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The Furrows | I don't want to tell you what happened. I want to tell you how it felt. Cassandra Williams is twelve; her little brother Wayne is seven. One day, when they're alone together, there's an

Talking to Strangers | The routine traffic stop that ends in tragedy. The spy who spends years undetected at the highest levels of the Pentagon. The false conviction of Amanda Knox. Why do we so often

This Nowhere Place | Mo, Cali, Jude. Three teenagers befriend each other on the white cliffs, thinking they'll save each other. Within months, two of them are dead and the third is scarred for life. T

Two Hours. The Quest to Run the Impossible Marathon | Two hours to cover twenty-six miles and 385 yards. An exceptional feat of speed, mental strength and endurance. The sub-two-hour marathon is runni

Hindoo Holiday. An Indian Journal | A highly entertaining and moving journal chronicling J. R. Ackerley's time in India In the 1920s, the young J. R. Ackerley spent several months in India as the Priv

The Odyssey | Meet Ingrid. She works on a gargantuan luxury cruise liner, where she spends her days reorganizing the merchandise and waiting for long-term guests to drop dead in the changing rooms. On

Black Edge. Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man | A New York Times Bestseller, the real story of Damian Lewis's character in BILLIONS: The rise and fall of

Robinson Crusoe | The Penguin English Library Edition of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe 'I walk'd about on the shore, lifting up my hands, and my whole being, as I may say, wrapt up in the contemplat

Skeleton Coast | Skeleton Coast is Clive Cussler's fourth Oregon Files adventure, featuring captain Juan Cabrillo. 1896: HMS Rove vanishes in a shocking storm off the African coast. Aboard is a fortun

Reflections on the Guillotine | 'When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved, then there is no other solution but to

Jane Austen. A Life | Jane Austen is the definitive biography of one of Britain's best-loved novelists, from the acclaimed author of Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self, Charles Dickens: A Life and The

Dimension of Miracles | This madcap cosmic farce relates the adventures of the hapless human Carmody, as he attempts to make his way home to Earth after winning the grand prize in the Intergalactic Sw

The Golden Apples | First published in 1949, The Golden Apples is an acutely observed, richly atmospheric portrayal of small town life in Morgana, Mississippi. There's Snowdie, who has to bring up her

Carrie Soto Is Back | Carrie Soto is fierce, and her determination to win at any cost has not made her popular. By the time Carrie retires from tennis, she is the best player the world has ever seen.

Two Girls, Fat and Thin | Dorothy Never - fat - lives alone in New York, eats and works the night shift as a proofreader. Justine Shade - thin - is a freelance journalist who sleeps with unsuitable me

Wildcard | The incredible sequel to sci-fi thriller Warcross by bestselling author Marie Lu. Return to the immersive, action-packed world of Warcross in this thrilling sequel from #1 New York Times be

Ravenspur | Witness the rise of the Tudors in the stunning conclusion to Conn Iggulden's powerful retelling of the Wars of the Roses. 'An utterly compelling page-turner full of historical facts. A fas

The Two-Penny Bar | 'A radiant late afternoon. The sunshine almost as thick as syrup in the quiet streets of the Left Bank . . . there are days like this, when ordinary life seems heightened, when the

A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain | Britain in the early eighteenth century: an introduction that is both informative and imaginative, reliable and entertaining. To the tradition of tra

Yeah, But Where Are You Really From? A Story of Overcoming the Odds | Marguerite Penrose's is an extraordinary story of making a great life from complicated beginnings. Marguerite was born in a Dublin

Four Treasures of the Sky | Daiyu was named after a ghost… Little Daiyu is twelve when her parents disappear. So she runs, disguising herself as a boy, to sweep the steps of Master Wang's calligraphy

The Secret Pilgrim | The eighth of John le Carre's espionage novels to feature his most enduring and well-loved character, George Smiley, and a gripping feat of narrative brilliance, The Secret Pilgri

A Small Circus | A Small Circus is a powerful 1931 portrayal of a German town on the brink of chaos, from bestselling author Hans Fallada (writer of Alone in Berlin) It is summer, 1929, and in a small

The Besieged City | 'She suddenly leaned toward the mirror and sought the loveliest way to see herself' Lucrecia Neves is vain, unreflective, insolently superficial, almost mute. She may have no inner

Secrets of the Stars | Aleja and her fellow pirates are eager to embark on a new adventure to find the second piece of the missing magical map. But they soon find themselves panicking, bewildered by a

A Warning from the Golden Toad | Taking us on an extraordinary journey into the past and around the globe, from coral reefs to the North Pole, deserts to rainforests, Tim Flannery tells the story of t

Black No More | It's New Years Day in 1933 in New York City and Max Disher, a young black man, has just found out that a certain Dr Junius Crookman has discovered a mysterious process that allows peop

The Island of Doctor Moreau | A parable on Darwinian theory, and a biting social satire, H.G. Wells's science fiction classic The Island of Dr Moreau is a fascinating exploration of what it is to be h

Molly and Me. The true story of one amazing dog who reunites missing cats with their families | Missing cat? Molly the pet detective is on the case. Molly the cocker spaniel spent the first years of h

The Joyous Science | The Joyous Science is a liberating voyage of discovery as Nietzsche's realization that 'God is dead' and his critique of morality, the arts and modernity give way to an exhilarati

The French Revolution | If you want to discover the captivating history of the French Revolution, this is the book for you . . . Concise, convincing and exciting, this is Christopher Hibbert's brillia

Great Expectations | The Penguin English Library Edition of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens "What do you think that is?' she asked me, again pointing with her stick; 'that, where those cobwebs a

Be More Pirate Or How to Take On the World and Win | Pirates didn't just break the rules, they rewrote them. They didn't just reject society, they reinvented it. Pirates didn't just challenge the stat

Sketches by Boz | 'Sets out the London of the 1830s before you, streets, people, pleasures, low life, prisons' Claire Tomalin Charles Dickens's first published book, Sketches by Boz is a funny and tou

Maigret and the Tall Woman | 'When he had set them to work, Maigret had had a merry, almost fierce glint in his eye. He had set them loose on the house like a pack of hounds on the trail of a scent, e

Lost Empire | Lost Empire is the second phenomenal FARGO Adventure from international bestseller, Clive Cussler. Some treasures are best left buried... Scuba diving off the Tanzanian coast, husband-an

Fear and Trembling | In Fear and Trembling, Soren Kierkegaard's infamous and controversial work made a lasting impression on both modern Protestant theology and existentialist philosophers such as Sar

The Water Dancer | Lose yourself in the stunning debut novel everyone is talking about - the unmissable historical story of injustice and redemption that resonates powerfully today Hiram Walker is a m

Notes from Underground and the Double | 'The best thing is to do nothing! Better conscious inertia! So, long live the underground!' Alienated from society and paralysed by a sense of hose own insignif

The Pigeon | Set in Paris and attracting comparisons with Franz Kafka and Edgar Allan Poe, The Pigeon is Patrick Suskind's tense, disturbing follow-up to the bestselling Perfume. The novella tells the

Margaret Thatcher. The Authorized Biography. Volume One. Not For Turning | Not For Turning is the first volume of Charles Moore's authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher, the longest serving Prime M

The Butcher and the Wren | Wren was never afraid of the dark. Until she learned that some monsters are real . . . In deep Louisiana, a serial killer with a taste for medical experimentation is complet

Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio | The Strange Tales of Pu Songling (1640-1715) are exquisite and amusing miniatures that are regarded as the pinnacle of classical Chinese fiction. With their elega

The Fifth Elephant | 'Well, he thought, so this is diplomacy. It's lying, only for a better class of people.' Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch is a long way from home. Sent as reluct

Italian Short Stories 2 | This second volume of Italian Short Stories, with its parallel translations aims - as the first volume did - to exemplify the richness and variety of Italian writing of the t

Transcendent Kingdom | As a child Gifty would ask her parents to tell the story of their journey from Ghana to Alabama, seeking escape in myths of heroism and romance. When her father and brother succ

The Short Novels of John Steinbeck | Collected here for the first time in a deluxe paperback volume are six of John Steinbeck's most widely read and beloved novels. From the tale of commitment, loneli

Wild Fell | It was a tragic day for the nation's wildlife when England's last and loneliest golden eagle died in an unmarked spot among the remote eastern fells of the Lake District. But the fight to

Valhalla Rising | Valhalla Rising is Clive Cussler's thrilling sixteenth Dirk Pitt adventure. Sabotage, conspiracy and piracy in the air, and below the waves, finds Dirk Pitt plunged into his most dan

Paradise Lodge | Working in a care home is not really a suitable job for a schoolgirl but 15-year-old Lizzie Vogel went for it. It just seemed too exhausting to commit to being a full-time girlfriend

Bushido. The Soul of Japan | 'What Japan was she owed to the samurai. They were not only the flower of the nation, but its root as well.' Inazo Nitobe's book, the most influential ever written on Bush

Captain Hornblower R.N. Hornblower and the 'Atropos'. The Happy Return. A Ship of the Line | Follow the thrilling and exciting adventures of Horatio Hornblower's life at sea in the Royal Navy, in thes

Winners Take All. The Elite Charade of Changing the World | What explains the spreading backlash against the global elite? In this revelatory investigation, Anand Giridharadas takes us into the inner

Confessions of an Italian | A classic of Italian literature, this epic and unforgettable novel recounts one man's long and turbulent life in revolutionary Italy At the age of eighty-three and nearing

Charlie | From the internationally bestselling author Lesley Pearse comes the compulsive page-turner about a girl searching for the truth, which may be a little too close to home . . . Her family is t

SilverFin. Level 1 +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 lang

The Shadow-Line | A young and inexperienced sea captain finds that his first command leaves him with a ship stranded in tropical seas and a crew smitten with fever. As he wrestles with his conscience

Playback | Playback is Raymond Chandler's gripping last full-length novel featuring laconic PI Philip Marlowe. Los Angeles PI Philip Marlowe is mixing business with pleasure - he's getting paid to fol

Atomic Love | Rosalind Porter's biggest mistake was love... Chicago, 1950. Before Thomas Weaver broke her heart and wrecked her career, Rosalind was a leading atomic researcher. Five years on, she's a

Oh! to be in England | 'Christening? We never said nothing about no christening, Ma, did we?' And so with the appearance of a letter announcing the imminent arrival of Madame Dupont, Pop and Ma Larkin

A Cup of Rage | 'Yes, bastard, you're the one I love' A pair of lovers - a young female journalist and an older man who owns an isolated farm in the Brazilian outback - spend the night together. The n

In Defence of Food | Michael Pollan's In Defence of Food is a simple invitation to junk the science, ditch the diet and instead rediscover the joys of eating well. This book is a celebration of food.

Sweet Thursday | In Monterey, on the California Coast, Sweet Thursday is what they call the day after Lousy Wednesday - one of those days that's just bad from the start. But Sweet Thursday is sunny an

Barnaby Rudge | 'One of Dickens's most neglected, but most rewarding, novels' Peter Ackroyd Set against the backdrop of the Gordon Riots of 1780, Barnaby Rudge is a story of mystery and suspense which