Including works from Welsh, Irish and Scottish Gaelic, Cornish, Breton, and Manx, this work offers poetry and prose from the eighth to the nineteenth century, and provides a unique insight into the...
After a routine security check żeby George Smiley, civil servant Samuel Fennan apparently kills himself. When Smiley finds Circus head Maston is trying to blame him for the death, he begins his own...
Pre-order the chilling and heart-pounding new novel from Norwegian superstar Jørn Lier Horst.THE INSPIRATION FOR THE HIT BBC FOUR SHOW WISTINGA chilling letter. A wrong conviction. One last chance...
Burroughs's eagerly awaited final novel in the trilogy begun with Cities of the Red Night and The Place of Dead Roads is a profound, revealing, and often astonishing meditation on mortality,...
The Survival Guide for Entrepreneurial Success from Harvard Professor, Tom Eisenmann 'Essential reading.' Eric Ries, bestselling author of The Lean Startup and The Startup...
'Böll's novel blows a stent in the human heart... It feels more necessary than ever.' Anna Funder, from the introductionTwenty-four-year-old Andreas, a disillusioned German soldier, is...
In "My Secret History", award-winning writer Paul Theroux offers the reader an exciting insight into the double-life of Andre Parent in six compelling snapshots. "Written with a rare...
The Lonely Londoners, an unforgettable account of immigrant experience and one of the great twentieth-century London novels, now in in a stunning Clothbound Classics edition. At Waterloo Station,...
The "Pursuit of Italy" traces the whole history of the Italian peninsula in a wonderfully readable style, full of well-chosen stories and observations from personal experience, and peopled...
At the Same Time contains sixteen illuminating essays żeby Susan Sontag. With a preface aby David Rieff. The sixteen essays gathered here represent the last pieces written aby Susan Sontag in the...
A lyrical, heart-warming new tale from the award-winning designer and creator of The Fox and the Star Bird loves to sing in the towering tree at the heart of the jungle. It feels like home. When...
Exploring issues of colonialism, faith and the limits of comprehension, E.M. Forster's A Passage to India is published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. When Adela Quested and her...
Two sets of identical twins - Dromio and Antipholus of Syracuse, and their brothers Dromio and Antipholus of Ephesus - having been separated at sea as children, find themselves in the same city for...
While Geoffrey Chaucer composed several magnificent works of poetry, his reputation as "the father of English literature" rests mainly on The Canterbury Tales, a group of stories told by...
June 1940 was the summer of defeat for the French soldiers, deserted żeby their officers, utterly demoralized, awaiting the Armistice. Day by day, hour aby hour, "Iron in the Soul" unfolds...
30 years ago you believed you were telling the truth about a missing friend. But now the body's been found - and it's murder. Maybe it's time to stop believing your own lies... Because...
The sole survivor of a shipwreck, Robinson Crusoe is stranded on an uninhabited island. With patience and ingenuity, he transforms his island into a tropical paradise. For 24 years he has no human...
One of the least-known places on the planet, the only continent on earth with no indigenous population, Antarctica is a world apart. From a leading cartographer with the British Antarctic Survey,...
Told for the very first time is the true story of the secret royal family, The Dudley's - Pre-order now.___________Each Tudor monarch made their name with a Dudley aby their side - or żeby...
With 90 million of the band's records sold worldwide since 1987, Guns N' Roses prolonged rock music past its sell-by date with controversial albums and immense, often riotous, world tours....
Freud's religious unbeliefs are too easily dismissed as the standard scientific rationalism of the twentieth-century intellectual, yet he scorned the high-minded humanism of his contemporaries....
Central Europe is not just a space on a map but also a region of shared experience - of mutual borrowings, impositions and misapprehensions. From the Roman Empire onwards, it has been the target of...
What do we really need in order to live a happy life? An Epicurean antidote to anxietyOver two thousand years ago the Greek philosopher Epicurus offered a seemingly simple answer: all we really...