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The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz | Even in darkness, love brings hope. Gustav and Fritz Kleinmann are father and son in an ordinary Austrian Jewish family when the Nazis come for them. S...

The Ballroom Girls | Blackpool, summer 1942. Meet the Ballroom Girls: Sylvia, Pearl and Joy. Three girls dancing through the turbulence of WWII. Sylvia is the spoiled only child of an ambitious mother...

The Ten (Food) Commandments | Britain's culinary Moses brings us the new foodie rules to live by, celebrating what and how we eat The Ten Commandments may have had a lot going for them, but they don't...

Big Sur | In 1960 Jack Kerouac was near breaking point. Driven mad by constant press attention in the wake of the publication of On the Road, he needed to 'get away to solitude again or die', so he wi...

The Great Gatsby | The world and his mistress are at Jay Gatsby’s party. But Gatsby stands apart from the crowd, isolated by a secret longing. In between sips of champagne his guests speculate about t...

A Half Baked Idea. | Olivia Potts' mother died when she just twenty-five. Stricken with grief, she did something life changing and rather ridiculous: she gave up a high-flying legal career to study at...

The Story of the Stone. Volume 5. The Dreamer Wakes | The Story of the Stone (c. 1760), also known as The Dream of the Red Chamber, is one of the greatest novels of Chinese literature. The fifth part ...

The Mystery of Mercy Close | Meet Helen Walsh. Wasp-tongued private investigator Helen doesn't believe in love, fear or hot drinks. But when a missing persons case takes her into the dark, glamorous w...

Home. A Time Traveller's Tales from Britain's Prehistory | In Home Francis Pryor, author of The Making of the British Landscape, archaeologist and broadcaster, takes us on his lifetime's quest: to dis...

Brooklyn. Level 5 | When Eilis gets a job in Brooklyn, New York, she leaves her family in Ireland to travel to a new country. It is an exciting adventure, with lots of new people and things to learn, ...

Two Caravans | Two Caravans is the hilarious and engaging second novel from bestselling author Marina Lewycka. A field of strawberries in Kent... And sitting in it are two caravans - one for the men a...

No Way Down. Life and Death on K2 | K2, August 1st, 2008. Thirty climbers are attempting the summit of the most savage mountain on Earth. They make it. But before they start their descent an ice shelf...

The Ship of Shadows | Aleja is a dreamer who longs for a life of magic and adventure. So when a mysterious ship arrives in her Spanish harbour city, crewed by a band of ruthless women, Aleja knows it'...

On Living and Dying Well | In the first century BCE, Marcus Tullius Cicero, orator, statesman, and defender of republican values, created these philosophical treatises on such diverse topics as friend...

On Liberty | In one of the most influential philosophical works ever writen, John Stuart Mill explores the risks and responsibilities of liberty. Examining the tyranny that can come both from governme...

Henry VI. Part Two | The second play in Shakespeare's tetralogy dealing with the Hundred Years War and the Wars of the Roses, Henry VI Part Two is arguably the best introduction to the playwright's ge...

Dynasties. Penguins. Level 2 | 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 exerci...

Reached | The final thrilling part of the New York Times bestselling trilogy, Reached is the sequel to Matched and Crossed by Ally Condie. After leaving the Society and desperately searching for each ...

Horse Under Water | A sunken U-Boat has lain undisturbed on the Atlantic ocean floor since the Second World War - until now. Inside its rusting hull, among the corpses of top-rank Nazis, lie secrets p...

The Red and the Black | Charting the rise and fall of an ambitious young social climber in a cruel, monarchical society, Stendhal's The Red and the Black is translated with an introduction and notes b...

Emma | The culmination of Jane Austen’s genius, a sparkling comedy of love and marriage—now in a stunning 200th-anniversary Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Beautiful, clever, rich—and single—Emma Wood...

Wind in the Willows | Kenneth Graham's The Wind in the Willows is one of the most celebrated works of literature for children, and this Penguin Classics edition contains notes and an introduction by G...

Music Love Drugs War | School is almost over - and for Paddy, Liz, Christy and Kevin it's time to figure out what's next. But before they start the rest of their lives, these teenagers have the 'Cave'...

The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb and Other Cases | As usual with the Sherlock Holmes stories it is very hard to say which are the best - but there are many stories here which would get the vote -...

Tales of the Greek Heroes. Level 7 +audio | Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language le...

How to Be a Victorian | We know what life was like for Victoria and Albert. But what was it like for a commoner - like you or me? How did it feel to cook with coal and wash with tea leaves? Drink beer...

Desperate Remedies | Hardy described Desperate Remedies as a tale of 'mystery, entanglement, surprise and moral obliquity'. Cytherea has taken a position as lady's maid to the eccentric arch-intriguer...

Missing Person | One man hunts obsessively for his lost identity, in this intoxicating noir masterpiece from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 'I am nothing. Nothing but a pale shape, silhou...

Dream a Little Dream | Sarah is doing just fine. Sure, she's been single for the last five years, and has to spend an uncomfortable amount of time around her ex-boyfriend, his perfect new girlfriend a...

Our Crooked Hearts | Secrets. Lies. Super-bad choices. Witchcraft. This is Our Crooked Hearts - a gripping mystery crossed with a pitch-dark fantasy from Melissa Albert, global bestselling author of T...

One Pot Wonders | Whip up soul-soothing comfort food without the pain of endless washing up with One Pot Wonders. With simple ingredients and step-by-step guidance, you can create wholesome, satisfyin...

The World Before Us. How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins | 50,000 years ago, we were not the only species of human in the world. There were at least four others, including the Ne...

Tales of the Jazz Age | 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' sees a baby born in 1860 begin life as an old man and then age backwards. F. Scott Fitzgerald hinted at this kind of inversion when he cal...

For Esme - with Love and Squalor. And Other Stories | A collection of nine exceptional stories from the acclaimed author of The Catcher in the Rye 'This is the squalid, or moving, part of the story, a...

Middlemarch + CDmp3 | In Middlemarch, in the heart of England, Dorothea wants to change the world and Dr Lydgate hopes to make great scientific discoveries. But after disastrous marriages, they both l...

Anything You Do Say | Would you run, or stay and call an ambulance, if it was you that pushed him? 'Dark and intense… an exhilarating, hold-your-breath read!' Prima It's the end of the night. You're w...

Tall Bones | When Emma leaves her friend Abi at a party in the woods, she believes that their lives are just beginning. Many things will happen that night, beneath the stark beauty of the stars, but E...

Dangerous Deception | Some loves are cursed. Others are...dangerous. Especially the love between wannabe rocker and quarter Incubus, Wesley "Link" Lincoln, and Dark Caster, Siren, and bonafide bad gir...

The Phantom of the Opera | The Phantom of the Opera is Gaston Leroux's exquisite blend of Gothic horror and tragic romance, which formed the basis for a world-renowned stage musical. This Penguin Clas...

The Red Pony | Jody Tiflin has the urge for rebellion, but he also wants to be loved. In The Red Pony, Jody begins to learn about adulthood - its pain, its responsibilities and its problems - through ...

Maigret is Afraid | 'This was natural. It is the same everywhere. Rarely, however, had Maigret had such a strong sense of a clique. In a small town like this, of course there are the worthies, who are...

Othello | A soldier of great standing and a newly married man, Othello seems to be in an enviable position. And yet, when his supposed friend sows doubts in his mind about his wife's fidelity, he is g...

Structures. Or Why Things Don't Fall Down | In "The New Science of Strong Materials" the author made plain the secrets of materials science. In this volume he explains the importance and properties of...

1945. Victory in the West | March 1945. Allied troops are poised to cross the Rhine and sweep on into Germany. Victory is at last within their grasp. But if they believe this victory can be easily won...

Wintering. The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times | Wintering is a poignant and comforting meditation on the fallow periods of life, times when we must retreat to care for and repair ourselv...

Going the Distance | Elle Evans seems to have finally tamed her hotter-than-hot bad boy Noah Flynn, but now they're facing a different challenge. Noah's 3,000 miles away from Elle at Harvard, which me...

Gimson's Prime Ministers. Brief Lives from Walpole to Johnson | A concise, sharp-witted and illuminating account of the lives of Britain’s prime ministers from Walpole to May, illustrated by Martin Ro...

The Extraordinary Life of Rosa Parks. Level 2. A1+ | Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and la...

Plain Murder | Taking us into a 1930s London of grimy back streets, smoky cafes and shabby rooms, Plain Murder, C. S. Forester's second crime novel, is a brilliantly atmospheric and gripping portrayal...

Wide Sargasso Sea | A gorgeous clothbound edition of Jean Rhys's great masterpiece of desire and madness in the Caribbean, published for the novel's fiftieth anniversary. Born into the oppressive, col...

Emma. Level 4 +audio | 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 exercises, the...

Essays | These essays, reviews and articles illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this century - a man who created a unique literary manner from the process of thinking...

Unsettled Ground | When you live on the edge of society, it only takes one step to fall between the cracks Twins Jeanie and Julius have always been different from other people. At 51 years old, they s...

Why Your Parents Are Driving You Up the Wall and What To Do About It | Has something gone wrong with your parents? There are hundreds of books for parents about how to deal with their teenagers. For t...

Jacob's Room | Jacob Flanders is a young man passing from adolescence to adulthood in a hazy rite of passage. From his boyhood on the windswept shores of Cornwall to his days as a student in Cambridge...

The Nature of Things | Lucretius' poem On the Nature of Things combines a scientific and philosophical treatise with some of the greatest poetry ever written. With intense moral fervour he demonstrate...

My Sister Milly | You've seen Manhunt, now read this powerful and personal account from Milly Dowler's sister Gemma... 'My name is Gemma Dowler. On 21 March 2002, a serial killer named Levi Bellfield ...

The Armies of the Night. History as a Novel. The Novel as History | October 21, 1967, Washington, D.C. 20,000 to 200,000 protesters are marching to end the war in Vietnam, while helicopters hover over...

Trojan Odyssey | In Trojan Odyssey Clive Cussler's great hero Dirk Pitt is on the frontline, fighting an international conspiracy. A daring rescuer sends Dirk Pitt on an adventure that will determine ...

The Psychopathology of Everyday Life | This collection of writings is famous for giving us the phrase 'Freudian slip'. It also builds up a strong social history of Vienna and the middle-class social m...

Unconditional Surrender | Guy Crouchback has lost his Halberdier idealism. A desk job in London gives him the chance of reconciliation with his former wife. Then, in Yugoslavia, as a liaison officer w...

The Autobiography | Watch. The. Ball. It's just you. Standing at the crease. Waiting. The bowler is running. His arm swinging. The ball - 155 grams of cork, string and leather - is hurled at you. At 9...

Sword of Honour | Fictionalising his experience of service during the Second World War, Evelyn Waugh's Sword of Honour is the complete one-volume edition of his masterful trilogy, edited with an intro...

Steppenwolf | A modernist work of profound wisdom that continues to enthral readers with its subtle blend of Eastern mysticism and Western culture, the Penguin Modern Classics edition of Hermann Hesse...