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Orphan X | 'Do you need my help?' It was the first question he asked. They called him when they had nowhere else to turn. As a boy Evan Smoak was taken from an orphanage. Raised and trained in a top s...

American Royals | Crazy Rich Asians meets Gossip Girl in this completely addictive and gloriously fun modern-day royal fairytale HRH Princess Samantha has always been a royal rebel. She's the spare no...

Of The Social Contract and Other Political Writings | 'Man was born free, and everywhere he is in chains.' These are the famous opening words of a treatise that has stirred vigorous debate ever since ...

Ring of Steel. Germany and Austria-Hungary at War, 1914-1918 | For the empires of Germany and Austria-Hungary the Great War - which had begun with such high hopes for a fast, dramatic outcome - rapidl...

Cosmicomics | 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 Bickfor...

The Classical World. An Epic History of Greece and Rome | Robin Lane Fox's The Classical World: An Epic History of Greece and Rome is a comprehensive and enthralling introduction to Ancient civilizati...

Good Morning, Midnight | Jean Rhys's Good Morning Midnight is an unforgettable portrait of a woman bravely confronting loneliness and despair in her quest for self-determination In 1930s Paris, where ...

Burmese Days | Based on his experiences as a policeman in Burma, George Orwell's first novel presents a devastating picture of British colonial rule Burmese Days describes corruption and imperial bigo...

The Caucasian Chalk Circle | The play is a parable inspired by the Chinese play Chalk Circle. Written at the close of World War II, the story is set in the Caucasus mountains of Georgia, and retells t...

Fall. The Mystery of Robert Maxwell | Robert Maxwell was a very British success. Born an Orthodox Jew, he escaped the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, fought in the Second World War, and was decorat...

The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle | Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Cor...

Olivia's Luck | Curl up on the sofa with this tantalising rural romantic comedy about taking control of your life from the bestselling author of A Cornish Summer 'I don't care what colour you paint th...

The Nature of Things | One of a major new Classics series - books that have changed the history of thought, in sumptuous, clothbound hardbacks. Lucretius' poem On the Nature of Things combines a scien...

This Place is Still Beautiful | Two sisters. A shocking racist incident. The summer that will change both of their lives forever. Annalie and Margaret are sisters who agree on only one thing: that the...

Gypsy | Be whisked away in the moving story of a girl travelling far and wide for a better life, from the internationally bestselling author Lesley Pearse Tragedy sent her on a journey far from home ....

The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki | Composed in medieval Iceland, Hrolf's Saga is one of the greatest of all mythic-legendary sagas, relating half-fantastical events that were said to have occurred in fift...

The Commodore | 1812 and the fate of Europe lies in the hands of newly appointed Commodore Hornblower... Dispatched to northern waters to protect Britain's Baltic interests, Horatio Hornblower must ha...

Tono-Bungay | Presented as a miraculous cure-all, Tono-Bungay is in fact nothing other than a pleasant-tasting liquid with no positive effects. Nonetheless, when the young George Ponderevo is employed...

Unseen Academicals | 'We play and are played and the best we can hope for is to do it with style.' Football has come to the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork. And now the wizards of Unseen University must ...

Coming Up for Air | George Orwell's paean to the end of an idyllic era in British history, Coming Up for Air is a poignant account of one man's attempt to recapture childhood innocence as war looms on...

All These Beautiful Strangers | Charlie Calloway has a life most people would kill for - a tight-knit family, a loyal set of friends, and top grades at a privileged boarding school. But Charlie's neve...

Selected Short Stories | Virginia Woolf tested the boundaries of fiction in these short stories, developing a new language of sensation, feeling and thought, and recreating in words the 'swarm and con...

Sketches from a Hunter's Album | Turgenev's first major prose work is a series of twenty-five Sketches: the observations and anecdotes of the author during his travels through Russia satisfying his pa...

The Mad Women's Ball | The Salpetriere asylum, 1885. All of Paris is in thrall to Doctor Charcot and his displays of hypnotism on women who have been deemed mad or hysterical, outcasts from society. B...

The Ends of the Earth | Some love stories change us for ever. For the last seven years, Mary O'Connor has waited for her first love. Every evening she arrives at Ealing Broadway station and stands wit...

Life Class | From the Booker Prize-winning and Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the Girls The first novel in Pat Barker's acclaimed 'Life Class' trilogy - an unforgettable story of a...

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters. Seymour - an Introduction | A haunting and deeply personal portrait of family tragedy from the much-loved author of The Catcher in the Rye. Buddy Glass is the sec...

The Canterville Ghost, The Happy Prince and Other Stories | A collection of stories, including two of Wilde's most famous: 'The Canterville Ghost', in which a young American girl helps to free the tor...

Pilgermann | It is 1097 and a traveller arrives in the great, walled city of Antioch with a vision of a beautiful and mysterious geometric design that will change the lives of all those who see it. Pi...

Auntie Mame. An Irreverent Escapade | Inspired by his own eccentric aunt, Patrick Dennis's Auntie Mame is a madcap comedy, published with an afterword by Matteo Codignola in Penguin Modern Classics. '...

Free. Coming of Age at the End of History | 'We never lose our inner freedom; the freedom to do what is right' Lea Ypi grew up in one of the most isolated countries on earth, a place where communist i...

Carthage Must Be Destroyed. The Rise And Fall Of An Ancient Civilization | The great epic of the Ancient World comes to life The story of Carthage is one of the great epics of the Ancient World. And y...

The Art of Rhetoric | With the emergence of democracy in the city-state of Athens in the years around 460 BC, public speaking became an essential skill for politicians in the Assemblies and Councils -...

The Riddle of the Sands. A Record of Secret Service | Loosely based on the author's own experiences, The Riddle of the Sands takes readers back to the early days of the twentieth century, when Britain...

The Glass Woman | 1686, Iceland. A cold, windswept land where they talk of witches and fear strangers... When Rosa is betrothed to Jon Eiriksson, she is sent to a remote village. There she finds a man...

Bittersweet. How to Turn Sorrow Into Creativity, Beauty and Love | Whether you long for the partner who broke up with you, or the one you dream of meeting; whether you hunger for the happy childhood y...

A Kind of Anger | The last time anyone saw Lucia Bernardi, she was driving at top speed away from a Swiss villa - leaving the body of her murdered Iraqi lover behind. Now she has vanished, along with ...

The House Without Windows | For the adventurer in your life - young or old - discover a dazzling lost classic and escape to distant shores... Eepersip is a girl with the wild in her heart. She does no...

The Night of the Hunter | Two young children hold the key to a secret stash of money - and a relentless psychopath is on their trail... Harry 'Preacher' Powell, his fingers tattooed with LOVE and HATE...

Orwell in Spain | George Orwell's experience of the Spanish Civil War had a transformative effect on his life and work. This volume brings together his complete writings on the war, including Homage t...

Mr Rinyo-Clacton's Offer | 'You want to buy my death for a million pounds!' Piccadilly Circus tube station is an unlikely location for a pact with the Devil, but this is where Jonathan Fitch first mee...

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe | Few writers have expressed loneliness, the need for human understanding and the search for love with such power and poetic sensibility as the American writer Carson McCull...

The Ladybird Book of Dating | It is Barney and Leigh's wedding day. They have certainly come a long way from their first date. They have learned to supress their personalities and pretend they want th...

One-hit Wonder | Bee Beahorn had it all - a successful music career, fabulous friends, and a glamorous celebrity lifestyle. At least, that's what her estranged sister, Ana, had always believed. Their ...

XPD | Alternate history meets Cold War thriller in a vintage Len Deighton escapade 11 June, 1940 - where is Winston Churchill? A private aircraft takes off from a small town in central France, while A...

Culture and Anarchy and Other Selected Prose | Poet, education reformer, social theorist and passionate critic of Victorian England, Matthew Arnold condemned an industrial society in 'bondage to machi...

Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire. A Confidential Report | Hackney, that Rose-Red Empire is Iain Sinclair's foray into one of London's most fascinating boroughs Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire is Iain Sincl...

A Room of One's Own | A Room of One's Own is Virginia Woolf's most powerful feminist essay, justifying the need for women to possess intellectual freedom and financial independence. Based on a lecture...

America, Empire of Liberty. A New History | David Reynolds's unique take on American history It was Thomas Jefferson who envisioned the United States as a great 'empire of liberty.' In the first new o...

The Analects | 'The Master said, "If a man sets his heart on benevolence, he will be free from evil"' The Analects are a collection of Confucius's sayings brought together by his pupils shortly after ...

The Total Library. Non-Fiction 1922-1986 | Though best known in the English speaking world for his short fictions and poems, Borges is revered in Latin America equally as an immensely prolific and beg...

The High Window | 'He lay crumpled on his back. Very lonely, very dead. The safe door was wide open. A metal drawer was pulled out. It was empty now. There may have been money in it once.' Los Angeles...

Good Me Bad Me | When Annie hands her mother over to the police she hopes for a new start in life - but can we ever escape our past? 'New name. New family. Shiny. New. Me.' Annie's mother is a serial ...

The Persian Expedition | In The Persian Expedition, Xenophon, a young Athenian noble who sought his destiny abroad, provides an enthralling eyewitness account of the attempt by a Greek mercenary army ...

In Defence of Dogs | What would dogs ask for, if they knew how? In the Sunday Times bestseller In Defence of Dogs John Bradshaw, an anthropologist at Bristol University who has been at the centre of t...

Liar's Beach | A body in the pool. A friend who might be an enemy. A vacation they'll never forget . . . Linden has always felt like an outsider and spending the summer at his best friend's vacation h...

Pardon My French. Unleash Your Inner Gaul | Forget the French you learnt at school. Based on twenty years of hard-won knowledge, Pardon My French takes you through all the words you need to survive, s...

The Corner That Held Them | The nuns who enter a medieval Norfolk convent are told to renounce the world, but the world still finds ways to trouble them, whether it is through fire, floods, pestilence...

A Kestrel for a Knave | Billy Casper is a boy with nowhere to go and nothing to say; part of the limbo generation of school leavers too old for lessons and too young to know anything about the outside...

Asylums. Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates | Asylums presents four interlinked essays that explore life in the 'total institutions': the closed systems of prisons, bo...

The Real Cool Killers | The night's over for Ulysses Galen. It started going bad for the big Greek when a knife was drawn, then there was an axe, then he was being chased and shot at. Now Galen is lyi...

Selected Poems | Hailed as the greatest modern lyrical poet of Germany, Rainer Maria Rilke’s genius lies in his passion for perfection, artistic integrity and ‘willingness to remain a perpetual beginn...

The Grand Banks Cafe | It was indeed a photograph, a picture of a woman. But the face was completely hidden, scribbled all over in red ink. Someone had tried to obliterate the head, someone very angry...

Piano Notes. The Hidden World of the Pianist | In this eloquent, intimate exploration of the delights and demands of the piano, world-renowned concert pianist and music writer Charles Rosen draws on a...