NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES FROM NETFLIXCibola Burnand is the fourth book in theand New York Timesand bestselling Expanse series.The gates have opened the way to a thousand new worlds and the rush to colonise has begun. Settlers looking for a new life stream...

NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES ON NETFLIXAbaddon's Gateand is the third book in theand New York Timesand bestselling Expanse series.For generations, the solar system - Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt - was humanity's great frontier. Until now. The alien artefact working through its...

NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES ON NETFLIXNemesis Gamesand is the fifth book in theand New York Timesand bestselling Expanse series.A thousand worlds have opened, and the greatest land-rush in human history has begun. As wave after wave of colonists leave, the power structures of...

NOW A MAJOR TV SHOW ON NETFLIXPersepolis Risingand is the seventh novel in theand New York Timesand bestselling Expanse series.In the thousand-sun network of humanity's expansion, new colony worlds are struggling to find their way. Every new planet lives on a knife-edge between collapse...

NOW A PRIME ORIGINAL TV SERIESTiamat's Wrathand is the eighth book in theand New York Timesand bestselling and Hugo-award winning Expanse series.Thirteen hundred gates have opened to solar systems around the galaxy. But as humanity builds its interstellar empire in the alien ruins, the...

Now includes an exclusive extract of Clare Pooley's new and brilliantly uplifting noveland The People On Platform 5and - available nowTreat yourself to the warm, poignant and uplifting Radio 2 Book Club pick, loved by hundreds of thousands of readers...'The first book which has...

Obi Okonkwo is an idealistic young man who, thanks to the privileges of an education in Britain, has now returned to Nigeria for a job in the civil service. However in his new role he finds that the way of government seems to be...

The Odysseyand is a poem of extraordinary pleasures: it is a salt-caked, storm-tossed, wine-dark treasury of tales, of many twists and turns, like life itself'and GuardianThe epic tale of Odysseus and his ten-year journey home after the Trojan War forms one of the earliest...

Offering a window into the world of ordinary Athenians, Aristophanes'and The Birds and Other Playsand is a timeless set of comedies, combining witty satire and raucous slapstick to wonderful effect. This Penguin Classics edition is translated from the Greek by David Barrett and Alan...

Oh my GOD, it's GORGEOUS. Funny, warm, all about people. Has the same generosity-of-spirit she does. You'll LOVE it!'and MARIAN KEYES'Aand brilliant story of female friendships ...and you can'tand help but hear Cox's voice bounce off the pages.' HEAT'So full of humour and heart'and...

Oliver loved Jenny. Now, two lonely years later, Jenny is gone and Oliver Barrett IV feels he will never love again--should never love again. Then, one day while jogging in Central Park he meets a beautiful and mysterious woman . . . . With...

On a perfect June morning, Clarissa Dalloway - fashionable, worldly, wealthy, an accomplished hostess - sets off to buy flowers for the party she will host that evening. She is preoccupied with thoughts of the present and memories of the past, and from her...

On a summer day in 1988, two extraordinary things happen to twelve-year-old Maeve Donnelly. First, she is kissed by Daniel, the boy of her dreams. Then, she is attacked by a shark.Eighteen years later, Maeve is a world-travelling biologist, swimming with the animals that...

On a sunny day in 2001, Daya, a ballet student, is sitting in a park in Wales far away from her home in India. She is about to meet Aaftab, a young Muslim lawyer from Pakistan, and fall devastatingly in love. Though Aaftab battles...

On August 11, 2008, eighteen-year-old Marie reported that a masked man broke into her apartment near Seattle, Washington, and raped her. Within days police and even those closest to Marie became suspicious of her story. The police swiftly pivoted and began investigating Marie. Confronted...

Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.Set in a frozen world that is gradually being devastated by ever-encroaching ice, Anna Kavan's masterwork follows one man's pursuit of a...

On March 2 and 3, 1859, the largest auction of slaves in American history took place in Savannah, Georgia. More than 400 slaves were sold. On the first day of the auction, the skies darkened and torrential rain began falling. The rain continued throughout...

On the Road by Jack Kerouac is the exhilarating novel that defined the Beat Generation and is a 2012 major motion picture starring Kristen Stewart, Kirsten Dunst and Sam Riley, beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range.'What's your road, man? - holyboy...

On the sixth day of Ramadan, in a land without bananas, Qisma leaves for Baghdad with her husband-to-be to find the body of her father. But in the bloodiest year of a bloody war, how will she find one body among thousands?For Tariq, this...

Once again the eminent detective is presented with a series of seemingly impenetrable cases: an anonymous but illustrious client employs him to rescue the daughter of a famous personage from the clutches of a roguish aristocrat and suspected murderer; a retired art-supply dealer asks...

Once upon a time there was and there wasn't a woman who went to the woods.In this dark fairy tale, a young woman sets off to pick berries in the depths of the forest, but can't find her way home again. Or perhaps she...

One by one the boys begin to fall... In 1914 a room full of German schoolboys, fresh-faced and idealistic, are goaded by their schoolmaster to troop off to the 'glorious war'. With the fire and patriotism of youth they sign up. What follows is...

One dog changes the life of everyone who takes him in on his journey to reunite with his first owner in this inspiring tribute to the bond between humans and dogs and the life-affirming power of connection. Following a devastating earthquake and tsunami, a...

One Good Thingand is the new heartwarming, hilarious alternative love story, from the author ofand Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up, Alexandra PotterIn life, nothing is certain. Just when you think you have it all figured out, something can happen to change the course...

One night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the globe in just eighty days. Breaking the well-established routine of his daily life, he immediately sets off for Dover with his astonished valet Passepartout. Passing through exotic...

One of BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World.and Frankensteinand is the most famous novel by Mary Shelley: a dark parable of science misused.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers....

One of BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World.Heart-rending and darkly comic, V. S. Naipaul'sand A House for Mr Biswasand has been hailed as one of the twentieth century's finest novels, a classic that evokes a man's quest for autonomy against the backdrop of...

One of Charles Perrault s most popular Mother Goose tales is brought to stunning new life When a miller s youngest son inherits nothing but a cat, he thinks he might as well make himself a hat out of it. What else would it...

One of Elena Ferrante's Top 40 Books by WomenG.H., a well-to-do Rio sculptress, enters the room of her maid, which is as clear and white 'as in an insane asylum from which dangerous objects have been removed'. There she sees a cockroach - black,...

One of Evelyn Waugh's most exuberant comedies,and Scoopand is a brilliantly irreverent satire of Fleet Street and its hectic pursuit of hot news.Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor ofand The Daily Beast, has always prided himself on his intuitive flair for spotting ace reporters....

One of Freud's central achievements was to demonstrate how unacceptable thoughts and feelings are repressed into the unconscious, from where they continue to exert a decisive influence over our lives.This volume contains a key statement about evidence for the unconscious, and how it works,...

One of Japan's most venerated writers' David MitchellIn this unnerving fable from one of Japan's greatest novelists, a recluse known as 'Mole' retreats to a vast underground bunker, only to find that strange guests, booby traps and a giant toilet may prove even greater...

One of Sidney Sheldon's most popular and bestselling titles, repackaged and reissued for a new generation of fans.The daughter of a rich and powerful father, Elizabeth Roffe is young, beautiful - and sole heir to a billion dollar fortune.Then tragedy strikes. Her father is...

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World''Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream.'Meet the gamblers, whores, drunks, bums and artists of Cannery...

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten aliveA little black girl opens her eyes in 1930s Harlem, weak and half-blind. On she stumbles...

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World''One of the few English novels written for grown-up people' Virginia WoolfGeorge Eliot's nuanced and moving novel is a masterly evocation of connected lives, changing fortunes and human frailties in a provincial community. Peopling its...

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World''That rare story to pass from literature into myth'and The New York TimesMary Shelley's chilling Gothic tale was conceived when she was only eighteen, living with her lover Percy Shelley on Lake Geneva. The story...

One of the BBC's '100 Novels that Shaped the World''Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past'Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs...

One of the best [books] I have read about the complexities of poverty . . . one of the most remarkable people you will ever meet'and GuardianAs the middle of five kids growing up in dire poverty, the odds were low on Katriona O'Sullivan...

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS I'VE READ IN RECENT YEARS . . . PACKS A HELL OF AN EMOTIONAL PUNCH'and Adrian Tchaikovsky, author ofand Children of TimeFrom one of the most imaginative writers of her generation comes an extraordinary vision of the future.Ven was...

One of the earliest works of detective fiction, with a narrative woven together from multiple characters, Wilkie Collins partly based his infamous novel on a real-life eighteenth century case of abduction and wrongful imprisonment.

One of the English language's best-loved living poets arrays before us here, in chronological order, her favourites among her poems on the theme of love, drawing on work written over four decades, and she adds to her selection one new poem. It makes for...

One of the finest writers of his generation'and Financial TimesJungle-namaand is a wonderful illustrated verse adaptation of a fable from the Sundarbans, the legend of Bon Bibi, which lies at the heart of his noveland Gun Island.The Ganga, in her descent, or so the...

One of the first pilgrims to travel to India from China, Hiuen-Tsiang was a monk whose journeys brought him in close contact with Indias flourishing Buddhist culture, giving him a deep understanding of the political, social, and economic scenarios of the country. Translated in...

The poems of Emily Jane Brontë are passionate and powerful works that convey the vitality of the human spirit and of the natural world. Only twenty-one of her poems were published during her lifetime - this volume contains those and all others attributed to...

One of the great minds of modernity, Friedrich Nietzsche smashed through the beliefs of his age. These writings, which did much to establish his reputation as a philosopher, offer some of his most powerful and troubling thoughts: on how the values of a new,...

One of the greatest books of a very great thinker' Michael TannerBeyond Good and Eviland confirmed Nietzsche's position as the towering European philosopher of his age. The work dramatically rejects traditional Western thought with its notions of truth and God, good and evil. Nietzsche...

One of the greatest novels of the 20th century by one of the greatest writers in American history - THE BOOK THAT WON ERNEST HEMINGWAY THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURESet in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the...

One of the greatest poets of the twentieth-century, Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo published his masterpieceand Translated from the Nightand in Malagasy in 1932. This is the complete English translation of that renowned collection of poems.Translated from the Nightand is Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo's most memorable collection of poetry....

One of the most acclaimed novels of the 21st Century, from the Nobel Prize-winning author Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy,...