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Love in the Time of Cholera | 'It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love' Fifty-one years, nine months and four days have passed since Fermina D

Wide Sargasso Sea | he spell-binding novel that was inspired by Jane Eyre 'There is no looking glass here and I don't know what I am like now... Now they have taken everything away. What am I doing in

Angels | Penguin Picks are stories you'll want to read again and again. Beautifully and stylishly designed by a modern artist, they are not only stories you'll keep coming back to but also books whose

The Carter of 'La Providence' | What was the woman doing here? In a stable, wearing pearl earrings, her stylish bracelet and white buckskin shoes! She must have been alive when she got there because t

Nighthawk | When the most advanced aircraft ever designed vanishes over the South Pacific, NUMA operatives Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala are drawn into a deadly contest to locate the fallen machine. A do

Maigret's Anger | During a quiet spell in June Maigret is called to investigate the disappearance of a reputable businessman. When a body is discovered near the famous Pere Lachaise cemetery Maigret s

The Artificial Silk Girl | Doris is going to be a big star. Wearing a stolen fur coat and recently fired from her office job, she takes an all-night train to Berlin to make it in the movies. But what

Marilou is Everywhere | Jude is popular, beautiful, wealthier than most in Deep Valley. Cindy is Jude's neighbour - younger, poorer, a kid from the kind of family everyone knows will come to no good.

Time's Monster. History, Conscience and Britain's Empire | For generations, the history of the British empire was written by its victors. British historians' accounts of conquest guided the consolidat

The Green Fool | My part of Ireland had a poet at one time, a poor ragged fellow whom no respectable person whom no respectable person would be seen talking to, but he left doors open as he passed. A

The Penguin Atlas of African History | This invaluable reference work provides an account of the development of African society from 175 million years ago, through the first appearance of humans to th

The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage. The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer | In The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage Sydney Padua transforms one of the most compelling

The Naive and Sentimental Lover | Aldo Cassidy is a cautious man. He has a pleasant family, drives a safe, expensive car and wears luxurious clothes. But his soothing existence is upended when he meet

The Mayan Secrets | The Mayan Secrets is the exceptional fifth Fargo Adventure novel by Clive Cussler. Mexico, present day: a revelation of precious knowledge from the past has the power to change the

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

Bedtime Classics. The Nutcracker | Bedtime Classics: charmingly illustrated board book editions of perennial favorites, simplified for the youngest readers! Bedtime Classics introduce classic works of

From Here to Eternity | Prew won't conform. He could have been the best boxer and the best bugler in his division, but he chooses the life of a straight soldier in Hawaii under the fierce tutelage of

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

Max Havelaar | Max Havelaar - a Dutch civil servant in Java - burns with an insatiable desire to end the ill treatment and oppression inflicted on the native peoples by the colonial administration. Ma

Playing to the Gallery | Now Grayson Perry is a fully paid-up member of the art establishment, he wants to show that any of us can appreciate art (after all, there is a reason he's called this book Pl

The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories | Part of a new six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by award-winning director Guillermo del Toro. Howard Phillips Lovecraft's un

This Summer's Secrets | One hot summer, first love and so many buried secrets . . . Senara has never been in love before. She's not done anything exciting before. Always the sidekick . . . Until the s

Visions of Cody | An experimental novel which remained unpublished for years, Visions of Cody is Kerouac's fascinating examination of his own New York life, in a collection of colourful stream-of-cons

The Hound of the Baskervilles | 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

Tornado Down | RAF Flight Lieutenants John Peters and John Nichol were shot down over enemy territory on their first mission of the Gulf War. Their capture in the desert, half a mile from their blazin

Polar Shift | Polar Shift is the sixth NUMA Files novel by the inimitable Clive Cussler. Giant freak waves send an unsinkable cargo ship to the bottom of the Atlantic and a herd of killer whales attac

Deadly Cross | A scandalous double homicide opens the psychological case files on Alex Cross... When a glamorous socialite and a high school principal are found murdered, the shocking double homicide

Oh William! | The Pulitzer Prize-winning, Booker-longlisted, bestselling author returns to her beloved heroine Lucy Barton in a luminous novel about love, loss, and the family secrets that can erupt a

The Light of Day | Small-time hustler Arthur Abdel Simpson ekes out a living in Athens by robbing gullible tourists. But when an attempted theft backfires, he finds himself out-smarted and blackmailed

A Week in December | Seven Londoners are invited to an opulent dinner party. From a brutal hedge-funder to a lovelorn barrister, a Polish footballer to a pickle magnate, they are defined by the virtua

The Gambler and Other Stories | The Gambler and Other Stories is Fyodor Dostoyevsky's collection of one novella and six short stories reflecting his own life - indeed, 'The Gambler', a story of a youn

Norwegian by Night | A former Marine sniper and a newly orphaned boy race across the Norwegian wilderness, fleeing demons both real and imagined. Sheldon Horowitz-widowed, impatient, impertinent-has g

The Facemaker | The poignant story of the visionary surgeon who rebuilt the faces of the First World War's injured heroes, and in the process ushered in the modern era of plastic surgery From the mome

The Girl Who Came Out of the Woods | Arty has always lived in the Clearing, a commune hidden in the forests of south India. But her happy life, separate from the rest of the world, is shattered after

Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Tales | Although Bram Stoker is best known for his world-famous novel Dracula, he also wrote many shorter works on the strange and the macabre. This collection, compris

Heroes | 'What if I told him I am not the hero he thinks I am...?' Maimed and disfigured whilst fighting in the World War Two, young Francis Cassavant is returning to his hometown as a hero. But one w

Nostromo | Nostromo, published in 1904, is one of Conrad's finest works. Nostromo - though one hundred years old - says as much about today's Latin America as any of the finest recent accounts of that

How to Build an Aircraft Carrier | 65,000 tons. 280 metres long. A flight deck the size of sixty tennis courts. A giant piece of Sovereign British territory that's home to up to 50 Aircraft. HMS Queen

Discourse on Method and Related Writings | This is the second of a new two-volume edition of the works of Descartes in Penguin Classics. This volume is designed for students who approach Descartes fro

On Royalty | In On Royalty Jeremy Paxman delves deep into Britain's royal past. What is the point of Kings and Queens? What do they do all day? And what does it mean to be one of them? Jeremy Paxman i

The Essential Einstein. His Greatest Works | Albert Einstein changed the way physicists view the universe – and transformed the way we all see the world. Just over one hundred years ago, his Theory of

The Whole Truth | An attractive student. An older professor. Think you know the story? Think again. She has everything at stake; he has everything to lose. But one of them is lying, all the same. When

This Orient Isle. Elizabethan England & The Islamic World | In 1570, when it became clear she would never be gathered into the Catholic fold, Elizabeth I was excommunicated by the Pope. On the princip

The Rise of Nine | Until I met John Smith, Number Four, I'd been on the run alone, hiding and fighting to stay alive. Together, we were much more powerful. But it could only last so long before we had

The Ship Asunder | If Britain's maritime history were embodied in a single ship, she would have a prehistoric prow, a mast plucked from a Victorian steamship, the hull of a modest fishing vessel, the

Sense and Sensibility | Jane Austen's subtle and witty novel of secrets and suppression, lies and seduction, brilliantly portrays a world where rigid social convention clashes with the impulses of the

How Not to Be a Professional Racing Driver | Two-time championship-winning and record-breaking racing driver, Jason Plato is a living, breathing example of what you shouldn't do if you want to become

Au Bonheur des Dames (The Ladies' Delight) | The Ladies' Delight is the glittering Paris department store run by Octave Mouret. He has used charm and drive to become director of this mighty emporium,

Why I Write | Whether puncturing the lies of politicians, wittily dissecting the English character or telling unpalatable truths about war, Orwell's timeless, uncompromising essays are more relevant,

Heart of Darkness | 'Hunters for gold or pursuers of fame, they all had gone out on that stream, bearing the sword, and often the torch, messengers of the might within the land, bearers of a spark fro

Lady Chatterley's Lover | 'Connie was aware, however, of a growing restlessness...It thrilled inside her body, in her womb, somewhere, till she felt she must jump into water and swim to get away from

Made Out of Stars. A Journal for Self-Realization | Meera Lee Patel's first guided journal, Start Where You Are, inspired thousands of readers through a rare combination of stunning watercolour art an

For Two Thousand Years | 'Absolutely, definitively alone', a young Jewish student in Romania tries to make sense of a world that has decided he doesn't belong. Spending his days walking the streets an

The Kingdom | The Kingdom is Clive Cussler's third Fargo Adventure. Whether it's lost treasure or missing persons, the Fargos find themselves in a heap of trouble every time . . . When Texas oil baron

Everything But The Truth | Do you ever check your partner's phone? Should you? Are you prepared for the consequences? Everything but the Truth is Gillian McAllister's stunning breakthrough thriller ab

James and the Giant Peach | An enormous escaped rhinoceros from London Zoo has eaten James's parents. And it gets worse! James is packed off to live with his two really horrible aunts, Sponge and Spik

You Are Not A Gadget | Something went wrong around the start of the twenty-first century. The crowd was wise. Social networks replaced individual creativity. There were more places to express ourselve

Thief Of Time | 'The universe is, instant by instant, recreated anew . . . The perfect moment is now. Be glad of it.' Time is a resource. Everyone knows it must be managed. You can let it move fast or

Hornblower in the West Indies | A Horatio Hornblower Tale of the Sea 1815, the Napoleonic Wars are over. Yet peace continues to elude Horatio Hornblower overseas . . . As an admiral struggling to impo

A Christmas Memory | Tender and bittersweet, these stories by Truman Capote, the author of Breakfast at Tiffany's, are a captivating tribute to the Christmas season Selected from across Capote's writi

The House of the Dead. Siberian Exile Under the Tsars | Shortlisted for the Wolfson history prize, the Pushkin House russian book prize and the Longman history today prize 2017 the times, BBC history

Ralph's Party | The smash-hit romantic comedy from the author of The Girls and Then She Was Gone Six people, one big house and the party that brings it all down… Ralph and Smith are flatmates and best

I Dreamed of Africa | ‘Often, at the hour of day when the savannah grass is streaked with silver, and pale gold rims the silhouettes of the hills, I drive with my dogs up to the Mukutan, to watch the

Crime and Punishment | Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in hig