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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...

The Roots of Romanticism | The Roots of Romanticism is the long-awaited text of Isaiah Berlin's most celebrated set of lectures, the Mellon Lectures, delivered in Washington in 1965 and heard since by...

After the Party | 'I always wanted to be friends with both my sisters. Perhaps that was the source, really, of all the troubles of my life...' It is the summer of 1938 and Phyllis Forrester has return...

The Tale of Genji | The first complete new translation for 25 years of the acknowledged masterpiece of Japanese literature. Lady Murasaki's great 11th century novel is a beautifully crafted story of l...

The Princesse De Cleves | Set towards the end of the reign of Henry II of France, The Princesse de Cleves (1678) tells of the unspoken, unrequited love between the fair, noble Mme de Cleves, who is ma...

Buried | One boy is on the run from an international conspiracy . . . Over three years ago, a civil servant vanished after returning from a work trip to Africa. Presumed dead, his family still want an...

The Cop and the Anthem and Other Stories | O. Henry was a master of the short story and one of the most popular American writers of the twentieth century. This selection of tales from across his writi...

Stepping Up | Beth has never stuck at anything. She's quit more jobs and relationships than she can remember and she still sleeps in her childhood bedroom. It's not that she hasn't tried to grow up, i...

Liar | Find the liar. Find the killer . . . Amelia White didn't expect her career as a reporter to start like this: by finding a young woman's body, just around the corner from her Shepherd's Bush bed...

The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz | 'I have gone to look for a lion.' In a world where lions have become extinct, the map-maker Jachin-Boaz nevertheless abandons his wife and son to find one, le...

How to Go to Work. The Honest Advice No One Ever Tells You at the Start of Your Career | The definitive careers guide for starting out in today's working world. It's never been tougher to get started ...

A Ship of the Line | A Horatio Hornblower Tale of the Sea May, 1810 - and thirty-nine-year-old Captain Horatio Hornblower has been handed his first ship of the line . . . Though the seventy-four-gun H...

Colditz. Prisoners of the Castle | Colditz Castle: a forbidding Gothic tower on a hill in Nazi Germany. You may have heard about the prisoners and their daring and desperate attempts to escape, but th...

The History of England | One of the greatest figures of his age, Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-59) was widely admired throughout his life for his prose, poetry, political acumen and oratorical skill...

Michelle Obama. Level 3 +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 second...

The Tragedy of Mister Morn | Morn, a masked king, rules over a realm to which he has restored order after a violent revolution. Secretly in love with Midia, the wife of a banished revolutionary, Morn ...

Nadiya’s Fast Flavours | Nadiya's Fast Flavours will bring the excitement back into your daily meals, with all the recipes she cooks on her hit BBC2 programme and more besides. Known for her bold and ...

And Another Thing... | Discover the sixth book in the ludicrously inaccurately named Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy, as broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and featuring original cast members including...

This Charming Man | 'Everybody remembers where they were the day they heard that Paddy de Courcy was getting married' Slick, handsome politician Paddy de Courcy is on the up. His party is set to do we...

God is Dead. God Remains Dead. And We Have Killed Him | 'We have left dry land and put out to sea! We have burned the bridge behind us - what is more, we have burned the land behind us!' Nietzsche's d...

The Life of Right Reverend Ronald Knox | From Evelyn Waugh, the author of beloved novels such as Brideshead Revisited, A Handful of Dust and Vile Bodies, this is the biography of Ronald Knox - priest,...

Promise at Dawn | 'You will be a great hero, a general, Gabriele d'Annunzio, Ambassador of France!' For his whole life, Romain Gary's fierce, eccentric motherhad only one aim: to make her son a great ...

Real Fast Puddings | Got a sweet tooth but don't want to spend hours in the kitchen? Nigel Slater's collection of puddings can ALL be ready in less than half an hour. An inspiring collection of quick ...

To the Lighthouse | 'The Lighthouse was then a silvery, misty-looking tower with a yellow eye that opened suddenly and softly in the evening' To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionistic depic...

The Penguin Book of Romantic Poetry | The Romanticism that emerged after the American and French revolutions of 1776 and 1789 represented a new flowering of the imagination and the spirit, and a celeb...

Unfree Speech. The Threat to Global Democracy and Why We Must Act, Now | Imprisoned on 2 December 2020 for the third time, read Joshua Wong's urgent and powerful story - the Hong Konger fighting for d...

The Comedy of Errors | Two sets of identical twins, separated at sea as babies, find themselves in the same city for the first time as adults. Soon, their friends mistake the twins for one another and...

Workhouse Girl | Can she escape her past? Patty Jenkins has come a long way from her poverty-stricken days in Brownlow workhouse. She now has a coveted position in the kitchens at Freeman's Department...

Going Too Far | Laugh out loud with the gorgeously romantic rural comedy from the bestselling author of A Cornish Summer Polly is content and settled in married life, until one comment shakes everythi...

Two Lives | In Reading Turgenev an Irish country girl is trapped in a loveless marriage with an older man, but finds release through secret meetings with a man who shares her passion for Russian novel...

The Penguin Book of Spanish Short Stories | This exciting collection celebrates the richness and variety of the Spanish short story, from the nineteenth century to the present day. Featuring over fift...

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge | While his old furniture rots in storage, Malte Laurids Brigge lives in a cheap room in Paris, with little but a library reader's card to distinguish him from th...

The Meritocracy Trap | 'This book flips your world upside down. Daniel Markovits argues that meritocracy isn't a virtuous, efficient system that rewards the best and brightest. Instead it rewards midd...

What is History? | 'E.H. Carr, author of the monumental History of Soviet Russia, now proves himself to be not only one of our most distinguished historians but also one of the most valuable contribut...

Selected Poems and Letters | A phenomenonally precicious schoolboy, Rimbaud was still a teenager when he became notorious as Europe's most shocking and exhilarating poet. During his brief 5-year reign...

The History of Love | Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2006 and winner of the 2006 Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, The History of Love by bestselling author Nicole Krauss explores the las...

Reaper Man | 'Inside every living person is a dead person waiting to get out.' Death has been fired by the Auditors of Reality for the heinous crime of developing . . . a personality. Sent to live lik...

The Drugs Don't Work. A Global Threat | Antibiotics add, on average, twenty years to our lives. For over seventy years, since the manufacture of penicillin in 1943, we have survived extraordinary oper...