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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass | Lewis Carroll's anarchic, disturbing and boisterously funny Alice stories, conjured up one afternoon to entertain a young girl, are a u

The Whalebone Theatre | This is the story of an old English manor house by the sea, with crumbling chimneys, draping ivy and a library full of dusty hardbacks. It's the story of the three children who

Afterland | A world of women A mother and son on the run Three years after a virus wiped out most men on earth, Cole's son, Miles, is one of the rare survivors. Yet in this changed world, there are wo

The Sheep’s Tale. The story of our most misunderstood farmyard animal | Everybody thinks they know what sheep are like: they're stupid, noisy, cowardly ('lambs to the slaughter'), and they're 'sheepwr

Stranger | Every family has secrets. But now someone knows yours. Abi's daughters couldn't be more different. She's always felt close to Eva - her confident, older child. It's troubled young Beth that

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

Hideous Kinky | Quirky, charming and suffused the footloose spirit of the sixties, this is the irresistible story of an English woman who decides on a whim to move herself and her two young daughters

Daughter of Scandal | A rags-to-riches story of a young woman who must overcome the scandal of her past to forge a new life. In Heap Hollow cottage in County Durham live what appears to be a close and

The Enchanter | Nabokov described this novella, written in Paris in 1939 but only published twenty years later, as 'the first little throb of Lolita'. The plot is similar: a middle-aged man wedding an

How to Argue with a Cat. Human's Guide to the Art of Persuasion | If you can persuade a cat you can persuade anyone. This is the essential guide to getting your way. Jay Heinrichs, award-winning autho

Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands. Fifty Islands I Have Not Visited and Never Will | Born on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall, as a child Judith Schalansky could travel only through the pages of an atla

Swing Time | 'Superb. One of the most entertaining novels you'll read this year' Times Literary Supplement How do we become who we are? Can we ever truly escape our origins? Must we dance to the music

The Mosquito Coast | Winner of the Stanford Dolman Lifetime Contribution to Travel Writing Award 2020 The Mosquito Coast - winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize - is a breathtaking novel about

Girl, 20 | Douglas Yandell, a young-ish music critic, is enlisted by Kitty Vandervane to keep an eye on her roving husband - the eminent conductor and would-be radical Sir Roy - as he embarks on yet a

Wigs on the Green | Eugenia Malmains is one of the richest girls in England and an ardent supporter of Captain Jack and the Union Jackshirts; Noel and Jasper are both in search of an heiress (so much

Carpe Jugulum | "'Carpe Jugulum,' read Agnes aloud. 'That's . . . well, Carpe Diem is Seize the Day, so this means -' 'Go for the throat . . .'" Vampires have come to Lancre, but they're not what you'

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

The Orphan of Farthing Street | Discover the heartwarming and uplifting story of a young orphan's survival in wartime London London, 1934. Growing up in poverty on Farthing Street, fourteen-year-old A

Munich. The Edge of War | Munich, September 1938 Hitler is determined to start a war. Chamberlain is desperate to preserve the peace. They will meet in a city which forever afterwards will be known fo

Conversations With Stalin | A mesmerising, chilling close-up portrayal of Stalin from Milovan Djilas, a Communist insider - with an introduction from Anne Applebaum, author of Gulag and Iron Curtain T

The Golden Doves | Two spies who have lost everything. Or have they? The year is 1952. It's been over a decade since Josie and Arlette were arrested for working with the Resistance and imprisoned at t

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 -

Noughts & Crosses | 'Stop it! You're all behaving like animals! Worse than animals - like blankers!' Sephy is a Cross: she lives a life of privilege and power. But she's lonely, and burns with injusti

That Uncertain Feeling | In That Uncertain Feeling by Kingsley Amis, competition is stiff for the position of sub-librarian in Aberdarcy Library. For John Lewis, the situation is complicated by the at

The Demon | Harry White is the man other men want to be: admired by his peers, talented, rich, and desired by countless women. His steady rise to a position of unprecedented influence in a New York in

War with the Newts | A darkly humorous Czech satire: a new super-breed tries to conquer the world... War with the Newts (1936) is Karel Capek's darkly humorous allegory of early 20th-century Czech pol

Bastard Out of Carolina | A critically acclaimed tale of abuse and betrayal in America's deep South Carolina in the 1950s, and Bone - christened Ruth Anna Boatwright - lives a happy life, in and out o

A Good Man in Africa | Overweight, oversexed and over there . . . Morgan Leafy is hardly the most respectable of Her Majesty's representatives in the West African state of Kinjanja. For starters, he p

Kallocain | A pioneering work of dystopian fiction from one of Sweden's most acclaimed writers Written midway between Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four, as the terrible events of the Second Wor

Charlotte Gray | In the black of night, a woman lands on the fields of Occupied France. Charlotte Grey is on a mission for the British government to deliver a message and must shed her identity to ble

Pig-Heart Boy. Level 4 | Cameron Kelsey is 13 years old. He is not well and needs a new heart. Doctors want to give him a pig's heart. Cameron cannot decide if he wants the pig's heart, and some group

Power. Essential Works 1954-1984 | The third and final volume of the Essential Works of Foucault series, Power brings together his writings on the issues that he helped make the core agenda of Western

The Bay Of Angels | 'It was at Millie's party, on that Friday evening, that she met her second husband, my stepfather-to-be, and thus changed both our lives . . .' Zoe is delighted when her widowed mo

Fever Pitch | Fever Pitch is Nick Hornby's million-copy-selling, award-winnning football classic 'A spanking 7-0 away win of a football book... inventive, honest, funny, heroic, charming' Independent

Paradise Postponed | When Simeon Simcox, a socialist clergyman, leaves his entire fortune not to his family but to the ruthless, social-climbing Tory MP Leslie Titmuss, the Rector's two sons react in

The Winter Garden | Welcome to the Winter Garden. Open only at 13 o'clock. You are invited to enter an unusual competition. I am looking for the most magical, spectacular, remarkable pleasure garden t

The Big Short | From the jungles of the trading floor to the casinos of Las Vegas, The Big Short, Michael Lewis's No.1 bestseller, tells the story of the misfits, renegades and visionaries who saw tha

The Girl in the Glass Tower | Lost in history . . . losing her self. Uncover Tudor heroine Arbella Stuart's incredible story, reimagined by Elizabeth Fremantle in this tense, historical thriller. Hard

Interviews with an Ape | A young woman, Dr Graciela Saddiq, arrives to work at a zoo in a city soon to be at war. Of all the animals, she is particularly interested in a silverback mountain gorilla na

The Enchanted April | Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie

The Blank Slate. The Modern Denial of Human Nature | Recently many people have assumed that we are blank slates shaped by our environment. But this denies the heart of our being: human nature. Violenc

If You Should Fail. Why Success Eludes Us and Why It Doesn’t Matter | Failure is the small print in life's terms and conditions. Covering everything from examination dreams to fourth-placed Olympians,

The Custom of the Country | Edith Wharton's novels of manners seem to grow in stature as time passes. Here she draws a beautiful social climber, Undine Sprague, who is a monster of selfishness and hon

My Own Lightning | Several months have passed since devastating events changed the sleepy community of Wolf Hollow forever. Annabelle, still trying to make sense of her own part in them, is caught in

Regeneration | The modern classic of contemporary war fiction from Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the Girls, Regeneration is a powerfully moving portrait of the deep legacy of huma

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

Mr Bridge | The companion novel to Mrs Bridge, this is a pitch-perfect portrayal of marriage and family life and a poignant dissection of the unexamined life. Walter Bridge, husband to India and fathe

The Penguin Book of the British Short Story 1. From Daniel Defoe to John Buchan | 'The Boy-scouts mistook my signal, and have killed the postman. I've had very little practice in this sort of thing, y

We Are All Made of Glue | We Are All Made of Glue is the wickedly funny third novel from bestselling author Marina Lewycka. Georgie Sinclair's life is coming unstuck. Her husband's left her. Her son's

White Death | When a confrontation between a radical enivironmental group and a Danish cruiser off the Faroe Islands sinks a ship, trapping her crew beneath the waves, Kurt Austin of NUMA is immediate

A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful | Edmund Burke was one of the foremost philosophers of the eighteenth century and wrote widely on aesthetics, politics and society. In this landm

Single & Single | Why was an English lawyer shot dead in Turkey by his firm's top client? How can a down-at-heel magician in Devon explain the vast fortune that has mysteriously appeared in his daught

Black-Eyed Susans | 'My book of the year so far. Breathtakingly, heart-stoppingly brilliant... A beautifully written, gripping, intelligent, unpredictable crime novel that obsessed me from start to fi

Frankenstein | With an introduction from Haifaa al-Mansour, director of Mary Shelley. There is something in my soul, which I do not understand. Written by a teenage girl, Frankenstein is one of litera

On Getting Better | To talk about getting better - about wanting to change in ways that we might choose and prefer - is to talk about pursuing the life we want; in the full knowledge that our pictures

Seneca. A Life | Philosopher, dramatist, rhetorician, Stoic and pragmatist, Seneca was one of the most contradictory figures in ancient Rome, embracing a stern ascetic morality while amassing a fortun

Dresden. The Fire and the Darkness | A Times/Sunday Times Book of the Year 'Powerful... there is rage in his ink. McKay's book grips by its passion and originality. Some 25,000 people perished in the

The Voyage of the Beagle | The Voyage of the Beagle is Charles Darwin's account of the momentous voyage which set in motion the current of intellectual events leading to The Origin of Species. This Pe

The History of Sexuality. Volume 3. The Care of the Self | In the third volume of his acclaimed examination of sexuality in modern Western society, Foucault investigates the Golden Age of Rome to reve

The Time Machine | The Time Machine is the first and greatest modern portrayal of time-travel. It sees a Victorian scientist propel himself into the year 802,701 AD, when he is initially delighted to

The Vinland Sagas | The Saga of the Greenlanders and Eirik the Red's Saga contain the first ever descriptions of North America, a bountiful land of grapes and vines, discovered by Vikings five centuri

Travels with Herodotus | Travels with Herodotus records how Kapuscinski set out on his first forays - to India, China and Africa - with the great Greek historian constantly in his pocket. He sees Loui

The Match | He is known as Wilde, the boy from the woods. Discovered living a feral existence in the Ramapo mountains of New Jersey, he has grown up knowing nothing of his parents, and even less about

The Warden | The Penguin English Library Edition of The Warden by Anthony Trollope 'It was so hard that the pleasant waters of his little stream should be disturbed and muddied ... that his quiet path