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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...

The Mark and the Void | The Mark and the Void is Paul Murray's madcap new novel of institutional folly, following the success of his wildly original breakout hit, Skippy Dies. While marooned at his ba...

The Last Asylum. A Memoir of Madness in our Times | In July 1988, Barbara Taylor, then an acclaimed young historian, was admitted to what had once been England's largest psychiatric institution: Colne...

Little Philosophers. Happiness with Aristotle | Answering life's big questions for little children, this board book explains Aristotle's beliefs about happiness and friendship in a simple, accessible ...

The Temple | 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 originally published. Design...

Ethics | 'The noblest and most lovable of the great philosophers ... ethically he is supreme' Bertrand Russell Published shortly after his death in 1677, the Ethics is Spinoza's greatest work - a full...

The Jane Austen Book Club | A moving, wise and delightfully modern comedy of manners from the bestselling, Man Booker shortlisted author Karen Joy Fowler. Six people - five women and a man - meet once...

The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry | Harold is an ordinary man who has passed through life, living on the side lines, until he goes to post a letter one day...and just keeps walking. This edition i...

When We Were Birds | A gorgeously immersive, mesmerising and life-affirming literary debut - a love story and a ghost story set in modern day Trinidad Darwin is a down-on-his-luck gravedigger, newly a...

The Sign of Four | As a dense yellow fog swirls through the streets of London, a deep melancholy has descended on Sherlock Holmes, who sits in a cocaine-induced haze at 221B Baker Street. His mood is ...

In a Lonely Place | Los Angeles, the late 1940's. A serial killer stalks the foggy streets at night ... Dix Steele, a former fighter pilot, moved to L.A. after the war, looking for a new life. But the...

A Crowded Marriage | How many is too many? Dive into the hilarious, heartwarming bestseller from the author of A Cornish Summer There isn't room in a marriage for three . . . Painter Imogen is happily...

The Damned | Joris-Karl Huysmans' shocking novel of an innocent's descent into a world of depraved, blasphemous rituals, The Damned (La-Bas) caused a scandal when it was first published in nineteenth-...

White Teeth. Level 7 | Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the...

The Portable Edgar Allan Poe | The Portable Poe compiles Poe's greatest writings: tales of fantasy, terror, death, revenge, murder, and mystery, including "The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Fall of the ...

My Name is Asher Lev | Asher Lev is a gifted loner, the artist who painted the sensational Brooklyn Crucifixion. Into it he poured all the anguish and torment a Jew can feel when torn between the fait...

Merry Christmas, Alex Cross | On the night before Christmas, Detective Alex Cross is at home celebrating with his family. But when Cross's phone rings, he knows that this won't be a merry Christmas. A...

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...

The Warden | Anthony Trollope's The Warden is the first of his well-loved Chronicles of Barsetshire, edited with an introduction and notes by Robin Gilmour in Penguin Classics. The tranquil atmosphere...

A Marriage of Scandal | Even the approach to Christmas fails to excite restless Agnes Conway, the twenty-two-year-old manager of the sweet and tobacconist shops owned by her feckless father. There are...

Everything Is Lies | What if your parents had been lying to you since the day you were born? Sophia's parents lived quiet, ordinary lives. At least she thought so, until she came home to discover her ...

Short Stories in French | This is an all new version of the popular PARALLEL TEXT series, containing eight pieces of contemporary fiction in the original French and in English translation. Including s...

Notes on Nationalism | 'The general uncertainty as to what is really happening makes it easier to cling to lunatic beliefs' Biting and timeless reflections on patriotism, prejudice and power, from the...

Breakfast at Tiffany's | Truman Capote's dazzling New York novel Breakfast at Tiffany's that inspired the classic 1961 film starring Audrey Hepburn is beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Ess...

Man in the High Castle | The most brilliant scifi mind on any planet, Rolling Stone. Philip Kindred Dick 192882 was born in Chicago, but lived most of his life in California. His career as a science f...

Studies in Hysteria | The tormenting of the body by the troubled mind, hysteria is among the most pervasive of human disorders - yet at the same time it is the most elusive. Freud's recognition that h...

Boy | Boy is Roald Dahl's extraordinary glimpse into his childhood and early life. 'An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details....

Dracula | A masterpiece of the horror genre, Dracula also probes identity, sanity and the dark corners of Victorian sexuality and desire. It begins when Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Cou...

A Study in Scarlet | 'There's a scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.' From the moment Dr J...

A Merry Christmas and Other Christmas Stories | Louisa May Alcott's enchanting Christmas stories, presented in a beautiful hardcover edition perfect for giving as a gift. A Merry Christmas collects th...

The Bootlegger | The Bootlegger is the seventh of Clive Cussler's bestselling Isaac Bell novels. It is 1920. Prohibition and bootlegging are in full swing. When Joseph Van Dorn is shot and nearly kill...

Mencius | Mencius was one of the great philosophers of ancient China, second only in influence to Confucius, whose teachings he defended and expanded. The Mencius, in which he recounts his dialogues w...

Revelations | Assassin's Creed: Revelations is the thrilling novelisation by Oliver Bowden based on the game series. Older, wiser and more deadly than ever, Master Assassin Ezio Auditore embarks on an...

Chindit | The first personal account of the 1944 operations in Burma to be published, this reprint resurrects the extraordinary story of the Chindits. 1943. Major-General Orde Wingate startles the mil...

Finding the Heart Sutra. Guided by a Magician, an Art Collector and Buddhist Sages from Tibet | The material world is itself emptiness. Emptiness is itself the material world. Powerful, mystical and c...

A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas | Ranging from the silent fate of Shakespeare's gifted imaginary sister to Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte and the effects of poverty and sexual constraint on femal...

The Card | One of fiction's greatest chancers - the story of Denry Machin and his unceasing, ingenious efforts to become a great man Set in the raw, Victorian world of the 'Five Towns', The Card tells...

The Merchant of Prato. Daily Life in a Medieval Italian City | This extraordinary re-creation of the life of a medieval Italian merchant, Francesco di Marco Datini, is one of the greatest historical p...