Kimmerer blends, with deep attentiveness and musicality, science and personal insights to tell the overlooked story of the planet's oldest...

Slater presents over 350 creative, delicious and nourishing recipes and suggestions for those who would rather spend their time eating rather...

A Horatio Hornblower Tale of the Sea A humiliated and shipless captive of the French, Horatio Hornblower faces execution unless he can escape...

A meticulously-observed tale of the clash between obligation and desire, Jane Austen's "Mansfield Park" is edited with an introduction and...

Originally published in 1967, Ngugi's third novel is his best known and most ambitious work. "A Grain of Wheat" portrays several characters...

RS Thomas was the greatest religious poet writing in English in the 20th century, but the 270 poems he chose for this definitive selection...

Lolly Willowes, so gentle and accommodating, has depths no one suspects. When she suddenly announces that she is leaving London and moving,...

The Desert Fathers were the first Christian monks, living in solitude in the deserts of Egypt, Palestine, and Syria. In contrast to the...

This is Clarice Lispector's final novel, 'written in agony', which she did not live to see published. Sensual and mysterious, it is a mystical...

Covering the entire output of an archetypal - and tragically short-lived - romantic genius, the "Penguin Classics" edition of "The Complete...

A funky and funny novel in verse set in Londinium, AD 211. The arrival of the Roman emporer brings love and a touch of danger to the life...

'Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life'The two works brought together here, 'The Decay of Lying' and 'The Critic as Artist',...

Gaza in Crisis is Noam Chomsky's clear-sighted analysis of an area in a desperate impasse. From the targeting of schools and hospitals,...

Sarah is a narcoleptic who has dreams so vivid she mistakes them for real events; Robert has had his life changed for ever żeby the misunderstandings...

Turning to philosophers, historians, politicians and artists, De Botton examines where our anxieties about success and status originate....

When Rosalind is banished aby her uncle Duke Frederick, who has usurped her father's throne, she flees to the forest of Arden where her...

'She's so good, Brené Brown, at finding the language to articulate collective feeling' Dolly Alderton Every time we are faced with change,...

Hrom the twice-Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Hot Milk and Swimming Home: Dazzling, essential, entirely unlike anything else --...

It was the house of their dreams. Now it's their worst nightmare...THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH'Spine-chilling'...

The poems of Charles Baudelaire are filled with explicit and unsettling imagery, depicting with intensity every day subjects ignored aby...

From twice-Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Steve Coll comes "Private Empire", winner of the Ft/Goldman Sachs business book of the year award...

Reprinted from the 1830 original, this first edition is an important resourcefor comparison with the current "official" edition published...

The Loric didn't make us monsters and they didn't make us heroes. We choose what happens next. Taylor Cook thought of the invasion as just...

Published in 1957, Atlas Shrugged was Ayn Rand's greatest achievement and last work of fiction. In this novel she dramatizes her unique...

Onboard the Fidele, a steamboat floating down the Mississippi to New Orleans, a confidence man sets out to defraud his fellow passengers....

Strauss' Radetzky March, signature tune of one of Europe's most powerful regimes, presides over Joseph Roth's account of three generations...

Pirates didn't just break the rules, they rewrote them. They didn't just reject society, they reinvented it. Pirates didn't just challenge...

Classic French literature.

The Joyous Science is a liberating voyage of discovery as Nietzsche's realization that 'God is dead' and his critique of morality, the arts...

Steven Pinker, the best-selling author of The Language Instinct, deploys his gift for explaining big ideas in The Sense of Style - an entertaining...

In his work as a physician, Williams had learnt the skill of objective observation which he applied to his poetry, examining, as he said,...

Susan Sontag's On Photography is a seminal and groundbreaking work on the subject.Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography...

'This is as much a mystery as the Immaculate Conception, which of itself must make a doctor an unbeliever.' A stunning pair of short stories...

A far-reaching political and cultural history of Europe in the twentieth century, which strips away myths and illusions and lays bare the...

The phenomenal "Sunday Times" bestseller "Periodic Tales" żeby Hugh Andersey-Williams, packed with fascinating stories and unexpected information...

In Amsterdam, an Israeli terrorist analyst is murdered. The police believe the killer is a deranged Muslim extremist, but Israeli intelligence...

This is a book about everything you were never taught at school. It's about how to understand your emotions, find and sustain love, succeed...

'Guevara was a figure of epic proportions. These diaries, stark and moving, will be his most enduring monument' Observer The final diaries...

'By far the best book I've ever read on the how and why of zwiążeng. If you care about changing the world, or just want to make better decisions...

Charles Dickens' "Dombey and Son" is a darkly witty tale of two siblings' struggle to achieve happiness in the shadow of their father's...

Since it was first published, this famous study of the Black Problem in America has become a classic. Powerful, haunting and prophetic,...

A gripping thriller from the international bestselling author J?rn Lier HorstTwenty-four years ago Katharina Haugen went missing. All she...

'There should be no combination of events for which the wit of man cannot conceive an explanation'. In this tale drawn from the note books...

When it comes to the climate, we don't need more marketing or anxiety. We need established facts and a plan for collective action.The climate...

We all love stories. But why do we tell them? And why do all stories function in an eerily similar way? John Yorke, creator of the BBC Writers'...

Having done the longest day in literature with his monumental Ulysses (1922), James Joyce set himself an even greater challenge for his...

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Revised edition of the ancient history of the Byzantium empire, written secretly by Procopius in the 6th century.

40th anniversary edition of Richard Adams' picaresque saga about a motley band of rabbits - "Watership Down" is one of the most beloved...

A popular and practical introduction to psychosynthesis-the empowering psychology of self-actualization and enhanced personal growth.

An expose of dirty money and the drug trade that reveals how they are at the heart of our lives, our economy, and our world.

Just before dawn one winter's morning, a hijacked jumbo jet blows apart high above the English Channel. Two figures fall to the sea, later...

The classic Elizabethan play, with new material From the Elizabethan period's second-biggest dramatist comes the story of Faustus, a brilliant...

This is the award-winning, bestselling "The Paris Mapguide" by Michael Middleditch - the best streetmap on the market. The perfect travelling...

The Sheltering Sky is a book about people on the edge of an alien space; somewhere, where, curiously, they are never alone" Michael Hoffman....

Londinium, AD 211. Zuleika is a modern girl living in an ancient world. She's a back-alley firecracker, a scruffy Nubian babe with tangled...

From the bestselling author of "No Logo", Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism" cracks open the secret history...

A dark and compelling thriller, this is already a "Sunday Times" bestseller. Annie's mother is a serial killer and as hard as she tries...

A major new translation aby David Constantine.

'Masterfully opens up a little explored realm: how the quest for religion and spirituality drives hundreds of millions of Chinese' Pankaj...

Arranged in chronological order, to reveal development, this collection celebrates the work of the unofficial poet laureate and Nobel prize...

Imagism was a brief, complex yet influential poetic movement of the early 1900s, a time of reaction against late nineteenth-century poetry...

Jeremy Clarkson gets really riled in Round the Bend. What's it like to drive a car that's actively trying to kill you? This and many other...

With a new chapter on the 1990s, this is the definitive history of Britain in the 20th century.

A provocative, hilarious new book about the glory and toxicity of female friendship from Sunday Times bestselling author Jane Fallon. Available...

States that throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves and each other. They have...

A collectible new Penguin Classics series: stunning, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets, which present each poet's most famous book...

Brian Greene's "The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos" explores our most current scientific understanding...

'It's only after our death that we shall really be able to hear'. The measured tone of hopeless nihilism that pervades "The Counterfeiters"...

On a bright, late-winter morning in Rome, a terrible explosion rips a hole in the Israeli embassy. Moments later, four gunmen cut down the...

Extraordinary stories about what it was like to be a Soviet child during the upheaval and horror of the Second World War, from Nobel Laureate...

Driven to desperation by the hand the world has dealt him, the suicidal narrator of "Waiting Period" attempts to buy a gun to end his life....

A generous selection with a new introduction plus notes, bibiography and chronology.

Subtitled, }The Rise Of The Spanish Empire{. The Spanish conquistadors returned to Europe with the potato, turkey and syphilis, but within...

Sue Townsend, one of Britain's most-loved writers and the creator of the much-loved "Adrian Mole" series, tells a compassionate and gritty...

First paperback publication in one comprehensive volume. Edited and introduced aby Peter Davison.