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The Coroner's Daughter | The only child of Dublin’s coroner, eighteen-year-old Abigail Lawless has been raised among the books and instruments of her father’s grim profession. She is also inquisitive,

A Rose and a Promise | Liverpool, 1944 Though they may be posted miles apart, Cadi and Jez's love for one another is stronger than ever - until Cadi receives a heart-breaking call from Jez's base. Cad

Philosophy and Social Hope | Richard Rorty is one of the most provocative figures in recent philosophical, literary and cultural debate. This collection brings together those of his writings aimed at

What Is Existentialism? | 'It is possible for man to snatch the world from the darkness of absurdity' How should we think and act in the world? These writings on the human condition by one of the twen

The IPCRESS File | A high-ranking scientist has been kidnapped. A secret British intelligence agency must find out why. But as the quarry is pursued from grimy Soho to the other side of the world, wha

The Communist Manifesto | Marx and Engels's revolutionary summons to the working classes - one of the most important and influential political theories ever formulated. Introducing Little Black Classi

A Cornish Summer | Flora's been in love with her husband for twenty years. The trouble is, he's been married to someone else for the past fifteen... Now she's been invited to spend the summer in the s

The Chestnut Man | As the leaves fall, he's coming for you… One October morning in a quiet suburb, the police make a terrible discovery. A young woman is found brutally murdered with one of her hands

A Walk from the Wild Edge | The moving and uplifting account of one man's journey, walking 3,000 miles around the UK to combat his depression After coming terrifyingly close to suicide, Jake Tyler was

The Winter's Tale | A jealous king, convinced that his wife has been unfaithful and is having another man's baby, imprisons her and puts her on trial. The child is abandoned to die, but when she is fo

Exile and the Kingdom. Stories | The stories of Exile and the Kingdom explore the dilemma of being an outsider - even in one's own country - and of allegiance. With intense power and lyricism, Camus e

Crescent Dawn | Dirk Pitt must fight another perilous battle in Clive Cussler's Atlantis Found. An ancient cargo long thought lost is found. With terrible consequences . . . Dirk Pitt is surveying in

A Passage to India | Exploring issues of colonialism, faith and the limits of comprehension, E.M. Forster's A Passage to India is published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. When Adela Queste

16th Seduction | Fifteen months ago, Detective Lindsay Boxer's life was perfect. With her beautiful baby daughter and doting husband, Joe, she felt nothing could go wrong. But when Lindsay discovers e

Turing's Cathedral. The Origins of the Digital Universe | George Dyson's fascinating account of the early years of computers: Turing's Cathedral is the story behind how the PC, ipod, smartphone and al

More Human. Designing a World Where People Come First | In this fully revised and updated Sunday Times bestseller, Steve Hilton shows that we can create a more local, more accountable, more human way

London Match | Long-suffering spy Bernard Samson has, against all the odds, enticed a Soviet agent to defect to London - but this proves to be the start of something even bigger. For he learns that th

How to be a Tudor. Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Everyday Life | The Tudor era encompasses some of the greatest changes in our history. But while we know about the historical dramas of the times - most notabl

U.S.A. | The Penguin Modern Classics edition of John Dos Passos' U.S.A. is a groundbreaking work of experimental fiction which, with its unique melange of fact and fiction, creates a compelling, tragi

Ghosts and Other Plays | With three plays focusing on the family and how it struggles to stay together by telling lies - and exposing them, Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts and Other Plays is translated with an

A Christmas Wish for the Shipyard Girls | Sunderland, 1943: As Christmas approaches in the shipyards, everyone is hoping for a little magic... Helen would love to find the courage to tell the dashing

Riceyman Steps | Henry Earlforward, a shabby Clerkenwell bookseller, has retired from life to devote himself (and his wife Violet) to a consuming passion for money. Miserliness becomes a fatal illness

Shadow Tyrants | Nine scrolls of ancient wisdom. Nine individuals seeking to rule the world… When Juan Cabrillo and the Oregon crew board a ship in the Indian ocean little do they realize that they wi

The Euro. And its Threat to the Future of Europe | Can the Euro be saved? Should it be? Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz dismantles the prevailing consensus around what ails Europe - a

The Fire Next Time | 'We, the black and the white, deeply need each other here if we are really to become a nation' James Baldwin's impassioned plea to 'end the racial nightmare' in America was a best

Little Sister | Two sisters, Keely and Nina, disappear without a trace. Days later, Keely comes back, covered in blood. It's not her blood. Detective Jonah Sheens knows that she must know what happene

Rivers of Gold. The Rise of the Spanish Empire | The first part of his trilogy on the Spanish Empire, Hugh Thomas's Rivers of Gold brings the rise of Spain's global empire vividly to life, capturing t

Mika In Real Life | Penny Calvin has questions. Placed for adoption sixteen years ago, she's desperate to get to know the mother she's never met. Mika Suzuki just wants to hide. Jobless, single and li

This Mortal Coil | 3 billion lives at stake. 2 people who can save them. 1 secret hidden in their DNA. A breathtaking debut series about one girl's quest for answers in a genetically and technological

A Doll's House and Other Plays | 'Our home has never been anything other than a play-house. I've been your doll-wife here, just as at home I was Daddy's doll-child' These four plays established Ibsen

Bleak House | As the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate group of people: Ada Clare and Richard Carstone, whose inher

Sourcery | 'It's vital to remember who you really are . . . it isn't a good idea to rely on other people or things to do it for you, you see. They always get it wrong.' An eighth son of an eighth son

Heidi | When five year old Heidi is sent to live with her grandfather high up in the Alps, no one really knows how they will get on. Even though her grandfather can be fierce, Heidi loves it up in the

The Wren. A Biography | The wren is a paradox of a bird. They are Britain's most common bird, with 8.5 million breeding pairs and have by far the loudest song in proportion to their size. They also th

The Twelve Caesars | As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, the scholar Suetonius had access to the imperial archives and used them (along with eyewitness accounts) to produce one of the most co

Matched | On her seventeenth birthday, Cassia meets her Match. Society dictates he is her perfect partner for life. Except he's not. In Cassia's society, Officials decide who people love. How many chi

The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault | In eighteenth century France, Charles Perrault rescued from the oral tradition fairy tales that are known and loved even today by virtually all children in the We

Tales from the Underworld | Darkly funny, searingly honest short stories from Hans Fallada, author of bestselling Alone in Berlin In these stories, criminals lament how hard it is to scrape a living b

Blue Ticket | Calla knows how the lottery works. Everyone does. On the day of your first bleed, you report to the station to learn what kind of woman you will be. A white ticket grants you children. A

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 Little Man from Archangel | 'She was beautiful, full of vitality, and he was sixteen years older, a dusty, lonely bookseller whose only passion in life was collecting stamps.' Jonas is used to his

Devil-Land. England Under Siege, 1588-1688 | A ground-breaking portrait of the most turbulent century in English history Among foreign observers, seventeenth-century England was known as 'Devil-Land':

Pride and Prejudice | 'Vanity, not love, has been my folly' When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good

Wessex Poems and Other Verses | A collectible new Penguin Classics series: stunning, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets, which present each poet's most famous book of verse as it was originall

One for the Money | Stephanie Plum is down on her luck. She's lost her job, her car's on the brink of repossession, and her apartment is fast becoming furniture-free. Enter Cousin Vinnie, a low-life w

Paris for One and Other Stories | From provincial Sophie being swept off of her feet in the glamour of belle epoque Paris to Beth's unexpected confrontation with an old lover in a marquee in Britain,

Adventures in Time. The First World War | Take a journey to a vanished world with the Adventures in Time series - stories so exciting you won't believe they're all true 'The whistles blew, the cheers

Till We Meet Again | She killed two people in cold blood . . . But why? Susan is the woman who walked in a doctor's surgery one day and committed murder. Beth is the lawyer assigned to defend Susan. B

The Mosquito Coast | The Mosquito Coast - winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize - is a breathtaking novel about fanaticism and a futile search for utopia from bestseller Paul Theroux. Allie Fo

A Tale of Two Cities | The Penguin English Library Edition of A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 'Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!' D

Fool Me Once | You think you know the truth. The truth is you know nothing. If your husband was murdered. And you were a witness. How do you explain it when he appears on your nanny cam, back from the

On Murder, Mourning and Melancholia | These works were written against a background of war and racism. Freud sought the sources of conflict in the deepest memories of humankind, finding clear continui

The Jungle Books | The story of the man-cub Mowgli who is raised by wolves in the Indian jungle, guided by his mentors Baloo the bear, Bagheera the black panther and the ancient python Kaa, and who co

The Tuscan Contessa | A sweeping new novel from the number one Sunday Times bestselling author of The Tea Planter's Wife In 1943, Contessa Sofia de' Corsi's peaceful Tuscan villa among the olive grove

Weather Girl | Ari Abrams loves working as a TV meteorologist. But unfortunately, her boss is so busy fighting with her ex - who happens to be the station's news director - that there's always a storm

In Case of Emergency | When Bel Kumar leaves for work in the morning, the last thing she expects is wake up in hospital later that day - with her ex from four years ago by her bedside. It turns out th

Kim | The Penguin English Library Edition of Kim by Rudyard Kipling 'He knew the wonderful walled city of Lahore from the Delhi Gate to the outer Fort Ditch; was hand in glove with men who led lives s

The Water Babies. A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby | The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby is a children's novel by the Reverend Charles Kingsley. Written in 1862-1863 as a serial for Macmillan's

The Great British Dream Factory | Britain's empire has gone. We no longer matter as we once did. And yet there is still one area in which we can legitimately claim superpower status: our popular cultu

Molesworth | School is 'wet and weedy', according to Nigel Molesworth, the 'goriller of 3B', 'curse of St Custard's' and superb chronicler of fifties English life. Nothing escapes his disaffected eye

Wagner and Philosophy | Wagner was one of the few major composers who studied philosophy seriously. Bryan Magee places the composer's artistic development in the context of the philosophy of his age,

The Soul of the Marionette. A Short Enquiry into Human Freedom | Everyone thinks they want to be free - or do they? John Gray's thought-stirring new book on freedom draws together insights from Gnosti

Smile Please. An Unfinished Autobiography | A brilliant companion piece to Wide Sargasso Sea, this is Jean Rhys's beautifully written, bitter-sweet autobiography, covering her chequered early years in

The Last | Twenty Survivors. One Hotel. One Killer. The world as we know it has ended. You and nineteen other survivors hole up in an isolated Swiss hotel. You wait, you survive. Then you find the bod