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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.

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

"The Stone Gods" is one of Jeanette Winterson's most imaginative novels - an interplanetary love story; a traveller's tale; a hymn to the...

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

This is a searing, unflinchingly realist novel about life at war, written during the First World War. 'Men are made to be husbands, fathers...

'Repetition made a great and, as I have since learned, lasting impression on me' W. G. Sebald Filip Kobal, an Austrian teenager, is on the...

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

For the first time since the Neolithic, we have the opportunity to transform not only our food system but our entire relationship to the...

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

People die. Everyone knows that. I knew it intimately as everyone in my life died thanks to my one seemingly harmless mistake. I'd brought...

Takes us on an epic and awe-inspiring journey of scientific exploration and reveals how we can understand the fundamental questions about...

A philosopher, essayist, novelist, pornographer and fervent Catholic who came to regard the brothels of Paris as his true 'churches', Georges...

This is J.M. Barrie's timeless tale of the 'boy who would not grow up'. "Peter Pan" is edited with an introduction żeby Jack Zipes in "Penguin...

Set in post-war Germany, the international bestseller The Aftermath aby Rhidian Brook is a stunning emotional thriller about our fiercest...

A dreamlike novel of memory and magic, Nostalgia turns the dark world of Communist Bucharest into a place of strange enchantments. Here...

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,...

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

Two girls dream of being dancers but only one has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, black bodies and black music, what...

The critically acclaimed, bestselling novel from Gayle Forman, author of Where She Went, Just One Day, Just One Year, and I Was Here. Now...

As soon as Pollyanna arrives in Beldingsville to live with her strict and dutiful maiden aunt, she begins to brighten up everybody's life....

"Don't get somewhere as fast as possible. Get somewhere as good as possible"Star of stage and screen. Tireless supporter of charity.Marathon...

'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...

Hard-boiled detective fiction at its best: Raymond Chandler's best loved novel, The Big Sleep, published as a Penguin Essential for the...

On Beauty

The Sunday Times bestseller, shortlisted for the 2018 Costa Biography Award & The Wainwright Prize The uplifting true story of the couple...

Revised with a new introduction.

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...

This is the untold story behind one of the most sensational chapters in the history of the House of Windsor. Paul Burrell fought to clear...

PRE-ORDER THE LATEST BLISTERING KURT AUSTIN ADVENTURE IN THE NUMA FILES SERIES FROM UK NO. 1 BESTSELLER CLIVE CUSSLER.Kurt and his crew...

Introduced żeby Helen Dunmore.

Ghost Ship is the latest action-packed novel in the No 1 New York Times-bestselling NUMA Files series from the grand master of adventure,...

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

'This is probably the best book ever written on the Habsburgs in any language, certainly the best I have ever read... Students, scholars...

Zadie Smith's "On Beauty" is a funny, powerful and moving story about love and family. Why do we fall in love with the people we do? Why...

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

It pours out spicy tales of Mob lore to make its management points, an approach most execs couldn't refuse.( New York Post)§§Former mobster...

THE INSTANT NO. 2 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**Featured on Barack Obama's Summer Reading List 2022** **A Grazia Instagram 'IT' book to watch...

An unconventional love story that broadened the scope of romantic fiction, "Jane Eyre" is ultimately the tale of one woman's fight to claim...

The Upanishads, the earliest of which were composed in Sanskrit between 800 and 400 bce aby sages and poets, form part of the Vedas - the...

'His mouth had been used as a latrine aby some small creature of the night, and then as a mausoleum. During the night, too, he'd somehow...

Jeremy Clarkson invites us to "Motorworld", his take on different cultures and the cars that they drive. There are ways and means of getting...

"The Pale King" is David Foster Wallace's final novel - a testament to his enduring brilliance. The Internal Revenue Service Regional Examination...

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

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

Blues is the cornerstone of American popular music, the bedrock of rock and roll. In this extraordinary musical and social history, Robert...

Paperback edition of the dystopian novel from the author of "Disobedience, The Lessons" and "The Liar's Gospel". Teenage girls find that...

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

A seminal work of European literature that has inspired writers from Chaucer to Shakespeare, the "Penguin Classics" edition of Giovanni...

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...

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

Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr Thomas Gradgrind, school headmaster and model of Utilitarian success. Feeding both his pupils...

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

'To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom' - Andre Gide. Michel had been a blindfold...

Sex is as fascinating to scientists as it is to the rest of us. A vast pool of knowledge, therefore, has been gleaned from research into...

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

PRE-ORDER THE LATEST ANCIENT EPIC IN THE NEW ATHENIAN SERIES FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF EMPEROR AND WAR OF THE ROSES'Vivid, atmospheric,...

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

Plutarch's vivid and engaging portraits of the Spartans and their customs are a major source of our knowledge about the rise and fall of...

'Yet another great Lesley Pearse novel' Woman Magazine'Full of love, passion and heartbreak' BestTwo very different women, one unlikely...

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

Netflix, Spotify, and Salesforce are just the tip of the iceberg for the subscription model. The real transformation--and the real opportunity--is...

Success is about trusting your instincts and following your gut, knowing which rules to follow and which to break. This book shows that...

A party of English people are aboard the Euphrosyne, bound for South America. Among them is Rachel Vinrace, a young girl, innocent and wholly...

In late 1888, only weeks before his final collapse into madness, Nietzsche (1844 1900) set out to compose his autobiography, and Ecce Homo...

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....

"The Silent Sea" is the gripping seventh novel in Clive Cussler's "Oregon Files" series. December, 1941. Four brothers investigate the secrets...

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

A new B format package for the Cornwell backlist.

Juan Cabrillo and the Oregon crew return in Clive Cussler's Dark Watch. A deadly band of pirates is terrorizing the waters of the Far East...

Jacob and Julia Bloch have a problem. While they've been coaxing Jacob's grandfather into a retirement home, bracing themselves for a family...

In "On Royalty" Jeremy Paxman delves deep into Britain's royal past. What is the point of Kings and Queens? What do they do all day? And...

A fascinating and highly original history of the city and culture that was the bulwark of the West for a thousand years. Once a byword for...

Drawing on myth, folklore and history, the stories of the "Mabinogion" passed from generations of storytellers before they were written...

The crew of the whaling ship the Pequod is bound by its Captain Ahab to a single, bloody goal: the killing of the whale Moby-Dick, the giant...

Patty Chang Anker grew up eager to please and afraid to fail. But after thirty-nine years, she decided it was time to stop being a chicken....

A stunning, complex thriller of ancient and modern betrayal that will appeal to fans of John Le Carre and Dan Brown.

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...

"1914-1918", David Stevenson's history of the First World War, has been acclaimed as the definitive one-volume account of the conflict....

From confusing manuals to uninterpretable jargon and bureaucratic red-tape, modern life can be highly complicated and frustrating. For many...

Ponyboy can count on his brothers and his friends, but not on much else besides trouble with the Socs, a vicious gang of rich kids who get...

Offering a military adventure, an extended symposium on waging war in a new global order, and an essential investigation of the ethics of...

The definitive translation żeby Dick Davis of the great national epic of Iran--now newly revised and expanded to be the most complete English-language...

King Jesus' controversial treatment of the scriptures and questioning of the canonical gospels caused an immediate outcry when the book...

For over three thousand years, the Mediterranean Sea has been one of the great centres of civilization. David Abulafia's The Great Sea is...

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

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...

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...

Leonard Mlodinow, the best-selling author of "The Drunkard's Walk" and coauthor of "The Grand Design" (with Stephen Hawking) and "War of...

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

'Mind-blowing... It is a hugely important book... His story is crucial' - Matt Ridley, The Times One of the world's top behavioural geneticists...

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

This is the definitive biography of George VI, the hero of The King's Speech. George VI reigned through taxing times. Acceding to the throne...

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...

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

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

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

"During the time men live without a common Power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called Warre"§§Written during...

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

"Fireborne is everything I want in fantasy." -Rachel Hartman, New York Times bestselling author of SeraphinaGame of Thrones meets Red Rising...

MEET JESSIE, CARA AND NELL. Married to brothers Johnny, Ed and Liam Casey. Three very different women tied to three very different men....

The bronicles of Froissart (1337-1410) are one of the greatest contemporary records of fourteenth-century England and France. Depicting...

Faced with yet another ruthless serial killer, one with a penchant for pyromania, DI Helen Grace is an unwilling participant in a race against...

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

When the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945, killing 100,000 men, women and children, a new era in human history...

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

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....

The news-breaking book that has sent schockwaves through the White House, Ghost Wars is the most accurate and revealing account yet of the...

Previously a self-published bestseller, Girl Code is being published aby Penguin with extra material and new interviews. Girl Code is a...

A Hay Festival and The Poole VOTE 100 BOOKS for Women Selection Effia and Esi: two sisters with two very different destinies. One sold into...

'The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses...

Herman Meville's profound and timeless inquiry into one man's obsession, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition

From an award-winning financial historian comes the gripping, character-driven story of venture capital and the world it madeInnovations...

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...

'Everyone should read Down Girl. It should be distributed in schools and every board room, athletic department and legislative space' -...

Why do even well-educated people often understand so little about maths - or take a perverse pride in not being a 'numbers person'? In his...

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

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

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

Paperback edition of the latest novel from the author of "White Teeth and "NW", who has won the Baileys Prize and been shortlisted for the...