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Search Sweet Country | Accra, Ghana, the 1970s. In the streets, marketplaces and crowded houses of this sprawling city, an unforgettable cast of characters live, love and try to get by: an idealistic ...

David Copperfield | Dickens's epic, exuberant novel is one of the greatest coming-of-age stories in literature. It chronicles David Copperfield's extraordinary journey through life, as he encounters v...

Requiem. A Hallucination | A private meeting, chance encounters and a mysterious tour of Lisbon haunt this moving homage to Tabucchi's adopted city In the city of Lisbon, Requiem's narrator has an app...

The Futurist Cookbook | Part manifesto, part artistic joke, Fillippo Marinetti's Futurist Cookbook is a provocative work about art disguised as an easy-to-read cookbook. Here are recipes for ice cream...

The Parade | An unnamed country is leaving the darkness of a decade at war, and to commemorate the armistice the government commissions a new road connecting two halves of the state. Two men, foreign ...

Maigret's Patience | Maigret finds himself back on the Rue des Acacias just ten days after cracking another case there. This time it is the murder of a criminal Maigret has known for over twenty years...

I Can't Begin to Tell You | Settle down with the stunning wartime story of a family trying to survive, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The New Mrs Clifton When the Nazis invade Denmark, Br...

The Land Where Lemons Grow | A delightful book about Italy's unexpected history, told through its citrus fruits The story of citrus runs through the history of Italy like a golden thread, and by combi...

Supercharge Your Brain. How to Maintain a Healthy Brain Throughout Your Life | With a new chapter on Covid and the Brain, this is the definitive guide to keeping your brain healthy for a long and luci...

German Short Stories 2. Deutsche Kurzgeschichten | The eight stories in this volume offer a varied and representative collection of twentieth century German authors from a range of political and cultu...

The Dig | In the long hot summer of 1939 Britain is preparing for war. But on a riverside farm in Suffolk there is excitement of another kind: Mrs Pretty, the widowed farmer, has had her hunch proved ...

Principles of Geology | One of the key works in the nineteenth-century battle between science and Scripture, Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology (1830-33) sought to explain the geological state of t...

Undercurrent | 'The beginning of summer. Perhaps it crosses my mind even now while I wait for news of Amy that something is coming towards us. Like sighting the first slow swell of a wave.' Years ago,...

Tales from Shakespeare | As children, Charles and Mary Lamb took great delight in exploring their benefactor's extensive library; as adults they began writing children's books together that also appea...

Adrian Mole. The Collected Poems | Featuring poems scattered over nearly thirty years of writing and salvaged from the diaries 'authored' by one Sue Townsend, this slim volume features more than thirt...

The Snow Was Dirty | A brilliant new translation of Simenon's critically acclaimed masterpiece. 'And always the dirty snow, the heaps of snow that look rotten, with black patches and embedded garbage ...

The Amber Road | Warrior of Rome: The Amber Road is the sixth book in Harry Sidebottom's Warrior of Rome series. AD 264 - The Roman Empire is torn in two. The western provinces - Gaul, Spain and Brita...

Lady Susan, the Watsons, Sanditon | Collecting three lesser-known works by one of the nineteenth century's greatest authors, Jane Austen's Lady Susan, The Watsons and Sanditon is edited with an introd...

The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing | The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing maps the progress of Jane Rosenal as she sets out on a personal and spirited expedition through the perilous terrain o...

An Autobiography | The life of Gandhi, in his own words 150th Anniversary Edition with a New Introduction by Pankaj Mishra 'Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this walked the e...

Five Minute Mum. Time For School | Ideal for early years to KS1 children who are starting or are already at Reception and KS1 primary school. Phonics! Number sentences! Reading schemes! School uniform...

The Clan of One-Breasted Women | In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. With honesty, passion and heart, Terry Tempest Williams's essays explore the impa...

Lady Audley's Secret | The Penguin English Library Edition of Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon 'Lady Audley uttered a long, low, wailing cry, and threw up her arms above her head with a ...

Rumpole of the Bailey | Horace Rumpole - dishevelled barrister at law, drinker of claret and smoker of cigars, inveterate quoter of Wordsworth and eternal defender of the underdog - is one of the grea...

The Girl on the Train (Level 6) + audio | The Girl on the Train, a Level 6 Reader, is B1+ in the CEFR framework. The longer text is made up of sentences with up to four clauses, introducing future con...

Far from the Madding Crowd | Thomas Hardy's novel of swift passion and slow courtship is imbued with evocative descriptions of rural life, and with unflinching honesty about sexual relationships. Its ...

Italian Short Stories 1 | The eight stories in this collection, by Moravian, Pavese, Pratolina, and other modern writers, have been selected as being representative of contemporary Italian writing. Th...

Birds and Us. A 12,000 Year History, from Cave Art to Conservation | In Birds and Us, award-winning writer and ornithologist Tim Birkhead takes us on an epic and dazzling journey through this mutual h...

Strange Pilgrims | Strange Pilgrims is a collection of unforgettable stories about distinctive South American individuals in Europe from the Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez author of One Hundred...

Where Blood Runs Cold | Erik Amdahl and his spirited daughter, Sofia, have embarked on a long-promised cross-country ski trip deep into Norway's arctic circle. For Erik, it's the chance to bond proper...

Sherlock Holmes Short Stories. Level 3 | From finding a diamond in a bird's stomach, to stealing a racehorse - in these four stories, the famous detective Sherlock Holmes works with his friend Dr Wats...

The Invisible Man | With his face swaddled in bandages, his eyes hidden behind dark glasses and his hands covered even indoors, Griffin - the new guest at The Coach and Horses - is at first assumed to...

Jeeves and the Leap of Faith | The Drones club's in peril. Gussie's in love. Spode's on the warpath. And His Majesty's Government needs a favour. Thank goodness Bertie Wooster is back! From the mean s...

The Librarian | In 1958, Sylvia Blackwell, fresh from one of the new post-war Library Schools, takes up a job as children's librarian in a run down library in the market town of East Mole. Her mission...

With You Forever | Axel Rooney Sullivan is sunshine incarnate. Warm, bright, always smiling, she's the last person I have any business desiring. I've done everything possible to keep my distance... un...

The Europeans | Featuring a new introduction, it is a brilliant and sophisticated satire of manners and morals in the best Jamesian tradition. The Europeans, one of James’s most popular and optimistic...

Difficulties With Girls | In Kingsley Amis's Difficulties With Girls, Jenny Bunn and Patrick Standish have settled into London life with their troubled courtship long behind them. Patrick works in pub...

Our Kind of Traitor | In John le Carre's electrifying novel Our Kind of Traitor, innocents abroad are drawn into the darkest recesses of the financial world. Britain is in the depths of recession. A l...

Antony and Cleopatra | A battle-hardened soldier, Antony is one of the three leaders of the Roman world. But he is also a man in the grip of an all-consuming passion for the tempestuous and alluring q...

Mr Midshipman Hornblower | 1793, the eve of the Napoleonic Wars, and Midshipman Horatio Hornblower receives his first command… As a seventeen-year-old with a touch of sea sickness, young Horatio Hornb...

The Collected Stories of Rumpole | Horace Rumpole - witty, eloquent, dishevelled and cynical - is one of fiction's best-loved barristers-at-law. In these twenty classic tales, Rumpole battles through ...

Down and Out in Paris and London | George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time living among the desperately poor and destitute, Down and Out in Paris and London is a moving tour of the underworld of soci...

The Odyssey | Meet Ingrid. She works on a gargantuan luxury cruise liner, where she spends her days reorganizing the merchandise and waiting for long-term guests to drop dead in the changing rooms. On...

Master and Man and Other Stories | The ten stories collected in this volume demonstrate Tolstoy's artistic prowess displayed over five decades - experimenting with prose styles and drawing on his own ...

The Flemish House | She wasn't an ordinary supplicant. She didn't lower her eyes. There was nothing humble about her bearing. She spoke frankly, looking straight ahead, as if to claim what was rightfu...

The Day of the Locust | 'He began to wonder if he himself didn't suffer from the ingrained, morbid apathy he liked to draw in others' Tod Hackett is a brilliant young artist - and a man in danger of l...

The Consequences of Love | Her father was a hairdresser to the rich and famous - he was also their drug dealer. Her mother was an alcoholic fashion model. Her days and nights were non-stop parties - s...

The Beetle | 'I saw him taking a different shape before my eyes. His loose draperies all fell off him, and, as they were in the very act of falling, there issued ... a monstrous creature of the beetle...

My Life | 'Here is my soul. Look for me here; here I am, here are my pictures, my roots' Marc Chagall, one of the twentieth century's most popular artists, grew up in a close-knit, bustling Russian-Je...

Absolute Friends | Broke and working as a tour guide in Germany, rootless Englishman Ted Mundy catches a glimpse of an old friend hiding in the shadows. A friend he thought was lost to him. A friend w...

The Gangster | Join Private Detective Isaac Bell as he navigates the seedy back alleys of New York, in the ninth book in the action-packed series from Sunday Times bestseller Clive Cussler. Crime, cor...

Hour of the Star | Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a living as a typist, Macabea loves movies, Coca-Cola and her philandering rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn Monroe, but...

Selected Poems | Although best remembered today for his novels, Thomas Hardy thought of himself as a poet forced by circumstance to write fiction for a living. This generous selection of nearly two hu...

Lion | Ancient Greece, 5th century BC The age of myths and legends has given way to the world of men. In the front rank stands Pericles, Lion of Athens. Behind Pericles lies the greatest city of the a...

Delphi | In a time more turbulent than any of us could have ever imagined, a woman is attempting to write a book about prophecy in the ancient world. Navigating the tightening grip of lockdown, a marr...

A Start in Life | 'Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.' Ruth Weiss, an academic, is beautiful, intelligent and lonely. Studying the heroines of Balzac in order to dis...

Square One | Everyone is moving on... and then, there's Hanna By thirty, Hanna expected to have it all (or at least some of it) · A fulfilling and successful career · A healthy, long-term relationship...

My Friend Maigret | 'The palm trees around the railway station were motionless, fixed in a Saharan sun . . . It really felt as if they were stepping into another world, and they were embarrassed to be...

The Psychology of Love | This volume brings together Freud's main contributions to the psychology of love. His illuminating discussions of the ways in which sexuality is always psychosexuality - that ...

Bomb Girls' Secrets | In the Phoenix Munitions Factory everyone has their secrets... As WWII rolls across Europe, Kitty boards a ship set for England; leaving her cruel father for war work in a muniti...

Beasts of Prey | Magic doesn't exist in the broken city of Lkossa anymore, especially for girls like sixteen-year-old Koffi. Indentured to the notorious Night Zoo, she cares for its fearsome mythical ...

Cold Comfort Farm | When sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste is orphaned at nineteen, she decides her only choice is to descend upon relatives in deepest Sussex. At the aptly-named Cold Comfort Farm, ...

The Thirty-Nine Steps | Richard Hannay has just returned to England after years in South Africa and is thoroughly bored with his life in London. But then a murder is committed in his flat, just days a...

Terrorist | In his extraordinary and highly charged new novel, John Updike tackles one of America's most burning issues - the threat of Islamist terror from within. Set in contemporary New Jersey, Ter...