**AS SEEN ON BBC TWO'S BETWEEN THE COVERS**Discover Joseph Heller's hilarious and tragic satire on military madness, and the tale of one man's efforts to survive it.It's the closing months of World War II and Yossarian has never been closer to death. Stationed in...

Discover our collectable Puffin Clothbound Classic edition of The Jungle BookPuffin Clothbound Classics are stunning collectable gift editions of some of the best-loved classics in the world - including this very special 130th anniversary edition of The Jungle Book.Young Mowgli escapes the vicious jaws...

Discover our collectable Puffin Clothbound Classic edition of The Railway ChildrenPuffin Clothbound Classics are stunning collectable gift editions of some of the best-loved classics in the world - including this charming edition of The Railway ChildrenFather is in trouble, and Roberta, Peter, and Phyllis...

Antoine de Saint-Exupery's tender and magical classic fable, adapted as a brand-new pop-up book!Please - draw me a sheep.I blinked.The voice belonged to a charming little prince.The characters of Antoine de Saint-Exupery's classic tale have captured the hearts of generations of readers. Meet the...

An enticing and educational guide to our feathered friends, featuring artwork from theand We're Going on a Bear Huntand animated special.Packed with information, activities, and stickers, this guide for budding birders offers a wealth of facts about ducks, owls, eagles, and many other birds....

Best-selling author Alexandre Dumas-who also wroteand The Three Musketeers-tells this heartbreaking yet heroic tale of Edmond Dantes, who takes revenge on the men responsible for his unjust fourteen-year imprisonment, keeping him from the woman he loved and the life he was supposed to live.and...

One of the major figures of English Romanticism, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) created works of remarkable diversity and imaginative genius. The period of his creative friendship with William Wordsworth inspired some of Coleridge's best-known poems, from the nightmarish vision of the 'Rime of the...

Snickers and CocoFollow Snickers and Coco as they embark on imaginative play, learning the importance of creativity and teamwork in their adventures.Honey and ChloeHoney and Chloe share their love for fun and friendship in this charming story, showing how friends can support each other...

The Return By Nicholas Sparks ... In the romantic tradition of Dear John and The Lucky One, #1 New York Times bestselling author Nicholas Sparks returns with the story of an injured Navy doctor -- and two women whose secrets will change the course...

Illustrated 50th Anniversary Editionand • With an introduction by #1and New York Timesand bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Anthony DoerrA beautiful new illustrated hardcover in the Mariner Classics line: Italo Calvino's beloved, intricately crafted novel about an Emperor's travels-a brilliant journey across far-off places and...

Narrated through the fictional lens of Alexander Petrovich Goryanchikov, a nobleman sentenced for the murder of his wife, The House of the Dead is a semi-autobiographical novel based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's harrowing experience as a political prisoner in a Siberian labour camp. As Goryanchikov...

Prince Lev Myshkin is a kind and compassionate man whose sincerity and honesty has set him apart in a world driven by ambition, greed and deception.Returning to Russia after treatment for epilepsy in Switzerland, he meets two women-Nastasya Filippovna, a beautiful, self-destructive woman haunted...

Set during the final year of the Trojan War, The Iliad centres on the conflict between the Greek hero Achilles and King Agamemnon, and the ensuing wrath of Achilles, which has devastating consequences for both the Achaeans and the Trojans. As Achilles withdraws from...

Tired of the monotony of life, Ishmael, a contemplative wanderer, sets out on a whaling voyage aboard the Pequod, a whaling ship under the command of the enigmatic Captain Ahab. It soon becomes evident that the voyage is not merely for profit. Consumed by...

I was supposed to be having the time of my life.When Esther Greenwood wins an internship on a New York fashion magazine in 1953, she is elated, believing she will finally realise her dream to become a writer. But in between the cocktail parties...

This luxurious hardback edition presents Sun Tzu's Theand Art of War,and the earliest-known and most famous treatise on military science, featuring stencilled page edges and full-colour illustrations.This ancient Chinese text provides tactical advice on war strategy and how to adjust your approach in ever-evolving...

Set in 19th-century England, The Mayor of Casterbridge centers on Michael Henchard, a man whose impulsive decision in a moment of drunken despair sets the course for a lifetime of regret. Years later, having risen to the prestigious position of Mayor in the rural...

Angered by the values of his materialistic society, Hawk-eye lives apart from the other white men, sharing the solitude and sublimity of the wilderness with his Mohican Indian friend, Chingachgook. As the savageries of war test these exiled men, they agree to guide two...

Leo Tolstoy's last completed novel,and Resurrectionand is an intimate, psychological tale of guilt, anger and forgiveness, translated from the Russian with an introduction and notes by Anthony Briggs in Penguin Classics.Serving on the jury at a murder trial, Prince Dmitri Nekhlyudov is devastated when...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.' A comedic romance of mistaken identity, Twelfth Night begins...

HarperCollins is pround to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Ah, but let her cover the mark as she will, the pang of it will be always in her heart.' A tale of sin, punishment and atonement, The Scarlet Letter exposes the...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. There is no greater sorrow then to recall our times of joy in wretchedness.'Considered one of the greatest medieval poems written in the common vernacular of the time, Dante's Inferno begins on...

The decline of the West is something that has long been prophesied. Symptoms of decline are all around us today, it seems: slowing growth, crushing debts, aging populations, anti-social behaviour. But what exactly is amiss with Western civilization? The answer, Niall Ferguson argues, is...

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.'Where, you tend a rose, my lad, A thistle cannot grow.'Orphaned and sent to live with her uncle in his austere manor on the moors, Mary Lennox is a lonely and unhappy child. A...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.'Look! You want to see! See! Feast your eyes, glut your soul on my cursed ugliness! Look at Erik's face! Now you know the face of the voice!'Living secretly beneath the Paris Opera...

“For many days we had been tempest-tossed…the raging storm increased in fury until on the seventh day all hope was lost. From these dire opening lines, a timeless story of adventure begins. One family will emerge alive from this terrible storm: the Robinsons-a Swiss...

This October, Alexandre Dumas's enduring adventure classic will get a blockbuster treatment by action director Paul W. S. Anderson (Resident Evil, Mortal Kombat, Death Race 2000). With a star- studded cast that includes Orlando Bloom as the Duke of Buckingham, Milla Jovovich as the...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.' Revealing the truths...

One miraculous moment changes Charlie Bucket's life forever.A boy who only gets to eat cabbage soup for breakfast, lunch and dinner finds a Golden Ticket that will take him into Willy Wonka's magical chocolate factory.Joining him on the tour are four horrible blighters:Augustus Gloopand...

Classic Dirk Pitt adventure, where the adventurer is drawn to the burning African desert, and a secret that could destroy all life in the world's seas. Deep in the African desert, Pitt discovers that a top-scinetific installation is leaking a lethal chemical into the...

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. The real evils, indeed, of Emma's situation were the power of having rather too much her own way, and a disposition to think a little too well of herself…'Beautiful, rich, self-assured and witty,...

Reminiscent of Aimee Bender and Karen Russell-an enthralling new collection that uses the world of the imagination to explore the heart of the human condition. Major new literary talent Ramona Ausubel combines the otherworldly wisdom of her much-loved debut novel, No One Is Here...

Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart - one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which gives direction to the character of Man.' Including Poe's...

The Philosophy Bookand answers the most profound questions we all have. It is your visual guide to the fundamental nature of existence, society, and how we think.Discover what it means to be free, whether science can predict the future, or how language shapes our...

The Island of Adventureand is the first thrilling instalment in the Adventure series by Enid Blyton, one of the best-loved children's writers of all time.For Philip, Dinah, Lucy-Ann, Jack and Kiki the parrot, the summer holidays in Cornwall are everything they'd hoped for. Until...

A seminal work of American literature that still commands deep praise and elicits controversy, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought to be lost, made...

The Jungle Bookand is a collection of Rudyard Kipling's animal stories, wonderfully told and interweaving moral lessons with classic tales. They include the stories of Mowgli, a boy raised by wolves in the Indian jungle,and Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, a brave mongoose, andand Toomai of the Elephants,...

She finds herself caught up in the great looking-glass chess game and sets off to become a queen. It isn't as easy as she expects: at every step she is hindered by nonsense characters who crop up and insist on reciting poems. Some of...

Caryl Phillips's The Lost Child is a sweeping story of orphans and outcasts, haunted by the past and fighting to liberate themselves from it. At its centre is Monica Johnson, cut off from her parents after falling in love with a foreigner, and her...

A celebration of Christmas, a tale of redemption and a critique on Victorian society, Dickens' atmospheric novella follows the miserly, penny-pinching Ebenezer Scrooge who views Christmas as 'humbug'. It is only through a series of eerie, life-changing visits from the ghost of his deceased...

Jon Ronson has been on patrol with America's real-life superheroes and to a UFO convention in the Nevada desert with Robbie Williams. He's met a man who tried to split the atom in his kitchen and asked a conscious robot if she's got a...

From one of the best new writers on the scene today ("The Huffington Post")comes the sequel to "Falling Home, "a novel set in the picaresque town of Walton, Georgia, where one woman is about to discover that the best journey is the one that...

eat Expectations covers the story of young Pip and his journey through the various stages of life, when he learns more about human values and factors like good and evil, and wealth and poverty. Summary Of The Book The protagonist of the book is...

In the middle of his usual hard-won morning nap in the basement of police headquarters, Carl Morck, head of Department Q, receives a call from a colleague working on the Danish island of Bornholm. Carl is dismissive when he realizes that a new case...

Why, 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,and Allies at Odds?and thoroughly examines recent international efforts in arms control, environmental protection, human rights, and military cooperation....

With harpoons strapped to their backs, the proud whales of Bathsheba's pod live for the hunt, fighting in the ongoing war against the world of men. When they attack a ship bobbing on the surface of the Abyss, they expect to find easy prey....

Welcome back to New York, 2119. A skyscraper city, fueled by impossible dreams.Leda just wants to move on from what happened in Dubai. Until a new investigation forces her to seek help--from the person she's spent all year trying to forget.Rylin is back in...

E. M. Forster's first novel is a witty comedy of manners that is tinged with tragedy. It tells the story of Lilia Herriton, who proves to be an embarrassment to her late husband's family as, in the small Tuscan town of Monteriano, she begins...

The people of Develish have survived the worst of the Black Death. Saved from desperation and hopelessness by Lady Anne's leadership, and from starvation by Thaddeus Thurkell's bravery, they must now face a world decimated by the disease. As the atmosphere becomes more and...

When 'The Awakening' was first published in 1899, charges of sordidness and immorality seemed to consign it into obscurity and irreparably damage its author's reputation. But a century after her death, it is widely regarded as Kate Chopin's great achievement. Through careful, subtle changes...