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A Kiss After Dying | It takes a long time to plan the perfect revenge. Hannah has been working on it for decades. It has to look like they bumped into each other by accident. And he has to fall in lov

That Night | What would you do to protect your family? Anything. During a family holiday in Italy, you get an urgent call from your sister. There's been an accident: she hit a man with her car and he'

Beast in the Shadows | A mystery writer turns detective to protect the woman he loves. But is he hunter or hunted? The chance meeting between a crime novelist and a married woman blossoms into friends

Four Kings | By the late 1970s, boxing had lapsed into a moribund state and interest in it was on the wane. In 1980, however, the sport was resuscitated by a riveting series of bouts involving an impr

Dear Amy | Would you risk your life to save a stranger? A local schoolgirl has been missing for weeks when Margot Lewis, agony aunt of the 'Dear Amy' advice column, receives a letter: Dear Amy, I've b

At the Mountains of Madness | 'To that flash of semi-vision can be traced a full half of the horror which has ever since haunted us' An expedition to Antarctica goes horribly wrong as a group of explo

The Athenian Constitution | Probably written by a student of Aristotle, The Athenian Constitution is both a history and an analysis of Athens' political machinery between the seventh and fourth centur

The Enemy | Charlie Higson's The Enemy is the first in a jaw-dropping zombie horror series for teens. Everyone over the age of fourteen has succumbed to a deadly zombie virus and now the kids must kee

A Slow Fire Burning | It's the quiet ones you have to watch Three women, connected by one brutal crime. Three women, determined to right the wrongs done to them. Three women, with everything to hide.

The Wayward Bus | The Wayward Bus travels through the backroads of the lush California countryside, transporting the lost and the lonely to new destinations. Juan Chicoy is at the wheel, a man of the

Cutting It Short | 'As I crammed the cream horn voraciously into my mouth, at once I heard Francin's voice saying that no decent woman would eat a cream puff like that' In a quiet town where not much

Hard Times | The Penguin English Library Edition of Hard Times by Charles Dickens 'Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothi

Maigret and the Old Lady | 'He had realized that it was her eyes as much as her vivacity that made her look so young. They were of a blue that was paler than the September sky over the sea and still h

Niels Lyhne | Niels Lyhne is an aspiring poet, torn between romanticism and realism, faith and reason. Through his relationships with six women—including his young widowed aunt, a seductive free spiri

Good Ancestor. How to Think Long Term in a Short-Term World | 'This is the book our children's children will thank us for reading' - The Edge, U2 How can we be good ancestors? From the first seeds sow

Shipyard Girls Under the Mistletoe | Sunderland, 1944 As the promise of victory draws closer, this Christmas will surely be one to remember. It should be a magical time for Dorothy, who has just been

A Most Wanted Man | An illegal Muslim immigrant arrives in Hamburg with a traumatic past and the key to a fortune held in a private bank. He says his name is Issa. To the idealistic young human rights

A Sentimental Journey | A furiously witty response to Tobias Smollett's curmudgeonly 'Travels through France and Italy', Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy became a hugel

Beautiful Ruins | 'The actress arrived in his village the only way one could come directly . . .' In spring 1962 American actress Dee Moray's boat motors into an Italian bay and the life of hotelier P

Sea of Greed | In the Gulf of Mexico, flames erupt from the seabed turning oilrigs into infernos… Luckily, Kurt Austin and the NUMA team are on hand to rescue the crews before the burning rigs sink be

My Father's Tears and Other Stories | John Updike was a master storyteller, and this collection, from his final years, reveals that up to the end he remained the finest short-story writer of his gener

Measure for Measure | A young man is condemned to death for breaking a law forbidding sex outside marriage. When his sister pleads with the Lord Angelo to save him, he offers her a bargain - her broth

The Crooked Timber of Humanity | Isaiah Berlin was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century - an activist of the intellect who marshalled vast erudition and eloquence in defence

Lost Illusions | Handsome would-be poet Lucien Chardon is poor and naive, but highly ambitious. Failing to make his name in his dull provincial hometown, he is taken up by a patroness, the captivating

A Fraction of the Whole | From his prison cell, Jasper Dean tells the unlikely story of his scheming father Martin, his crazy Uncle Terry and how the three of them upset - mostly unintentionally - an

Babette's Feast and Other Stories | These five rich, witty and magical stories from the author of Out of Africa include one of her most well-known tales, 'Babette's Feast', which was made into the cla

Landmarks | Words are grained into our landscapes, and landscapes are grained into our words. Landmarks is about the power of language to shape our sense of place. It is a field guide to the literatur

The Long Good-bye | A classic novel by Raymond Chandler, the master of hard-boiled crime, The Long Good-Bye is the sixth novel featuring laconic PI Philip Marlowe Down-and-out drunk Terry Lennox has a

The Hollow Sea | They say the Hollow Sea is cursed. A wild expanse separating the remote islands of St Hia, not even the locals brave its treacherous waters. But new arrival Scottie feels a pull she c

Ammonites and Leaping Fish. A Life in Time | In this powerful and compelling 'view from old age', Penelope Lively, at eighty, reports back on what she finds. There are meditations on what it is like t

Wreck This Journal. Now in Colour | Perhaps you're a seasoned Wreck-er, having made your way through one or more copies of Wreck This Journal. Or maybe you're new to the phenomenon (little do you know

Just Haven't Met You Yet | Tell me the story of how you two met... Laura has built a career out of interviewing people about their epic real life love stories. When she picks up the wrong suitcase at

Jailhouse Lawyer | Two brand-new legal thrillers in one book - from the authors of Juror No. 3 A young lawyer takes on the judge who is destroying her hometown - and ends up behind bars... In picture-

Juve! 100 Years of an Italian Football Dynasty | The definitive history of the iconic football club: the glory, the scandal, the stars and its enduring influence on Italian life. Juventus utterly domi

Rival Queens. The Betrayal of Mary, Queen of Scots | Mary and Elizabeth: cousins, rivals, queens. They allied and fought and plotted - but could never escape their bond... A story which inspired the H

Violent Ward | Downtown LA. Streetwise lawyer Mickey Murphy has a shabby office in a low-rent district, an ex who bleeds him dry and the kind of clients who would plead the Fifth if they could count t

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave | A new edition of the classic African American autobiography, now with with the inclusion of Douglass's other works. The pre-eminent Ame

The Canterbury Tales | In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature. A storytelling competition within a group of pilgrims from all walks of life is the o

The Black Ball | Belonging and estrangement intertwine in these four lyrical short stories from the the author of Invisible Man. None. Категория: Книги/Книги на иностранных языках/Книги на английском

Far from the Madding Crowd (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 fore

The Eustace Diamonds | Following the death of her husband Sir Florian, beautiful Lizzie Eustace mysteriously comes into possession of a hugely expensive diamond necklace. She maintains it was a gift f

The White Devil | America is on the brink of civil war. Only Thomas Cale can stop it... Thomas Cale - the world's most dangerous yet reluctant hero - has been running from his enemies. Tracked down mo

Elizabeth is Missing | How do you solve a mystery when you can't remember the clues? Maud is forgetful. She makes a cup of tea and doesn't remember to drink it. She goes to the shops and forgets why s

Storm of Steel | Presenting the desperate conflict of the First World War through the eyes of an ordinary German soldier, Ernst Junger's Storm of Steel is translated by Michael Hofmann in Penguin Mode

Utopia | In Utopia Thomas More painted a fantastical picture of a distant island where society is perfected and people live in harmony, yet its title means 'no place', and More's hugely influential wo

Men at Arms | Guy Crouchback, determined to get into the war, takes a commission in the Royal Corps of Halberdiers. His spirits high, he sees all the trimmings but none of the action. And his first ca

The Cutthroat | Private Detective Isaac Bell crosses some of America's harshest terrain in pursuit of the most twisted killer yet, in the latest action-packed historical blockbuster from Sunday Times

Fairy Tales | A new selection of 30 tales to mark the 200 year anniversary of Andersen's birth in 2005. Tiina Nunnally's sparkling translation captures the rawness and immediacy of Andersen's style, f

Karen M. McManus. The Collection. 4-book boxset | A boxset of four titles from the internationally bestselling author of One of Us is Lying. Secrets. Lies. Murder. The Karen M. McManus boxset has it a

Another Life | Do you remember your first love? Nick and Anna are young. They meet at a cinema, both working summer jobs. They've lived different lives. Carry secret hurts. But they're drawn together

Little Women | 'I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.' Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth - four "little women" enduring hardships and enjoying adventures in Civil War New England The cha

Adam Bede | Carpenter Adam Bede is in love with the beautiful Hetty Sorrel, but unknown to him, he has a rival, in the local squire’s son Arthur Donnithorne. Hetty is soon attracted by Arthur’s seduct

I Capture the Castle | "I write this sitting in the kitchen sink" is the memorable first line of this enchanting coming-of-age story, told in the form of Cassandra Mortmain's journal. Cassandra wittil

Untouchable | Mulk Raj Anand's extraordinarily powerful story of an Untouchable in India's caste system, with a new introduction by Ramachandra Guha, author of Gandhi Bakha is a proud and attractive y

Essays | The articles collected in George Orwell's Essays illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this century - a man who elevated political writing to an art. This outs

The Habsburgs. The Rise and Fall of a World Power | In The Habsburgs, Martyn Rady tells the epic story of a dynasty and the world it built - and then lost - over nearly a millennium. From modest origi

Sanditon | A new Penguin English Library edition of Jane Austen's tantalizing final work - set to be a major Andrew Davies ITV adaptation this autumn Written in the last months of Austen's life, Sandi

Faith | Uncover a web of thrilling secrets and injustices in this gripping novel from international bestselling author Lesley Pearse She was convicted of killing her best friend . . . Scotland, 1995.

The Jewish State | 'We shall live at last as free men on our own soil, and die peacefully in our own homes' Theodor Herzl's passionate advocacy of the founding of a Jewish state grew out of his convic

The Penguin History of Economics | A very clear, reliable and readable history of economic thought from the ancient world to the present day. From Homer to Marx to John Stuart Mill, Backhouse shows ho

The Theory of Moral Sentiments | Best known for his revolutionary free-market economics treatise The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith was first and foremost a moral philosopher. In his first book, The Th

The Pothunters | 'What a mad thing to go and do. Jolly sporting, though.' Suspicion abounds at St Austin's School when two silver trophies, or 'pots', are stolen from the cricket pavilion. Jim Thomson

The Solomon Curse | Beneath the waves a secret lies In the clear blue waters of the Solomon Islands the ruins of an ancient city have lain undisturbed for hundreds of years - until now. Guarded by an

A Black Boy at Eton | Dillibe was the second black boy to study at Eton - joining in 1965 - and the first to complete his education there. Written at just 21, this is a deeply personal, revelatory acc