Книги Penguin

Personal (Jack Reacher 19) | Jack Reacher walks alone. Once a go-to hard man in the US military police, now he's a drifter of no fixed abode. But the army tracks him down. Because someone has taken a ...

The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes | 'Come at once if convenient - if inconvenient come all the same . . .' The note from Sherlock Holmes to Dr Watson cannot be ignored and soon the pair find themselves...

Football in Sun and Shadow | 'Football is a pleasure that hurts' This unashamedly emotional history of football is a homage to the romance and drama, spectacle and passion of a 'great pagan mass'. Thr...

Language, Truth and Logic | If you can't prove something, it is literally senseless - so argues Ayer in this irreverent and electrifying book. Statements are either true by definition (as in maths), o...

The Benefactor | The Benefactor is Susan Sontag's first book and first novel. It was originally published in 1963, and introduced a unique writer to the world. In the form of a memoir by a latter-day ...

The Murderer | 'For me life hasn't got dreams, success and all that damn nonsense. Life is full of shadows: some of them soft and others conceal a hammer.' Galton Flood is a lonely man, restless and i...

Poet in New York | 'There has been no more terribly acute critic of America than this steel-conscious and death-conscious Spaniard, with his curious passion for the modernities of nickel and tinfoil a...

The Haunting of Hill House | Part of a new six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by award-winning director Guillermo del Toro. First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson's The Haunti...

Maigret and the Wine Merchant | 'Maigret had never been comfortable in certain circles, among the wealthy bourgeoisie where he felt clumsy and awkward ... Built like a labourer, Oscar Chabut had haule...

The Portable Hannah Arendt | Although Hannah Arendt is considered one of the major contributors to social and political thought in the twentieth century, this is the first general anthology of her wri...

The Library of Babel | 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-S...

Consider the Fork. A History of How We Cook and Eat | Bee Wilson is the food writer and historian who writes as the 'Kitchen Thinker' in the Sunday Telegraph, and is the author of Swindled!. Her charm...

A Death in the Family | Published in 1957, two years after its author's death at the age of forty-five, A Death in the Family remains a near-perfect work of art, an autobiographical novel that contain...

Metamorphosis. Selected Stories | Including new and never-before-published stories and forgotten treasures: the definitive selection of short stories from one of our greatest living writers, curated b...

Animal Farm (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 l...

The Steppe and Other Stories, 1887-1891 | The Steppe and Other Stories 1887-91 is a collection that reveals Anton Chekhov's evolution from a novice writer to a master of short narrative form. This Pen...

The Log from the Sea of Cortez | In 1940 Steinbeck sailed in a sardine boat with his great friend the marine biologist, Ed Ricketts, to collect marine invertebrates from the beaches of the Gulf of Cal...

Dark Horse | The electrifying new adventure in the Sunday Times bestselling series - in which Orphan X faces his most challenging mission ever... Can you remain a good man when you help a bad one?... ...

Raven. Blood Eye | Some called them wolves of the sea. Others simply called them vikings. For two years Osric has lived a simple life, though he is feared and shunned for his mysterious past and blood...

The Long Covid Handbook | Understand, manage, and treat Long Covid. Reports suggest that over 100m people around the world are living with Long Covid (more than 1.5m in the UK) yet reliable, clear inf...

Champion | The explosive finale to Marie Lu's New York Times bestselling Legend trilogy - perfect for fans of The Hunger Games and Divergent! He is a Legend. She is a Prodigy. Who will be Champion? Ju...

The Gaze | From award-winning writer Elif Shafak, the Orange Prize long-listed author of The Forty Rules of Love and The Architect's Apprentice, The Gaze is a humorous and carnivalesque exploration of...

The Blue Afternoon | A quest for secrets in the blue afternoon . . . Los Angeles, 1936. Kay Fischer, a young and ambitious architect, is being followed by an old man. When confronted, he explains that...

Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman | Rose Lloyd was the last to suspect that Nathan, her husband of over twenty years, was having an affair, and that he was planning to leave her. But the greatest shock...

The French Revolution and What Went Wrong | An entertaining and eye-opening look at the French Revolution, by Stephen Clarke, author of 1000 Years of Annoying the French and A Year in the Merde. The F...

Chasing the Stars | 'I walked over to him and took his hand . . . We were at the heart of our very own universe' Olivia and her twin brother, Aidan, are heading alone on their ship back to Earth follo...

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters. Seymour - an Introduction | A haunting portrait of family tragedy from the acclaimed author of The Catcher in the Rye 'He was a great many things to a great many ...

His Last Bow | 'We must fall back upon the old axiom that when all other contingencies fail, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.' Sherlock Holmes's fearless chronicler Dr Watson o...

Adventures in Time. The Second World War | Take a journey to a vanished world with the Adventures In Time* series - stories so exciting you won't believe they're all true Prepare to enter the most dra...

Elective Affinities | Eduard and Charlotte are an aristocratic couple who live a harmonious but idle life in their estate. But the peace of their existence is thrown into chaos when two visitors - Edu...

A Crime in Holland | 'Just take a look,' Duclos said in an undertone, pointing to the scene all round them, the picture-book town, with everything in its place, like ornaments on the mantlepiece of a ...

Remember Me | Discover the moving novel based on a true story about a woman triumphing against overwhelming odds, from the international bestseller Lesley Pearse She made one mistake, and now she'll n...

Aria | 1950s Tehran. In an alleyway an abandoned baby cries into the night, attracting the attention of the young man who will save her. And so begins the story of Aria, an orphan girl who comes of ag...

Maigret | Maigret shrugged his shoulders, buried his hands in his pockets and went off without answering. He had just spent one of the most wretched days in his life. For hours, in his corner he had f...

In the Country of Men | Shortlisted for both the Man Booker Prize and the Guardian First Book Award, and published here as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Nine-year-old Suleiman is just awaken...

Three Restoration Comedies | After the restoration of King Charles II to the British throne in 1660, dramatists experienced new freedom in an age that broke from the strict morality of puritan rule an...

The Slave | Jacob, a Jewish slave held in a mountain village after escaping a massacre by Cossacks, will be killed if he tries to escape. The one saving grace is his love for his master's daughter, Wa...

The Ruin of All Witches. Life and Death in the New World | In the frontier town of Springfield in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils, livestock ails and property vanishes. Peo...

Season of Blood. A Rwandan Journey | When President Habyarimana’s jet was shot down in April 1994, Rwanda erupted into a hundred-day orgy of killing – which left up to a million dead. Fergal Keane tra...

Why Can't We Sleep | From the brilliant psychoanalyst behind Strictly Bipolar and What is Madness, a short and fascinating guide to the history of human sleep - and why we can't seem to sleep any more...

The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels | Cecilia Bassingwaite belongs to The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels. Yet this is no ordinary Victorian lady's society . . . Full of pirates, thieves and n...

How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the F.A. Cup | In their new all-buttercup-yellow-stripe, Steeple Sinderby Wanderers, who usually feel lucky when their pitch is above water-level, are England's most...

The Tempest | A storm rages. Prospero and his daughter watch from their desert island as a ship carrying the royal family is wrecked. Miraculously, all on board survive. Plotting, mistaken identities,...

Crossed | Rules are different outside the Society. Chasing down an uncertain future, Cassia makes her way to the Outer Provinces in pursuit of Ky - taken by the Society to his certain death - only to ...

A Kestrel for a Knave | With prose that is every bit as raw, intense and bitingly honest as the world it depicts, Barry Hines's A Kestrel for a Knave contains a new afterword by the author in Penguin ...

Unquiet | He is a renowned Swedish filmmaker and has a plan for everything. She is his daughter, by the actress he directed and once loved. Each summer of her childhood, the daughter visits the father...

Lie Beside Me | Louise wakes up. Her head aches, her mouth is dry, her memory's fuzzy. But she knows she's done something bad. She rolls over towards her husband, Niall. But it's not Niall lying besid...

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | The first, shortest, and most approachable of James Joyce's novels, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man portrays the Dublin upbringing of Stephen Dedalus,...

Focus | A reticent personnel manager living with his mother, Mr Newman shares the prejudices of his times and of his neighbours - and neither a Hispanic woman abused outside his window nor the persecu...

Anthem | A powerful dystopian novel from a writer who experienced firsthand the dehumanising conditions of Soviet Russia, Ayn Rand's Anthem includes an introduction by Leonard Peikoff in Penguin Moder...

The Call of the Void | War is building. Blood is spilling. And the gods are not pleased. Casia has survived her brother's attempts to crush her but the battle is just beginning. Bitter, wounded and ca...

The Kennedy Curse | Kennedys were always taught to win at all costs. And they did - but the price they paid was unimaginable . . . Across decades and generations, the Kennedys have been a family of ch...

Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life | The sweet scents of rural life infuse Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life, a collection of Roald Dahl's country stories - but there is always something unexpected lurking in the unde...

Frankly in Love | Frank loves Joy. Joy loves Frank. At least, that's what they tell their parents . . . Frank's parents emigrated from Korea, and have pretty much one big rule for Frank - he must only...

Real Estate | From one of the great thinkers and writers of our time, comes the unmissable final instalment in Deborah Levy's critically acclaimed 'Living Autobiography'. 'I began to wonder what mysel...

Unto Us a Son Is Given | As a favour to his wealthy father-in-law, the Count Falier, Commissario Guido Brunetti agrees to investigate the seemingly innocent wish of the Count's best friend, the elderl...

Nationalism | Tagore was a fierce opponent of British rule in India. In this work he discusses the resurgence of the East and the challenge it poses to Western supremacy, calling for a future beyond n...

Forsaken | Assassin's Creed: Forsaken is the latest thrilling novelisation by Oliver Bowden based on the phenomenally successful game series. 'I am an expert swordsman. And I am skilled in the busines...

School Days | The year is 1976 and Jack Sheffield never wants to leave his job. Jack has been the deputy head teacher at Newbridge Primary School for six years now, and he's happy exactly where he is ...

This Changes Everything | Naomi Klein, author of the #1 international bestsellers, The Shock Doctrine and No Logo, returns with This Changes Everything, a must-read on how the climate crisis needs to ...

The Letter | Romy and Michael had it all. 30 years of marriage, two wonderful sons and a beautiful home. Until a letter arrives containing a shocking accusation, and everything falls apart. Fleeing to...

Odd Boy Out | Enter the world of Gyles Brandreth - broadcaster, actor, writer, former politician - as he takes us on an extraordinary journey into his past. From growing up in an apparently well-to-do...

The Goodbye Look | Lew Archer, world-weary private investigator, is hired by Larry and Irene Chalmers when they suspect that their troubled son Nick is involved in their own burglary. But when a fello...

Frederick the Great. King of Prussia | Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, dominated the eighteenth century in the same way that Napoleon dominated the start of the nineteenth. He was a force of nat...