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Wake Up | Never before published in Kerouac's lifetime, Jack Kerouac's Wake Up is a clear and powerful study of the life and works of Siddartha Gautama, the founder of Buddhism, from the author of On ...

Chasing the Dead | One year ago, Alex Towne's body was found. One month ago, his mother saw him on the street. One week ago, David Raker agreed to look for him. Now he wishes he hadn't. Mary Towne's s...

Fragile Monsters | Mary is a difficult grandmother for Durga to love. She is sharp-tongued and ferocious, with more demons than there are lines on her palms. When Durga visits her in rural Malaysia, s...

Wuthering Heights | 'May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt me, then' Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek sh...

The Collected Stories | Katherine Mansfield's clear, sparkling and perceptive short stories revolutionized the genre, and this collection represents the whole range of her writing. Moving, resonant, f...

Your Inner Fish. The amazing discovery of our 375-million-year-old ancestor | Neil Shubin's Your Inner Fish is the unexpected story of how one creature's journey out of the water made the human body w...

The Bunker Diary | Room meets Lord of the Flies, The Bunker Diary is award-winning, young adult writer Kevin Brooks's pulse-pounding exploration of what happens when your worst nightmare comes true - ...

Devil May Care. A James Bond Novel | Bond is back. With a vengeance. 1960s London. M has summoned agent 007. It's the swinging Sixties and a flood of narcotics is pouring into Britain. Sinister indust...

A Grain of Wheat | A masterly story of myth, rebellion, love, friendship and betrayal from one of Africa's great writers, Ngugi wa Thiong'o's A Grain of Wheat includes an introduction by Abdulrazak Gu...

The Tea Planter's Wife | This book is the number one Sunday Times bestseller. Dinah Jefferies' unforgettable new novel, The Tea Planter's Wife is a haunting, tender portrait of a woman forced to choos...

The Freedom to Be Free | 'People can only be free in relation to one another.' Three exhilarating and inspiring essays in which the great twentieth-century political philosopher argues that there can ...

The Herd | Two best friends Elizabeth and Bryony are polar opposites but their unexpected friendship has always worked. They're the best of friends, and godmothers to each other's daughters - because ...

The Liars' Gospel | It begins and ends with a sacrifice... It was a time of brutal tyranny and occupation. Young men and women took to the streets to protest. Dictators put them down with iron force. ...

The Reluctant Fundamentalist | 'Excuse me, sir, but may I be of assistance? Ah, I see I have alarmed you. Do not be frightened by my beard. I am a lover of America . . . ' So speaks the mysterious str...

Les Miserables | Victor Hugo's tale of injustice, heroism and love follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past behind him. But his attempts to become a...

Sea and Sardinia | Written after the First World War when he was living in Sicily, Sea and Sardinia records Lawrence's journey to Sardinia and back in January 1921. It reveals his delighted response t...

The Pumpkin Eater | 'Peter, Peter, Pumpkin eater Had a wife and couldn't keep her...' In this extraordinary, semi-autobiographical novel, Penelope Mortimer depicts a married woman's breakdown in 1960s...

What the Dog Saw. And Other Adventures | Malcolm Gladwell is the master of playful yet profound insight. His ability to see underneath the surface of the seemingly mundane taps into a fundamental huma...

The Scottish Clearances. A History of the Dispossessed, 1600-1900 | Eighteenth-century Scotland is famed for generating many of the enlightened ideas which helped to shape the modern world. But there ...

A Kestrel for a Knave | The classic book that inspired Kes, the famous film, now published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Barry Hines's A Kestrel for a Knave was published in 1968, and was...

Champagne Football. John Delaney and the Betrayal of Irish Football: The Inside Story | A shocking expose: the inside story behind the fall of the most powerful man in Irish sport Over the course of f...

Malala Yousafzai. Level 2 | 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 lang...

Tom Clancy’s Firing Point | A blast from out of the past . . . After a mission goes wrong Jack Ryan heads to Barcelona for some required R&R. In a restaurant he bumps into old friend Renee Moore - but...

London Belongs to Me | Also known as Dulcimer Street, Norman Collins's London Belongs to Me is a Dickensian romp through working-class London on the eve of the Second World War. This Penguin Modern Cl...

Selected Prose | This selection of John Donne's most powerful prose shows that the man remembered predominantly for his poetry was also a preacher, and a prose writer of extraordinary power. In it, he...

Then She Was Gone | She was fifteen, her mother's golden girl. She had her whole life ahead of her. And then, in the blink of an eye, Ellie was gone. Ten years on, Laurel has never given up hope of fi...

The Bostonians | Published in 1886, The Bostonians begins with the arrival in Boston of Basil Ransom, a young Mississippi lawyer in search of a career. Through his cousin, Olive Chancellor, Ransom com...

A Month in Siena | Matar was nineteen years old when his father was kidnapped. In the year following he found himself turning to art, particularly the great paintings of the Sienese School. They becam...

Girl Unknown | 'I think you might be my father . . .' Zoe Barry walks into Professor David Connelly's office and tentatively says these words. The lives of his family - particularly his wife Caroline ...

Widespread Panic | Freddy is an ex-L.A. cop on the skids. He snuffed a cop killer in cold blood - and it got to him bad. Now he's a sleazoid private eye, a shakedown artist, a pimp - and, most notably...

Dynasties. Lions. Level 1 +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 seco...

Here be Dragons | An absorbing historical novel of power and betrayal, loyalty and political intrigue in thirteenth-century England, Wales and France, centring on King John of England, younger brother...

India. A Portrait | Patrick French's India: A Portrait tells the story of how India emerged from a turbulent struggle for independence to become a vibrant democracy with one of the fastest-growing eco...

The Penguin Dictionary of International Relations | The Penguin Dictionary of International Relations provides an authoritative overview of this complex and constantly shifting subject. Ranging from t...

Lance | Three great stories - The Aurelian, Signs and Symbols and Lance - the last both a derisive attack on science-fiction and an attempt to imagine the real pain and horror that would accompany spa...

Three Hours | Three hours to save the people you love In rural Somerset in the middle of a blizzard, the unthinkable happens: a school is under siege. Pupils and teachers barricade themselves into cla...

A Secret History of the IRA | For decades the British and Irish had 'got used to' a situation without parallel in Europe: a cold, ferocious, persistent campaign of bombing and terror of extraordinary ...

The Woman Who Stole My Life | Ever wished you could trade your life in for a better one? One day, sitting in traffic, married Dublin mum Stella Sweeney attempts a simple good deed. When the result is ...

The Call of the Wild | 'The facts of life took on a fiercer aspect and, while he faced that aspect uncowed, he faced it with all the latent cunning of his nature aroused.' The biting cold and the achi...

The Penguin Book of Korean Short Stories | This eclectic, moving and richly enjoyable collection is the essential introduction to Korean literature. Journeying through Korea's dramatic recent past, fr...

The Brightest Star in the Sky | 'June the first, a bright summer's evening, a Monday... And into the busy, bustling homes at 66 Star Street slips, unseen, a mysterious visitor. As the couples, flatmat...

Fire Ice | Fire Ice is Clive Cussler's third NUMA Files novel, packed with nerve-shredding suspense. In the Black Sea, Kurt Austin and the NUMA team discover an abandoned submarine base commandeered b...

Black No More | A biting science fiction satire of American racism, and one of the first works of Afrofuturism It's New Years Day in 1933 in New York City and Max Disher, a young black man, has just h...

Mansfield Park | Jane Austen's profound, ambiguous third novel is the story of Fanny Price, who is accustomed to being the poor relation at Mansfield Park, the home of her wealthy plantation-owning un...

The Great Gatsby | The Great Gatsby is a dazzling social satire, F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece and a milestone in twentieth-century literature, now beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Es...

Cotton Comes to Harlem | A preacher called Deke O'Malley's been selling false hope: the promise of a glorious new life in Africa for just $1,000 a family. But when thieves with machine guns steal the ...

The Cut Out Girl. A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found | Little Lien wasn't taken from her Jewish parents in the Hague - she was given away in the hope that she might be saved. Hidden and raised ...

Madame Maigret's Friend | When he got to his door, he was surprised not to hear any noise in the kitchen and not to smell any food. He went in, crossed the dining room, where the table had not been la...

Unknown Soldiers | 'There they stood, bumbling into lines with a bit of difficulty: Mother Finland's chosen sacrifice to world history' Unknown Soldiers follows the fates of a ramshackle troupe of mac...

Mother Land | A riotously dysfunctional portrait of one all-American family and its diabolical matriarch - by one of America's most acclaimed writers Everyone in Cape Cod thinks that Mother is a wonde...

The Wind in the Willows | One of the most celebrated works of classic literature for children, The Wind in the Willows follows Mole, Rat, Toad and Badger from one adventure to the next - in gipsy cara...

The Last Tycoon | These sumptuous new hardback editions mark the 70th anniversary of Fitzgerald's death. Their eyes 'met and tangled. For an instant they made love as no one ever dares to do after. Th...

A Kiss After Dying | Utterly compulsive, totally original and with a truly jaw-on-the-floor twist, this is a thriller like no other Charming and handsome, Ricky Manfredi is living an idyllic playboy l...

Rules for Modern Life. A Connoisseur's Survival Guide | Do gentlemen wear shorts? What are the rules regarding interior decor in a high-security prison? Is it ever acceptable to send Valentine's cards...

Talking to Strangers | The routine traffic stop that ends in tragedy. The spy who spends years undetected at the highest levels of the Pentagon. The false conviction of Amanda Knox. Why do we so often...

Aisling And The City | Anything is possible in the bright lights of New York… Aisling is 31 and life is good. Yes, her relationship with boyfriend John may be over but her cafe, BallyGoBrunch, is boom...

Secrets | From the internationally bestselling author Lesley Pearse comes the compelling tale of one girl caught in a family mystery, a struggle against cruelty and a quest for love Without her mother...

Big Blonde | Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Doro...

A Short History of Drunkenness | Almost every culture on earth has drink, and where there's drink there's drunkenness. But in every age and in every place drunkenness is a little bit different. Tracin...

The Rose Society | Adelina Amouteru's heart is set on revenge. Now known and feared as the White Wolf, she and her sister flee Kenettra to find other Young Elites in the hopes of building her own army...

Jude the Obscure | Jude Fawley, the stonemason excluded not by his wits but by poverty from the world of Christminster privilege, finds fulfilment in his relationship with Sue Bridehead. Both have lef...

Orlando | First masculine, then feminine, Orlando begins life as a young sixteenth-century nobleman, then gallops through the centuries to end up as a woman writer in Virginia Woolf's own time. Writte...

Eat More, Live Well. Enjoy Your Favourite Food and Boost Your Gut Health with The Diversity Diet | From the bestselling author of Eat Yourself Healthy, over 80 plant-powered recipes and expert advice ...

The Place We Met | Lake Como, Italy, New Year's Eve. The perfect place to fall in love? Or the perfect place for everything to fall apart? Lucy may have suffered her fair share of bad men, but now she...