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Four friends. One night. Not everyone will come out alive... Pre-order the gripping new stand-alone mystery from 'world-class crime writer'...

David Robinson's definitive and monumental biography of Charlie Chaplin, the greatest icon in the history of cinema, who lived one of the...

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In "The English" Jeremy Paxman sets out to find about the English. Not the British overall, not the Scots, not the Irish or Welsh, but the...

Revised edition of }The Alexiad{ the first narrative history of Europe by a woman written in the 11th & 12th centuries.

A major retelling of the history of science from 1450 to the present day that explodes the myth that science began in Europe - instead celebrating...

Bram Stoker's peerless tale of desperate battle against a powerful, ancient vampire, the "Penguin Classics" edition of "Dracula" is edited...

Winner of the 2019 Lionel Gelber Prize 'Majestic, informative and often delightful... Insights on every page' - Yanis Varoufakis, Observer...

Ilya Ilyich Oblomov is a member of Russia's dying aristocracy a man so lazy that he has given up his job in the Civil Service, neglected...

'Profound and unforgettable' Sally Rooney 'A classic... I have long thought of Boyer as a genius' Patricia Lockwood 'An outraged, beautiful,...

Discover Dante's original Inferno in this modern and acclaimed Penguin translation. Describing Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as...

The bestselling author of The Drunkard's Walk unlocks the secrets of flexible thinking What do Pokémon Go and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein...

"The Penguin English Library Edition" of "Ivanhoe" aby Walter Scott. 'Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives!'. Banished from...

CLARKSON'S BACK - AND THIS TIME HE'S PUTTING HIS FOOT DOWN From his first job as a travelling sales rep selling Paddington Bears to his...

A sparkling new translation of one of the greatest travel books ever written: Marco Polo's seminal account of his journeys in the east,...

Regarded as the founder of Neo-Platonism, Plotinus (AD 204 70) was the last great philosopher of antiquity, producing 0works that proved...

Limonov is not a fictional character, but he could have been. He's lived a hundred lives. He was a hoodlum in Ukraine, an idol of the Soviet...

Throughout history, the concept of command -- as both a way to achieve objectives and as an assertion of authority -- has been essential...

The "forgotten" second volume of Capital, Marx's world-shaking analysis of economics, politics, and history, contains the vital discussion...

Marco Polo was the most famous traveller of his time. His voyages began in 1271 with a visit to China, after which he served the Kubilai...

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It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities are scarce. So when her sister arranges...

A fascinating novel of decadence and the veneer of convention, of love and vengeance in the early 20th century.

Aquinas (1224-74) lived at a time when the Christian West was opening up to a wealth of Greek and Islamic philosophical speculation. An...

The Graphic Novelization of a Classic Tale Of the many admiring reviews Bram Stoker's Dracula received when it first appeared in 1897, the...

"Fire Ice" is Clive Cussler's third "NUMA Files" novel, packed with nerve-shredding suspense. In the Black Sea, Kurt Austin and the NUMA...

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

In The Sundial Shirley Jackson, author of We Have Always Lived in the Castle, blends family politics and apocalyptic terror to create a...

There is an entrenched relationship between the consulting industry and the way business and government are managed today which must change....

Patrick Suskind's Perfume is a classic novel of death and sensuality in Paris, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. 'In...

One of the great works of reportage and a haunting epitaph on the last moments of a dying regime.

An influential work of criticism in Western literary history. Suitable for students of Greek literature and those interested in literary...

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

Marc Chagall, one of the twentieth century's most popular artists, grew up in a close-knit, bustling Russian-Jewish community, the son of...

Lesley Pearse, Number 1 bestselling author of "Stolen and Belle", returns with the phenomenal novel "The Promise". Heartbreaking, enduring...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Bittersweet, sexy, morally fraught." -The New York Times Book Review "Luminous... Engrossing and poignant, this...

The greatest novel of the twentieth century, now in a beautiful Clothbound Classics centenary edition Following the events of one single...

'After having put my shoes on and let my thoughts wander, I am sure of one thing - to put one foot in front of the other is one of the most...

"The Cowards (1958)" is Josef Skvorecky's blackly comic tale of post-war politics that was immediately banned on publication. In 1945, in...

Bert Checkov, a racing correspondent, drunkenly confesses to fellow Fleet Street hack James Tyrone that he's been giving his readers bum...

This title presents Homer's best-loved and most accessible poem, recounting the great wandering of Odysseus during his ten-year voyage back...

Empty shelves, petrol station queues and energy shortages: crises more familiar to those who lived through the 1960s and 1970s have now...

'A fantasy, impossible but delicious... An exuberance of life and wit' The Times Literary SupplementFirst masculine, then feminine, Orlando...

The epic tale of Odysseus and his ten-year journey home after the Trojan War forms one of the earliest and greatest works of Western literature....

Blaise Pascal, the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician and physicist, but it is his unfinished...

Literature's grandest evocation of life's journey, at once an ageless human story and an individual test of moral endurance, Homer's ancient...

A gorgeous clothbound edition of Woolf's fantastical and dazzlingly playful novel.

A modernist novel of supreme stylistic innovation, James Joyce's "Ulysses" is the towering achievement of twentieth century literature....

From a top scientist and the creator of the hugely popular web comic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, an illustrated investigation into...

The year is 1738; the place, Paris. A baby is born under a fish-monger’s bloody table in a marketplace, and abandoned. Orphaned, passed...

PRE-ORDER THE NEW COOKBOOK FROM THE BESTSELLING VEGAN CHEFS, THE HAPPY PEARBestselling authors David and Stephen Flynn, a.k.a the Happy...

Claudia Rankine's bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in 21st century daily life and in the media....

This title features an extraordinary collection of thematically linked essays, including "The Uncanny", "Screen Memories" and "Family Romances"....

Still going after thirty years, The Fall are one of the most distinctive British bands, their music - odd,spare, cranky and repetitious...

1454: King Henry VI has remained all but exiled in Windsor Castle, struck down żeby illness for over a year.§Meanwhile his fiercely loyal...

Sculptor and architect Bernini was the virtual creator and greatest exponent of Baroque in 17th century Italy. He has left his greatest...

Er wäre in einer Welt zu Hause, in der es gerecht zuginge. Das scheint nicht viel verlangt, und Karl kann auch nicht viel verlangen, denn...

"Redirect" żeby Timothy D. Wilson, author of "Strangers to Ourselves", whose work has been acclaimed aby writers such as Malcolm Gladwell,...

Clare Kendry leads a dangerous life. Fair, elegant, and ambitious, she is married to a white man unaware of her African American heritage,...

An imaginative reconstruction of one of the most extraordinary voyages in human history, this is an important addition to the Penguin Modern...

In its concentration of interest upon the protagonists, Macbeth can be seen as Shakespeare's experiment in unity of focus, whose chief appeal...

This Signet Classic is the only available paperback edition of the famous story of passion versus class that remains as timeless as love...

Philadelphia in 1777 is a city at war - not just been American troops and the British army, but within itself. For an occupied city throws...

Dieser Text zeichnet sich nicht nur durch seine tiefe Lebensweisheit und sprachliche Schönheit aus; er hat in erster Linie als ein Beitrag...

The ground-breaking work of the poet who paved the way for generations of women writers, in a new selection aby her daugher and literary...

A landmark new translation of the ancient Chinese oracle and book of wisdom, in a stunning Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Pose a question,...

When "Memoirs" was first published in 1975, it created quite a bit of turbulence in the media - though long self-identified as a gay man,...

Michael Sandel's "Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?" invites readers of all ages and political persuasions on a journey of moral reflection,...

Compelling insight into how to unlock your creative potential. The komponent is the point at which natural talent meets personal passion;...

"My all-time favorite collection of poems... [Gibran's] poetry always roots me in my humanity." --Rupi Kaur, #1 New York Times bestselling...

A new type of Cold War is emerging between China and the West.. The global order is being simultaneously shaken by climate change and the...

Now in paperback, this is a true account of those living in poverty in the USA, from abandoned slums to shelters, eviction courts and ghettos....

Clare Kendry has severed all ties to her past. Elegant, fair-skinned and ambitious, she is married to a white man who is unaware of her...

'Extremely interesting... A serious piece of scholarship, very well researched' Ian Kershaw The Nazis presented themselves as warriors against...

Everything you think you know about war is wrong. War is timeless. Some things change - weapons, tactics, leadership - but our desire to...

From award-winning writer Elif Shafak, the Orange Prize long-listed author of The Forty Rules of Love and The Architect's Apprentice, The...

Celebrate Dahl Day aby treating yourself one of Roald Dahl's dark and twisted tales for adults - think you know Dahl, think again. From...

Imperious, clever, mysterious: Maigret meets his match in the alluring form of Felicie in book twenty-five of the new Penguin Maigret series,...

Struggling manufacturer Robert Moore has introduced labour saving machinery to his Yorkshire mill, arousing a ferment of unemployment and...

This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Dracula" aby Bram Stoker. 'Alone with the dead! I dare not go out, for I can hear the...

The author was the most famous traveller of his time. His voyages began in 1271 with a visit to China, after which he served the Kublai...

Subtitled, }Why I Joined Radical Islam In Britain, What I Saw Inside & Why I Left{. At the age of sixteen, in the 1990s, Ed Husain was radicalised...

'A practical and timely book I highly recommend' Arianna Huffington, Founder and CEO, Thrive Global'Connect offers a compelling and highly...

A new and updated edition of this authoritative work on Viking history, from a distinguished expert in the field. Includes new and surprising...

For its centennial, one of the most powerful and psychologically compelling novels from Joseph Conrad, author of Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness§§Axel...

This 1867 study - one of the most influential documents of modern times - looks at the relationship between labor and value, the role of...

Mathilda is narrated from the title character's death bed. She recounts her relationship with her father, who had an incestuous love for...

Der Roman, durch den James Joyce unsterblich wurde, schildert einen Tag im Leben des Annoncenakquisiteurs Leopold Bloom, den 16. Juni 1904....

'Kerouac's grittiest novel... Sensual and uninhibited' - The New York Times Driven mad aby three years of endless telegrams, phonecalls,...

An official tie-in edition to accompany Sofia Coppola's highly anticipated new film based on this atmospheric novel of sexual tension and...

Taking the form of a dialogue between Socrates, Gorgias, Polus and Callicles, "Gorgias" debates perennial questions about the nature of...

This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Evelina" żeby Frances Burney. 'O Sir, how much uneasiness must I suffer, to counterbalance...

Mencius was one of the great philosophers of ancient China, second only in influence to Confucius, whose teachings he defended and expanded....

Living with people who differ - racially, ethnically, religiously or economically - is one of the most urgent challenges facing civil society...

A storm rages. Prospero, his daughter Miranda, and his monstrous servant Caliban watch from their desert island as a ship carrying the royal...

Jennifer Saunders' comic creations have brought joy to millions. From Comic Strip to Comic Relief, from Bolly-swilling Edina in Ab Fab to...

PRE-ORDER THE ENTHRALLING INSIDE STORY OF THE THAI CAVE RESCUE FROM THE MAN AT THE HEART OF THE MISSION, AS SEEN IN THE SUNDAY TIMES'The...

Once described as the 'longest and most charming love-letter in literature', the Virginia Woolf's Orlando is edited żeby Brenda Lyons with...

An erotic masterpiece of twentieth century fiction - a tale of sensual obsession and bloodlust in eighteenth century Paris'An astonishing...

'This is the record of a box man'. Anonymous and alone, the box man peeps out of his cut-out eyeholes and watches the world from behind...

Promised a golden future as ruler of Scotland aby three sinister witches, and spurred on by his wife, Macbeth murders King Duncan to ensure...

'Magnificent... Her famous seriousness pervades throughout... What's striking is the astonishing scope, potential and possibility Sontag...

'A major literary talent... Speaks about the power and powerlessness that young women are subject to in a wholly fresh, clear-eyed way......

"Ivanhoe" (1819) was the first of Scott's novels to adopt a purely English subject and was also his first attempt to combine history and...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFor the first time ever, an international coalition of leading researchers, scientists and policymakers has come...

What do you do when your dream home becomes your worst nightmare? The gripping new novel and Sunday Times bestseller from Lesley Pearse'A...

Big Panda and Tiny Dragon have inspired readers across the world with their message of kindness, hope and resilience. Join the two friends...

Private detective Isaac Bell returns in Clive Cussler's "The Wrecker". 1907: train wrecks, fires, and explosions sabotage the Southern Pacific...

Self-satisfied, delighting in the many fascinating quirks of his own personality, Hermann Hermann is perhaps not to be taken too seriously....

The Unloved is a hypnotising novel żeby the Man Booker-shortlisted writer Deborah Levy. A group of hedonistic West European tourists gather...

Kept alive for more than 13 centuries, "Beowulf" is the earliest extant poem in a modern European language, reflecting a feudal, newly Christian...

This book unravels a polyphony of silences from the history of Christianity and beyond. MacCulloch considers Judaeo-Christian borrowings...

Unfinished at the time of Marx's death in 1883 and first published with a preface żeby Frederick Engels in 1894, the third volume of "Das...

Botchan is a modern young man from the Tokyo metropolis, sent to the ultra-traditional Matsuyama district as a Maths teacher after his the...

In 402 AD, after invading tribes broke through the Alpine frontiers of Italy and threatened the imperial government in Milan, the young...

Guy de Maupassant's scandalous tale of an opportunistic young man corrupted aby the allure of power, "Bel-Ami" is translated with an introduction...

*A very special edition, celebrating everyone's favourite young genius! Includes tips and activities for creating your very own story, and...

Set in the elegant Edwardian world of Cambridge undergraduate life, this story aby a master novelist introduces us to Maurice Hall when...

Your energy is everything: it is the fuel that drives your success and it gives you the power to achieve your potential. So how can you...