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The Emperor's Babe | Londinium, AD 211. Zuleika is a modern girl living in an ancient world. She's a back-alley firecracker, a scruffy Nubian babe with tangled hair and bare feet - and she's just been...

Darling | Marooned in a sprawling farmhouse in Norfolk, teenage Linda Radlett feels herself destined for greater things. She longs for love, but how will she ever find it? She can't even get a signal ...

About Last Night... | Lose yourself in the immensely funny and heartwarming No. 1 bestseller from the author of A Cornish Summer Molly gets a second chance in life - but will she have the courage to t...

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass | Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable...

Wonder Woman. Warbringer | She will become a legend but first she is Diana, Princess of the Amazons. And her fight is just beginning . . . Diana is desperate to prove herself to her warrior sisters. B...

The Girl From Pit Lane | Can two young, coal-miner's daughters survive on their own? When their mother tragically dies, Mary-Anne and Eliza are left under the care of their drunken step-father. Unable...

Russian Emigre Short Stories From Bunin To Yanovsky | A landmark anthology that will introduce many extraordinary, unknown Russian writers to an English-language readership for the first time. 'I reme...

The Magician of Lublin | Yasha the magician - sword swallower, fire eater, acrobat and master of escape - is famed for his extraordinary Houdini-like skills. Half Jewish, half Gentile, a free thinker ...

The Beautiful and Damned | Exploring the decadence of Jazz Age New York through a fictionalised version of his own marriage to Zelda Fitzgerald, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Beautiful and the Damned incl...

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. Starter Level | Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and ...

Hope | When Bernard Samson is woken in the middle of the night and discovers an injured man on his doorstep, he knows it will only bring trouble. It is the start of a dangerous journey to Zurich, rura...

Blood, Tears and Folly. An Objective Look at World War Two | This unflinching history of the darkest days of the Second World War covers the entire world stage, from the Battle of the Atlantic to Pear...

Juneteenth | Published after Ellison's death, this follow-up to Invisible Man is a thunderous epic of memory, faith, loss and identity. 'Words are your business, boy. Not just the Word. Words are ever...

Holding Up the Universe | Everyone thinks they know Libby Strout. I know the part I want to play here at MVB High. I want to be the girl who can do anything. Once dubed 'America's Fattest Teen', she i...

Twilight of Democracy. The Failure of Politics and the Parting of Friends | In the years just before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall, people from across the political spectrum in Europe and Amer...

Her Mother's Daughter | The moving and heartwarming story of one woman trying to make it on her own, from the bestselling author of The Open Door Kate Freeman, the daughter of the inimitable Rose Webs...

The Other Guest | She thinks she knows the truth. But what if she's wrong? Laila and her husband arrive for a week's holiday in Greece in desperate need of a reset. As Laila sits by the pool she finds...

On the Pleasure of Hating | Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revoluti...

King of Rabbits | Kai lives on a rural council estate in Somerset with his three older sisters, and his mum who is being led into an addiction by his troubled father. Kai adores three things: his dad,...

Desert Oath | Travel further back in time than ever before . . . Discover an ancient Egypt on the brink of collapse, and meet the characters in the official prequel to the latest instalment of the bes...

Switch Bitch | In Switch Bitch four tales of seduction and suspense are told by the grand master of the short story, Roald Dahl. Topping and tailing this collection are The Visitor and Bitch, stories ...

Love and Freindship and Other Youthful Writings | Jane Austen's brilliant, hilarious - and often outrageous - early stories, sketches and pieces of nonsense. Jane Austen's earliest writing dates from ...

Maigret in Vichy | 'What else did they have to do with their days? They ambled around casually. From time to time, they paused, not because they were out of breath but to admire a tree, a house, the p...

Cyrano de Bergerac | Poet and soldier, brawler and charmer, Cyrano de Bergerac is desperately in love with Roxane, the most beautiful woman in Paris. But there is one very large problem - he has a nos...

Annelies. A Novel of Anne Frank | From the author of City of Women, a riveting new novel that asks the question, what if Anne Frank survived the Holocaust? In this unforgettable novel, David Gillham i...

Moscow Rules | The violent death of a journalist leads secret agent Gabriel Allon to Russia. But this is not the grim Moscow of Soviet times, but a new Moscow, awash in oil wealth and in thrall to a n...

The League of Gentlewomen Witches | Charlotte Pettifer belongs to a secret society skilled in witchcraft. When rumours of the Amulet of Black Beryl start to circulate, Charlotte is determined to find ...

Selected Poems | Selected Poems brings together some two hundred poems - the largest collection of Borges' poetry ever assembled in English, including many never previously translated. The brilliance ...

Kleinzeit | On an ordinary day in a strangely unfamiliar London, Kleinzeit is fired from his advertising job and told he must go to hospital with a skewed hypotenuse. There on Ward A4, he falls in lov...

Frankenstein. Level 5 +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...

Spot Plays Football | It's a lovely day and Spot and his friends are ready to play football together. Spot and Helen are captains of the red and blue teams, but who will score the most goals? Join the...

The Scottish Nation. A Modern History | Part of a trilogy on Scottish history, T.M. Devine's The Scottish Nation: A Modern History traces the epic story of a nation from the Union with England to toda...

Your Closest Friend | The stranger who saved your life isn't the person she seems - but you've already told her your darkest secrets... One hot, humid night in London, Cara is caught up in a wave of t...

A Certain Idea of France. The Life of Charles de Gaulle | In six weeks in the early summer of 1940, France was over-run by German troops and quickly surrendered. The French government of Marshal Petai...

Equus | Self-consciously staging itself in the psychotherapy sessions of a disturbed young man, Peter Shaffer's Equus is a shocking exploration of the limits of faith, of the intersecting worlds of th...

Me. You. Not a Diary | Me You: Not A Diary is a pocket diary without the diary part. Or the pocket. It includes everything you loved about the original but without the calendar pages. To keep a workin...

The Last Days of John Lennon | A Global Superstar In the summer of 1980, ten years after the break-up of the Beatles, John Lennon signed with a new label, ready to record new music for the first time ...

Creativity. A Short and Cheerful Guide | We can all be more creative. John Cleese shows us how. Creativity is usually regarded as a mysterious, rare gift that only a few possess. John Cleese begs to d...

The Moon's a Balloon | Discover the heartfelt, laugh-out-loud account of one of Hollywood's greatest actors and, above all, greatest men Debonair English wit and humourist extraordinaire, star of The ...

The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy | From the author of the 2 million+ copy, worldwide bestseller, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, - soon to be a major movie starring Jim Broadbent - an exq...

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling | Henry Fielding's picaresque tale of a young man's search for his place in the world, The History of Tom Jones is edited with notes and an introduction by Thomas...

Advertisements for Myself | Advertisements for Myself is a comprehensive collection of the best of Norman Mailer's essays, stories, interviews and journalism from the Forties and Fifties, linked by an...

Blonde Roots | Welcome to a world turned upside down. One minute, Doris, from England, is playing hide-and-seek with her sisters in the fields behind their cottage. The next, someone puts a bag over h...

Bryant & May’s Peculiar London | As the nation's oldest serving detectives, we know more about London than almost anyone. After all, we've been walking its streets and impulsively arresting its citize...

The Ring of the Nibelung | A superb new translation of the libretto to Wagner's Ring cycle 'Smiling in sorrow I sing of love' The Ring of the Nibelung, Wagner's epic cycle of four musical dramas about...

The War of the Worlds | "For a time I believed that mankind had been swept out of existence, and that I stood there alone, the last man left alive." When an alien capsule lands on Horsell Common, Woki...

Cunning Women | Lancashire, 1620. Young Sarah Haworth and her family live as outcasts. They are 'cunning folk', feared by the local villagers by day, but called upon under cover of darkness for healin...

The Playbook | Knowledge is power. Which is why the rich and powerful don't want you to have it. The Playbook is an expose of the extraordinary lengths that corporations will go to in order to spread ...

Poems and Exiles | It is only James Joyce's towering genius as a novelist that has led to the comparative neglect of his poetry and sole surviving play. And yet, argues Mays in his stimulating and inf...

Black Cake | Eleanor Bennett won't let her own death get in the way of the truth. So when her estranged children - Byron and Benny - reunite for her funeral in California, they discover a puzzling inh...

Bigger Than Us. Spiritual Lessons for Everyday Happiness | Calm anxiety through connection. Find happiness through purpose. Feel comfort in the universal. Think bigger to unlock you. Writing this book...

How to Be a Brit | George Mikes has written many successful books on a variety of interesting subjects, but one so successful as those on the subject most central to his own experience: his adopted co...

The Party Crasher | Escape with the new Sophie Kinsella romcom about family love, family tensions and family secrets. Effie's still not over her parents splitting up a year ago and her dad and his awf...

Leaf Storm | Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez,, author of the One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera, portrays a food company violating a small Colombia town in his vivid a...

Empireland. How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain | Empire explains why there are millions of Britons living worldwide. Empire explains Brexit and the feeling that we are exceptional. Empire expla...

Christ Stopped at Eboli | 'We're not Christians, Christ stopped short of here, at Eboli.' Exiled to a remote and barren corner of Italy for his opposition to Mussolini, Carlo Levi entered a world cut ...

Rosie | Rosie is a compelling novel by the bestselling author Lesley Pearse. Her brutal, violent family will be the death of her... Without a mother, Rosie is at the mercy of her father and thuggish b...

Fighter. The True Story of the Battle of Britain | History is swamped by patriotic myths about the aerial combat fought between the RAF and the Luftwaffe over the summer of 1940. In his gripping histo...

The Blackbird | CCTV footage captures Cate and Aiden Gascoigne driving home seconds before their car plunges into a ravine and explodes. When fire crews arrive, the vehicle is empty. Cate and Aiden ha...

The Chosen | Following a baseball game that nearly became a religious war, two Jewish boys become friends. Danny comes from the strict Hasidic sect that keeps him bound in centuries of orthodoxy. Reuv...

Under Western Eyes | 'It was I who removed de P- this morning.' With these chilling words Victor Haldin shatters the solitary, industrious existence of Razumov, his fellow student at St Petersburg Uni...

Coming To Find You | You can run away from your life. But you can't run away from murder. When her family tragedy is splashed across the newspapers, Nancy decides to disappear. Her grandmother's beaut...

The Distance of the Moon | 'Time is a catastrophe, perpetual and irreversible.' Science and fiction interweave delightfully in these playful Cosmicomic short stories. Penguin Modern: fifty new books c...

The Rose Queen | Will love bloom in a new city? It's 1938, and Cadi is chosen to be Rose Queen in the annual Rose Fete. She is thrilled to be treated like royalty for the day. But deep down she is des...