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Alfred the Great. Asser's Life of King Alfred and Other Contemporary Sources | Asser's Life of King Alfred, written in 893, is a revealing account of one of the greatest of medieval kings. Composed by...

Ladybird Book of Mindfulness | From bestselling authors Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris - a nugget of wisdom in the phenomenal Ladybirds for Grown Ups series. This delightful book is the latest in the s...

Essays and Aphorisms | One of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, Schopenhauer (1788-1860) believed that human action is determined not by reason but by 'will' - the blind and irratio...

Seize the Day | Fading charmer Tommy Wilhelm has reached his day of reckoning and is scared. In his forties, he still retains a boyish impetuousness that has brought him to the brink of chaos: he is s...

Palladio | Palladio (1508-80) combined classical restraint with constant inventiveness. In this study, Professor Ackerman sets Palladio in the context of his age - the Humanist era of Michelangelo and...

Hotel du Lac | Winner of the Booker Prize, the beautiful, romantic and gorgeously philosophical Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner is part of our Penguin Essential series which spotlights the very best of...

The Commodore | 1812 and the fate of Europe lies in the hands of newly appointed Commodore Hornblower... Dispatched to northern waters to protect Britain's Baltic interests, Horatio Hornblower must ha...

Penguin Readers. Level 3. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 | With carefully adapted text, new illustrations, language practise activities and additional online resources, the Penguin Reader...

Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life | The sweet scents of rural life infuse Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life, a collection of Roald Dahl's country stories - but there is always something unexpected lurking in the unde...

Clive Cussler's The Sea Wolves | Isaac Bell returns for another thrilling mission in a new book from the Grand Master of Adventure, Clive Cussler. None. Категория: Книги/Книги на иностранных языках/Кн...

Dracula. Level 3 | Penguin Readers is a graded reading series for English Language Teaching (ELT) markets, designed for teenagers and young adults learning English as a foreign or second language. Wit...

The People Opposite | 'You'll get used to things, you'll see. But you have to watch very carefully what you say and what you do.' Adil Bey is an outsider. Newly arrived as Turkish consul at a run-down...

One with You. A Crossfire Novel | This is from number one international bestselling author Sylvia Day. The final chapter in the global blockbuster Crossfire quintet Gideon Cross. Falling in love with ...

A Handful of Dust | Taking its title from T.S. Eliot's modernist poem The Waste Land, Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust is a chronicle of Britain's decadence and social disintegration between the First...

The Outsider | 'My mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know.' In The Outsider (1942), his classic existentialist novel, Camus explores the alienation of an individual who refuses to conform...

The Woman in White. Level 7 +audio | Penguin Readers is a graded reading series for English Language Teaching (ELT) markets, designed for teenagers and young adults learning English as a foreign or se...

Sentimental Education | Part love story, part historical novel, part satire, and an evocative tale youthful passion, Gustave Flaubert's A Sentimental Education is translated by Robert Baldick and revi...

The Power of Strangers. The Benefits of Connecting in a Suspicious World | When was the last time you spoke to a stranger? In our cities, we barely acknowledge one another on public transport, even as...

Tokyo Express | 'It was a puzzle with no solution. But he did not lose heart.' In a rocky cove in the bay of Hakata, the bodies of a young and beautiful couple are discovered. Stood in the coast's win...

Leonardo da Vinci | 'In this painting of Leonardo's there was a smile so pleasing that it seemed divine rather than human.' Often called "the first art historian", Vasari writes with delight on the li...

This Charming Man | Vampires do not exist. Everyone knows this. So it's particularly annoying when they start popping up around Manchester . . . Nobody is pleased about it. Not the Founders, the secre...

The Misty Harbour | A man picked up for wandering in obvious distress among the cars and buses on the Grands Boulevards. Questioned in French, he remains mute . . . A madman? In Maigret's office, he i...

A Ship of the Line | A Horatio Hornblower Tale of the Sea May, 1810 - and thirty-nine-year-old Captain Horatio Hornblower has been handed his first ship of the line . . . Though the seventy-four-gun H...

Life and Laughing | Discover the real Michael McIntyre through his remarkable and hilarious journey to comedy stardom in his first official autobiography. Michael McIntyre is Britain's biggest comedy ...

An Ice-cream War | 'We will all melt like ice-cream in the sun!' British soldier, East Africa, 1914. On the Western Front millions are being slaughtered. But in East Africa a ridiculous and utterly ig...

Supper Club | If you feed a starving woman, what will she grow into? Twenty-nine year old Roberta has spent her whole life hungry. So she invents Supper Club: a secret society for women sick of bad me...

A Kiss After Dying | It takes a long time to plan the perfect revenge. Hannah has been working on it for decades. It has to look like they bumped into each other by accident. And he has to fall in lov...

English Society in the Eighteenth Century | A portrait of 18th century England, from its princes to its paupers, from its metropolis to its smallest hamlet. The topics covered include - diet, housing,...

The Bastard of Istanbul | One rainy afternoon in Istanbul, a woman walks into a doctor's surgery. 'I need to have an abortion', she announces. She is nineteen years old and unmarried. What happens tha...

Theatre of Marvels | Behind the spectacle there are always secrets. Unruly crowds descend on Crillick's Variety Theatre. A black, British actress, Zillah, is headlining tonight. An orphan from the slu...

A Little of What You Fancy | 'Teetotal!' Ma said. 'It's a libel. He'll never live it down. He'll never be able to hold his head up again. Whatever will people think? What's he going to say when anybod...

The Fountains of Silence | Madrid, 1957. Daniel, young, wealthy and unsure of his place in the world, views the city through the lens of his camera. Ana, a hotel maid whose family is suffering under t...

Couples that Work. How To Thrive in Love and at Work | Acclaimed professor reveals how working couples can successfully combine love and work Finding fulfilment in both love and work isn't easy--but i...

Watch the Lady | The queen's goddaughter. Her most trusted maid. Adultress. Enemy of the state. Who is the real Penelope Devereux? Penelope Devereux is a legendary beauty in the court of Elizabeth I, ...

The Beautifull Cassandra | A selection of Austen's dark and hilarious early writings - featuring murder, drunkenness, perjury, theft, poisoning, women breaking out of prison, men forging wills and bab...

Moving Pictures | 'Holy Wood is a different sort of place . . . Here, the most important thing is to be important.' A new phenomenon is taking over the Discworld: moving pictures. Created by the alche...

Taking on the World | When Ellen finished the Vendee Globe, yachting's toughest race aged just 24 the nation took her to it's heart. The depth of the affection for Ellen is extraordinary - she makes p...

Frontline Nurses On Duty | Can they do their bit for the war effort? A gripping historical saga based on a true story, following wartime nurses during the First World War. Perfect for fans of Lizzie P...

The Real Cool Killers | The night's over for Ulysses Galen. It started going bad for the big Greek when a knife was drawn, then there was an axe, then he was being chased and shot at. Now Galen is lyi...

Tao Te Ching | 'Have little thought of self and as few desires as possible' Whether or not Lao Tzu was a historical figure is uncertain, but the wisdom gathered under his name in the fourth century BC...

Penguin Readers. Level 3. Frankly in Love | Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language le...

The Gaze | From award-winning writer Elif Shafak, the Orange Prize long-listed author of The Forty Rules of Love and The Architect's Apprentice, The Gaze is a humorous and carnivalesque exploration of...

The Dharma Bums | Jack Kerouac's classic novel about friendship, the search for meaning, and the allure of nature A witty, moving philosophical novel, Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums is a journey of se...

Be More Keanu | Keanu Reeves: actor, musician, dog lover. He's the internet's boyfriend. The poetic petrolhead. The guru on a surfboard. Part samurai, part samaritan. He is, very simply, 'The One'. 'J...

Asylums. Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates | Asylums presents four interlinked essays that explore life in the 'total institutions': the closed systems of prisons, bo...

The League of Gentlewomen Witches | Charlotte Pettifer belongs to a secret society skilled in witchcraft. When rumours of the Amulet of Black Beryl start to circulate, Charlotte is determined to find ...

The Complete Plays | The complete plays of Christopher Marlowe, in which the lure of dark forces drives the shifting balances between weak and strong, sacred and profane Marlowe's seven plays dramatis...

Mr Ma and Son | A deliciously funny and moving comedy-of-manners about a Chinese father and son's experiences at the height of London's Jazz Age 'He was in London - why be bothered looking at it? Wasn...

Fantastic Tales | From fabulous enchantments and supernatural horrors to subtler, more psychological terrors, the best of nineteenth-century fantastic literature is collected here by Italo Calvino. Th...

Not Without a Fight. Ten Steps to Becoming Your Own Champion | Ramla Ali's life inside and outside the ring represents her ruthless refusal to quit and passion to fight for what she believes in. In he...

Scoundrel | Paul Shanahan - part-time surveyor, erstwhile IRA arms dealer and sometime suspected CIA agent - is a full-time scoundrel. But he's the perfect man if you need an illicit operation done - ...

The Last Tycoons. The Secret History of Lazard Freres & Co | William D. Cohan's The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Freres & Co. is the astonishing story of the world's most elite and legen...

Dragons of Deceit | Destina Rosethorn - as her name implies - believes herself to be a favored child of destiny. But when her father dies in the War of the Lance, she watches her carefully constructed...

Wish You Were Here | A house in the south of France. A holiday of a lifetime. What could be nicer? What could possibly go wrong? When Flora, James and their two teenage daughters are offered the holid...

A Gift of Love | As Martin Luther King, Jr. prepared for the Birmingham campaign in early 1963, he drafted the final sermons for Strength to Love, a volume of his best-known lectures. King had begun w...

The Pastures of Heaven | Each of these delightful interconnected tales is devoted to a family living in a fertile valley on the outskirts of Monterey, California, and the effects that one particular f...

The Sleeper Awakes | A troubled insomniac in 1890s England falls suddenly into a sleep-like trance, from which he does not awake for over two hundred years. During his centuries of slumber, however, i...

Troilus and Cressida | Inspired by Homer's Iliad and Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, Shakespeare's play explores heroism, love and betrayal against the backdrop of the Trojan War. This Penguin Shakesp...

Somme. Into the Breach | 'The best new narrative of the battle thus far, reflecting his gifts for fluent prose and moving quotations.' Max Hastings, Sunday Times No conflict better encapsulates all th...

Persuasion | The Penguin English Library Edition of Persuasion by Jane Austen 'Her attachment and regrets had, for a long time, clouded every enjoyment of youth; and an early loss of bloom and spirits...

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. Starter Level | Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and ...

The Birds | Mattis doesn't understand much about the world. He doesn't understand why others call him simple. Or why his sister Hege, who has cared for him in their peaceful lakeside cottage since the...

Daughters of Liverpool | From the author of The Liverpool Nightingales comes an uplifting and emotional tale, perfect for fans of Call the Midwife, Downton Abbey and Annie Groves. Is a mother's love e...

Redcoat | Philadelphia in 1777 is a city at war - not just between American troops and the British army, but within itself. For an occupied city throws together loyalist and patriot, soldier and civil...