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Tim Blackburn's wife died in a ball of flame in the Channel, victim of a mystery bomber. His son had died years earlier in Northern Ireland,...

Mexico, April 2009. The bodies of a pair of undercover military intelligence agents, disguised as campesinos (farmers), are dumped aby the...

In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with foster parents. This childless couple...

What makes a hit a hit? In Hit Makers, Atlantic Senior Editor Derek Thompson puts pop culture under the lens of science to answer the question...

The science of self-control, and how everyone can master it

Published for the first time in Penguin Modern Classics and on its 40th anniversary.

Beijing intellectual Chen Zhen volunteers to live in a remote settlement on the border of Inner and Outer Mongolia, where he discovers life...

Los mejores libros jamás escritosMujercitas, el clásico de Louisa MayAlcott ambientado en la guerra de Secesión, fue publicado en EstadosUnidos...

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Bo Burlingham, the bestselling author of Small Giants, returns with Finish Big, an original guide to exiting your company successfully and...

Explores the relationship between Burroughs and his cats, as well as the deeper relationship mankind has with cats.

The Bible is held to be both universal and specific, the source of fundamental truths inscribed in words that are exact and sacred. For...

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'Don't compete! - competition is always injurious to the species, and you have plenty of resources to avoid it!'Welcome to the anarchist...

On 2 March 1998 ten-year-old Natascha Kampusch was snatched off the street by a stranger and bundled into a white van. Hours later she found...

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Providing the leaders with essential advice on battlefield tactics, managing troops and terrain, and employing cunning and deception, this...

A robust and vibrant new translation aby Jesse Byock that captures the majesterial sweep of the Old Icelandic original.

Eeny Meeny is the rocket-paced serial-killer thriller debut from M. J. Arlidge. The girl emerged from the woods, barely alive. Her story...

Behind the doors of the most famous address in the country, all is not well.§Edward Clare was voted into Number Ten after a landslide election...

Das Leben der Claudia H. Wird bestimmt von der Rivalität mit ihrem Bruder, von der eigenartigen Beziehung zum Vater ihrer Tochter und jenem...

One of the most influential philosophical works, now published in the }Great Ideas{ series.

From the bestselling, prize-winning authors of beloved cult phenomena The Lost Words and The Lost Spells'Breathtaking and magical. Jackie...

'A story for our, and all, times' Guardian The Plague is Albert Camus's world-renowned fable of fear and courage The townspeople of Oran...

A new English translation of one of the most important, controversial Iranian novels of the twentieth centuryA Penguin ClassicWritten aby...

Moving between Spanish conquest abroad and the court of the astute Charles V, Hugh Thomas' "The Golden Age: The Spanish Empire of Charles...

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The exquisite last novel from Nobel Prize-winning author Yasunari KawabataIneko has lost the ability to see things. At first it was a ping-pong...

After the Internet, what came next? Enter the Metaverse - cyberspace home to avatars and software daemons, where anything and just about...

This title presents an enthralling account of day-to-day life in a medieval French village. Using records gathered by the Catholic Church...

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Trade paperback. An approachable and powerful guide to staying healthy and fighting disease. Servan-Scheibe is a professor of psychiatry...

A unique treatise by a poet, written for poets, on the art of poetry, "La Vita Nuova" is elaborately and symbolically patterned, consisting...

It's time to get serious with Britain's favourite funny man - Camp David, żeby David Walliams. "Will surprise, entertain, and allow fans...

From the bestselling author of Middle England and Mr Wilder and Me comes a brilliant new state of the nation novelIn the Birmingham suburb...

Compiled aby an unknown scribe in Iceland around 1270, and based on sources dating back centuries earlier, these mythological and heroic...

Have you ever wondered why so many pencils are yellow? Why black is the colour of mourning? Or why exactly the Virgin Mary is dressed in...

A beautiful new edition of the stunning debut novel by Nina LaCour, award-winning author of We Are Okay "Hold Still may be the truest depiction...

This is the "Penguin English Library Edition of Dubliners" aby James Joyce. 'Every night as I gazed up at the window I said softly to myself...

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A disgraced Assassin. A deep-cover agent. A quest for redemption.§§1862, and with London in the grip of the Industrial Revolution, the world's...

Written in 1897, this is a groundbreaking book which makes an immense contribution to one of the least understandable of acts.

In anticipation of a coming nuclear apocalypse, Mole has converted a huge underground quarry into an 'ark'. While searching for his crew,...

Knock Down is a classic novel from Dick Francis, one of the greatest thriller writers of all time. Jonah Dereham is a bloodstock agent who...

***FEATURING UPDATED AND NEW MATERIAL******THE BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE CHANNEL 4 DOCUMENTARY 'EMPIRE STATE OF MIND'***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'The...

Red or white? Cabernet or merlot? Drinking great wine isn't hard, but finding great wine is much easier with an understanding of the fundamentals....

Struggling journalist Cecily Wong is delighted to be invited to interview famed mountaineer Charles McVeigh, conditional on joining his...

Many of us experience pain in our childhoods, and young people face trauma all over the world. How is it possible to recover? Do those abused...

In this candid and riveting autobiography Graham Nash tells it all: the love, the sex, the jealousy, the drugs, and the magical music-making.

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It's 1955, and Benjamin Burrows and Janie Scott are trying to live a safe, normal life in America. It's not easy, when they have the power...

An accessible new translation of this treatise on military tactics, which has been a central work of Chinese literature for 2,500 years....

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Jussi Adler-Olsen's internationally bestselling Q series returns with Redemption, a gripping treat for all fans of the Scandinavian crime...

Assassin's Creed: Black Flag is the sixth title in Oliver Bowden's phenomenally successful Assassin's Creed videogame tie - in series. It's...

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The "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Persuasion" aby Jane Austen. 'Her attachment and regrets had, for a long time, clouded every enjoyment...

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Black Milk is the affecting and beautifully written memoir on motherhood and writing żeby Turkey's bestselling female writer Elif Shafak,...

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Part of a new series Legends from the Ancient North, The Elder Edda is one of the classic books that influenced JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit...

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Jack Kerouac called Doctor Sax, the enigmatic figure who haunted his boyhood imagination, 'my ghost, personal angel, private shadow, secret...

In the early 1500s five men and five women find themselves trapped żeby floods and compelled to take refuge in an abbey high in the Pyrenees....

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

A self-portrait in 154 songs, żeby our greatest living songwriter'More often than I can count, I've been asked if I would write an autobiography,...

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A sweeping, original history of occupation and resistance in war-torn Europe, from the acclaimed author of The Eagle Unbowed Across the...

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In the 1980s Nina Stibbe wrote letters home to her sister in Leicester describing her trials and triumphs as a nanny to a London family....

As one of the world's leading glaciologists, Professor Jemma Wadham has devoted her career to the glaciers that cover one-tenth of the Earth's...

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Los mejores libros jamás escritosEdición de Gregorio Torres Nebrera,catedrático de Literatura Espa?ola en la Universidad de Extremad Enlas...

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. Food Rules, Michael Pollan's wise and witty critique...

Now in paperback, this is the true story of Hisham Matar's return to Libya, 22 years after his father was kidnapped and taken to prison...

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We all saw it at once. Half a dozen voices screamed 'Grenade!' simultaneously. Then everything went into slow motion. The grenade took an...

Abe Ravelstein is a brilliant professor at a prominent midwestern university and a man who glories in training the movers and shakers of...

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From the most celebrated Swiss author of the twentieth century.

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A new translation of this seminal work of Buddhist literature, żeby Valerie Roebuck.

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Nowadays, the world's money is traded by computer code, inside black boxes in heavily guarded buildings. Even the experts entrusted with...

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Lydia Davis returns with a timeless collection of essays on literature and language.'Precise, concentrated, lyrical. No one writes like...

Phantasie, Witz, Überraschung, Provokation und ernsthafte Argumentation zeichnen Shaws Stücke aus. Pygmalion wurde 1912 geschrieben, war...

This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Hard Times" aby Charles Dickens. 'Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls...

One of the masterpieces of classical literature, the "Histories" describes how a small and quarrelsome band of Greek city states united...

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Drawing on a huge range of sources - letters, memoirs and conversations, Orlando Figes tells the story of how Russians endured life under...

Flynne Fisher lives in rural near-future America where jobs are scarce and veterans from the wars are finding it hard to recover. She scrapes...

Goliarda Sapienza's The Art of Joy was written over a nine year span, from 1967 to 1976. At the time of her death in 1996, Sapienza had...

All over the country, there are words disappearing from children's lives. Words like Dandelion, Otter, Bramble, Acorn and Lark represent...

This is the story that inspired the legendary ballet, presented in a beautiful hardcover edition perfect for giving as a gift. Written in...

'It was as if the sea, breaking down the wall protecting all the homes of the town, had sent a wave over her head.' One of Conrad's most...

What would you do to protect your family$260 ANYTHING. During a family holiday in Italy, you get an urgent call from your sister. There's...

Examines the life of Joseph P Kennedy, the founder of the twentieth century's most famous political dynasty. This book tells the story of...

Collection of aphorisms focusing on the moral and spiritual truth of Buddha.

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Nach seinen Bestsellern »Jetzt!« und »Leben im Jetzt« geht Eckhart Tolle mit seinem lange erwarteten neuen Buch einen Schritt weiter. »Eine...

When Sister Evangeline of the St. Rose Convent stumbles across a mysterious correspondence with Abigail Rockefeller in the archive, it reveals...

In "Dubliners", completed when Joyce was only 25, the author produced a definitive group portrait. The book is rooted in an accurate apprehension...

This is the fifth book in the new Penguin Maigret series: Georges Simenon's gripping tale of small town suspicion and revenge, in Linda...

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Winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Biography Celebrated biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our...