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Handsome would-be poet Lucien Chardon is poor and naive, but highly ambitious. Failing to make his name in his dull provincial hometown,...

Unfolding in an informal setting, Plato's "The Symposium" is a powerful discussion on the nature of love, translated from the Greek with...

Lise has been driven to distraction aby working in the same office for sixteen years. So she leaves everything behind her, transforms herself...

Augustus Caesar, the first emperor of Rome (27 BC AD 14), brought peace and prosperity to his city after decades of savage civil war. This...

Still the benchmark of Russian literature 175 years after its first publication now in a marvelous new translation §PUSHKIN S INCOMPARABLE...

The chilling true crime 'non-fiction novel' that made Truman Capote's name, In 'Cold Blood' is a seminal work of modern prose, a remarkable...

'Still as the night was, the mysterious population of the distant moonlit woods was not yet lulled to rest'The aim of a good ghost story...

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

'You talk as if a god had made the Machine, cried the other. I believe that you pray to it when you are unhappy. Men made it, do not forget...

THE HOTTEST NEW CRIME SERIES OF 2018How can a child vanish without a trace?Last night, eight-year-old Daisy Mason disappeared from a family...

Explore "Jamie's Italy" - travel on a culinary tour with Jamie Oliver. Ever since working at the River Cafe for Ruth Rogers and Rose Gray,...

Der Bestsellerautor Alan de Botton schreibt hier auf äußerst intelligente Weise über das Reisen; von den Gründen für das Reisen über Urlaubsflirts...

The Rise of Pointless Work, and What We Can Do About It 'Spectacular and terrifyingly true' Owen Jones'Explosive' - John McDonnell, New...

What if you could combine the agility, adaptability, and cohesion of a small team with the power and resources of a giant organization?When...

This is a stunning Penguin clothbound edition of Homer's great epic, in E. V. Rieu's classic translation. The Iliad is the first and the...

'The ultimate Camp statement: it's good because it's awful.'These two classic essays were the first works of criticism to break down the...

Make a new start in 2022 with positive daily habits for a healthy mind, from the incredible No. 1 New York Times bestsellerTHE INCREDIBLE...

The sequel to The Rosie Project - The Rosie Effect - is coming in September 2014. The Rosie Project aby Graeme Simsion is a story about...

'She kissed and kissed her with a hungry mouth.' A selection of Rossetti's most famous poems, from the hallucinatory 'Goblin Market' to...

Classic epic poem including a useful table of dates and a list of common words.

From the people behind London's famous Bread Ahead Bakery, located in Borough Market and four other popular areas, you can learn how to...

Over ten years in the making, Meredith Daneman has produced the first serious and in-depth biography of the world famous ballerina. Over...

This, the eagerly awaited link between "The Forest House" and "The Mists of Avalon", spans the creation of Avalon itself, right up to the...

Nineteen-year-old Sanna just wants to drink her beer in peace, but that's difficult when Hitler has come to town and his motorcade is blocking...

A beautifully illustrated collection of lyrics and never-before-seen poetry and sketches from Florence Welch Songs can be incredibly prophetic,...

"The Saga of the Greenlanders" and "Eirik the Red's Saga" contain the first ever descriptions of North America, a bountiful land of grapes...

Design can be beautiful, functional or accessible, and Munari presents his ideas about the visual and graphic world around us.

Final part in the trilogy, following }Cities Of The Red Night{ and }The Place Of Dead Roads{, this is a semi-autobiographical meditation...

The poems of Rabindranath Tagore are among the most haunting and tender in Indian and in world literature, expressing a profound and passionate...

In this electrifying conclusion, the Genesis team face a final, desperate battle to ensure their very survival and secure their way home....

Ovid's deliciously witty and exuberant epic starts with the creation of the world and brings together a series of ingeniously linked Greek...

'Paradise Lost' is Milton's most famous work, employing the heterodox theology later expounded in 'De Doctrina Christiana'. This edition...

New translation of one of the central texts of Hinduism, żeby Laurie Patton.

Homer's "Iliad" is the greatest and most influential epic poem ever written, telling of the tragic and bloody climax to the ten-year siege...

What does it take to win success and influence? In a world where we are constantly connected, it's those with the best people skills who...

Suitable for students as well as the general reader who is coming to the great masterpiece of Italian literature for the first time, this...

'One of the hidden geniuses of the twentieth century' Colm Toibin'She suddenly leaned toward the mirror and sought the love-liest way to...

New to Penguin Classics, "The Will To Power" includes some of Nietzsche's most important thoughts on nihilism, metaphysics and the future...

As John Casti wrote, "Finally, a book that really does explain consciousness." This groundbreaking work aby Denmark's leading science writer...

'Speak, memory', said Vladimir Nabokov. And immediately there came flooding back to him a host of enchanting recollections - of his comfortable...

Alone in the world, Elspeth Swansome takes up the position of nanny on a remote Scottish island. Her charge, Mary, is distracted, secretive...

Frog is a richly complex new novel about China's one-child policy żeby Mo Yan, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2012.Gugu is beautiful,...

A work of tremendous influence that has inspired writers from his ancient Greek contemporaries to modernist writers such as T.S. Eliot,...

In The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin refused to discuss human evolution, believing the subject too surrounded with prejudices. He had...

The final volume in this brilliant translation destined to take its place among the great English versions of "The Divine Comedy". In his...

Steven Patrick Morrissey was born in Manchester on May 22nd 1959. Singer-songwriter and co-founder of the Smiths (1982-1987), Morrissey...

The bright lights, late nights and constant hustle of our modern world have detached us from the way we, as humans, were supposed to live,...

New award-winning translation into modern English, with new introduction by Bernard Knox. Winner of the 1991 Academy of American Poets Translation...

Nick Hornby's internationally bestselling first novel, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Do you know your desert-island,...

Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary" is one of the most influential - and scandalous - novels of the nineteenth century. This "Penguin Classics"...

Member of Parliament, tutor to Oliver Cromwell's ward, satirist and friend of John Milton, Andrew Marvell was one of the most interesting...

Journalist, maverick, rebel and author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Hunter S. Thompson offers another novel of American counterculture...

Biogenergetics is a dynamic form of therapy based on the teachings of Wilhelm Reith. It links physical pain, muscle tension, and postural...

'A liberating and lacerating critique of American racial madness, capitalism and white superiority... Schuyler's wild, misanthropic, take-no-prisoners...

Ramana Maharshi was one of the most significant spiritual teachers to emerge from India during the first half of the century, and remains...

An immaculately-observed social comedy that explores the boundaries between personal freedom and the demands of love, the "Penguin Classics"...

Written in 1833-4, when Marx was barely twenty-five, this astonishingly rich body of works formed the cornerstone for his later political...

One sunny spring morning in the 1970s, an unlikely Englishman set out on a pilgrimage that would take him across the entire length of Japan....

This is a unique collection of original essays by 21 of the world's leading linguists. The topics discussed focus on some of the most popular...

Juliet, Naked is bestselling author Nick Hornby's moving, funny account of life's second chances. Annie's put fifteen years into safe, slightly...

Explores the cosmological, moral and spiritual origins of man's existence. In this title, the author produced poem of epic scale, conjuring...

"Spook Country" - a gripping spy thriller aby William Gibson, bestselling author of "Neuromancer". "Among our most fascinating novelists...unmissable"....

A 1950s science fiction classic.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Following her bestselling, critically acclaimed The Silence of the Girls, Pat Barker continues her extraordinary...

Now recognized as one of the most influential books of the twentieth century, "Silent Spring" exposed the destruction of wildlife through...

"Venus in Furs" describes the obsessions of Severin von Kusiemski, a European nobleman who desires to be enslaved to a woman. Severin finds...

Collection of masterpieces of classical tragedy.

The international number one bestselling chef is guaranteed to dominate the bestseller charts with this new cookbook. To tie-in with a new...

New translation of the Japanese masterpiece.

An epic clash between gods and mortals threatens to tear Mytica apart... And prove that not even the purest of love stands a chance against...

New edition of the first volume in the }Roads To Freedom{ trilogy.

Consists of the popular classic }My Family & Other Animals{ and its delightful sequels, }Birds, Beasts & Relatives{ and }The Garden Of The...

When Hanio Yamada realises the future holds little of worth to him, he puts his life for sale in a Tokyo newspaper, thus unleashing a series...

'More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to...' Only Bill Bryson could make a book...

'Yoga is to be known through yoga. Yoga arises from yoga. One who is vigilant aby means of yoga delights in yoga for a long time' Yoga is...

A ground-breaking book by the world-leading expert in sensory science: Freakonomics for food'Popular science at its best' - Daniel Levitin...

An ancient Greek epic which underpins the whole of western literature, Homer's "The Iliad" is a timeless evocation of the struggle to retain...

*** CONGRATULATIONS TO THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS AUTHOR OF THE YEAR 2022***THE NO. 1 BESTSELLING BOOK THAT EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT! ______...

The Long Good-bye is a classic novel żeby Raymond Chandler, the master of hard-boiled crime. Down-and-out drunk Terry Lennox has a problem:...

New titles in the }Penguin Classics{ range.

Presents the story of a remarkable and unconventional woman, and of a way of life that has vanished for ever.

Discover Spain's culture and cuisine. Claudia Roden has spent five years researching and writing about the food of Spain, resulting in this...

Now the subject of a major new film adaptation from director Joe Wright ("Atonement", "Pride and Prejudice"), Leo Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina"...

Another Kyoto is an insider's meditation on the hidden wonders of Japan's most enigmatic city. Drawing on decades living in Kyoto, and on...

A passionate exposé that serves up the truth about the meat on our plate - and where its come from

The state has been recently taken over and is being run by the tyrannical and philistine 'Average Man' party. Under the slogans of equality...

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's timeless tale, reissued in a beautiful clothbound edition designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry...

Where should we look for new dangers$683 What cunning plans might an aggressor have in mind$684 What are the best forms of defence$685 How...

Beginning with the creation of the world and ending with the deification of Augustus, this book interweaves many of the best-known myths...

The Mogadorian invasion has come to Earth and they have all but won the battle for our planet. Their warships loom over our most populous...

'A tour de force of scholarship, analysis and narration...Lloyd is well on the way to writing a definitive history of the First World War'...

The United States asserts the right to use military force against 'failed states' around the globe. But as Noam Chomsky argues in this devastating...

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

An intriguing insight into the founders of the Roman republic.

A fully revised, expanded and updated edition of this masterly portrayal of contemporary Spain.

'I will not read it; I should never sleep again' A doctor performs an experiment on a young woman that goes horribly wrong, and a series...

The next step for applying the life-changing lessons of the international bestseller "Start With Why". The author's TED Talk on finding...

Explore Jamie's Italy - travel on a culinary tour with Jamie Oliver. Ever since working at the River Cafe for Ruth Rogers and Rose Gray,...

Tolstoy's epic novel of love, destiny and self-destruction, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition from Penguin Classics. Anna Karenina seems...

A troubled insomniac in 1890s England falls suddenly into a sleep-like trance, from which he does not awake for over two hundred years....

Controversial and compelling, "In Cold Blood" reconstructs the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife and children. Truman Capote's...

Goethe's Faust reworks the late-medieval myth of Dr Faust, a brilliant scholar so disillusioned he resolves to make a contract or wager...

Leo Tolstoy's "War and Peace" is a sprawling epic covering the impact of Napoleon's disastrous invasion of Russia on five different families....

Mary Innes' classic prose translation of one of the supreme masterpieces of Latin literature, Ovid's Metamorphosis. Ovid drew on Greek mythology,...

New Penguin Essentials edition of Ralph Ellison's blistering, impassioned novel of African-American lives in 1940s America, Invisible Man....

In this remarkable autobiography, Man Ray - painter, photographer, sculptor, film maker and writer - relates the story of his life, from...

TRAIN EASIER TO RUN FASTER This revolutionary training method has been embraced by elite runners--with extraordinary results--and now you...

A funny, fabulous tale of two twentieth century misfits and their adventures across Europe.

In The Charisma Myth, Olivia Fox Cabane provides powerful advice to make absolutely anyone more charismatic. What if charisma could be taught?...

"This book is full of real charm, personality, love and garlic. The best Indian food is cooked (and eaten) at home". (Yotam Ottolenghi)....

THE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'They cut her hair before they dragged her to the place of sacrifice. Her mouth was gagged to stop her...

From his precocious childhood to the end of what he calls his "amatory career," an adventurous Victorian known only as "Walter" records...

"Thrilling". (Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall). "Authoritative and furious, urgent and persuasive". (Sunday Times). "Compelling...Roberts is...

Like "The Devil in the White City" and David McCullough's accounts of the building of the Brooklyn Bridge, "Eiffel's Tower" combines technological...

In this YA contemporary queer romance from the author of Hot Dog Girl, an openly gay track star falls for a closeted, bisexual teen beauty...

THREE LITTLE GIRLS SET OFF TO SCHOOL ONE SUNNY MAY MORNING.WITHIN AN HOUR, ONE OF THEM IS DEAD.From the author of the Sunday Times Top Ten...

Dialogues and essays on the nature of existence, from one of the great founders of Taoism who lived in the 4th century BC, published in...

Li Po (AD 701-62) and Tu Fu (AD 712-70) were devoted friends who are traditionally considered to be among China's greatest poets. Li Po,...

ONE WOMAN'S QUEST TO REBUILD BRITAIN'S BROKEN BANKING SYSTEM'If there was ever a business book suitable for TV adaptation, this is it' FTIn...

New-cover edition with introduction aby Thomas Fensch.