When Madeleine d'Leon conjures Ned McGinnity as the hero in her latest crime novel, she makes him a serious writer simply because the irony of a protagonist who'd never lower himself to read the story in which he stars, amuses her.When Ned McGinnity creates...

When moving on means moving out…Surely there should be a rule book to guide you through the tumultuous twenties, or a to do list' at the very least?Fresh out of university in Manchester and struggling to climb the career ladder in London, Flick's devastated...

When Mrs Ramsay tells her guests at her summer house on the Isle of Skye that they will be able to visit the nearby lighthouse the following day, little does she know that this trip will only be completed ten years later by her...

When she arrives at her long lost relative's French estate, Serenity Smith is greeted with cold politeness by the Comtesse de Kergallen and her darkly handsome grandson, Christophe. Refusing to believe their scandalous stories about her late parents, Serenity sets out to prove they...

When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cunning, ruthless elite among them, masterminded by the pigs Napoleon...

When the body of a woman is discovered at a lighthouse in the Icelandic town of Akranes, it soon becomes clear that she's no stranger to the area. Chief Investigating Officer Elma, who has returned to Akranes following a failed relationship, and her colleagues...

When the residents of St Kilda ask to be evacuated from their remote island home in the summer of 1930, it's in search of a better life on the mainland rather than the scratch existence on their mountain in the sea. For 18-year old...

When timid and plain Catherine Sloper acquires a dashing and determined suitor, her father, convinced that the young man is nothing more than a fortune-hunter, decides to put a stop to their romance. Torn between her desire to win her fathers love and approval...

When We Were Very Young is A. A. Milne's first book of verses for children, inspired by the nursery games played with his son, Christopher Robin.

When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.' in this, the final collection of Sherlock Holmes adventures, the intrepid detective and his faithful companion Dr Watson examine and solve twelve cases that puzzle clients, baffle...

When young Francis Osbaldistone discovers that his vicious and scheming cousin Rashleigh has designs both on his father's business and his beloved Diana Vernon, he turns in desperation to Rob Roy for help. Chieftain of the MacGregor clan, Rob Roy is a brave and...

Whether you are a newly minted MBA or a project manager at a Fortune 500 company, data science will play a major role in your career. Knowing how to communicate effectively with data scientists in order to obtain maximum value from their expertise is...

Which famous writer goes best with a hot dog?and Roll Dahland of course!Laugh yourself silly withand Roald Dahl's Marvellous Joke Book,and filled with over 400 hilarious jokes, limericks and riddles, illustrated by Quentin Blake.Based on Roald Dahl's most famous characters you will be chortling...

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White Nights is a short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky that was published in 1848. Set in St. Petersburg, it is the story of a young man fighting his inner restlessness. A light and tender narrative, it delves into the torment and guilt of unrequited...

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 of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the...

Whoever controls the Spice . . . controls the Kingdom itself.The first book in an epic fantasy series for fans of Sabaa Tahir, Hafsah Faizal and Elizabeth Lim, set in an Arabian-inspired land. Raised to protect her nation from the monsters lurking in the...

Why do democracies keep lurching from success to failure? The current financial crisis is just the latest example of how things continue to go wrong, just when it looked like they were going right. In this wide-ranging, original, and compelling book, David Runciman tells...

Why do I know a fewand moreand things? Why am I so clever altogether?'Self-celebrating and self-mocking autobiographical writings fromand Ecce Homo, the last work iconoclastic German philosopher Nietzsche wrote before his descent into madness.One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics...

Why do we set so much store by marriage? Jane Austen was fascinated by this question, subjecting it to her forensic eye and wonderfully ironic wit again and again. Here are stolen glances and nervous advances, meddling parents and self-important cousins, society whisperings and...

Why was Saul tormented by three unopened letters from Stockholm? What made Thelma spend her whole life raking over a long-past love affair? How did Carlos' macho fantasies help him deal with terminal cancer? In Love's Executioner psychotherapist Irvin Yalom gives detailed and deeply...

We are offering a high discount due to slightly damageWhy, despite their similar goals, do the policy preferences of the European Union and United States diverge on so many multilateral issues? To answer that question, Allies at Odds? thoroughly examines recent international efforts in...

Widely acclaimed since publication,and The French Lieutenant's Womanand is John Fowles' best-loved novel and the ultimate in epic historical romance.Charles Smithson, a respectable engaged man, meets Sarah Woodruff as she stands on the Cobb at Lyme Regis, staring out to sea. Charles falls in...

William Blake'sand Songs of Innocence and of Experienceand includes some of the visionary poet's finest and best-loved poems such as 'The Lamb', 'The Chimney-Sweeper' and 'The Tiger'.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges...

William Dean Howells' richly humorous characterization of a self-made millionaire in Boston society provides a paradigm of American culture in the Gilded Age. After establishing a fortune in the paint business, Silas Lapham moves his family from their Vermont farm to the city of...

William Makepeace Thackeray'sand Vanity Fairand depicts the anarchic anti-heroine Beky Sharpe cutting a swathe through the eligible young men of Europe, set against a lucid backdrop of war and international chaos. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by John...

WINNER OF EDGE HILL READERS CHOICE PRIZE 2021'Taps into a deep and compelling strangeness with vigour and humour and heart... A disturbing and moving collection' Chris Power, author ofand MothersIn Paradise Block, mould grows as thick as fur along the walls, alarms ring out...

WINNER OF THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION2021 NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD WINNERAand NEW YORK TIMESand NOTABLE BOOK OF 2021Aand WALL STREET JOURNALand BEST BOOK OF 2021Aand KIRKUSand BEST FICTION BOOK OF 2021"Absorbing, delightful, hilarious, breathtaking and the best and most relevant novel I've...

WINNER OF THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2022SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2022ANand OBSERVERand BEST DEBUT NOVELIST OF 2022A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIMEA 2022 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR:and THE TIMES * SUNDAY TIMES *...

Winner of the Booker Prize, Penelope Lively'sand Moon Tigerand is the tale of a historian confronting her own, personal history, unearthing the passions and pains that have defined her life. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Anthony Thwaite.Claudia Hampton, a beautiful,...

Winner of the Crime and Thriller British Book of the Year Award 2021'One of crime's most engaging duos'and Guardian'Magnificent'and Sunday Times'Finely honed, superbly constructed'and Daily Mail'Terrific'and Daily ExpressPrivate Detective Cormoran Strike is visiting his family in Cornwall when he is approached by a woman...

Winner of the Goodreads Choice Award, and from the author ofand The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires, comes a New York Times bestselling horror novel that follows a group of heroines to die for.and In horror movies, the final girl is the...

WINNER OF THE JOHN LEONARD PRIZE AT THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS AND THE FERRO-GRUMLEY AWARD FOR LGBTQ FICTIONTHEand NEW YORK TIMESand BESTSELLER'So's distinctive voice is ever-present: mellifluous, streetwise and slightly brash, at once cynical and bighearted...unique and quintessential'and Sunday Times'So's stories reimagine...

WINNER OF THE MAN ASIAN LITERARY PRIZE'An authentic, moving story that brings to vivid life the deep family connections that lie at the core of Korean culture'Gary Shteyngart'Kyung-Sook Shin's tale... has hit a nerve'Guardian'A raw tribute to the mysteries of motherhood'New York Times'The most...

Winner of the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction AwardBest Book of the Year - New York Public Library,and Cosmopolitan,and Independent Book Review'Pickhart's story is powerful, boldly imaginative, rich in history and feeling, charged with events that have occurred since it was written...

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN FICTION 2021NEW YORK TIMESand BESTSELLERIt is 1953. Thomas Wazhushk is the night watchman at the first factory to open near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a prominent Chippewa Council member, trying to...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Tennessee Williams'sand A Streetcar Named Desireand is the tale of a catastrophic confrontation between fantasy and reality, embodied in the characters of Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Arthur Miller.'I have...

WINNER OF THE UBL/JANG LITERARY EXCELLENCE AWARD 2012 The introductions to the poets, the translations, and the range of poetic styles on display represent indeed a staggering achievement to which the austere attribution "Translated and Edited by Yasmeen Hameed" does but scant justice. For...

WINNER OF THE VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARD 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR THE CHRISTINA STEAD PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR THE STELLA PRIZE 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR THE VOSS LITERARY PRIZE 2016 LONGLISTED FOR THE MILES FRANKLIN LITERARY AWARD 2016 LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY...

Winner of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize for Older ReadersShortlisted for theand Laugh Out Loud Book Awards,and Children's Book Ireland Awards andand the Irish Books Awards andand the Polari PrizeNominated for the Carnegie MedalWhen Aideen agrees to help ambitious class swot Maebh Kowalska deal...

With a new introduction by DIANA EVANS'A writer of huge compassion and acute observation, and also of dazzling style . . . Her work is more relevant than ever' Diana Evans'Timelessly cinematic, with painterly visual descriptions and pitch-perfect dialogue that ranges across class, region,...

With an afterword by E. L. Doctorow-the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of one man's pursuit of intellectual freedom in the face of ignorance and corruption, from the author of Babbit Arrowsmith, the most widely read of Sinclair Lewis's novels, is the incisive portrait of a...

With an exclusive introduction and notes by David Stuart Davies.Translation by Louis Mercier.Professor Aronnax, his faithful servant, Conseil, and the Canadian harpooner, Ned Land, begin an extremely hazardous voyage to rid the seas of a little-known and terrifying sea monster. However, the "monster" turns...

With an Introduction and Notes by David Rampton, Department of English, University of Ottowa. Notes from Underground and Other Stories is a comprehensive collection of Dostoevsky's short fiction. Many of these stories, like his great novels, reveal his special sympathy for the solitary and...

With an Introduction and Notes by Dinny Thorold, University of WestminsterGaskell's last novel, widely considered her masterpiece, follows the fortunes of two families in nineteenth century rural England. and At its core are family relationships - father, daughter and step-mother, father and sons, father...

With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Andrew Frayn, Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture at Edinburgh Napier University.In these two compelling novels H.G. Wells imagines terrifying futures in which civilisation itself is threatened.The narrator of The War of the Worlds is quick to...

With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Claire Seymour, University of Kent at Canterbury.Under the Greenwood Treeand is Hardy's most bright, confident and optimistic novel. This delightful portrayal of a picturesque rural society, tinged with gentle humour and quiet irony, established Hardy as a...

With an Introduction by A.A. Milne and Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Far from fading with time, Kenneth Grahame's classic tale of fantasy has attracted a growing audience in each generation. Rat, Mole, Badger and the preposterous Mr Toad, have brought delight to many through...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID BRADSHAWThe dilettantes who frequent Lady Tantamount's society parties are determined to push forward the moral frontiers of the age. Marjorie has left her family to live with Walter; Walter is in love with the luscious but cold-hearted Lucy; Maurice...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JAMES WOODScobie, a police officer serving in a war-time West African state, is distrusted, being scrupulously honest and immune to bribery. But then he falls in love, and in doing so he is forced to betray everything he believes in,...