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Call for the Dead | The first of his peerless novels of Cold War espionage and international intrigue, Call for the Dead is also the debut of John le Carre's masterful creation George Smiley. After a ...

We Need to Talk About... Kevin Bridges | The comic autobiography of 2014 A comedian's autobiography? I wonder if he's ever used humour to deflect from his insecurities? To avoid being bullied? Is ther...

The Haunting of Hill House | Alone in the world, Eleanor is delighted to take up Dr Montague's invitation to spend a summer in the mysterious Hill House. Joining them are Theodora, an artistic 'sensit...

The Striker | The Striker is the sixth novel in Clive Cussler's Isaac Bell series. It is 1902, and Isaac Bell is investigating sabotage in a West Virginia coal mine. But when he stops a runaway train,...

What is Art? | During his decades of world fame as a novelist, Tolstoy also wrote prolifically in a series of essays and polemics on issues of morality, social justice and religion. These works culmin...

Nineteen Eighty-Four. The Annotated Edition | Ever since its publication in 1948, George Orwell's terrifying vision of a totalitarian regime where Big Brother controls its citizens like 'a boot stampi...

Stars and Smoke | The most famous person in the world is going undercover… Global phenomenon Winter Young is the pop star of a generation. With sell-out tours and smash-hit records, everyone wants him...

A Taste of Power. A Black Woman's Story | The incredible memoir of Elaine Brown - the first woman leader of the Black Panthers 'Here I was, a woman, proclaiming supreme power over the most militant or...

The Cabin | If you loved Wallander, meet Wisting - your next Scandi crime obsession . . . 15 years ago, Simon Meier walked out of his house and was never seen again. With no leads, the case quickly ra...

Selected Poems | As Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria's reign, Alfred Lord Tennyson's spellbinding poetry epitomized the Victorian age, and Selected Poems is edited with an introduction and ...

Well Met | 'I didn't choose the wench life. The wench life chose me…' Emily's moved to the small Maryland town of Willow Creek for the summer to help her sister recover from an accident. But when teen...

About Love | 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...

Big Little Lies | The No.1 Bestseller Behind The Award Winning Tv Sensation Get ready for the highly anticipated second series of Emmy & Golden Globe Winning Big Little Lies, starring Meryl Streep, Re...

The Best Catholics in the World. The Irish, the Church and the End of a Special Relationship | When Dubliner Derek Scally goes to Christmas Eve Mass on a visit home from Berlin, he finds more memories...

Swallowing Geography | A stunning early novel by the twice Booker-shortlisted author of Hot Milk and Swimming Home, Deborah Levy. Like her namesake Jack Kerouac, J.K. is always on the road, travelling...

A Twist of the Blade | Mercenary. Survivor. Queen. Casia Greythorne's world has been shattered. Still reeling from a devastating loss and the revelation of an identity she wasn't ready for, she must n...

Nairn's London | 'This book is a record of what has moved me between Uxbridge and Dagenham. My hope is that it moves you, too.' Nairn's London is an idiosyncratic, poetic and intensely subjective medi...

Mrs Dalloway | Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London, Septimus Warren Smith is suffering from shell-shock a...

The Saga of Grettir the Strong | Composed at the end of the fourteenth century by an unknown author, The Saga of Grettir the Strong is one of the last great Icelandic sagas. It relates the tale of Gre...

Lyrical Ballads | Lyrical Ballads (1798) is a landmark collection of poems that marks the beginning of the English Romantic Movement in literature. Co-written by friends William Wordsworth and Samuel ...

On Kindness | What is kindness? Does it make us happier? And does it have a place in a selfish world? Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and historian Barbara Taylor present an elegant, thoughtful and concis...

There is No Point of No Return | In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. Emphasizing joy in the world, human cooperation and the value of all living thing...

Vanity of Duluoz | The tale of Kerouac's alter-ego, Vanity of Duluoz presents Jack Duluoz's high school experiences as a sporting jock in Massachusetts and his time at Columbia University on a footbal...

Small Gods | 'You should do things because they're right. Not because gods say so. They might say something different another time.' Religion is a competitive business in the Discworld. Everyone has t...

The River Cafe Classic Italian Cookbook | Opened by Rose Gray and Ruth Rogers in 1987, the legendary River Cafe changed the way we cook, eat and think about Italian food. Over decades, they travelled ...

The Hazel Wood | One of The Observer's Best Children's Books of 2018! Fans of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children and The Children of Blood and Bone have been getting lost in The Hazel Wood......

Iron Gustav. A Berlin Family Chronicle | A powerful story of the shattering effects of the First World War on both a family and a country - from Hans Fallada, bestselling author of Alone in Berlin 'Th...

Madhouse at the End of the Earth. The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night | A new classic of extreme endurance - Into Thin Air meets The Perfect Storm in 19th century Antarctica **A Times ...

The Pastures of Heaven | Each of these delightful interconnected tales is devoted to a family living in a fertile valley on the outskirts of Monterey, California, and the effects that one particular f...

Inspirations. Selections from Classic Literature | 'Anthology' comes from the Greek word that stands for garlands - a bouquet of flowers. An anthology then, should be a small token of something much l...

The Anti-Death League | In this surreal comedy of soldiers and spies, Lieutenant James Churchill and his colleagues find themselves questioning their purpose. Are they for death or against it? These m...

Complete Stories | The short stories of Kingsley Amis - the great master of post-war comic prose - are dark, playful, moving, surprising and extremely funny. This definitive collection gathers all Ami...

Equal Rites | 'They say that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.' Everybody knows there's no such thing as a female wizard. So when the wizard...

The Thief | The Thief is Clive Cussler's fifth historical thriller featuring detective Isaac Bell. A bold kidnapping aboard an ocean liner sends detective Isaac Bell across America in a deadly game of...

Femme Fatale | A selection of Maupassant's brilliant, glittering stories set in the Parisian beau monde and Normandy countryside. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthda...

Tristessa | 'She understands Karma, she says: "What I do, I reap"' Her name means sadness, yet Tristessa, a prostitute and morphine addict, lives without cares in her shabby room with a menagerie of p...

The Great Railway Bazaar. By Train Through Asia | The Great Railway Bazaar is Paul Theroux's classic and much-loved homage to train travel. The Orient Express; The Khyber Pass Local; the Delhi Mail fr...

Spy Line | Bernard Samson is a spy on the run. But in the murky streets of Berlin, he knows where to hide. Wanted for an act of treachery he has not committed, he must not only escape the grasp of Lon...

Penguin Readers. Level 2. Mulan and Other Tales of Heroes | Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reading series, designed for teenagers and young adults learning English as a foreign language. With carefu...

Villette | Villette is Charlotte Bronte's powerful autobiographical novel of one woman's search for true love, edited with an introduction by Helen M. Cooper in Penguin Classics. With neither friends ...

Felicia's Journey | You're beautiful, Johnny told her. So, full of hope, seventeen-year-old Felicia crosses the Irish Sea to England to find her lover and tell him she is pregnant. Desperately searchi...

The Stranded | A gripping near-future thriller in a world turned upside-down . . . for fans of Suzanne Collins, Emily St John Mandel, Bong Joon-ho's Snowpiercer. Welcome to the Arcadia. Once a luxurio...

Wicked Little Deeds | The next nerve-shredding thriller from Kat Ellis, the YA answer to Stephen King. From its creepy town mascot to the story of its cursed waterfall, Burden Falls is a small town dr...

Scotland. A New History | A comprehensive and absorbing history of a country that is constantly evolving. From Bannockburn and Robert the Bruce to the union of the crowns and Mary, Queen of Scots; fro...

Nine Perfect Strangers | He Sunday Times No. 1 Bestseller and Richard & Judy Book Club Pick If you know anyone who loved Big Little Lies, then the bestselling author's latest book will be right up the...

Entitled. How Male Privilege Hurts Women | Male entitlement takes many forms. To sex, yes, but more insidiously to admiration, bodily autonomy, knowledge, power, even care. In this urgent intervention...

Our Game | Le Carre's post-Cold War masterpiece, filled with suspense, betrayal, desire and drama The Cold War is over and retired secret servant Tim Cranmer has been put out to pasture, spending his ...

Interesting Times | 'There is a curse. They say: may you live in interesting times . . .' This is the worst thing you can wish on a citizen of Discworld. Especially for the magically challenged Rincew...

Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous | One of the greatest British philosophers, Bishop Berkeley (1685-1753) was the founder of the influential doctrine of Imm...

The Junior Officers' Reading Club. Killing Time and Fighting Wars | Patrick Hennessey's The Junior Officers' Reading Club is a lucid, witty account of all the horror, boredom and exhilaration of war. ...

Anna K | Welcome to New York's Upper East Side: where privilege, partying and scandal rules. Anna K is the golden girl of New York high society. She's beautiful, she's kind, she's unbelievably rich, a...

The Story of Brexit | This delightful book is the latest in the series of Ladybird books which have been specially planned to help grown-ups with the world about them. The large clear script, the care...

Maigret Defends Himself | For the first time in his career Inspector Maigret receives written summons to the Prefect's office where he learns that he has been accused of assaulting a young woman. With...

Washington Square | Henry James's classic tale of romance in urban nineteenth-century America, Washington Square is edited with an introduction and notes by Martha Banta in Penguin Classics. When timi...

The Empty Family | In the captivating stories that make up The Empty Family Colm Toibin delineates with a tender and unique sensibility lives of unspoken or unconscious longing, of individuals, often ...

Peckham Patter. The Complete Wit and Wisdom of Only Fools | As Macbeth said to Hamlet in Midsummer Night's Dream, 'we've been done up like a couple of kippers - Del In this pukka 42-carat gold-plated ...

The Death of Yugoslavia | The Death of Yugoslavia is a survey of the pressures and events that contributed to the break-up of former Yugoslavia, considered from a historical rather than a political or...

Love, Iris | Did you ever have a secret you knew would change everything? Tess's happy childhood memories are mostly of the grandmother who helped raise her. And now she has a secret to tell Iris - on...

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

This Too Shall Pass. Stories of Change, Crisis and Hopeful Beginnings | If change is the natural order of things, why do we struggle with the huge milestones in our lives? At a time when even the most...

The War Against the BBC | There's a war on against the BBC. It is under threat as never before. And if we lose it, we won't get it back. The BBC is our most important cultural institution, our best-va...

The First Men in the Moon | When penniless businessman Mr Bedford retreats to the Kent coast to write a play, he meets by chance the brilliant Dr Cavor, an absent-minded scientist on the brink of deve...

The End of the Party | Andrew Rawnsley's bestselling The End of the Party lifts the lid on the second half of New Labour's spell in office. Through riveting inside accounts of all the key events from ...

The Stranger | Cornwall, 1940. In the hushed hours of deepest night a young woman is found washed up on the rocks. Was it a tragic accident? Or should the residents of Penhallow have been more careful...