Barney Livingstone and Laura Castellano are childhood neighbours who share an unforgettable friendship.From the crucible of med school's merciless training, through the demanding hours of internship and residency to the triumphs - and sometimes tragedies - of their daily professional lives, we follow Barney...

Based on his experiences as a policeman in Burma, George Orwell's first novel presents a devastating picture of British colonial ruleBurmese Daysand describes corruption and imperial bigotry in a society where, 'after all, natives were natives'. When Flory, a white timber merchant, befriends Indian...

Based on the legends used in Greek drama, Seneca's plays are notable for the exuberant ruthlessness with which disastrous events are foretold and then pursued to their tragic and often bloodthirsty ends. Thyestes depicts the menace of an ancestral curse hanging over two feuding...

Based on the much-loved film, fly away on a magical journey to the enchanting land of the Snowman - now celebrating its 40th anniversary!After the snow settles on a cold winter's day, a little boy builds a Snowman. Later that night, under the glittering...

Basho, one of the greatest of Japanese poets and the master of haiku, was also a Buddhist monk and a life-long traveller. His poems combine 'karumi', or lightness of touch, with the Zen ideal of oneness with creation. Each poem evokes the natural world...

Beautiful and deep ...and a sumptuous treat for any book lover'and The Independent'Food for short story lovers everywhere'and Irish Times*A major celebration of the French short story andand Spectatorand Book of the Year*The short story has a rich tradition in French literature. This feast...

Beautiful Emma Bovary dreams of love and riches but her marriage to Charles, a dull country doctor, is far from satisfying. In an attempt to escape the narrow confines of her life, she embarks on a series of passionate affairs, hoping to find the...

Beautiful Sad Eyes, Weary Waiting for Loveand is a two-book collection from bestselling poets r.h. Sin and Robert M. Drake that explores the duality of the heart to cling to darkness while fighting to feel the light.A unique duet between two powerhouse poets,and Beautiful...

Beautiful World, Where Areand Youand is Rooney's best novel.'and THE TIMES***PRE-ORDER NOW****Theand Sunday Timesand and Global number one bestseller**Winner of Novel of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards**A Book of the Year inand The Times, theand Guardian, theand Irish Timesand and...

Beautifully illustrated by Alice Tye, this is a cornerstone of modernist fiction and an incisive critique of wealth, class and the inescapable heartache of lost love.In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and...

Becky Sharp has big dreams and no connections. Determined to swap the gutters of Soho for the glamorous, exclusive world behind the velvet rope, Becky will do anything to achieve fame, riches and status.Whether it's seducing society's most eligible bachelors, or befriending silly debutantes...

Behind anonymous screens, an army of cool and beautiful girls manage the dating service Ghost Lover, a forwarding system for text messages that promises to spare you the anguish of trying to stay composed while communicating with your crush. At a star-studded political fundraiser...

Behind the Moon Gate lies a mystery... Theand most mesmerising story of family secrets, sweeping from wartime London to Ireland to Australia.and From the author of the beloved Richard and Judy Book Club pickand The Midnight House.'A rich, sweeping mystery . . . beautifully...

Being a father can't be harder than being Batman, right?Batman needs a break. But with new vigilante Duke Thomas moving into Wayne Manor and an endless supply of adopted, fostered, and biological superhero children to manage, Bruce Wayne is going to have his hands...

Bellefleur has a droll, distinct voice, and her one-liners zing off the page, striking both the heart and funny bone... There's a sparkling quality here, one that mirrors the starry title. Bellefleur writes as if she's captured fairy lights in a mason jar, twinkly...

Beloved and contemplated by philosophers, architects, writers, and literary theorists alike, Bachelard's lyrical, landmark work examines the places in which we place our conscious and unconscious thoughts and guides us through a stream of cerebral meditations on poetry, art, and the blooming of consciousness...

BESTSELLING PSYCHOLOGICAL SUSPENSE, AND A TOP RICHARD andamp; JUDY SELECTION_____________________________OVERand 1,000and 5* REVIEWS ?and this is why readers love this book:'Grips to the point ofand OBSESSION''My lifeand STOPPEDand while I read this book''My heart wasand THUMPINGand in my chest''This isand EDGE OF YOUR SEATand...

Best-selling Victorian author Jane Austen has created many memorable female characters, with intriguing Emma Woodhouse being perhaps the most popular. Emma, a matchmaker at heart, is obsessed with love and romance-for others. As for her own love life, she wants nothing of it. She...

Better mad with the crowd than sane all alone'In these witty, Machiavellian aphorisms, unlikely Spanish priest Baltasar Gracián shows us how to exploit friends and enemies alike to thrive in a world of deception and illusion.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th...

Beyond The Fields

Bill Emmott is one of the world's most authoritative international commentators. Fifteen years after The Sun Also Sets predicted the decline of Japan in the 1990s, Emmott returns not only to the Far East but to the wholly new and different challenges which have...

Bird had been flying for such a long time. Sometimes everything looked the same all over. Nothing different. Nothing at all. Apart from the odd cloud A beautiful picture book about how finding a friend can change the shape of a day.

Black Pantherand meets Percy Jackson in this action-packed and empowering middle-grade superhero series about a British-Nigerian girl who learns that her Afro hair has psychokinetic powers.and Soon to be a feature film with a major streamer!and I close my eyes, trying to push the...

A gifted clairvoyant. A shocking vision. A deadly killer.Dean Koontz writes a spine-chilling novel inand The Face of Fearand - a gripping tale of predator and prey. Perfect for fans of Richard Laymon and Harlan Coben.'Real suspense... tension upon tension!' -and The New York...

A pacey, creepy book that does what any good prequel should... this is unmistakablyand Stranger Things' -and SFX MagazineA mysterious lab. A sinister scientist. A secret history. If you think you know the truth about Eleven's mother, prepare to have your mind turned Upside...

Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.'Set against the dramatic backdrop of the American Civil War, Margaret Mitchell's magnificent historical epic is an unforgettable tale of love and loss, of a nation mortally divided and...

Bleak House is one of Dickens' finest achievements, establishing his reputation as a serious and mature novelist, as well as a brilliant comic writer. It is at once a complex mystery story that fully engages the reader in the work of detection, and an...

Bob Slocum is anxious, bored and fearful of his job. So why is it he wants nothing more than the chance to speak at the next company convention? In this darkly satirical book, Joseph Heller takes us for a turn on the maddening hamster...

Booker Prize nominee Tim Winton continues to astonish critics and captivate readers with this Australian love story about people stifled by grief and regret; a novel about the odds of breaking with the past.

Born in Heera Mandi, Lahore's famous red-light district, Rania is a tour guide by day and a classical singer by night. Despite the worst of humanity every day - her madrassa-running father selling her mother's body and beating her sister - Rania remains the...

Botchan is a modern young man from the Tokyo metropolis, sent to the ultra-traditional Matsuyama district as a Maths teacher after his the death of his parents. Cynical, rebellious and immature, Botchan finds himself facing several tests, from the pupils - prone to playing...

Brandi Maxwell is living the fashion intern dream.Except, the dream looks more like living on the breadline, scrubbing sick from couture dresses, and dealing with daily microaggressions about her braids - all things she's sure she can ignore in the name of success.The one...

Brianna Concannon has buried a broken heart under her fair, calm exterior for ten long years. Jilted just weeks before the wedding to her childhood love, Bri turned her attention to keeping house for her family in County Clare. She's cooled her passions for...

Briefly: Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is a short summary of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics which is designed to assist university and school-leaving students in acquiring knowledge and understanding of this key text in the philosophy of religion. The book closely adheres to Aristotle's text, enabling the...

Brilliantly imaginative fiction or the shape of things to come? H.G. Wells's masterpiece still retains its power to provoke and enthral.In the Time Traveller's miraculous new machine, we will be carried from a Victorian dinner table to 802,701 AD, when the Earth is divided...

Brimming withand all the ingredients for the best of novels: love, community spirit, family, friendship and four-legged friends.'and Milly Johnson'Heartwarming and full of hope. Lucy Dillon brings warmth to every page'Sarah MorganAfter the storm it's time for a fresh start . . .First, the...

Bring home Kramer's greatest invention from the quintessentially modern sitcom,and Seinfeld-a coffee table book about coffee tables that turns into a coffee table-in miniature form.From the Screen to the Page:and This finely detailed, 3 5/8 x 2 3/4 inchand replica coffee table book is...

Bringing into harsh focus the daily struggle for existence in a Sovietand gulag, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn'sand One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovichand is translated by Ralph Parker in Penguin Modern Classics.This brutal, shattering glimpse of the fate of millions of Russians under Stalin...

Buri Aurat Ki Dusri Katha By and Kishwar Naheed

'But no, she's abstract, is a birdOf sound in the air of air soaring,And her soul sings unencumberedBecause the song's what makes her sing.'Dramatic, lyrical and ranging over four distinct personae, these poems by one of Portugal's greatest poets trace a mind shaken by...

By Adrianna Cuevas, author of 2021 Pura Belpre Honor Bookand The Total Eclipse of Nestor Lopez,and comesand a sweeping, emotional middle grade historical novel about a twelve-year-old boy who leaves his family in Cuba to immigrate to the U.S. by himself, based on the...

Byand National Book Award finalist and Dos Passos Prize winner, Rabih Alameddine, comes a transporting new novel about an Arab American trans woman's personal journey among Syrian refugees on Lesbos island.Mina Simpson, a Lebanese doctor, arrives at the infamous Moria refugee camp on Lesbos,...

BY THE AUTHOR OFand IT CAN'T HAPPEN HEREBusinessman George F. Babbitt loves the latest appliances, making money and the Republican party. In fact, he loves being a Solid Citizen even more than he loves his wife. But Babbitt comes to resent the middle class...

By the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature'There is a wonderful sardonic eloquence to this unnamed narrator's voice'and Financial Times'I don't think I've ever read a novel that is so convincingly and hauntingly sad about the loss of home'and Independent on Sunday_____________________He...

Camille Lammenais had a perfect childhood growing up in California's beautiful Napa Valley, surrounded by acres of her family's vineyards. Her beloved parents have built a renowned winery inspired by her father's native Bordeaux, and after graduating, Camille returns to fulfil her lifetime ambition...

Can one person change the course of history?'Genius'and Lauren GroffA sweeping, breathtakingly ambitious novel about power, wealth and truth, told by four unique, interlocking voices and set against the backdrop of turbulent 1920s New York.The legendary Wall Street tycoon whose immense wealth gives him...

Can we truly know the one we love? In this painfully candid book Marcel Proust looks straight into the green eye of every lover's jealous struggle. He broods on why we are driven to try possess one another, how jealousy can outlive death, and...

Captivating, innovative Ukrainian fiction about displaced women living in the shadow of the war with Russia'A daring, unsettling book about displaced women telling luminous stories to survive the darkness that surrounds them' Jenny Offill, author of WeatherIn Lucky Breaks, we encounter anonymous women from...

From theand New York Timesand bestselling author ofand Mexican Gothicand andand Velvet Was the Nightand comes a dreamy reimagining ofand The Island of Doctor Moreauand set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century Mexico.'The deeply atmospheric novel blends horror, science fiction, and historical events'and Time, 100...

'Let me out! Please . . .' My tiny fists pound the door, but my voice reverberates off the stone walls and hangs in the air as if suspended by spider's webs. No one comes . . . Years later, a woman is found...