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The New Penguin Book of American Short Stories from Washington Irving to Lydia Davis | The short story is one of the most varied and exciting genres in American literature. This collection brings toge

Bomber | 31 June, 1943. An RAF crew prepare for their next bombing raid on Germany. It is a night that many will never forget. Len Deighton's devastating novel is a gripping minute-by-minute account o

Feel Free. Essays | No subject is too fringe or too mainstream for the unstoppable Zadie Smith. From social media to the environment, from Jay-Z to Karl Ove Knausgaard, she has boundless curiosity and

My Face For the World to See | A brilliant, bruising depiction of the dark side of 1950s Hollywood, from the author of In Love. At a Hollywood party, a screenwriter rescues an aspiring actress from a

The World Beyond Your Head. How to Flourish in an Age of Distraction | From 'one of the most influential thinkers of our time' (Sunday Times): how to respond to today's demands on our attention In thi

The New Confessions | Meet John James Todd: Scotsman, auteur, Rousseau-fanatic - and 'subversive element' Born in 1899, John James Todd is one of the great, failed geniuses of the last century. His re

Lucky Jim | 'His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as a mausoleum. During the night, too, he'd somehow been on a cross-country run and then been expertly b

Because of You | The Life-Affirming And Moving Sunday Times Bestseller From Number-One Bestselling Author Dawn French Longlisted For The Women's Prize For Fiction And A Richard & Judy Book Club Pick '

The Invisible Man. Level 4 | 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 exercise

Unravelling Oliver | 'I expected more of a reaction the first time I hit her.' Oliver Ryan is a handsome and charismatic success story. He lives in the suburbs with his wife, Alice, who illustrates hi

The Pursuit of Love. Level 5 | The Pursuit of Love is about the love adventures of Fanny Logan's cousin, Linda Radlett, who is beautiful, brave and fun. Linda finally finds love and seems happy, but t

Black Diamonds. The Rise and Fall of an English Dynasty | An extraordinary tale of family feuds, forbidden love, civil unrest and the downfall of a mining dynasty Wentworth is in Yorkshire and was sur

The Man from London | On a foggy winter's evening in Dieppe, after the arrival of the daily ferry from England, a railway signalman habitually scrutinizes the port from his tiny, isolated cabin. When

The Machine Stops | '"You talk as if a god had made the Machine," cried the other. "I believe that you pray to it when you are unhappy. Men made it, do not forget that."' E.M. Forster is best known fo

Self | In the third in a new series of short, provoking books of original philosophy, acclaimed thinker Barry Dainton takes us through the nature of Self When you think 'What am I?', what's actually d

Always You | Is it ever too late to rewrite the past? When Lina and Ash were at school, they buried a time capsule containing letters about their hopes and dreams, and predictions for each other's fut

Homo Faber | The novel tells the story of a middle-class UNESCO engineer called Walter Faber, who believes in rational, calculated world. Strange events undermine his security - an emergency landing i

The Penguin Book of French Short Stories. Volume 2. From Colette to Marie NDiaye | A major new celebration of the French short story across the twentieth century The short story has a rich tradition i

A Crown of the Gods | Gods have fallen. A queen is rising. And the world will never be the same. The throne of the Kethran Empire lies empty, its ruler now a god bringing darkness and chaos to the wor

Oliver Twist | The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse to be taken in by a den of thieves, shocked readers with its depiction of a dark criminal underworld peopled by vivid an

Blood and Guts. A Short History of Medicine | Mankind's battle to stay alive is the greatest of all subjects. This brief, witty and unusual book by Britain's greatest medical historian compresses into

Wrath of Poseidon | The new rip-roaring thriller in the Fargo series from the Grand Master of Adventure, Clive Cussler The legend of Croesus's riches has echoed across millennia. Stolen and hidden by

Passage of Arms | An Indian clerk, Girija Krishnan, sees the opportunity of his lifetime when he stumbles on an abandoned cache of arms hidden in the Malayan jungle. If he can sell the weapons, he wil

Couples | An intoxicating yet sensitive novel about the sexual experiences of ten couples from Tarbox, New England. Well-to-do, sociable, articulate but dangerously unfulfilled; they play word games i

Chinese Cinderella | To me, writing was pure pleasure. It thrilled me to be able to escape the horrors of my daily life in such a simple way. When I wrote, I forgot that I was the unwanted daughter wh

Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone | Everyone in my family is a killer. Everyone in my family is a suspect. But which of them is a murderer? I knew our family reunion wouldn't end well. But I di

The Cyberiad | One of the world's most beloved science fiction writers, Stanislaw Lem was famed for his wryly comic, outlandish imaginings of the relationship between humans and technology. In this pl

More Die of Heartbreak | Kenneth Trachtenberg, the witty and eccentric narrator of More Die ofHeartbreak, has left his native Paris for the Midwest. He has come to benear his beloved uncle, the world-

Family Album | Allersmead is a big shabby Victorian suburban house. The perfect place to grow up for elegant Sandra, difficult Gina, destructive Paul, considerate Katie, clever Roger and flighty Clare

The Folks That Live On The Hill | Harry Caldecote is the most charming man you'll ever meet, a convivial academic who devotes his life to others. He is on call when his alcoholic niece falls into stra

Oblomov | Ilya Ilyich Oblomov is a member of Russia's dying aristocracy - a man so lazy that he has given up his job in the Civil Service, neglected his books, insulted his friends and found himself i

The Masque of the Red Death | In 'The Masque of the Red Death' and other tales of gothic horror, Edgar Allan Poe writes as no one else ever has of creeping, mounting terrors, of malevolent tormentors

Miss Marjoribanks | Returning home to tend her widowed father Dr Marjoribanks, Lucilla soon launches herself into Carlingford society, aiming to raise the tone with her select Thursday evening parties

The Air Raid Girls. Wartime Brides | The third book in the Air Raid Girls series - a heart-warming new story of friendship, love and duty in wartime, perfect for fans of Nancy Revell and Donna Douglas

Summer | A tale of forbidden sexual passion and thwarted dreams played out against the lush, summer backdrop of the Massachusetts Berkshires Edith Wharton called Summer her 'hot Ethan'. In their rural

Aller Retour New York | 'New York is an aquarium ... where there are nothing but hellbenders and lungfish and slimy, snag-toothed groupers and sharks' In 1935 Henry Miller set off from his adopted hom

The Grey Ghost | Does a stolen antique car hold the clue to a secret fortune? Husband and wife treasure-hunting team Remi and Sam Fargo head to England to help Viscount Albert Payton recover a fortune

On Brick Lane | Brick Lane today is a place of extremes - a street that's constantly reinventing itself. Blending history and reportage with personal testimony and urban myths, and interspersing these

Eva Luna | 'My name is Eva, which means "life", according to a book of names my mother consulted. I was born in the back room of a shadowy house, and grew up amidst ancient furniture, books in Latin,

Stars and Bars | Henderson Dores is an Englishman in New York - and completely out of his depth. He should be concentrating on his job as an art assessor, but his complicated personal life keeps intru

Tender is the Night | New Penguin Essentials edition of the heartbreaking classic of the roaring twenties, Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald. 'I don't ask you to love me always like this, but

The Bomb Girl Brides | It's 1944 and Britain is a country at war. The young women of the Phoenix munitions factory are giving their all to the cause, but romance is beckoning... The life of a Bomb Gir

Anybody Out There | Meet Anna Walsh. Lying in her parents' Good Front Room, covered in bandages, Anna dreams of leaving Dublin and returning to her beloved New York. To her home. To her job. And most

Caravaggio. A Life Sacred and Profane | The highly-acclaimed, definitive biography of one of history's most compelling artists Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio lived the darkest and most dangerous li

Berlin. Life and Loss in the City That Shaped the Century | Throughout the twentieth century, Berlin stood at the centre of a convulsing world. This history is often viewed as separate acts: the suffe

Angel in the Shadows | Farah Hafez raised her head and stared into the camcorder's reflective black hole. 'Now say what I want you to say. And do it convincingly. You can save this girl's life.' That'

Spy Hook | Millions of pounds have gone missing, and the Department have sent agent Bernard Samson to Washington to track them down. But this mission is just the start of something far deeper and dark

Fair Stood the Wind for France | When John Franklin brings his plane down into Occupied France at the height of the Second World war, there are two things in his mind - the safety of his crew and his

Tess of the D'Urbervilles | With its depiction of the wronged 'pure woman' Tess and its powerful criticism of Victorian hypocrisy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles is one of the most moving and poetic of Har

Dear Edward | A transcendent coming-of-age story about the ways a broken heart learns to love again. One summer morning, a flight takes off from New York to Los Angeles: there are 192 people aboard. W

Maggie Cassidy | From the bard of the Beat Generation, Jack Kerouac's Maggie Cassidy is an autobiographical novel of young love, published in Penguin Modern Classics. Though publishers stopped Maggie

Entwined | For Avery Montgomery, the descendent of a Greek god, turning eighteen is a big deal. Not only is it her ticket to the Court, the world's most lavish party for descendants, it also unlocks t

King Solomon's Mines | Three men trek to the remote African interior in search of a lost friend - and reach, at the end of a perilous journey, an unknown land cut off from the world, where terrible da

The Gods Will Have Blood | It is April 1793 and the final power struggle of the French Revolution is taking hold: the aristocrats are dead and the poor are fighting for bread in the streets. In a Pari

The Navigator | Clive Cussler continues his thrilling NUMA Files with The Navigator. Iraq, 2003: in the post-war looting of the treasures from Baghdad's antiquities museum, a legendary Phoenicean stat

Stress-Free Productivity. A Personalised Toolkit to Become Your Most Efficient, Creative Self | Have you ever felt that you're too much of a perfectionist to be productive? Does the prepackaged advice

The Final Gambit | The thrilling conclusion to the global bestselling, BookTok sensation, Inheritance Games trilogy, where Knives Out meets One of Us is Lying. Avery's fortune, life, and loves are on

The Midnight Star | The thrilling finale to the New York Times bestselling Young Elites series from Marie Lu. There was once a time when darkness shrouded the world, and the darkness had a queen. Adel

The Cynic Philosophers from Diogenes to Julian | A unique new volume illuminating the philosophy of the ancient Greek and Roman Cynics From their founding in the fifth century BC and for over 800 year

The Looking Glass War | When the Department - faded since the war and busy only with bureaucratic battles - hears rumour of a missile base near the West German border, it seems like the perfect opport

Endgame | The first Nought Prime Minister, Toney Durbridge, is about to go on trial for the murder of notorious ganglord, Dan Jeavons. Tobey insists he is being framed. There were ten seats at Dan's d

Ann Veronica | Twenty-one, passionate and headstrong, Ann Veronica Stanley is determined to live her own life. When her father forbids her from attending a fashionable Ball, she decides she has no cho

Pirate | From Arizona to Jamaica to England, husband-and-wife treasure-hunting team Sam and Remi Fargo unravel another ancient and cryptic mystery. An 800-year-old treasure... An ancient cypher wheel.

Maigret, Lognon and the Gangsters | 'You're a good soul, inspector, and when you're up against the second-rate criminals you get here in Paris, you're a crack policeman. But this business isn't for yo