One of the best sea novels ever written, "The Sea-Wolf" tells of mutiny, shipwreck, and a desperate confrontation. Also in this volume are the stories "The Law of Life," "The...
This is a wonderful new selection of Henry James' short stories exploring the relationship between art and life, edited aby Michael Gorra. This volume gathers seven of the very best of Henry...
A funny, feminist twist on the Cinderella fairy tale for fans of fractured fairy tales Princess Harriet Hamsterbone is not the kind of princess who enjoys fancy dresses or extravagant parties....
A memoir from Pearce, who grew up in a post-war Liverpool slum, where he had to dodge attacks from his alcoholic father and steal to get by. He then went on to build up a business and become a...
Out of the mists of Oregon lore, Ken Kesey has summoned a long-remembered story he first heard as a boy from his father around a campfire: the "last go round" at the Pendleton Round-Up in...
Our lives have become increasingly stressful. How can we turn this stress into strength and resilience?Whether it's our to-do lists, deadlines, difficult conversations or crises small or large,...
Welcome to the series of original mysteries starring Adrian Monk--based on the hit USA Network series Monk, starring Tony Shaloub--the brilliant investigator who always knows when something's...
This major new complete edition of Shakespeare's works combines accessibility with the latest scholarship. Each play and collection of poems is preceded żeby a substantial introduction that...
A woman defies expectations--including those of an arrogant earl--in the first regency romance in New York Times bestselling author Madeline Hunter's Fairbourne Quartet. Despite the limits of...
In 1461 Edward earl of March, an able, handsome, and charming eighteen-year old, usurped the English throne from his feeble Lancastrian predecessor Henry VI. Ten years on, following outbreaks of...
Scores of billionaires worked for established corporations before they struck out on their own. Billionaires aren't necessarily luckier, smarter or harder working than the rest of us - and they...
At a villa on the shore of the Wannsee, a lake in suburban Berlin, on 20th January 1942 one of the most terrible meetings in human history convened. Chaired żeby Reinhard Heydrich and organized and...
"One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century... Simenon was unequaled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked aby his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his...
Poetry and music have been associated with each other from the very beginning. The Penguin Book of English Song draws together a great variety of English poetry (including Irish, Scots and Welsh...
'Come at once if convenient - if inconvenient come all the same...'The note from Sherlock Holmes to Dr Watson cannot be ignored and soon the pair find themselves investigating the curious...
The Inspiration For The Major New Netflix Series, How To Change Your Mind 'It's a trip - engrossing, eye-opening, mind altering' New Statesman 'Fascinating. Pollan is the perfect...
All four legendary Sherlock Holmes novels, collected in a unique Graphic Deluxe Edition with an introduction żeby Michael Dirda§§Though endlessly reinterpreted, reinvented, and imitated, the...
The exquisite manga adaptation of one of the world's greatest 20th century fiction classics'My mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know.'A stranger to society, a stranger...
In the constellation of Eridanus there lurks a cosmic mystery. It's as if something has taken a huge bite out of the universe, leaving a super-void. What could be the culprit? A super massive...
Lydia and Freddie. Freddie and Lydia. They've been together for almost a decade, and are just about to get married. But then, on Lydia's 27th birthday, Freddie dies in a tragic accident....
Based on the hit series on USA Network. When Shawn's partner Gus decides he doesn't want to be a detective anymore and gets a real job, Shawn wonders: Is the end of Psych? Or is it the end...
Lewis Carroll's books have delighted children and adults for generations, but behind their exuberant fantasy and delightful nonsense was the mind of a brilliant mathematician. Now his forgotten...
A tale of battles and empire-building, of bitter rivalry and destruction, and of the great civilisation of Carthage city, which played key role in shaping European culture and history.