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History of the Thirteen | Passionate and perceptive, the three short novels that make up Balzac's History of the Thirteen are concerned in part with the activities of a rich, powerful, sinister and un...

The Pursuit of Love and Other Novels | Nancy Mitford's brilliantly witty, irreverent stories of the upper classes in pre-war London and Paris conjure up a world of glamour, gossip and decadence. In Th...

The Skeleton's Holiday | 'Ring for your maid, and when she comes in we'll pounce upon her and tear off her face. I'll wear her face tonight instead of mine.' These dreamlike, carnivalesque fables by o...

Extreme Prey | An extraordinary Lucas Davenport thriller from #1 New York Times–bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner John Sandford. After the events in Gathering Prey, Lucas Davenport finds hi...

Chess | 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-Smit...

The Drinking Den | Previously published as L'assommoir (The Dram Shop), Emile Zola's The Drinking Den is an unflinching study of a desperate young woman struggling against the ravages of vice. This Pe...

The Hurt | 'Rugby is great for the soul,' he writes, 'but terrible for the body.' Rugby hurts. It demands mental resilience and resistance to pain. It explores character, beyond a capacity to endure p...

Bloodline | Winter 1461. Richard Duke of York is dead, his ambitions in ruins, his head spiked on the walls of the city. King Henry VI is still held prisoner. His Lancastrian Queen rides south with an...

Companion Piece | The unmissable new work from Ali Smith, following the dazzling Man Booker-shortlisted Seasonal quartet 'A story is never an answer. A story is always a question.' Here we are in extr...

Investigations of a Dog | 'If I think about it, and I have the time and inclination and capacity to do so, we dogs are an odd lot.' How does a dog see the world? How do any of us? In this playful and ...

Couples that Work. How To Thrive in Love and at Work | Acclaimed professor reveals how working couples can successfully combine love and work Finding fulfilment in both love and work isn't easy--but i...

Wonder. Level 3 | 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 language. With...

Kakeibo. The Japanese Art of Saving Money | People in Japan are masters of minimal living, able to make do with less in all aspects of life, whether it's de-cluttering personal belongings or savvy sea...

Outside | In a deadly Icelandic snowstorm, four friends seek shelter in an abandoned hunting lodge. Miles from help, and knowing they will die out in the cold, they break in, hoping to wait out the st...

Love, Nina. Despatches from Family Life | In 1982 Nina Stibbe, a 20-year-old from Leicester, moved to London to work as a nanny for a very particular family. It was a perfect match: Nina had no idea h...

Maigret's Holiday | 'At what point in the day could the note have been slipped into his pocket, his left breast pocket? It was an ordinary sheet of glazed squared paper, probably torn out of an exerci...

Empowered. Live Your Life with Passion and Purpose | From experiencing grief and leaving her home country of Zimbabwe for the UK, to attending disruptive state schools and working long hours to suppor...

The Russian | As Michael Bennett's wedding day approaches, a killer has a vow of his own to fulfil in the thirteenth thriller featuring the NYPD's finest detective Weeks before NYPD Detective Michael ...

Queen Bee | Welcome to The Close - a beautiful street of mansions, where gorgeous Stella is the indisputable Queen Bee... It is here that Laura, seeking peace and privacy after her marriage falls apar...

Animal Farm | 'All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others' When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they ima...

The Voyage Out | A party of English people are aboard the Euphrosyne, bound for South America. Among them is a young girl, Rachel Vinrace, innocent and wholly ignorant of the world of politics and soc...

Why We Can't Wait | 'Lightning makes no sound until it strikes' This is the momentous story of the Civil Rights movement, told by one of its most powerful and eloquent voices. Here Martin Luther King,...

The Secret Agent | The Penguin English Library Edition of The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad 'Madness and despair! Give me that for a lever, and I'll move the world' In the only novel Conrad set in Lon...

Knife Edge | No one could begin to guess at the depth of the hatred I held for Sephy Hadley. Everything began with her and my brother. And that's how it would end. Where there has been love, now there...

Light Years | Nedra and Viri are a married couple whose favoured life is centred around dinners, ingenious games with their children, enviable friends and near-perfect days passed skating on a frozen ...

The Discourses | Few figures in intellectual history have proved as notorious and ambiguous as Niccolo Machiavelli. But while his treatise The Prince made his name synonymous with autocratic ruthlessn...

Topgun | March 1969. American jets are getting shot down at an unprecedented rate over Vietnam. In an urgent effort to regain the advantage the Admirals turn to a young naval aviator called Dan Peders...

Les Miserables | A brilliant modern translation by Christine Donougher of Victor Hugo's thrilling masterpiece, with an introduction by Robert Tombs. This is the best translation of the novel available...

Penguin Readers. Level 5. The One Memory of Flora Banks | Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reading series, designed for teenagers and young adults learning English as a foreign language. With carefull...

There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, And He Hanged Himself. Love Stories | In these dark, dreamlike love stories with a twist, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya tells of strange encounters ...

Fortress Besieged | Set on the eve of the Sino-Japanese war, Fortress Besieged recounts the exuberant misadventures of the hapless hero Fang Hung-chien, who after aimlessly studying in Europe at his f...

Enemies. A Love Story | Herman Broder, a refugee and Holocaust survivor, has three women in his life: Yadwiga, the loyal Polish peasant who hid him in a hayloft from the Nazis; Masha, his beautiful an...

Travels in the Land of Serpents and Pearls | 'You will hear it for yourselves, and it will surely fill you with wonder...' In this selection from Marco Polo's famous travel book, the intrepid Venetian...

Shadow of the Moon | M. M. Kaye, author of The Far Pavilions, sweeps her readers back to the vast, glittering, sunbaked continent of India. Shadow of the Moon is the story of Winter de Ballesteros, a ...

King of the World. The Life of Louis XIV | Louis XIV dominated his age. He extended France's frontiers into Netherlands and Germany, and established colonies overseas. The stupendous palace he built a...

Rebel | Respect the Legend. Idolize the Prodigy. Celebrate the Champion . . . But never underestimate the Rebel. Eden Wing may be a top student at his academy in Ross City, Antarctica, but most people...

Bass Culture. When Reggae Was King | The first major account of the history of reggae, black music journalist Lloyd Bradley describes its origins and development in Jamaica, from ska to rock-steady to...

Ma, Now I'm Goin Up in the World | At 16, Martha collapses on the streets, suffering from starvation and exposure. She has reached rock bottom, but after Martha is taken to hospital, Lady Luck smiles ...

The Darling Buds of May | 'Home looks nice. Allus does though, don't it? Perfick' One pleasant May evening, Pop and Ma Larkin and their six children - sated on fish, chips and ice cream - return to th...

The Secret Rooms. A Castle Filled with Intrigue, a Plotting Duchess and a Mysterious Death | A castle filled with intrigue, a plotting duchess and a mysterious death in Catherine Bailey's The Secret R...

House of Names | 'They cut her hair before they dragged her to the place of sacrifice. Her mouth was gagged to stop her cursing her father, her cowardly, two-tongued father. Nonetheless, they heard he...

Treasure Island | Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-qua...

Dancing with the Tsars | I felt like I was living in a world teetering on the brink ... Life as a stay-in-bed husband turned out to be a lot more complicated than I expected. My wife was pregnant with...

The Acts of King Arthur and his Noble Knights | Steinbeck's first posthumously published work, The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights is a reinterpretation of tales from Malory's Morte d'Arthur...

One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer | 'One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brief space of time, make a man blessed and happy' What does it mean...

Out of the Dark | How do you stop the most powerful man on Earth? Evan Smoak, code-named Orphan-X, was raised in a secret government programme. He left it behind long ago but now someone has been kill...

Maigret and the Headless Corpse | A baffling case. A mysterious inheritance. It starts when a man's arm is fished out of Paris's Canal Saint-Martin. Then the rest of the body is retrieved - apart from...

Parade's End | Ford Madox Ford's great masterpiece exploring love and identity during the First World War, in a Penguin Classics edition with an introduction by Julian Barnes. A masterly novel of dest...

A Clergyman's Daughter | Intimidated by her father, the rector of Knype Hill, Dorothy performs her submissive roles of dutiful daughter and bullied housekeeper. Her thoughts are taken up with the cost...

The Mayor of Casterbridge | Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound i...

A Christmas Miracle for the Railway Girls | The sixth heartwarming, feel-good instalment in the much-loved Railway Girls series! Manchester, 1942. There are surprises in store for the railway girls th...

A Legacy | Sybille Bedford's first novel, A Legacy is a savage indictment of the brutality and anti-Semitism spawned in German officer-cadet schools, published with an introduction by the author in Pe...

How Much Land Does a Man Need? | A pair of short stories about greed, charity, life and death from one of Russia's most influential writers and thinkers. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books fo...

Sunset Song | Young Chris Guthrie lives a brutal life in the harsh landscape of northern Scotland, torn between her passion for the land, duty to her family and her love of books. When her mother, bro...

Life Among the Savages | A darkly funny account of family life from the author of The Haunting of Hill House and The Lottery 'Sometimes, in my capacity as a mother, I find myself sitting open-mouthed ...

The Lock In | They'd like to be going out. Instead they're stuck in . . . Best friends Ellen and Alexa have always been close. Until one fateful morning when they get locked in their attic with haples...

The Narrow Corridor. How Nations Struggle for Liberty | By the authors of the international bestseller Why Nations Fail, based on decades of research, this powerful new big-picture framework explains ...

Like A Thief In Broad Daylight. Power in the Era of Post-Humanity | In our brave new world of Big Tech, work is automated and money melts into air. What comes next as the global capitalist edifice cru...

Ladybird Book of Mindfulness | From bestselling authors Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris - a nugget of wisdom in the phenomenal Ladybirds for Grown Ups series. This delightful book is the latest in the s...

The Franchise Affair | Marion Shape and her mother are quiet and ordinary villagers, enjoying a peaceful life in their country home, the Franchise. Everything changes when a local schoolgirl accuses t...

Wind, Sand and Stars | Both a gripping tale of adventure and a poetic meditation, Antoine de Saint Exupery's Wind, Sand and Stars is the lyrical autobiography of an aviation pioneer, from the author o...

The Ship | One vital convoy can break Mussolini's stranglehold on Malta - but it is intercepted in the Mediterranean by enemy warships . . . Five light British cruisers are left to beat back the armed...

The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr | Tomcat Murr is a loveable, self-taught animal who has written his own autobiography. But a printer's error causes his story to be accidentally mixed and spli...

The Taking of Annie Thorne | THEN One night, my little sister went missing. There were searches, appeals. Everyone thought the worst. And then, miraculously, she came back. She couldn't, or wouldn't, ...