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Metamorphosis and Other Stories | This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka’s works that he thought worthy of publication. It includes Metamorphosis, his most f...

Lieutenant Hornblower | The Second Horatio Hornblower Tale of the Sea The nineteenth century dawns and the Napoleonic Wars rage as Horatio Hornblower is ordered to the Caribbean and dangerous waters. ...

22 Seconds | 22 seconds... until Lindsay Boxer loses her badge - or her life. SFPD Sergeant Boxer has guns on her mind. There's buzz of a last-ditch shipment of drugs and weapons crossing the Mexican ...

The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China. The Complete Fiction of Lu Xun | Lu Xun (Lu Hsun) is arguably the greatest writer of modern China, and is considered by many to be the founder of moder...

Remembrance of Things Past. Volume 2 | One of the greatest translations of all time: Scott Moncrieff's classic version of Proust, published in three volumes Proust's masterpiece is one of the seminal ...

Mindfulness for Mums. Simple ways to help you and your family feel calm, connected and content | Being a mum is often anything but mindful. Having suffered from anxiety for much of her life, Izzy Judd...

Around the World in Eighty Days | Jules Verne's most famous adventure, now in a beautiful clothbound edition One night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across th...

Greyhound. The Good Shepherd | The Gripping Naval Thriller, Now A Major Motion Picture Starring Tom Hanks 1942. America enters the war and an untested officer receives his first wartime command... Plo...

1984 - Nineteen Eighty-four | Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels ...

Supper Club | If you feed a starving woman, what will she grow into? Twenty-nine year old Roberta has spent her whole life hungry. So she invents Supper Club: a secret society for women sick of bad me...

London Bridge is Falling Down | It was the kind of story that barely made the news. When 91-year-old Amelia Hoffman died in her top-floor flat on a busy London road, it's considered an example of what...

Bird | 'Grandpa stopped speaking the day he killed my brother, John. His name was John until Grandpa said he looked more like a Bird with the way he kept jumping off things, and the name stuck. Bird’s...

Oliver Twist | The Penguin English Library Edition of Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens 'A parish child - the orphan of a workhouse - the humble, half-starved drudge - to be cuffed and buffeted through ...

The Road to San Giovanni | In five elegant autobiographical meditations Calvino delves into his past, remembering awkward childhood walks with his father, a lifelong obsession with the cinema and figh...

Perfectly Imperfect Puppy. The ultimate life-changing programme for training a well-behaved dog | I've been training puppies for years and I am yet to come across one who behaved perfectly at all time...

Victory | Axel Heyst, a dreamer and a restless drifter, believes he can avoid suffering by cutting himself off from others. Then he becomes involved in the operation of a coal company on a remote isla...

The House of Bernarda Alba and Other Plays | In The House of Bernarda Alba, a tyrannical matriarch rules over her house and five daughters, cruelly crushing their hopes and needs. The other plays here...

The Periodic Table | Primo Levi's The Periodic Table is a collection of short stories that elegantly interlace the author's experiences in Fascist Italy, and later in Auschwitz, with his passion for s...

Dark Watch | Juan Cabrillo and the Oregon crew return in Clive Cussler's Dark Watch. A deadly band of pirates is terrorizing the waters of the Far East - and the crew of the Oregon may be the only peo...

Speaking Out. Lectures and Speeches 1937-58 | This definitive new collection of Albert Camus' public speeches and lectures gives a compelling insight into one of the twentieth century's most enduring ...

Half a Lifelong Romance | From one of twentieth-century China's greatest writers and the author of Lust, Caution, this is an unforgettable story of a love affair set in 1930s Shanghai. Manzhen is a yo...

How Green Was My Valley | A poignant coming-of-age novel set in a Welsh mining town, Richard Llewellyn's How Green Was My Valley is a paean to a more innocent age, published in Penguin Modern Classics...

Meditation now or never | From our bestselling author of Buddhism Plain and Simple, a straightforward guide to meditation In the modern world our lives are more frenetic than ever. We live with a burn...

Elizabeth and Her German Garden | ' "Oh, my dear, relations are like drugs, - useful sometimes, and even pleasant, if taken in small quantities and seldom, but dreadfully pernicious on the whole, and ...

Early Greek Philosophy | The works collected in this volume form the true foundation of Western philosophy - the base upon which Plato and Aristotle and their successors would eventually build. Yet th...

Business or Pleasure | Chandler Cohen lies for a living. When she accepts her next ghostwriting gig penning a memoir for cult actor Finnegan Walsh, it should be a dream job. However, Chandler knows hi...

How to Fight Anti-Semitism | 'This acutely argued book will engender a thousand conversations' Cynthia Ozick The prescient New York Times writer delivers an urgent wake-up call exposing the alarming r...

A Room with a View | 'You love the boy body and soul, plainly, directly, as he loves you...' Lucy has her rigid, middle-class life mapped out for her until she visits Florence with her uptight cousin ...

Daughters of Liverpool | From the author of The Liverpool Nightingales comes an uplifting and emotional tale, perfect for fans of Call the Midwife, Downton Abbey and Annie Groves. Is a mother's love e...

Mr Wilder and Me | In the heady summer of 1977, a naive young woman called Calista sets out from Athens to venture into the wider world. On a Greek island that has been turned into a film set, she fin...

Japanese Ghost Stories | A selection of Lafcadio Hearn's brilliantly entertaining and eerie ghost stories, regarded as major classics in Japan In this collection of classic ghost stories from Japan, b...

Metamorphosis. Selected Stories | The definitive selection of short stories from one of our greatest living writers, curated by Penelope Lively herself Wry, compassionate and glittering with wit, Pene...

A Daughter's Secret | Can she escape her mother's scandalous past? Cath Raine and her sister have had a difficult childhood. Abandoned by their mother who ran off with a Canadian airman, the two young...

No One Home | Nine neighbours gather for a dinner party. But by the next morning, they had disappeared without a trace. No bodies. No evidence. No clues. Two and a half years later, it remains a myste...

A Year on Our Farm. How the Countryside Made Me | Matt Baker's first ever book is a year spent on the farm; told through the seasons this is his diary of the natural world, his farm and his family A c...

Tom Clancy's Power and Empire | A container ship from Shanghai explodes on its approach to Seattle. A US spy vessel in the South China Sea tangles with the Chinese navy. A stolen USB stick recovered i...

Ruth | Ruth Hilton is an orphaned young seamstress who catches the eye of a gentleman, Henry Bellingham, who is captivated by her simplicity and beauty. When she loses her job and home, he offers her ...

The Pocket Oracle and Art of Prudence | A unique collection of advice for life, Baltasar Gracian's The Pocket Oracle and Art of Prudence is a philosophical gem, and perhaps the first 'self-help' book ...

The Winter Child | On the dark, rough streets of London in 1913, can one girl find the courage to open the door to her destiny? Little Rose Webster's life has never been easy. Born in the slums of Ber...

The Conquest of Gaul | Between 58 and 50BC Caesar conquered most of the area now covered by France, Belgium and Switzerland, and twice invaded Britain. This is the record of his campaigns. Caesar's na...

Dark Back of Time | Dark Back of Time is a compelling story of the way in which reality blurs into fiction by Javier Marias, whose highly-anticipated new novel The Infatuations is published in 2013. I...

The Island | Four friends visited the island. But only three returned… Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdottir is sent to the isolated island of Elliaey to investigate a disappearance. But she finds ...

The Colour Storm | Enter the world of Renaissance Venice, where the competition for fame and fortune can mean life or death... Artists flock here, not just for wealth and fame, but for revolutionary c...

To Answer to the Question What is Enlightenment | Immanuel Kant was one of the most influential philosophers in the whole of Europe, who changed Western thought with his examinations of reason and the...

A Murder of Quality | Stella Rode has twice disturbed the ancient cloisters of Carne School: firstly by being the wrong sort, with her doilies and china ducks, and secondly by being murdered. George S...

Cecile is Dead | Poor Cecile! And yet she was still young. Maigret had seen her papers: barely twenty-eight years old. But it would be difficult to look more like an old maid, to move less gracefully,...

The Narrow Road to the Deep North | In his perfectly crafted haiku poems, Basho described the natural world with great simplicity and delicacy of feeling. When he composed The Narrow Road to the Deep ...

Wives and Daughters | Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters is a story of romance, scandal and intrigue within the confines of a watchful, gossiping English village during the early nineteenth centu...

A Pair of Blue Eyes | When Elfrise Swanston meets Stephen Smith she is attracted to his handsome face, gentle bearing and the sense of mystery which surrounds him. Although distressed to find that the...

Passing | 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 Bickford-Sm...

Vanity Fair | The Penguin English Library Edition of Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 'Vanitas Vanitatum! Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is sa...

Lord Jim | This compact novel, completed in 1900, as with so many of the great novels of the time, is at its baseline a book of the sea. An English boy in a simple town has dreams bigger than the outd...

Hellbent | To those who trained him, he's Orphan-X. To those who need him, he's the nowhere man. Once a secret government assassin, Evan Smoak walked away to help others. But when his old handler call...

Going Solo (Level 4) + audio | 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 exerci...

Springtime at Cannon Hall Farm | Join the Nicholson family for this heartwarming journey through a typical springtime on their South Yorkshire farm. Throughout the book they reflect on the childhood s...

Britain Against Napoleon. The Organization of Victory, 1793-1815 | For more than twenty years after 1793, the French army was supreme in continental Europe. How did Britain survive and eventually win ...

Death in Midsummer | 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-Smi...

22 Seconds | 22 seconds... until Lindsay Boxer loses her badge - or her life. SFPD Sergeant Boxer has guns on her mind. There's buzz of a last-ditch shipment of drugs and weapons crossing the Mexican ...

Super Fake Love Song | From the bestselling author of Frankly in Love comes a contemporary YA rom-com where a case of mistaken identity kicks off a string of (fake) events that just may lead to (real)...

The Woman in White. Level 7 +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 se...

All the Bright Places | Now a major film starring Elle Fanning and Justice Smith on Netflix. A compelling and beautiful story about a girl who learns to live from a boy who wants to die. Theodore Finc...

A Sea of Flames | Journalist Farah Hafez is after another killer story. But at what risk to herself? . . . What connects the following: In Saigon, 1965, war correspondent Raylan Chapelle suffers a hor...

Framers. Human Advantage in an Age of Technology and Turmoil | The power of mental models to make better decisions. We're always told that humans make bad decisions and that more data is better. But t...

Our Endless Numbered Days | 1976: Peggy Hillcoat is eight. She spends her summer camping with her father, playing her beloved record of The Railway Children and listening to her mother's grand piano, ...