How can you ever move on, if you can't let go? A gorgeous book about second-chances, brimming with love and overflowing with hope'and Milly Johnson***A beautiful and poignant story of love, loss and finding hope where you least expect it, perfect for fans of...

How did money come to be invented? Why does it now have such significance in our lives? Does it make us happier or unhappier? And what does the future hold for it? With brilliant clarity and insight, Yuval Noah Harari takes the reader on...

How do we find calm in our frantic modern world? Tim Parks - lifelong sceptic of all things spiritual - finds himself on a Buddhist meditation retreat trying to answer this very question. With brutal honesty and dry wit, he recounts his journey from...

How do we love? With romance. With work. Through heartbreak. Throughout a lifetime. As a means, but not an end. Love in all its forms has been an abiding theme of Jeanette Winterson's writing. Here are selections from her books about that impossible, essential...

How do you remember the summers of your childhood? For Laurie Lee they were flower-crested, heady, endless days. Here is an evocation of summer like no other - a remote valley filled with the scent of hay, jazzing wasps, blackberries plucked and gobbled, and...

HOW DOES IT FEEL TO GROW UP IN A DYING WORLD?'Capturing what it means to be young, wounded and afraid today better than anything I've come across... masterful'and Telegraph'Almost savage in its eloquence, illuminating what it feels like to love, to be left, to...

How far would you go to protect your family?Sophie Brinkmann was once an ordinary woman. A dedicated nurse, a grieving widow, a single mother to a beloved teenage son. And then she fell in love with a major crime lord.When he was left in...

How far would you go to save someone you love? And what if that someone was ... not exactly human? Guy Schermerhorn, brilliant young professor of psychology and disciple of the pioneering Dr Moncrieff, is making a name for himself on the talk show...

How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrible, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young… If it were only the other way!and and Wilde's first and only published novel recounts the story of handsome Dorian Gray who upon having his...

How to be a good father? Children's birthday parties, unsuccessful family holidays, humiliating antenatal music classes: the trials of parenthood are all found in Knausgaard's compelling and honest account of family life. Contrasting moments of enormous love and tenderness towards his children with the...

How to go on in a world where everything is set against you? With hope? In fear? Or, in violent struggle? In this gripping and disturbing book, Richard Wright weaves his own childhood recollections with those of Bigger Thomas - a young black man...

How to live a better life.and One of the most important books on Western philosophy - aand powerful and inspirationaland guide for the complicated world of today'Refreshing and restorative' GUARDIAN'An ancient work of spiritual reflection which remains a powerful reminder of how we could...

Howard Roark is an architect whose genius and integrity will not be comprised. He has ideas that work against conventional standards.

Human, All Too Humanand (1878) marks the point where Nietzsche abandons German romanticism for the French Enlightenment. At a moment of crisis in his life (no longer a friend of Richard Wagner, forced to leave academic life through ill health), he sets out his...

HUSBANDS AND OTHER LOVERS is the gripping story of the two Agnew brothers - and the women who love them. James Agnew, a brilliant City lawyer, is married to Susannah. They have the perfect life - on the surface. A Surrey house, two successful...

I adore everything about it . . . the perfect blend of mystery and romcom'and ALI HAZELWOODSingle mum and struggling crime writer Finlay Donovan is ready to kill someone by 7.45AM:- Her two-year-old is slathered in maple syrup- Her four-year-old has a new self-inflicted...

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.' Bronte's infamous Gothic novel tells the story of orphan Jane, a child of unfortunate circumstances. Raised and treated badly by her aunt and cousins and...

I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone. I just miss you...'At a dinner party in 1922, Virginia Woolf met the renowned author,...

I can promise to be candid, not, however, to be impartial.'A selection of the most insightful maxims and reflections from one of Germany's greatest ever thinkers.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity...

'I could see that she was still terribly afraid, but I didn't soften anything; instead, seeing that she was afraid I deliberately intensified it.'In this short story, Dostoyevsky masterfully depicts desperation, greed, manipulation and suicide.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday....

I love her books - particularly theand Five Children and Itand sequence' -and Neil GaimanDigging in the gravel pit on a hot summer's day, five children discover 'it': a grumpy creature with eyes like a snail's, ears like a bat's, and a tubby body...

I don't need the perfect guy. I don't need candlelight or roses. Honestly, I don't even need a real bed... Ellie Kolstakis is a twenty-one-year-old virgin. She's not religious. She's not waiting for marriage. She's not even holding on for The One. Ellie's just...

'I had to go back to New York and try to find him. There was a chance he mightn't be there but I had to give it a go because there was one thing I was certain of: he wasn't here.' Anna Walsh is...

'I have never gone to bed with a woman I didn't pay . . .' On the eve of his ninetieth birthday a newspaper columnist in Colombia decides to give himself 'a night of mad love with a virgin adolescent'. But on seeing this...

I knew Sebastian by sight long before I met him. That was unavoidable for, from his first week, he was the most conspicuous man of his year by reason of his beauty, which was arresting, and his eccentricities of behaviour, which seemed to know...

I loved this novel and every single one of its characters. Supremely heartfelt, hilarious and heartrending - it's an absolute triumph.' Sophie Kinsella'Nobody does cosy, get-away-from-it-all romance like Jenny Colgan'and Sunday Express'This spirit-lifting series will warm your heart'and Best'Like a much-needed reunion with friends'and...

I saw My Self - Journeys With Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai

'I see ghosts everywhere', wrote Henry James, who retained a fascination with the supernatural and sensational throughout his writing career. This new collection brings together eight of James's tales exploring the uncanny, including his infamous ghost story, 'The Turn of the Screw', a work...

'I so enjoyed Janet Todd's beautifully produced book' Andrew Davies, screenwriter. Sanditon is Jane Austen's last novel, unfinished when she died in 1817. A comedy, it continues the strain of burlesque and caricature she wrote as a teenager and in private throughout her life....

I wanted more' DAVID GILMANOne lie put the nation at risk. Another might save it.Harry Bristow: policeman, father, chauffeur, fraud.In 1988 Harry made one mistake: he took a bribe, letting a man he knew as Igor into Britain - and he's regretted it ever...

I was invested in this book from the first page. It literally drew me in immediately and my attention never waned. Classic thriller with a dynamic main character!' NetGalley reviewer,His secret could destroy them, but her truth is even harder to bear...One year ago,...

Ib lives with his schizophrenic father and his 'nice' mother negotiating life, not knowing what to do, steered by uncaring winds and pushy people. From his slimy, unmiraculous birth to the tragic death of a loved one, Ib wanders the city, from one thing...

If I Had Your Face plunges us into the mesmerizing world of contemporary Seoul - a place where extreme plastic surgery is as routine as getting a haircut, where women compete for spots in secret 'room salons' to entertain wealthy businessmen after hours, where...

'If I think about it, and I have the time and inclination and capacity to do so, we dogs are an odd lot.'How does a dog see the world? How do any of us? In this playful and enigmatic story of a canine philosopher,...

If Only She Knew is a story of Alina who is head over heels in love with Emad, a young and handsome boy who is also the football team captain of their school. Alina is a rebellious 18-year old breathtakingly beautiful girl who is...

If the mermaid doesn't swim back to the sea, but instead goes ashore, she will learn to walk on two legs. Perhaps, she will even learn to dance...... In her early thirties, Summer lives alone, jobless, with little material wants. Her only passion is...

'If You Are Lucky Enough To Have Lived In Paris As A Young Man, Then Wherever You Go For The Rest Of Your Life, It Stays With You, For Paris Is A Moveable Feast.'Hemingway'S Memories Of His Life As An Unknown Writer Living In...

If you delight in the suspense of Stephen King and Harlan Coben, you'll loveand The Funhouseand - a classic thriller byand Sunday Timesand andand New York Timesand bestselling author Dean Koontz.The carnival is a world apart, endlessly travelling from town to town, providing thrills...

If you had three wishes, what would you wish for?and Anthony Browne is back with a brilliantly funny story with a moral message at its heart.Lambert, Hilda and Ros are bored on the sofa, watching tv and a little bit grumbly. . . However...

'If you liked Bridget Jones's Diary, try this' BBC News 'So funny and sharp, yet tender and emotional too. I loved it!' Jill Mansell 'I adored The Last Romeo . . . funny, clever and warm' Adam Kay, author of This is Going to...

If you loveand Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer!'The greatest writer who ever lived'and Antonia Fraser'[My] generation's Julia Quinn'and Adjoa Andoh, star of Bridgerton'One of my perennial comfort authors. Heyer's books are as incisively witty and quietly subversive as any of Jane Austen's'and Joanne Harris_____________Adam...

If you're coming to Lurie for the first time, you must begin with the Pulitzer Prize-winningand Foreign Affairs'and GuardianVinnie Miner is an American professor of children's literature on her way to London for six months of research. Settling into her aeroplane seat she finds...

I'll stop doing it as soon as I understand what I'm doing.'Somewhere between a historical account and work of philosophy,and Socrates' Defenceand details the final plea of Plato's beloved mentor.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the...

'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' RICHARD OSMAN Mildred Lathbury is one of those 'excellent women' who is often taken for granted. She is a godsend, 'capable of dealing with most of the stock situations of life - birth, marriage, death, the successful...

'I'm here to remember - all that I have been and all that I will never be again.'At the bar of a grand hotel in a small Irish town sits 84-year-old Maurice Hannigan. He's alone, as usual -though tonight is anything but. Pull up...

Imagine losing the most important ten years of your life � Alice is twenty-nine.She adores sleep, chocolate, and her ramshackle new house.She�s newly engaged to the wonderful Nick and is pregnant with her first baby. There�s just one problem.All that was ten years ago...

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Immortalised by Audrey Hepburn's sparkling performance in the 1961 film of the same name,and Breakfast at Tiffany'sand is Truman Capote's timeless portrait of tragicomic cultural icon Holly Golightly, published in Penguin Modern Classics.It's New York in the 1940s, where the martinis flow from cocktail...

In 1623 the actors John Heminges and Henry Condell assembledand Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, andamp; Tragedies, better known asand The First Folio. In doing so they preserved literature's most dramatically vital and poetically rich account of our human world.Endlessly reinterpreted by critics and...

In 1880 Dostoevsky completed The Brothers Karamazov, the literary effort for which he had been preparing all his life. Compelling, profound, complex, it is the story of a patricide and of the four sons who each had a motive for murder: Dmitry, the sensualist,...